we were NEVER outraged by Verka Serduchka's performance! She is our national treasure. Those who were, probably hate everything "different" anyway, we don't claim them
That sounds about right. Of course there is a bit of wiggle room if you absolutely have to have more time. The local commentators introduce the country to the TV-audience with the "post cards" and every once in a while the hosts will waffle on something on the stage to give them a few seconds more. Like they did this year while the cork shred was being cleaned after France's performance.
Don't care what any says, i love Eurovision. Always have and always will. I could watch a whole repeat of one every day. I mostly listen to rock and metal, but Eurovision is the greatest thing to ever exist!
06:09 Fun fact: the girl who sang the catchy chorus of 'Edgar' won the contest for Austria this year (2025)! She co-wrote the song 'Wasted Love' with JJ and her roommate, and the parallels to techno are particularly evident in this song, which has made her recognisable. She's a rising star in the songwriting scene and finally received well-deserved recognition after the year 2023. We're talking about Teya, who is pictured on the left with the dark hair. As an added bonus, back in 2023, she lip-synced 'Give me two years and your dinner will be free' during that performance! 🤣💁🏻♀️🔥
Honestly, this year's Eurovision was disappointing. Italy was my favorite, seconded by Austria (which was the first song to impress me), and then followed by Estonia and Sweden, but most songs were not Eurovision worthy in my opinion.
@@bogidream I think it's great that she's receiving more recognition. She deserves it! Her 15^(th) position in 2023 was likely due to the misfortune of being the opening act in the final. After two and a half hours, people may have forgotten about them. Getting just 16 points from the public was absurd, to say the least. The jury even awarded over 100 points. I think she wrote a song for Malta this year, too. However, the artist was unsuccessful in the national selection process, coming second. Consequently, a different entry was submitted. Who knows? Maybe she'll become a Eurovision legend one day. I was truly delighted for her when JJ took the prize. When Austria was announced as the winner, she sat beside him.
This year they actually showed a backstage segment (and we had ENORMOUS props this year) where you see the people at work and training. 30-35 seconds between the acts!
Montenegro returned in 2025. We were represented by Nina Žižić, the same singer who performed with Who See and that already mentioned song - Igranka. We are a small country and sometimes we can't set aside money for things like this. Teya, who is part of the duo that sings Who the hell is Edgar?, also participated in the creation of the song that won this year's Eurovision Song Contest.
@@peterhoz I’m lucky, you’re lucky. We’re all lucky! It was a bit of a crazy year though. The butter churning, the hamster wheel, the moustache. Then also the rising like a phoenix. Copenhagen had my favourite stage design. Definitely the favourite I’ve seen in person, even though the location was unusual. Edit to add: the Copenhagen venue was a converted aircraft hanger on an island. It was this cavernous space with very strange acoustics. We needed to take a boat back from the show (that year we went to the family final) and got utterly soaked. Was still fun. Damp, but fun.
Montenegro withdrew due to financial struggles. Some other countries have done the same in the last years. Anyway they did participate in 2025 (I mean Montenegro)
Yeah. Ukraine’s debt was forgiven for example, while Bosnia really would like to compete again for many years now but the EBU doesn’t forgive their debt. It’s nice that Ukraine is in, I am not complaining about that at all but I wish all Eastern, Southeastern or Balkan countries would be back.
27:33 All recorded singing, live or in the studio, has the artist getting their own vocals fed into their ears, either using on stage directional speakers or in-ear microphones. Otherwise a person can not tell when they’re going off key and will go off key.
just adding on to this, especially in larger performances, there are a lot of speakers on stage, and they don't all play the same thing (what the audience hears vs the monitors for the artists). So depending on where a singer/performer is, they might not be able to hear or react correctly based on the closest speaker or even how loud an audience is (off pitch, off beat, etc)
Eurovision is not about the performer. It is about the song, but the song includes the stage because the entire thing is the piece of art. The point being that it's about the art and not about the artist, at least not more than the art itself makes it about the artist.
9:40 they have like 40 seconds. A short video introducing the next artist is shown during the interval between performances. During these few seconds, the artist or artists take to the stage while the set is prepared. Weeks of rehearsal are devoted to ensuring that everything is completed on time. During this year's Eurovision, glimpses of the backstage team were shown. Their work is impressive. Some of the props are unbelievable. Each country is responsible for its own staging, which must be approved in advance. Staging contributes to the overall impression and is becoming increasingly important. Countries often hire experts for this purpose. This is partly because almost 30 countries perform one after the other. There are no ad breaks, and the performance lasts for two and a half hours. To win, you have to stand out in some way.
You can tell it is from WatchMojo UK specifically. UK is known in Eurovision for songs of the worst taste (boring), but some of the best producing. For Eurovision fans, most of these songs are not WTF songs, but Iceland's Congratulations from 2006 belongs on _any_ WTF songs list of Eurovision.
She is iconic, but i think Europe tends to try to forget her because they didn't understand the Satire :D I've actually grown to love the act more and more with the years :D I'm Icelandic though so I might be biased :D
Yeah I think only Russia, Belarus, Turkey and Morocco withdrew for other reasons then money, in case of Russia and Belarus they got kicked out of EBU and cannot enter anymore and Morocco entered only once in 1980 (only Arabic country to do so too even though most/all of them could)
Stefan Raabs "Wadde Hadde Dudde Da" would be in real German "Was hast du denn da?" He once said that he was in a park and heard how a lady talked to her dog in a high pitched baby voice. The dog had something in his mouth and she was like "Wadde Hadde Dudde Da" - "Whatcha got there?" but she said it in a cute playful way and he made the whole lyrics of the song like that. If you are a German speaker you can understand most of it.
