Might be. 🙂 However, the song must hook the viewer from minute one. Hope she improves live.

@@kristakarin4601 You probably mean that he won "Estonia Looks For a Superstar" in 2014 or so 🙂. Not in Eesti Laul in recent years, at least. Weird that I don't hear him much on TV or radio here. But yeah, amazing vocals! Thanks for watching! ❤️

@@Blogovision, Ant won "Eesti otsib superstaari" 2023 ... before that he was unknown in Estonia ....

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According to some people in a Eurovision Discord server OR Twitter, Kohver cannot sing and dance due to an injury...? I think he sustained an injury meaning he cant really do the dance properly!

@@emoolia_cream1767 it confused me. He doesn't move like the others in the performances

@@haleighbearofficial Yeah, at least he's attempting the dance during the performance

@@haleighbearofficial yea i found the tweet, "he said in an interview (not sure which one) that he struggles to sing and dance at the same time"

@@emoolia_cream1767 I hope it doesn't have a lasting effect on his health or anything. Like I hope it won't get worse

Yeah and I guess you know both of them personally? Of course Bambie is an attention seeker, and so is Joost, but I don't think they have done anything wrong. I bet if you were autistic and someone shoved a camera in your face and butthole even after being asked 5 times not to you would make a gesture too. That doesn't make them hateful people. But I guess you wouldn't understand because everyone who is different than your ideological right wing vision is hateful right? Speaking about hypocrisy, you're probably the same person that shouts that everyone is against Croatia because they didn't win despite most people voting for them. Goddamn Calimero people.

Interesting. Thanks for these precise figures. And yes, when people favorite Aidan was disqualified from Malta Eurovision selection, he was still invited as a guest singer for an internal and brought the house down. But EBU were unnecessary strict where it wasn't necessary.

I appreciate your opinion, but the entire point fails on a single thing: If ESC is non-pllitical, why were Russia and Belarus excluded? Was it not for an illegal war and occupation? Well, Israel has been a brutal occupier for 57 years and are now committing genocide. Lastly, the Ukrainians were wearing "Free Azovstal defenders" T-shirts. That's openly political call to release POWs that also incidentally happen to be a battalion of neonazis. If being accused of genocide and starving people isn't a cause for protest and shame, I don't see why we even should have the ESC. What? Just allow them to use it for propaganda as they do for everything else? I rest my case.

@@Emanon... You raise a very valid point, my friend. Where does the EBU draw the line, and should there even be a line? If a country is banned for creating a war, shouldn't other participating countries- whose governments are funding that war, also be excluded, too? When the US illegally invaded Iraq in 2003, The UK, Poland, Denmark, Italy, and Spain also sent their troops. Should those countries have been banned from competing in Eurovision? How much murder and massacre by one country is considered 'too much? " These are the discussions the EBU needs to be having, because these types of problems aren't going away. Now, I will answer your question based upon what I personally believe was the most significant matter affecting this year's contest, and the one which was most crucial for the EBU to handle in a responsible manner. Because when Israel was permitted to participate in Eurovision this year, I don't think the EBU, Eden Golan, or any of us truly anticipated just how frightening and tempestuous the event would become.Still, this doesn't absolve the EBU from it's overall responsibility, which was to prioritize the safety and security of its participants, workers, and audiences, first and foremost.. No matter the event or the organizers, no matter anyone's political or religious beliefs, no matter if we agree that Israel's participation was valid and fair, the result of that decision created a working environment that was dangerous and potentially life-threatening to all who were there.. The public's growing outrage and hostility,, the swarms of angry protesters surrounding the event, the aggressive threats, and the increased security everywhere in and around the arena created an environment that was fraught with palpable fear and alarm. There is no question this heightened level of anxiety and panic affected the performers, who all had just cause to worry for their personal safety. We've witnessed past Eurovision shows where some random guy made his way onto the stage. I watched Saturday's Grand Final with feelings of extreme apprehension and concern that some horrible incident could take place at any moment. I can't imagine all the performers weren't feeling that themselves; that some terrorist group was going to exploit the event and unleash a violent means of protest. This is when cooler heads should've prevailed, and The Powers That Be should've said, "This isn't worth it." It wasn't worth risking Eden Golan's health and safety on that stage. It wasn't worth risking the safety of the other performers, or the crowds in attendance. Either Israel should've been confronted with the sobering truth that their participation wasn't worth endangering thousands of lives, or the entire event should've been shut down for the safety of all concerned. Because no one should have to endure that level of distress, for a song contest. But getting back to my point, which is the escalation of political and social messages in Eurovision through social media pundits, in the age of cancel culture..We have to be careful not to let the contest- or ourselves get bullied and ruled by whatever hot topic appeals to KZbin creators primarily seeking to boost subscribers. Cause if there's a quick bandwagon to hop on, these armchair activists won't hesitate to exploit it in the name of creating content. This year it's Israel's war, next year it could be Moldova's stance on gay rights or Ireland's escalating violence against immigrants. There's plenty of injustice going on throughout the world, and it's not the job of Eurovision to solve it.

