Eurovision 2021 Was A Bisexual Fever Dream | European Rants About Eurovision
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- Опубликовано: 26 май 2021
- Eurovision is a special event for all Europeans, and this year's Eurovision was exceptionally chaotic and queer. With Italy's Maneskin finally snatching the victory for Italy after 30 years, Eurovision's legacy has been successfully restored.
In this video, I will be doing a recap of the most memorable moments in this year's Eurovision and rant about the importance of Eurovision and controversies that surrounded the Italian winner Maneskin. 
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the bisexual fever dream continues in the form of italy/ukraine lead singer fan art
Yes! I've never been happier with my Tiktok feed. 💕
Yeah, but am I the only one who got Bi Panic cause of Barbara ??? (She's the french singer)
This comment described my feelings better than I could’ve done.
I need links for that - both iconic!
If you can't stand originality take your homophobic tendencies elsewhere
lmao imagine if all those homophobic people who feel "uncomfortable" watching maneskin knew Victoria is also a whole bisexual woman
*confused homophobic screeching intensifies*
Wait she's bi? I actually didn't know that
@@elysia3637 she is!! she said it in an Italian interview months ago and before that she said she’s had long term relationships with women before
@@elysia3637 the source of my information is wikipedia, so I can't vouch for what i'm about to say, but according to what I read, out of the four of them, only Thomas is “explicitly” heterosexual. Damiano is heteroflexible and I think it said Ethan was “non specific”, basically not bound by a specific sexuality.
It may not be valid information and the last time I checked they had removed the info from the wiki page, but I still love them for how they express themselves and question stereotypes like sex and gender ✌️
@@svetozarbubalo230 You're right, here's the original source: www.neg.zone/2021/02/12/sanremo-maneskin/
The interview is in Italian but the automated translation does quite a good job. Damiano is heterosexual but curious, Ethan is "sexually free", Victoria is bisexual and Thomas is heterosexual.
also about the måneskin situation, eurovision is such a high security event, so bringing drugs into the arena would be INSANELY hard
That would be literally impossible, I agree.
It was impossible de iure even for another little detail: THEY DON'T DO DRUGS!
He did a drug test at his own request - unsurprisingly negative.
Who would be SO STUPID, to take drugs in front of hundreds of cameras, in front of your opponents and SITTING NEXT to the RAI's representative! your effing employer! (the guy with the pony tail)
Back in your dressing room? sure. I bet there was a lot of drug use, but in the green room?? please...🙄
@@HamelinSong they are 20 and they don't do drugs. Damiano said he sometimes smokes weed but other than that, no drugs. And Let's Remember that Laureen did acids before her performance of Euforia in Baku, She won and no One condemed her for that!
Not gonna lie, I couldn't have cared less if Damiano HAD done drugs. They still deserved to win because they were amazing, and that's all there is to it.
Yeah like if they did do drugs, why is it any of the fans buisness- it doesn't even concern them one bit
I'm Italian from Rome, and in Italy drugs are considered SO shameful; if you do them as a young guy you are NOT considered cool. It is indeed different in the UK, I've been studying in Scotland for 5 years now, and drugs here are popular among guys my age and at parties.. and people who do it think they are "cool" think
Indeed, in most Mediterranean countries doing drugs is shameful and I have a lot of Italian friends too so I know that. Coincidentally, I live in Scotland too so I know for fact that drugs are something normal in the UK but they still shock me!
The accusation like that is offensive as it is to any person from where ever they are.. but if taking drugs is so culturally unacceptable for Italians like you said, then it is even more offensive.. the whole thing was so unnecessary and unfair to Maneskin who deserved to enjoy their win without having to explain why one of them band down..
Also, the whole "controversy" did not make any sense to me because why would they risk winning Eurovision??? Why would they do such a thing in front of an international audience and mind you they were all sitting closely to other contestants too.
Taking drugs in college is quite an American thing. The USA has almost wiped out the old British culture.
Makes perfect sense since there are many rehab communities in Italy (drug related).
You did not expect metal from Finland? Finland has the most metal bands per capita in the world. Finland IS the land of metal :) EDIT: Although I wouldn't call Blind Channel "metal".
I didn't expect to hear Nu metal in 2021, but I did expect to hear something a bit heavier than that.
