"Last time, we shared our thoughts on the grand final of Eurovision 2024, after that we needed a week or two to decompress." Literally the realest sentence I've heard this entire Eurovision season
@@overthinkingit I’m currently sat on the tarmac at Gatwick Airport on a flight to Tallinn because they invited me to their album launch tomorrow night!
I'm gonna give you one final nugget of trivia! The BBC, the British broadcaster in Eurovision, also has a long-running soap opera set in London called EastEnders. Every single year they use the UK's upcoming Eurovision entry as background music during episodes of EastEnders. It's like subliminal messaging! And this year, Olly even made a cameo in an episode where all the characters wished him good luck. It was a little cringe and awkward if I'm honest 😂 I even heard Dizzy in an episode this week...
Your analysis of Zari was phenomenal. So many commentators dismissed the video and the song as being a "mess" or "chaotic", but you went to great lengths to contextualise it, explain its meaning, introduce the work of Satti, and tie it all together in an accessible manner. After first watching it, I genuinely wondered whether MA-RI-NA was running your channel behind the scenes 😜
Guys, you make Eurovision even more special than what it already is! Thank you from the bottom of my heart for the pure entertainment you've provided. See you in 2025. PS. As an Australian, yep, we're very proud of Bluey.
Appreciate the research into this channel. Normally would be very concerned about Americans lecturing me about Eurovision but everything is methotical and in depth and I can feel your appreciation for Eurovision so kudos and looking forward to more in 2025 ❤️❤️❤️
Not a novel, but Slavenka Drakulić’s Cafe Europa is a really intriguing read that won't necessarily teach you about Yugoslav history per se but instead will paint a really fascinating sociocultural picture of post-socialist Eastern Europe in general and will enrich your understanding of (almost) current sociopolitical dimensions of Europe from a Croatian perspective.
okay, so “almost current” is a bit of a stretch. it was written decades ago, but as an Eastern European, I still find this book incredibly relevant, especially in the way it discusses differing European mentalities
I wonder that the Analphabetic 14:30 usage was the same idea as Luna using the Rook and the whole chess analogy because despite it's being called Rook in english, it's called a variant of "Tower" in almost all of the participating eurovision countries Languages
Sorry I can't post the link in here. Its the live version he played in Canada. Its not officially out yet so I don't know if its on the studio version. If you check r/joost someone's videod it there.
In my eyes, everything is forgiven. You had soooo much data to go through, from countries that are totally different...and you truly did an amazing job! I was so happy and excited when I discovered this channel and I dare to say: primarily cause of your existence, I hope Eurovision will go on! Looking forward to seeing you next year! Sending you and everyone reading this lots of love from Croatia P.S. Congratulations on the new arrival! Hope she'll be born before September 23rd because she'll be a Virgo as myself (not that I give a sh*t about horoscope, but it's a...fun fact?! 😉)
Happy to have been a small part of the community helping out this year. Would've joined in last year but I only really got into using discord this year so, you know :) Good luck going forward and already looking forward to the podcast on Monday as well as any Eurovision madness that comes next.
Hey, thanks for the mention! Here's my recommendation for a summer reading about Yugoslavia.The two novels: "Fording the Stream of Consciousness" by Dubravka Ugrešić and "How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed" by Slavenka Drakulić. Bonus: This one isn't related to Yugoslavia, but it’s about the Baba Yaga myth (known as Babaroga or Baba Roga in the post-Yugoslav space): "Baba Yaga Laid an Egg" by Slavenka Drakulić.
I rarely comment, but I just wanted to say a huge thank you for all these video essays for me to obsess and fangirl over and use as source to bombard my friends with endless amounts of trivia. This Eurovision season has been so heartbreaking and I'm honestly so glad it's over. At this point, I'm not sure if I'll even watch next year's Eurovision. But what I do know is that I'll definitely watch your videos! And by the way, I'm really happy you corrected your mistakes in such a thorough way, in my opinion, that's one of the highest levels of credibility a source can have. I wish you so much luck with your personal goals this year, congratulations for the baby and good luck with the house! See you next year!
Discovering this channel has been one of the best things that came out of this year's Eurovision experience for me. So happy to have found you guys, and the fact that you're so open to learning and sharing about the amazing layers and complexity that is eurosvision-related-topics is *chefs kiss*. Thank you for a great season!