Yes, the term "sea wolves" can be used as a synonym for pirates, especially in historical contexts or when referring to sailors involved in piracy. The Erie SeaWolves baseball team even incorporates this historical connection in their name.
The attempt by the WatchMojo commenter at irony (or sarcasm) about the "traditional greek kilt" only show ignorance, since the fustanella IS a traditional kilt in the Balkans. It's even part of the uniform of the greek presidential guard.
26:10 Your R sounds closer to a French one than a Spanish one. For a Spanish one, you don't wanna pronounce it at the back of the throat but with the tip of your tongue (lightly tapping the palate, just behind your front teeth)
"why would you need to hear your own vocals?" There is so much noise in the stadium and you need to be able to pitch yourself, I'm a trained opera singer and even then if I couldn't hear my own voice when I'm singing there is a good chance that I could be flat and have no idea about it I have only performed in theatre and concert halls and there would be a speaker on stage facing me playing my voice back to me. When you are performing in a massive stadium the noise is deafening and all professionals would have feedback in there earpiece and generally they will also have metronome and sometimes a pitch guide note to give them the note the song starts in. You may notice sometimes really talented singers will use the earpieces for the start of the song and then take it out part way through, they've been given their start note and cues and they usually just want to feel the song after.
Four acts that should be on this list that aren't: Israel 1987 - Shir Habatlanim, Estonia 2008 - Leto Svet, Bosnia & Herzegovina 2008 - Pokušaj, and Czechia 2009 - Aven Romale.
The grandmas were Buranovskiye Babushki, _Brangurtyś pesänajos_ in the Udmurt language. They were ethnic Udmurts, and the non-English lyrics of their song are in the Udmurt language.
The whole reason for monitors is so you can hear yourself over the crowd and the rest of the band. Guitarists will usually have bass and drums in there aswell, bassists and drummers hear eachother, although it is very much personal preference. Vocalists might have guitar and bass aswell as themselves.
I dont really watch it every year anymore but Eurovision is such a nostalgia tinted affair in my home. I used to watch it religiously with my parents, begging them to let me stay up for the voting. It was my favourite part tbh when they were calling all the capitals. This and everybody singing in their mother tongues. I miss that so much.
One of our most religious weeks for us homosexuals We are blessed for the event of EUROVISION… even if us Brits don’t do that well For there are evil people who say we should leave But they are not blessed by the gods of Eurovision
Eurovision is mainly oriented for TV watchers, so all stage prop change tooks around 1 minute, while on TV people see video about next artist. Check out videos abour backstage, it's really interesting how the crew works during the show, it's crazy how fast and acurate they have to be.
Stefan Raab had a weekly (later on daily) show on TV which was very popular and where he promoted his appearance at ESC, the chorus is actually pretty catchy (at some points I even knew all the lyrics ^^). In that same show 10 years later he had like a talent show going on "who goes to ESC", the winner from his contest, Lena Mayer-Landrut also won the ESC with the song Satellite (which I believe was composed by Julie Frost and John Gordon, who also wrote "Ein bißchen Frieden" - the ESC winner song from 1982)
Stefan Raab's other claim to fame is the invention of Wok Racing! Sliding down a bobsled/luge on an actual wok! Look it up! He also hosted after Lena won and is very talented on the drums as he showed in the opening.
You should have a look at one of the behind the scenes videos just to see how they change all the props in just 45 seconds! The TV viewers see a pre-recorded "postcard".
Give that wolf a banana is the story of Little Red Riding Hood, that's why its on about eating Grandma! Don't worry, I'm the only one in my family who realised that while watching the show! 🤣 Also I've seen other answers but its under a minute between acts, we see a quick 'postcard' which is usually the act going to tourist destinations in the host country or something similar and if there's a more difficult one the hosts might talk for a minute on the side of stage!
27:30 If you're asking that question you've definitely not sung much in your life ! Try singing with your ears covered, record and listen to yourself. You'll feel the pain in your bones LOL
My faves from Eurovision, in no particular order: - alvan & Ahez - Fulenn - Maneskin - zitti e buoni - go_a - SHUM - Mans Zelmerlow - Heroes - Konstrakta - In corpore sano - Pasha Parfeni - Soarele si luna - Let 3 - Mama šč!
Romania won't make a song or video about vampires, they hate it that their national hero Vlad Tepes was turned into one in the Bram Stoker novel. Even Christopher Lee said he received hate mail for his portraying of Dracula. Genesis is the name of the band Phil Collins was in; in the early 1970s, Peter Gabriel was in it, too. Their early albums like "Foxtrot" or "Nursery Cryme" (among others) are really great. The German band Dschinghis Khan was quite popular in the late 1970s, they had a few good songs.
There are about 40 seconds -1 minute whilst they show the introduction to the artist(s) and sometimes there are breaks where the hosts basically just stall
so its important to be able to hear your own vocals in order to tell whether you're pitching correctly, if you can't hear yourself you can't tell if you're sharp or flat so won't know if you need to adjust, it really throws you off
Wolves of the sea was later covered by pirate-metal band ALESTORM... and it is AMAZING! - That is the fun with Eurovision, even if the song is mediocre, if you clearly have fun and humor that people love, you are gold in the fans eyes anyway!
I once had a very weird delay in hearing my voice when I was given lagging Bluetooth in ear vocals. It was impossible to sing with such a weird delay echo.
