Also, what was Samanta Tina's team thinking with the staging!! She literally screams THE BLOOD MOON IS RISING!! "Hmm, sounds to me like green dresses and a gold background" 🤡🤡🤡
I remember watching "i am what i am" live in the stadium and one of my friends went "What High School Musical bullshit is this?" and we all laughed and stopped paying attention.
Malta 2022 makes my blood boil not only for all the reasons you mentioned, but because Ritmu by Aidan would've been one of my favorite Eurovision entries of the decade had it won MESC. If Emma had continued to Eurovision with Out of Sight, I would've been salty but understood - but the fact that she beat out a song that is MUCH better than I Am What I Am, that had a real chance of qualifying (IN MALTESE, mind you) is a huge slap in the face in my opinion. The whole thing feels incredibly dishonest.
When will they ever bite the bullet and send a song from Muzika Muzika? "Nahseb fik" would've done better with the televote than "Je Me Casse," I said what I said.
I'm from Malta and I agree with you Aiden should have won but of course we are scared of sending a song in Maltese and 2022 Malta Eurovision entry will forever be one of my least favorites Eurovision entries
Emma is so much better than this song - her previous stuff like "I Need Somebody" or even recent stuff like "M.I.A." or "Lacrime Moet" would have been much better efforts
I still frequently think about the fact that Blind Channel weren't allowed to do middle fingers during their performance so they just painted them black, and then you had Jendrik with a whole ass middle finger costume 💀 and the best part is that they performed right after one another during the final
This may have something to do with the fact that the “middle finger” officially wasn’t one at all. It was actually a peace sign, but one finger probably wasn't tight enough... 🙂
Ah, Blind Channel coming right after Jendrik in the 2021 Final is one of my favorite moments in Eurovision in this decade!! (Maybe ever.) Proper middle finger right after a joke middle finger ;D Not to mention an *infinitely* better song & better artists...
The people deciding the running order in 2021 really knew what they were doing, both with putting the middle finger entries together and having Norway perform right after Azerbaijan
Germany's Eurovision History this decade: 2021: internal selection (everyone hated that song in germany) 2022: NDR reject Electric Callboy cause its not fitting for the radio (received a massive sh*tstrom) and getting last with a generic song 2023: Sending in a metal song (getting last somehow) 2024: sending another generic song ( getting 12th place somehow)
Mostly accurate, but I disagree that our 2024 song is generic. Not saying it should have had a chance to win or anything, I think it fits perfectly well in 12th place, but in terms of musical theory, it is objectively the most interesting song we've had in a long time, with Blood and Glitter from 2023 being a possible exception (fully agree, no idea how that one netted a last place).
@@CaptainSweatpants90 NDR always sends in something that they can play across all radio stations. I guess they only accepted LotL only cause of the EC controversy the year before. And after they became last the NDR is confirmed in their opinion with having nearly only one type of gerne in the national selection.
@@lordkampiIt's not really true that NDR always sends in songs that are suitable for radio. This is a prejudice (possibly fueled by the horrible NF 2022). They didn't make it in 2023 or 2021 either. Jendriks song is really not good (especially the terrible staging), but it's not a radio-friendly pop song. I don't know exactly what it is (maybe some kind of nursery rhyme?). The UK, on the other hand, sends an average radio pop song to the ESC every year and is usually celebrated for it by large parts of the bubble. This no longer works with the ESC itself. Only Sam Ryder's outstanding performance saved the UK 2022.
Somewhat surprised Benny Cristo managed to avoid this list, even the honourable mentions, with his live performance of Omaga - Forgot the lyrics in the bridge - Weird sighs and moans throughout the performance - Questionable staging - Even more questionable vocals - Ruined a perfectly serviceable song's chances of achieving anything at the contest
Alright, that's it. I am sick of this James Newman slander. James Newman's nil points is singlehandedly responsible for us finally trying the next year and giving us Sam Ryder. James Newman is a Eurovision hero and we should put respect on his name.
As someone also sick of James Newman slander, and who actually likes Embers way more than Space Man, that's certainly a hot take... But optimistic at least! He deserved better! And you know, after hitting rock bottom, you can only go up to the top! Glad the UK made it to the podium, although I prefer the entries before and after 2022
Sam Ryder was decent but compared to what the UK is capable of they're still holding back. As an example, in the same year Sam Ryder performed, 4 of the top 5 songs on the Billboard hot 100 were from UK artists (Glass Animals, Harry Styles, Adele, Ed Sheeran).
I think Jendrick's personality (and the middle finger dancer) allowed "I Don't Feel Hate" to really grow on me, but I totally get where you're coming from.
Agreed. I don’t think any “joke” entry should be able to make a “worst” list :) I’m a sucker for a funny Eurovision entry; sometimes they just don’t resonate with everyone (although this one did with me) or there is another entry which takes the lion’s share of the “good time / funny” votes. Germany then followed this up with Lord of the Lost, which also did (inexplicably) dismally and now I just hope Germany hasn’t been browbeaten forever into sending the bland radio-friendly stuff they sent last contest because ugh.
@@catabyte Surely there's an option to send something that is neither jokular nor bland, like some kinda good music instead. I dunno why people wouldn't just focus on that
@@catabyte I certainly agree that Lord of the Lost was an upgrade (and Gabe recently agree they were unfairly judged), so from your lips to Gaia's ears
@@catabyte Dustin the Turkey and Kreisiraadio would like a word. They can label both of these as "joke" performances all day long, but that doesn't change the fact that both of them are among the worst songs and worst performances to ever hit a Eurovision stage. There is a basic level of musical competence that is needed even for a joke entry. "Dancing Lasha Tumbai"? Hit. "Leto svet"? Miss. Big time.
9:30 Minor correction about Ireland 2023. The reason Connor took on the lead singer role was because David Whelan, the actual lead singer, was in a serious accident before the national final, apparently suffering a fall from 20 feet. He reportedly was in surgery for his shoulder the day before the national final, hence why he was wearing a sling in the national final. I've seen them live, too, and honestly, David is a far better performer than Connor. It's a shame it turned out that way, I've always said if circumstances were different, maybe he could've salvaged it??? Idk, still a nothing song.
@CamacanMMC Tbh I think that the Gabe theory was the most plausible, because it for sure made me believe for a while that Connor was the lead singer the whole time from the way Connor was the one to be ALWAYS tweeting about Eurovision. Just him. I don't think or know whether the actual lead singer would've made this generic ass song work though. They would've needed to write something less generic, afterall they had a fanbase who spent a lot of money just to vote for Wild Youth in Eurosong alone so it's possible they would've voted them with something way better too
"Bigger Than Us" is worse than "Embers" in every way. James Newman seems like a friendly dad at a wedding party, and at least the song is mildly danceable.
Nah, it was not. The one redeeming quality of Bigger Than Us was that Michael Rice is an amazing vocalist and sang it perfectly. There are no redeeming qualities about the live performance of Embers (which is mostly what the video is about, performance, not just studio version). Nothing you mentioned about Embers nor James Newman is positive lol ain’t nobody wanna see “friendly wedding dad” struggling to sing the most basic and easy song ever at the Eurovision stage
@@Querviinho"Embers" beat was at least mid 2010s radio-friendly Sigala-ish, we have David Guetta and Becky Hill scoring hits with that sound right now.
Yeah 100%, if a really seasoned pop performer had done Embers and they hadn’t absolutely whiffed the staging I think it would’ve done a bit better, it’s not amazing but I get pumped when I hear it on shuffle and I’m in the right mood. Bigger Than Us on the other hand…immediate skip. Michael Rice is an impressive young man but nothing says “we here at the BBC couldn’t give less of a shit” than chucking the winner of a fucking karaoke reality TV show with a bottom-of-the-barrel Melfest reject song at the contest. The bloody writer was competing in the SAME ESC for god’s sake, like…if the song was good, wouldn’t John have performed it himself?? C’mon BBC.
@@Querviinho Meh, yes Michael Rice is an amazing vocalist but his singing still sounded bad because of the stupid X-Factor/Talent show freestyling he did the whole time
Okay so I have a story about Jendrik’s „I don’t feel hate”, but it’s a tad bit unhinged. So this summer I was walking home from a bbq party at 1 a.m. TERRIFIED because there were stories about wolves in the area. My friends walked me to my neighborhood but I had to go the last bit alone. And mind you, this wasn’t in the city but in forgotten tiny little town in the middle of nowhere. To cheer myself up I thought about the „happiest” song I know and for some reason only Jendrik’s masterpiece came to my mind so I played „I dont feel hate”. As I got near my house I heard howling through my headphones, looked right, and saw… something. A dog? A wolf? No clue. I ran like crazy and Jendrik’s song was the soundtrack to my panic. Sooooo thank you Jendrik for saving me from the wolves I guess! And thank you Gabe for another super fun to watch video! Stay safe (and not around the wildlife).
I want more tier lists and I literally wouldn't mind if you ranked all fourth, fifth, sixth and so on places in each contest as you've been doing because being in the fandom for so long you have plenty of obscure trivia to go with each song. Thanks for another great video!
@@radopakI'm sorry but someone somewhere memed about her doing colab with paluszki beskidzkie and suggested lyrics "kup paluszki z solo, solo" (to justify me writing it in English: it's a pun on sound solo and solą (salt). So salty we were xD
It hurts that the songs from Azerbaijan 2023 and 2024 are so disregarded by the fandom, because I think both were incredibly charming, and Tell me more was one of my biggest summer hits. It just has a mood that I really like, maybe like a lazy summer morning. Are they the most Eurovision friendly? No. But as songs, they're really good and super enjoyable.
