Eurovision 2024 is INSANE!

Discussing how insane Eurovision 2024 is this year
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[@PetarBladeStrok]

Baby Lasagna's song is actually about how young people from Balkans' are forced to leave their countries due to poor job opportunities, salaries and corruption. It's awesome that you covered this.

[@cyphert7136]

A ovo ti je gaming kanal hahahha ..još gledam di je šredanje

[@NoiseJoys-qq7gl]

Ahaha, everything is relative! My friend moved to Croatia because of the war in Ukraine. People in Croatia are more sympathetic, kinder and more positive. Croatia has much, really MUCH better schools and education for children. Plus Croatia is very beautiful.

[@madiskruusmann302]

The song is oddly similar to "party in my head" by Pain though. I think at 0:55 (both songs)

[@rezin5114]

@@madiskruusmann302 omg as soon as the refrain started instantly thought of that

[@madiskruusmann302]

@@rezin5114 Yes and I haven't seen anybody else talk about it. Also, the first time I heard it I knew I'd heard it before, but couldn't remember where. Eventually got it.

[@Gogeto666]

As a European, i can comfirm - nothing makes sense, but it is fun to watch.

[@moderndaycain16]

as someone whose country left eurovision years ago (Turkey) same.

[@Mathemoto]

Not really, kinda embarrassing how bad 90% of the stuff is. Feel like most of Europe is on acid.

[@iAvrilFan1]

Croatia was so epic, that whole arena was dancing and singing

[@KeepTheAngerFlowing]

That was my favourite one!

[@JustK4Y1512]

He even got a massive homecoming back in Croatia after the contest. Bro had the entire country on their knees

[@jimsid1]

So was with Switzerland actually

[@TornadoCat]

Croatian kid: Mom, I want to Rammstein and PAIN gig! Mom: We have Rammstein and PAIN at home. Rammstein and PAIN at home: rim tim tagi digi dim dim!

[@TheOrian34]

@@jimsid1 Was it? I didn't hear much.

[@tedd1659]

Nik making video on Eurovision is something i really wasn't expecting

[@knotshimi]

Same here, not gonna lie but I had some Whisky and low key had to open the video before I believed what I was seeing, I thought KZbin messed up my recommended...

[@adatomczyk7000]

But he made one last year as well

[@game_masterariana]

Same

[@hazuusan]

As he should every year from now on

[@NoiseJoys-qq7gl]

Why no? Nik already do it before.

[@jacksjacket.r7488]

Electric Callboy really should've been part of this

[@elenuvien]

they want nothing to do with ESC anymore, for a good reason lol

[@Man-st1pc]

​@@elenuvien ?

[@Alex-pk1iy]

@@elenuvien have they actually said that? Genuinely interested because I’ve not read or heard anything like that

[@katatzzz]

@@Alex-pk1iy I mean eurovision is more shit than ever nowdays. This year was just a next level shitshow.

[@msellenandrea]

@@Alex-pk1iy yes, they have stated several times that they will not try again

[@nichtedsheeran]

Useless fact: The background singer of Windows95 Man is the finnish voice of Chase from Paw Patrol

[@JustK4Y1512]

Apparently he has had a metalcore band too when he was young

[@nothuman1683]

So he's on the case ?

[@hannesisaksson4087]

Somehow that’s really interesting

[@dontcomply3976]

Wow, that really is useless Not wrong there

[@ALLEKA666]

That’s actually pretty cool

[@Alex-pk1iy]

Fun fact: that’s 2 acts in 2 years, that reference Rammstein as their influence, that have come 2nd but with the highest televotes in their respective years (Kaarija and Baby Lasagna) Baby Lasagna also references Electric Callboy as an influence

[@CapitanDePlai]

You can't be European without listening to Rammstein

[@dermetzgermeister7336]

Also Pain - Party In My Head (chorus).

