May. 14th, 2023

passionpop: (putting my foot in it)

Eurovision is over for another year and though we do not have the full televote votes available as yes and the full breakdown of voting from the semis is not known but we do know that in the semis, which were televote only, Finland and Australia were the winners of their respective semi's. All the countries in Semi 1one got votes but in Semi two, San Marino and Romania both finished on nil points. 

As for the final, the eventual winner failed to get 12 from any nations televote and though the full breakdown is not yet released, Finland got 12 points from 18 countries in the televote on top of the two jury 12 points. it is only thanks to the juries overall that Finland lost by 57 points. 

Some of the results were a bit of a shock, but it my be remembered that the Jury vote on a different performance than the public. Like Norway had not be perfected their song all week, but Alessandra nailed it to wall in the final so she got a poor score from the jury but came third overall in the televoting. Austria and Portugal both suffered from being at the top of the show and were long forgotten by the time of voting. but regardless of what you think of the voting, this is not how you react:

France, after receiving just 54 points from the public (on top of their 104 from the Jury) seemed at first to be indicating c'est la vie with her left hand, but then with the right elegantly turned up a perfectly manicured middle finger to the camera. I liked her song too, but she is a bitch. 

Australia eventually finished 9th for the third time and it was also our third time we won our Semi. but the evening does not belong to us. It belongs to Sweden. 

Sweden has now equalled the amount of wins that Ireland has had of 7, a record Ireland held alone since 1996. Loreen is also the first artist to win two Eurovision's since Ireland's Johnny Logan. The song itself left fans divided. Most didn't like it but to be fair, I didn't like her last win, Euphoria, until long after the event. Even though I thought back then it only won for the performance more than the song, now I could not imagine Eurovision without that song. I fear the same will go for Tattoo. It also should be noted that co-writers Thomas G:Son and Peter Boström have now also won two Eurovision's with both previously credited as writers for Euphoria. This beings to 7 the number of writers who have won two Eurovision's. You know what this means... Ralph Siegel is going to have to come back next year with a new song next year. 

So despite the appearance again that juries went with a popular act when they didn't know what do to, again interfering with the contest, no one can deny that the winner was Loreen and we are going to Sweden in 2024 for the 50th anniversary of ABBA's win

 

 

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