AMERICANS REACT TO EUROVISION FOR THE FIRST TIME | A Beginners Guide to the Eurovision Song Contest

[@TheDemouchetsREACT]

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[@Roastedbread]

YESSS! So nice you guys are covering Eurovision. I hope more Eurovision content will follow

[@patonrose5907]

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[@Roastedbread]

@Yout_Eurovision_Reacts-qx1ze it’s boring, sorry. 0 points

[@Roastedbread]

@Yout_Eurovision_Reacts-qx1zenah, Portugal 2017 was amazing and that’s why it won. This year is just not it 💁🏼‍♀️

[@CBOANDALUCIA]

The first (openly) LGBT person in won Eurovisión was the trans singer Sharon Cohen as Dana International, in 1998.

[@MartinaPapi]

0 points doesn’t mean nobody vote but that UK wasn’t in the top 10 in any country… the points go from 1-7 and then 8,10 and 12.

[@Attirbful]

especially since so many nations vote - something like 28?!

[@muddyfeet69]

that is true - only if you belong to the 10 best songs, you will receive points. If you have bad luck and are the 11th best song ...you will get from that jury "ZERO" points.

[@han-oq6bo]

Try 37 or more depending on the year​@@Attirbful

[@TheFrecklish]

@@Attirbful around 40 these past couple of years

[@Corntasty]

How did I see the words zero points and immediately see jemini

[@loslibrosdecarangi]

In the video they forgot to say that a country CAN'T vote for themselves. So if you're from the UK, you can't vote for the british entry. That way we actually vote for songs we enjoy, and not for our own country.

[@liliaeth]

and voting by country ensures that larger countries don't get an advantage

[@Prafik614]

Also I don’t think people vote for certains coutries because they are ”buddies” but Europe’s culture is quite diverse and taste in music is different in east, north and south. So of course people end up liking music that is similar to their own preferences.

[@liliaeth]

@@Prafik614 There's also the fact that neighboring countries often share artists. For example, here in Flanders we are very likely to have heard Dutch artists, so we're more familiar with them and their style. And not just because of the shared language.

[@alx_gr1]

Same goes for Greece and Cyprus. We literally share the same music labels and artists, plus the language, but somehow we get booed every time because everyone thinks we do it for other reasons..that's what we are accused of. I don't know about the jury, but my friends and I always vote for Cyprus (since we are familiar with the artist and we like the music style) and we also vote for our favorite song for each year's competition as well.@@liliaeth

[@cecilialeitet2794]

@@Prafik614And don’t forget. If you are,say, spanish, but live in France and have a french phonnumber, then you can vote for Spain. So countries that have big groups of citizens living in other European countries will benefit from this. One example is the Ukraine. They will get sympathy votes because of the ongoing invasion, but they also have a large part of their population currently living in other countries, and therefore are able to vote for their own country. The system it not perfect, but it works well enough and there is a jury to balance out the biggest flucuations. It has happened on multiple occasions that the winner didn’t win the popular OR the jury vote, but won the total.

[@ronnopotter]

In my opinion the best way to introduce Eurovision to the newlys,is by watching the Eurovision winners from 1956 until today. And just then, watch this type of explaining videos.

[@HyrubatoMusic]

I'd say just watching a full grand finale show is a great way to know what happens

[@ulricaandrae4381]

I don’t mind a ”friendship vote”, after all the Eurovision were created to bring together Europe after the war. But, it doesn’t necessarily mean you give away the highest score.

[@DONTHASSLETHEHOFF]

Loreen won it for a second time for Sweden since that video was made.

[@alvdansen7172]

Since Loreen won in 2023 and gave Sweden their 7th place win to tie wins with Ireland, all the sudden Johnny Logan is back to write another song for Ireland to compete with in ESC. Coincidence or was it just because of Loreens return in 2023, I can't tell.

[@sebastianniittyvuopio5017]

Abba won😊

[@alvdansen7172]

@@sebastianniittyvuopio5017 Won what?

[@florenna]

"Won", very undeservedly, for sure. We all know who the real winner is - Finland.