The way you pronounce Abba, falls down on that first syllable. That “ah” sound should not sound like the dental hygienist is working close to the back of your throat. The sound is closer to when you finally have a cool drink on a hot day (while reading that YA book on Eastern Europe). We won’t give up on you Matt.
Sorry. The above is more negative than I intended. It was just I really wanted to promote the video to all the ABBA fan outlets (as I love both), but I knew the first criticism would be the pronunciation of the band name. Interestingly, you get it more right when you say ABBAtar (as the word avatar has the correct vowel).
A huge thank you to the Overthinking It team from my wife and I here in Australia! We love your nuanced and hilarious videos. Eurovision wouldn't be as enjoyable without you guys. Take a break and all the best for the new year!
Matt & Matt & friends: THANK YOU for all the effort you’ve put into making these amazing videos. Eurovision 2024 was a hell of a ride. The best part: I found this channel. 👏🏻💙
Overthinking Eurovision has been a huge bright spot in this year’s Eurovision season for me. Thank you all so much for what you and your team do! Seriously, y’all make such good breakdowns of the songs that let me learn so much about this competition. Finding this channel last year was a hell of a lucky break, especially as an American who is getting in on this stuff late and with a language barrier in between
I totally disagree, it would also be spelled G:son, but the G has to stand for a name that you pronounce with "Dji". If for example Ludwig Göransson changed his last name to G:son, it would be pronounced like Matt B did.
Why would you even bother trying to teach the content creators how to pronounce Thomas G:son with a Swedish accent? I thought it was a bit of a know-it-all comment.
Why would you even bother trying to teach the content creators how to pronounce Thomas G:son with a Swedish accent? I thought it was a bit of a know-it-all comment.
Congrats on all the big upcoming life events and on another year of Overthinking Eurovision! 🎉 This series of RUclips videos adds such a rich layer of enjoyment to watching the contest for me, as an American, and I hope you keep making these videos for many more years to come. Thank you! ❤🎉
Thx so much guys! ❤ Second season with you guys and it’s been amazing! xxx Can’t wait for next year! My (I’m adopted) country will host - if the Eurovision takes place! Love from Switzerland.🇨🇭 And congratulations Matt + Kristina!❤️
The whole team, including the comments!, absolutely killed it this year. I look forward to your videos every year for valuable context and explanations, and I'll continue looking forward.
Honestly guys, I cannot thank you guys enough for these amazing videos. Sorry I haven't commented at all, but by god you have been hard at work with your research. And its fine if you are correcting your mistakes. The internet is not perfect, fake news and all that lol. Keep up the good work guys and see you all next year. Shame you'll be skipping JESC ;) Edit: Congrats on the child :D
Thanks to all of you researchers, background ppl and both Matts for your hard work this year, making this catastrophe of an ESC season much more bearable. Enjoy your well-deserved rest, see y'all next year!
At this point, I love you just enough to have tears in my eyes when Matt W (hey it's just like the Spice Girls) informed us they were having a baby! Congrats dude. And when I grow up I wanna be Matt B.
And with that, another season of Overthinking Eurovision comes to a close! Thank you so much to Matt, Matt, and all the team behind this fabulous channel, you bring such joy to so many nerds like me. Congratulations again, and look forward to seeing you all next year (in between all the fun life stuff) ❤️
Congratulations Matt R!! All the best for you and your wife with the new chapter! Thank you for the whole team! You guys really made it worth it for me this year. Here's to the future of the contest and for better times ahead!
Now knowing about Siberian Money Boss I feel like Nendest... is the equivalent of if Australia sent an entry themed around Democracy Manifest or the chk chk boom girl
Thank you guys for all that you do! As a video producer and Eurovision enthusiast, I am both so grateful and utterly impressed by the quality of the content you put out. Congrats on your new additions in the coming year and can't wait to see y'all again in 2025 ✨
Fantastic videos , great content, perfect delivery and numerous lol's from me.. 6 months effort maybe a strain on the family , but the most watchable channel I've seen on RUclips. Have been an avid fan of The Eurovision Song Contest(retro nod) since the early seventies, when life was in black and white and i was the village expert(nerd) for many years Thank you all for the effort and observations , roll on next year p.s. ( Joost was robbed and so were we with his absence from the final)
Awww... Congratulations on expecting your baby! This is great news! I'm gonna miss you 'till next time, but in the meantime, I only wish life for you guys and your families is amazing. Take care!
