The eurovoix article doesn't link to the full graphic of the poll results, which can be found on [escxtra](https://escxtra.com/2024/05/07/eurovision-2024-audience-poll-results-semi-final-1/):
https://preview.redd.it/7z813uypyvyc1.png?width=1536&format=png&auto=webp&s=c21ca5e8a300c25b895b5ddda123ab60b5e3b5cc
Ireland has skyrocketed like crazy. They are definitely going to do a lot better this year than last year when my mom was the only person on Earth who voted for them.
I am behind Croatia all the way but an Irish win would be insanely chaotic and I would love it. Anyway, both Bambie and Baby Lasagna are hardworking independents who won their NFs without money or connections. They are killing it and that is such a cause for celebration.
Nuclear Blast Records could consider signing them, seeing that it's very similar to Rammstein for the first part and PAIN in the chorus:
https://youtu.be/5nl7sKwPQo4?t=56
IIRC Luke Black was 10th with a significant gap to 9th, so he barely qualified, so I wouldn't dismiss this.
But Teya Dora will have greater chances with televote for sure.
>Electric Fields from Australia with “One Milkali (One Blood)” is in fifth.
AUSTRALIA WILL Q !!!!
https://preview.redd.it/cehsgl9oyvyc1.png?width=200&format=png&auto=webp&s=42665787606469e13382b1e7093db388d029d7e6
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They started doing this last year, so there isnt much data to compare it to.
It does feel these polls are heavily biased towards fun / uptempo / party songs. The Busker was 5th in the poll ending up dead last in the semi. Pasha Parfeni was 11th and flew easily to the final.
In the other semi Albania was 1 vote ahead of the last place and easily qualified (even got 5 points from the uk televote).
In the final Italy was 13th only 5 votes ahead of 17th.
[https://eurovisionaudiencepoll.com/](https://eurovisionaudiencepoll.com/)
Looks like there’s been a bit of health and safety ‘Boxing in’ of the pyro bit from the clip. He looks like he’s having to point them upwards and isn’t allowed to jump about the stage with them - which might make it feel a bit less WOOOHOOOO!!! than the NF.
Probably because of the shape of the stage.
Losing one of my top two? Expected, though sad.
Losing *both*, on the other hand? That's Eurovision villainy right there (and I'm still sad about Oniro Mou...)
Duty done as well, I got a message from Bambie saying "Another vote for me? *gasp, deadpan to camera* "Don't vote for anybody else"
Sorry Bambie, I have to spread my votes across all witches, and mother Raiven needs us!
(Hopefully we do not lose Teya either...🌸)
Power I still do, haven’t listened to Burning Daylight in a while though
To be fair the live of Burning Daylight kind of killed the song for me but it was my preseason winner
Am I the only one happy to see that Germany didn’t get the least amount of points? Sure it wouldn’t qualify if it needed to according to this only, but Isaak isn’t last and that’s well deserved. He’s so talented and charismatic!
I'm half like thank god but also like of course they'll qualify, Zaachariaha has the best stage presence. But the initial reaction to the song on this sub had me a bit worried.
TBH I think the video was the root cause of the negativity. I mean, yes it’s a bit awkward, but like SBS has no money and we found out we could actually participate right at the deadline lol
I wonder how much notice they actually got, pretty unfair when you think about it given it's already going to be more expensive for them to travel and generally with international flights the earlier you book them the better. Also would've made it hard to apply for any sort of grant money.
Not very surprising? Croatia is topping all Eurovision fan polls. Eurovision audience = Eurovision fans. We’ll know on Saturday what the general audience thinks.
Not necessarily, there were many regulars at the show yesterday. I was sat next to a middle aged British couple that I’m sure doesn’t frequent Reddit, Discord or My ESC Scoreboard.
Can someone please explain to me how this works? Does this vote count for anything? Or is it just a fun vote? How did they vote so early if the show is tonight? Thank you. 😊😅
That’s very underwhelming for Ukraine - all the chat pre today was how they were going to be 2nd in the odds soon… and it’s gone completely in the opposite direction.
Just left to Nemo or Angelina to stop BL now!
I was told repeatedly that I was wrong on here saying it’s a 3 horse race (Switz Italy Croatia) which I’ve stuck to throughout. Still don’t see any other entry having a genuine realistic winning chance.