[@alvdansen7172]

@@florenna she deserve the win fair and squire, now beat it hater

[@conn7125]

No I never vote on Sweden or Norway because they are our sister and brother countries but because we often share a common music taste. If I do not like the song I wouldn’t wote. And to be fair I think that is why you see some countries always give each other’s neighbour countrie 12 points, not because the are neighbours but because they share a certain taste of music. But I LOVE Eurovision and have watched it since the 70’s every year. Next Saturday the Danish Eurovision will start and we’ll see who will win to try and get to the international Eurovision. Unfortunately I can not vote anymore as I live in Spain now but I hope Danish television is finally waking up after last years fiasco.

[@ahkkariq7406]

As a Norwegian, I totally agree. Actually, I'm getting pissed at Sweden, so I might not vote at their entry at all, even if I like it. They can have their jury votes.

[@thinkerian]

It's total BS, people for what they like, not politics

[@thesneakyhider6978]

as a Eurovision fan since 2018, I've never heard of anyone comparing Toy & Seven Nation Army lmao. I didn't think it sounded similar at all

[@ESC_jackqulen]

I agree with this. It felt like the writers of the Seven Nation Army song wanted a share of earnings and used their influence through Universal Music to get it.

[@leDespicable]

Everyone I know immediately spotted the similarity when they watched the contest, so it definitely seems to share some resemblance

[@michelski3528]

welcome to the Eurovision world!! hope you guys react to more videos, you will love them 😃

[@Sk88p]

You are right on time with this video. I recommend you guys watch the show in upcoming may. I don't think the Eurovision youtube channel is region blocked anymore. The semi shows take around 2-3 hours and the final is around 4 hours.

[@pagaporvista569]

Semi finals and finale was on Peacock last year!!!

[@mervinmannas7671]

This is massive. I watched my first Eurovision tht i can remember in 1973 and never looked back. The average viewing audience for this is double + that of the Superbowl. They did try a public only vote for a few years but decided after some issues to go to a 50/50% split of jury and public vote. ABBA are without doubt the most sucessful artists from the contest going on to become the second biggest selling group worldwide after the Beatles. This year is the 50th anniversary of their win and due to Loreens win for Sweden last year it is going to be hosted in Malmo. One thing the guy got wrong is that the winning country does not HAVE to host the following year. It is offered to them first but they can decline. The French would love to win/host again as they haven't done so since thier last win in 1977, so the entry of the Moustache song was not for the purpose of avoiding that.

[@peppermintcrush5794]

Regarding viting for your neighbours there is also the aspect that neighbouring countries have a similar music culture and tend to like each others music. Europe is very diverse culturally and musically. But yeah, there are political voting as well. But all voting for neighbours isn't political.

[@liliaeth]

it also helps that songs from neighboring countries might already be heard on your radio, so more people are familiar with them, even before Eurovision week.

[@han-oq6bo]

Uk 2003 he was referring to the vocals💀

[@MalharetasLair]

I cringe out of my bloody shoes every time I accidentally hear this performance 😶‍🌫

[@claraalves4643]

And here we are. In that time of the year the Europeans go crazy 😂 love it. Regards from Portugal ❤

[@TheDemouchetsREACT]

Much love!

[@s.b.907]

14:45 the discussion about the uk song. It was just not a good song, even at that period of time. 😂

[@TheDemouchetsREACT]

😂😂

[@zimon85]

Not to mention they sang out of tune and breathed in the mic.

[@auqua6477]

I've heared there was some tech issues that led to the out of synk part. So not nessesarly the singers fault.

[@AmaanStorm]

I love seeing people newly discover Eurovision! Particular people from the U.S as they dont realise just how mucu of a juggernaut this show really is! Now you'll have to discover and react to some of the more iconic songs and performances! Always a joy to watch the shock & happiness spread across a reactors face to some of these performances. If you do go this route, please react to the live Eurovision versions of these wildly popular/memorable songs: * Conchita Wurst - "Rise Like A Pheonix". * Loreen - "Euphoria". * Käärijä - "Cha Cha Cha". * Sam Ryder - "Space Man". * Hatari - "Hatrid Mun Sigra". * Måneskin - "Zitti E Buoni". * Eleni Foureira - "Fuego". * Duncan Laurence - "Arcade". * Chanel - "Slo Mo". * Måns Zelmeröw - "Heroes". * Kalush Orchestra - "Stefania". * il Volo - "Grande Amore". * Lordi - "Hard Rock Hallelujah". * Sergey Lazarev - "You Are The Only One". * Mahmood - "Soldi" * Dadi Freyr - "Think About Things". There are so many more but they shoukd get you started! Best wishes ❤

[@jurgenkersjes2150]

You can´t give a vote for your own country, and Brexit was not very populair in Europe.

