Didgeridoos, Big Notes, Kings: Eurovision 2024 reviewed, pt8 (Australia, Portugal, UK)

[@Rose-xo2xc]

my favourite part of the evening is watching Gabe yap about eurovision

[@escgabe]

🥰🥰🥰

[@cecilie8420]

Agreed

[@ViggoLarssonOsterlund]

Word.

[@Bakellsoni]

This.

[@keepscrolling6291]

as a portuguese i'm very proud of the entry we sent and i'm happy to finally see someone giving it the appreciation it deserves

[@xinex5166]

Portugal is so good at doing ‘might keep you up at 3am due to its haunting beauty’ kinda songs. Never fails in that area.

[@Pixcele]

i only just discovered this channel two weeks ago but i have been WAITING for you to get to Grito... you videos are so in depth and educational! I really enjoy them ❤

[@escgabe]

Thank you!!

[@BlackScorpio]

Finally, someone understands us and our song. Eurovision Histories was the first one. Many many Thanks from Portugal 🇵🇹

[@escgabe]

Obrigado 🇵🇹❤️

[@ribbitrally]

i absolutely love your analysis of the portuguese staging!!

[@escgabe]

Thank you Rally 🥰🥰

[@ribbitrally]

@@escgabe mwah!! 😚

[@cristinadiniz9201]

​@@escgabe thanks from Portugal 🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹

[@Fatima502]

Very much enjoyed the description of Portugal’s clever video-staging

[@rose21619]

Love this video- Portugal, Australia, and UK are three of my favorites! I feel like they haven't gotten much love in the community so it makes me happy to hear your appreciation for them. Portugal in particular is my #1 and I loved your analysis! And I think Australia and UK have the potential to do well depending on their staging. Can't wait to see how they all look on the big stage in May!

[@JoeBleasdaleReal]

The weirdest narrative of this year’s Eurovision Twitter season is that Australia is bad - it’s one of the campest, danciest songs Eurovision has had in a while. There’s a reason it did so well in ESCBubble’s Public Reacts - the locals love that sort of thing! 🇦🇺🙌

[@rai1879]

I think it's the video 😂 it just takes a little thing for people to not like something, like how Iru song lyrics made no sense so people hated it

[@kataminedj]

It feels like a lot of people didn’t “get” it. They didn’t understand how groundbreaking it was to have an aboriginal instrument, language and vocalist at Eurovision

[@Lawrence.Laurentius]

I really like Australia's song and I love didgeridoo sound. Portugal's song is really atmospheric and beautiful.

[@SYEJ92]

Portugal is always underrated, i really hope they win again in the future

[@ruiddd956]

Brilliant analysis of the portuguese staging. Overall my #1 this year.

[@escgabe]

Thank you! It’s in my top 5 as well

[@waveygirl]

Thanks Gabe, for your heartfelt opinion about Iolanda and Grito. You saw beyond the surface… Grito is a musical masterpiece. Thank you for a Portuguese fan. ❤

[@jstan626]

thank you for calling out the gross reaction to birth of a new age. i can understand the mishearing but i too found the laughing at it so uncomfortable. plus it's one of the most robbed entries of all time imo as a brit i'd say i feel worried but optimistic about dizzy. i like the song a lot and stream it often, but i don't think it's something i'd pick up my phone and vote for. HOWEVER i fully trust that we will get an amazing stage show and i do think we are in for a respectable jury score. fingers crossed it translates to a good result!

[@blueiela]

@iolandamusic Iolanda, you have to see this incredible analysis of Grito's performance and staging .Gabe managed to describe it perfectly. Thank you Gabe, for your care and dedication in this analysis ❤️🇵🇹🙌

[@mccaroni3]

It made my day to see someone who is just as fascinated with all of the amazing tiny details of Grito as I am ❣I won't be surprised if it comes in my top 5 most listened to songs of 2024 in my spotify wrapped 🤭

[@erinnadia0409]

Yeah it wasn't cool when Europeans made fun of Jess Mauboy's dancing when it was traditional aboriginal dance, but I get when people aren't aware or educated on the topic they can see something different and strange and make fun of it

[@Jakumata]

Absolutely agreed! It's just flat disrespectful and I absolutely despise seeing this kind of behaviour especially with PoC artists. I really hope Europe will learn, especially as discrimination and exclusions are on the rise. One good guideline I follow by is really "when you don't understand something don't make fun of it, if you really want to know ask/research".

