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Lots of countries not in Europe are elegible, such as Canada.
The requirement is basically only for a nation’s public broadcaster (like the BBC, CBC, RTE) to be an Associate Member of the a European Broadcasting Union, which largely comes down to paying an annual fee.
Should the EBU restrict the contest regionally? Maybe, but they haven’t so far.
Australia has sent acts for the last several years, and they’ve been a great addition.
There isn’t one already? I guess I just assumed.
Democratic voters do. The party leadership doesn’t seem to care.
Bazinga!
I’ll check these out, thanks for the recommendations!
Their history with selection processes is fun reading for an ESC head.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest#Selection_process
Baila el Chiki Chiki got 16th out of 25, which isn’t terrible. It’s a joke song, and there’s a long history of them at Eurovision. They occasionally do well, though not usually.
2022 - Norway - Subwolfer - Give that Wolf a Banana https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_AvUlCQ_Cc comes to mind.
Did last year’s swedish song count as a joke song? It’s not very serious but it came in 4th. Third was very much a joke song, by an apparently well known Estonian artist Tommy Cash.
2025 - Sweden - KAJ - Bada Bada Bastu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK3HOMhAeQY
2025 - Estonia - Tommy Cash - Espresso Macchiato https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MS_Fczs_98
I dunno if we can make too many definitive statements. There are some biggish artists, some new ones without a single released song. Some dumb songs do well, some great songs do poorly.
The national finals and national selections will still be good fun, and if you vote in those, your money only goes to that national broadcaster and not to the corrupt EBU. I did recommend the many decades of previous contests, and I’m not going to tell other people to boycott the big show with me. It’s up to them.
I don’t know that there will be more eggshell walking than usual. The rules against politics have always been up for interpretation. There are always artists and delegations getting in trouble for flying e.g. Palestinian flags or anti-russian statements (at least until Russia was excluded from the contest). If we cancelled every international event in which a shitty country participates, we couldn’t have any at all.
I made my choice for this year, but I still enjoy the music.
I saw that last year on Lemmyvision! It’s on regular rotation, along with T-Pain.
Rozalén sounds cool, thanks for the tip. She has apparently indicated she’d be interested in participating in Eurovision, RTVE, the national broadcaster, usually does an internal selection (as opposed to a public competition), so there aren’t many Spanish artists who have had the opportunity to go to ESC if they wanted to.
They’re deeply connected to City Pop history too, as I recall.
I disagree entirely my friend, though there are trends just like in popular music in general.
You might enjoy skipping the ballads and the “pop girlies”, and focus on the Ethobops. They have more obvious roots in the country’s musical traditions, and they’re all interesting, and often quite good.
Here’s the Eurovangelists’ (Eurovision podcast) ethnobops playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2XgmR5xfepPxChKq6H5xYL
From that playlist, I recommend in particular:
Spain - Blanca Paloma - EAEA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGnEoSypBhE
Moldova - Zdob si Zdob - Treneltul https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9RJQPZsj8E
Ukraine - Kalush Orchestra - Stefania https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiEGVYOruLk
What crime do you imagine they would be committing?
I don’t know what they hope to gain by seeing the kid’s face, unless they think they can match it up with an Epstein family member or something (seems unlikely to be their goal).
According to the temple watch links for whose veracity I’m not going to vouch:
Jarry tried to paint himself as the embodiment of a prophecied (sp?) religious figure of an indigenous community and is one of the worst kinds of Zionist.
Greaves is an anti-black racist and supports racism and eugenics.
In the context of freedom FROM/of religion in the U.S. and this article, they are definitely the good guys. They are a necessary spoiler in the religious+legal system.
I very much appreciate this backstory you posted, as I hadn’t looked into the people who lead TST. Jarry tried to co-opt a cult? Bizarre. It really is frustrating how many people suck.
This is the perfect time to introduce my friends The Eurovision Song Contest !eurovision@lemmy.world and the Lemmy version !Lemmyvision@feddit.org !
Every year I hear a bunch of songs from other countries than my own, many in different languages. It’s pretty awesome.
I’m boycotting the finals of the ESC this year for political reasons, but that’s my decision. There are 60+ years of entries to watch or listen to!
Lemmy know if you want recommendations.
I really like “It’s a beautiful life”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPUVstUH22k
I just don’t care much about YouTubers, especially game streamers. It’s a completely uninteresting space to me. I have heard this person mentioned on here or Reddit but I can’t recall the context.
A spray paint respirator might work better than an N95. My paint mask is a P100.
Thank you. I couldn’t immediately figure out how to get the special(to me) character so I gave up.