@@PopDropChannel I think they called themselves "Violent Pop" :D
Plus, they literally won with a rock song back in 2006.
Here's what pissed me off about the whole drug controversy... Some of the people who were spreading that rumor were justifying not winning saying that it was because Italy was on drugs (i read someone from the UK literally say: of course we are going to lose when everyone else was on drugs! Which..... Yeah).
And first of all, the rumors were incredibly disrespectful and overshadowed their win, which was awful. But also.... The fact that people legitimately thought Italy was only good because they were high, is an insult to their talent.
This! Drugs literally don't make you a better musician so it really doesn't matter idk why people were trying to press that narrative.
This!!!
That's it!!! That's the key of all the issue. It's not that I'd find it cool if it was true that he was consuming cocaine, to be honest, but, anyway, that doesn't have anything to do with their music or performance, so it doesn't make sense anyway.
Of course they did drugs! They all did! What do you think alcohol is? 🤣🤣🤣
@@bridittebargeot2679 well, this dabate was about cocaine.
Not the Israel song being called Set Me Free, this year 💀
Their public vote wasn't great!!
Bruh, stop being so sensitive.... Snowflake
@@milicadjordjevic4498 you sound upset, dude. Do you want people to stop discussing politics in your safe space?
🔥Iceland really put them in their place back in 2019 🔥
the audacity
well, statistics show (I studied it in the Netherlands) that in Italy there is less of a judgement on men showing "feminine" qualities than any other country in Europe. I do not think that Italy felt a shocker when seeing them as this sort of things has a long history in Italian television since the 60s/70s
I'm inclined to disagree, though we had Cristiano Malgioglio as Eurovision host this year and he's probably the most flamboyant gay personality we have, the situation is still not ideal and we're also behind most of europe about lgbt rights. It may have been a thing in the 70s but it mostly stayed there, I actually think it should be linked to a new wave of appreciation for femininity that only happened in recent years. The band does talk about being insulted for their looks, Damiano actually addressed it in a video once: ruclips.net/video/6TEC59rlZxo/видео.html
@@leriety Exactly. I watched that video and, although I don't know all the Italian context, because I haven't been living there, I have an Italian friend who told me a few days ago that he was happy for having a demonstration about some LGBTQ rights that aren't still recognized there, so I suppose there's a long way to achieve real equality.
The great Renato Zero (Italian Singer) comes to my mind, he performed and dressed flamboyantly just like Elton John did, so i mean, there you have it lol Renato and Mangioglio are the flamboyant ones, we stan!
@@Lunaticaceleste you're right, but that's not what @wellaciccio said. Italy has had its fair share of flamboyant artists (it doesn't matter if gay or straight). Also, Italian men in general tend to dress in more gaudy colours compared to British men, for example.
@@leriety True, but that's not what he meant. He meant this only in the artistic field, in which, indeed, often little attention is paid to the way of dressing or behaving of an artist (unless, as in the cases you mentioned, there is a real political alignment ). Malgioglio himself, who as you reiterated was the commentator, was not at all targeted for being clearly effeminate, because we already knew his character and nobody gives a damn if he does his job well. Achille Lauro in Sanremo this year also made explicit pro LGBT gestures live. Obviously someone had to argue, but who did it? Frustrated boomers who write indignantly on facebook, not newspapers. I find that precisely on an artistic level we have enormous freedom of expression (just look at the indisputable variety of our artists who participate in festivals and talents), even if unfortunately this does not coincide with everyday sexual freedom, and that is why we are not a "back" country, but a tremendously self-righteous country.
UK song was a bit average, and that in eurovision can be even worst than having a bad song.
I feel so old, this is the first year where quite a few singers were younger than me, even two members from our lovely winners!
Me too, I feel ancient. 😂
Wait until you hit 40 then 😂😂😂😂
@@julichio6241 I'm keeping quite about hitting 50. 😉
Same, it's very unnerving.
So basically you’re like 21. wow. soooo old. lol
Personally I feel that the EBU or Måneskin should investigate who started the drugs rumour & those who maintain it even though it has been proven wrong, & they should be sued. I know it was in the French gutter press a lot, & I was pleased when Barbara Pravi put out a statement saying she supported the band & that they deserved to win the competition.