[@andyt8216]

Brexit is given far too much relevance - from Australia to Azerbaijan, Israel to Iceland a considerable number of countries have nothing to do with the EU. Australia has given us zero points for years apart from our recent peak of 2022, doubt it had anything to do with Brexit.

[@alvdansen7172]

yeah, that video forgot to mention some important details

[@jurgenkersjes2150]

​@@andyt8216 People really don´t like the UK any more. Even the Scots and Irish people. Till this day.

[@andyt8216]

@@jurgenkersjes2150 🧌 Scotland is the U.K.! United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧 = England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 and NI!

[@TheDemouchetsREACT]

Well, that surely answers our question.

[@rickjr37]

Sandie Shaw,who represented the Uk in 1967,was the first English language winner of the contest.

[@nelerhabarber5602]

Its a competition from EBU members, NOT from Europe, thats why countries like Israel are allowed to participate!

[@zappmple8062]

About voting the neighbour countries, I don't think that for example Greece wants Cyprus to win even if the song is bad, but a lot of Cypriots live in Greece so they will vote for their country. (Since you can not vote for your country if you are living in it).

[@Zubiila]

Currently the power is split 50/50 between the juries and the general public. The issue this can cause, is when the general public has a clear favorite that the juries don't agree with, as it might mean that another song wins. That doesn't necessarily mean that the other song didn't deserve to win, but whenever the general public's favorite doesn't win it sparks a debate about if the right song won. An example of this is last year's competition, where the public gave most votes to Finland and second most votes to Sweden - but Sweden ended up winning because Finland didnt get enough points from the jury. As a Swede I'm torn, because I really loved our entry and the singer deserved to win - but so did Finland's singer who put on an amazing performance, which I also absolutely loved. Personally, I the power should be divided 60/40, with the general public having the bigger majority. That way this particular issue would be less likely to happen.

[@francescacampbell9208]

Justice for Fred!

[@graciedancer3952]

They introuduced the juries because the public vote to political

[@andyt8216]

2021, the song was sh*t that’s why it got zero. What does Australia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Israel to name just a few countries not giving us anything have to do with Brexit? It doesn’t.

[@Attirbful]

Conchita Wurst was not the first drag queen (which she isn‘t really) to win. Dana International won for Israel in the early 2000s…

[@omi4470]

1998 to be exact

[@montsouthern]

Concita was a drag queen and Dana was transgender.

[@benjamintic3653]

Can we like not... Dana is a trans woman which means she's not a drag queen, but a woman. Conchita is a drag queen, a man dressing up as a woman. Not the same thing

[@PPfilmemacher]

Thats only partly to some extent correct, their is a particular distinction between Dana International and Conchita Wurst. Dana International - Winner of the 1998 Eurovision is a openly living Transsexual-Women, who was born as a male, but has gone through several major gender reassignment surgeries over the years prior to her participation and win in the 1998 Eurovision Song constantly Conchita Wurst / Thomas Neuwirth - Winner of 2013‘s Eurovision, is a openly homosexual, Austrian singer and drag queen who is known for his stage persona elegant dressed but bearded Conchita Wurst (first name being spanish slang for vagina, last Wurst is the german word for sausage or Wiener, chosen as a quirky drag name representing both the male side a professional Women’s Imitator with Conchita). Neuwirth is not considered as transsexuelle because he hd just dressed up to oly Conchita just dressed up on stage as has stated that he is not a trans woman. He is gay, and has also described himself as a drag queen. with her homosexual Man (Drag Queen

[@ronnopotter]

Dana is not a drag act. She is a trans person. There's a big difference.

[@oliviera.dochez2864]

I love the debate of public vs jury vote. The issue is that, due to the European open frontiers and mass economic migration in the 50's and 60's, as well as cultural and religious groups, the voting by public is always deformed. For example, Belgium and Germany use to give 12 points to Turkey every time when only public votes were counted due to our huge Turkish community here, Armenia comming a close second (now nearly always first). When the Israeli media and government (though eurovision is non political) says you have to vote for Israel (or a Jewish singer in another country) they will get those vote and the other country will get the 12 points from Israel. This was the extreme case in 2024, where Tali from Luxembourg knew she would get the 12 points from Israel well before the show started. And the entire Jewish community voted for Israel, getting them a huge public vote. As long as there is war in the Ukraine, they will also get massive votes due to the refugees voting for their own country. Russia was able to buy servers with phone numbers, especially to get huge televotes, this is how they won with a very mediocre song

