Eurovision 2024: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (ESC 2024 Awards pt2)
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- just in case one podcast-length video full of our terrible opinions on eurovision wasn't enough, here's another one
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My favourite moment this year HAS to be Bambie crowning Nemo after they won. Bambie's 'catchphrase' this entire season was "Crown the witch" and then they crowned Nemo after their win!! A song about breaking the binary code won and Nemo represented both non-binary artists in their winner performance. Absolutely loved it and I hope to see more of their friendship in the future!
Me: I know he said it, but I don't understand how Gabe can be straight!
Gabe: I don't understand it (Zorra), I've never gotten it at all
Me: THERE it is!
We still love you anyway Gabe!
I think that you have to have experienced societal shame to understand Zorra (and the catharsis of a song that joyously rejects that shame), so it makes sense that Gabe would struggle with it.
We still love him, even if he cannot appreciate Zorra.
Ha. That’s my usual reaction to Italy’s entries.
Gabe clarifying he’s straight as if his takes on Spain don’t make that abundantly clear
Something about the way Gabe talks makes me trust him more than I should.
For me Jerry Heil was the most gorgeous - the flowing dress, the background, and the choreo with those powerful poses and movements!
I dont even care about the categories im here for the beef between estonia man and spain man
Jay, if you're reading this, I need to know that your editing style is IMMACULATE. Makes me laugh every. single. time. and I'm not exaggerating. I hope you know how much we all appreciate your work, kudos to you!
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It kinda has a DankPods vibe to it, and that's why I love it so much.
Israel televoting: it was warned long ahead of the contest that there was an organized conspiracy involving VPNs and sim cards, usable in other countries, which explains quite well the insane breadth and number of televotes for such a shitty song.
I agree with Gabe that Estonia is the best televote bait entry. Its just so perfect and fun and catchy even without knowing a single word in Estonian. I wish they did better with the televote. They deserved like 100+ points in the televotes
Loved the Hurricane clip XD
Am I the only one who doesn't like them?
50:23 so real, THIS is the only hurricane that should be allowed in esc
as an estonian i appreciate it man
Estonia was brilliant
For me - Ireland's performance and staging is the best I've ever seen. Someone needs to do a video on every part of it.
A million agreeing!
I didnt realise all the ex Yugoslav countries Qed on Tito's birthday - iconic!
Gabe - i felt the same about the final split screen - literally win/win.
Its been 84 years
I think that the most underrated song at Eurovision has to la noia by Angelina mango from 🇮🇹 to be the 2nd most listened to song only beaten by euorpa is crazy and shows how good the song is and I think it would be number 1 if europpa wasn’t disqualified a 7th place and no 12 points is criminal and I also think she has the best chance to become world wide famous bc nemo sinning is ridiculously good but not many people listen to opera and if they keeps that idk how many people would listen to them and joosts music is heavily built for live preforms in my opinion and also hope you are feeling well gabe and class video
Not to diminish Angelina and La Noia, she's an amazing performer with an amazing song. But Italian entries are often on top of the Eurovision streaming charts cause of the popularity of Sanremo in Italy. It's hard to say how much that impacted the ranking. Tho obviously Italy always send amazing entries!
I have to strongly agree with you Gabe. There is no universe where Croatia is a televote baiting/ joke song. Just because it won the televote doesn't change that the goal was to win the whole thing. It doesn't have the necessary silliness or focus on only appealing to the audience that true contenders like Finland and Estonia have. Only looking at the televote results would mean Ukraine and Israel were also 'televote bait'. And I don't think anyone would think that about those songs.
Why does your weird guest keep talking about Estonia?
honestly the most shocking reveal here was the fact that you're straight LOLLL but anyway thanks for all the nominations for estonia we appreciate it
So glad you’re back
not shocked luxembourg did better than expected. the song is dedicated to her idf soldier brother and all of the national final organizers were israeli. not shocked if she got a bump from sponsors and the televote from the few israelis that didn't buy extra phones and sim cards to vote multiple times. not that no one else cheats, but this was so blatant and should be punished.
as a spanish person, seeing someone so passionate about nebulossa just makes me SO happy 🥹
i met gabe once and he called me a spanner
gabe *handshake emoji* me
yapping for hours about the estonians
0:06 Why wasn't this posted on his channel?
Because the first part was posted on his channel. It’s how this works! It’s how they share their veiwership.
@@ESC_Mike No it wasn't. The first video was on this channel as well. And they said at the timestamp that this was supposed to be posted on his channel.
For good looking people - yup Slimane (not just his looks but his warmth and kindness of his persona) but I'm cool with Bambie and Marina.
Love these additions to the video as it is on your own channel now lol.
Here we gooooo
25:27 I hundred prosent agree with the balkan guy about Ireland. It's one of those songs that don't work so well outside of the eurovision stage. When I watched the recap of Ireland's national final songs I wanted bambie to go forward mainly because it would be remembered and it would stand out. But I had not prepared for the performance and vocals to be that great compared to eurosong.