My family thoroughly enjoys your channel. I loved getting some background on both of you here. Congratulations on the Baby!!! Buying a house is easy and fun, lol.
Congratz on yet another WONDERFUL overthinking it SEASON!🥳🎉🎉🎉🎉 I'd ♥️ to join everywhere, discord, helping etc....but due to too much on my plate, I hardly comment...and I also think..."what can I possibly offer...🤔? Greetings to all from Arctic LoVe Islands, 🇳🇴 Especially best wishes and luck to baby and house buy❣️ Personally I 🤞🤞 and 🙏there'll be many #OverthinkingEuroVision seasons to come ❣️ 👋✨✨✨💫🌟
My favourite video this year was the Marina Satti video. I usually have this sort of video in the background while gaming, cooking or working. That video made me stop what I was doing and restart the video so I could give it my full undivided attention
Congrats on the kid matt Had a lovely eurovision season with yall (its almost embarrassing how often i rewatched you guys' videos on marina satti and joost/oli) See ya next year ❤
Hi Matt Belinkie, re a book about the war in the Balkans, I recommend Paper Planes by Allayne L. Webster. Yes, it is written for YA but honestly everyone should read it.
While i don't doubt it is a good book, probably note it down after writing this, Matt B asked about Yugoslavia from before the war & after the war... (sorry ;-) The country during Tito's reign, the 70s & 80s to be more precise. It is rather curious that westerners could holiday there together with people from eastern Europe. And the story about Tito's letter to Stalin is simply marvelous. 🙂
I really enjoyed reading The Bridge over the Drina. It has that sweep of centuries that really gets behind and under how the folks there have come to see and think about their neighbors. Written by Yugoslav Nobel Prize awarded writer, Ivo Andric, I feel that’s definitely an “@overthinkingit” type book at a slender 314pages in paperback. [if anyone from or living in the region has a better recommendation, please share]
This year you really surpass yourselves!! Thanks so much for all your hard work, making this year so interesting and emotional as always (beside the chaos). Good luck in your next personal journeys, and will be happy whenever you come back. 😀
I didn’t know you guys only posted during Eurovision ‘season’. I had unsubscribed and missed all your videos this year till the finals video popped up on my feed. I was so disappointed. Your videos helped this old American be really engaged in Eurovision last year. Although I watched other Eurovision channels, it wasn’t the same. See you next year. I’m definitely not unsubscribing again.
There's a cool book just out by an artist that is a regular at my island in Croatia, and it documents a family from 1945 to 2022. What's interesting is that there's characters from the British army, because my island was used by the brits as a strategic position, and now we play cricket as a result of that. I'll keep an eye if it gets translated.
Oh, I’m gonna miss you guys! Only discovered this channel after ESC 2024 was over but think I have watched most of your videos from this year and some from the years before. I really enjoy your content which speaks to me a lot because it’s a nice mix of well researched, well presented “journalistic documentary quality” content, goofy humor and compassion. Good luck with new house and new baby - meow from Denmark!
congrats on everything you accomplished this year!! eurovision stocks, as well as "video essay where guy explains things you never really learned about but still say 'huh that's kind of interesting'" stocks are always rising, so the channel can only go up from here :)
I know I'm late to the party, but I have to thank you for all your content in the last years! I'm hyped for every video you post AND combining Eurovision with Pokemon is the best to me. Two of my guilty pleasures combined, I'm living for it! ❤ all the best to you, greetings from Germany! 🤗
Ĵust a little thank you for all your hardwork from a Eurovision fan girlie, who happened to be a september Virgo :) So happy for you and congratulations ❤ ❤❤
Thanks for your videos guys 😇 This channel has grown on me this year after initial finding, and now I can't wait for your video publishings. Warm regards from Finland.
Thank you for all your work this year. It's been absolutely the weirdest Eurovision year of my dozen watching (in some often unfun ways) but your videos always brought me back to what a unique, meaningful thing Eurovision is. Congratulations on the fourthcoming baby and house! I hope everything goes wonderfully with both!
