The fact that no one bats an eye at the fact that in the same competition you can have a demon exorcism, 6 grandmas baking cookies, Celine Dione, and so much more, is truly wonderful.
Believe me plenty people were furious at this entry since they 1) thought it was satanic and/or 2) didn't like the fact that Bambie is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns 😄 Even within Ireland (not surprising due to Catholicism). For example there was SO much hate in the comment section under this RUclips video before they cleaned it up. Same with the winning performance.
@@vohol6158 Let me guess Those that didn't like that Bambie is non-binary were from Poland? Poland has a thing for people who isentify different than most
@@phantomviper8297 It seemed to be people from different countries. I don't remember if I saw someone who seemed to be from Poland, and of course I only skimmed through a small section of the comments, but it certainly is likely that some haters were Polish. But I think that haters can be any nationality.
@@ZakhadWOW 100%. Its was amalgam of some aspects of Samhain mixed with Catholic festivals honouring saints (before America got ahold of it and turned it into something else entirely). "Halloween" is hilariously an invention of Christian imperialism now hated by the same Christians who invented it coz its gotten out of hand lmao
In the performance, Bambie Thug summons a new boyfriend after being disappointed in love, at first things are ok (the pink sky and the moon), but problems appear and the demon/boyfriend tries to dominate them (holding their hands back) - Bambie Thug takes back control and wins over the demon.
That ending moment still stirs me... The scream of the final line, the stomp of the foot, spreading the arms and then "Crown the Witch" blasts onto the screen behind. Everything hits so precisely on point. It's fantastic!
This feels even more special because of the whole experience Bambie and the other artists had at Eurovision this year - there was so much for them to be angry about, ESPECIALLY given all the events of that day and the day before, and so it felt like all of their anger was channelled into this performance - I FELT the screams after "you're favourite colour..." and obviously the ending scream - absolutely incredible, and needless to say the greatest stage performance in eurovision history, no ifs no buts
When this song came out as Ireland's bid that was at the bottom of my ranking, but after seeing the performance it climbed to my top 3. No other Eurovision contestant has achieved that for me. Credits to the Spanish artistic director Sergio Jaen. That was pure art.
@@tonyttt31 I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOVED THIS PERFORMANCES VIDEOGRAPHY AND the work of the camera team, but overall with all of the performances im sad to say that im deeply dissapointed with camera work with most of the entries. :(
Ireland had a rich and diverse history before the whitewashing of christianity, namely Celtic paganism, witchcraft, gods and goddesses, Bambi is a celtic pagan.
@@sitdownstandup91 Sorry lemme correct that, the colonization of white racist people who thinks that their ways are the right way. Glad i corrected that❤
They were amazing! The transition from the softer to the harsher parts, the choreography, the floating chandelier, all perfect. And as you said, all the unseen parts, the coordination between stage hands, camera operators, visual, pyro, all must be perfect for a tv screen.
Halloween is originated from Ireland, so it shouldn't be suprising that they sent this song 😊 It was my favourite this year together with Gåte - Ulveham.
Gåte definitely did not deserve to come last. An amazing song and fantastic band. I already have my tickets for their Dublin show when they play in December. And of course I got my Bambie tickets as soon as they went on sale. October 31st Samhain/Halloween 🌙🖤🌚 Can't wait!
It didn't originate in Ireland. Ancient Britain celts also celebrated Samhain (what we know as Halloween), as did most Celtic groups within Europe. Nobody knows where exactly it originated, except for the fact, from a celtic group, which there were many.
@@Gabagoolf thank for the details, so all we know it's from Celtic groups, but we cannot be sure if it's from one in Ireland or from any other Europen area. So maybe it's Ireland? 😊
Ireland didn’t qualify for the Eurovision since 2018. So not was this their first qualification in 6 years, but this is their best result in 24 years! Such an amazing performance.
This is a LEGENDARY once-in-a-lifetime performance tbh. Phenomenal! Also Ireland is VERY scary! It's the birthplace of Halloween! Not only that but there's even history of screaming, Banshees (originally "Bean sí" in Irish) are the screams you supposedly hear that are a harbinger of death to come in Celtic folklore! Scary is beautiful and Ireland's ancient history is so beautiful!
This staging and directing is going to be an inspiration for future acts. The director (the 22 year old Sergio Jaén) did something that has not really been seen in Eurovision before, and that with a very limited budget! Sure, we have great directors who regularly work with Eurovision performances, but this was like a breath of fresh air. They took it a step further and set the new bar for what's achievable.
