Ukraine UKRAINE 2016 - Jamala - 1944

[DanielLuis]

Congratulations Ukraine! Very well deserved winner, an amazing emotional performance of a fantastic song!

 

[Chorizo]

I'm so happy now. Just so happy.



My congratulations to Jamala and to Ukraine.
My absolute top favorite won. I supported Jamala with more votes than any other country.

My signature is not up to date yet but in my final ranking Ukraine will be on top. It seems every other year my favorite wins!

Real music and true emotions won. The message of love, peace and justice won and defeated the plastic.

This is absolutely the right winner for Eurovision. She was the best! A perfect winner!

Kyiv 2017!!!

 

[Dutchball]

A very well deserved win, congratulations! Not amongst my favorite songwise but the performance was great and for me it was the best winner option Out of the top 3

 

[yulichka]

I can't believe it, I am all shacking, WE WOOON!!!! :shock: I still remember Ruslana winning back in 2004... now this time. Jamala disintegrated me into tiny little pieces. Eat this, bookies

 

[eugoose]

Congratulations and thanks for giving us the pleasure the see Sergey's face in the end!

Leave Sergey alone. He's a nice guy, unlike your toxic, hating vermin.

 

[grazy2266]

Im so glad Ukraine won, welldone excellent song and can't wait for next years contest.

 

[SirPeterGriffin]

I was blown away by this performance. Powerful, meaningful, just absolutely stunning. The best performance of the night easily! Congrats Jamala, you gave me goosebumps!

 

[Celia]

Song mostly sung in a language other than English! Just sayeeeeen Europe xsing

 

[Lietuvis]

What a performance! Grammy worthy.

 

[Marko279]

Congratulations !

Votes from jury and public were very synchronised, when it comes about this song.

 

[Trece]

YAAAAAAAY OH MY GOOOOOOD YAAAAAAAA I am so happy aaaah!!!!!!

 

[GermanBango]

[MENTION=10896]GermanBango[/MENTION] you must be dying right now don't you?

I ... I'm speechless

 

[WhoKnows]

Interesting that Jamala came second in the semi.

 

[AlekS]

I am so happy right now... An authentic, ethnic and personal song from an ARTIST won! Jamala sang from her heart, using her language... Her grand-grandmother should be smiling from her grave right now. I am not a nationalist person but the story of this song was so personal and so familiar to me, i've listened the song over and over again after the bombings in Ankara. I congratulate Jamala from the bottom of my heart
1 AND ODDS DID NOT FORESAW THE WINNER 1

I really hope to see Turkey on ESC next year. Hope those rumours will materialize into something.

 

[Brandt]

After Australia leading that long on the scoreboard, Ukraine's victory made me feel so relieved. Best of luck in the next year Ukraine.

 

[FilipFromSweden]

I was actually thinking about it today '' remember how unlucky Ukraine was to be runner-up two years in a row .. '' and tonight they got their win!

 

[AlekS]

Interesting that Jamala came second in the semi.

I predicted such outcome. The top 3.

I value televoting more in this case because we don't have a loyal diaspora. Televoters f***ed Gaitana, you know. + Because of politics we lost few neighbours.

 

[AlekS]

Now to my only worry: does Ukraine have the finances to host next year!?

Yes we do 20-30 mil. is not a big amount + sponsorship covers some expenses.
According to my info we've already backed this up, I mean the broadcaster discussed such possibility "what if we win"
As appeared Ukrainian technics was used in the ESC '16 production

 

[Nikkita]

I really hope to see Turkey on ESC next year. Hope those rumours will materialize into something.

Crimean Tatar being SO close to Turkish, i feel like we won I hope these conservative pricks of ours make a right decision.

 

[tuorem]

If juries don't have 1944 in their overall top 3... I don't see the point of inviting those people next year! As I'm pretty sure Australia is their first choice, I hope Jamala has been ranked 2nd or 3rd at least.

Regarding televoting, I guess Russia will top it, but I hope Ukraine will be top 3. With the disagreements between both parties, Jamala can win as I don't imagine juries voting too much for Russia, and Australia may not do that well with viewers (5th of 6th place for instance).

Or maybe people will totally root for 1944, which would become the best winner of the 21st century imo

Please let me dream until midnight I soo want to believe it could happen.

I feel the need to quote myself because I got it right and I can't believe it... It's a dream come true: best winner of the 21st century to me

Thank you Jamala, thank you Ukraine for sending such a poignant masterpiece. My prayers and wishes for you have been answered.
Personally, I think the final results are a mess, but thankfully you did it! First winner that isn't 1st in both rankings, but I don't care as the system kicked out Australia, the cold juries' pet, and Russia, the predictable over-the-top first pointer of the viewers. You were the perfect compromise imo.

I'm so over the moon right now! May next year's participants be inspired by your bold choice. Let's get back to great music. Love you