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Eurovision 2016 - finals are today, come one and come
Indie Winter
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A little bit about what this circus actually is: the Eurovision Song Contest is a song competition held annually by the European Broadcasting Union, a union of European public service broadcasters. Each member country is eligible to enter one song to be performed live on television and radio. Generally these songs are considered to be of questionable quality or they're songs which would work in no other context.
It includes, but is not limited to:
HISTORY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeXG9-wyzw0SPECTACULAR, TOUCHING BALLADS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaolVEJEjV4HAMSTER WHEELS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slHboKF9PIQINCREDIBLY UNSUBTLE SEXUAL INNUENDO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ920cN2HmAMap of all participating countries (with the nations in yellow not returning this year):
songs and nations in the first semi-final, 10 May
01 Finland - Sandhja - "Sing It Away"
02 Greece - Argo - "Utopian Land"
03 Moldova - Lidia Isac - "Falling Stars"
04 Hungary - Freddie - "Pioneer"
05 Croatia - Nina Kraljić - "Lighthouse"
06 Netherlands - Douwe Bob - "Slow Down"
07 Armenia - Iveta Mukuchyan - "LoveWave"
08 San Marino - Serhat - "I Didn't Know"
09 Russia - Sergey Lazarev - "You Are the Only One"
10 Czech Republic - Gabriela Gunčíková - "I Stand"
11 Cyprus - Minus One - "Alter Ego"
12 Austria - Zoë - "Loin d'ici"
13 Estonia - Jüri Pootsmann - "Play"
14 Azerbaijan - Samra - "Miracle"
15 Montenegro - Highway - "The Real Thing"
16 Iceland - Greta Salóme - "Hear Them Calling"
17 Bosnia and Herzegovina - Dalal & Deen feat. Ana Rucner and Jala - "Ljubav je"
18 Malta - Ira Losco - "Walk on Water"
Participants in the second semi-final, 12 May
01 Latvia - Justs - "Heartbeat"
02 Poland - Michał Szpak - "Color of Your Life"
03 Switzerland - Rykka - "The Last of Our Kind"
04 Israel - Hovi Star - "Made of Stars"
05 Belarus - Ivan - "Help You Fly"
06 Serbia - Sanja Vučić ZAA - "Goodbye (Shelter)"
07 Ireland - Nicky Byrne - "Sunlight"
08 Macedonia - Kaliopi - "Dona" (Дона)
09 Lithuania - Donny Montell - "I've Been Waiting for This Night"
10 Australia - Dami Im - "Sound of Silence"
11 Slovenia - ManuElla - "Blue and Red"
12 Bulgaria - Poli Genova - "If Love Was a Crime"
13 Denmark - Lighthouse X - "Soldiers of Love"
14 Ukraine - Tatar Jamala - "1944"
15 Norway - Agnete - "Icebreaker"
16 Georgia - Nika Kocharov & Young Georgian Lolitaz - "Midnight Gold"
17 Albania - Eneda Tarifa - "Fairytale"
18 Belgium - Laura Tesoro - "What's the Pressure"
Countries which already qualified for the final because they're either rich or the winner of the previous year, 14 May
Sweden - Frans - "If I Were Sorry"
France - Amir - "J'ai cherché"
Germany - Jamie-Lee - "Ghost"
Italy - Francesca Michielin - "No Degree of Separation"
Spain - Barei - "Say Yay!"
United Kingdom - Joe & Jake - "You're Not Alone"
ALSO:
Justin Timberlake makes world premiere live performance in the Eurovision Song Contest
For the first time in the history of the Eurovision Song Contest, a non-contestant Global Superstar, Justin Timberlake, will enter the Eurovision stage in Stockholm. He will perform the #1 single, CAN’T STOP THE FEELING!
Get excited! Talk about how embarrassing your country's pick this year is! Watch from some strange foreign local (we know you're there, americans) and mock the whole thing! Post videos about songs you liked from yesteryears! And most importantly: remember that Cezar was robbed, ROBBED I SAY, in the 2013 eurovision. I mean, LOOK AT HIM:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV3xp5ZXSYA 
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I thought the whole "Australia gets to join in this one time" line I kept hearing last year was kind of unfair.
Well, my view is that, since the Netherlands aren't going to win anyway, letting in more competitors isn't going to make much of a difference. The more outrageous acts, the better, really.
Australia's entry last year was pretty tepid, tho
I'm not sure we really justified ourselves
Steam // Secret Satan
sings like a goddamn beast she does (a musical beast)
That means I don't have to gather all the Youtube links though, good job!
we talking hours here, minutes, what
So it's all fine
THAT WAS GREAT
but i think it might actually be their last year as this is gonna happen:
Eurovision: SBS announces plans for Asia Pacific version of song contest
Eurovision Asia would bring together up to 20 competing countries, with the first event hosted by Australia in 2017, says SBS
Steam ID - VeldrinD
Sorry
But its true!! We're only allowed in because we pay money to play with the cool kids.
but it was nothing special.
Steam // Secret Satan
Germany had a short time at the end of the 90s, beggining of the 00s where its acts embraced the silliness of the whole thing but since then has sadly regressed to thinking it is a serious contest.
That's so cool but it's a bit weird that they would call it "Eurovision Asia" instead of... well, something like "Asiavision"
Eurasiavision
Bollywood vs K-pop?
They're going to turn whatever Australian city is hosting that into a smoking crater.
I did know about this
does it say that Australia will leave Eurovision The First when it starts Asiavision though
America needs to be forbidden from tainting Eurovision
I'm not very versed in Eurovision history, but when the Netherlands didn't take this whole thing seriously, we almost never made it through the qualifying rounds. Then someone finally decided to actually put at least a bit of effort in something besides a cringe-worthy costume a couple years back and we did not do as terribly as before.
From this, I think we can all learn that a proper Eurovision entry has to consider its silliness seriously.
I want America to get our own terrible one
Every state gets a song
It would be utterly monstrous
We did, they just cancelled it.
What else was "American Idol"?
SEND CARLY RAE JEPSEN TO EUROVISION
BRING HOME THE GOLD
Something else entirely?
Like, unless things went really weird in the later seasons, American Idol didn't have exactly one contestant from each state doing a single song the entire contest
There are more countries that 'America' in the world, Yaya.
Like many things American that are versions of those overseas, we saw it done, then did it wrong. Clearly.
This is true
But Eurovision wasn't the inspiration for American Idol
Pop Idol was