[@nickname_Kanzan]

​@@CapitanDePlaiTurmion Kätilöt >>>

[@pr1m0n]

Yeah the intro of cha cha cha is a straight up copy of we got the moves

[@the4GIVEN]

​@@pr1m0n yeah, its weird that kajira didnt mention ec but baby lasagna did, even tho kajira was way closer to ec

[@katatzzz]

Love how Finland always makes it to the thumbnail🥰

[@Zinetha]

🇫🇮

[@EkkoTheGekko]

Finland has some of the craziest entries for the ESC. I‘m German and I can guarantee that Windows 95 man would have never made it through the first stage of choosing the contestant here. One of the few things I hate this country for, together with refusing Electric Callboy.

[@KeepTheAngerFlowing]

NO RULES!! 🇫🇮

[@benk.7194]

​@@EkkoTheGekkoLet's have Electric Callboy represent Finland next year 👀

[@EkkoTheGekko]

@@benk.7194 100%! But they also have to want this..

[@TheMrHaerion]

Joost Klein finishes his song with a very emotional personal message. So once he goes backstage after his song, he was promised not to be filmed. The camerawoman tried to film him in this environment multiple times, for which he asked her to stop multiple times. He had enough and raised his fist (not hitting or touching the camerawoman). For this he was disqualified. Standard reaction nowadays.... He wasnt allowed to win

[@earthycart3535]

has it been made public yet what he did? all that i heard was he made a threatening movement towards the camera without touching anyone after asking the camerawoman multiple times to stop filming. He got disqualified abt a complaint abt this 1 single movement he made and got disqualified.

[@tlmc3257]

@@earthycart3535 it's kinda been made public aswell as the fact that after he made that "threatening" gesture he also profusely apologised afterwards because the camerawoman somehow managed to hurt herself with her own camera. But not to worry cause there's no doubt he's just going back next year (although i wouldn't know why you'd want to after this bullshit treatment but hey)

[@Lovelugo]

@@earthycart3535we need the footage!Anyway he stated yesterday that he just pushed the camera down.The woman violated the agreement they had,not to film him after his performance.Because of the emotional last part of his song

[@martijnvanderark4117]

@@Lovelugothe phone “broke” they say so we probably won’t see footage

[@janeslater8004]

Its being fast tracked to court 12 other tv companies voted to disqualify him not just ebu for aggressive behaviour. Stop defending violence. He was not going to win. If he cant handle being filmed which is part of job he should not be representative for netherlands

[@zipperman1448]

Baby Lasagna was a guitarist in Croatian industrial/folk metal band Manntra and also co-wrote a couple of songs for German gothic/industrial metal band Mono Inc.

[@JustK4Y1512]

Manntra even tried the Eurovision national finals a few years ago, with Baby Lasagna as guitarist there indeed

[@spiritoftheocean4110]

Ah nice, I saw Manntra in Germany on a Festival called Rockharz. They were really good.❤

[@MultiSky7]

And due to his authorship on that album, got awarded as an author for the best selling album in Germany.

[@cheerfuldevil]

Oh, Manntra is nice.

[@jojoball444]

Manntra is one of my favourite bands. Usually I'm not into industrial/folk metal so much. I'm a core kid through and through! But since my mother tongue is Croatian, the texts in their earlier songs can hit close to home :) I saw them live 3 times. These dude's are really chill and down to earth. Just like Baby Lasagna :)

[@Guggz]

Gåte definitely didn't deserve last place. The Å isn't there for show, Nick. The vocal technique the singer uses is called 'Lokk', which is what was used to call in cattle for hundreds of years. They've been an established band in Norway for over 20 years.

[@oscar12ty]

Its such a good song that its almost sad it is in the same competition as the rest

[@evilemuempire9550]

I’ve honestly been listening to Gåte’s discography off the back of it and they are soooo good! Unlike most entrants into Eurovision they seem to have been around for a while, just never really topping charts.

[@cheesefondont1579]

They deserved so much better. Such a great band.

[@moondaughter1004]

Yeah we have the same vocal technique in Sweden but we call it 'kulning'. It's honestly a really interesting technique. Btw you guys were seriously robbed

[@erinmorgansears2988]

Ugh. I really wanted Gåte to do better! They have a freaking nyckelharpa! I sit and console myself with the knowledge that they didn't get dead-dead last. They were dead last... in the Grand Finale... It helps a little. Not complaining that Nemo singing like they did on a spinning top got them first, though. That was excellent.