Tell Me More and Özünlə apar are perfectly okay studio songs, but they butchered the live performances so badly one way or another that I can't really bring myself to watch them tbh
I deeply appreciate you saying Theodor Andrei doesn't need to be kicked any more than he already has. That revamp would have been crime enough, but with everything else? Truly, that was far more than anyone deserves.
For me, Jendrik's entry is my favourite from this list. I really, really liked "I Don't Feel Hate." It was very 'theatre kid' musical style, which I get isn't to everyone's liking, but everything from the composition, to the jokes and the creativity of the music video really worked for me. Plus the message of the song is really good. Conversely, I find "Satellite" by Lena to be far more insufferable than "I Don't Feel Hate." But, we all have different music tastes and that's what makes the contest so much fun overall :)
Jendrick won me over with his look labs interview. He seems like a fun dude who wrote a dumb silly song. The song isn't great but it's fun and the dancing hand adds so much charm
Jendrik won me over because it was clear he was shooting for the dead last place and somehow got screwed over by the British entry. It was so funny to me, I still have to remember that moment sometimes.
Thank you from a german. :) I personally don't listen to "I don't feel hate" that much, but i sometimes find myself singing it in random situations and changing the lyrics. :D I also didn't understand, why we won in 2010, when there were literally so many BANGERS that year like Turkey, Romania, Serbia, Sweden (who didn't qualify for no reason) and more...
I would defend I don't feel hate, but I have accepted it's a guilty pleasure, and to be honest all the chritisisms towards it are completely justified. For some reason it just makes me happy, in it's childish carefreeness.
just wanted to say, i relistened to all the 2021 songs a year ago, and i was pretty shocked to say i actually kinda enjoyed Germany. It really is a guilty pleasure song.
Not really justified. Calling it "the musical atrocity" is totally a personal taste, Eurovision accepts all genres, even if it's "kindergarden music" or something. And lyrics actually make a lot of sense, they're far from random/cliche set of words like Ireland 2023, Malta 2022 or Bulgaria 2022. And he was so positive, a total representation of the message of the song. Only the way Germany chose it, quickly and internally, raises some questions.
Reiley is the only Faroese singer to ever make it past the national final, and sadly it's one of the worst Danish performance. Faroe Islands were so exited about Reiley winning in Denmark, that they broadcasted his semi-final and the final with Faroese speakers. And we had a politician at the Eurovision trying to make Faroe Islands part of Eurovision. And this year, Eurovision wasn't even shown on the Faroese TV.
@@SuperJNG18 The Danish speaker last year, actually did say that they maybe should consider sending songs in Faroese or Greenlandic. We did have A Faroese woman compete in 1979 with a song fully in Faroese, and got 3rd place in Denmark, and we didn't send songs again until 2005, but it has never been in Faroese since.
For real. The storytelling and romantic feel (not just love and stuff but overall, about life in general) of the song are on point. Just the staging was really underwhelming.
The most egregious thing about Reiley was that I interviewed him and had to cut out the 3-minute-long chat we had about the fact that we were born within a week of each other in the same country bc I quickly realised ALL the comments would be Eurofans making snarky remarks about who was faking their age 😂😂😂 He’s a lovely guy as well, but I can’t defend that performance 🇫🇴🇩🇰
Yeah, I’m the real Joe Bleasdale, all the others are just imitating 😂 (Don’t know why I settled on that - wanted to change my old handle which was SirBleasdale bc it sounded a bit self-congratulatory, but I don’t think this is any better 😂)
and he was such a snob at all of the pre eurovision parties that year, i remember being in one and he just sat in the corner in his phone for the entire night, ignoring fans
another mention about Wild Youth's performance. that man is doing everything he can to not actually sing. for a majority of the performance, he was just kinda waving his arms around and letting the pre-recorded backing vocals do all the work (I know it looks like the other members are singing the backing vocals, but they're not. I know its studio vocals bcs I heard the music video {part of it}, those are definitely 100% studio backing vocals)
Tbh they should get rid of the prerecorded backing vocals all together. I mean ever since they introduced them some countries rely way too heavily on it and half of the songs seem to have mostly backing vocals turning the whole performance into a playback show.
@@renamed.4jS It does sound like it was the case but the EBU wouldn't let it slide, because using prerecorded vocals to substitute for live vocals is not allowed in the Eurovision rulebook.
YUP he was doing the “microphone to audience” (which similar to Aus 2018 is often used when the singer knows their voice is breaking or they need to catch a breath) thing too often and holding the mic wayyyy further away from his mouth than he should’ve done. Worst part for me was that they were sitting really close to us and he walked out, on his own, like almost immediately after the results were completed. Maybe he really needed a piss (and after being trapped in the world’s ugliest jumpsuit for 5+ hours, who wouldn’t) but the optics of that move weren’t great, not very professional or good-sportsmanlike. Made it seem like he felt they deserved to go through despite the performance being, at best, half-there.
It helps if you imagine Emma Muscat is singing "I yam what I yam" in tribute to Popeye and the 1980 movie, which was filmed in Malta. Well, it helps me.
And the only thing good to come out of that song was the elderly lady sway-dancing in the music video. I think they should have granted all performers an extra person on stage that year if they opted to let that woman dance like that to every number with a giant glass of wine in her hand each time like @kevinbabbles said back in his "25 Ridiculous Reasons..." video for ESC 2022 (ruclips.net/video/JQ97n805Olo/видео.html)
Word. It wasn't terrible to me just bland as unflavored ice milk... The worst goes to the two Polish entries.. Solo and The Ride... WTF were they thinking? Both songs on paper and studio were great. Live? Beyond tragic...
Ah Wild Youth, yer man looked like a stick of Kerrygold butter 😅 I can remember at the time people were saying the lead singer specifically wanted to wear that skin tight, gold leotard.
Only song I love here is Latvia 2021. Don't get me wrong, it absolutely deserves to be on this list for the performance alone. I just personally love the studio cut so much and was begging for Samanta to finally make it to eurovision for almost a decade. Not to sound dramatic, but the feeling I felt after finally watching her perform in the semi final was so gut wrenching. It's the second most miserable I've ever felt as a eurovision fan after Iceland not qualifying in 2016.
honestly, I was genuinely a very big fan of Still Breathing back in 2020 but when I listened to Moon is Rising, it was missing something super critical in it, like it felt like a pirated copy of the 2020 track. It doesn't help that they just straight up tried to recreate the Still Breathing live performance to a tee, and not try to experiment a bit (like The Roop did). Nothing in it felt right at all to me.
To Emma Muscat's defense, she was the largest name in Malta and had a decent career in Italy, so the prospect of sending her to Turin was supposed to be a recipe for a slam dunk, but not this, nor her original winning song, were it at all. It sounds fanwanky and too fantasy-pilled, but a bop in Italian like her song Sangria? Man, it woulda been such a great move. She's definitely the largest wasted chance on the decade.
@mastermaltese8731 Their NF had other languages and borrowed from other more unrelated languages before. Emma herself speaks it and made herself a career in Italy, so even if it is far-fetched, it would've been a daring move to take with possibly the best person to do so.
went to see joker out last year and wild youth were also there and on hearing their other music i was.. SO baffled about how we are one ended up so.. awful? i think about it a lot
I was also at that gig, and was wondering if I can suffer through Wild Youth, but they were surprisingly good, and I loved it when they went to the middle of the audience to perform. A pleasant surprise, and no golden Elvis-costume in sight!
SAME HERE, WILD YOUTH WERE AMAZING!!! how their Eurovision song ended up being what it was considering the rest of their discography baffles me to this day
Thanks for another great video! Also Blind Channel running right after I dont feel hate was probably one of the most "perfect running orders" of all time 🤣 Btw UMK released hosts's reaction video of this year's songs to Instagram, only about two weeks untill the songs are releasing and it seems there could be some amazing songs this year 🤯.
Also, ironically the 'hand' in Jendrik's performance sometimes showed the giant middle finger to everyone, whilst Blind Channel, who sang 'put your middle fingers up', were not allowed to show the middle finger, but ended up painting them red instead. I cracked up when I saw the German performance! Sometimes size, in this case the size of the middle finger, doesn't matter... 😆
I would’ve included Poland 2021 on this list 🇵🇱. That performance gave me the impression I was watching a RUclips video of “X-Factor or got talent performances gone wrong” and at the end Simon Cowell tells him to get off the stage. It was also hilarious and cringe how many times he tried to get the crowd going and got little to no cheer from them
For this one it's a case of "nice song but VERY WRONG CHOICE FOR A SINGER", this guy sounds more like he'd sing something jazz-/swing-/poprockish-influenced or a ballad-like song and would sound much better than this...(also shoutout to the amazing backing vocalist
THANK YOU!!!! I was scanning the entire comments looking for a fellow Poland 2021 disaster witness. Rafal bailed on half the notes and they weren't challenging at all. I remember seeing seeing some rather catty but minimalist written comments from Clara one of the songwriters about it either confirming how saddened she was by his version and subsequent performance. The song itself it a slice of sexy 80's synthpop that sounded great with her OG vocals.
@@SuperJNG18 It was the worst polish entry of the decade by far despite it being a good song. I suspect he had COVID and his vocals were shredded... Or he was out partying because it was the worst performance of any artist at Eurovision to date that I've seen. Flat, off-key and he bailed on half the performance by asking everyone how they were doing... Not once but like several times... So cringe!