19:55 - Yeh I was sitting here wondering why that one piece of music sounded so familiar! "Barbaras Rhabarberbar" is the one that made the rounds on TikTok and everyone doing the dances.
the best part is for him this is a constant wtf but for us who already lived them all this is a heart warmer and smile inducer, if not full laugh XD also memes, all the forever memes You gotta understand, we need some clowning between balads. thre are years where out of 26 countries 23 songs are ballads. that is hell. one year i had a headache from so many ballads. ok, not who the hell is edgar, i dont remember that...XDD
There's alot of songs missing that should be in that video. Check out Sylvia Night - Congratulations it was a satire through and through. She was a tv show character in Iceland, mocking the stereotypes of women and such. She was in character in all interviews leading up to the contest and Europe got so outraged because she was awful and insulting. But as an actress she did absolutely great, she's also a great singer when not in character :D She was so ahead of the times. There was also Goldenboy from Israel, singing how he's a golden boy and he wants to show us Tel Aviv. Honestly, lots of great performances. Páll Óskar from Iceland, Paul Oscar - Minn hinsti dans, so ahead of the times. Many performances i will never forget :D Yes i listed Icelandic ones because i am from Iceland, though i live in Denmark now.
N 28 wasnt the first one to make a show with a school det up.Celentano made it in Italy some thirty years ago with a song mocking the english lamguage and singers.The song was in a gibberish language and it was a hit in all of Europe.The name was "Prisencolinanciusol".You should react to it.
Also worthy of honourable mention - Norway 2005 WIG WAM - "In My Dreams", really catchy song in 80's hair-metal vibe, they were first to try to break this wall of boring and almost identical pop songs
The most incredible thing about singing dentist Serhat is that his #19 spot is still the best ever result for San Marino in the entire history of the contest. Even Flo Rida just couldn’t beat the dentist.
19:50 I was thinking the same thing! In some parts it sounds like that viral German song (and in other parts it sounds like that Italian song from the 60s or 70s where the singer sang in a fake language pretending it was English). lol
countries usually withdraw from eurovision because its pretty expensive to take part, thats also a big reason why countries send whacky artists because hosting is also very expensive
27:33 - "Why would you need to hear your own vocals?" Because with so much else going on, and so much extra sound (the audience cheering for example, and of course the actual music) it would become really hard to hear if you were both singing in the same key. Good singers can usually stay consistent just focusing on their own key but without hearing the others they can't harmonize and know if they sound good together. This is why many concerts will have speakers aimed up at the artists and musicians, so they can actually hear each other, but it can also be solved by them wearing earpieces.
Time between song is about 3 minutes on average. In those 3 minutes a "postcard" is shown. And once or twice during the semi-finals there is a longer pause where the presenters come in for a little talk to fill the time. A couple more times during the final. That's why the producer has a big say in the order the performances during the night. For performances that need more time to either set up or break down they can put in a longer pause.
27:30 Perhaps the best singers don't need to hear their own vocals, but the ok ones need to hear themselves to avoid singing out of tune. Specially in a loud setting such as the Eurovision stage. That's what happened to Jemini. I liked their song when it came out, but the studio version is much better. When we all watched that performance, we were like "what are they doing?". Because the song itself was pretty solid, for an Eurovision song of the early 2000s.
the russian grandmas actually sand in the udmurt language, which is a small language thats related to finnish, estonian and hungarian. the speakers of that language are located in russia. just a fun fact :)
Most often it is the state-owned television that covers the costs of having a contribution to Eurovision. For small, not so rich countries like Montenegro, it can be an expense that they cannot justify. That is also why there are rules for, for example, how many dancers are allowed on stage, so that the most money won does not finance an entire dance company.
I was hoping the 2019 perfomence by Australia showed up. They just put the Oprah singer on a stick and she was just swinging from side to side from it lol
My claim to fame is that I was in a community theatre production at the same time that Scooch (the innuendo filled British air-hostess themed one from the UK) was performing in our town for gay pride and our little community theatre show got a better turn out than they did :')
About rolling the R's. The best language trick I've ever gotten is that different languages are spoken in different parts of the mouth. American English is spoken very far back. Try speaking with the front of your mouth, so to speak. It will be much easier to trill your tongue against your teeth that way.
There are a few 'WTF' songs missing, some of them seriously great. I highly recommend to watch them, even if privately, or just generally the years 2020 - 2023 cause there were many great performers and WTF moments. For example: - Israel 2018, the winner song and the singer is literally doing chicken sounds on stage - Russia in 2020 (the Eurovision that didn't happen, and i think that song is still the most popular ESC song of all times on the Eurovision RUclips channel) - would have probably won at least public vote if the contest wasn't cancelled. - Russia 2021 - the last russian participation so far, and the female vocalist was one of the most public critics of Putin, specifically for all the mysoginistice and homophobic laws that were made in the country at that time. I personally like that one chorus vocal break when the whole stage turns blood red, that translates into 'Fighting, they are fighting. Everyone around is fighting instead of praying'. That song, as comical as it was on stage, was as open a critic against warmonging Putin as it was possible without ending up in prison or in a river. - Germany 2021 - the song was so-so, but the song chorus (i don't feel hate. I just feel sorry) together with the dancing victory sign finger that folded into a middle finger was a message, in contrast to the flat and happy sound. Also, it was the first time that 4 countries tied for 0 public votes and one of them was of course Germany, while the top 5 public votes were amazing performances. - Germany 2023 - in my opinion (and shared by most international ESC critics) that year Germany was robbed, it was an amazing performance by a goth-metalband considering they weren't allowed pyrotech, glitter rain and blood rain live. A rather negative WTF experience was Russia in 2014: Lovely song, performed by 2 teenage girls who have won several contests back home. They looked and performed flawlessly and their vocals were amazing. And they were literally boo-ed on stage during the final performance. Of course that was due to the Crimea situation that just happened at that time, but that was cruel for the girls. During the event you couldn't tell they noticed, but as soon as they arrived in Russia and cams were on them you could see them crying.