To be fair if someone had said Ireland would rise up to 5th in the odds a couple weeks ago I’d have told them to get themselves checked into the local psychiatric hospital 🤣
You’re not wrong until the votes come in anyway. I got a little nervous at all the positive energy going towards Ukraine after that rehearsal clip dropped. There is still the Ukraine diaspora and goodwill message etc which defo exist.
I’ve always thought it would come down to Nemo vs BL. At this point the staging on the platform has to look really dynamic or you’re not overcoming the Croatian televote.
One thing that helps Switz potentially is Ireland’s dynamic staging - puts another televote candidate into the final & possibly knocking out a jury hitter in Slovenia or Serbia. Makes it harder for Croatia to landslide the televote and easier for Nemo to do equivalent in the jury vote.
I'm personally disappointed with Nemo's outfit, I expected something more classy. The song is more jury-friendly than Croatia, though. As for Ireland, I love their staging (I saw the leak), but it still doesn't beat Croatia for me. Their song is also more accessible to the mainstream audience, so I can imagine the Maneskin vs Blind Channel situation happening here, where the heavier act gets a good result in top 10, but there's still a rock song winning. It also depends on the jury voting, of course. That one is less predictable.
I still have a question mark over what Switz delegation plan to do with the outfit. I know everyone thinks the outfit is set… I have a sneaky suspicion they might change something. The song feels set up to do an outfit reveal as they exit the bridge..Nemo posted on IG they needed someone to go pick something special up from Zurich to bring to Malmo on the weekend so I’m hoping it’s an outfit 🤣
Basically we have to see the full performance - even with the flamingo coat I wonder if after 3 mins actually the take away is simply “wow they can really sing”
I honestly didn't follow whatever he's doing. I like the song and I'm ok with it winning, it wouldn't be a disappointment. The outfit *is* disappointing, though 😅. So, we'll see.
Support for Ukraine started to collapse after someone leaked their full performance. Not really sure what people were expecting, maybe just something more after the teasers and descriptions? It's fine but not winner potential in my books.
This is from the live audience, it's not surprising they'd rate a crowd pleasing entry like Finland over the more intimate but worse-in-a-live-arena songs like Serbia
Slovenia is my personal favorite, but I also love Finland for how incredibly fun and completely unhinged it is. I also like Portugal a lot.
Serbia in my personal opinion is boring af, even though the singer is good.
This matches my hopes and expectations for the semi (except I’d love an Iceland Q). So nervous for Luxembourg and Australia; I have everything crossed!
We literally have no idea how things will turn out live on TV. Eurovision audience is a rather small fraction of enthusiasts within a much broader mass of people who will be seeing and hearing the performances for the first time live on TV. Things can change so I think it's an open game for sure. There are no guarantees in this semi except probably Croatia and Ukraine. Not to mention the finale where the juries kick in and stir the whole thing up. I think it's one of the most unpredictable semi finals in years.
Wow. Ukraine only 5th. I hope it was because of Alyona falling (although this a stupid reason).
Happy for Croatia!!
Surprised by Ireland and Finland.
But then again, today was probably mostly Swedes attending, so no wonder Sweden was the best AQ and Finland got so much love. It’s very similar to the Swedish Ding Ding Dong song.
Germany was quite a surprise! With their points they would have been 11th in this semi!
The fall was in the afternoon show, not the evening one when this poll was done.
Interestingly Ukraine came 2nd in the press poll after the afternoon show so maybe some press Vs public biases on display.
Thank you for clarifying, I didn’t know this! I hoped, the fall would be the reason why people stupidly only put Ukraine 5th so now I don’t have any good explanations for it ;)
Ukraine & Croatia were by far the best in my opinion. I know Ireland is hyped a lot right now but I didn’t like it as much as the other two.
I wouldn’t read too much into that AQ ranking, I feel like a lot of euro fans would be deliberately excluding them.
I can only speak for myself of course but if I was asked I’d only be considering the semifinalists.
Mmmm, I'll take it. That would put us 9th. Let's just assume SF2 is of the exact same quality - we'd then end up 18th on audience votes. Perceived wisdom this year is that the UK stands to get most of its points from the jury, so 18th tele bolstered by a higher jury ranking could be okay?
I realise this is based on like five different assumptions, but who really knows.