1:03 10th - Emma Muscat: I am what I am (Malta 2022) 3:45 9th - Turalturanx: tell me more (Azerbaijan 2023) 5:34 8th - Reiley: Breaking my heart (Denmark 2023) 8:38 7th - Wild Youth: We are one (Ireland 2023) 10:59 6th - Tornike Kipiani: You (Gerogia 2021) 13:30 5th - Piqued Jacks: Like an Animal (San Marino 2023) 15:31 4th - Samanta Tina: The moon is rising (Latvia 2021) 18:28 3rd - Intelligent Music Project: Intention (Bulgaria 2022) 21:29 2nd - Jendrik: I don't feel hate (Germany 2021) 23:57 honorable mentions 24:45 1st - James Newman: Embers (UK 2021)
Apart from the song being just kinda annoying, I could never take the stage show of it seriously. The hand gesture they do to symbolize the "horn" has a different meaning here in Austria. You're supposed to do that when someone burps and say "Schulz" and the last one who does it loses. It's an immature game, and seeing as a gesture to represent a majestic unicorn was very silly.
You managed to hit all the songs that I, honestly, never want to listen to again. For the Piqued Jacks, I actually left the room during their performance because I got so creeped out by the lyrics, the terrible singing and the creepy looks from the front man.
i really missed "Unforgettable" from Sweden... it was such a boring meaningless song with barely any meaningful stage performance and it was so endlessly forgettable :/ and the lyrics were super boring
Sure it wasn’t mind boggling but to say it’s bottom 10 of about 160 songs? No chance. It was very professionally produced and well performed, even if pretty generic.
“Unforgettable” is too bland to be in a “Worst Song” list. It might make it into a “Most Ironically Named songs”, but that would require people remembering it exists.
I'm gonna be honest. Everyone hated Piqued Jacks but... I can't help it. Vocals taken out the song is petty good, and the singer just goes for it you know? He's enjoying himself on stage so much that even his singing just kinda sounds good to me. Idc if the lyrics are awful, I can just turn my brain off and enjoy the pretty noises
not everyone, I thought in the beginning the song was kinda so-so but somehow it grew on me (and it didn't help that I'd been playing their other songs A LOT 🤣) btw go check out their other songs, some of them are really good ❤ (for example Sunflower, Color Shades, Mysterious Equations. Eternal Ride of a Heartful Mind, Only a Bridge, Aria, The Gum...just to name a few examples...are SO MUCH BETTER
I'm just surprised nobody at any point told them to revamp the lyrics of the chorus. Just change "I can smell you like an animal" to "I am feeling like an animal", and "I'll chase you on the dance floor" to "I'll go crazy on the dance floor".
i also just love the staging, like for a country that relies on self funding they have really good LED visuals, you can see it in 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 and even jesc 2024
lyrics are literally the least important part of the song, i think like an animal is one of my most listened eurovision songs after shum, and it fits so well in my regular playlists
i loved the studio version of samanta tina’s song and i was wondering how it could score so low. then i watched the live version and it all made sense…😅
What I’m amazed at is how badly Denmark has done in the post-lockdown era of Eurovision. Four contests, from 2021 to 2024, and Denmark hasn’t qualified a single time. Do they make it five in a row in 2025?
I will always defend Denmark 2021. Yes, the juries hated it, but it was fun, they were 8th in televote (the only country where they didn't get any points was Moldova) and it was the first time since "Only Teardrops" when a Danish Eurovision song reached number 1 in charts in Denmark. Since then though? Yeah, I don't know what are they doing. 2022 didn't even reach top 40 in Denmark, 2023, as mentioned in the video, was a trainwreck (although it probably had some chances if it was performed well), and when Saba won my only thought was that they picked the blandest song so there would be nothing to hate it for.
Love your content. No one else does Eurovision commentary like this. Really stands out. The dry humour in your commentary made me chuckle quite a few times here 😂
I know I'm very much a minority here, but I actually vibe with Azerbaijan 2023. It brings me cozy vibes and I always liked it. I was sad that so many people hate it.
Yup. It sounds like the preppy ill-fated ad campaigns for Target Canada that featured Dragonette doing a Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood Mr. Rogers cover just before it went under in 2015... As did Dragonette as a band and a marriage... Oops!
as someone who unashamedly plays ukulele, and who was going through formative events in 2021, i completely love jendrik and “i dont feel hate” and have a fondness for it as a memory; i still follow jendrik and think hes hilarious, but completely respect him being #2 on this list because i look back at the song with the fondness of a time capsule. still haunts my spotify DJ once in a while 🤣
As someone whose pre-live winner in 2021 was Czechia, I have to question if OMAGA on stage was simply so traumatic that you've suppressed the whole thing?
For me Hendrik's song always had a dark side, like a desperate spell against anxiety and depression. And indeed, its video depicts people being discriminated and harassed, who then return the violence to their oppressors. If it had been staged that way, it might have made some sense, apart from being silly, but maybe that was way too much Brechtian estrangement for the decent German broadcasters.
The best part of slo mo is Chanel's performance. I like the song because I like Latin music. I can see how people who don't like the genre don't like the song beyond the incredible performance
I 100% agree, so much so in fact that she wasn't even in my top 30 that year. Such an overrated dull commercial latino pop song performed by a woman who was shaking her very exposed butt for 3 minutes. Sounds harsh but that's how I see it
I also wouldn't put Tell Me More on the list personally. For all the shit Azerbaijan's broadcaster has been involved in, I appreciate that they went for something homegrown and mellow for once, fully knowing it was entirely uncompetitive. I expect Azerbaijan will return to being "tryhards" like they were in the past, and we'll look back at their 2023-2024 entries and miss them.
yes and I love theodor. he wasn’t given any chances, unfortunately, just a high schooler out on his own own. DGT was in my top 5 on spotify this year and last year. ❤
I really don't hate Embers, at least in studio. it's a very basic dance song. I'll admit hearing it at a Target in Montana was a very strange experience, though.
Perhaps that would make another great video. 'The most insufferable Eurovision acts of all time'. On there I reckon Silvia Night would sit alongside M.B.D
Georgia 2021 made me actually fall asleep...which says a lot since I don't fall asleep easily with a song,and by the time he was about to perform I wasn't even sleepy at all
While not compeletely on board with everyone, the only one I'll disagree with loudly is Azerbaijan 2023. That one is so sweet and soothing. Reminds me of "Kiss me" by Six Pence None the Richer. I love that. It's such an easy listen, in the best of ways. A breath of fresh air. Just totally un-competitive. And while I don't HATE the Maltese song 2022, I did love "Out of sight". Love it, still. So, it was a letdown.
Personally I don’t really enjoy the song, but I don’t think it’s fair to put it on this list (never mind second place). The performance wasn’t too bad. Yes, it was childish and the lyrics are weird, but the vocals aren’t the worst. It’s just a funny joke song.
i'm honestly so sad for samanta tina, cuz «still breathing» was so good, but it was way too obvious they just tried to replicate the staging and it just didn't work with «the moon is rising» :(
🇲🇹 2022: Yeah i don't really like this 🇦🇿 2023: I somehow actually really like this 🇩🇰 2023: 🇮🇪 2023: bro just looks so uncomfortable 😭 🇬🇪 2021: 🇸🇲 2023: 🇱🇻 2021: I 100% agree 🇧🇬 2022: not in the safety zone 🇩🇪 2021: I unironically love this 🇬🇧 2021: im just
Georgia 2021-Boring as f San Marino 2023-the less said the better Denmark and Faroe Islands 2023-also the less said the better(never send a tiktoker to Eurovision again)
I swear Embers wasn't even this massively disliked when it dropped out. There was nothing that would signal how much of a flop it was gonna be, buy boy it was. P.S: Thanks for not putting DGT up there. The half-acoustic final version is indefensible, but I sort of like the original version, and Romania did everything to finish him off, totally unfair.
Supposedly james Newman was sick and that mixed with nerves drinking and having a mediocre song proved to Europe that while it should’ve been impossible to achieve the famed nul points in the contest they would prove that it was very much possible and that they were gonna prove it
Gabe, I like how your musical taste is basically the opposite of mine - makes things more interesting! I enjoy your perspective and reasoning, especially when you point out details I’d usually just skip over and move on. The songs on your list all land on my 'meh' list - they don’t irritate me, but they don’t excite me either. Honestly, I tend to appreciate the weird, shocking, and downright bizarre entries - I naturally tend to balance out the cheesy 'singing-my-heart-out' ballads and those Swedish B-side pop songs that already felt outdated 10 years ago. On my top 10 list there would be some of the fan favourites, but to avoid cyber bullying, I choose not to disclose.
I... can't defend Jendrik, but I don't necessarily think it's all his fault. As far as I could find out, he submitted the song more or less as a joke and when the jury decided on it, even he himself went: "Wait, seriously?" So, he decided to go to Eurovision and just have fun. He also took his zero points really well.
the way Conor left Wild Youth to be Joker Out’s tour manager for a bit and showed up to their fanmeet in February separate from the band and also not actually saying hi to the band…. like ariana what are you doing here 😂
“Embers” sounds to me like something you’d hear in an Old Navy or some other clothing store at the mall to try and hype you up while trying on clothes in the fitting room that are too small and too expensive. Or maybe at a hair salon.
“We Are One” has some incredibly clunker lyrics. I mean, one line goes, “We might be different / We might be unique.” Isn’t that just saying the same thing twice?