The first time I heard their song, it blew my mind & they remained my favourite throughout the Eurovision season. It's the sort of music I listen to normally so to have it in the competition was a real treat. They deserved to win & they really do seem decent young people & excellent role models.
I was shocked you said you were Serbian. You speak excellent English, with an American accent. Being a polyglot, I'm usually quite good at hearing & identifying accents, so you've really surprised me. 🙂
It was a lot in English Gutter press as well
Am I the only person who actually liked the Netherlands this year? they weren't my fav, but I would't put it that far down
Loved it. One of my favourites.
i didn't *love* it but it definitely was an enjoyable song and performance plus i can't help but feel warm feelings for every esc artist who brings a song that includes non english and premiering a language in the contest makes it even better.
i didn't look at the detail of the individual jury/televote rankings for it but i'm sure it didn't actually do that bad tbh, it just wasn't popular enough to make it top 10 anywhere except for a few juries lol (like germany was apparently 17th in the average televote ranking but it sadly only made it to 13th place in a couple of countries at best which is not bad at all, just not enough orz)
I thought we sent a very fun song to eurovision this year, sadly the rest of Europe didn't agree haha. So Jeangu the singer is actually from Suriname, a former Dutch colony. And in the verse you can hear sentences sung in the language spoken there : Sranantongo. I just love that he was chosen to write a song for eurovision and that he could express his roots in this way.
@@julieannelovesbooks oh I didn't know that... thanks for sharing!
I loved it too! There were sooo many good songs this year, but they definitely deserved more points!!
The controversy with Måneskin is so ironic if you look at the lyrics of their song.
I'm very glad I gave Eurovision this year a chance because I actually hated the competition. The songs that had been winning the past years were boring, stale and predictable in my opinion. My mother had to trick me into watching finlands entry and the ball started rolling from there. I am very glad though that italy won. They really deserved it. Fucking zoomer. Love them.
(🇨🇵) Just so you know, most French people are disagreeing with French media that took the contraversy really seriously. Most of us were happy for Barbara (best ranking since 1991, we gotta applause that!) and Barbara herself said she didn't care about the controversy. Also, I heard that it could have been a Swedish journalist that started it (but I'm really not sure about it). When I saw that I was shocked, like why are doing a contraversy where there's none?? His nose doesn't even touch the table, how does he snort something?
I know, most people from France and Switzerland really didn't buy into the whole controversy and Barbara is a sweetheart as well. I believe that the rumors started on Twitter first (at least I first saw them there, as I was live tweeting and checking the ESC # during the show) and that the Swedish journalist wanted to stir the pot even further because it would create an outrage.
The controversy started on twitter by Cyril Hanouna ( a french comic who also asked a intervention of a french minister!) and by Paris Mach. The Swedish journalist just asked a question
@@Luciana.RIn France, we know to not take seriously anything that Hanouna says. But I don't think he has started it, he just reacted to it on Twitter
Lots of people watching it live posted about it on social media, it was a Swedish journo who asked them about it during their interview after the show. The whole thing got out of hand with people not even bothering to look at it properly before deciding it was true. It's such a shame as it must have ruined the moment for them.
That controversy has been pathetic. If you’re running for a competition you have to accept the lost. French press made a really poor figure and I’m happy most of French didn’t support them.
They saw Maneskin is a rockband so when Damiano bent down like that it obviously had to be for drugs because *extremely outdated and so untrue stereotype alert* IT'S ALWAYS JUST SEX, DRUGS AND ROCK N ROLL WITH THOSE KINDS OF PEOPLE
"Cate Blanchett serving Depesche Mode realness" :D
Every time I heard El Diablo I had the compulsive feeling that I've heard Lady Gaga sing it. It was very uncanny.
i honestly feel as if florida crushed san marino’s chances. the juries statistically do not like stereotypical raps, and i think had senhit performed alone, her vocals are decent enough to get a good score from the juries. 22nd for them shocked me too, but i kinda saw why they flopped, at least in the jury. they also had like 17 other female led dance pop songs that year to contend with so it might have just become lost in the crowd.
i love hearing other people’s opinions about eurovision, especially this year since it’s such an exciting year, keep up the great work on your videos!
Isn’t it against the rules to bring another artist on stage?