Thank you Overthinking Eurovision for another great year of research and entertainment! Your page is my favourite ESC related platform. Your videos are so educational and fun to watch and I really appreciate the amount of work you put into them. Can’t wait for next year, and congratulations Matt for the upcoming baby girl🎉 much love from Israel❤🇮🇱
I have greatly enjoyed a number of your episodes this year. I am Dutch and generally not that interested in Eurovision, but obviously Joost Klein happened and his work demanded my interest. I have work experience with child services in the Netherlands and I work with students now. What seems whacky at the service, gave me a gur feeling of brutally honest depiction of loss and stalled development. I had to do a lot of digging into older interviews, get into lyrics etc to gain useful context. It was hard for me, it must have been sooo hard for you, but you nailed it. It is always worth trying to interpret artistic work from that artist's context. I usually feel that way about the great classical composers, literary aurhors, etc etc etc, but you definitely opened my view for ESC acts as well. Thanks, and see you next time. In whichever form or frequency fits you, you owe us nothing. Your well being and your families come first.
Marko’s brother plays in Mono Inc., and they are quite big on the dark German scene (together with Lord of the Lost). Although you might have told this, not sure at this point. And I have no idea about Yugoslavia books, but when I’m in Croatia I drink their Vranac wine on a daily basis. Good luck finding that abroad!
"Last time, we shared our thoughts on the grand final of Eurovision 2024, after that we needed a week or two to decompress."
Literally the realest sentence I've heard this entire Eurovision season
One more time for all the good times.. but fr though im still on that brainrot
RIM TIM TAGI DIGI DIM TIM TIM!! 🎶🎶🎶
Honestly, good on them for recognizing the need for a mental break, _and taking it!_ It's a lot harder than you might anticipate. :)
..but his statement of Eurovision 2025 was soooo true🤩
Post Eurovision depression hits different this year
thanks guys for setting the standard once again (and congratulations on the upcoming new arrival!!!)
Hello Gabe. You've been the most helpful person during Eurovision season. Keep it up.
No one raised the bar as much as yourself, Gabe
Thanks for the kind words! Looking forward to catching up on your channel.
(starts to watch) Wait you met 5miinust and Puuluup??
@@overthinkingit I’m currently sat on the tarmac at Gatwick Airport on a flight to Tallinn because they invited me to their album launch tomorrow night!
I'm gonna give you one final nugget of trivia! The BBC, the British broadcaster in Eurovision, also has a long-running soap opera set in London called EastEnders. Every single year they use the UK's upcoming Eurovision entry as background music during episodes of EastEnders. It's like subliminal messaging! And this year, Olly even made a cameo in an episode where all the characters wished him good luck. It was a little cringe and awkward if I'm honest 😂 I even heard Dizzy in an episode this week...
This is honestly so cute and amazing at the same time haha
ruclips.net/video/3ZDajM50FqE/видео.html
The way Matt's eyes glossed over with emotion the MOMENT he mentioned his baby girl! So sweet 🥰 Best of luck with everything!
Your analysis of Zari was phenomenal. So many commentators dismissed the video and the song as being a "mess" or "chaotic", but you went to great lengths to contextualise it, explain its meaning, introduce the work of Satti, and tie it all together in an accessible manner. After first watching it, I genuinely wondered whether MA-RI-NA was running your channel behind the scenes 😜
Their video made me reconsider her music. After a few listens, I actually started to really like her stuff
I'd like to think that songs can be great and a bit chaotic at the same time - Nemo and Bambie demonstrated that quite well, no? :)
Meow from Croatia, glad to hear that at the end ❤
Guys, you make Eurovision even more special than what it already is! Thank you from the bottom of my heart for the pure entertainment you've provided. See you in 2025.
PS. As an Australian, yep, we're very proud of Bluey.
Oh my gosh congratulations Matt and Kristina!!! How exciting!!
I still remember the moment he didn't remember Freestyler
As an Australian (from Brisbane, where Bluey is set), yes, I am very proud of Bluey
Aussie AUSSIE AUSSIE! go the maroons
Appreciate the research into this channel. Normally would be very concerned about Americans lecturing me about Eurovision but everything is methotical and in depth and I can feel your appreciation for Eurovision so kudos and looking forward to more in 2025 ❤️❤️❤️
Not a novel, but Slavenka Drakulić’s Cafe Europa is a really intriguing read that won't necessarily teach you about Yugoslav history per se but instead will paint a really fascinating sociocultural picture of post-socialist Eastern Europe in general and will enrich your understanding of (almost) current sociopolitical dimensions of Europe from a Croatian perspective.
okay, so “almost current” is a bit of a stretch. it was written decades ago, but as an Eastern European, I still find this book incredibly relevant, especially in the way it discusses differing European mentalities
I wonder that the Analphabetic 14:30 usage was the same idea as Luna using the Rook and the whole chess analogy because despite it's being called Rook in english, it's called a variant of "Tower" in almost all of the participating eurovision countries Languages
"Illiterate" may sound as "uncultured", so makes sense to use "analphabetic" for some languages.