I actually agree with you on Latvia 2021. To me what makes it even more insufferable is that is my 2nd worst drop in quality among countries that kept the same artist (I’m looking at you Birth of a New Age), Still Breathing was miles better than it. Also to finish my rant about 2020, I have one very controversial take on what could’ve happened: call me crazy as much as you want, but Freaky would’ve qualified (with the current voting system I’d say it would’ve been almost a safe qualifier)
i wasn't in the eurovision community during 2022 so i didn't realise until now that people didn't like I.M at all. Personally, it was in my top 10 for that year and i genuinely enjoy the song so it is disappointing to find that it was one of the most disliked from that year. Either way, i won't be changing my opinion about it bc i enjoy it lol
The revamp was on POINT; the poses, mannerisms and the intro overdid it for me but the chorus & specially the dancebreak/highnote/outro were amazing. Say what you want about Israel, but they're objectively a powerhouse who understands this contest
saw Wild Youth live as they were an opener for a Joker Out concert, and I can vouch that they have an INSANELY good discography aside from We Are One! they were also amazing live, just sucks that the contest panned out how it did
Jendrik was my then 3 year old's favourite song of the year, so I don't feel hate at all for it! Also, Blind Channel being denied having their "middle fingers up" whilst Jendrik got away with the hand was brilliant!
So, as you asked it at the end, why do I love it so much : - Azeri language (I wish the whole song was in Azeri though) - Phenomenal ethnic vocals from Ilkan, among the best of the whole competition - The mystical vibe got me addicted - The instrumental is so delicate and beautiful with all the instruments blending amazingly well together - A one of a kind at Eurovision that feels fresh - FINALLY something special from Azerbaijan after a whole existence of box-standard Melodifestivalen rejects (only examples being 2009, 2013, 2017 and 2019) I only hope people will not whine at them for going back to send average dull pop entries with no soul 'cause I'm sure that's what's gonna happen this year, unless there's a miracle. But for once they sent something ethnic which feels captivating and they got sacked. The only thing I'll agree with is that the staging was awful it shows they didn't know what to do with the song (actually they could've inspired themselves from the music video to create a staging with maybe chinese shadows)
I'm shocked Jendrick only got second. Embers was bad in many, but at least it was aggressively pop-ishly dull. Jendrick was full-on hardcore everything to cause hate, it was disharmonic and ignorant in its fakey jolliness it was too painful to watch.
And Malik Harris deserves an honourable mention as well for being the same kind of samey dull pop music where the broadcaster NDR officially prioritised "radio suitability" over Eurovision suitability (thank God the word "Radiotauglichkeit" causes ridicule because of that very song)
OK I have long said that the German "I dont feel hate" is a marmite song if most people vomited when eating marmite. I actually found it kind of charming and stupid and was sad it did quite as bad as it did. was it a great song NOOOOO. But in eurovision you need at least a few just god damn stupid songs and that year we had alot. I feel in a year it was the only stupid ridiculous song it would be remember as just stupid and dumb and not 2nd worst of the decade.
When Jendrik was announced as the German entry, a lot of us Germans thought it was a parody of some sort. The whole thing was so incredibly embarassing and it was clear from the get go to everybody with ears that this would get us the last place once again. Totally justified too. Rewatching it still makes me cringe. PS: I actually liked Embers :D
Jendrik actually said, he choosed this song to submit cause he wanted to go to Eurovision for years and he knowed how bad of taste the Broadcaster has. He himself said, that the song is bad and he has way better ones, but this one made his dream come true and i respect that a lot. Samanta Tina hurted me a lot. I really love the song, the energy and i still listen to it a lot, but the live Performance was so bad and i had a little tear in my eye seeing it.
I would have included Belgium 2024 : The song was epic and had so much potential, but they unfortunately wasted everything with bad cameras angles, too static staging and vocal struggles not to help. Same goes for Poland 2024 and that terrible horse :/
Not lighting up the room while singing "light up the room" is still the worst part of Embers.
@@carob.8540 it was awful, a shame as I liked his 2020 song.
Facts
Very funny, though
@@timmeh1507the uk would've still finished last in 2020
Also, what was Samanta Tina's team thinking with the staging!! She literally screams THE BLOOD MOON IS RISING!! "Hmm, sounds to me like green dresses and a gold background" 🤡🤡🤡
@@KabaczekBatat Where "Still Breathing" staging would've fit in (because it features the color red lol)
Bonkers from start to finish. I didn't really enjoy it, but I appreciated her choice to bring something genuinely different.
If it were a couple years later I would've called it a Zelda reference
Green has pretty much been the color of the 2020s (Dadi both times, SHUM, Kaarija) so I think they were trying to follow the trend
@@connorodum6710while Dadi,Go A and Kaarija got top 5
Samanta Tina failed to get out of the semi final
I remember watching "i am what i am" live in the stadium and one of my friends went "What High School Musical bullshit is this?" and we all laughed and stopped paying attention.
I was in the stadium too and that was one of the ones that definitely bricked. Also Croatia, I thought, but they wound up coming close to qualifying!
tbh that song was even an insult to High School Musical songs 💀
Embers feels like a song I'd hear in a homebase advert letting me know they had a sale on lamps
As someone who worked at homebase and has a full fight or flight response to the music they play in there, agreed.
Big expensive styrofoam lamps
"Light up the room" 🤣🤣🤣
Wishing we got that edit along with the Debenhams advert 😂
I didn't think it would, but then it played...and it definitely does
Malta 2022 makes my blood boil not only for all the reasons you mentioned, but because Ritmu by Aidan would've been one of my favorite Eurovision entries of the decade had it won MESC. If Emma had continued to Eurovision with Out of Sight, I would've been salty but understood - but the fact that she beat out a song that is MUCH better than I Am What I Am, that had a real chance of qualifying (IN MALTESE, mind you) is a huge slap in the face in my opinion. The whole thing feels incredibly dishonest.
SO REAL
When will they ever bite the bullet and send a song from Muzika Muzika? "Nahseb fik" would've done better with the televote than "Je Me Casse," I said what I said.
I'm from Malta and I agree with you Aiden should have won but of course we are scared of sending a song in Maltese and 2022 Malta Eurovision entry will forever be one of my least favorites Eurovision entries
This thread is probably the start of me rabbit holing through Malta’s ESC candidates. I thank you for that.
Emma is so much better than this song - her previous stuff like "I Need Somebody" or even recent stuff like "M.I.A." or "Lacrime Moet" would have been much better efforts
I still frequently think about the fact that Blind Channel weren't allowed to do middle fingers during their performance so they just painted them black, and then you had Jendrik with a whole ass middle finger costume 💀 and the best part is that they performed right after one another during the final
This may have something to do with the fact that the “middle finger” officially wasn’t one at all. It was actually a peace sign, but one finger probably wasn't tight enough... 🙂
@@JochenSchoenherrI believe it was an intentional design choice. In the look labs interview the hand demonstrates its ability to give the finger 😂
Ah, Blind Channel coming right after Jendrik in the 2021 Final is one of my favorite moments in Eurovision in this decade!! (Maybe ever.) Proper middle finger right after a joke middle finger ;D Not to mention an *infinitely* better song & better artists...
@@florenna Same, that was such a great moment XD and honestly Dark side is still to this day my favorite Eurovision song ever
The people deciding the running order in 2021 really knew what they were doing, both with putting the middle finger entries together and having Norway perform right after Azerbaijan
Germany's Eurovision History this decade:
2021: internal selection (everyone hated that song in germany)
2022: NDR reject Electric Callboy cause its not fitting for the radio (received a massive sh*tstrom) and getting last with a generic song
2023: Sending in a metal song (getting last somehow)
2024: sending another generic song ( getting 12th place somehow)
Electric Callboy
@@sofiepedersen378 just love for them
Mostly accurate, but I disagree that our 2024 song is generic. Not saying it should have had a chance to win or anything, I think it fits perfectly well in 12th place, but in terms of musical theory, it is objectively the most interesting song we've had in a long time, with Blood and Glitter from 2023 being a possible exception (fully agree, no idea how that one netted a last place).
@@CaptainSweatpants90 NDR always sends in something that they can play across all radio stations. I guess they only accepted LotL only cause of the EC controversy the year before.
And after they became last the NDR is confirmed in their opinion with having nearly only one type of gerne in the national selection.
@@lordkampiIt's not really true that NDR always sends in songs that are suitable for radio. This is a prejudice (possibly fueled by the horrible NF 2022). They didn't make it in 2023 or 2021 either. Jendriks song is really not good (especially the terrible staging), but it's not a radio-friendly pop song. I don't know exactly what it is (maybe some kind of nursery rhyme?).
The UK, on the other hand, sends an average radio pop song to the ESC every year and is usually celebrated for it by large parts of the bubble. This no longer works with the ESC itself. Only Sam Ryder's outstanding performance saved the UK 2022.
Somewhat surprised Benny Cristo managed to avoid this list, even the honourable mentions, with his live performance of Omaga
- Forgot the lyrics in the bridge
- Weird sighs and moans throughout the performance
- Questionable staging
- Even more questionable vocals
- Ruined a perfectly serviceable song's chances of achieving anything at the contest
THANK YOU!
Being a “perfectly serviceable” studio version definitely spared it from being in the video.
As a czech i hate that he is a superstar and still managed to f*ck Europe's ears...
@@jbdloucks same could be said for Latvia 2022 but she was high on there
Yea... We are sorry for this entry. His golden jacket was the most interesting part of his performance....
Alright, that's it. I am sick of this James Newman slander. James Newman's nil points is singlehandedly responsible for us finally trying the next year and giving us Sam Ryder. James Newman is a Eurovision hero and we should put respect on his name.
James Newman was martyred so Sam Ryder could save the UK?
As someone also sick of James Newman slander, and who actually likes Embers way more than Space Man, that's certainly a hot take... But optimistic at least! He deserved better! And you know, after hitting rock bottom, you can only go up to the top! Glad the UK made it to the podium, although I prefer the entries before and after 2022
Sam Ryder was decent but compared to what the UK is capable of they're still holding back. As an example, in the same year Sam Ryder performed, 4 of the top 5 songs on the Billboard hot 100 were from UK artists (Glass Animals, Harry Styles, Adele, Ed Sheeran).