@@kellikocha7733 No. You are allowed to have six people on the stage - whoever they are (singers, dancers, musicians - the song may be performed by more people, but they must be off-stage). Since Flo rida was part of the act from the beginning, he was part of the delegation.
I mean, when my family and I were watching and we saw FloRida come onto the stage we were just crying laughing and screaming because what the fuck is FloRida doing on the eurovision stage. It was just a very weird experience, and I think this just made their song a meme, and we couldn't really take the singing performance that came before it seriously.
Me and my boyfriend thought that it was kind of a dick move to bring such a huge name into the competition. We were therefore not surprised they got such a low ranking from the public.
hulda from gagnamagnið rocking the pan pride flag was such a cute moment that I don't feel like many people actually noticed
She is so sweet, I'm following her on Tiktok. ☺️
I think the whole of England feels bad and embarrassed about their song. But Newman handled the zero pts well
Also with England being shit, I feel sorry for Maneskin having to put up with the drugs accusations. Damiano mentioned in one of the interview that it bothered him
Je suis très contente pour l'Italie, ils méritent leur victoire . J'en ai marre d'entendre et de voir la même chose chaque année. Des plumes des couleurs du vent dans les cheveux et j'en passe et pas des meilleurs. Le pire c'est que certaines personnes accusent les vainqueurs de se droguer sans savoir juste parce que c'est un groupe rock . Pour moi il y avait 3 pays qui pouvaient gagner l'Italie , la Finlande et la Belgique avec le groupe Hooverphonic mais bon chacun ses goûts . Apparemment non seulement le gagnant est un bon chanteur mais c'est un magicien . Sniffer la drogue sur la table et se relever sans poudre sur le visage mais c'est magique . Certains sont prêt à tout pour gagner c'est lamentable. Vive la bonne musique et vive l'Italie
oui, tu as tellement raison!
The controversy has been made up from French press.
They’ve just shown they don’t know how to lose.
The all thing has been quite pathetic
Well hold on the french media started that shit not french people ! Most of french people are actually very happy for Barbara ! Some of the french medias are pure garbage in general so I’m not surprised it was them who started to spread the rumours ! We should not put everyone in the same box lmao
Uk here and lockdown (all 3 of them ) have been a nightmare. The last one really got to me and most ppl I know have said the same . Finding channel s like yours have really helped . Thanks for the work you put into them .
How did you *not* expect rock music from Finland when they have the most metal bands per capita in Europe 🤣
That was a great video! I'm so happy about all this Eurovision content I'm seeing. I hope you don't stress yourself out too much with posting videos 💕
Bruhhhhh. My gay ass sat here in the UK after we left the EU knowing we won’t get any points be like 👁👄👁
Yeah after the Krim-crisis it doesn’t leave the best taste in my mouth for Russia competing. Also for the EU since people are still dying on their way to Europe. Actually it’s probably best if Australia competes alone.
I think you & I may have the same taste in music. I pretty much agree with all of your comments. Just a thought on the UK, since I am an Italian living here. If the UK keeps sending mediocre songs/artists, they should not complain if they get "nul points". Yes, there may be a bit of "political vote" going on, but Italy got twice 12 points from Ukraine, which is not even a neighbouring country....I also thought the UK song wasn't that bad, quite catchy actually. (Germany's was probably the worst...) But on the night, James sounded a bit out of breath and the staging wasn't that great. The point is, because of the huge amount of good music coming out of this country, Europe wants more from the UK. They expect something like Adele or Ed Sheeran and they get James Newman.....No disrespect to James, but it is a tall order to represent the UK; almost anyone is bound to fail....The drug story was just bullshit. It's not a France vs Italy thing as someone suggested, it's just some fake news thrown there to create sensationalism. "Parla la gente purtroppo parla..." it says it all.
Well said!!
As a German, I have to agree with you. The song was the worst. And I don't see this changing anytime soon unless Rammstein decides to compete, which is very unlikely.
@@seorsamaclately4294 wow, Rammstein, that would be something...Imagine the staging.
Ukraine is pretty bad at strategic vote, we are always voting with soul...
the same that goes to israel about the geopolitical situation goes also to azerbaijan
idk who was the very first person to start the drug rumour, but it was absolutely the French journalist at the winners conference who asked them about it who blew it into a frenzy by giving it official attention. Absolutely unecessary and inappropriate of him, he might not have created the rumour but he's the reason the French press latched onto it.