He will be in serious high demand and it is truly well deserved. So talented 👏 He directed the MV for Doomsday Blue too, and the whole thing was shot in 9 hours. That project also had a very limited budget. Fans fundraised for it to be made as RTE are notoriously scabby when it comes to budget
Suprisingly no one has answered your aul leprechaun/ banshee query, so I'll try me best for ya. They are both members of the sídhe (pronounced she), otherwise know as the fairyfolk. There are a heap of them in Irish mythology but we'll just focus on these ones cause I'm not writin' out 70 pages of nothing, despite what ya asked! Leprechauns are usually cobblers, so little fellas who do shoes. They like to be on their own but they are also cheeky little feckers and play tricks on people. The bucket of gold probaly comes from an old story where some youngfella caught a leprechaun who was up to no good and refused to let him go unless he got a s**te load of gold in return. The leprechaun paid up and they both lived happily every after! Yeay! Haven't a clue where the rainbow comes into it, but I suppose that's what a thousand years of reimagining a mythology will do. There's a whole lot more to these tricksy little feckers, one is how they could actually be a representation of one of the most important gods in Irish mythology, Lugh, but that's a rabbit-hole I'm not willing to go down right now, so we'll leave it there! Banshees are a different kettle of fish altogether. The name in Irish is bean sídhe, which is pronounced banshee (who could have ever guessed that eh?! lol) That translates to fairy woman, which sounds nice enough... but no.... She is an incredibly old bent backed woman, with long, scraggily hair that she likes to comb. And you better hope to god the banshee never comes around to your house because she is the hearld of death! She creeps up outside of a house at night and will start wailing and screaming, and lets the family know that one of them has died or is going to die really, really soon. She doesn't kill them herself, she's just there to send a message! lol. But she also does a thing called keening, which was a type of singing/ mourning done at Irish wakes in ye olde times. So in fact the banshee isn't bad, she is wailing, screaming and keening because she feels the pain and sorrow of the family's loss. But growing up in the Irish countryside I didn't focus on her feelings, all I knew is that her scream will kill someone in my house. I'd hear foxes calling and cats fighting at night and would be half convinced I'd wake up dead in the morning! Oh and if I ever saw a comb on the road, or in the ditch beside the road, I knew never to touch it because the banshee would come after me!
Same! 🙌 The comb thing was bet into us as kids. If you saw one on the ground, you were never to pick it up, or the banshee would come looking for you. Sure who needed horror films when you were told stories like that as a child?! Between that and never walking through a fairy ring and a whole plethora of other tales, it was enough to scare the bejayzus out of you for life 👻 All good fun though, I loved it. Still do
Welcome back, Mike. Glad you had safe travels. Always love your Eurovision reviews. The best American reactions to this quintessential Euro-Australian annual event. (As an Australian of mixed European heritage, I like to think of us as Europe's southernmost country.)
@@ColClaridge-Leitch I was meaning if you’re considering Australia a European country because of the culture, shouldn’t NZ also be considered that way, and they would be “Europe’s southernmost country”?
The entire performance was super thought out and has a storyline that pertains to the song itself. The song is about being undervalued and underappreciated in three aspects, the first being in a romantic relationship (verses), towards oneself and self criticism (bridge), and lastly as a queer person in the world (chorus). Bambie, who identifies as non-binary and uses they/them pronouns, is a practicing witch who uses Ireland's historic roots as a pagan country to create the symbolism and esthetic of their image. The performance begins with the ritual where they are conjuring the "demon" which represents the trauma that they've suffered in their life that has controlled them and held them back, continues into them coming to terms and accepting the past, and then finally taking their power back at the end of the performance and defeating the demon once and for all.
Aight, let's give you some information on this! The overall performance is a representation of Irish Wiccan/Pagan culture and there's a lot of elements in this that symbolize such. First, the symbol on Bambie Thug's head is the symbol of the Triple Goddess. This represents the Maiden, the Mother, and the Crone. The Triple Goddess is also seen as the three faces of the Morrigan/Morrighan. Sometimes written as something separate, sometimes the same entity, but the Morrigan is a deity in Irish Mythology that represents wrath, transformation, and battle, as well as the different sides of women. She's a powerful and feared deity which some may think as evil, but she's not evil, she just operates on a different morality like many of the fey beings in the mythology. You mention leprechauns, which are also a type of capricious being, but there's none in this song :D The other Celtic symbols are all used in Wiccan/Pagan representation, I don't know all of them, but they're mostly benign symbols that can range for health, prosperity, and can be used in Wiccan rituals. Candles are used in Wiccan rituals, feathers, the pentagram is a Wiccan symbol of summoning/protection (NOT demonic, but it was appropriated to become demonic in popular cinema/Christian religion). Bambie Thug is dressed up in feathers which can be seen as representing the Morrigan and the Morrigan's most known form to transform into, the raven, before transitioning to their new form. The black markings on the side of their face is known as Ogham script, an old Irish manuscript, and it reads "Crown the Witch". You read it from the bottom to the top. The song itself is a switch between light and dark aspects of a personality that are waging war - the vengeful side angry at what happened in a failed relationship, cursing the relationship/hexing the ex and then summoning a demon to try and compensate for the hurt. Only, it's a demon, it can't really fulfil the empty spot and you can never truly be happy as long as it is hovering around, and the character eventually transforms (shedding the feathers) and changes their attitude, and chooses to embrace themselves and shrug off the demon they created (also can be seen like an inner demon that we all battle with daily, and learning to banish them rather than let them fester). The demon is exorcised at the end with this newfound strength. At the end of the performance, they shout out "Love will always triumph hate/Love will triumph over hate." There's apparently some debate over the exact wording, but this is the general message. Honestly this has been one of the most epic performances I've ever seen in Eurovision. Super glad to see this :D Oh, right, you wanted spelling errors. hre is spelin eror Peace out
OKAY THIS IS A REACTION I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR! ♥️🙏 Bambie was in my top three, definitely the best and most original entry we’ve seen from Ireland in a long time. I’m hoping you’ll react to Baby Lasagna, Joost Klein and Nemo too. Baby Lasagna was my winner 🐱
If you’re interested in the production side, there are videos on here of the behind the scenes. The cues are beat synced and a lot of the cameras are now robotic to get the precision they need. I’ve been to Eurovision in person a few times. It’s amazing live, but in a different way. When I go, I tend to go to the Jury Final the night before so I can enjoy the televised show as well (then, when I get home, I’ll watch the BBC broadcast to get Graham Norton’s commentary).