I just feel bad for the guy because I ‘met’ him for a few seconds there in Rotterdam and he was sooo excited and sweet, I was really rooting for him
not sure if i would go so far to say he’s a hero, but he definitely was/is an icon, a legend, and definitely a moment
I think Jendrick's personality (and the middle finger dancer) allowed "I Don't Feel Hate" to really grow on me, but I totally get where you're coming from.
Agreed. I don’t think any “joke” entry should be able to make a “worst” list :) I’m a sucker for a funny Eurovision entry; sometimes they just don’t resonate with everyone (although this one did with me) or there is another entry which takes the lion’s share of the “good time / funny” votes. Germany then followed this up with Lord of the Lost, which also did (inexplicably) dismally and now I just hope Germany hasn’t been browbeaten forever into sending the bland radio-friendly stuff they sent last contest because ugh.
Same
@@catabyte Surely there's an option to send something that is neither jokular nor bland, like some kinda good music instead. I dunno why people wouldn't just focus on that
@@catabyte I certainly agree that Lord of the Lost was an upgrade (and Gabe recently agree they were unfairly judged), so from your lips to Gaia's ears
@@catabyte Dustin the Turkey and Kreisiraadio would like a word. They can label both of these as "joke" performances all day long, but that doesn't change the fact that both of them are among the worst songs and worst performances to ever hit a Eurovision stage. There is a basic level of musical competence that is needed even for a joke entry. "Dancing Lasha Tumbai"? Hit. "Leto svet"? Miss. Big time.
9:30 Minor correction about Ireland 2023. The reason Connor took on the lead singer role was because David Whelan, the actual lead singer, was in a serious accident before the national final, apparently suffering a fall from 20 feet. He reportedly was in surgery for his shoulder the day before the national final, hence why he was wearing a sling in the national final. I've seen them live, too, and honestly, David is a far better performer than Connor. It's a shame it turned out that way, I've always said if circumstances were different, maybe he could've salvaged it??? Idk, still a nothing song.
@CamacanMMC Tbh I think that the Gabe theory was the most plausible, because it for sure made me believe for a while that Connor was the lead singer the whole time from the way Connor was the one to be ALWAYS tweeting about Eurovision. Just him. I don't think or know whether the actual lead singer would've made this generic ass song work though. They would've needed to write something less generic, afterall they had a fanbase who spent a lot of money just to vote for Wild Youth in Eurosong alone so it's possible they would've voted them with something way better too
"Bigger Than Us" is worse than "Embers" in every way. James Newman seems like a friendly dad at a wedding party, and at least the song is mildly danceable.
Nah, it was not. The one redeeming quality of Bigger Than Us was that Michael Rice is an amazing vocalist and sang it perfectly. There are no redeeming qualities about the live performance of Embers (which is mostly what the video is about, performance, not just studio version). Nothing you mentioned about Embers nor James Newman is positive lol ain’t nobody wanna see “friendly wedding dad” struggling to sing the most basic and easy song ever at the Eurovision stage
@@Querviinho"Embers" beat was at least mid 2010s radio-friendly Sigala-ish, we have David Guetta and Becky Hill scoring hits with that sound right now.
Yeah 100%, if a really seasoned pop performer had done Embers and they hadn’t absolutely whiffed the staging I think it would’ve done a bit better, it’s not amazing but I get pumped when I hear it on shuffle and I’m in the right mood. Bigger Than Us on the other hand…immediate skip. Michael Rice is an impressive young man but nothing says “we here at the BBC couldn’t give less of a shit” than chucking the winner of a fucking karaoke reality TV show with a bottom-of-the-barrel Melfest reject song at the contest. The bloody writer was competing in the SAME ESC for god’s sake, like…if the song was good, wouldn’t John have performed it himself?? C’mon BBC.
@@Querviinho Meh, yes Michael Rice is an amazing vocalist but his singing still sounded bad because of the stupid X-Factor/Talent show freestyling he did the whole time
Okay so I have a story about Jendrik’s „I don’t feel hate”, but it’s a tad bit unhinged.
So this summer I was walking home from a bbq party at 1 a.m. TERRIFIED because there were stories about wolves in the area. My friends walked me to my neighborhood but I had to go the last bit alone. And mind you, this wasn’t in the city but in forgotten tiny little town in the middle of nowhere. To cheer myself up I thought about the „happiest” song I know and for some reason only Jendrik’s masterpiece came to my mind so I played „I dont feel hate”. As I got near my house I heard howling through my headphones, looked right, and saw… something. A dog? A wolf? No clue. I ran like crazy and Jendrik’s song was the soundtrack to my panic.
Sooooo thank you Jendrik for saving me from the wolves I guess! And thank you Gabe for another super fun to watch video! Stay safe (and not around the wildlife).
lmaoooooo talk about emotional dissonance. glad to hear you were alright in the end
I want more tier lists and I literally wouldn't mind if you ranked all fourth, fifth, sixth and so on places in each contest as you've been doing because being in the fandom for so long you have plenty of obscure trivia to go with each song. Thanks for another great video!
Blanka - Solo???? She is nepo through the roof and the song and the singing were horrific
Peak girlfaliure Eurovision
could've been worse, see 2021...
@origo11652021 wasn't that bad
I actually enjoyed it
Only polish people were salty about her
@@radopakI'm sorry but someone somewhere memed about her doing colab with paluszki beskidzkie and suggested lyrics "kup paluszki z solo, solo" (to justify me writing it in English: it's a pun on sound solo and solą (salt).
So salty we were xD
As a Czech, I'm offended there was no Czechia slander for year 2021 XD "Omaga" single-handedly was the worst we could've sent that year
i love how often one can find out if someone is Czech/Polish based on their „XD” usage when typing in English xD
@@pjo5g it's basically inherited at this point. it's the universal sign of us, Slavs.
It hurts that the songs from Azerbaijan 2023 and 2024 are so disregarded by the fandom, because I think both were incredibly charming, and Tell me more was one of my biggest summer hits. It just has a mood that I really like, maybe like a lazy summer morning.
Are they the most Eurovision friendly? No. But as songs, they're really good and super enjoyable.
Yeah I like those songs too, especially 2024 which made my top 10 on studio cut alone (that's all I rank on)
@@daveclayt85 SAME
Tell Me More and Özünlə apar are perfectly okay studio songs, but they butchered the live performances so badly one way or another that I can't really bring myself to watch them tbh
I love their song from 2024, really underrated
I find sad that 2024 got the first song in azeri and got the worst position of Azerbaiyán ever. 2023 was worse.
Is it just me or is the lighting super flickery in the video? Very distracting.
No it’s not just you 😂 i noticed it too.
No it’s me as well, something weird going on with the colour warmth, keeps going blue and washed out
I think the weird cool lighting is also what makes his face look strange. His skin looks weirdly red in some places.
My theory is that there's a Christmas tree or Christmas lights behind the camera.
I think the camera needs more light, it's struggling a bit in this vid :c
I deeply appreciate you saying Theodor Andrei doesn't need to be kicked any more than he already has. That revamp would have been crime enough, but with everything else? Truly, that was far more than anyone deserves.
am I bad for loving that song? it was in my spotify top 5 this year
Nah it’s good
Was that D.G.T? I liked this song
Gabe, I will not forgive you for making me hear ‘like an animal’ again…
It's so cringy 😭😭😭
For me, Jendrik's entry is my favourite from this list. I really, really liked "I Don't Feel Hate." It was very 'theatre kid' musical style, which I get isn't to everyone's liking, but everything from the composition, to the jokes and the creativity of the music video really worked for me. Plus the message of the song is really good. Conversely, I find "Satellite" by Lena to be far more insufferable than "I Don't Feel Hate." But, we all have different music tastes and that's what makes the contest so much fun overall :)
completely agree with your point of 2021 being better than 2010, satellite feels almost 1 note in comparison which makes it a skip for me each time
Jendrick won me over with his look labs interview. He seems like a fun dude who wrote a dumb silly song. The song isn't great but it's fun and the dancing hand adds so much charm
Jendrik won me over because it was clear he was shooting for the dead last place and somehow got screwed over by the British entry. It was so funny to me, I still have to remember that moment sometimes.
I think Jendrik wrote a good song with a good message. It was silly AND had a good message!
Thank you from a german. :) I personally don't listen to "I don't feel hate" that much, but i sometimes find myself singing it in random situations and changing the lyrics. :D
I also didn't understand, why we won in 2010, when there were literally so many BANGERS that year like Turkey, Romania, Serbia, Sweden (who didn't qualify for no reason) and more...
I would defend I don't feel hate, but I have accepted it's a guilty pleasure, and to be honest all the chritisisms towards it are completely justified. For some reason it just makes me happy, in it's childish carefreeness.
just wanted to say, i relistened to all the 2021 songs a year ago, and i was pretty shocked to say i actually kinda enjoyed Germany. It really is a guilty pleasure song.
Not really justified. Calling it "the musical atrocity" is totally a personal taste, Eurovision accepts all genres, even if it's "kindergarden music" or something. And lyrics actually make a lot of sense, they're far from random/cliche set of words like Ireland 2023, Malta 2022 or Bulgaria 2022. And he was so positive, a total representation of the message of the song. Only the way Germany chose it, quickly and internally, raises some questions.
It's silly fun. No shame in enjoying a harmless kids bop.
That is what I like of it! It is so carefree. (While literally giving the finger to everybody).