Edit: it was apparently a Swedish journalist. The point still stands.
Wasn’t it a Swedish journalist?
It was a Swede
Well to be honest I saw it live at the moment when the singer looked down and my friends and I also thought he would do drugs. And I really think due to their looks being so close to what I associate with the rock from the last century and we all know that stars like Alice Cooper are open about there drug abuse in there early days of their careers. But when it happend on live TV we were more amused than anything, totally forgot about it until I saw the articles going viral. Some people need to take things out of context and try to take away what's rightfully earned, just because it doesn't aline with there views and beliefs.
Yes. Eurovision is unapologetically gay and I'm living for it.
Had you recommended, as I am in my post Eurovision content binging, heard you usually covered Drag Race, which is cool, I also liked the video and the comments and the content, than I was absolutely GAGED you are fellow Serbian, and then I subbed. Its a good day :)
Welcome, so glad you've found this channel. 🥰
@@PopDropChannel Yeey, I'm glad 2 :) also, I have to say it, I loved the Swiss song. Its tantamount to treason to say it here I feel, but I don't care about the entire situation with his ethnicity or origin, and I hate how people here dislike it without any valid reason apart from nationality. I mean, you can say what you want, you may even find the singer unlikeable, but vocally and emotionally it was incredible. I said what I said :D
@@Alex-mn1fb I really liked it as well. It was one of the best power ballads in recent years.
I fully agree with this title 🇮🇹❤️
Who would have a good sniff in front of cameras during a LIVE SHOW ????????
I’m watching Måneskin on repeat 😁🥰🥰 I gave 2 votes to the Netherlands and 10 votes to Iceland. I’m in the UK, we deserved at least a couple of points. I felt so bad for Flo Rida 😂
Why did you 'deserve' a couple of points? Not one jury from Australia to Iceland put the UK in the Top 10 for good reason.
@@garrywallace1007 The people I saw saying it’s a decent song were pretty much all Europeans yet they didn’t vote for it. Maybe I’m naive because all the songs I was hyped about and commented on I voted for unless as with North Macedonia I was not allowed to vote for it. Maybe people don’t say what they mean when they comment on the music videos in the months before the contest.
Your English is so perfect! I could never guessed you're from Serbia lol
Thank you. 💕
7:54 eurovision should not be political. sooo i went and judged it with politics aside and her vocals were fab, her song was fab and the staging was decent. i dont rly see the problem here. plus all the songs are selected months before soooo yeah they couldnt cancel their submition while they were rehearsing for the show
I get that you don't want it to be political, but when something as bad as the situation in the middle east is happening I think it's wrong to completely toss it aside for an international music contest.
Tbh I don't remember the song at all, I only remember the whistle notes which were slightly pitchy at the end but WHISTLE NOTES NONETHELESS!!! Can't remember the song at all.
I mean the EBU (the organization that runs Eurovision) claims to hold certain values and it could be argued that similar to Belarus, that they are making a political statement by allowing Israel to stay in the Eurovision song contest (which was their reasoning for banning Belarus). It's not like the Israel Palestine conflict is new as well.
I agree with you that she shouldn't have been penalised for the situation, especially since the subscription was certainly made long before April. Also, the contest itself is like the Olympic Games, the concept itself is to bring harmony, avoiding political conflict as much as possible. But the title of the song was SET ME FREE. I can't help but see the irony there. Anyway, she has great pipes, but I still like our (Italy's) song better.
@@pirimpallopirimpalli4932 the song is about a breakup tho
At first glance the picture does kinda look sus, but what pisses me off is that Twitter is always looking forward to canceling someone.
Also as a another Serb here I don’t understand why’s everyone hyping Hurricane, I think they did a pretty mediocre job lol.
Damn your Italian is on fire 🔥 very nice accent
Thank you. I'd love to learn Italian someday, it's such a pretty language. :)
Italyyyy I'm so proud of my country this year I love måneskin
actually I already saw the video with this assumption being shared on twitter before we knew who won.
I can understand that it might look like someone is leaning over to use whatever but it was kinda stupid to make it such a big thing before maybe checking other material...