Gotta love Graham Norton's commentary. I prefer to tune into him than the televised final in Ireland. The late Terry Wogan's shoes were big shoes to fill, and fill them Graham certainly did. We loved tuning into Terry's commentary when I was a kid. And I will tune into Graham's commentary as long he stays at it. They both have/had a cheeky way of throwing deep shade without malice that most just can't away with. All in good fun and always hilarious!
The mascot for Lucky Charms is Lucky the Leprechaun, but he has also been known by other names: L.C. Leprechaun: His formal name, Sir Charms: A name he was called in the early 1960s when he first appeared in commercials- Waldo the Wizard: A forgetful wizard who briefly replaced Lucky in New England in 1975 Lucky was created in 1963 and first appeared in commercials in 1964
Well guys, this is Eurovision history now bc that staging was just perfect. This year Ireland was my top 3 to win the contest. Another thing: avadakadabra word exist begin Harry Potter. Some games in my childhood already used that word.
She actually sounds a bit like Poppy... (Poppy and Grimes did a song together... 'Play Destroy' which is great) 'Hatari' at Eurovision 2019 was intense
It’s Irish paganism symbology. It’s basically just a song about a man who said he’s one thing is the exact opposite then getting rid of said man. Paganism is a big part of Irish culture, we forget Halloween comes from Ireland where it was known under the name Samhain which is basically the Irish Day of the dead with the veil is thinnest between the unseen and seen world Let realize Bambi was pure performance art incredible
Bambie is wonderfully creative. Bambie looks to Ireland's Pagan history, before Christianity. Our ancient Celtic people worshipped Nature. Young modern Irish people are aware of this and it attracts them.
Guys I don't know what are the criteria for the song to be chosen to the reaction but you really should react to this year's last place, that is Norway's song: Gate - Ulveham, the most undeserved last place in the history of anything ever. Maybe not this week but sometime in the future, maybe "Eurovision last places week" or something like that? No clue what happened and why this end dead last, this was like the song picked from ordinary world of music - the song of almost-black metal with folk undertones and squeezed into this circus of Eurovision. On the biggest website of community rating music, Ulveham was rated by far with the best score out of all song of Eurovision 2024, and it end up dead last in the actual final. That says something. Love the great work guys 🖤
This was the most amazing thing marketing-wise, soooo many people tried to turn her performance into a scandal, which just got a ton of attention and traffic to her music
Bambie Thug identifies as gender fluid, so they go by the pronouns 'They/Them'. When I first heard this song at the Irish national finals, I honestly just didn't understand what on earth was going on. It was amateurish witchy crap. Then the semi finals at Eurovision happened! Bambie shot up from my 39th place all the way up to my 3rd (behind Italy & Austria). Bambie summons the demon, seduces him, then Bambie destroys him! As for other industrial/metal/alternative type of songs at Eurovision, please do react to 'Hatrid Mun Sigra' by Hatari. That had a similar effect that Bambie did this year. It shocked people.
Just wanted to say that you wrote “she” toward the end. I keep messing it up but really try to get used to it. Anyway, do they use they/them pronouns? Asking because I saw a video where the hosts talked about the non-binary participants, and they used they/them for Nemo but she/her for Bambi which confused me a bit. But then I learned that some non-binary people prefer to keep their “original” pronouns which makes sense, I guess, since there are also people who prefer they/them without identifying as non-binary. Btw I like the term “gender fluid”, like you said, way better. Binary/non-binary is just too binary 😄
@@ZeniaLarsen oops, thank you for pointing that out! I find it hard too. I dont understand the current trend in pronouns in all honesty, even though I describe myself as gender-fluid, im not as militant and still prefer 'he/him' pronouns. I'm just a huge lover of androgyny and love the blurring of the lines when it comes to style and appearance. I do respect other people's preferences though. Yes Bambie mentioned that they use 'they/them' pronouns as they see themselves as non-binary.
