EUROVISION 2020 - General Discussion Thread

[escYOUnited]

Please post any and all discussions regarding the contest itself, host country and city, organisation, rumours and other topics not related to any specific country's selection process.

 

[Mainshow]

If you count upcoming Saturday as Day 1, Day 21 will be the 7th March (the day of the final of Melodifestivalen)
There's still a slight chance we will be getting a song or two afterwards (or even after the deadline (9th March)), of course.

Still, I can't think of any year in which we had such a busy time.

 

[Trece]

As long as we won't be getting any surprise releases before Saturday, we will get 36 new entries within 3 weeks! That's 12 songs per week!!!

Rather 4-5 songs per week and on last week all the rest

 

[esc87fan]

OMNI Television announced today that it will broadcast the 2020 contest here in Canada! It will be like last year, on a same-day delay and later on demand for a limited time. Probably because their airing of the 2019 event got a lot of positive feedback

I can't wait!

 

[ecsstatsfan]

I'm not even sure if it's intresting, BUT here's something interesting for you guys

GERMANY in Eurovision Song Contest

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[Mainshow]

Germany in Eurovision is like herpes. We usually don't show up for a very long period of time but when we do appear, it's always a shocking surprise and we come strong and hit hard and are very visible.

 

[opinionsigotem]

Anyone else get tickets for the London party then?

 

[Realest]

We still havent heard the Eurovision Winner in the NFs?

 

[Gera11]

We still havent heard the Eurovision Winner in the NFs?

No.

 

[Trece]

We still havent heard the Eurovision Winner in the NFs?

Winner will be among internal choice entries as past 2 years

 

[Citelis]

It will be Greece!

 

[Realest]

I think are the Favourites atm.

 

[Citelis]

Don't forget and

 

[Ana Raquel]

so far the biggest nf potential i see is in cicciolina (no bias intended)

i don't know if it's gonna be enough to win because of juries

 

[Edweis]

I'm curious to see who will send in native language this time.
For now we have Spain, Italy (I suppose they won't translate into English)
We have all songs in Serbian in NF, but some of them stated they would translate if win..
Portugal has Blasted - "Rebellion" in English, all other in Portuguese, i suppose they wouldn't translate..
Albania will translate, they already stated..
I suppose France will be in English too..
At this point, I don't see anybody sending in native language except Portugal..Yeah maybe "Cicciolina" LOOL
And let it be Maja & De Sarte Sjæle - "Den eneste goth i Vejle" Nanne Gronvall - "Carpool karaoke"!

Maybe Ukraine too?
Russia, Azerbaijan, San Marino? NO WAY!

will have parts in both languages.
has a great chance of keeping their language (DIMMA submitted their song in Icelandic only, Iva stated she wouldn't change it, which only leaves Dadi Freyr in the favorites who has both version...)
I would like to see Go_A winning, so let's hope for

 

[Loindici]

We still havent heard the Eurovision Winner in the NFs?

Wanna bet it's another 2011?

 

[Mrm]

will have parts in both languages.
has a great chance of keeping their language (DIMMA submitted their song in Icelandic only, Iva stated she wouldn't change it, which only leaves Dadi Freyr in the favorites who has both version...)
I would like to see Go_A winning, so let's hope for

And That's it lol
Plus they wont win in Ukraine..

 

[BorisBubbles]

I think will win. I've had the feeling they would since they announced their participation.

We'll see. I also vibe that might do ridiculously well and there's currently no competition to contest them.

 

[Mimmon]

I think will win. I've had the feeling they would since they announced their participation.

We'll see. I also vibe that might do ridiculously well and there's currently no competition to contest them.

As track record Bulgaria have potential to win but I need to hear the song.Speaking for Lithuania I would love to see Lithuania to win soon. I been wating them to win since 2016... They do really deserve it.

 

[Mainshow]

This Eurovision kicked off really well: Many interesting artists got announced and I thought that Rotterdam will be a very competitive year. However, now I'm just furious about how broadcasters seem to select their entries and as an avid fan of Eurovsion and a democratic individual I feel so effing offended!

After making vanilla entries win our national finals from 2017 to 2019 by changing the concepts constantly, purchasing dated leftovers from Switzerland and other countries as well as placing a horrible entry as a wildcard, the German broadcaster basically blamed the televoters for having a bad taste in music and ditched the whole national final. Instead, they come up with a "Eurovision-related" artist and guess what.. still bought a song from another country. An internal selection is fine but it either has to be a well-established act or someone with enough artistry like Duncan to make that decision valid, imo.

presents us an outrageously dated and old-fashioned entry which is lacking artistry, originality, authenticity and identity. Instead of asking any talent composers located in the 5th largest music market on Earth they asked former Eurovision composers who were responsible of flopping hard in Lithuania's preselection and making the UK dead last last year.

The televoting winner of Eurovision 2019 ditched the televoting for its own national final and let an unprofessional jury decide on the entries based on their studio versions because "emojis" killed their server. Seriously, it's 2020. This is one of the most rigged things I have ever heard of. The lack of transparency. Not even the people involved knew that there is such a thing like a back-up jury. If you can't make sure that an Internet vote does work, don't ditch the televoting! Ridiculous. This is giving me "Belarus" rigged kind of vibes.

Instead of submitting an energetic and contemporary song, the Albanian juries sabotaged themselves. Also, I think it's unfair to the viewers to win a national final and change the language + core essence of the song (Arilena already confirmed that they changed "Shaj" into an English pop ballad with a "current" sound).

gave Alicja the only great song in heat 2 whilst mid-way changing the entire rules to make Albert qualify. Rigged as hell.

The Czech national final might have been amateurish but seriously, it was one of the most honest and fairest things we have faced so far.

 

[Fierro]

I noticed that when I try to recall a song sent by a country in 2019, i cannot remember half of them and instead 2018 ones pop up in my mind. hopefully 2020 will be more memorable