[@alftuvik3820]

This video got one thing wrong, the winner does not have to host the next year, they are just the first to be offered the opportunity to do so and while it's expensive, the gain is a lot bigger than the cost due to the boost in tourism and business. Nobody has chosen to not host after winning since the 80s but it did happen a couple of times in the 60s and 70s, probably even though the cost was probably lower than it is now, there was maybe not much monetary gain like there is now. Ukraine was unable to host last year due to the war, so that's the first time in over 30 years where the winner didn't host. But it's always a choice and clearly something everyone who has won really wanted since they accepted the hosting gig.

[@GastonTheGreat]

The televoting goes like, only the ten most voted on each country gets points (1 to 8 and then 10 and 12). Your song could be quite liked, end up the 11th most voted on every country and still get 0 points... while a song that's maybe last on every country suddenly is 8th on ONE country and gets 2 points, getting more votes than the mid-liked one. Not the most fair voting system, but televoting has been quite an issue for some years.

[@olsa76]

Swedish Christer Björkman, Peter Settman and Anders Lenhoff tried to take the concept to the USA with the "American song contest". From what I understand, it has been difficult to get the same hype as there is for Eurovision. Eurovision started and became a tradition when there was only one TV channel, so it's probably harder to make it the same big thing when so much else is competing. There are a lot of conspiracy theories about who won, usually it's prob just that someone is a bad loser. I wouldn't vote for a bad song because I like the country, but sure...if two songs were equally good, which country I'd rather see win would matter.

[@DONTHASSLETHEHOFF]

They did it in a weird way though. Brought mega stars in and the whole thing didn't feel like a competition really

[@olsa76]

@@DONTHASSLETHEHOFF Ok. I haven't seen it. Guess they thought they needed big names to draw attention?

[@DONTHASSLETHEHOFF]

Something like that maybe. I think it could be big over there if they did it right though. Imagine all states competing against each other..@@olsa76

[@alexx.malexx]

There are already a few songs out for Eurovision this year 😁 Ukraine 🇺🇦: Teresa & Maria - Alyona Alyona & Jerry Heil Malta 🇲🇹: Loop - Sarah Bonnici Slovenia 🇸🇮 Raiven - Veronika Luxembourg 🇱🇺: Fighter - Tali Albania 🇦🇱: Besa Kokëdhima - Zemrën N‘dorë France 🇫🇷: Mon Amour - Slimane Irland 🇮🇪: Doomsday Blue - Bambie Thug Norway 🇳🇴: Gåte - Ulveham Spain 🇪🇸: Nebulossa - Zorra Tschechien 🇨🇿: Aiko - Pedestal Many countries have preliminary decisions. From my country, Germany, this will take place live on TV next Friday where we can vote for our Eurovision song. one of the candidates and my favorite is Ryk with the song “Oh Boy” 🤗💗

[@rickjr37]

The first English language song to win Eurovision was Sandie Shaw,representing the UK,in 1967 with “Puppet On A String”.

[@duckydae]

that’s not the point the video was making. sandie shaw’s native language is english. abba were the first group to win in their non-native language, which happened to be english.

[@holsmetree1545]

Thank you for the kind words about Cry Baby 😂😂😂 The countries vote for their top 10 favourite, which is how the points are allocated (with the scores being 1-8, 10, 12). The UK’s 2021 entry just didn’t crack the top 10 in any countries top 10, either in the jury or the televote

[@TheDemouchetsREACT]

You’re welcome!😅

[@alexandru4193]

I'd rather recommend watching Geography Now's video on Eurovision (even though it's a bit old). This guy centers too much around United Kingdom in the contest when in reality the UK is a bad Eurovision country, at least compared to other countries like Italy, Ukraine, France, Norway, Sweden, Russia and so on. And I wouldn't blame 2021's failure on brexit, the song was literally horrible.

[@alvdansen7172]

UK agreed that it was a bad song and that the artist wasn't good. This is why they now care about what kind of artist represent them, year 2021 just embarressed them too much and I think UK might have broken their ESC curse finally. At least made it better. I feel way worse for Germany now, doing everything they can, sending different type of music and still not succeeding.