[@veravanophoven_]

Thanks for acknowledging jeangu and his message. He deserved better !!

[@marinasebelja8128]

I really appreciate you going into detail about what makes it work in a song. For the music novice that I am, it helps me digest a sea of information in an entertaining way.

[@teysa.k]

the SHADE that was not really shade lmao, i love it. Also, congrats on getting your holes filled!

[@suushwin]

Caroline Polachek mentioned in an ESC Gabe video, this is the best crossover I've ever seen

[@caeteandrade1974]

Just as a clarification, the part where you say Leo is singing bossa nova he is actually singing in a samba like rithim Great video though- love from Brasil 🇧🇷

[@ruiddd956]

Exactly. 80% samba... 20% Bossa Nova.

[@caeteandrade1974]

It can even be considered a funk but bossa nova is kinda off kkkk

[@escgabe]

Thank you! For sure I should have talked about Samba too. I’m glad I at least emphasised his Brazilian influence as it should be celebrated 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

[@jamesjohnson8279]

Ok so crazy story about Olly Alexander’s song, I got back from uni a few weeks ago and asked my parents if they had heard the UK Eurovision song they said they really didn’t like it. The reason? They first heard it on Ant and Dec’s Saturday night takeaway which had Ant and Dec clowning about in the background of the song. I showed them the studio version of the song and they really liked it 💀 Moral of the story? Ant and Dec are washed fr 😭

[@jpedromacedosilva]

Excellent point of view, analysis and arguments. Everything very well founded.I've enjoy it very much!! Thank you

[@bruno6901]

great video loved the yapping 10/10

[@ESCHayden]

Australia is one of my favourites this year and I'm hoping they qualify. Portugal is an interesting one for me because normally they're not my cup of tea and last year was the first time I quite enjoyed their entry. I like this year, not as much as last year, but I still think it's beautiful and I think it will grow on me. As for the UK, I agree with most of what you've said. Really curious to see what Olly's "gritty", "unexpected" staging will be. Also hoping, like 2022/23 there will be a ESC version.

[@sparkart7061]

I really think everyone is wrong about Australia this year! I’m so sure they will qualify, electric fields performances are incredible and Australia know how to bring a qualifying performance

[@babygrogu845]

I hope as British Gabe will vote for Portugal❤️💚❤️💚

[@JqlGirl]

Can confirm that I had never heard King until I went to check just now.

[@Jakumata]

Ah Gabe! I waited for your takea on those. Seriously every friday is a celebration with your ramblings on here 🎉 (Also I am very glad you are also on Team Grito) ❤

[@escgabe]

Thank you!! 🥳🥳

[@tomsakmens5571]

"First Brazilian Portuguese song in the final of FdC since 2017". Thanks, I had to check again that "Mar no fim" didn't get to the final. :(

[@lenagoncalveslena-yx2es]

Thanks from Portugal ❤❤❤soo beautiful song and performance too ❤❤❤goo Iolanda ❤

[@mec0013]

Gabe can you please do a video about why the UK is so poor at Eurovision and the BBC is apparently too cheap to host a British festival with semi-finals and why Scotland hasn't just made their own festival? Love your commentary.

[@_dont_mind_me]

I love all of these three. Australia is super fun and fresh and I actually really like the verses because I think it builds nicely into the chorus, the early didgeridoo is a bit of a teaser for what’s coming. Portugal is one of my favourite ballads, the staging is excellent and it sounds so magical to me. UK (my country!) is in my top 5, I know it’s not necessarily an esc song but I’ve been a big fan of Olly since his first album and Dizzy is very in keeping with the rest of his music, some elevation with staging would put it in good stead to finish comfortably on the left side of the leaderboard.

[@that_cat21]

gonna throw fucking hands if people mock one milkali

[@MicaelaQueirozCardoso]

You made an amazing analisys to Grito!!! Thank you!!! 🇵🇹 Obrigada 😊 TELEVOTE for Portugal at 1st Semifinal please!!!