It being a guilty pleasure of some doesn't mean it isn't bad from a competition's perspective 😁
Reiley is the only Faroese singer to ever make it past the national final, and sadly it's one of the worst Danish performance.
Faroe Islands were so exited about Reiley winning in Denmark, that they broadcasted his semi-final and the final with Faroese speakers. And we had a politician at the Eurovision trying to make Faroe Islands part of Eurovision.
And this year, Eurovision wasn't even shown on the Faroese TV.
You deserved better. Send something in Faroese someday!
@@SuperJNG18 The Danish speaker last year, actually did say that they maybe should consider sending songs in Faroese or Greenlandic.
We did have A Faroese woman compete in 1979 with a song fully in Faroese, and got 3rd place in Denmark, and we didn't send songs again until 2005, but it has never been in Faroese since.
I love Blood Moon. It's one of my favourites. It's a total weird headfuck and I am there for it.
I didn't hate it or Sand by Saba either. They weren't winners but they weren't the biggest losers either, that year or any other...
Azerbaijan 23 isnt that bad.
For real. The storytelling and romantic feel (not just love and stuff but overall, about life in general) of the song are on point. Just the staging was really underwhelming.
I think it was a perfect song to be performed in Liverpool
@@josephnewsome2935 Yeah it does have a sort of early Beatles vibe.
I’m actually a big fan of it, I really like the gentle energy
To me Azerbaijan 2023 was dead on arrival
The most egregious thing about Reiley was that I interviewed him and had to cut out the 3-minute-long chat we had about the fact that we were born within a week of each other in the same country bc I quickly realised ALL the comments would be Eurofans making snarky remarks about who was faking their age 😂😂😂 He’s a lovely guy as well, but I can’t defend that performance 🇫🇴🇩🇰
JOE BLEASDALE!!! (well your RUclips says you're Joe Bleasdale real lol)
Yeah, I’m the real Joe Bleasdale, all the others are just imitating 😂
(Don’t know why I settled on that - wanted to change my old handle which was SirBleasdale bc it sounded a bit self-congratulatory, but I don’t think this is any better 😂)
and he was such a snob at all of the pre eurovision parties that year, i remember being in one and he just sat in the corner in his phone for the entire night, ignoring fans
another mention about Wild Youth's performance. that man is doing everything he can to not actually sing. for a majority of the performance, he was just kinda waving his arms around and letting the pre-recorded backing vocals do all the work (I know it looks like the other members are singing the backing vocals, but they're not. I know its studio vocals bcs I heard the music video {part of it}, those are definitely 100% studio backing vocals)
Tbh they should get rid of the prerecorded backing vocals all together. I mean ever since they introduced them some countries rely way too heavily on it and half of the songs seem to have mostly backing vocals turning the whole performance into a playback show.
@@renamed.4jS It does sound like it was the case but the EBU wouldn't let it slide, because using prerecorded vocals to substitute for live vocals is not allowed in the Eurovision rulebook.
YUP he was doing the “microphone to audience” (which similar to Aus 2018 is often used when the singer knows their voice is breaking or they need to catch a breath) thing too often and holding the mic wayyyy further away from his mouth than he should’ve done. Worst part for me was that they were sitting really close to us and he walked out, on his own, like almost immediately after the results were completed. Maybe he really needed a piss (and after being trapped in the world’s ugliest jumpsuit for 5+ hours, who wouldn’t) but the optics of that move weren’t great, not very professional or good-sportsmanlike. Made it seem like he felt they deserved to go through despite the performance being, at best, half-there.
Is the white balance of this video really inconsistent for anyone else?
Yeah for me too.
for me as well
I wish he'd fix his camera settings. I love his videos, but I can't watch them without feeling sick.
I think it’s a lighting issue on Gabes side, no idea what’s causing it
Yes.
It helps if you imagine Emma Muscat is singing "I yam what I yam" in tribute to Popeye and the 1980 movie, which was filmed in Malta. Well, it helps me.
And the only thing good to come out of that song was the elderly lady sway-dancing in the music video. I think they should have granted all performers an extra person on stage that year if they opted to let that woman dance like that to every number with a giant glass of wine in her hand each time like @kevinbabbles said back in his "25 Ridiculous Reasons..." video for ESC 2022 (ruclips.net/video/JQ97n805Olo/видео.html)
Word. It wasn't terrible to me just bland as unflavored ice milk... The worst goes to the two Polish entries.. Solo and The Ride... WTF were they thinking? Both songs on paper and studio were great. Live? Beyond tragic...
i've gotta be honest gabe... i think germany 2021 being here is much more controversial than latvia 😭
Real 😔
Exactly
Thank you! As a german, I can just say, that's so true!
No joke, I just got engaged and hope that James Newman will perform at my wedding. Justice for Embers!
@@emmymussemortensen9510 Have you guys not attempted to book him? Or is he too expensive these days
Seriously just try to book him. He's on Cameo. You'll both have a great time
I think i'm the only one that actually likes "I Don't Feel Hate" by Jendrik and that is a hill i'm willing to die on
Brave choice, gotta respect that.
As someone on the fence about it, what did you enjoy about it?
@Jens_Gram
Good question, i guess i just did plus i found Jendrik cute
I can join you on that hill 😅
@CookieDundee1982
Sure join in!
I'll join you...i don't love it, but i don't hate it. It's ok. If it sneaks into a random playlist, i don't skip it 🤷♀️
Ah Wild Youth, yer man looked like a stick of Kerrygold butter 😅 I can remember at the time people were saying the lead singer specifically wanted to wear that skin tight, gold leotard.
to me he looked like chicken nugget or Harry Styles wannabe :DDDDDD
Or a Freixenet bubble, as dancers in the old ads of that spanish champagne brand (search for "Recopilación burbujas Freixenet" and you'll get it)
Hey, can't day he didn't look irish 🤣🤣🤣
@origo1165 Or Harry Styles dressed as a chicken nugget.
i heard embers at a target.. (im from the usa…)
no one asked lol
@@sahaibparvezno one said you had to respond
Well did ya light up the room?!
@@sahaibparvezRude lol.😂
Well did ya light up the room?! 😂
Only song I love here is Latvia 2021. Don't get me wrong, it absolutely deserves to be on this list for the performance alone. I just personally love the studio cut so much and was begging for Samanta to finally make it to eurovision for almost a decade. Not to sound dramatic, but the feeling I felt after finally watching her perform in the semi final was so gut wrenching. It's the second most miserable I've ever felt as a eurovision fan after Iceland not qualifying in 2016.
honestly, I was genuinely a very big fan of Still Breathing back in 2020 but when I listened to Moon is Rising, it was missing something super critical in it, like it felt like a pirated copy of the 2020 track. It doesn't help that they just straight up tried to recreate the Still Breathing live performance to a tee, and not try to experiment a bit (like The Roop did). Nothing in it felt right at all to me.
To Emma Muscat's defense, she was the largest name in Malta and had a decent career in Italy, so the prospect of sending her to Turin was supposed to be a recipe for a slam dunk, but not this, nor her original winning song, were it at all. It sounds fanwanky and too fantasy-pilled, but a bop in Italian like her song Sangria? Man, it woulda been such a great move. She's definitely the largest wasted chance on the decade.
Maltese is half Italian, but it is a different language, Italian representing Malta would not work well.
@mastermaltese8731 Their NF had other languages and borrowed from other more unrelated languages before. Emma herself speaks it and made herself a career in Italy, so even if it is far-fetched, it would've been a daring move to take with possibly the best person to do so.
italian here. literally never heard of her before eurovision, will google her songs now cus i'm curious
went to see joker out last year and wild youth were also there and on hearing their other music i was.. SO baffled about how we are one ended up so.. awful? i think about it a lot
I was also at that gig, and was wondering if I can suffer through Wild Youth, but they were surprisingly good, and I loved it when they went to the middle of the audience to perform. A pleasant surprise, and no golden Elvis-costume in sight!
SAME HERE, WILD YOUTH WERE AMAZING!!! how their Eurovision song ended up being what it was considering the rest of their discography baffles me to this day
Ayyyy fellow Joker Out fan!!! I saw the lead singer of wild youth in London in April last year since he does managing for JO behind the scenes haha
Thanks for another great video! Also Blind Channel running right after I dont feel hate was probably one of the most "perfect running orders" of all time 🤣
Btw UMK released hosts's reaction video of this year's songs to Instagram, only about two weeks untill the songs are releasing and it seems there could be some amazing songs this year 🤯.
Also, ironically the 'hand' in Jendrik's performance sometimes showed the giant middle finger to everyone, whilst Blind Channel, who sang 'put your middle fingers up', were not allowed to show the middle finger, but ended up painting them red instead. I cracked up when I saw the German performance! Sometimes size, in this case the size of the middle finger, doesn't matter... 😆
This year is soon over...But I don't have high hopes for 2025 after this year's UMK fiasco 🤷♀️
@@PiaMäki-n1b 2025 has already started for Eurovision season, so it is this year 😃. And 2024 UMK was decent, best performance won.
I would’ve included Poland 2021 on this list 🇵🇱. That performance gave me the impression I was watching a RUclips video of “X-Factor or got talent performances gone wrong” and at the end Simon Cowell tells him to get off the stage. It was also hilarious and cringe how many times he tried to get the crowd going and got little to no cheer from them
Ohhh I forgot that one! My actual last place of 2021 and I totally forgot it! Says it all lol
For this one it's a case of "nice song but VERY WRONG CHOICE FOR A SINGER", this guy sounds more like he'd sing something jazz-/swing-/poprockish-influenced or a ballad-like song and would sound much better than this...(also shoutout to the amazing backing vocalist
Agree...and if I remember correctly, it was not even chosen by the Polish audience...