[@alexandru4193]

@@alvdansen7172 Yeah I agree, I believe the UK is heading in a good direction, but a lot of British people and British press would blame their bad scores in the contest on Brexit, and not on their terrible choices. I mean there's songs that aren't that bad (like Lucy Jones I believe her name was) but some of them are just bad (like 2018, the most boring, predictable, annoying and old-fashioned song ever). And counting their past success (during and before the 90's) is just not appropiate, especially if you're trying to explain what Eurovision is now. It's like saying that Ireland is the best country in the contest for winning the most times even though the country has been irrelevant for like 30 years already. And yeah, when it comes to Germany it is sad, especially considering their huge music industry.

[@nelerhabarber5602]

OH NO, the video is sooo bad, with a lot of untruths. Its explained from an americain who knows NOTHING about the ESC, sorry!!!

[@alftuvik3820]

I would not recommend that one, a lot of what he says in that video is either outdated or just directly wrong.

[@elishweet]

hahhahaa, we had the same reaction over Flo Rida in Eurovision - what's he doing here?! 🤣

[@stiglarsson8405]

Its a competition betwen national public broadcasting companies!

[@annemarienordby4326]

American Song Contest was made, but it only aired for one season. It got cancelled due to low view ratings. Snoop Dogg and Kelly Clarkson was the hosts and a country song won.

[@liliaeth]

yeah, I watched it, but it felt more like a national final than anything else. There was little to no effort made to connect the artists to their state, so it felt like just your average talent show, instead of the huge spectacle it should be.

[@shaniyefet1]

The first trans to win was Dana International from Israel 💙

[@wascte]

12:16 just wanted you guys to know that people did vote for the UK, but one person voting for them won’t mean they got one point. If that was the case the winners every year would have hundreds of thousands of votes.

[@xinex5166]

I would like to say, the UK’s 0 points was funny both to us and the artist, he 100% knew he wasn’t going to do well, that’s why he reacted in such a good way. He was supposed to go the year before, but that year was cancelled because of COVID, and it was a considerably better song in his style- everyone was sure the song he got 0 points with was one he wrote for someone else originally, as he couldn’t hit half of it. That’s not the only time something like that has happened either, that 2003 one most likely had some earpiece issues so they couldn’t hear themselves and sounded out of tune because of that, also our 2010 act went on record saying he tried to get the end note of the song changed because he knew he couldn’t hit it but they didn’t let him (it was a BAD note). Up until the last few years it just really felt like the UK would send in sacrifices and give them no real support, glad we’re out of that now… for now anyway.

[@Flokarl1]

Great Metalrock liveshow = Go see the band "Sabaton" . You will love it!!!

[@merjakotisaari9046]

This year's Eurovision Song Contest is coming up on May 11, 2024

[@Navy-Seal-Ninja90]

"why are we excluded?" - maybe because its called EUROvision song contest😂

[@M.Larson_13]

Israel is in even when they are committing a Genocide and Australia was in one year too and none of them are European countries. G3n0c1deVision

[@Der_Dolmetscher]

Well, given that neither Israel, nor Australia, nor several other countries, which participated in the contest before (Algiers, Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon) are part of the European Broadcasting Area (EBA) nor are members of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), there’s no valid reason to exclude the US. I miss the 1990s, when Eurovision was about EUROPE. But the money hungry folks in Lausanne had to tear it apart, get Asian dictatorships like Azerbaijan involved, and now everyone sings in a very bad English. Bring back the EURO into Eurovision. Make Europe great again!

[@RobRotterdam121]

Best Eurovision : 2021 Rotterdam. The Netherlands. Watch the interval acts Davina Michele, first semi finale and Glennis Grace&Afrojack finale act

[@lilyth682]

9:40 this point is nonsense. Except sometimes for Germany and uk, Spain Italy and France always qualified high. Italy for example sends singers who win an important Festival in the country, Sanremo. Also, hosting Eurovision brings a lot of tourism so... It's nonsense what the voice said

[@magnum_cx8805]

Votes from the public are distributed based what percentage of the tele-votes they got, so while people who get 0 points most likely got points, it was a small enough percentage compared to the votes everyone else got that there weren’t any points left for them

[@ginafromcologne9281]