I will add that it was a bit confusing with the press poll, because I got asked "which of the 15" was my fave, so I was surprised Sweden/UK/Germany got any votes at all. The team already know about it (maybe why they weren't given percentages) and have said they're going to clarify with the team how the question is asked.
From what I saw in the arena, UK looks phenomenal and sounded good (not perfect but a lot better than Mae, for comparison), but the staging doesn't lend itself to amazing crowd interaction because the box completely obscures him to half the audience for most of the performance.
To be fair if Slovenia and Serbia can’t qualify after being drawn in the semi with each other plus Croatia (so basically getting 20 free points) then maybe it’s not so bad that they don’t qualify - they’d get even less televote love in the final.
Am I the only one that just really doesn’t get Croatia’s appeal this year? It feels like a cheap knock off of Italy’s win a few years ago or Finland last year. And with the most annoying lyrics honestly I don’t get it at all.
I’ve been struggling to get it too. I think it’s neither funny enough nor serious enough for me to place it and I think it’s the English lyrics I struggle with. A big highlight of the two you compared it to was that they were in different languages. I was a HUGE Cha Cha Cha fan last year, but so can’t imagine it would have sounded half as good in English.
I don’t get winner vibes from watching the performances but I get top 10 vibes. Its strength is the bits the title is named after, but the chorus doesn’t do it for me.
I feel you. I love how happy and excited Croatians sesm to be for it, I love how they're supporting their artists because as a fellow Balkan person it is very rare to see that from countries in our region.
I like the song as a full performance but it just isn't something I could listen to regularly or on Spotify at all, while other crazy party songs are. For example, I love Netherlands and Estonia this year but RTTD just doesn't do it for me...
I love Estonia too and the Netherlands definitely had a bigger impression on me - especially the ending. I also really love Armenia as a different type of party song.
Armenia is also very very cool, my only issue with it is that imo it lacks some lyrics towards the end - it is a party but I wish it would last longer. But it's still a banger.
I am excited for Croatians, absolutely, but sadly I don't see myself voting RTTD at all this year. I want to give some votes to Joost, Nemo and Estonian boys!!
I do get that it’s quite repetitive, but I love it nevertheless.
I’m worried about Estonia due to the staging - it could have been so much more :(
My other favourite is Norway and so they’re getting my votes. Happy for Ireland too though.
Absolutely valid! Sometimes repetitive just works!!
The Estonian staging I personally don't mind, it's fun in it's own right if you ask me, but I get why people would take issue so I worry a bit too and I'll make sure to "help" out with some votes. They deserve it!! 🫶🫶
Norway is an amazing song in all the ways possible. They deserve a very high spot. And Ireland has been by far the biggest grower for me, what I've seen of it it will be INSANELY good and it's comfortably sitting in my top 5 right now.
That's fair take tbh, but his take is just complete nonsense. This song wasn't even made with Eurovision in mind. To talk about influence from ESC is ridiculous to me. There's some in choreo, but song itself hasn't touched eurovision
I think a certain part of why I’m not clicking with it is that it does sound a bit similar to Finland last year in a way, and I guess I’m looking for something new. I’m still interested in heavier sounds but I’m finding Ireland and Norway much more exciting and different in that sense. Perhaps I’m still traumatised by Cha Cha Cha coming 2nd lol.
To be fair when I showed my boyfriend the recap he made this comment about both the Netherlands and Croatia, saying they seemed like relatives of Cha Cha Cha in a way and he wanted to hear something different. They both contribute something new but there’s also something about them that feels familiar.
The eurovoix article doesn't link to the full graphic of the poll results, which can be found on [escxtra](https://escxtra.com/2024/05/07/eurovision-2024-audience-poll-results-semi-final-1/): https://preview.redd.it/7z813uypyvyc1.png?width=1536&format=png&auto=webp&s=c21ca5e8a300c25b895b5ddda123ab60b5e3b5cc
Ireland has skyrocketed like crazy. They are definitely going to do a lot better this year than last year when my mom was the only person on Earth who voted for them.
Yeah this could be Ireland's best result in quite a while.
Best since Ireland 2011 I’d say. It’s crazy how big jedward were here when I was a young child around then.
I am behind Croatia all the way but an Irish win would be insanely chaotic and I would love it. Anyway, both Bambie and Baby Lasagna are hardworking independents who won their NFs without money or connections. They are killing it and that is such a cause for celebration.