I voted for We Are The Winners back in 2006. The UK and Irish got the joke and gave them a huge amount of points. The other countries, not so much. Bonus content, if you search youtube for the slow version of that song you can watch them during rehearsal where they can't stop laughing at how ridiculous the song is. It's well worth a watch.
26:18 We pronounce the R with the tongue touching the inside frontal teeth. So if you want to improve the spanish R pronunciation, don´t pull the togue back, you need to touch the palate and the teeth. I hope this helps you ;)
My absolute Eurovision favourites are: Abba - Waterloo, 1974, and Nicole - Ein bißchen Frieden, 1982 Apart from a few other good songs, there has been a lot of rubbish over the years ;-)
as a european i disagree u know the begining of esc although excluding alot of european countrys wich is a whole other aspect weas much more focust on the songs it is called a song contest after all and just becouse it developed into this performance show doesnt mean it should be that way and i think even themesor /genre wich swaps every year should be introduced to have a more fair competiotion to find out whos has the best pop song the best roc song the ebst 90s synth/eurobeat/eurodance song and so on or about love or who got the best silly number and the best would be if the looser choses the next year topic (of couse with a topic bnlock of lets say 15 ywar so nothing repeats to much and the topics cant be to specific by wich i mean a song about love can be platonic or sexual or anything in between its abrought topic)
Rolling R is just air farting out between tongue and middle roof of mouth with tip of tongue near front teeth. Around here using throat for R sound is speaking disorder. I like epic violin guy with led plexi violin. He got overshadowed by sax.
I was wondering if 'we are the winners' would show up here, didn't expect them to be first tho.. big up lithuania, we're finally first in something!! xd
Through the entire vid kept wondering if we'd be here. Aaaand he placed us first.... XD Still stands as the highest place we've reached. _(2020 might've been different but...)_
When a country withdraws it's mostly because the EBU broadcaster of that country has no funds. But it could be something else too. For example Moldova decided to not participate this year because all of the send in songs this year were just that bad. Also that female singer of Igranka was the same one who sung for this year's song. Nina Žižić.
we were NEVER outraged by Verka Serduchka's performance! She is our national treasure. Those who were, probably hate everything "different" anyway, we don't claim them
I think only people who got angry were the Russians, rest were too busy laughing at (intentional) silliness to be offended.
Not offended, still bad though.
She is still a staple at Eurovision events. I love it when she turns up.
I still listen to dancing lasha tumbai on a regular basis
It's a she???? I always thought she was a man
There is about 45 seconds between each performance on eurovision for them to prepare the stage for the next act.Its like a military operation.
I saw an interview with the stage manager for this year and he said they had exactly 36 seconds to get the old stage dressing off and the new one up.
And it's full of gays, like a military operation. :P
That sounds about right. Of course there is a bit of wiggle room if you absolutely have to have more time. The local commentators introduce the country to the TV-audience with the "post cards" and every once in a while the hosts will waffle on something on the stage to give them a few seconds more. Like they did this year while the cork shred was being cleaned after France's performance.
There’s a total of 60 seconds between each act, so 36 seconds for stage set up is about right
My moment of fame - I was on the front row in Birmingham when Guildo Horn jumped off the stage, you see me waving my flag frantically!
I salute you. The cowbell reveal gets me everytime 😂
Don't care what any says, i love Eurovision. Always have and always will. I could watch a whole repeat of one every day. I mostly listen to rock and metal, but Eurovision is the greatest thing to ever exist!
It's OK Frank, let it all out...
😂@@stewartmackay
Nowadays IS just a political bullshit, no transparent results
06:09 Fun fact: the girl who sang the catchy chorus of 'Edgar' won the contest for Austria this year (2025)! She co-wrote the song 'Wasted Love' with JJ and her roommate, and the parallels to techno are particularly evident in this song, which has made her recognisable. She's a rising star in the songwriting scene and finally received well-deserved recognition after the year 2023. We're talking about Teya, who is pictured on the left with the dark hair.
As an added bonus, back in 2023, she lip-synced 'Give me two years and your dinner will be free' during that performance! 🤣💁🏻♀️🔥
And Teya is also behind a League of Legends song Bite Marks.
Honestly, this year's Eurovision was disappointing. Italy was my favorite, seconded by Austria (which was the first song to impress me), and then followed by Estonia and Sweden, but most songs were not Eurovision worthy in my opinion.
@@bogidream I think it's great that she's receiving more recognition. She deserves it! Her 15^(th) position in 2023 was likely due to the misfortune of being the opening act in the final. After two and a half hours, people may have forgotten about them. Getting just 16 points from the public was absurd, to say the least. The jury even awarded over 100 points. I think she wrote a song for Malta this year, too. However, the artist was unsuccessful in the national selection process, coming second. Consequently, a different entry was submitted. Who knows? Maybe she'll become a Eurovision legend one day. I was truly delighted for her when JJ took the prize. When Austria was announced as the winner, she sat beside him.
