ESC United - Rehearsal and Live Show discussion megathread

[Sean]

It's time for the rehearsals to finally get underway for Eurovision 2024 at Malmö Arena! 37 countries will begin their preparations for this year's contest today, with over two weeks of coverage to come from the ESC United team on the ground!

The schedule for rehearsals is below (thank you Eurovisionworld! All times in CEST);

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You can check out Matt's pre-rehearsal live stream below in case you missed it;

DAY ONE

Eurovision 2024 Rehearsals - Day 1 Round-Up Live Stream

Join Matt and his team as they discuss the rehearsals of the day and answer your questions. The first dress rehearsal is closed to the press so we'll be here...

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Please also use this thread for any rehearsal coverage and discussion, including for jury shows, dress rehearsals and the live shows!​

 

[GermanBango]

Semi 2 is a mess

 

[NikolaiMoller]

Semi 2 is so good

 

[hpp0]

So, now that all clips are out:

Looks good, but I think it will be forgotten. It wouldn't be impossible to be a surprise Q tho. (9-12)

From all the semi performances, this is the only one that I genuinely dislike. It will have votes from Greece, Italy and maybe Switzerland, so on diaspora alone it might make it? (9-12)

I don't really get why such fuss about this being bad. The slow part looks great imo, although the TA-TA part maybe would benefit from changing camera angles. It's a good performance overall and I think it has potential to be great during the live show. (2-4)

Again, I don't get the negative reactions to this. The outfit isn't that bad imo and the rest looks fantastic. I think they are heading for a 2021 finish, but if the numbers in the final align, they could actually take it. (2-4)

It is alright as a performance, but the camera angles aren't the best they could. It's a decent effort but I don't think it will make it. (13-16)

I really like the chorus, but there is something off with the previous part. I think it's decent and enjoyable enough to make it though. (7-8)

Looks alright, but it's quite plain and forgettable. (13-16)

Seems like a fun performance and will definitely do well, but I don't think it will be massively popular. (5-6)

Looks good, but I think it's chanceless. (13-16)

Imo their clip looked great. I don't think Q is completely out of question but I don't really see it. (13-16)

Still not 100% about this Qing, but it seems like a great performance and should be enough. (9-12)

I don't think the staging per se is bad, but the performance feels kinda meh. I could be a "shock" NQ, but the song is good enough to push this through. (9-12)

Kinda same as Armenia tbh, just with less allies. (7-8)

Good performance, but I can't help but think of Russia's 2013-2015 performances. Will make it easily to the final but I'm not sure about how much support this will actually have. (5-6)

Professional performance and stands out a lot in the recap. (2-4)

I don't like making very bold predictions, but it's almost impossible for this not to win the semi. Not sure how it will do in the final tho; top 5 in televoting and overall top 10 most definitely, but I don't think it's winning televoting. (1)

 

[empo21]

Georgia is so qualifying now cmon now
Fire after the first chorus? Oh Nutsa brought the $$$

After seeing the footage, I think Greece and Netherlands won't do as good as people predict.

 

[NikolaiMoller]

I can see Nutsa doing a Noa Kirel and end up top 5 tbh

 

[crashworld]

So the rest of the SF2 is now out, San Marino's clip intrigued me the most. Looks interesting with the effects and camera angles.
Georgia snapped too, but it's really too Noa Kirel with that. But not that it will hurt. Definitely looks the best staging out of the girlie pops of this SF.
I feel like we are not getting much from Israel's clip, believe the better parts are not shown but Eden sounds wonderful.

The rest are more or less within my expectations.

 

[MopManMoss]

Where is Lynda Woodruff? She's my favourite part of Swedish Eurovisions

 

[nofuxCZ]

Where is Lynda Woodruff? She's my favourite part of Swedish Eurovisions

Eurovision Song Contest on Instagram: "A message from EBU Spokesperson Lynda Woodruff #Eurovision2024"

18K likes, 492 comments - eurovision on May 1, 2024: "A message from EBU Spokesperson Lynda Woodruff #Eurovision2024".