Very true what you're saying. The contestants are exhausted to their boiling point and political tensions is the last thing they should be dealing with when preparing. They came to sing. And no matter whether they were pro or against Israel, they'd be criticized by some. EBU could have prevented that from the start by not letting any country in any state of confict participate in Eurovision. It's like they enjoy the political drama surrounding the contest.

It depends if they spout government propanganda or support poisonous governments. Just the music man rings hollow when either of those happen - looking at you Eden Golan, Sergei and Polina.

@@EmoBearRights I agree, but you will always have that as long as the contestants represent their countries. It has gone wild in last years, but also in quieter times, you had love-hate relationships between countries for this or that political reason. And I guess Eurovision wouldn't be the same if it was just artists in their name, not the countries.

BS

Juries were removed from the semis because they were cheating and a boring ass song that got no televotes got through to the final. No thanks - look Finland dodged a bullet this year in not getting to host and a contest in EBU central is a great incentive for them to sort their effing organisation out.

Totally. Why not do like in many selections where in semis it's jury + public and in the final only the public to name their winner? 😊

I agree. Boycott. This was such a stitch up.

Please

You might be right about jokey entries next year. And probably quite a few Europapa-like ones.

Exactly. I don't think any country embarrassed itself this year.

Jury winners taking the trophy may well ironically be a side effect of televote only semis - the jury bait songs get weeded out (I think that Belgium, Australia and maybe even Czechia and Denmark might have been helped through to the finals if there were juries) and there was more televote friendly songs (I don't think Finland and Estonia would have got through with juries and possibly even Norway and Austria too) so there are more options for them in the finals and it splits the vote. I don't like Austria so I'm biased.

You've made a good point here, @EmoBearRights 👍 Jury would've helped Belgium, Australia and yeah maybe Denmark go to the Final. And Norway, Finland and Austria could've been non-qualifiers and we wouldn't have been shocked by their low final scores.

Absolutely. Exceptionally strong year this time, and not overloaded with ballads, unlike during the covid period.

Croatia Serbia and other country on Balkan s my kid guit out

The real winner is Israel 🇮🇱

No, man. That was fair. Don't be a bitch just because your country lost.

The victory of Nemo would have been a bit clearer. Nemo would have gotten the same Jury votes, Joost was somewhere below the middle with jury votes (less than Croatia), and would not have been above Croatia in the public vote.

@@tomboss9940 Not true. Joost would have taken votes from Cro and Swi and Israel/Ukraine would have won.

​@@MultiSky7Don't make me feel that him being eliminated was a good thing!

There wasn't a "normal" year since 2019. 2020 was cancelled, 2021 was done with travel restrictions and all performers had to isolate themselves as getting the virus meant disqualification. Then the wars had started. In a normal year the UK would have won 2022 and Ukraine's "1944" wouldn't exist. In 2023 Finland would get even more televotes forcing dropping of juries. In this year both Ukrainian and Israeli entries would have been different and Israeli performer wouldn't be Eden Golan as without the Russian war she would have stayed in Russia, might even represent Russia... What 2025 can hold? Even more wars? Russia attempting to invade other countries? NATO intervention in Ukraine? Civil wars in Georgia and/or Armenia or another Azerbaijan war? Iran-Israel war or another expanded mid-eastern conflict involving the US and UK? Global trade disruption because of a Taiwan war? Nukes flying...

Just one problem. If Joost was allowed to participate in the final, Ukraine would have won again anyway, like a normal day in the office. Because every country (except Ukraine) would have their points taken, even by the smallest of margins. Even Joost himself wouldn't survive.

I have never seen someone contradict his own bullshit so much in 4 lines of text, congratulations ! I guess that's normal from right wing conspiracy theory persons, but still. What was not legit about Sweden and Finland finishing 1 and 2 last year? Italians getting top 7 every time, no matter what garbage they sent, getting diaspora voting from literally everywhere sure isn't political, so Italian winner is legit ! Italian broadcaster seems very legit too, making a graphic to show semi final results on television sure looks accidential legit. I do agree there is a problem when most countries give so many 12's to the same country, but that's nothign political, that's jury bias. And that jury saved Eurovision last week, if Israel won Eurovision would literally be over forever. EBU doesn't want to push the non-binary narritive, dudes they banned that flag ! If anything it's the public vote that's most political, it's the public vote that makes this contest most political, and there is nothign you can do to prevent sheep people vote for a nation just because it's in a war situation. Juries have serious issues, but the average person voting seriously has issues.