This year they actually showed a backstage segment (and we had ENORMOUS props this year) where you see the people at work and training. 30-35 seconds between the acts!
Montenegro returned in 2025. We were represented by Nina Žižić, the same singer who performed with Who See and that already mentioned song - Igranka. We are a small country and sometimes we can't set aside money for things like this.
Teya, who is part of the duo that sings Who the hell is Edgar?, also participated in the creation of the song that won this year's Eurovision Song Contest.
21:25 oh god, I still have mild trauma over this one. I was stood just in front of the butter churner and she kept looking in my direction.
LOL lucky you! 😂
@@peterhoz I’m lucky, you’re lucky. We’re all lucky!
It was a bit of a crazy year though. The butter churning, the hamster wheel, the moustache. Then also the rising like a phoenix. Copenhagen had my favourite stage design. Definitely the favourite I’ve seen in person, even though the location was unusual.
Edit to add: the Copenhagen venue was a converted aircraft hanger on an island. It was this cavernous space with very strange acoustics. We needed to take a boat back from the show (that year we went to the family final) and got utterly soaked. Was still fun. Damp, but fun.
Montenegro withdrew due to financial struggles. Some other countries have done the same in the last years. Anyway they did participate in 2025 (I mean Montenegro)
Yeah. Ukraine’s debt was forgiven for example, while Bosnia really would like to compete again for many years now but the EBU doesn’t forgive their debt. It’s nice that Ukraine is in, I am not complaining about that at all but I wish all Eastern, Southeastern or Balkan countries would be back.
@@MariaO22 agreed. I miss Moldova's meme entries
27:33 All recorded singing, live or in the studio, has the artist getting their own vocals fed into their ears, either using on stage directional speakers or in-ear microphones. Otherwise a person can not tell when they’re going off key and will go off key.
Unless they are crazy singers like, say, Lee Siyeon, who are above such mortal things lol. 😂
just adding on to this, especially in larger performances, there are a lot of speakers on stage, and they don't all play the same thing (what the audience hears vs the monitors for the artists). So depending on where a singer/performer is, they might not be able to hear or react correctly based on the closest speaker or even how loud an audience is (off pitch, off beat, etc)
Eurovision is not about the performer. It is about the song, but the song includes the stage because the entire thing is the piece of art. The point being that it's about the art and not about the artist, at least not more than the art itself makes it about the artist.
Greece doesn't have connections with kilts. The one making the video was being ironic. By the way, I don't think they were wearing a kilt but a skirt.
9:40 they have like 40 seconds. A short video introducing the next artist is shown during the interval between performances. During these few seconds, the artist or artists take to the stage while the set is prepared. Weeks of rehearsal are devoted to ensuring that everything is completed on time. During this year's Eurovision, glimpses of the backstage team were shown. Their work is impressive. Some of the props are unbelievable. Each country is responsible for its own staging, which must be approved in advance. Staging contributes to the overall impression and is becoming increasingly important. Countries often hire experts for this purpose. This is partly because almost 30 countries perform one after the other. There are no ad breaks, and the performance lasts for two and a half hours. To win, you have to stand out in some way.
The Greek kilt comment was sarcasm just to make sure you don't get the wrong idea Connor. XD
You can tell it is from WatchMojo UK specifically. UK is known in Eurovision for songs of the worst taste (boring), but some of the best producing. For Eurovision fans, most of these songs are not WTF songs, but Iceland's Congratulations from 2006 belongs on _any_ WTF songs list of Eurovision.
I totally agree, I was surprised it was not on the list as Silvia Night's performance is one of the funniest I have ever seen in Eurovision! 🤩
She is iconic, but i think Europe tends to try to forget her because they didn't understand the Satire :D I've actually grown to love the act more and more with the years :D I'm Icelandic though so I might be biased :D
Countries sometimes skip a Eurovision year because it costs them quite a bit of money, and sometimes the expense cannot be justified.
Yeah I think only Russia, Belarus, Turkey and Morocco withdrew for other reasons then money, in case of Russia and Belarus they got kicked out of EBU and cannot enter anymore and Morocco entered only once in 1980 (only Arabic country to do so too even though most/all of them could)
@@SampoPaalanenalso Lebanon, who tried to debut in 2005, but withdrew because of Israel
Stefan Raabs "Wadde Hadde Dudde Da" would be in real German "Was hast du denn da?" He once said that he was in a park and heard how a lady talked to her dog in a high pitched baby voice. The dog had something in his mouth and she was like "Wadde Hadde Dudde Da" - "Whatcha got there?" but she said it in a cute playful way and he made the whole lyrics of the song like that. If you are a German speaker you can understand most of it.
Yes, the term "sea wolves" can be used as a synonym for pirates, especially in historical contexts or when referring to sailors involved in piracy. The Erie SeaWolves baseball team even incorporates this historical connection in their name.
LORDI forever in my heart❤
Who the hell is edgar is SUCH a good song
Definitely. I would have voted for it if the Australian one (Promise by Voyager) wasn't so incredible.
The attempt by the WatchMojo commenter at irony (or sarcasm) about the "traditional greek kilt" only show ignorance, since the fustanella IS a traditional kilt in the Balkans. It's even part of the uniform of the greek presidential guard.