THANK YOU!!!! I was scanning the entire comments looking for a fellow Poland 2021 disaster witness. Rafal bailed on half the notes and they weren't challenging at all. I remember seeing seeing some rather catty but minimalist written comments from Clara one of the songwriters about it either confirming how saddened she was by his version and subsequent performance. The song itself it a slice of sexy 80's synthpop that sounded great with her OG vocals.
@@SuperJNG18 It was the worst polish entry of the decade by far despite it being a good song. I suspect he had COVID and his vocals were shredded... Or he was out partying because it was the worst performance of any artist at Eurovision to date that I've seen. Flat, off-key and he bailed on half the performance by asking everyone how they were doing... Not once but like several times... So cringe!
1:03 10th - Emma Muscat: I am what I am (Malta 2022)
3:45 9th - Turalturanx: tell me more (Azerbaijan 2023)
5:34 8th - Reiley: Breaking my heart (Denmark 2023)
8:38 7th - Wild Youth: We are one (Ireland 2023)
10:59 6th - Tornike Kipiani: You (Gerogia 2021)
13:30 5th - Piqued Jacks: Like an Animal (San Marino 2023)
15:31 4th - Samanta Tina: The moon is rising (Latvia 2021)
18:28 3rd - Intelligent Music Project: Intention (Bulgaria 2022)
21:29 2nd - Jendrik: I don't feel hate (Germany 2021)
23:57 honorable mentions
24:45 1st - James Newman: Embers (UK 2021)
I‘d have added Unicorn (no, we don‘t wanna see you dance)
Apart from the song being just kinda annoying, I could never take the stage show of it seriously. The hand gesture they do to symbolize the "horn" has a different meaning here in Austria. You're supposed to do that when someone burps and say "Schulz" and the last one who does it loses. It's an immature game, and seeing as a gesture to represent a majestic unicorn was very silly.
It would genuinely top my list (as the worst, just to specify)
Unicorn was amazing, but I guess it has no Eurovision vibe, it was like watching a concert of an American star.
I wanted to see her dance
You managed to hit all the songs that I, honestly, never want to listen to again. For the Piqued Jacks, I actually left the room during their performance because I got so creeped out by the lyrics, the terrible singing and the creepy looks from the front man.
Same. It really was giving old men hitting on young girls at the club 🤢
I've described that song as "Hungry Like the Wolf with all the charisma removed." Ewwww.
Ngl I think it's a good song but that's just my opinion
The lyrics remind me of Blurred Lines... just creepy and weird.
He was hunching his shoulders like fucking Nosferatu as well, just absolutely predatory vibes all round
i know i don’t feel hate is awful but i love it so much 😭 jendrik is just a silly guy
Unpopular opinion... I would've put unicorn on this list
I thought that the studio version was terrible. I hated it.
The live performance was awesome IMO
i really missed "Unforgettable" from Sweden... it was such a boring meaningless song with barely any meaningful stage performance and it was so endlessly forgettable :/ and the lyrics were super boring
Yeah, you're right! I had completely forgotten it.
I died from the amount of irony
Sure it wasn’t mind boggling but to say it’s bottom 10 of about 160 songs? No chance. It was very professionally produced and well performed, even if pretty generic.
Imo it would have been kind of decent if the entire visuals weren't constant eyebleeding flashing
“Unforgettable” is too bland to be in a “Worst Song” list. It might make it into a “Most Ironically Named songs”, but that would require people remembering it exists.
I know you didn't do songs from 2020 but France that year really deserved to be here from the studio version alone.
Mon allié? No, I liked that song.
I'm gonna be honest. Everyone hated Piqued Jacks but... I can't help it. Vocals taken out the song is petty good, and the singer just goes for it you know? He's enjoying himself on stage so much that even his singing just kinda sounds good to me. Idc if the lyrics are awful, I can just turn my brain off and enjoy the pretty noises
not everyone, I thought in the beginning the song was kinda so-so but somehow it grew on me (and it didn't help that I'd been playing their other songs A LOT 🤣)
btw go check out their other songs, some of them are really good ❤ (for example Sunflower, Color Shades, Mysterious Equations. Eternal Ride of a Heartful Mind, Only a Bridge, Aria, The Gum...just to name a few examples...are SO MUCH BETTER
It like fully grew on me. And for some reason the creepy lyrics kinda sell it for me idk.
I'm just surprised nobody at any point told them to revamp the lyrics of the chorus.
Just change "I can smell you like an animal" to "I am feeling like an animal", and "I'll chase you on the dance floor" to "I'll go crazy on the dance floor".
i also just love the staging, like for a country that relies on self funding they have really good LED visuals, you can see it in 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 and even jesc 2024
lyrics are literally the least important part of the song, i think like an animal is one of my most listened eurovision songs after shum, and it fits so well in my regular playlists
i loved the studio version of samanta tina’s song and i was wondering how it could score so low. then i watched the live version and it all made sense…😅
Same, I loved the studio version. Watching the live performance, though, was painful in places. She sounded like she was singing way off key.
What I’m amazed at is how badly Denmark has done in the post-lockdown era of Eurovision. Four contests, from 2021 to 2024, and Denmark hasn’t qualified a single time. Do they make it five in a row in 2025?
If they could finally select songs which aren't the most generic bland songs ever in their NF, maybe they would get a shot at qualifying
I will always defend Denmark 2021. Yes, the juries hated it, but it was fun, they were 8th in televote (the only country where they didn't get any points was Moldova) and it was the first time since "Only Teardrops" when a Danish Eurovision song reached number 1 in charts in Denmark.
Since then though? Yeah, I don't know what are they doing. 2022 didn't even reach top 40 in Denmark, 2023, as mentioned in the video, was a trainwreck (although it probably had some chances if it was performed well), and when Saba won my only thought was that they picked the blandest song so there would be nothing to hate it for.
I hope that in 2025, Denmark will qualify for the final
Love your content. No one else does Eurovision commentary like this. Really stands out. The dry humour in your commentary made me chuckle quite a few times here 😂
I know I'm very much a minority here, but I actually vibe with Azerbaijan 2023. It brings me cozy vibes and I always liked it. I was sad that so many people hate it.
the staging was just not it at all
The trumpets in Embers looked like cheap department store window props. Totally fitting to the musical quality!
Yup. It sounds like the preppy ill-fated ad campaigns for Target Canada that featured Dragonette doing a Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood Mr. Rogers cover just before it went under in 2015... As did Dragonette as a band and a marriage... Oops!
as someone who unashamedly plays ukulele, and who was going through formative events in 2021, i completely love jendrik and “i dont feel hate” and have a fondness for it as a memory; i still follow jendrik and think hes hilarious, but completely respect him being #2 on this list because i look back at the song with the fondness of a time capsule. still haunts my spotify DJ once in a while 🤣
As someone whose pre-live winner in 2021 was Czechia, I have to question if OMAGA on stage was simply so traumatic that you've suppressed the whole thing?
21:22 bones is incredible
Bulgaria sent such amazing songs before they left ESC
For me Hendrik's song always had a dark side, like a desperate spell against anxiety and depression. And indeed, its video depicts people being discriminated and harassed, who then return the violence to their oppressors. If it had been staged that way, it might have made some sense, apart from being silly, but maybe that was way too much Brechtian estrangement for the decent German broadcasters.
I used to describe embers as a royalty free RUclips intro/outro but that would be insulting to royalty free music...
Unpopular oppinion:slow mo IS very overated
If anyone else performed that song it would be so so bad. Chanel managed to make it interesting to watch if not listen
i agree
The best part of slo mo is Chanel's performance. I like the song because I like Latin music. I can see how people who don't like the genre don't like the song beyond the incredible performance
I 100% agree, so much so in fact that she wasn't even in my top 30 that year. Such an overrated dull commercial latino pop song performed by a woman who was shaking her very exposed butt for 3 minutes. Sounds harsh but that's how I see it
Maybe do a video of choosing the best/worst song of 2000-2024?
Sekret deserves a mention. An already bad song made catastrophic with the changes made between FiK and Eurovision.
I also wouldn't put Tell Me More on the list personally. For all the shit Azerbaijan's broadcaster has been involved in, I appreciate that they went for something homegrown and mellow for once, fully knowing it was entirely uncompetitive. I expect Azerbaijan will return to being "tryhards" like they were in the past, and we'll look back at their 2023-2024 entries and miss them.
The FiK version of Sekret was very good and not at all bad. Removing the Albanian and the performance was shit
"I Am What I Am" sounded like a song that AI wrote for a corporate retreat for middle management.
romania 2023 in studio is still one of my favorites from that season
yes and I love theodor. he wasn’t given any chances, unfortunately, just a high schooler out on his own own. DGT was in my top 5 on spotify this year and last year. ❤
2:13 This song would be more popular if they kept the clapping old lady. I liked the clapping old lady.
Germany 2021 will always feel like a sesame Street type song. It wasnt strong enough for me. Too child like .
How DARE you insult the good folks at Sesame Street??? 😂
I really don't hate Embers, at least in studio. it's a very basic dance song. I'll admit hearing it at a Target in Montana was a very strange experience, though.
Those are my favorites. Like listening to randomly programmed Kylie Minogue at No Frills stores here in Alberta of all places...
I heard Tattoo randomly blasted at a Popeye's in Edmonton after it won which again isn't common...
i still think MBD is genuinely the most INSUFFERABLE eurovision act to ever emerge and its a crime you didn't talk about this more
Perhaps that would make another great video.
'The most insufferable Eurovision acts of all time'.
