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Eurovision Song Contest 2022 discussion
With the semis behind us, we now have all the qualifiers for Saturday's grand final!
Who's your favourite? Most entertaining stage show? Overall thoughts on this year's crop of songs?
Which song do you think will win? And who (if any) will get the dreaded 0 points?
Who got robbed in the semis? Which songs should have rather won their national qualifications?
Overall, I'm pretty happy with the songs this year. There are some duds, sure, but also a lot of good ones.
I'm pretty sure Ukraine has this one in the bag. Not undeserved; their song is great, possibly my favourite. Though I think I'm rooting for the United Kingdom this year; I really like their song, and I think a win for them would be good for the competition.
I also really like Lithuania, and I loved Georgia, who sadly didn't make it to the grand final.
I'm of course biased, but I really enjoy my own country's stupid song, and was sad to hear their performance in the semi-final wasn't quite on point. (They performed a lot better in the national final, so I hope they bring their A-game on Saturday.)
Sad to say, I think Germany has a pretty good chance at scoring 0 points this year. Prove me wrong, please!
As a side note, I'm happy Overthinking Eurovision is back.
Well... I think it's safe to say our selection process for our contest entry is kinda fucked. One dud after another for the last decade. In 10 entries, 3 lasts and 3 second-to-lasts. Whatever our selection process is, it's great at selecting bad songs. Just spit balling here, but maybe if we do what our selection process tells us not to do, we'll end up at the top?
Your song was my favourite last year. But it did even worse than this year's song, so apparently I have bad taste.
Eurovision 2021 winners Måneskin: ‘Our lives have completely changed’
The Guardian – Angela Giuffrida – 14th May 2022
All other acts have a winning chance prediction of 1% or lower.
Source: Eurovision World
And the final scores!
Kalush Orchestra - Stefania - LIVE - Ukraine 🇺🇦 - Grand Final - Eurovision 2022
They just dropped an official music video, with English subtitles, which they filmed in various places around Ukraine. IMO it's well worth watching, since it's very well done, and adds so much more weight the to song.
Kalush Orchestra - Stefania (Official Video Eurovision 2022)
Ukrainians can feel Europe losing interest – Eurovision is our chance to rally support
The Guardian – Olena Topolia – 13th May 2022
Honourable mention to the song that became Serbia's highest point scorer in a final and name dropped Meghan Markle. In Corpore Sano is a tune! I woke up this morning, booted up iTunes and clicked 'purchase' without hesitation. The interesting backstory is a bonus.