I’ve been WAITING for you to review this! Ireland were outstanding, the staging was magnificent. I wonder who else is in your top 5? I’m hoping UK just to see your reaction as it was very different. Then Croatia, France, & Switzerland. ❤
Wait until watch France this year how cameraman is part of the performance. He was doing the heavy lifting. PLEASE PLEASE tell me NETHERLANDS is part of this week's line up.PLEASEEEEEEEE
Johnny Logan could have pulled off the Demon look 🤣🤣. Actually Jonny was the interval act for the first semi final. He sang Loreen’s Euphoria (a slow version)
Fun fact: it came 6th in the Jury votes, 6th with the televote, and 6th overall. 666.
With an average of 666 thousand people from national Irish TV watching.
The POWER of our glorious witch.
wicca has nothing to do with satanism...
Thanks about to say that.
And she is a real witch or how real they can be
Guys, Bambi is non binary, so please use the correct they, them pronoun.
The fact that no one bats an eye at the fact that in the same competition you can have a demon exorcism, 6 grandmas baking cookies, Celine Dione, and so much more, is truly wonderful.
Believe me plenty people were furious at this entry since they 1) thought it was satanic and/or 2) didn't like the fact that Bambie is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns 😄 Even within Ireland (not surprising due to Catholicism). For example there was SO much hate in the comment section under this RUclips video before they cleaned it up. Same with the winning performance.
@@vohol6158
Let me guess
Those that didn't like that Bambie is non-binary were from Poland?
Poland has a thing for people who isentify different than most
@@phantomviper8297 It seemed to be people from different countries. I don't remember if I saw someone who seemed to be from Poland, and of course I only skimmed through a small section of the comments, but it certainly is likely that some haters were Polish. But I think that haters can be any nationality.
We had paganism before Christianity in Ireland. We invented Halloween.
*Samhain..
"Hallowe'en - *All Hallow's Eve" is defeintely a Christian observance to tray and co-opt Samhain
@@ZakhadWOW 100%. Its was amalgam of some aspects of Samhain mixed with Catholic festivals honouring saints (before
America got ahold of it and turned it into something else entirely). "Halloween" is hilariously an invention of Christian imperialism now hated by the same Christians who invented it coz its gotten out of hand lmao
didn't almost everyone have paganism of some type before tho?
@@bitterblue8115 yes. But there were subdivisions, I believe.
as almost every country in europe did...
Finally Eurovision week again!
In the performance, Bambie Thug summons a new boyfriend after being disappointed in love, at first things are ok (the pink sky and the moon), but problems appear and the demon/boyfriend tries to dominate them (holding their hands back) - Bambie Thug takes back control and wins over the demon.
That ending moment still stirs me... The scream of the final line, the stomp of the foot, spreading the arms and then "Crown the Witch" blasts onto the screen behind. Everything hits so precisely on point. It's fantastic!
I feel the same everytime I watch it. The ending "sequence" and the final image you get is sooo satisfying
The staging was 1000% perfect, Ireland outdid themselves this year
I was there and saw it live. The best production/performance/staging of this year. Love from Hungary
Not just this year, in my opinion.
the performance is created by a Spanish man
@@pacofortea yes, and he like 22 yo, i feel so old and talantkess XD
No, this year's best stage is Ukraine
@@kyamranasanov hey, run, 34 min ago their reaction to jerry h and alyona2! watching rn :)
This still gives me chills, absolutely iconic performance
One of the best performances IN EUROVISION HISTORY tbh!!!
the performance is created by a Spanish man
She was disgusting
One of Ireland's best ever entries at Eurovision
Disgusting, must be a white people thing
The best*
This feels even more special because of the whole experience Bambie and the other artists had at Eurovision this year - there was so much for them to be angry about, ESPECIALLY given all the events of that day and the day before, and so it felt like all of their anger was channelled into this performance - I FELT the screams after "you're favourite colour..." and obviously the ending scream - absolutely incredible, and needless to say the greatest stage performance in eurovision history, no ifs no buts
Bambie did so well, stage show wad phenomenal and the instrumentation was amazing, I loved this performance and they deserved 6th overall
About their face: it said 'ceasefire' in Ogham writing.❤
I think they were told to remove that because it was a political message. So they replaced it with 'crown the witch'.