100/100 for the title :DDD
Next ESC, in Italy, only paper glasses! 😂
I think Destiny's performance was great but the staging really let her down.
I have a question - why almost all of the top RPDR centered creators on RUclips are from Serbia? I mean you, Bucy, Uckey Lee? What's going on? 😆❤
That's a great question. I'm sure it's just a fun coincidence. 😁
France is just mad they didn’t win also I would happily let Damiano scream at me in Italian until I’m crying. 🥺🇮🇹
france honestly didn't care bc we got our best result in 30 years, it's just weirdo shit stirrers that tried to make a thing out of nothing when they don't even follow or like the contest.
i'm also pretty sure the people @ our national tv were pretty relieved when barbara didn't get enough televote points to pass maneskin because imagine if they had to cook up two whole eurovision contests less than six months apart lol
What country from Europe are you from
Ti zasluzujes vise pregleda. Btw jeben akcenat 🙂🙃
Well, I still don't understand either how it began the matter of the accusation of using drugs to Måneskin, but, as someone who was following the final, maybe it was a mixture of what you said, of some comment in social networks, like Twitter (I remember having seen many before seeing the video, that I guess I missed live) and maybe then, after that kind of rumour arrived, some delegations of the countries that were on the top, like France (I only have read comments about that country, but, as with the rest of the issue, I don't have real facts, just rumours and so on) joined to it to criticize them, because of being jealous of their success. If that was right, I guess it's really dirty on their behalf, whoever was implied on it, because, as you said, I think Italy deserve to win, for many reasons, as their originality and their great outfits and performance, regardless of if you like more or less the song, that it was also great in my opinion.
The thing is my favourite this year, by far, was Gjon's Tears, representing to Switzerland and my previous idea was to see him performing it live and seeing him winning. By then, I just had seen a video with a summary of all the classified songs and I couldn't find any that special like "Tout l'univers" was for me. But then, watching the final, I found some surprises, appart from Italy, that it was one, like Finland, Iceland, Malta or Russia. This last one, especially, for the same reasons you explained in the video. I loved the message, above all, although I also think the song was good, but I focused more in the message. By the way, I couldn't agree more with your take about Israel's participation this year. I found it really ironic that the title of the song was "Set Me Free".
Finally, it was a very special event, because it was, as you said, the first event of these features that could held and I was willing to come back to normal habits like this one, even though it's from home.
Thanks for the video. It's been interesting. Greetings from Spain.
Boiling my piss. I'll have to use that once in my lifetime
Finland has the most rock bands per capita.
2:04 and 2:10
Nowbody:
Absolutely nowbody:
Me: Hi Elena!! What's Gjon's looking :)))))?
maneskin they are amazing
I don't get what is the problem with Israel. Adena brought a nice pop song (politically unrelated) which was selected far before the rise of the issues with Palestine. I don't think it's fair to charge her with the political issues of her country, c'mon
You know what, even if they were doing drugs, so what? F it, legaliz3 them all!
Also, you earned a subscriber on shere fact you're from serbia (and making good content ofc)
Twitter is the worst place on the internet
The trouble with the UK entry is that our successful music artists don’t want to do Eurovision because politically we don’t get the votes so they don’t want the humiliation but Europe who doesn’t vote for us wants us to send our most successful music artists. Well Europe, you’ve kinda got to give us at least some support for us to take the competition seriously.
Honestly if a submission is just very solid and doesn’t put any geopolitical issues into the performance/lyrics no one will ultimately care where it is from. Look what happened with Russia this year, and the geopolitical relations between countries in Europe (well, pretty much any country lol) and Russia are a whole lot worse than what anyone thinks about the UK vs EU thing atm. It seems like Brit newspapers rly liked that narrative in the run-up to the final, but lots of people living in the EU, save for some bureaucrats, rly don’t have anything against the UK inherently to reconsider a vote on Eurovision lol. Take it from a russian-born dutchie
Why does Australia keep giving you zero then? Nothing to do with politics.