I have to ask, did you know in Joosts new song luchtballon your video about him was sampled at the end!!
Daym I didn’t realise till you mentioned it wow that’s incredible
I dont get it. Can you poit timecode
Sorry I can't post the link in here. Its the live version he played in Canada. Its not officially out yet so I don't know if its on the studio version. If you check r/joost someone's videod it there.
@@GoldBlackLotusboth bbno$ show and the freshtival before he left the Nederlands, the latter is all Dutch tho be warned
@@Хлебушек-ч2д if you look up "Freshtival 2024" filmed by hardstyleamersfoort, you can hear it vaguely around the end of the song at the 5: 30 mark :)
In my eyes, everything is forgiven. You had soooo much data to go through, from countries that are totally different...and you truly did an amazing job!
I was so happy and excited when I discovered this channel and I dare to say: primarily cause of your existence, I hope Eurovision will go on!
Looking forward to seeing you next year!
Sending you and everyone reading this lots of love from Croatia
P.S. Congratulations on the new arrival! Hope she'll be born before September 23rd because she'll be a Virgo as myself (not that I give a sh*t about horoscope, but it's a...fun fact?! 😉)
This is considerably the best account on RUclips. Thank you Matt, Matt and the whole team. Smashed it
Let's goooo, another new video about Eurovision! Boooo, having to wait till next year for more.
Meow back 😸... Truly appreciate the work you guys do as a fellow Eurofan from the U.S.
Overthinking it uploaded!!!!!
This year was so hectic. I hope for next year to be much better.
I mean, what can I say, Matt Wrather is just hypnotising
Congratulations on your impending child!! I hope the birth goes smoothly. Thank you both everyone for the AMAZING videos this year!
Happy to have been a small part of the community helping out this year. Would've joined in last year but I only really got into using discord this year so, you know :)
Good luck going forward and already looking forward to the podcast on Monday as well as any Eurovision madness that comes next.
Miau miau ❤ congratulations to you and your wife 🎉
Hey, thanks for the mention! Here's my recommendation for a summer reading about Yugoslavia.The two novels: "Fording the Stream of Consciousness" by Dubravka Ugrešić and "How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed" by Slavenka Drakulić. Bonus: This one isn't related to Yugoslavia, but it’s about the Baba Yaga myth (known as Babaroga or Baba Roga in the post-Yugoslav space): "Baba Yaga Laid an Egg" by Slavenka Drakulić.
loved overthinking eurovision 2024!
I rarely comment, but I just wanted to say a huge thank you for all these video essays for me to obsess and fangirl over and use as source to bombard my friends with endless amounts of trivia. This Eurovision season has been so heartbreaking and I'm honestly so glad it's over. At this point, I'm not sure if I'll even watch next year's Eurovision. But what I do know is that I'll definitely watch your videos! And by the way, I'm really happy you corrected your mistakes in such a thorough way, in my opinion, that's one of the highest levels of credibility a source can have. I wish you so much luck with your personal goals this year, congratulations for the baby and good luck with the house! See you next year!
Discovering this channel has been one of the best things that came out of this year's Eurovision experience for me. So happy to have found you guys, and the fact that you're so open to learning and sharing about the amazing layers and complexity that is eurosvision-related-topics is *chefs kiss*. Thank you for a great season!
congratulations matt and kristina! discovering this channel was one of the highlights of my eurovision year
Thank you Overthinking it.
Here's to next year! ❤
The comment I made on your kiss vs abba video is one of my most well liked comments on youtube!
Thanks for watching all the Pokemon stuff, I respect your Pokemon expertise.
The way you pronounce Abba, falls down on that first syllable. That “ah” sound should not sound like the dental hygienist is working close to the back of your throat. The sound is closer to when you finally have a cool drink on a hot day (while reading that YA book on Eastern Europe). We won’t give up on you Matt.