Very nice reaction video! :) I think too that the US should be included, it would be interesting to hear their songs. I'm actually surprised that there isn't a song contest in the USA among the states. Regarding politics, that might be a bit exaggerated, even though it's rather suspicious that the Scandinavian countries always love their neighbours' songs best. Maybe they have the same taste. :D I always vote the song I like best, but sometimes it's hard to decide. One info in the video is a bit hard to believe though, it probably started with one youtuber who made the claim first, and then it spread. In my view, the claim that some countries deliberately try to lose, so they don't have to host the contest next year, is ridiculous. Firstly, the host country earns so much from the admission fees, tourists etc., that it might be a win-win. And secondly, there are the songwriters (it is actually a songwriters contest) and the singers. Not a single one of them wants to lose. Winning Eurovision could be their great breakthrough, and surely, no one wants to look like an idiot in front of half the world. There is a pre-selection in every country, where songwriters and their singers apply and give their very best for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. I mean, if you want to reach an audience of billions of people, this is it! The audience has a vote and would surely not want to send a bad song either, so the best of them is sent to Eurovision. This claim is so unfair to the artists who work very hard, and it would also mean the viewers are being cheated. Shame on the person who was just assuming things and spread this rumour first! As for the songs, I love most of the very first songs of the 50s and 60s, e.g. "Non ho l'eta" by a young girl from Italy, Gigliola Cinquetti, or the very first winner "Refrain" by Lys Assia from Switzerland. Also many later ones, e.g. by Johnny Logan and others from Ireland, also Sweden, Denmark and others make great songs, it's hard to decide. :)

[@ESC_jackqulen]

USA (NBC broadcaster) has started an "American Song Contest" in 2022, but the show was canceled after one edition because of low ratings. I agree with the "trying to lose" statement. I always see it as an inside joke within the fandom that people took it out of context. Every country wants to win of course, but there is only 1 winner for 40ish countries, so doing the math it might take you 40 years to win once. Luckily, I think the idea of Eurovision being a joke is slowly fading out. Countries like France, UK, Serbia, and Finland are now all sending radio hit artists from their local music industry that they wouldn't be able to attract the same way 10 years ago.

[@Jaddas]

I hate these videos. Idk why thats a thing, but somehow every "short explaination of eurovision" video is made by a person that absolutely hates the contest. They always act like joke entries are the norm (there is like 1 per year), shit talk everything they find and try their hardest to not mention any good aspects. I know a lot of europeans (me included) enjoy that eurovision has a big distance to america and i am honestly not sure if these videos are an attempt to keep you guys away from it, by acting like its trash.

[@nocturne7371]

Some facts of this video is old. Last year Loreen won for Sweden. That made Sweden and Ireland tie for most wins, seven each. Loreen also won for the 2nd time, so Johnny Logan is no longer the only one to do that.

[@Craigy2818]

When Gemini were singing out of tune, for the UK, it was reported that the two members of the Russian entry (t.A.T.u - known for the global hit "All The Things She Said") had been forced to mess with their earpieces. Back then, both members of the Russian band were often subjected to these kinds of orders and sexually abused.

[@maliii266]

Sorry but I doubt many of us Europeans would want the US to participate 😂

[@kevingrant7098]

John Logan is the only person to win Eurovision song contest twice, but three other singers have one four times. Eurovision song contest is a competition for European countries. Brought in after the second world war as a way for European countries to come together in a fun. just like the human rights act and the European Union. Putin spent a lot of money backing Brexit, he knew a weaker Europe would be beneficial to Russia.

[@christinarosen9711]

Loreen also won two times

[@annkristin3457]

Johnny Logan have won three times, he was not performing the last time. It`s the song, not the artist that wins the competition. Rolv Løvland from Norway won in 1985 and 1995.

[@annkristin3457]

@@christinarosen9711 Did she write the songs? It is he songs that wins, not the artist that sings it.

[@phillipmusics]

You should react to the 1994 song Duett Amazing ❤️

[@hulda4ever]

The most political vote comes from the jury not the people who pay to vote

[@dagmar0904]

I've only been to one concert ever and that was rock/metal my favorite band: lord of the lost, who took part in esc last year - they got last place and its not a big surprise. Like they said, most of the time their kind of music doesnt get placed high up) and its definitely a mood 😂 i think thats one of the kinds of music where live vs just mp3 is a biiig difference

[@rickjr37]

The first transgender person to win Eurovision was Dana International,representing Israel,in 1999 with “Diva”.

[@tirex3673]

wasn‘t it 1998?