@@tonyttt31they were forced to remove it for the semi-final but managed to sneak it in for the final
The symbol of their forehead is a triskelion. It is an ancient Neolithic symbol which features in a lot of Celtic imagery
When this song came out as Ireland's bid that was at the bottom of my ranking, but after seeing the performance it climbed to my top 3. No other Eurovision contestant has achieved that for me. Credits to the Spanish artistic director Sergio Jaen. That was pure art.
Also credit to Bambie Thug... of course
@@Sanchordia Of course! She was the best performer this year after Nemo 🙂
And the Swedish camera team. Credit to all 3.
@@tonyttt31 I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOVED THIS PERFORMANCES VIDEOGRAPHY AND the work of the camera team, but overall with all of the performances im sad to say that im deeply dissapointed with camera work with most of the entries. :(
Ireland had a rich and diverse history before the whitewashing of christianity, namely Celtic paganism, witchcraft, gods and goddesses, Bambi is a celtic pagan.
Same with my country
Same with most countries…
"whitewashing" is a weird term to use
@@sitdownstandup91 Sorry lemme correct that, the colonization of white racist people who thinks that their ways are the right way.
Glad i corrected that❤
@@Hyponokrio lol are irish not white?
They were amazing! The transition from the softer to the harsher parts, the choreography, the floating chandelier, all perfect. And as you said, all the unseen parts, the coordination between stage hands, camera operators, visual, pyro, all must be perfect for a tv screen.
Halloween is originated from Ireland, so it shouldn't be suprising that they sent this song 😊
It was my favourite this year together with Gåte - Ulveham.
Gåte definitely did not deserve to come last. An amazing song and fantastic band. I already have my tickets for their Dublin show when they play in December. And of course I got my Bambie tickets as soon as they went on sale. October 31st Samhain/Halloween 🌙🖤🌚 Can't wait!
@@Róisín_of_the_Hawkeye I have tickets for Bambie's London gig in September 🤩
@@Eva-mp7xg Hope you have a great time 🖤🌙
It didn't originate in Ireland. Ancient Britain celts also celebrated Samhain (what we know as Halloween), as did most Celtic groups within Europe. Nobody knows where exactly it originated, except for the fact, from a celtic group, which there were many.
@@Gabagoolf thank for the details, so all we know it's from Celtic groups, but we cannot be sure if it's from one in Ireland or from any other Europen area. So maybe it's Ireland? 😊
Ireland didn’t qualify for the Eurovision since 2018. So not was this their first qualification in 6 years, but this is their best result in 24 years! Such an amazing performance.
One of my favourite performances ever! So proud of Bambie and company for killing it.
Best staging EVER
This is a LEGENDARY once-in-a-lifetime performance tbh. Phenomenal!
Also Ireland is VERY scary! It's the birthplace of Halloween!
Not only that but there's even history of screaming, Banshees (originally "Bean sí" in Irish) are the screams you supposedly hear that are a harbinger of death to come in Celtic folklore!
Scary is beautiful and Ireland's ancient history is so beautiful!
Best performance in ESC history!
Also, great that you knew a little bit about Irish history so your reaction is more accurate 🖤
I saw this live in Malmö and had nightmares for a week. So good and very scary.
Nice to know it hit hard even for the crowd in the arena!
This staging and directing is going to be an inspiration for future acts. The director (the 22 year old Sergio Jaén) did something that has not really been seen in Eurovision before, and that with a very limited budget! Sure, we have great directors who regularly work with Eurovision performances, but this was like a breath of fresh air. They took it a step further and set the new bar for what's achievable.
He will be in serious high demand and it is truly well deserved. So talented 👏
He directed the MV for Doomsday Blue too, and the whole thing was shot in 9 hours.
That project also had a very limited budget. Fans fundraised for it to be made as RTE are notoriously scabby when it comes to budget
Omg yes eurovision week is back!! Starting with a banger🤩
finally! since the finale i was hoping you guys check this years contest out.... i cant wait for your baby lasagna reaction
Suprisingly no one has answered your aul leprechaun/ banshee query, so I'll try me best for ya. They are both members of the sídhe (pronounced she), otherwise know as the fairyfolk. There are a heap of them in Irish mythology but we'll just focus on these ones cause I'm not writin' out 70 pages of nothing, despite what ya asked!
Leprechauns are usually cobblers, so little fellas who do shoes. They like to be on their own but they are also cheeky little feckers and play tricks on people. The bucket of gold probaly comes from an old story where some youngfella caught a leprechaun who was up to no good and refused to let him go unless he got a s**te load of gold in return. The leprechaun paid up and they both lived happily every after! Yeay!
Haven't a clue where the rainbow comes into it, but I suppose that's what a thousand years of reimagining a mythology will do. There's a whole lot more to these tricksy little feckers, one is how they could actually be a representation of one of the most important gods in Irish mythology, Lugh, but that's a rabbit-hole I'm not willing to go down right now, so we'll leave it there!