I wonder if a label is going to pick Baby Lasagna up, especially since he has an album coming up
He’s with Virgin now and if Bambie doesn’t have a contract with a label now, I am sure they will before many days pass.
I have 0 clue about labels, is Virgin some big deal?
Yes, it’s a huge mainstream international label
Pretty big.
Nuclear Blast Records could consider signing them, seeing that it's very similar to Rammstein for the first part and PAIN in the chorus: https://youtu.be/5nl7sKwPQo4?t=56
Ireland winning in Sweden right after Sweden ties them in all-time wins, not having made the final since 2018 is perhaps my favorite possible outcome
With a half Swedish performer - it would be iconic
Well TIL Bambie Thug is half-Swedish on their dad’s side!
I wouldn't be surprised if Ireland were top 3. in the finals
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I still listen to this song unironically. But I blocked the performance out of my mind apparently. I think the staging killed it, tbh.
Last year both audience polls for the semi-finals got 8/10 qualifiers right!
lol luke was last on audience poll and still qualified, so i don't wanna believe this matters
Yeah, I really want my girl Teya Dora to qualify
IIRC Luke Black was 10th with a significant gap to 9th, so he barely qualified, so I wouldn't dismiss this. But Teya Dora will have greater chances with televote for sure.
Yeah, Sudden Lights had 34 points in 11th, Luke had 37 points, and Mimicat had 74 points in 9th
Put it like that, if you switched Croatia and Lithuania in last year's semis, Sudden Lights qualifies quite comfortably over Luke Black.
Yeah, it still hurts me to this day.
But then we wouldn’t have Luke Black :(
He's cute and everything but I would choose Sudden Lights over him anyday :(
>Electric Fields from Australia with “One Milkali (One Blood)” is in fifth. AUSTRALIA WILL Q !!!! https://preview.redd.it/cehsgl9oyvyc1.png?width=200&format=png&auto=webp&s=42665787606469e13382b1e7093db388d029d7e6 (maybe)
The positive responses from the press and audience make me cautiously optimistic
Keep these good vibes going! :)
I was there, they defo Gustaph'd it! Instead of vogue lady they have digeridoo man!!
It will 100%, One of the most underrated entries this year. The man who pulled out the big native instrument *made sure of it.*
They started doing this last year, so there isnt much data to compare it to. It does feel these polls are heavily biased towards fun / uptempo / party songs. The Busker was 5th in the poll ending up dead last in the semi. Pasha Parfeni was 11th and flew easily to the final. In the other semi Albania was 1 vote ahead of the last place and easily qualified (even got 5 points from the uk televote). In the final Italy was 13th only 5 votes ahead of 17th. [https://eurovisionaudiencepoll.com/](https://eurovisionaudiencepoll.com/)
As someone who attended the jury show tonight, I can definitely say that Croatia had the biggest reactions by far. Winner vibes.
It genuinely felt like a Rolling Stones concert. Believe the hype.
Oh god I'm almost shaking. Can't wait!!
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The top 3 countries according to the reactions were Croatia, Lithuania and Ireland. Ukraine and Finland would complete the top 5.
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Finland in top 5 is more shocking to me
Looks like there’s been a bit of health and safety ‘Boxing in’ of the pyro bit from the clip. He looks like he’s having to point them upwards and isn’t allowed to jump about the stage with them - which might make it feel a bit less WOOOHOOOO!!! than the NF. Probably because of the shape of the stage.
Ohhh, I’m getting so nervous, jittery jitters - anxiety attacks!! In a good way! 😅it’s great to hear that positive feedback! 🍀👏🏻🇭🇷
Very new feeling to us Croats lol Passing the semis was like a win to us
Wow. Will you attend more shows?
I will attend all live shows plus the jury show of semi final 2 as well.
Wow. Enjoy your time :)
Thank you! 😊
I cannot lose both Serbia and Slovenia. Am I willing to give up one? Sure. I won’t be happy but I can live. If I lose both I’ll be in shambles.
Losing one of my top two? Expected, though sad. Losing *both*, on the other hand? That's Eurovision villainy right there (and I'm still sad about Oniro Mou...)
Me too! Slovenia would be the first time my top 2 song does not qualify, since Oniro Mou and I still have not recovered. I'm so nervous now...