I give zero sh!ts about their controversy, it is unfair and undue, and I wouldn't think less of them even if it was true. I just feel like Italy's song was any and every overproduced rock song on North American radio in the early 2000's, and just as boring. I was all here for Ukraine, which was exactly the kind of strange and awesome I come to Eurovision for. Can someone explain it to me?
omg iz srbije si tako mi je drago da mi je ovo izaslo u recommended
Daa. Dobrodošla. 🥰
Maneskin are not glam rock. But I agree the Dutch broadcaster's song was boring. The Italian broadcaster hadn't won for a long time but they had also withdrawn from Eurovision for over a decade. I don't buy into the Maneskin hype, they can perform but they aren't as popular as the hype makes out. I'm more interested in musical merit than other kinds of messages.
No one of the Italian artists has said they are bisexual. And even if they were why all of a sudden would that bother? On other occasions singers who had this sexual orientation did not present any issue( see the Austrian drag with the beard , I guess it was Costanza) . Did the lockdown bring back 19th century puritans together with authoritarian regimes?
I think that I've read somewhere that Victoria from Maneskin is bi, while Damiano has stated somewhere that he is curious and Ethan enjoys free love (not sure if he meant something along the lines of polyamory or pansexuality), but they're pretty pro LGBTQ+ rights.
Unfortunately, there are some European countries where homophobia is still the norm before or after the pandemic. I guess Conchita just was too good not to win; but if you check the scores you'll see she didn't get many points from Balcan/former Soviet countries. Turkey cited her win as a reason they won't compete until LGBT musicians are banned from Eurovision (yeah, right... fuck off, Turkey). Finland 2013 had a great song and finished 24 and I think it was because the singer kissed a female dancer at the end of the song. Russia meanwhile banned any expressions of LGBT identity on tv.
@@sweetgirl070707 i am from turkey and i agree with you... i am sad that my country is like this :( goverment does this and this is like a joke to live here
Also just politics, everything happening here is so tiring. If someone called me to talk about Turkey and what is happenning(am i writing this word correctly) i would talk for hours
@@hayatzor6249 oh yeah Turkey ls fucked up. I saw people using #loveislove to tell Queers to kill themselves in Turkey (my bestie lives there)
Honestly I wasn't that shaken with the whole drug thing, I mean, come on, they have this punk rock hardcore image, you think their role models were clean when they were at their prime? Even if it actually turned out they did drugs, which was literally impossible, it shouldn't have been such an outrage.
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What has to do the fact that Palestinians sending thousands of rockets on us and we defending ourselves to Eurovision? Best Eurovision ever was in Israel and even that Hamas terrorists tried to hit it from Gaza . Leave music and sport out of politics. Especially those that have depth of knowledge in level of Instagram story
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Sorry for that, but as far I know Israel is in Asia, and has no surface in the european continent. So you whould go with AsiaVision, or try to create one. Why not?
@@loweel2897 Australia and Azerbaijan is also not in Europe. If you have a high enough watch rate of Eurovision in your country you can go to the Eurovision its that simple. Israel has been apart of Eurovision for almost 50 years there's no reason to stop now.
@@smilylaugh3725 Azerbaijan has a part of the land in the european continent.
About australia is in the context for reason nobody understands, but consider they cannot have a continental festival, just because they are the whole continent.they would win every year the australian festival.
And again, I can't see why an asian country where people went to run away from europe, now aims to be part of the festival.
@@loweel2897 Azerbaijan is considered a part of the greater middle east there's no other way to look at it, and you also cant expect for so many countries(in asia) to make their own Eurovision that's just naïve thinking... I'm sure you know Eurovision was made after the war to unite everyone but thankfully there is no war between all the countries of asia so... Both Australia Azerbaijan and Israel added a lot to Eurovision with their own flavour and culture so i don't see a reason to complain about them being there especially when one of the best Eurovision's was hosted in Tel Aviv israel.
Do not think you have a justification to judge Israel You do not live here and suffer from life Fear of terrorist attack You do not have post-trauma, sitting there in the comfort of your home Please do not judge without knowing the truth
Switzerland was horrible. France was the most horrible song I heard in the last 30 years
I think you might need to see an audiologist and get some hearing aids.
@@jenblack98 Their bias is unreal LMFAOOO
No, it's just not your taste and that's okay.
Aha I should introduce to some of the UK's previous efforts and Dustin the Turkey and plus to the Spanish one about doing the bum bum or Germany's entry this year.
I have my opinion and I am entitled to it. Maybe you have to chill dear everyone. We are not born with the same tastes, thank God!!