OH MY GOD IT'S HAPPENING
"it was such a calming moment" no it was not, no matter what, those last seconds are nerve wracking. Every year 😂
Im in canada and Joost just played here, and he's booked shows in the US for next year, so it does look like he's going global!
Croatia is not televote bait
Croatia the Best 😊😊😊😊😊
Finally Spain is being seen! 👀✨
Tito was a very much loved dictator, as you said, Amer 😂
I don't think people outside ex Yu area can understand this.
When they talk about Greece?
I’m confused why Italy is considered mid-tempo and Greece high-tempo: I think both are mid-tempo. Other than that, I enjoyed your discussion. I may not agree with some choices, but you both explain your reasoning well. I like the song by Spain, even if I feel it was scored properly in the final, but the message is very important.
Agreeing with songs that are overrated! Except I also love zorra 😍
the intro is so kawaii :3
Croatia is not televote bait lmao, Gabe is right
NORWAY GOT OUT OF THE NOMENIES YEEEES 😭
48:04 Italy and obviously Israel
I like both Spain and Estonia 😅
Okay, giving my HURRICANE QUEENS their flowers as they so much DESERVE
Ukraine was definitely one of the most unique. They mixed Gospel with Rap. How wasn't that unique? Especially for Eurovision? Plus Jerry Heil was by far the most beautiful lady
Do you have My eurovision scoreboard
As beautiful and amazing a Slimane's performance was, I cant reward such a cliche' and boring song lyric wise as Best Ballad. Best ballad performance? tossup between him, Iolanda, and Teodora
"I looove youuuu, I don't know wwhyyyy! [...] Doooon't you looove meee?"
I despise the lyrics, I'm sorry Slimane. Might be cause my broken french only clocks the most basic phrases but it's so... Whiney 🙈
Great performer and singer! My personal favourite ballad has to be Iolanda, what a strong entry.
I disagree - Je t'aime Slimane.
I agree with you about the lyrics. Honestly, the whole song. Slimane being so incredibly charismatic, charming, and talented, is why the song scored highly. The song itself isn't anything special, and in the hands of many other singers, it would have even been ignored. Slimane is what was special about it, not anything within the song itself.
Interesting. I agreed with so many things said in this video but this repeated major love you both have for Ramonda is so mysterious because that just did not happen for me. It would be my lowest ranked of the finalists because both the song itself and the staging were so boring.
Talking about my country 🇵🇹
Iolanda made us sooo proud, we in Portugal don't care much about Eurovision like many countries, but making two top 10s in 3 years makes me think we are doing a great job but RTP is doing a stinky job at promoting ESC here and to our emigrants abroad, beyond that they are rubbish in making Eurovision "cool" to the younger audiences.
Croatia is televote bait. Not a joke entry. But televote bait.
Eh, I don't know him, but Baby Lasagna doesn't seem like someone who'd be calculating like that. To me it seems like he just entered with a song that was fun for him to perform. The televote liking it was predictable but not the main purpose of the song. That's just my impression, of course.
@@emdove I agree. I suppose some people might call something televote bait if there was an intention to appeal to the televoters.
@@emdovesure, i don’t think he calculated more than anyone else, every artist were true to them selves. For example Estonia, Finland, Netherlands, Ireland, it’s just a fact that certain type of music does better with televote than Jory. Croatia is totally televote bait, but I also think he was true to him self even this song seem bit more rockier that his other songs.
Amer, my fieind, I grasp how significant it is to you, a Bosnian, of the timing of all those qualifications on such an ironic date. But it cant really be "the biggest moment of the year" when it applies to such a tiny fraction of the viewers/fanbase. Nearly the same thing for that press conference - very view people actually saw that and have any idea what you're referring to.
For that category you really need to look beyond what was a big moment to YOU, and think about the bigger picture - what was a big moment to at least a majority of fans/viewers, if not nearly all. as Gabe mentioned a perfect example would be Latvia qualifying against every prediction. THAT shocked the entire fanbase/expert community.
it's personal awards, that was the biggest moment for me
Yeah Croatia's televote bait - the call and response, the memable dance and the iconic lines - i sold my cow, meow cat please meow back. That said the Netherlands and Estonia are even more so.
51:07 Digga was ein Disrespect gegen Isaak nur weil er die Sache auf den Punkt bringt Im sorry but thats a scandal I dont like Isaak but his personality is just wow
Sorry Balkan guy i hate We Will Rave - that's the equivalent of what Zorra is to Gabe - it doesn't even have a good message. I agree with Gabe - Norway and Estonia were robbed.
As a Spainish FtM, I take high offense to you saying we didn't deserve those points, it was the anthem of all the spanish women and was very emotional to us that it won and made it to eurovision; tho I should expect such disrespect for a man, as you know nothing about how women are treated even by newspapers. Honestly I wish you even faced the one percent of things were subjected to face every single day.
meh, balkan guy... shame - how they all were when eden was performing and both results, poor form.
what
Cry please😍
@@Tylantia Because IMO the delegation and Eden herself deserved it.