Banshees are a different kettle of fish altogether. The name in Irish is bean sídhe, which is pronounced banshee (who could have ever guessed that eh?! lol) That translates to fairy woman, which sounds nice enough... but no.... She is an incredibly old bent backed woman, with long, scraggily hair that she likes to comb. And you better hope to god the banshee never comes around to your house because she is the hearld of death! She creeps up outside of a house at night and will start wailing and screaming, and lets the family know that one of them has died or is going to die really, really soon. She doesn't kill them herself, she's just there to send a message! lol. But she also does a thing called keening, which was a type of singing/ mourning done at Irish wakes in ye olde times. So in fact the banshee isn't bad, she is wailing, screaming and keening because she feels the pain and sorrow of the family's loss.
But growing up in the Irish countryside I didn't focus on her feelings, all I knew is that her scream will kill someone in my house. I'd hear foxes calling and cats fighting at night and would be half convinced I'd wake up dead in the morning! Oh and if I ever saw a comb on the road, or in the ditch beside the road, I knew never to touch it because the banshee would come after me!
Same! 🙌 The comb thing was bet into us as kids. If you saw one on the ground, you were never to pick it up, or the banshee would come looking for you.
Sure who needed horror films when you were told stories like that as a child?! Between that and never walking through a fairy ring and a whole plethora of other tales, it was enough to scare the bejayzus out of you for life 👻
All good fun though, I loved it. Still do
There's been a fox in the field behind us screaming it's head off recently. Banshee noises for bloody nights
Welcome back, Mike. Glad you had safe travels. Always love your Eurovision reviews. The best American reactions to this quintessential Euro-Australian annual event. (As an Australian of mixed European heritage, I like to think of us as Europe's southernmost country.)
Did you accidentally leave NZ off the map again there?
@@phueal I don't have any heritage ties to NZ, so I cannot speak for them.
@@ColClaridge-Leitch I was meaning if you’re considering Australia a European country because of the culture, shouldn’t NZ also be considered that way, and they would be “Europe’s southernmost country”?
As a Mediterranean European I find Australia as close as the US or South Africa. No connection, emotion or identification.
Ireland came with this after several years of non qualification to the final! Bravo Ireland
Fun fact: Mr Johnny Logan performed this year at Eurovision! He sang Loreen's Euphoria! In the interval act!
Great Eurovision again 2024 Thks
They did draw a lot of inspiration from ancient Irish paganism here, so it's a part of Irish culture and history.
Yeheyyy Eurovision 2024 reaction.... Let's gooooo
It was great to see her live in the arena. How much we screamed at the end of the performance (I was with the Irish in the stands ahah)
The entire performance was super thought out and has a storyline that pertains to the song itself. The song is about being undervalued and underappreciated in three aspects, the first being in a romantic relationship (verses), towards oneself and self criticism (bridge), and lastly as a queer person in the world (chorus). Bambie, who identifies as non-binary and uses they/them pronouns, is a practicing witch who uses Ireland's historic roots as a pagan country to create the symbolism and esthetic of their image. The performance begins with the ritual where they are conjuring the "demon" which represents the trauma that they've suffered in their life that has controlled them and held them back, continues into them coming to terms and accepting the past, and then finally taking their power back at the end of the performance and defeating the demon once and for all.
This! 🙌
This performance left me speechless! Sooooo good!!!! 😊😊
We will need multiple weeks for Eurovision because there are 20 performances from this year worthy of reaction videos
This is the best staging and performance Eurovision has ever seen. Chills ✨
Surprised you didn't mention the 4:3 aspect ratio that's on the whole time except until the very last shot ;)
So good!
This was one of the best Performances on the Eurovision Stage ever! 🎉
Yayy finally Eurovision week is my favorite!
Someone has to make these guys react to "Love, Love, Peace, Peace". I think they are ready for meta Eurovision stuff now.
This is the most iconic Eurovision performance EVER - I am so proud of Bambie❤❤
This is us Eurovision fans living vicariously through you so we can get our fix 😅
Aight, let's give you some information on this! The overall performance is a representation of Irish Wiccan/Pagan culture and there's a lot of elements in this that symbolize such.
First, the symbol on Bambie Thug's head is the symbol of the Triple Goddess. This represents the Maiden, the Mother, and the Crone. The Triple Goddess is also seen as the three faces of the Morrigan/Morrighan. Sometimes written as something separate, sometimes the same entity, but the Morrigan is a deity in Irish Mythology that represents wrath, transformation, and battle, as well as the different sides of women. She's a powerful and feared deity which some may think as evil, but she's not evil, she just operates on a different morality like many of the fey beings in the mythology. You mention leprechauns, which are also a type of capricious being, but there's none in this song :D
The other Celtic symbols are all used in Wiccan/Pagan representation, I don't know all of them, but they're mostly benign symbols that can range for health, prosperity, and can be used in Wiccan rituals. Candles are used in Wiccan rituals, feathers, the pentagram is a Wiccan symbol of summoning/protection (NOT demonic, but it was appropriated to become demonic in popular cinema/Christian religion).