[@antonytsai6611]

13:00 not the mae muller slander 😭😭😭

[@turbogaminghero2844]

GREGGS MENTIONED 🔥🔥🔥

[@Onlyferries]

FR

[@Chronicallywitty]

I feel like I’m cramming for a test binging all of these the night before. That being said, the same shirt color and wall color is definitely a choice.

[@DiegoPrs]

I'm really glad you had your holes filled 🙏

[@antonytsai6611]

I was so shocked when Zachariah the aboriginal person in electric fields was a man, I thought it was a woman 😭😭😭 love all of these songs

[@thatduckthatanimates]

No but like me too-

[@Runarmar04]

WHAT🙀

[@padmeamidala40]

I think they’ve both said that they identity as genderfluid and use he/him pronouns so not a man

[@erinnadia0409]

To be fair they have an incredible and very unique voice that I feel can sound both male and female! They are more fluid too with their fashion too but I think their pronouns are he/him ❤

[@Itistheendoftheworldasweknowit]

I had to look up whether they were a man or woman after the semi-final, my whole family wasnt sure either 🤣🤣🤣

[@icyflame716]

Gabe, don’t de Mae like that lmaooo.

[@myjunkdrawer8014]

Hey anyone know SBS's PO Box? I have a therapy bill to send them. I may have more since WHAT DO YOU MEAN SHEPPARD SUBMITTED A SONG AND GOT TURNED DOWN?!?!?

[@kataminedj]

The way Australian Aboriginals/Black people (Black is the term for Native Australian people) are treated compared to indigenous European cultures is appalling.

[@echtblikbonen]

Light up the room puh puh puh puh puhpuh puh puh No but seriously you guys seem to be going through the reawakening that we in the Netherlands had after Anouk, love to see y'all getting back up to sending quality

[@Slinky599]

Did anyone even think of milk before you mentioned it? I mean it’s mil-kali. The k is very obviously part of the second syllable. I’m not sure there was anything to be concerned about until you pointed it out.

[@Taliesin800]

The video for Oz was really unnerving - didn't like from the get-go. The staging (ironically) was what let Dizzy down. Portugal was utterly sublime - deserved better result.

[@vandabarreiras7200]

Love from Portugal!

[@RolyWestYT]

Poor Mae

[@escgabe]

In fairness to her if I was stood up there I would have been as terrified as she was!!

[@dinisberinguilho]

Portugal 🇵🇹✨🇵🇹✨🔥🔥

[@Svagtpositiv]

The hook in Dizzy is from Sanna Nielsen - Du och jag mot världen

[@12_terabyte57]

If Sheppard would’ve been chosen for Eurovision instead of Electric Fields, they probably would’ve gotten some high points from the Netherlands😅 For some reason they were all over Dutch radio for a long time

[@dhilandass7986]

we aren't in the same semi so they couldnt vote for us

[@6xlord907]

29:20 right back at ya (sorry) i never really care about how my country does, but i actually think both germany and the uk have the same problem. i think if we sent entries that are more culturally niche they'd stand a better chance. easier for germany than for the uk, but still, there's plenty of genres and subgenres of music that are just more bri*ish than sending radio pop that could have come out of any country in a half-the-globe radius. I just now realized why I liked Dizzy so much, it literally reminded me of the pet shop boys. So thanks for that aside about Olly's acting background I guess XD So yeah, that was more british than your usual entries and more well-received by at least some fans. Just.. .not enough to pick up the phone for unfortunately. I had to chuckle at the phrasing about hoping for an "unsettling" performance live... I'm sure there were plenty of people unsettled by the gay soft core porn. Not that we didn't have plenty of soft core hetero porn, but that is just "normal" I guess.

[@imaleoncruz]

Im still waiting for Rina Sawayama to be on esc 😭

[@gretagrip5325]

Not to be that guy but I know you’re a boss at pronunciation; Yankunytjatjara is pronounced like yung-kun-jarra

[@escgabe]

Aaaaaa thank you! I will get it right next time. It was difficult to find pronunciation guides!

[@kisielmalinowy14]

Take a shot every time he calls something special

[@escgabe]

Hahahahhaha Eurovision is very special 😎😎

[@edgardovelasquez8696]

The UK is my favorite entry this year! 🇬🇧

[@jonasoliveira195]

PORTUGAL!!! 🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹

[@ziemniakmaster9520]

When will you be doing Poland?