26:10 Your R sounds closer to a French one than a Spanish one. For a Spanish one, you don't wanna pronounce it at the back of the throat but with the tip of your tongue (lightly tapping the palate, just behind your front teeth)
"why would you need to hear your own vocals?" There is so much noise in the stadium and you need to be able to pitch yourself, I'm a trained opera singer and even then if I couldn't hear my own voice when I'm singing there is a good chance that I could be flat and have no idea about it I have only performed in theatre and concert halls and there would be a speaker on stage facing me playing my voice back to me. When you are performing in a massive stadium the noise is deafening and all professionals would have feedback in there earpiece and generally they will also have metronome and sometimes a pitch guide note to give them the note the song starts in. You may notice sometimes really talented singers will use the earpieces for the start of the song and then take it out part way through, they've been given their start note and cues and they usually just want to feel the song after.
A delegation can only submit a staging if it takes max 45 seconds to bring on and off stage. So less than a minute between acts, its a hustle!
Unless you're sweden lol
Four acts that should be on this list that aren't:
Israel 1987 - Shir Habatlanim,
Estonia 2008 - Leto Svet,
Bosnia & Herzegovina 2008 - Pokušaj, and
Czechia 2009 - Aven Romale.
Re the duet bloke, all vocals must be sung live, no pre-recorded vocals are permitted.
The grandmas were Buranovskiye Babushki, _Brangurtyś pesänajos_ in the Udmurt language. They were ethnic Udmurts, and the non-English lyrics of their song are in the Udmurt language.
The whole reason for monitors is so you can hear yourself over the crowd and the rest of the band. Guitarists will usually have bass and drums in there aswell, bassists and drummers hear eachother, although it is very much personal preference. Vocalists might have guitar and bass aswell as themselves.
Verka Serducha's performance is the best of eurovision and a blow to Russia
I dont really watch it every year anymore but Eurovision is such a nostalgia tinted affair in my home. I used to watch it religiously with my parents, begging them to let me stay up for the voting. It was my favourite part tbh when they were calling all the capitals. This and everybody singing in their mother tongues. I miss that so much.
this year there were quite a lot of songs in their native languages again, I guess that is returning again!
One of our most religious weeks for us homosexuals
We are blessed for the event of EUROVISION… even if us Brits don’t do that well
For there are evil people who say we should leave
But they are not blessed by the gods of Eurovision
N'importe quoi😂
21:58 my child's best friend is named Cezar. His parents are from Romania. He was named after this singer
Phil Collins's band is called Genesis 😊
Subwoolfer - Give That Wolf A Banana...was GREAT, and that is not because I'm Norwegian. It was just cool!! :)
Eurovision is mainly oriented for TV watchers, so all stage prop change tooks around 1 minute, while on TV people see video about next artist. Check out videos abour backstage, it's really interesting how the crew works during the show, it's crazy how fast and acurate they have to be.
Stefan Raab had a weekly (later on daily) show on TV which was very popular and where he promoted his appearance at ESC, the chorus is actually pretty catchy (at some points I even knew all the lyrics ^^). In that same show 10 years later he had like a talent show going on "who goes to ESC", the winner from his contest, Lena Mayer-Landrut also won the ESC with the song Satellite (which I believe was composed by Julie Frost and John Gordon, who also wrote "Ein bißchen Frieden" - the ESC winner song from 1982)
Stefan Raab's other claim to fame is the invention of Wok Racing! Sliding down a bobsled/luge on an actual wok! Look it up! He also hosted after Lena won and is very talented on the drums as he showed in the opening.
@@peterhoz Don't forget Autoball!
And performed in Stockholm in 2000 with wade hade dudeda
aaaand he also co-hosted ESC 2011 in Dusseldorf
@@Sisselynn True! I completely forgot about that!
as a reminder, currently a 50-70 point vote can still end up mid ranked, but the top 3 often end up in the mid to late 300's in terms of points.
I still love "who the he'll is Edgar?"
Thanks man, I asked you to react this! So cool.
You should have a look at one of the behind the scenes videos just to see how they change all the props in just 45 seconds! The TV viewers see a pre-recorded "postcard".
Give that wolf a banana is the story of Little Red Riding Hood, that's why its on about eating Grandma! Don't worry, I'm the only one in my family who realised that while watching the show! 🤣
Also I've seen other answers but its under a minute between acts, we see a quick 'postcard' which is usually the act going to tourist destinations in the host country or something similar and if there's a more difficult one the hosts might talk for a minute on the side of stage!
27:30 If you're asking that question you've definitely not sung much in your life ! Try singing with your ears covered, record and listen to yourself. You'll feel the pain in your bones LOL
My faves from Eurovision, in no particular order:
- alvan & Ahez - Fulenn
- Maneskin - zitti e buoni
- go_a - SHUM
- Mans Zelmerlow - Heroes
- Konstrakta - In corpore sano
- Pasha Parfeni - Soarele si luna
- Let 3 - Mama šč!
Romania won't make a song or video about vampires, they hate it that their national hero Vlad Tepes was turned into one in the Bram Stoker novel. Even Christopher Lee said he received hate mail for his portraying of Dracula. Genesis is the name of the band Phil Collins was in; in the early 1970s, Peter Gabriel was in it, too. Their early albums like "Foxtrot" or "Nursery Cryme" (among others) are really great. The German band Dschinghis Khan was quite popular in the late 1970s, they had a few good songs.
But what about their 2013 entry😅
There are about 40 seconds -1 minute whilst they show the introduction to the artist(s) and sometimes there are breaks where the hosts basically just stall
so its important to be able to hear your own vocals in order to tell whether you're pitching correctly, if you can't hear yourself you can't tell if you're sharp or flat so won't know if you need to adjust, it really throws you off
it's why artists wear in ear monitors!