Bambie Thug is dressed up in feathers which can be seen as representing the Morrigan and the Morrigan's most known form to transform into, the raven, before transitioning to their new form. The black markings on the side of their face is known as Ogham script, an old Irish manuscript, and it reads "Crown the Witch". You read it from the bottom to the top.
The song itself is a switch between light and dark aspects of a personality that are waging war - the vengeful side angry at what happened in a failed relationship, cursing the relationship/hexing the ex and then summoning a demon to try and compensate for the hurt. Only, it's a demon, it can't really fulfil the empty spot and you can never truly be happy as long as it is hovering around, and the character eventually transforms (shedding the feathers) and changes their attitude, and chooses to embrace themselves and shrug off the demon they created (also can be seen like an inner demon that we all battle with daily, and learning to banish them rather than let them fester). The demon is exorcised at the end with this newfound strength.
At the end of the performance, they shout out "Love will always triumph hate/Love will triumph over hate." There's apparently some debate over the exact wording, but this is the general message.
Honestly this has been one of the most epic performances I've ever seen in Eurovision. Super glad to see this :D
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Peace out
I’ve been waiting for Eurovision week and it’s here !!! 😂😂
The eurovision has amazing stage effects, like the best musical money can buy
The leprecmlhaum is a very short guy who has grown a full beard, but he's shaved off his stash, Bambie thug is really cute ♥️
The leprecmlhaum is a very short guy who has grown a full beard, but he's shaved off his stash, Bambie thug is really cute ♥️
The leprecmlhaum is a very short guy who has grown a full beard, but he's shaved off his stash, Bambie thug is really cute ♥️
The leprecmlhaum is a very short guy who has grown a full beard, but he's shaved off his stash, Bambie thug is really cute ♥️
The banshee comes and screams/cries to announce someone is going to die - my grandmother said she used to hear the banshee in Kerry
Bambie Thug is a one-of-a-kind true star.
OKAY THIS IS A REACTION I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR! ♥️🙏 Bambie was in my top three, definitely the best and most original entry we’ve seen from Ireland in a long time.
I’m hoping you’ll react to Baby Lasagna, Joost Klein and Nemo too. Baby Lasagna was my winner 🐱
If you’re interested in the production side, there are videos on here of the behind the scenes. The cues are beat synced and a lot of the cameras are now robotic to get the precision they need.
I’ve been to Eurovision in person a few times. It’s amazing live, but in a different way. When I go, I tend to go to the Jury Final the night before so I can enjoy the televised show as well (then, when I get home, I’ll watch the BBC broadcast to get Graham Norton’s commentary).
Gotta love Graham Norton's commentary. I prefer to tune into him than the televised final in Ireland. The late Terry Wogan's shoes were big shoes to fill, and fill them Graham certainly did.
We loved tuning into Terry's commentary when I was a kid. And I will tune into Graham's commentary as long he stays at it.
They both have/had a cheeky way of throwing deep shade without malice that most just can't away with.
All in good fun and always hilarious!
it's still not a song I will listen to but the performance is sooo good! its art. And they are actually one of the sweetest persons alive.
Yes, love it!
Amazing performance!!!!!
Eurovision week!🎉🎉🎉
The mascot for Lucky Charms is Lucky the Leprechaun, but he has also been known by other names:
L.C. Leprechaun: His formal name, Sir Charms: A name he was called in the early 1960s when he first appeared in commercials-
Waldo the Wizard: A forgetful wizard who briefly replaced Lucky in New England in 1975
Lucky was created in 1963 and first appeared in commercials in 1964
Johnny Logan did actually perform at this year’s contest, as an interval, covering Loreen’s Euphoria... true story. He’s still got it, check it out
That was dreadful
@@XanArt21 what interval act this year wasn't lmao, that and the whole script across the semis and final were a hot mess
@@iyawakarehenThe only good thing was semifinal 1 opening ☠️
I wish he’d sung his own song.
If you want to enjoy Bambie's nice singing voice, listen to the Intimate version of Doomsday Blue. It's a really captivating performance ❤
This version was so lovely and haunting! Highly recommend it too
I loved it so much ♥
Ireland were absolutely phenomenal this year 🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤
Def one of the best this year.
Crown the witch❤❤
Finally!! ❤
Cannot wait for you to see Croatia~
the symbols on her face were old irish writing called ogham.
Well guys, this is Eurovision history now bc that staging was just perfect.
This year Ireland was my top 3 to win the contest.
Another thing: avadakadabra word exist begin Harry Potter. Some games in my childhood already used that word.
Yaaaas🎉
Many European countries had witches before Christianity. In Finland, witches, who were both men and women, served as healers.
Eurovision has been posting on their instagram the video editing you talked about, all 20 of them! Perfectly pre selected to go live.