😂
Surprisingly, I actually thinks this helps.
@@overthinkingit you’re very welcome. 😊 I’m a language teacher, so I’m glad that helps.
Sorry. The above is more negative than I intended. It was just I really wanted to promote the video to all the ABBA fan outlets (as I love both), but I knew the first criticism would be the pronunciation of the band name. Interestingly, you get it more right when you say ABBAtar (as the word avatar has the correct vowel).
I noticed that there’s a painting in the back of Matt’s room with a portrait of Gjon’s tears and Monika Linkytė!
A huge thank you to the Overthinking It team from my wife and I here in Australia! We love your nuanced and hilarious videos. Eurovision wouldn't be as enjoyable without you guys. Take a break and all the best for the new year!
Matt & Matt & friends: THANK YOU for all the effort you’ve put into making these amazing videos. Eurovision 2024 was a hell of a ride. The best part: I found this channel. 👏🏻💙
Bravo to all of you our friends!!!!!! Thank you so much!!!!
PS Great news!! Happy for you, for the baby! May they be healthy and happy!!! Meow from Greece!!!
The egg in the Finnish esc entry is a reference to a Finnish video game
Congrats on your baby Matt ❤. And thank you peeps for your amazing videos 😊
Overthinking Eurovision has been a huge bright spot in this year’s Eurovision season for me. Thank you all so much for what you and your team do! Seriously, y’all make such good breakdowns of the songs that let me learn so much about this competition. Finding this channel last year was a hell of a lucky break, especially as an American who is getting in on this stuff late and with a language barrier in between
In Sweden, to pronounce Thomas G-son like you do, it would probably be spelled Thomas Dji-son
I totally disagree, it would also be spelled G:son, but the G has to stand for a name that you pronounce with "Dji". If for example Ludwig Göransson changed his last name to G:son, it would be pronounced like Matt B did.
And Ahbbah is the correct Swedish way to pronounce ABBA, not ÄBBA as they said in the video
Why would you even bother trying to teach the content creators how to pronounce Thomas G:son with a Swedish accent? I thought it was a bit of a know-it-all comment.
Why would you even bother trying to teach the content creators how to pronounce Thomas G:son with a Swedish accent? I thought it was a bit of a know-it-all comment.
@@Zakarias89 This channel is all about overcorrecting stuff though
Congrats on all the big upcoming life events and on another year of Overthinking Eurovision! 🎉 This series of RUclips videos adds such a rich layer of enjoyment to watching the contest for me, as an American, and I hope you keep making these videos for many more years to come. Thank you! ❤🎉
Thx so much guys! ❤ Second season with you guys and it’s been amazing! xxx Can’t wait for next year! My (I’m adopted) country will host - if the Eurovision takes place! Love from Switzerland.🇨🇭 And congratulations Matt + Kristina!❤️
The whole team, including the comments!, absolutely killed it this year. I look forward to your videos every year for valuable context and explanations, and I'll continue looking forward.
Honestly guys, I cannot thank you guys enough for these amazing videos. Sorry I haven't commented at all, but by god you have been hard at work with your research.
And its fine if you are correcting your mistakes. The internet is not perfect, fake news and all that lol.
Keep up the good work guys and see you all next year. Shame you'll be skipping JESC ;)
Edit: Congrats on the child :D
I subbed this year and I cant believe I didn't know about your channel before! Thanks so much, you two are legends 🙌
Thanks to all of you researchers, background ppl and both Matts for your hard work this year, making this catastrophe of an ESC season much more bearable.
Enjoy your well-deserved rest, see y'all next year!
Congratulations matt!!
At this point, I love you just enough to have tears in my eyes when Matt W (hey it's just like the Spice Girls) informed us they were having a baby! Congrats dude. And when I grow up I wanna be Matt B.
And with that, another season of Overthinking Eurovision comes to a close! Thank you so much to Matt, Matt, and all the team behind this fabulous channel, you bring such joy to so many nerds like me. Congratulations again, and look forward to seeing you all next year (in between all the fun life stuff) ❤️
Congratulations Matt R!! All the best for you and your wife with the new chapter!
Thank you for the whole team! You guys really made it worth it for me this year. Here's to the future of the contest and for better times ahead!