[@Lamerboy89]

Estonian Vsauce

[@tuures.5167]

Estonia: We have Vsauce at home

[@guy_autordie]

And sean paul!

[@thebackspacers]

I'm from the Netherlands, the whole country is angry a the EBU for the onjustful disqualification :( but Joost actually has a metal track as well haha it's called 'demonen in me lichaam', he said his brother put him on Linkin Park back in the day!

[@ansjeliek]

Joost luistert ook Linkin Park? Ik dacht dat die niet cooler kon zijn❤

[@jeroen0011]

Most Belgians are as well, Joost deserved a win or atleast a chance of doing so, well the Flemish (people of the Dutch speaking) think atleast, annoying our announcer only spoke French, not even English or Dutch...

[@felixyakubov91]

Joost attacked someone. Not to mention his antisemitic behavior towards Eden Golan. His song was good, too bad he is an asshole

[@asteria9963]

How is it "onjustful"? He literally broke Swedish laws and is going to be tried for it.

[@jeroen0011]

@@asteria9963 She started by keep on following/annoying someone who specifically requested not to, and Joost didn't even touch that bitch who caused this bs by her mistake, just made sure she rly needed to leave which he can without harming anyone, it's just a power and political game, hope it gets cancelled next year

[@Indyofthedead]

Eurovision is a perfect microcosm of democracy: the people want something, but the few rich and powerful decide what they get.

[@DowserGeneral]

WE'RE SELLING OUR COW WITH THIS ONE 🔥🔥🔥🐄🐄🇭🇷

[@what-hq1gl]

🗣️‼️🔥🔥💯🔥

[@hasnobones]

Baby Lasgna has said Electric Callboy is a huge influence on him and that he would loove to open for them sometime in the future. But yeah, we were robbed for the second year in a row -.- f them judges

[@EkkoTheGekko]

To be fair, Nemo has an amazing voice. They are able to hit such a wide spectrum of notes perfectly in their song. I would have also preferred Croatia winning but I‘m also not as pissed as last year..

[@JustK4Y1512]

@@EkkoTheGekko yeah last year was a disgrace, let some new artist win ffs

[@dylh7559]

@@JustK4Y1512 Kaarija was awesome

[@shawn9366]

Not trans enough

[@kruk0]

Also Baby Lasagna likes Rammstein Also

[@astrolopitekos]

Eurovision is the most hyper-european event ever. Clash of ~50 different cultures, politics everywhere, crazy budgets, crazy staging, people that don’t care at all, people that care too much. Brexit. Love it.

[@CoolCatDoingAKickflip]

Norway's entry was incredible.

[@fizzyfran2886]

Thank You for supporting Croatia bro ❤️🤘🏻

[@HeathenScents]

Nik je pravi slav! 😉👌

[@mirkecWii]

Svi su bili za nas, ovo je velika krada i drago mi je da su svi skuzili

[@fizzyfran2886]

@@HeathenScents tak je šefe :)

[@HeathenScents]

@@mirkecWii tako je svaki godinu na Eurovision!

[@TheBdawg40]

Too brate!

[@atvena]

Please do a metal cover of europapa

[@antonia555]

I feel like Joost would like that tbh

[@sarahsho9799]

ohh that would be so cool!!

[@atropatene3596]

There already is one

[@atvena]

@@atropatene3596 by Nik ?

[@MathMurderer]

@@atvena By a band called "Pene Corrida"

[@helenday6651]

Meow cat please meow back 😊

[@simeslu]

The shouting in the chorus of the Norwegian entry is actually traditional "Cow calling" or herd calling, used throughout the times to make your cows come back to the farm after being in the fields. Also, Gåte has been a known band in Norway for a long time, so when they swing their guitars around I think its kind of to protest the forced playback of the instruments. Kind of what Nivada did on MTV that one time.