I love Bambi's song Headbang
Mike,Joe... watch Darby O’Gill and the Little People. Banshees, leprechauns, horseless coach of death... it has it all.
You should try to get tickets to one of the 9 shows of Eurovision 2025 and do a travel vlog to Switzerland. That would be so awesome!
The camera work is computer programmed. There's videos on RUclips showing how the cameras were used.
She actually sounds a bit like Poppy... (Poppy and Grimes did a song together... 'Play Destroy' which is great)
'Hatari' at Eurovision 2019 was intense
It’s Irish paganism symbology. It’s basically just a song about a man who said he’s one thing is the exact opposite then getting rid of said man. Paganism is a big part of Irish culture, we forget Halloween comes from Ireland where it was known under the name Samhain which is basically the Irish Day of the dead with the veil is thinnest between the unseen and seen world
Let realize Bambi was pure performance art incredible
She banished the demon in the end...
Bambie is wonderfully creative. Bambie looks to Ireland's Pagan history, before Christianity. Our ancient Celtic people worshipped Nature. Young modern Irish people are aware of this and it attracts them.
People always forget that Halloween is Irish. It's from our pre-christian days.
my winer
Guys I don't know what are the criteria for the song to be chosen to the reaction but you really should react to this year's last place, that is Norway's song: Gate - Ulveham, the most undeserved last place in the history of anything ever.
Maybe not this week but sometime in the future, maybe "Eurovision last places week" or something like that?
No clue what happened and why this end dead last, this was like the song picked from ordinary world of music - the song of almost-black metal with folk undertones and squeezed into this circus of Eurovision.
On the biggest website of community rating music, Ulveham was rated by far with the best score out of all song of Eurovision 2024, and it end up dead last in the actual final. That says something.
Love the great work guys 🖤
This was the most amazing thing marketing-wise, soooo many people tried to turn her performance into a scandal, which just got a ton of attention and traffic to her music
So happy you guys got to see this! It’s irelands first top 10 finish in 13 yrs
BRO IRELAND WAS MY WINNER 😭😭 ABSOLUTELY THE BEST PERFORMANCE IN EUROVISION
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If you're looking for something more hardcore, then Hatari's entry for Iceland in 2019 would be worth a react!
Bambie Thug identifies as gender fluid, so they go by the pronouns 'They/Them'.
When I first heard this song at the Irish national finals, I honestly just didn't understand what on earth was going on. It was amateurish witchy crap.
Then the semi finals at Eurovision happened! Bambie shot up from my 39th place all the way up to my 3rd (behind Italy & Austria).
Bambie summons the demon, seduces him, then Bambie destroys him!
As for other industrial/metal/alternative type of songs at Eurovision, please do react to 'Hatrid Mun Sigra' by Hatari. That had a similar effect that Bambie did this year. It shocked people.
Just wanted to say that you wrote “she” toward the end. I keep messing it up but really try to get used to it. Anyway, do they use they/them pronouns? Asking because I saw a video where the hosts talked about the non-binary participants, and they used they/them for Nemo but she/her for Bambi which confused me a bit. But then I learned that some non-binary people prefer to keep their “original” pronouns which makes sense, I guess, since there are also people who prefer they/them without identifying as non-binary. Btw I like the term “gender fluid”, like you said, way better. Binary/non-binary is just too binary 😄
@@ZeniaLarsen oops, thank you for pointing that out! I find it hard too.
I dont understand the current trend in pronouns in all honesty, even though I describe myself as gender-fluid, im not as militant and still prefer 'he/him' pronouns. I'm just a huge lover of androgyny and love the blurring of the lines when it comes to style and appearance. I do respect other people's preferences though.
Yes Bambie mentioned that they use 'they/them' pronouns as they see themselves as non-binary.
Together with Norway...By far the best entry this year!!!
I’ve been WAITING for you to review this! Ireland were outstanding, the staging was magnificent. I wonder who else is in your top 5? I’m hoping UK just to see your reaction as it was very different. Then Croatia, France, & Switzerland. ❤
Ireland please send bambie again 🎉🎉🎉🎉
She's not just screaming 😂
Banshee? Maybe a witch riding a cart hauled by headless horses?
Wait until watch France this year how cameraman is part of the performance. He was doing the heavy lifting. PLEASE PLEASE tell me NETHERLANDS is part of this week's line up.PLEASEEEEEEEE
Bambie was my winner!
An iconic performance for EV! Deeply inspired by Irish paganism, witch craft and symbolism
The fact no one knows what paganism is in these comments is insane lol
This video should be renamed "The Great Leprechaun Seminar", haha
Johnny Logan could have pulled off the Demon look 🤣🤣. Actually Jonny was the interval act for the first semi final. He sang Loreen’s Euphoria (a slow version)
i love that this song goes so hard
best performance of the year!