This list is definitely missing this year's Espresso Macchiato by Tommy Cash. When I first saw it, I couldn't stop laughing.
Wolves of the sea was later covered by pirate-metal band ALESTORM... and it is AMAZING! - That is the fun with Eurovision, even if the song is mediocre, if you clearly have fun and humor that people love, you are gold in the fans eyes anyway!
I once had a very weird delay in hearing my voice when I was given lagging Bluetooth in ear vocals. It was impossible to sing with such a weird delay echo.
19:55 - Yeh I was sitting here wondering why that one piece of music sounded so familiar!
"Barbaras Rhabarberbar" is the one that made the rounds on TikTok and everyone doing the dances.
Ignoring the bollocks below, you missed the Eurovision watch along in discord this year. It was about a week ago.
the best part is for him this is a constant wtf but for us who already lived them all this is a heart warmer and smile inducer, if not full laugh XD also memes, all the forever memes
You gotta understand, we need some clowning between balads. thre are years where out of 26 countries 23 songs are ballads. that is hell. one year i had a headache from so many ballads.
ok, not who the hell is edgar, i dont remember that...XDD
There's alot of songs missing that should be in that video. Check out Sylvia Night - Congratulations it was a satire through and through. She was a tv show character in Iceland, mocking the stereotypes of women and such. She was in character in all interviews leading up to the contest and Europe got so outraged because she was awful and insulting. But as an actress she did absolutely great, she's also a great singer when not in character :D She was so ahead of the times. There was also Goldenboy from Israel, singing how he's a golden boy and he wants to show us Tel Aviv. Honestly, lots of great performances. Páll Óskar from Iceland, Paul Oscar - Minn hinsti dans, so ahead of the times. Many performances i will never forget :D Yes i listed Icelandic ones because i am from Iceland, though i live in Denmark now.
N 28 wasnt the first one to make a show with a school det up.Celentano made it in Italy some thirty years ago with a song mocking the english lamguage and singers.The song was in a gibberish language and it was a hit in all of Europe.The name was "Prisencolinanciusol".You should react to it.
Also worthy of honourable mention - Norway 2005 WIG WAM - "In My Dreams", really catchy song in 80's hair-metal vibe, they were first to try to break this wall of boring and almost identical pop songs
Dadi Freir did an amazing cover of that song in one of his Eurodadi sessions.
And my all time favorite, 1979 Dschingis khaan. Even popular in Mongolia, there are even an Mongolian version of it here on youtube
@9:42 seconds
Maybe up to one minute maximum, depending on the props on the stage the previous and the next act have for their presentation
The most incredible thing about singing dentist Serhat is that his #19 spot is still the best ever result for San Marino in the entire history of the contest. Even Flo Rida just couldn’t beat the dentist.
19:50 I was thinking the same thing! In some parts it sounds like that viral German song (and in other parts it sounds like that Italian song from the 60s or 70s where the singer sang in a fake language pretending it was English). lol
countries usually withdraw from eurovision because its pretty expensive to take part, thats also a big reason why countries send whacky artists because hosting is also very expensive
27:33 - "Why would you need to hear your own vocals?"
Because with so much else going on, and so much extra sound (the audience cheering for example, and of course the actual music) it would become really hard to hear if you were both singing in the same key. Good singers can usually stay consistent just focusing on their own key but without hearing the others they can't harmonize and know if they sound good together.
This is why many concerts will have speakers aimed up at the artists and musicians, so they can actually hear each other, but it can also be solved by them wearing earpieces.
there is just 1 minute between the acts everything changes in just 50 sec
Time between song is about 3 minutes on average. In those 3 minutes a "postcard" is shown. And once or twice during the semi-finals there is a longer pause where the presenters come in for a little talk to fill the time. A couple more times during the final. That's why the producer has a big say in the order the performances during the night. For performances that need more time to either set up or break down they can put in a longer pause.
27:30 Perhaps the best singers don't need to hear their own vocals, but the ok ones need to hear themselves to avoid singing out of tune. Specially in a loud setting such as the Eurovision stage. That's what happened to Jemini. I liked their song when it came out, but the studio version is much better. When we all watched that performance, we were like "what are they doing?". Because the song itself was pretty solid, for an Eurovision song of the early 2000s.
Number 19 Mama sc! Is such an interesting entry. I would recommend looking into the lyrics and meaning.
One usually withdraws because your public broadcaster has no money anymore to pay the fee to participate.
I hate mojo, they talk more than you getting to hear/see what the video is about.
the russian grandmas actually sand in the udmurt language, which is a small language thats related to finnish, estonian and hungarian. the speakers of that language are located in russia. just a fun fact :)
Most often it is the state-owned television that covers the costs of having a contribution to Eurovision. For small, not so rich countries like Montenegro, it can be an expense that they cannot justify.
That is also why there are rules for, for example, how many dancers are allowed on stage, so that the most money won does not finance an entire dance company.
Me hearing that 14:12 and thinkin "Oh you will be hearing some Cezar soon for sure" :D
In my opinion there were some acts missing on this list, namely: Konstrakta - In corpore sano and citi zeni - eat your salad. 😄
True, 'Wadde Hadde Dudde Da ' kind of sounds like "Barbaras Rhabarberbar" to a foreigner 😄
I was hoping the 2019 perfomence by Australia showed up. They just put the Oprah singer on a stick and she was just swinging from side to side from it lol
big fan of some of these songs
Buranovskiye Babushki are not Russians, they are Udmurts, and the song is in the Udmurt/English languages
My claim to fame is that I was in a community theatre production at the same time that Scooch (the innuendo filled British air-hostess themed one from the UK) was performing in our town for gay pride and our little community theatre show got a better turn out than they did :')
About rolling the R's. The best language trick I've ever gotten is that different languages are spoken in different parts of the mouth. American English is spoken very far back. Try speaking with the front of your mouth, so to speak. It will be much easier to trill your tongue against your teeth that way.