Now knowing about Siberian Money Boss I feel like Nendest... is the equivalent of if Australia sent an entry themed around Democracy Manifest or the chk chk boom girl
We (sure) know nothing about (this) succulent Chinese meal.
Thank you so much, it was wonderful seeing you this year again.
See you 2025
Thank you guys for all that you do! As a video producer and Eurovision enthusiast, I am both so grateful and utterly impressed by the quality of the content you put out. Congrats on your new additions in the coming year and can't wait to see y'all again in 2025 ✨
1:31 I'm that dude in Moldova🤣
Congratulations Matt W, good luck Matt B. Thanks for being awesome
Fantastic videos , great content, perfect delivery and numerous lol's from me.. 6 months effort maybe a strain on the family , but the most watchable channel I've seen on RUclips. Have been an avid fan of The Eurovision Song Contest(retro nod) since the early seventies, when life was in black and white and i was the village expert(nerd) for many years Thank you all for the effort and observations , roll on next year p.s. ( Joost was robbed and so were we with his absence from the final)
Meow meow yall and congratulations
Awww... Congratulations on expecting your baby! This is great news! I'm gonna miss you 'till next time, but in the meantime, I only wish life for you guys and your families is amazing. Take care!
Thank you for the kind words!
Congratulations!! 🎉 So happy for you!
That UK/Netherlands video was so incredible for real. Agree that it was a complete tour de force!
My family thoroughly enjoys your channel. I loved getting some background on both of you here. Congratulations on the Baby!!! Buying a house is easy and fun, lol.
Congratz on yet another WONDERFUL overthinking it SEASON!🥳🎉🎉🎉🎉
I'd ♥️ to join everywhere, discord, helping etc....but due to too much on my plate, I hardly comment...and I also think..."what can I possibly offer...🤔?
Greetings to all from Arctic LoVe Islands, 🇳🇴
Especially best wishes and luck to baby and house buy❣️
Personally I 🤞🤞 and 🙏there'll be many #OverthinkingEuroVision seasons to come ❣️
👋✨✨✨💫🌟
Very high-quality and research-oriented work, top-notch video editing. You have inspired me to start a channel as well.
You are in the new single of JOOST!! Luchtballon
thank you for this season guys!! no one does analysis and deep dives better than you
Thanks for everything, guys!
See you next year!!! 👋👋👋👋
Meow, thank you and congratulations!
Bravo, bravo, bravo!
Best of luck to all of you in all of the adventures this year, we'll be right here waiting ❤!
My favourite video this year was the Marina Satti video.
I usually have this sort of video in the background while gaming, cooking or working. That video made me stop what I was doing and restart the video so I could give it my full undivided attention
Thanks to the Overthinking team and the discord team for everything this year!
Congratulations on the upcoming birth of your daughter Matt!! Meow meow 😻
Congrats on the kid matt
Had a lovely eurovision season with yall (its almost embarrassing how often i rewatched you guys' videos on marina satti and joost/oli)
See ya next year ❤
Still on a high from the Joost video. Thank you guys for all the overthinking and the effort to package that overthinking!!
Hi Matt Belinkie, re a book about the war in the Balkans, I recommend Paper Planes by Allayne L. Webster. Yes, it is written for YA but honestly everyone should read it.
Thanks for the tip. YA is perfect for “lighter” summer reading.
While i don't doubt it is a good book, probably note it down after writing this, Matt B asked about Yugoslavia from before the war & after the war... (sorry ;-)
The country during Tito's reign, the 70s & 80s to be more precise.
It is rather curious that westerners could holiday there together with people from eastern Europe. And the story about Tito's letter to Stalin is simply marvelous. 🙂
I really enjoyed reading The Bridge over the Drina. It has that sweep of centuries that really gets behind and under how the folks there have come to see and think about their neighbors. Written by Yugoslav Nobel Prize awarded writer, Ivo Andric, I feel that’s definitely an “@overthinkingit” type book at a slender 314pages in paperback. [if anyone from or living in the region has a better recommendation, please share]
A Douglas Adams quote? As if I could love you more...
Best Eurovision videos hands down. Thanks for a wonderful season.
We’ll wait for you guys next year!
Thank you for providing some background audio for whenever I made ESC 24 fanart lol, gonna miss you guys
Congratulations, Matt!
This year you really surpass yourselves!!