[@GRIMMGent]

I'm pretty sure that for the majority of their performance everyone was playing as if they were playing live for real. If you go look at video clips of other shows of their, you can see that at least the one guitarist usually goes that hard swinging his guitar around at their usual shows where they do play live. And if you really pay attention to their performance at Eurovision, you can see that they're actually playing and that the swings or that one moment that the bassist twirls his bass around him, wouldn't interfere with them actually playing the music. The one moment that what you say could be true, is where the guitarist at the end throws his guitar really high in the air while you're still hearing the riffs playing, that could indeed been a sort of protest against the forced playback.

[@pawlex4049]

Dark Side by Blind Channel to this day remains my favorite eurovision entry ever

[@JustK4Y1512]

Nik actually collabed with them once! (How to Linkin Park)

[@pawlex4049]

@@JustK4Y1512 i know, that collab was pretty good

[@sky_wish]

This is how my history with metalcore began 🫶

[@mr.hagrid7825]

Hard rock Hallelujah on Eurovision in my hearth forever

[@manunascimento6186]

Wassup Nicolas Noturno!!! In 2018 Eurovision, a Metalcore band played that day, it was wild!! Their name is AWS, unfortunaly, their lead singer passed away in 2021 after battling Leukemia. RIP Örs Siklosi!!

[@M72_]

Ohh I found a brazilian fan of AWS, tmj mano Nik definitely needs to see their performance at eurovision 2018, that was amazing Örs egy csoda

[@acidtearz]

OH NO holy shit... AWS was the only time I voted for someone

[@manunascimento6186]

@@M72_ Falae meu galo, tmj!!! Não importa a língua, se o bgl é bom a gente ouve!!! Boa semana tchê!!! Örs Egy Csoda!!!

[@q-ep7cd]

My top 3 in finals: 3. Norway. Reminds me Leprous so much. 2. Estonia. Ethno-hip-hop punky song with Vsauce on vocals. 1. Finland. So catchy. Sweet vocals. The country invented Linux was represented by Windows95man. This was so epic!

[@N-ui9ms]

Meow cat please meow back!!!🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🗣️🗣️🔥🔥

[@pleegjepleegje]

Meow 🐈‍⬛

[@TorkelLian]

The guitarist in Gåte is actually playing his guitar like that during live shows. Even climbing around the stage playing the guitar. Crazy dude

[@Mikki247]

When Eurovision is supposedly not political, but even people outside of Europe aren't as delusional as the EBU 🤣

[@riba2233]

It has always been political, do people really not see that?

[@asteria9963]

@@riba2233 It's very purpose is political in nature

[@Mikki247]

@@riba2233 tell the EBU that, they are still living in La-la land believing it's not political 🤣

[@riba2233]

@@Mikki247 I don't agree. Ofc they won't tell it out loud but it is pretty obvious

[@yassineaarras8570]

Painting the superbowl as the biggest sports competition in the world is wiiild, it's not even top 5

[@JustK4Y1512]

It’s one of the biggest matches in the world but yeah definitely not even top 5 biggest competitions

[@VexMusicGuy]

AS A DUTCHIE I HATE THAT JOOST GOT DISQUALIFIED

[@richardjohansson2648]

as a raver, i hate that Joost got disqualiified

[@atvena]

As an Aussie I hate that Joost got disqualified

[@viervierson1602]

As a swiss dutchie, i am confused

[@vatunvimmanen2443]

he threatened to punch the reporter... he really deserved a disqualification

[@intarsienschrankzwetschgen4224]

What did he do? Shout around in the wardrobe that there are actually two genders?

[@CaptainFirefred]

Just watched the Croatia Song and this is silly goosebumps gallore and I will be haunted by this for some time.

[@Zinetha]

A fun tidbit about Finland's performance I've been waiting to share: "Muna" means "an egg", but it's also slang for male genitalia. In their stage show, he comes out of an egg.

[@HorseloverFat1984]

Nik Nocturnal evaluating the ESC makes me an avid believer in quantum entanglement.

[@NoiseJoys-qq7gl]

I so fcking confusing why Gåte is on last place. What wrong with people?

