ESC 2018 General Discussion Thread

[lolita]

I am so disappointed in this year. Most of the hot faourites are not my up of tea and probably I will not be happy with a winner. My favourites are not widely loved, most of them are hated. People seem not to be keen on our song at all, mostly it does poorly in people's tops and reactions. It breaks my heart and makes me hate this season.

Coming back to hot favourites. What is special about or ? Those are poor copies of Salvador's styl for me. What is that great about ? It's a sleeping pill. Why people hate and love ? Although I hate 's entry, I understand why people love, opera is just not what I personally enjoy. 's song is nice, but I hate those chicken sounds and I don't want it to win, just because of selfish reasons: in Eurovision is still seen as it was in 2000s, you have to be kitchy. Then we have , which is a copy of hit song by Ed Sheeran, even the lyrics are the same which synonims. Overally, the text of the song is quite the same scheme.

From those hot favourites I would only be ok with winning, as this song grown on me or probably it would be only standable winner from favourites? I don't know.

I don't understand the hate to . If that song was sung by The Weeknd, people would love it so much, but it's from so it is reasanable enough to hate it. People also seem not to love , and that is something I can't understand. People complaing about his English, I want to hear them speaking English. won't win for sure too and it's the only favourite that I share with people.

, our song is what I thought would be perfect for Eurovison. I was so happy when Gromee annouced he applied for our NF and then won it. But of course Europe hates and like always underrates us. I know that acoustics in our NF was terrible, but c'mon - since when vocals matter in the ESC? Did anyone listen to 2010? or 2011? Even my dear Verka didn't have great vocals. But what people hate is like always. Again, if this song was composed by Avicii or Zedd, the comments would be different.

It's hard to be happy with Eurovision season this year for me and I want it to end already. Can't wait for December, so we have news about Eurovision 2019 + FiK.

If Weeknd or Justin Timberlake 've released Dance you off, it would be worldwide recognised hit and loved song. That says all, hate is stupid, unreal and annoying overall, I don't even care about it. And I don't know what are people from here even listening, opera, Bach, Mozart...?! Like we are living under rock...

 

[Alaska49]

literally all of your 33 posts so far have been defending sweden please get a new topic of conversation and let people have their own opinions

also daily the humans - goodbye unappreciation post

 

[Citelis]

Sweden is always a sure entry! A sure top 5 no need to worry!

 

[JonnyWest]

The constructions on Altice Arena have began, namely the main structure

 

[DanielLuis]

Can't wait til Ola Melzig starts updating his blog

 

[ESCREGION]

The constructions on Altice Arena have began, namely the main structure

I can't wait watch the progress of the construction!!!
Where did you found these photos??Is there any other blog like Ola Melzig's ?

 

[JonnyWest]

I can't wait watch the progress of the construction!!!
Where did you found these photos??Is there any other blog like Ola Melzig's ?

Here: http://www.escportugal.pt/2018/03/imagens-esc2018-comecaram-os-trabalhos.html?m=1

I don't know if they are the main source though

 

[lolita]

literally all of your 33 posts so far have been defending sweden please get a new topic of conversation and let people have their own opinions

also daily the humans - goodbye unappreciation post

Are you real?! Well...as you've said let us all have our own opinion, and that is mine. I have right to defend Sweden If I want, if I think it deserves it, and you are not allowed to tell me not to. For that this forum is, multiple conversation, sharing your taste and opinion with others. Back off me, really. If you have right to hate it without reason, I have right to defend it, so one that should find another theme and forum is you, because you can't stand opinion that is not same as yours, you sound bitter and pathetic...

 

[lolita]

Sweden is always a sure entry! A sure top 5 no need to worry!

You are always kind when you want to make me sure that Sweden will do well, just for me not to be sad if it flops. We will see, I am the only one that actually don't think Sweden will do always well just because they are Sweden( Anna Bergendahl anyone?, and I am trying to be objective when it is possible), and this year is very competitive, I could see it even out of top 10, for example on 12th-15th position, even though I like it. And it is interesing to see that most people put it either on their top 10 list either on bottom 10, so anything is possible. But I am looking forward to this year's competition, because everything is so unpredictable.

