Portugal PORTUGAL 2017 - Salvador Sobral - Amar pelos dois

[DanielLuis]

Record breaking in the jury and in the televoting!
407 points on the televoting!!

Thank you Europe!

 

[Marcos]

Lets give the music, a meaning. Music actualy means something.

Yeah, lets turn back to 60's slow french songs and lets forget about populism and tastes but give a meaning to music.

He deserved the winning place i guess since he won 2 of votes but not that good words from him.

Misplaced ego, weird moves, one dude going and singing. And i heard he has sickness to talk about too. From the winners like Sertab,Lordi,Molitva,Rybak winners like Conchita,Jamala and this dude.

Russia hate made Jamala 1st last year. And some slow song again and lets prepered for balladvision next year.

 

[Grinch]

Nothing but a borefest to me and Salvador looks really annoying. Why does he act like that?

But I know you guys have been participating for 49 years and your best result was 6th place so far, so congratulations

I hope next year more countries participate with their own languages.

 

[SirPeterGriffin]

I'm still not assimilating all this. Just...astonishing.
Thank you Salvador and Luísa and the whole team behind our gem. PORTUGAL 2018 HERE WE GOOOOOOO!!

 

[Labra]

Congratulations to Portugal ! Congratulations to Salvador !
I am glad, my vote added to the victory !

 

[hugh]

Congratulations Portugal. Voted for this 5 times and I've now won £220 from my bet on this to win months ago (thank God I never believed the Italy hype)

Enjoy this moment Portugal!!!!!!! You deserve it.

 

[Ezio]

Germany Television host Barbara Schöneberger says that this years Eurovision was so much better than last year

 

[Fierro]

Oh what a sweet top comments from YT. You know what? I just now feel completely fine with Jamala's victory last year cause now there is real prove that internet-"experts" have no understanding and taste in music.

to win??? Really? That is probably last year's Lazarev fans

 

[Ezio]

The winner nails it astrologically yet again.

Sun in Taurus = ballad
Jupiter in Libra = taste in fashion and music trends to classical, decents, pleasant, lovely things, songs about love and intimacy
Moon in Sagittarius = public has a taste in wisdom, sophisticated things, it is the sign of foreign languages and studies and Moon symbolizes emotion.

 

[SirPeterGriffin]

Oh what a sweet top comments from YT. You know what? I just now feel completely fine with Jamala's victory last year cause now there is real prove that internet-"experts" have no understanding and taste in music.

to win??? Really? That is probably last year's Lazarev fans

Now i can feel you bro. Disposable fans always enjoying fast food. How pathetic.
Jamala and Salvador were magnificent winners. So...i guess f**k them!

 

[cripesdude]

My least favourite winner of all time, but looking forward to a Portuguese Eurovision!

 

[RevNet]

THE GOOD:
-This is a pretty song.
-I also like how minimal it is.

THE BAD:
-I can't really connect with it due to the language barrier.
-The song is not really my cup of tea, to be honest.

THE VERDICT:
This is a really good song, and it's in the Fado tradition, I think (hope, really). While I say it's not my cup of tea, I appreciate the song being in the ESC. The fact that it was done by his sister is really sweet, too. It'll be in the Final, but I doubt it'll win. 8 points

I am glad to eat my words on this song! He and his sister turned what was a pretty song into an amazing performance. I respect this win. Especially since this is Portugal's first win, and as you know, there is nothing like your first!

 

[Ausesken]

Thank you Portugal for bringing Eurovision back to the iberian peninsula, I had completely lost all my hopes this could happen
Also I'll consider going for the first time to the festival

 

[JSSArcos]

We won !!!!!!!!!!!!! I do not believe

 

[RainyWoods]

I could have never in a million years have predicted this happening. I remember [MENTION=14007]lavieenrose[/MENTION] being like to me "You've got to hear this song", and there was this peculiar guy on stage, singing this beautiful jazz ballad, as one with the song. It was like Chet Baker had been reborn and was singing to a lost track from Billie Holiday's "Lady In Satin". I cried the very first time I heard it, and gasped in wonderment at what I was experiencing. I'm a weird and overly sentimental person. I thought i'd be the only person on the forum who would fall in love with this song, and relate to it in this way, but then crazy things started to happen. People were appreciating this guy singing jazz, the most unpopular and unhip genre of music imaginable. "Amar Pelos Dois" was reaching people. It won it's national final. Ok, not too big a shock (as you are awesome people), but at that moment then, the Portuguese people had already gifted me my new all time favourite Eurovision song.... but it was just bizarre to see the song climb and climb with the bookies, Eurofans going wild for something without glitter and fireworks. Just a piano and strings jazz ballad performed in an almost unconventional manner.

The victory tonight was nothing short of astounding. First with the jury vote AND first with the public! Europe championed jazz, it championed sincerity, it championed music in it's purest form. Europe for one night threw away preconceptions about how a song should be performed. Salvador just stood there and sung his song. He lived those three minutes, and in true Jazz musician style, it was different to the other times he performed "Amar Pelos Dois". He and his sister Luisa brought something very honest and raw back to the contest, and you people ate it up. I can't quite believe it. My faith in humanity has been restored.

I invited my mother down for the results. I was kind of naughty in that this time I didn't tell her the show was on, as I felt so embarrassed when I cried in front of her before. I watched Salvador by myself, then was like "Oh, Eurovision is on mother" Bad boy, but we watched the results together and both screamed when Portugal won. I couldn't even cry. I was just in shock and filled with so many emotions. I hope you understand how much you deserve this moment Portugal. You have been with us all these years, and have never sold out. You've just won Eurovision by a landslide, doing it with your hearts, and in the most surprising and unconventional way ever.

Salvador's winning speech was cheeky, but he earned it. I burst out laughing as he basically (perhaps accidentally) shaded every other competitor tonight. It's 2017 but we can still do things with our hearts, and we've just been handed an evergreen that will never go out of fashion, because music isn't fashion. It's our hearts and our souls. There will always be a time when someone needs this song in their life. Music helps me a lot, and this song and introduction to Salvador has been life enriching for me. I've been feeding off it for the past few months, and it means a ridiculous amount to me. Thank you Portugal, and a huge congratulations to our Portuguese friends here on the forum.

I've never left my country before, and I have a whole lot of problems that would make it difficult, but gosh, i've never been more tempted to travel in my life. Slay us next year Big love to you all.

 

[Carlotta]

And you won by a landslide. And it was soooooo deserved. It is (and probably will always be) my all time favorite ESC song!
I never thought I could be this happy because of an ESC-result.

 

[Euterpa]

I voted for Portugal! And I'm so happy Portugal won, I was jumping out of happiness, like a kid. Obrigada, Portugal, for this song. I enjoy listening every second of it. Loved it from the first time I heard it, has been my favorite since. Parabéns! With love from Croatia

 

[joao]

[MENTION=15290]joao[/MENTION]

CONGRATULATIONS brother !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am thrilled for

THRILLED

Next year I hope it's Makedonia!!!

 

[JSSArcos]

Thank you to everyone who voted in Portugal

 

[SaladBreak]

I'm glad I watched that loooooong national selection, I never imagined he would be the winner