[@JustK4Y1512]

Tactical voting probably, because voting costs money. A lot had it in their top 5, but you can only vote for your favourites

[@JustK4Y1512]

Also they were last place in the final, not of all entries, because they survived the semi-finals

[@Sebbir]

I guess the type of people who would have voted for them, voted for Croatia instead

[@AnNi1492K]

Maybe they were always 11th in the voting, you will never know…

[@JustK4Y1512]

@@AnNi1492K apparently they already would’ve been 20th if every position was worth some points in a different points system

[@thomasharteveld9614]

Justice for Joost! Make Europapa a hit by streaming it. Joost already sold out 2x one of the largest venues in the Netherlands called Afas Live (6.000 people)with his headline show. Even before Eurovision started Europapa had 40+ million streams and Friesenjung 100+ million

[@TomCatwhick.]

There was a Spanish Metal band that represented San Marino that didn't qualify for the final. They are Magara with the song 11:11. They had one of the best stagings this year.

[@JustK4Y1512]

Yeah, they got screwed over by technical issues 😢

[@gabiruman]

Megara should have totally gone to the final. It was such an interesting performance.

[@zsoltontube]

​@@gabiruman however their drummer got together with the Czech contestant, which is wholesome.

[@JuLiane]

I was so bummed that they didn't make it to the final round

[@JustK4Y1512]

@@zsoltontube also funny because the Czech contestant’s song was about an ex-boyfriend causing her self-confidence to drop, and now she comes back from Eurovision with a girlfriend 😆👌

[@catherinegaughan-smith8464]

Someone should make a movie about Baby Lasagna’s random selection as an unknown, making music in his bedroom, all the way to Croatia’s favourite son and heir to the Eurovision throne with an epic performance in Malmo.

[@cyphert7136]

Greetings from Croatia \m/ ...we finally sent some good shit ...next year we sending some blegh chunky thall's

[@2mbst1]

Have been watching ESC for 2 decades. Missed a few, but watched most of them with friends etc. We have a drinking game "One shot whenever a Celine Dion sings". There's no real definition of a Celine Dion, but we know when we see one. It also gives this nice cozy feeling of being connected to the rest of europe. Also highly recommend Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga. It's filled with references and weird details :D Nemo was instantly my favorite, 5 seconds or so into the track.

[@evilemuempire9550]

The fact that Celine isn’t even European somehow makes that more hilarious

[@pickrzz]

No one: Estonia: VSAUCE! MICHAEL HERE!

[@Le_Vampi]

Letss go Estonia mentioned!

[@ThaGamingMisfit]

I'm still heartbroken about Norway ending last, it was literally my all time favorite Eurovision entry. People and juries hate the combination of folk and modern take... I hate it !

[@faxyeagle1573]

Thanks for covering Eurovision, I love hearing your opinion on it

[@jacksamhain4429]

Please make metal version of Windows95 Man - No Rules. We need it. pls

[@kaakelimuki3509]

Nik, if you do, remember to dress accordingly.

[@GinnyPink]

Käärijä and Joost will have a collab song coming out sometime, hopefully soon. It's basically about being stuck in a traffic.

[@guillaumevermeillesanchezm2427]

One day Nik will discover Günther and Cascada and the Eurodance genre, and understand that Electric Callboy is just Günther with guitar lol.

[@saturahman7510]

Greetings from Finland ! I always love to watch those wonderful performances.

[@AvengerofGallifrey]

Gåte is actually a quite established band in the Norwegian folk rock/metal scene. Their discography spans a wide range of cool sounds, although I personally prefer their post-hiatus material. Definitely worth checking out for really any rock/metal fan. Note that the "å" in the band name is not pronounced like the letter "a". If you're curious, google can provide an example :P

[@bertafjertafisalukta2302]

"å" is basically pronounced like how one would say "oh"

[@JimmyKingster]

Bambie Thug was fuckin sick, song gets even better with every listen. Insane performance.