Thanks so much for all your hard work, making this year so interesting and emotional as always (beside the chaos).
Good luck in your next personal journeys, and will be happy whenever you come back. 😀
Congratulations, M. and K.!
And thank you for sharing all your work and research with the world.
I didn’t know you guys only posted during Eurovision ‘season’. I had unsubscribed and missed all your videos this year till the finals video popped up on my feed. I was so disappointed. Your videos helped this old American be really engaged in Eurovision last year. Although I watched other Eurovision channels, it wasn’t the same. See you next year. I’m definitely not unsubscribing again.
18:56 (nendest) eurovisionkumidest ei tea me (küll) midagi?
There's a cool book just out by an artist that is a regular at my island in Croatia, and it documents a family from 1945 to 2022. What's interesting is that there's characters from the British army, because my island was used by the brits as a strategic position, and now we play cricket as a result of that. I'll keep an eye if it gets translated.
Oh, I’m gonna miss you guys! Only discovered this channel after ESC 2024 was over but think I have watched most of your videos from this year and some from the years before. I really enjoy your content which speaks to me a lot because it’s a nice mix of well researched, well presented “journalistic documentary quality” content, goofy humor and compassion. Good luck with new house and new baby - meow from Denmark!
Thank you for the amazing videos! Meow!! See you next year!
Thank you ❤ cant wait for next year
congrats on everything you accomplished this year!! eurovision stocks, as well as "video essay where guy explains things you never really learned about but still say 'huh that's kind of interesting'" stocks are always rising, so the channel can only go up from here :)
I know I'm late to the party, but I have to thank you for all your content in the last years! I'm hyped for every video you post AND combining Eurovision with Pokemon is the best to me. Two of my guilty pleasures combined, I'm living for it! ❤ all the best to you, greetings from Germany! 🤗
Ĵust a little thank you for all your hardwork from a Eurovision fan girlie, who happened to be a september Virgo :) So happy for you and congratulations ❤ ❤❤
I would spell that prononiciation 'J:son' //Swede who are so happy I found this channel.
Great job Mat, thank you for the fixed misstake video.
Thanks for your videos guys 😇 This channel has grown on me this year after initial finding, and now I can't wait for your video publishings. Warm regards from Finland.
"Meow cat, please meow back" really was a cultural reset wasn't it
My name is Alex I’m from the video were I solved the Rubik’s cube
Hi Alex, getting you from school soon. Excited for pizza tonight?
@@overthinkingit yeah
Thank you for all your work this year. It's been absolutely the weirdest Eurovision year of my dozen watching (in some often unfun ways) but your videos always brought me back to what a unique, meaningful thing Eurovision is.
Congratulations on the fourthcoming baby and house! I hope everything goes wonderfully with both!
Thank you Overthinking Eurovision for another great year of research and entertainment! Your page is my favourite ESC related platform. Your videos are so educational and fun to watch and I really appreciate the amount of work you put into them. Can’t wait for next year, and congratulations Matt for the upcoming baby girl🎉 much love from Israel❤🇮🇱
Congratulation to all of you and thank you for bringing me lots of eurovision knowledge every year, I really appreciate it
as an European , I totally agree:some things are more important than a job/ Eurovision footage❤
I have greatly enjoyed a number of your episodes this year. I am Dutch and generally not that interested in Eurovision, but obviously Joost Klein happened and his work demanded my interest. I have work experience with child services in the Netherlands and I work with students now. What seems whacky at the service, gave me a gur feeling of brutally honest depiction of loss and stalled development. I had to do a lot of digging into older interviews, get into lyrics etc to gain useful context. It was hard for me, it must have been sooo hard for you, but you nailed it. It is always worth trying to interpret artistic work from that artist's context. I usually feel that way about the great classical composers, literary aurhors, etc etc etc, but you definitely opened my view for ESC acts as well. Thanks, and see you next time. In whichever form or frequency fits you, you owe us nothing. Your well being and your families come first.
I love this channel so much. Thanks for all y'all do. Congrats on the baby and good luck on the house purchase!
Marko’s brother plays in Mono Inc., and they are quite big on the dark German scene (together with Lord of the Lost). Although you might have told this, not sure at this point.
And I have no idea about Yugoslavia books, but when I’m in Croatia I drink their Vranac wine on a daily basis. Good luck finding that abroad!