There are a few 'WTF' songs missing, some of them seriously great. I highly recommend to watch them, even if privately, or just generally the years 2020 - 2023 cause there were many great performers and WTF moments.
For example:
- Israel 2018, the winner song and the singer is literally doing chicken sounds on stage
- Russia in 2020 (the Eurovision that didn't happen, and i think that song is still the most popular ESC song of all times on the Eurovision RUclips channel) - would have probably won at least public vote if the contest wasn't cancelled.
- Russia 2021 - the last russian participation so far, and the female vocalist was one of the most public critics of Putin, specifically for all the mysoginistice and homophobic laws that were made in the country at that time. I personally like that one chorus vocal break when the whole stage turns blood red, that translates into 'Fighting, they are fighting. Everyone around is fighting instead of praying'. That song, as comical as it was on stage, was as open a critic against warmonging Putin as it was possible without ending up in prison or in a river.
- Germany 2021 - the song was so-so, but the song chorus (i don't feel hate. I just feel sorry) together with the dancing victory sign finger that folded into a middle finger was a message, in contrast to the flat and happy sound. Also, it was the first time that 4 countries tied for 0 public votes and one of them was of course Germany, while the top 5 public votes were amazing performances.
- Germany 2023 - in my opinion (and shared by most international ESC critics) that year Germany was robbed, it was an amazing performance by a goth-metalband considering they weren't allowed pyrotech, glitter rain and blood rain live.
A rather negative WTF experience was Russia in 2014: Lovely song, performed by 2 teenage girls who have won several contests back home. They looked and performed flawlessly and their vocals were amazing. And they were literally boo-ed on stage during the final performance. Of course that was due to the Crimea situation that just happened at that time, but that was cruel for the girls. During the event you couldn't tell they noticed, but as soon as they arrived in Russia and cams were on them you could see them crying.
“Crimea situation” 🤡
I voted for We Are The Winners back in 2006. The UK and Irish got the joke and gave them a huge amount of points. The other countries, not so much.
Bonus content, if you search youtube for the slow version of that song you can watch them during rehearsal where they can't stop laughing at how ridiculous the song is. It's well worth a watch.
26:18 We pronounce the R with the tongue touching the inside frontal teeth. So if you want to improve the spanish R pronunciation, don´t pull the togue back, you need to touch the palate and the teeth. I hope this helps you ;)
where is leto svet?
It's not lasha tumbai,well if you listen the song, russia goodbye
The Phil Collins group is Genesis not Gemini 😊
My absolute Eurovision favourites are:
Abba - Waterloo, 1974, and Nicole - Ein bißchen Frieden, 1982
Apart from a few other good songs, there has been a lot of rubbish over the years ;-)
as a european i disagree u know the begining of esc although excluding alot of european countrys wich is a whole other aspect weas much more focust on the songs
it is called a song contest after all
and just becouse it developed into this performance show doesnt mean it should be that way
and i think even themesor /genre wich swaps every year should be introduced to have a more fair competiotion to find out whos has the best pop song the best roc song the ebst 90s synth/eurobeat/eurodance song
and so on or about love or who got the best silly number
and the best would be if the looser choses the next year topic
(of couse with a topic bnlock of lets say 15 ywar so nothing repeats to much and the topics cant be to specific by wich i mean a song about love can be platonic or sexual or anything in between its abrought topic)
Lithuania mentioned 🎉🎉🎉
23:22 it is actually a trojan donkey LUL
You're thinking of RhabarberBarbara
Ba el cheeky actually is "Baila el Chiki chiki" hahahahaha
75 cents also oldest competitor. At least was on that time.
Uncomfortable performance aside, my slowianie is such a bop
There are always WTF entries. Mostly when you really don’t want to win.
20:05 Barbara's Rabarberkuchen?
If you win the competition it costs about $100m to host the show the following year. You win, and you lose, so not every country is playing to win ;)
How much time betwen acts ?
I think it is only 35s. Just time enough to play a 'postcard' plug for the host country, featuring the coming act.
hold the fucking phone, that wolves of the sea song, didnt the metalband Alestorm do a version of it?!
Rolling R is just air farting out between tongue and middle roof of mouth with tip of tongue near front teeth. Around here using throat for R sound is speaking disorder.
I like epic violin guy with led plexi violin. He got overshadowed by sax.
So happy to see Guildo on that list! He kinda ignited the trash sector at Eurovision! It was a big break back then. Legend!
Anyone whose favourite act in ESC isn't Verka, doesn't deserve the ESC. 😂
I was wondering if 'we are the winners' would show up here, didn't expect them to be first tho.. big up lithuania, we're finally first in something!! xd
Through the entire vid kept wondering if we'd be here. Aaaand he placed us first.... XD
Still stands as the highest place we've reached. _(2020 might've been different but...)_
When a country withdraws it's mostly because the EBU broadcaster of that country has no funds. But it could be something else too. For example Moldova decided to not participate this year because all of the send in songs this year were just that bad. Also that female singer of Igranka was the same one who sung for this year's song. Nina Žižić.