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[@americanninny4918]

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[@syndrom4193]

Getting 0 points doesn't mean, nobody v8tes for you, because not every country gives points to every country. It doesn't matter how many voted for you, it just depends on if there is another country more people voted for. Yoj see all votes from italians for excample will get counted and then, the country the most italians voted for gets 12 points. The second most votes gets 10 points and then so on 8, 7, 6, 5... So only the Top 10 of countrys that recieved from from italy actually gets points. So even if the UK was in every countrys Top on number 11, they would end up having 0 points, while germany for excample was last every Top but came 3rd in just one, they would get 8 points and be placed higher than UK. And the voting is splitted into jury and televote. First every jury will show it's Top 10 on their own so they are slowly coming in points. Then after all jurys gave their points. The at the moment lowest placed country will recieve all points from any countrys public at once. So no points just means you weren't in any publics or jurys Top 10, not that nobody voted for you

[@gtagide]

U dont realize that England was out of tone? The song is good but the intrepertacion was awful

[@zimon85]

It sure was!

[@jerryhehe]

great video waiting for your reactions to eurovison songs

[@andywessel]

we watch it for fun, drink champagne, dress up and have a laugh. the more tacky the performance the better :)

[@SK-nw4ig]

I think more than politics the regional voting has to do with the fact that people more close to each other culturally tend to like same kind of music too. Because all of this is gone when there is a super good, joining people together song every once in a while, and it will get votes from everywhere. That being said, Ukraine's win 2022 was to be expected and it wa due to the war - though the song was very good, and i think it would have reached the top5 any year. Ukraine has won several times before. React to Geography now!s explanation of eurovision :) And watch the will ferrel movie!

[@LisaSimpsonRules]

The problem with the White Stripes sample / bar copies is that, as per the rules of the contest, all songs must be brand new, written later than September of the previous year. If it included a sample, that song should have been disqualified from participating.

[@Annausagi2]

Naaaah, even back then, the "Crybaby" song was ass. 😂 Had nothing to do with the times.

[@CluelessDoric]

There is a Eurovision KZbin channel where you can watch past ones

[@bramdams4893]

0 points of the public means that in no participating country the United Kingdom was in the top 10 of favorable songs (with 1, 2, 3, 4 ,5, 6, 7, 8, 10 and 12 points to hand out)

[@diva777]

What da... what was Flo-rida doing there? Lol

[@TheDemouchetsREACT]

😂😂

[@Gadeberg90]

No Israel 2018 didn't win because of the chicken impression. It won because it was the MeToo year and it was a song relating a bit to that subject.

[@catbevis1644]

I hope this comes across right!... I think the US wouldn't "get" Eurovision, they'd take it really seriously and enter an amazing artist with an amazing song with the intention of winning. Obviously that's not a bad thing and is fully intended as a compliment, but it's just not really what Eurovision is about. It's crazy, it's camp, and it's a good opportunity for us all to laugh at ourselves. Winning isn't necessarily the point. Basically... you'd have to sink to our level to take part 😄

[@quintydubbelaar1514]

Wouldn’t be fair either with the amount of people that live there and all the labels

[@graciedancer3952]

What does that have to do with anything? The public and the jury vote. You cant vote for your own country​@@quintydubbelaar1514

[@aregst]

12;30 Just not enough votes to result into 1 full point. And trust me, you would really see songs you would never want to have heard, let alone to hear again :D

[@-_YouMayFind_-]

I always vote for my favorite artist and sometimes multiple even XD

[@hulda4ever]

Why isn't America in it? It's Eurovision not worldvision..

[@GamersOdyssey]

Talent is talent but people do not consider other things that might influence voting. Let's take for example Greece and Cyprus, yes they might be considered different countries but they speak the same language they have the same customs, they have almost the same culture same religion same people, if you like Greek songs you will like songs from Cyprus because they both sing in Greek that is the way culture works it is not always politics, you will vote the most familiar thing to you, that is why English people vote for Ireland, that is why Scandinavian countries vote for each other etc. And by the way there were several instances where Greece did not give their best points to Cyprus and vice versa. By the way this is a VERY bad video that did an awful at explaining and showcasing Eurovision.

[@MrKingGlock]

thank you for this.. we the ppl of europe worship this talentshow.! Lets talk about the political points in esc.. this year iceland has a palestinian musician competing for us and Palestine is banned from ESC and because of the ongoing war we are sure ot be taking the simpathetic vote this year!