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[Looren]

: looks very good but still NQ
: this outfit ??
: looks good but where's the energy ? I'm hoping she's saving it for the show
: doesn't look bad per se but it doesn't fit the song imo
: girl improved vocally, still dodgy but not a disaster like in NF, staging looks good
: idk, I'm just underwhelmed
: lovely, I hope she can manage to make it to the final even though I have some doubts
: looks really good, lot of fun
: ???? tf is that huge ring
: looks good but yeah NQ
: is fire ! If she doesn't Q I riot
: not great vocally but acceptable, the staging tho is tame and doesn't give the big impact that moment should have
: ?????
: simply great
: I like this snippet, the little party they showed us looked kinda fun, his voice shaking in the final part got me emoshen

 

[yuki_vamp.esc]

This is my first year, even after the pre-parties and rehearsals, that me can't decide this is my winner.

 

[crashworld]

The Big 5 + Sweden

I think this is the first time all auto-qualifiers brought really good or at least somewhat interesting stagings?
Love Italy's one, Angelina oozes with so much confidence.
Sweden's one is good as usual.
UK's one is supposed to be good, but that camera angles are just dizzy (pun intended) and the tongues and such. They need holy water.
Germany's one looks competent enough and Isaak's vocals are coming through like nobody's business.
Spain's one is definitely a more ESC version of what they have in the NF, so it's still looking good with the backdrops.
France's part where he is screaming into the mic looks a little pretentious for my liking.

 

[crashworld]

And of course, all 37 clips in one viewing.

 

[Lumina]

After watching this round-up of all 37 contestants I have to say that only a few really stood out and remained in my memory.

France, Croatia, Switzerland, Ukraine, Israel, Norway, Armenia and the Netherlands.

None of the rest, neither AQ nor the rest of the fan favourites, made such an impact I found them particularly entertaining or got winner vibes.

In terms of worst rehearsals: Poland (very stiff and really bad live voice) and Sweden/Lithuania (I couldn’t even watch them until the end - my eyes really hurt so much!)

 

[hpp0]

For all the hype and talk this got, I expected more from a technical standpoint but maybe when I see the whole thing, I'll be more impressed. And yeah, the performance itself is a little too much imo. I think it will do better with the juries than with the public and finish somewhere in the middle of the scoreboard.

Not bad but I don't think they will manage to avoid bottom 5 with this one.

One of the best rehearsal clips imo (wonder why). Say what you want about the song but it looks spectacular. I don't think the public will completely snub this, so some result between 8-15th seems realistic.

Looks like a good performance, but I think the acapella part needed a different camera angle. Should be really high with the juries (likely that it wins), so most likely it will get at least a low top 10.

Not much to say for the performance, but it definitely need an energetic crowd to elevate it. With a decent televoting, it might avoid bottom 5, cause I don't see the juries showing up for this one.

The performance is okay, we don't get to see much of it anyway and I really like how she sang. However, it doesn't feel like a winner to me. 4-6th feels more like it atm, but we will see during the live shows if it really have a chance or not.

Watching the full recap, the jury is either on Switzerland or France and unless Netherlands is really hiding something good, televoting will probably go to Croatia. Switzerland's clip is the only one that seemed like a winner to me and then Croatia, but I don't think they will landslide televoting and the jury won't be too kind, so I don't see it happening.

 

[MopManMoss]

Does Malin Åkerman know that she's hosting Eurovision? Has anyone seen this woman at all

 

[lavieenrose]

The odds currently have the first three songs and the final song in the running order all qualifying, but I wouldn't be surprised if at least one, maybe a couple (or more) of them miss. I couldn't get over in the recap how...weaksauce Ireland makes the first three songs all look, and that's coming from someone who at least came into this week preferring each of those songs to the Irish entry and would still probably put 1-2 of them above it.

As for the show closer...well, we see songs which close the show that don't give anyone a reason to pick up the phone flop out of the semi all the time.

 

[goncalovieira]

Does Malin Åkerman know that she's hosting Eurovision? Has anyone seen this woman at all

SVT is hiding everything as much as they can. Shame... It is time to not give them any more victories in the coming future.

 

[goncalovieira]

Somebody has the CODE?

 

[EscGeek]

I would also like to have the CODE, if you know what i mean

 

[MopManMoss]

Ask Nemo