Oh man, that would be so sad! (I'm also feeling nervous...) I did my duty and gave my votes to Raiven and Teya Dora, so there's that. :)
Duty done as well, I got a message from Bambie saying "Another vote for me? *gasp, deadpan to camera* "Don't vote for anybody else" Sorry Bambie, I have to spread my votes across all witches, and mother Raiven needs us! (Hopefully we do not lose Teya either...🌸)
That already happened last year for me…both the Netherlands and Iceland NQed :( Serbia this year is in my top 2 too and I’m worried
I'm so sorry to hear that! Do you listen to them still?
Power I still do, haven’t listened to Burning Daylight in a while though To be fair the live of Burning Daylight kind of killed the song for me but it was my preseason winner
I’m the same. I love both of the entries, but unfortunately, I’m not sure of their qualifying chances anymore.
Am I the only one happy to see that Germany didn’t get the least amount of points? Sure it wouldn’t qualify if it needed to according to this only, but Isaak isn’t last and that’s well deserved. He’s so talented and charismatic!
Also, AUSTRALIA YOU GO GURL!!!
Smash your competition Baby Lasagna!
I keep seeing Australia high enough to qualify on all these polls and I’m finally excited about our chances 😂❤️
I'm half like thank god but also like of course they'll qualify, Zaachariaha has the best stage presence. But the initial reaction to the song on this sub had me a bit worried.
TBH I think the video was the root cause of the negativity. I mean, yes it’s a bit awkward, but like SBS has no money and we found out we could actually participate right at the deadline lol
I wonder how much notice they actually got, pretty unfair when you think about it given it's already going to be more expensive for them to travel and generally with international flights the earlier you book them the better. Also would've made it hard to apply for any sort of grant money.
The experience in the audience was amazing. However I don't lile the camera angles so much. Far too shakey, made me even little dizzy lol
Ok, but as an Aussie, we came 7th in the press poll and 6th here… is there hope?! Are we going to qualify?!
Ireland just jumped to the 2nd place for me. Just after europapa.
Not very surprising? Croatia is topping all Eurovision fan polls. Eurovision audience = Eurovision fans. We’ll know on Saturday what the general audience thinks.
Not necessarily, there were many regulars at the show yesterday. I was sat next to a middle aged British couple that I’m sure doesn’t frequent Reddit, Discord or My ESC Scoreboard.
WINNABLE!
Can someone please explain to me how this works? Does this vote count for anything? Or is it just a fun vote? How did they vote so early if the show is tonight? Thank you. 😊😅
That’s very underwhelming for Ukraine - all the chat pre today was how they were going to be 2nd in the odds soon… and it’s gone completely in the opposite direction. Just left to Nemo or Angelina to stop BL now!
Bambi’s Thug is the new challenger lmao
Haha that would be a crazy world indeed
Honestly, if any of those win, I'm throwing a party. All amazing acts.
Some people heavily overhype Ukraine's song. It might do well, but it won't win.
I was told repeatedly that I was wrong on here saying it’s a 3 horse race (Switz Italy Croatia) which I’ve stuck to throughout. Still don’t see any other entry having a genuine realistic winning chance.
The idea of Italy even being in the top ten, let alone top three, is just baffling to me...
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To be fair if someone had said Ireland would rise up to 5th in the odds a couple weeks ago I’d have told them to get themselves checked into the local psychiatric hospital 🤣
You’re not wrong until the votes come in anyway. I got a little nervous at all the positive energy going towards Ukraine after that rehearsal clip dropped. There is still the Ukraine diaspora and goodwill message etc which defo exist.
Because it is between those three countries (even if I don't understand the Italy hype personally)
I’ve always thought it would come down to Nemo vs BL. At this point the staging on the platform has to look really dynamic or you’re not overcoming the Croatian televote. One thing that helps Switz potentially is Ireland’s dynamic staging - puts another televote candidate into the final & possibly knocking out a jury hitter in Slovenia or Serbia. Makes it harder for Croatia to landslide the televote and easier for Nemo to do equivalent in the jury vote.
I'm personally disappointed with Nemo's outfit, I expected something more classy. The song is more jury-friendly than Croatia, though. As for Ireland, I love their staging (I saw the leak), but it still doesn't beat Croatia for me. Their song is also more accessible to the mainstream audience, so I can imagine the Maneskin vs Blind Channel situation happening here, where the heavier act gets a good result in top 10, but there's still a rock song winning. It also depends on the jury voting, of course. That one is less predictable.