[@sjusovare]

Palestine is not banned from the ESC because of the war, Palestine isn't even banned from the ESC at all, Palestine just never was part of the contest, simply because Palestine never fit the criterias to enter since it never even had a public broadcaster to enter a contestant representing itself (the only time we saw palestinian artists in the contest, they were representing Israel, not Palestine) The only country banned from the contest is Russia, which I think is a mistake (and where the EBU precisely took a political decision, ironically trying to prevent the contest from being political), since the contest would have been the only mass reaching TV broadcast in Russia that the russian government could not control and censor

[@אדירבןחיים-ב8ו]

@@sjusovare There is no such thing as a Palestinian people, it is a name that the Romans gave to Israel after they destroyed the Temple and Jerusalem and expelled most of the Jews from Israel, so they set this name to erase the fact that this is our country

[@fredgoutier6162]

Hello from Brussels (Belgium) About the UK couple even then it was a No No. Too cheesy song For the next competition, the Belgian song is FIRE 🎉

[@thinkerian]

Video is bit oversimplifying, people don't vote for allies, they vote for for what they like, but in most cases that means voting for a neighboring country or culturally close country because they have similar music or similar taste in music, or same artists and type of music are popular in those countries. In 2021 besides UK, Germany, Spain and Netherlands also got 0 points from public votes, because they had the worst song out of all 26 in the finals, and not of Brexit or some other stuff.

[@lisethomsen5749]

That video is so outdated, that your are watching, because Ireland is in fact in 1st place of winning most contest yes, but now they are in 1st place with sweden, because Sweden won last year, 2023, so Ireland has 7 wins, and Sweden also have 7 wins in total

[@VladSem]

You can get 11th place in every country and get 0 points...so

[@AlexanderDeusvult]

Welcome 🫡🙂🇸🇪

[@MoonIdalia]

i just always have to laugh when they say "wörst"

[@graciedancer3952]

Its televote and jury in esc

[@royjohansen7472]

❤️ your reaction and this year I think 🇳🇴 will win, but if they don’t I don’t care because this year was Norwegian soul in it 👍🥰

[@TheDemouchetsREACT]

We may have to check some songs out.

[@aregst]

4:00 The problem is, that a Eurovision song has to be not older than a short time and so quoting an old original might influence on permitting it or not, or disqualification after victory...

[@BenHatira]

Yeah it's politics don't let those in the comment section tell you otherwise.. you get points mostly to your friendly neighbors who share the same culture and shit.. except for England and Germany i guess ...

[@YukiTheOkami]

its called Eurovision song contest as in the european trading zone so why would the usa be kept out? XD dont worry u arent the only contrys that arent there i mean russia is banned from the contest for now and no pureley asian country ever participatet either i think the telephon votes are messed up only the 10 or twelf most votet for countrys get any points at all (and u can not call for ur own country) Now imagine u write a test and u would have enough points for a c+ but becouse 10 people are better than u you get 0 points failed XD i dont think this is fair yeh mainly becouse i am sad about germany always ending up on last or second last place for a view years now we dont have to win but last place come on (although the song sisters deserved the last place ) i also think they should do the rule again that u only can sing in an official language of ur country but to the adition that the song only needs to be in this language 70% means u cna mix with other languages and that if ur country has multiple official languages u need to switch it up every year (so that swizerland does not win just couse they sing in french every year in the past before they got rid of the language rule mostly english and french speaking/sounding countrys won the majority of the wins lyes definetly on those 2 so thats peobaply why they got rid ofthe language rule but i am for at least havin a song in ur native tounge every second year becouse language is beautifull

[@Gadeberg90]

No that 2003 song was utter shite. And I grew up through that era too.

[@kayleighmoran]

The simpletons vote for countreys. Everone else wote for music and feeling.

[@anja_katharina4891]

pls more esc reactions

[@saralouise2776]

No idea why Australia us in it.

[@mortpost2363]

Norway shall win 24. react to it and embrace the rock

[@basquat76]

British guy is still salty Ukraine beat them 2021🙂

[@Nikanails]

you chose a very unprofessional and involved video to review. the worst thing I've ever seen

[@carro-xb9oz]

u mneed to watch a better eurovision one this one is just not good

[@linabmoniz]

The zero points for the United Kingdom was in the year of Berxit, it was a political vote

[@laoaganlester1728]

UK got the 0 points all because of Brexit as the narrator was saying.