 

[Alaska49]

Are you real?! Well...as you've said let us all have our own opinion, and that is mine. I have right to defend Sweden If I want, if I think it deserves it, and you are not allowed to tell me not to. For that this forum is, multiple conversation, sharing your taste and opinion with others. Back off me, really. If you have right to hate it without reason, I have right to defend it, so one that should find another theme and forum is you, because you can't stand opinion that is not same as yours, you sound bitter and pathetic...

oh i am definitely allowed to tell you to get a new damn script. you are not obligated to actually do it but it doesn't mean i will stop saying it.

so, once again: stop being the sweden police. you literally pop up everywhere people don't like the song to passive aggressively tell them their opinion is not valid and it's annoying and stupid and not what "sharing your taste and opinion with others" is about. i don't even dislike dance you off, so it's not even about that. get a grip get a life and get over it.

 

[lolita]

oh i am definitely allowed to tell you to get a new damn script. you are not obligated to actually do it but it doesn't mean i will stop saying it.

so, once again: stop being the sweden police. you literally pop up everywhere people don't like the song to passive aggressively tell them their opinion is not valid and it's annoying and stupid and not what "sharing your taste and opinion with others" is about. i don't even dislike dance you off, so it's not even about that. get a grip get a life and get over it.

I have never said that other people's opinion is not valid. You misunderstood me completely, but do as you like, I don't understand why every my post bothers you so much, it is just a damn post. As for me being police, well, it could appear as so, but I wouldn't do it, if I haven't thought that hate is just over the top. I have read terrible posts about it, and I really felt sorry for them, I thought few nice words would be nice to hear, at least from one person. Even the worst song this year is not hated that much, but really, I've said what I thought, you don't need to feel offended, if you don't like me being the police, just skip my post.

 

[lolita]

oh i am definitely allowed to tell you to get a new damn script. you are not obligated to actually do it but it doesn't mean i will stop saying it.

so, once again: stop being the sweden police. you literally pop up everywhere people don't like the song to passive aggressively tell them their opinion is not valid and it's annoying and stupid and not what "sharing your taste and opinion with others" is about. i don't even dislike dance you off, so it's not even about that. get a grip get a life and get over it.

I have never said that other people's opinion is not valid. You misunderstood me completely, but do as you like, I don't understand why every my post bothers you so much, it is just a damn post. As for me being police, well, it could appear as so, but I wouldn't do it, if I haven't thought that hate is just over the top. I have read terrible posts about it, and I really felt sorry for them, I thought few nice words would be nice to hear, at least from one person. Even the worst song this year is not hated that much, but really, I've said what I thought, you don't need to feel offended, if you don't like me being the police, just skip my post.

 

[ESCREGION]

Ok...Stage design revealed!!!

 

[Realest]

 

[vikis]

Worst case scenario for us...

 

[Realest]

Runningorder becomes more and more predictable.
01 Azerbaijan
02 Iceland
19 Cyprus

Nearly everyone knew this.
Runningorder should be drawn again, although I still dont believe in a big influence since theres no evidence.

 

[revallsay]

This is terrible, I am even more devastated

 

[Realest]

This is terrible, I am even more devastated

You have Georgia and Malta around you. You can be happy.

 

[Kaz]

Really good for Netherlands and Australia, methinks. The first 7 songs are all rather weak, and there is definitely a niche market for The Netherlands. I also think that if someone hasn’t found a favourite in those first 8 (highly likely) they will then hear Australia, and like it (unbiased, but the song is reasonably okay and inoffensive).

 

[aef]

on 9 is such a bad joke!! on 10 might be fair because it's one of the favourites but why is always so late? SOOC I really hate the fact that is always being pushed so hard without any reasons!!

on 11 is also a huge injustice! Having and around might help though