[@KernowRoadcam]

I don't dislike the Australian entry but I don't think that it delivers what is needed for Eurovision. I also think that is one of this year's weakest songs. As someone who listens to almost any genre of music, I am really struggling to engage with Portugal's entry. I have listened to it multiple times, but I do not know how to connect with it. If and when it clicks with me, I am sure I will feel differently about it, but at the moment, it is not doing it for me. She is a good singer, though. The UK entry this year is good enough to finish middle of the pack, but there are so many much stronger entries. Sadly, it feels too safe and formulaic and I'm not sure why there are Christmas type bells in it. But still a good song and I am sure Olly will do a good job on the big stage.

[@angelamcgrath948]

Come on Olly!!!! 🇬🇧💙🌀🇬🇧💙🌀🇬🇧💙🌀

[@azazzlenic]

Gabe you must have musical training, b flat and bosanova lol

[@escgabe]

Haha yes I had offers for music college when I was 18 but chose not to take them

[@butler1233]

All the UK needs is people at the BBC's partners such as TaP to respond to their emails. Yes I'm still salty that we could have had Rina and absolutely stomped it 😡 Olly could be a good contender in previous years but there's way too much wild competition this year.

[@Fatima502]

We now know that Olly approached the BBC, not the other way round. So I don't think it's a good sign that they apparently had no-one lined up for 2024.

[@Privacy1223]

Countries next week?

[@harrytmm]

One is iceland

[@hugoclarke5835]

Can u include time stamps pls

[@Sonnen_Licht]

Congratulations on your holes being filled 🎉

[@annettelouise6781]

Electric Fields should have stuck with their song from a few yrilliant.ears ago. Millenials? It was b

[@susanacarvas3032]

❤❤❤🇵🇹

[@alicevenancio8838]

❤❤❤

[@Eggplant_Emoji]

I don’t think people will have an issue Aboriginal language in the song. mcRoys song was boring and there’s no Aboriginal immigration to Europe. Racist as that sounds, I feel that could have affected the voting.

[@reislaya]

Mae Muller devoured the high note wtf are you saying??

[@Jatzki]

He is saying just that, if you mean that she screwed it up. I'm not sure what do you mean devouring tho

[@reislaya]

@@Jatzki Mae sang the high note really good

[@Jatzki]

@@reislaya nah she didn't it was quite out of tune and the pitch fluctuaded throughout the note, sounded uncertain

[@XSunacX]

"You know my broccoli" is not disrespectful or racist. It's just a fun pun. Exactly like "Go Tiffany" is from this year's icelandic selection.

[@_dont_mind_me]

Yes it was. Jeangu sent an anthemic song about the displacement, slavery and discrimination black people have faced for centuries using a minority language and all the esc community had to say about was ‘haha funny broccoli song’ it was incredibly racist and disrespectful

[@tallemajas]

i don't really see it with australia, unfortunately... i'm not denying that there may be aboriginal influences in the song, but as someone who's not familiar with them, i didn't catch them at all. to me it just sounded like an extremely basic pop song with nothing special about it, other than 2-3 words in a non-english language in the chorus. and i think most people will miss those cultural influences you were talking about as well

[@CallistoTheWarriorQueen]

I think it will come through a lot more with staging. Electric Fields are great Live and this Lyric Video is very basic. We only got our contract finalised close to when we had to enter our song so I feel like it was all a bit rushed and now they will get a chance to really work on it.

[@YellowPeachist]

@@CallistoTheWarriorQueen I wish that had happened :(

[@hatsunemiku99990]

FIRST

[@domiiinik4320]

Australia - pretty good, but nothing really special Portugal - great vocals, but the song is boring UK - the best UK entry of this century

[@nelsondesousa9304]

Oh how wrong you were! Better luck next time xo

[@domiiinik4320]

@@nelsondesousa9304 I was wrong only with Portugal, because Iolanda made this song really special The other statements were true

[@nelsondesousa9304]

@@domiiinik4320 Australia’s performance was not great. I can say that because I’m Australian. Iolanda is a superstar and the song’s fabulous. The UK was positively woeful. It’s just a weak song delivered with poor vocals and crass staging that put so many people off.

[@rosemulet]

Australia’s song is just bad, it really ain’t that deep

[@rosemulet]

Sheppard’s song really isn’t good either though sadly