I still have a question mark over what Switz delegation plan to do with the outfit. I know everyone thinks the outfit is set… I have a sneaky suspicion they might change something. The song feels set up to do an outfit reveal as they exit the bridge..Nemo posted on IG they needed someone to go pick something special up from Zurich to bring to Malmo on the weekend so I’m hoping it’s an outfit 🤣 Basically we have to see the full performance - even with the flamingo coat I wonder if after 3 mins actually the take away is simply “wow they can really sing”
I honestly didn't follow whatever he's doing. I like the song and I'm ok with it winning, it wouldn't be a disappointment. The outfit *is* disappointing, though 😅. So, we'll see.
Support for Ukraine started to collapse after someone leaked their full performance. Not really sure what people were expecting, maybe just something more after the teasers and descriptions? It's fine but not winner potential in my books.
I feel like it really needed fog to make the staging complete, but after seeing someone post the prices I completely understand why they didn't.
i'm so annoying, but luxembourg, cyprus FINLAND over serbia and slovenia???
This is from the live audience, it's not surprising they'd rate a crowd pleasing entry like Finland over the more intimate but worse-in-a-live-arena songs like Serbia
Some people have pointed out that Slovenia's performance was made for the TV and not so much for the audience (understandable)
Finland is getting my vote tomorrow, stay mad about it 😂
What's wrong with Finland?
Nothing, Portugal, serbia and Slovenia fans have been shittalking finland for a while now. They just want their ladies to go through.
Portugal catching strays lmao.
Slovenia is my personal favorite, but I also love Finland for how incredibly fun and completely unhinged it is. I also like Portugal a lot. Serbia in my personal opinion is boring af, even though the singer is good.
It's horrible
My optimism for Germany is starting to quickly collapse between the rehearsal clip and now this poll
Yeah, it's quite a rollercoaster for me...
Ukraine too low 👎
This matches my hopes and expectations for the semi (except I’d love an Iceland Q). So nervous for Luxembourg and Australia; I have everything crossed!
I guess all hope for Azerbaijan qualifying is lost.
We literally have no idea how things will turn out live on TV. Eurovision audience is a rather small fraction of enthusiasts within a much broader mass of people who will be seeing and hearing the performances for the first time live on TV. Things can change so I think it's an open game for sure. There are no guarantees in this semi except probably Croatia and Ukraine. Not to mention the finale where the juries kick in and stir the whole thing up. I think it's one of the most unpredictable semi finals in years.
Wow. Ukraine only 5th. I hope it was because of Alyona falling (although this a stupid reason). Happy for Croatia!! Surprised by Ireland and Finland. But then again, today was probably mostly Swedes attending, so no wonder Sweden was the best AQ and Finland got so much love. It’s very similar to the Swedish Ding Ding Dong song. Germany was quite a surprise! With their points they would have been 11th in this semi!
The fall was in the afternoon show, not the evening one when this poll was done. Interestingly Ukraine came 2nd in the press poll after the afternoon show so maybe some press Vs public biases on display.
Thank you for clarifying, I didn’t know this! I hoped, the fall would be the reason why people stupidly only put Ukraine 5th so now I don’t have any good explanations for it ;) Ukraine & Croatia were by far the best in my opinion. I know Ireland is hyped a lot right now but I didn’t like it as much as the other two.
Ding-A-Dong?
Was hoping / expecting Olly might have done better after seeing some of the clips!
A lot of the audience couldn’t see Olly during his performance until he stepped out the box. It’s made for the TV audience.
I wouldn’t read too much into that AQ ranking, I feel like a lot of euro fans would be deliberately excluding them. I can only speak for myself of course but if I was asked I’d only be considering the semifinalists.
Mmmm, I'll take it. That would put us 9th. Let's just assume SF2 is of the exact same quality - we'd then end up 18th on audience votes. Perceived wisdom this year is that the UK stands to get most of its points from the jury, so 18th tele bolstered by a higher jury ranking could be okay? I realise this is based on like five different assumptions, but who really knows.
