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[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 39 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (18 children)

This is an excellent time to mention my best friend The Eurovision Song Contest! It's the longest running international music contest show and it gets hundreds of millions of views.

Here's last year's crop of music videos. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmWYEDTNOGULUJYEhh-EUa32rEcHuNXO7

Croatia's Rim Tim Tagi Dim is a real banger. It's about the stress of moving to a richer country or city for work and losing your culture.

Italy's La Noia is amazing. Angelina Mango's live performances are stellar, and if she's not huge internationally in a few years I'll be super disappointed. Her new song (not part of the contest) Melodrama is exceptional too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqF0MSpPcj8

Switzerland sent Nemo, who became the first non-binary person to win the contest. It was said that if he could nail the vocals from the video in the live performance, there would be no stopping them. And they did! Amazing work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO8cQpGNplc

I have so many recommendations, if anyone wants more!

[–] Muaddib@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Eurovision got in trouble last year for allowing Israel to join. Israel is in the middle east of Asia, not in Europe. The only thing European about Israel is that white people are committing a genocide to steal land.

[–] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Well, Australia is also in the Eurovision.

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

They spent years broadcasting the contest without a license and people loved it so much the state broadcaster even held voting just for fun. They only got an official broadcaster booth in 2012; before that they snuck their commentators in on press credentials!

In 2013 they submitted a short video about how much Australia loves eurovision that was played during the contest.

In 2014 they were invited to send an interval act, and they knew they had to really do it if it would get them an invite to the actual contest! They sent a good song and were invited to the 2015 contest! It was supposed to be a one off, but they keep getting invited.

Yeah, I love that story. To me, that's what Eurovision is about.

[–] Muaddib@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

White people committing genocide to steal land. Checks out. That's the criteria for entry.

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