EUROVISION 2023 - General Discussion thread

[ESC United Mod Team]

This thread is for any general Eurovision 2023 discussion not limited to or specifically about any country's national selections or song choices.

 

[GermanBango]

Those days seem to be long gone. The media center won't even be open until May 8th, the day before the semifinal 1. It means those in semifinal will only have 1 day for interviews in between semifinals so if you aren't a big blog the chances of you getting interviews with the artist are very low.

And y'all didn't tell me?! I thought we are family here. Shame!

 

[midnightsun]

Thank you for this! I instantly became a fan of them. Also checked their other songs on youtube. I'm so into this

It’s addicting, right?!?! Open up open up… in Pangea in Pangea

 

[Wynnter]

Those days seem to be long gone. The media center won't even be open until May 8th, the day before the semifinal 1. It means those in semifinal will only have 1 day for interviews in between semifinals so if you aren't a big blog the chances of you getting interviews with the artist are very low.

I'm going to miss the day long ESCUnited rehearsal livestreams

 

[PollyWantsACracker]

Just seen there are SF1 live show tickets but I’m seeing Avril Lavigne that night

She’s postponed so much since 2020 so I’m not missing it even for Loreen

Mama ŠČ! will novichock you on Avril's concert due to this betrayal

 

[Ezio]

The allocation of 12 points in the Jury Vote was as follows:

• Sweden – Andorra, Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Iceland, Israel, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania and Serbia
• France – Cyprus, Estonia, Georgia, Slovenia, Sweden and Switzerland
• Italy – Albania, Moldova and Monaco
• Belgium – Lithuania and Luxembourg
• Cyprus – Armenia and San Marino
• United Kingdom – Ireland
• Norway – North Macedonia
• Switzerland – Belgium
• Austria – United Kingdom
• Netherlands – Hungary
• Czechia – Greece
• Ukraine – Austria
• Malta – Italy
• Ireland – Finland
• Australia – Spain
• Germany – Ukraine
• Croatia – Bulgaria

 

[I bims]

Just saw the stage, it's sooo smaaaaall. UK what are you doooeeen. Why ask to host if you're then really cheap about it...
"Best ESC in history" my ass.

 

[Ali_]

For Eurovision stages bigger doesn't automatically equal better - especially as a TV viewer which most people are

 

[Mainshow]

We don´t need a "very big" stage for Eurovision since only 6 people are allowed to be on stage anyway.
Many delegations don´t even let 6 people perform and they don´t take any props to the host city either (since it has become too expensive anyway).
So why do fans demand a big(ger) stage? Because of the interval acts?
When Mordor hosted the event back in 2009, the stage was massive, for sure.. but many artists got completely lost on stage - same applied to Düsseldorf - apart from very few countries (like Cyprus and Israel and Denmark), most delegations didn´t use the B stage....

 

[MopManMoss]

The allocation of 12 points in the Jury Vote was as follows:

• Sweden – Andorra, Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Iceland, Israel, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania and Serbia
• France – Cyprus, Estonia, Georgia, Slovenia, Sweden and Switzerland
• Italy – Albania, Moldova and Monaco
• Belgium – Lithuania and Luxembourg
• Cyprus – Armenia and San Marino
• United Kingdom – Ireland
• Norway – North Macedonia
• Switzerland – Belgium
• Austria – United Kingdom
• Netherlands – Hungary
• Czechia – Greece
• Ukraine – Austria
• Malta – Italy
• Ireland – Finland
• Australia – Spain
• Germany – Ukraine
• Croatia – Bulgaria

what the hell is uk doing up there

 

[EscGeek]

The stage looks small, but whatever. I'm gonna have a blast like every year.
I gave up on anyone ever beating Moscow 2009's stage. It was huge and way ahead of its time.

 

[MopManMoss]

The stage looks small, but whatever. I'm gonna have a blast like every year.
I gave up on anyone ever beating Moscow 2009's stage. It was huge and way ahead of its time.

2019 was just as small if not smaller but it didnt look it on TV i think itll be fine

 

[PollyWantsACracker]

If you look closely, in this BBC reportage you would notice the stage is not small at all. It's actually quite wide. It has only lost some depth on main stage due to that inexplicabily long runway.

This concept will compel artists to move more, and I'm afraid that won't work for those who had had very static or linear NF stagings.

In this reportage we can hear that thus far only half of the contestants decided to use that long runway and that second stage, so, I hope they won't look static and that they will compensate that with editing.

Director of Croatian Dora said yesterday that Let 3's stand-in looked absolutely amazing due to editor's cut ("in contrast to Italy, where it was horrible" I add to this: "Well Mia Dimsic was horrible anyway" ).

However if half of the artists decided to stick to that static main stage concept by enriching it with some TV editing, they could look horrible to the arena audience.

Btw this stage will be absolutely great for the bands. All bands this year have vocalists and guitarists moving like the animals.

 

[crashworld]

Seems like the Eurojury has an aversion to bands. LOL. The highest is Malta (which is No. 18).

 

[harey]

I love / like their bottom 10 more than their top 10, lol.

 

[Wynnter]

Is it really that the stage is small, or more like that the arena itself is small?

 

[Citelis]

At least the eurojury didn't overrate Finland

 

[PollyWantsACracker]

Well, in 2021 Eurojury placed soon to become Grammy Nominee Måneskin at 6th place.

Furthermore they placed Ukraine's Go_A at 12th place.

Also they foresaw Malta to win, Israel's Eden to come 4th, and Tusse from Sweden to come 7th.

This is all you need to know about Eurojury

 

[AlienSoul]

ESC Tom looks at the last fews years results from the Eurovision Scoreboard app versus Eurovision Televote in this video: https://youtu.be/CibSkTmqjGY

His conclusion is that Eurofans overrate bops by women and the Televote overrates performances by men.

 

[MopManMoss]

ESC Tom looks at the last fews years results from the Eurovision Scoreboard app versus Eurovision Televote in this video: https://youtu.be/CibSkTmqjGY

His conclusion is that Eurofans overrate bops by women

 

[Ezio]

ESC Tom is so boring. He has no original content, he is just analyzing and opinionating on the obvious things for clicks. If I would get 0.003 for click or quote on this forum I could already afford a tray of gas station Champaign. But I guess YouTube and TikTak is the way to go these days. Actually it’s not dumb to monetize on your interactions in the interwebs, since every Cookie on your computer is doing the same thing for their hustlers.