Eurovision 2024 Semin-final 1 thread
Eurovision 2024 Semin-final 1 thread
As there has been some interest in a live thread such as the ones on r/eurovision, here is the live thread for the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2024.
Sadly, I didn't find any Lemmy equivalent to https://reddit-stream.com/. But as this community is still pretty small, I think refreshing the website once after each song should be okay.
You can click on the Chat button to sort all comments by newest, even replies to other comments.
Studio version, live shows, preparties... Today's performance by Croatia was his best ever. Totally nailed it.
Some of the most creative uses of the stage by Finland I have seen. Fantastic
Because there are no rules.
It's fun, but could have been better. The whole "pantless" thing was a little cringe. And the song was a little weak.
The fact they even screwed up the pantless thing doesn't make it better.
Help what was UK 😭 The song was my second place beforehand but the vocals were really bad and the staging… I mean I'm gay and I like seeing handsome men on the stage, but it was… really much.
It was a gay bdsm party in the saw basement. Don't kink shame 🤣
I thought the staging was awesome. It's Eurovision, so you got to have shirtless men, right? And the "shifting gravity in a room" trick is a classic but was well done here. The vocals were indeed weak, but maybe they'll get better after this practice run.
"Even I voted for Finland". LOLZ
Oof, lead singer for Australia sounded real tired after the second high note. That’s unfortunate.
Where ABBA?
Ikr :(
Finnland really nailed the performance. It's silly, but it was pretty funny and refreshing in a way, I definitely enjoyed it more than the national performance.
All the stagings have been so high quality so far! And the production quality is just insane! I know that the last years have not had the best quality, from the camera people to the stagings and such. And now it just seems so much better. I feel like Sweden just really has the ESC experience which makes it even much more pleasurable to watch tbh.
It also makes me like the songs more than previously / without the live performance.
My tier list:
TOP:
- Ireland. Bambie Thug KILLS IT!! Outstanding song and choreography.
- Croatia. Hype song, fun costumes.
MID:
- Serbia. Generally don't like ballads but this one was ok. Plus I dig her "look"
- Lithuania. mid song but excellent performance
- United Kingdom. Weak song but inventive performance.
- Ukraine. The rapping is pretty good.
- Poland. Weak song but once more, the staging is great.
- Slovenia. Good voice. Song is ok.
- Finland. Fun performance, song is a bit weak
- Sweden. Hey, when school gets out, you want to go to the alley outside the club and do karaoke?
- Azerbaijan. Mid song though I dig their clothes and the one guy's ululations
- Australia. Ok song.
- Luxemburg. The best of the "mid" songs so far.
LOW:
- Cyprus. Not terrible, but unremarkable.
- Iceland. Umm... The background lasers were nice I guess...
- Germany. Lucky for them they already qualified lel.
- Moldova. Graphics reminded me of a screensaver. The end where she played violin and sang in a high pitch was good, she should have done more of that
- Portugal. The background dancers had some interesting moments in their choreography though
The moderation this year is also really sympathetic and funny; I like it :)
(Edit: I meant the two hosts)The german voiveover moderator was sooo cocky oh boy oh boy
9 of the 10 songs getting through were in my top 10 :O
Only my 10th and 11th place got switched (and honestly I wasn't even sure in which order I should place the two).Australia missing out is the biggest shame. But 9/10 qualifiers I agree with.
I'm still sad Mans isn't hosting 😭
Luxembourg's entry was staged by Poland?
Big if true
Now it gets exciting :D
Heard Croatia for the first time tonight and was... whelmed. For Eurovision rock songs it feels like a lesser good version of Måneskin.
Luckily there were some actually meh songs.
I liked Luxembourgh more than I feel I should.
I could sing a rammstein song to it. That chorus with the shouting is identical to Ich Will by rammstein.
Yeah I want to listen to the Luxembourg song again, I have a feeling it might grow on me.
Curious what/who decides which former Eurovision contestants are shown on the intro montage? Like for Finland, I fully expected Lordi since they won in 2006. I am not familiar with EV (esc?) overall to know which others were/were not former winners.
That's a really good question! I was wondering the same. I noticed that basically every postcard had one classic / older and one more modern / newer entry (the only noticeable exception being Australia for obvious reasons). I think the artist themselves might have selected some other things.
But because I got curious, I just looked it up and on the Eurovision website introducing the new format, they sayThe Postcard will not only introduce the performers, but also the countries that each act is singing on behalf of. And this will also extends to the context of our participating broadcasters' most memorable moments at the Eurovision Song Contest. "We also added some public service – a graphic map to see where all the countries are located in the world. And then we wanted to celebrate the rich and incredible history of the Eurovision Song Contest by adding a couple of previous great entries from the Eurovision archives of each country."
It sounds to me like the EBU has a big influence and can determine how the selected videos should be. The national broadcaster might decide the specific country and ask if it's okay. But of course that's just my speculation.