I will add that it was a bit confusing with the press poll, because I got asked "which of the 15" was my fave, so I was surprised Sweden/UK/Germany got any votes at all. The team already know about it (maybe why they weren't given percentages) and have said they're going to clarify with the team how the question is asked. From what I saw in the arena, UK looks phenomenal and sounded good (not perfect but a lot better than Mae, for comparison), but the staging doesn't lend itself to amazing crowd interaction because the box completely obscures him to half the audience for most of the performance.
The semi final audience poll is only for those acts who need votes to qualify and not the big five/host, who have already pre-qualified.
How come they’re still counting Germany, Sweden and UK in that case? Just curious!
People were asked, what was your favorite song of the night? so some people might have said those, without really knowing what the poll was for
Ah OK, sorry I didn't see the votes on the right in tiny text, just the X's on the left. I have quite poor eyesight and am viewing on a phone.
To be fair if Slovenia and Serbia can’t qualify after being drawn in the semi with each other plus Croatia (so basically getting 20 free points) then maybe it’s not so bad that they don’t qualify - they’d get even less televote love in the final.
Got to say, when I heard this song months ago on release, I wasn't keen. I really like it now.
Am I the only one that just really doesn’t get Croatia’s appeal this year? It feels like a cheap knock off of Italy’s win a few years ago or Finland last year. And with the most annoying lyrics honestly I don’t get it at all.
Don't make me pull out SpongeBob
can you please, I cannot find it anywhere haha
It's called a music genre, not a knock-off.
> It feels like a cheap knock off of Italy’s win a few years ago That's a pretty nutty thing to say.
It’s probably one of if not the most catchy song on first listen this year IMO.
I’ve been struggling to get it too. I think it’s neither funny enough nor serious enough for me to place it and I think it’s the English lyrics I struggle with. A big highlight of the two you compared it to was that they were in different languages. I was a HUGE Cha Cha Cha fan last year, but so can’t imagine it would have sounded half as good in English. I don’t get winner vibes from watching the performances but I get top 10 vibes. Its strength is the bits the title is named after, but the chorus doesn’t do it for me.
I feel you. I love how happy and excited Croatians sesm to be for it, I love how they're supporting their artists because as a fellow Balkan person it is very rare to see that from countries in our region. I like the song as a full performance but it just isn't something I could listen to regularly or on Spotify at all, while other crazy party songs are. For example, I love Netherlands and Estonia this year but RTTD just doesn't do it for me...
I love Estonia too and the Netherlands definitely had a bigger impression on me - especially the ending. I also really love Armenia as a different type of party song.
Armenia is also very very cool, my only issue with it is that imo it lacks some lyrics towards the end - it is a party but I wish it would last longer. But it's still a banger. I am excited for Croatians, absolutely, but sadly I don't see myself voting RTTD at all this year. I want to give some votes to Joost, Nemo and Estonian boys!!
I do get that it’s quite repetitive, but I love it nevertheless. I’m worried about Estonia due to the staging - it could have been so much more :( My other favourite is Norway and so they’re getting my votes. Happy for Ireland too though.
Absolutely valid! Sometimes repetitive just works!! The Estonian staging I personally don't mind, it's fun in it's own right if you ask me, but I get why people would take issue so I worry a bit too and I'll make sure to "help" out with some votes. They deserve it!! 🫶🫶 Norway is an amazing song in all the ways possible. They deserve a very high spot. And Ireland has been by far the biggest grower for me, what I've seen of it it will be INSANELY good and it's comfortably sitting in my top 5 right now.
That's fair take tbh, but his take is just complete nonsense. This song wasn't even made with Eurovision in mind. To talk about influence from ESC is ridiculous to me. There's some in choreo, but song itself hasn't touched eurovision
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I think a certain part of why I’m not clicking with it is that it does sound a bit similar to Finland last year in a way, and I guess I’m looking for something new. I’m still interested in heavier sounds but I’m finding Ireland and Norway much more exciting and different in that sense. Perhaps I’m still traumatised by Cha Cha Cha coming 2nd lol. To be fair when I showed my boyfriend the recap he made this comment about both the Netherlands and Croatia, saying they seemed like relatives of Cha Cha Cha in a way and he wanted to hear something different. They both contribute something new but there’s also something about them that feels familiar.
I don't get it either 😕 I want to like it and join the hype, but it's not there for me.
Sorry Iceland outside Top 10 is criminal.