Eurovision 2025

[SayMyName]

"BASEL, Switzerland — Fans from around the world have descended upon the 69th Eurovision Song Contest to rally behind performers from their home countries who have been battling it out onstage all week."

MSN

Eurovision 2025 has kicked off in Basel, Switzerland. Artists from throughout Europe have been performing all week, hoping to post a win for the nation they represent. Finalists will put on their last acts on Saturday, when people throughout the continent are expected to watch and vote for their favorite. Celine Dion, the winner of Eurovision 1988, is expected to make a surprise visit. Could there be any other event on the continent, besides the World Cup, that brings people together all at one time?

Your thoughts?

 

[Rumpelstil]

Let Israel win again!

 

[Rumpelstil]

"BASEL, Switzerland — Fans from around the world have descended upon the 69th Eurovision Song Contest to rally behind performers from their home countries who have been battling it out onstage all week."

MSN

Eurovision 2025 has kicked off in Basel, Switzerland. Artists from throughout Europe have been performing all week, hoping to post a win for the nation they represent. Finalists will put on their last acts on Saturday, when people throughout the continent are expected to watch and vote for their favorite. Celine Dion, the winner of Eurovision 1988, is expected to make a surprise visit. Could there be any other event on the continent, besides the World Cup, that brings people together all at one time?

Your thoughts?
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will there be riots against Israel .... like in Sweden 2024?

 

[Rumpelstil]

Austria has won

 

[Juin]

Austria has won

Yaaaaay

 

[Infinite Chaos]

Let Israel win again!

Shouldn't winning be about the best performance?

I don't follow Eurovision but if it's just about being nice to Israel or anyone - why not just have a competition for 2nd place and have prestige for 2nd place. Just let Israel win however good or bad their entry is.

 

[Rumpelstil]

Israel has second place.

a success!

 

[Rumpelstil]

Shouldn't winning be about the best performance?

I don't follow Eurovision but if it's just about being nice to Israel or anyone - why not just have a competition for 2nd place and have prestige for 2nd place. Just let Israel win however good or bad their entry is.

it was only a wish .... not a request

 

[Infinite Chaos]

Israel has second place.

a success!

What made it a success? Did you like the song? What made it worthy of 1st or 2nd place.

it was only a wish .... not a request

I get that but I'm just wondering as I saw other comments like this on another Eurovision thread - just wondering why a nationality is more important than the quality of the offered music.

 

[Rumpelstil]

it has to do with sympathy

 

[PeteEU]

it has to do with sympathy

The **** it does. It has to do with manipulation of the vote.

Plus Israel should not have been allowed to be there.. Russia was banned for its invasion, but little old Israel committing genocide aint? Pathetic.

 

[Rumpelstil]

there were anti.israel protests in Basel

and even an attempt to attack the Israeli singer


bad idea!

 

[Apocalypse]

The **** it does. It has to do with manipulation of the vote.

Plus Israel should not have been allowed to be there.. Russia was banned for its invasion, but little old Israel committing genocide aint? Pathetic.

Angry antisemitic rants about Eurovision not banning the evil evil Jews is the very definition of pathetic. Not a huge fan of Eurovision but Israel should keep showing up on that stage and any other world stage if only just to anger its haters, it's totally worth it.

 

[joluoto]

Meh, I knew Bara bada bastu wouldn't win, even though Swedish and Finnish media hyped it up as the best thing since Tuesday. I really like KAJ though, but the juries would never vote for them.

Eurovision should just end.

 

[Rumpelstil]

Angry antisemitic rants about Eurovision not banning the evil evil Jews is the very definition of pathetic. Not a huge fan of Eurovision but Israel should keep showing up on that stage and any other world stage if only just to anger its haters, it's totally worth it.

I agree

 

[german hick]

Angry antisemitic rants about Eurovision not banning the evil evil Jews is the very definition of pathetic. Not a huge fan of Eurovision but Israel should keep showing up on that stage and any other world stage if only just to anger its haters, it's totally worth it.

You make the failure all narcist people do. You cannot imagine to do anything wrong, so everyone who criticizes you must be evil/an idiot/Nazi/dumb etc pp. No wonder that the head orange chief of narcicissm is your biggest and only fan now.

 

[Sven Karma]

What made it a success? Did you like the song? What made it worthy of 1st or 2nd place.



I get that but I'm just wondering as I saw other comments like this on another Eurovision thread - just wondering why a nationality is more important than the quality of the offered music.

Australia should not be eligible for the Eurovision, full stop. And when it was a purely popular vote nations voting for regional favourites was always a thing, now they just give nul points to the two odd bods of Europe, the UK and Switzerland.

I listened to the UK entry yesterday, impressive it took six people to come up with a song whose title 'what the hell just happened?' prefigured the reaction of the listener.

 

[Sven Karma]

You make the failure all narcist people do. You cannot imagine to do anything wrong, so everyone who criticizes you must be evil/an idiot/Nazi/dumb etc pp. No wonder that the head orange chief of narcicissm is your biggest and only fan now.

Even Trump is steering clear of the Netanyahu dumpster fire atm

 

[joluoto]

In a way it's bad that Israel didn't win, because at least then Eurovision would end.

 

[reinaert]

Isn't the shitty little client state in Asia?

 

[joluoto]

Isn't the shitty little client state in Asia?

That's supposed to be a secret! Who leaked this?

 

[reinaert]

That's supposed to be a secret! Who leaked this?

Heh. Footie, too. Like, I don't have a problem with Maccabi Tel Aviv, but it's always weird to see them head to head with PAOK or O. Marseille. Because, y'know, not in Europe. It would be like a team from Suriname playing in the African Cup of Nations.

 

[Aristaeus]

Isn't the shitty little client state in Asia?

You don't have to be European to participate. As long as the country is a member of the European Broadcasting Union, they are eligible.

 

[reinaert]

You don't have to be European to participate. As long as the country is a member of the European Broadcasting Union, they are eligible.

The shitty little client state part was the point of my comment. As a wholly owned subsidiary of the American weapons testing program, it really should be treated as a North American entity...

 

[PeteEU]

Angry antisemitic rants about Eurovision not banning the evil evil Jews is the very definition of pathetic. Not a huge fan of Eurovision but Israel should keep showing up on that stage and any other world stage if only just to anger its haters, it's totally worth it.

No one is saying banning Jews...you sound very Zionist talking point on your part..

But banning countries that start wars and/or are committing genocide yes...we did it with Russia, Yugoslavia and others, so why not Israel?