On there I reckon Silvia Night would sit alongside M.B.D
Georgia 2021 made me actually fall asleep...which says a lot since I don't fall asleep easily with a song,and by the time he was about to perform I wasn't even sleepy at all
I liked "D.G.T.", what TVR did to it and Theodor was awful and I cannot deny it in the slightest that the end result looked awful unfortunately.
While not compeletely on board with everyone, the only one I'll disagree with loudly is Azerbaijan 2023. That one is so sweet and soothing. Reminds me of "Kiss me" by Six Pence None the Richer. I love that. It's such an easy listen, in the best of ways. A breath of fresh air. Just totally un-competitive.
And while I don't HATE the Maltese song 2022, I did love "Out of sight". Love it, still. So, it was a letdown.
Jendrick was my big guilty pleasure of 2021. It was catchy and it made me smile and he seems like a really sweet guy ☺️
Personally I don’t really enjoy the song, but I don’t think it’s fair to put it on this list (never mind second place). The performance wasn’t too bad. Yes, it was childish and the lyrics are weird, but the vocals aren’t the worst.
It’s just a funny joke song.
To me it's a mid song
Nothing special
But it's still better than Embers
i'm honestly so sad for samanta tina, cuz «still breathing» was so good, but it was way too obvious they just tried to replicate the staging and it just didn't work with «the moon is rising» :(
🇲🇹 2022: Yeah i don't really like this
🇦🇿 2023: I somehow actually really
like this
🇩🇰 2023:
🇮🇪 2023: bro just looks so uncomfortable 😭
🇬🇪 2021:
🇸🇲 2023:
🇱🇻 2021: I 100% agree
🇧🇬 2022: not in the safety zone
🇩🇪 2021: I unironically love this
🇬🇧 2021: im just
Georgia 2021-Boring as f
San Marino 2023-the less said the better
Denmark and Faroe Islands 2023-also the less said the better(never send a tiktoker to Eurovision again)
I swear Embers wasn't even this massively disliked when it dropped out. There was nothing that would signal how much of a flop it was gonna be, buy boy it was.
P.S: Thanks for not putting DGT up there. The half-acoustic final version is indefensible, but I sort of like the original version, and Romania did everything to finish him off, totally unfair.
Poland 2021 and Poland 2023 should have been included
Blanka wasn't that bad honestly (definitely better than Luna), but what we should have gotten was defo a big downgrade
yall just hate having fun
I was so sad hearing the 2021 live performance because I love the studio cut...
@ExcusemePlumBlanka didn't deserve to go to Eurovision 2023
Justice for Jann
Supposedly james Newman was sick and that mixed with nerves drinking and having a mediocre song proved to Europe that while it should’ve been impossible to achieve the famed nul points in the contest they would prove that it was very much possible and that they were gonna prove it
Gabe, I like how your musical taste is basically the opposite of mine - makes things more interesting! I enjoy your perspective and reasoning, especially when you point out details I’d usually just skip over and move on. The songs on your list all land on my 'meh' list - they don’t irritate me, but they don’t excite me either. Honestly, I tend to appreciate the weird, shocking, and downright bizarre entries - I naturally tend to balance out the cheesy 'singing-my-heart-out' ballads and those Swedish B-side pop songs that already felt outdated 10 years ago. On my top 10 list there would be some of the fan favourites, but to avoid cyber bullying, I choose not to disclose.
I... can't defend Jendrik, but I don't necessarily think it's all his fault. As far as I could find out, he submitted the song more or less as a joke and when the jury decided on it, even he himself went: "Wait, seriously?" So, he decided to go to Eurovision and just have fun. He also took his zero points really well.
Still confused why Azerbaijan didn’t get through to the final this year, I loved it! So I’m sad to see it mentioned here!
the way Conor left Wild Youth to be Joker Out’s tour manager for a bit and showed up to their fanmeet in February separate from the band and also not actually saying hi to the band…. like ariana what are you doing here 😂
I am never going to forgive you for making me listen to a snippet from “like an animal” again
For me "You" is a struggling masterpiece
i think any eurovision fan video would start a war
“Embers” sounds to me like something you’d hear in an Old Navy or some other clothing store at the mall to try and hype you up while trying on clothes in the fitting room that are too small and too expensive.
Or maybe at a hair salon.
That's exactly where I heard it in Canada this summer hahaha you're not wrong...
Gabe decided to just roast my taste in 28 minutes straight.
“We Are One” has some incredibly clunker lyrics. I mean, one line goes, “We might be different / We might be unique.” Isn’t that just saying the same thing twice?
genuinely surprised poland is not on this list. maybe we’re not that bad after all 🥲
only 2021 is bad (me personally i don‘t like 2024 too but i get why people enjoy it)
BEBJEH
@@livegazer478 2021 is the case of "nice song but wrong singer" tbh
Poland 2023 should have been on the list
I actually agree with you on Latvia 2021. To me what makes it even more insufferable is that is my 2nd worst drop in quality among countries that kept the same artist (I’m looking at you Birth of a New Age), Still Breathing was miles better than it.
Also to finish my rant about 2020, I have one very controversial take on what could’ve happened: call me crazy as much as you want, but Freaky would’ve qualified (with the current voting system I’d say it would’ve been almost a safe qualifier)
I.M. not being on the main list at all??? HELLO??? i dont feel hate is NOT worse than i.m. 😭 youre killing me
yes... Israel has sent bangers since 2015, except for that awful I.M., that was the only time when I was happy they didn't advance to the final
i wasn't in the eurovision community during 2022 so i didn't realise until now that people didn't like I.M at all. Personally, it was in my top 10 for that year and i genuinely enjoy the song so it is disappointing to find that it was one of the most disliked from that year. Either way, i won't be changing my opinion about it bc i enjoy it lol
bro I love I.M it's seriously underrated. complain all you want I love it
I.M. Is such a bop and I don't normally like the Israeli entries. The live performance wasn't the best but the song is so fun
The revamp was on POINT; the poses, mannerisms and the intro overdid it for me but the chorus & specially the dancebreak/highnote/outro were amazing. Say what you want about Israel, but they're objectively a powerhouse who understands this contest
I would add Burning Daylight by Mia and Dion to the list. Other than that, great video! 🙌🏼
Damn, I don’t remember 2021 and 2023 being so bad but… omg
saw Wild Youth live as they were an opener for a Joker Out concert, and I can vouch that they have an INSANELY good discography aside from We Are One! they were also amazing live, just sucks that the contest panned out how it did
Jendrik was my then 3 year old's favourite song of the year, so I don't feel hate at all for it!
Also, Blind Channel being denied having their "middle fingers up" whilst Jendrik got away with the hand was brilliant!
I actually like Tell me more 😂😂. But it does need to be the studio version
The way you're trashing one of my favorite songs of 2024 (Azerbaijan) is something special XD
So, as you asked it at the end, why do I love it so much :
- Azeri language (I wish the whole song was in Azeri though)
- Phenomenal ethnic vocals from Ilkan, among the best of the whole competition
- The mystical vibe got me addicted
- The instrumental is so delicate and beautiful with all the instruments blending amazingly well together
- A one of a kind at Eurovision that feels fresh
- FINALLY something special from Azerbaijan after a whole existence of box-standard Melodifestivalen rejects (only examples being 2009, 2013, 2017 and 2019)
I only hope people will not whine at them for going back to send average dull pop entries with no soul 'cause I'm sure that's what's gonna happen this year, unless there's a miracle. But for once they sent something ethnic which feels captivating and they got sacked. The only thing I'll agree with is that the staging was awful it shows they didn't know what to do with the song (actually they could've inspired themselves from the music video to create a staging with maybe chinese shadows)
I'm shocked Jendrick only got second. Embers was bad in many, but at least it was aggressively pop-ishly dull. Jendrick was full-on hardcore everything to cause hate, it was disharmonic and ignorant in its fakey jolliness it was too painful to watch.
And Malik Harris deserves an honourable mention as well for being the same kind of samey dull pop music where the broadcaster NDR officially prioritised "radio suitability" over Eurovision suitability (thank God the word "Radiotauglichkeit" causes ridicule because of that very song)
i’m downloading this so i can be disappointed about countries im not a part of while flying on a plane!!!! 😜😜
OK I have long said that the German "I dont feel hate" is a marmite song if most people vomited when eating marmite. I actually found it kind of charming and stupid and was sad it did quite as bad as it did. was it a great song NOOOOO. But in eurovision you need at least a few just god damn stupid songs and that year we had alot. I feel in a year it was the only stupid ridiculous song it would be remember as just stupid and dumb and not 2nd worst of the decade.
Same...i don't hate it 😂 it's certainly not good, but it's not thaaaat bad
When Jendrik was announced as the German entry, a lot of us Germans thought it was a parody of some sort. The whole thing was so incredibly embarassing and it was clear from the get go to everybody with ears that this would get us the last place once again. Totally justified too. Rewatching it still makes me cringe.
PS: I actually liked Embers :D
Jendrik actually said, he choosed this song to submit cause he wanted to go to Eurovision for years and he knowed how bad of taste the Broadcaster has. He himself said, that the song is bad and he has way better ones, but this one made his dream come true and i respect that a lot.
Samanta Tina hurted me a lot. I really love the song, the energy and i still listen to it a lot, but the live Performance was so bad and i had a little tear in my eye seeing it.
i'd love to see a video like this but for staging disasters that killed decent songs - Sekret and Omaga come to mind... The Tower...
I would have included Belgium 2024 : The song was epic and had so much potential, but they unfortunately wasted everything with bad cameras angles, too static staging and vocal struggles not to help. Same goes for Poland 2024 and that terrible horse :/
At least Luna Is more likeable than Blanka