[@OolongOwl]

Love that you cover Eurovision. Even if it's not heavy enough for me, the shits just crazy fun and worth watching. The fun gives me a catharsis feel like metal.

[@Bella_Malk]

Free joost klein.

[@vermaledijd592]

1983

[@Abyssal_productions]

akkoord

[@JonathanPersson1]

He's on for a trial in a few weeks

[@MultiSky7]

@@JonathanPersson1 I wish that NL would sue the s**t out of e-b-u.

[@aether.773]

@@MultiSky7 i think avrotros is planning to

[@florianfries5667]

Why Electric Callboy doesn't go to Eurovision? Well they wanted to three years ago... they sent their song to the NDR (German broadcaster, that hosts the national finals) but the NDR literally didn't even consider them for the national final, kinda borderline ignoring them. Something in the lines of "That Song isn't radio friendly enough" (That's literally the reason why Germany sucks at the ESC, except for Isaak this year - very proud) and now EC told the NDR to f off.

[@JustK4Y1512]

Nik knows, that’s why he’s talking about it

[@cheesefondont1579]

Electric Callboy not radio friendly enough... Then my country (UK) this year sends a completely forgettable song with a bunch of guys in jockstraps simulating sex acts on eachother... I was so hyped when I heard EC were trying to represent Germany for Eurovision as they would have been perfect. Got Voyager representing AUS last year though. Would like it if the UK actually sent something not complete arse (excluding Sam Ryder who was actually decent), as we have plenty of good music, it just never hits the radio.

[@kruk0]

the "reporter" was saying something bad about joost kleins dead parents and, THE FACT that he was being photo shooted without his consent when he was going to the green room after performance (that was the deal because he was promised that he wouldnt be bothered with cameras) (i believe he was crying after the performance since the song is dedicated to his parents) and he got disqualifed... Like the dude is lovely hella lovely, käärijä himself have met him and the guy is the most humble person ever

[@annadarko6056]

Yea, nobody can tell me that his "threat" (whatever it was) was unprovoked.

[@bachilles3285]

While I think there's more civil ways to react, there's a reason "Don't poke the bear" exists as a phrase.

[@JustK4Y1512]

I WAS WAITING ON THIS VIDEO (Corekid and Eurovision fan)

[@spooktoken]

I'm so proud of our cork gem Bambie Thug.

[@maelbertrand7571]

Glad to see nik talking about Eurovision, and glad to see I'm not the only one comparing Croatia to Rammstein

[@toshineon]

My favorite from Eurovision is still Hungary back in like 2017 or 18, when they sent a metalcore band (AWS). They were awesome.

[@JustK4Y1512]

Singer is sadly not with us anymore :( 🕊️🖤 (passed away due to leukaemia)

[@toshineon]

@@JustK4Y1512 Yeah, I heard about that. Really sad, I listened to a few of their songs afterwards and I really enjoyed them.

[@astagaulyte6191]

@@JustK4Y1512 what????😮😔😕that is so sad to hear. I remember that song. It was on Hungurian native languge,but i watched some videos whit the traslation of the lyrics, and that song was about the pain of loosing his dad. Oh that so sad...such a young guy😞😓

[@kennethvalle1180]

"Viszlát Nyár" still my favorite Eurovision song ever

[@georgeaslanidis4789]

They got invited to perform at Wacken the same year.

[@MissFroglover]

Nice that you make a vid of this topic. I live in Sweden and watch it every year of course. About the playing of instruments, it is quite some years ago they took that posibility away and forbid all live music it has to be recorded how ever they have to sing live. I also liked Croatia the best! 🤘 Like your channel - keep up the god work 😃👍

[@FIash911]

the swiss guy actually goated, amazing song🇨🇭

[@SwainixFPV]

(just FYI Nemo is non-binary, idk if they're fine with getting called a guy but insane singing for sure)

[@FIash911]

@@SwainixFPV i am still not used to call these people correctly, damn🫠

[@SwainixFPV]

@@FIash911 no worries, I didn't hear Nik make any reference to the fact they are enby so it makes sense that people would default to calling him a guy

[@La25042]

YES FINALLY

[@jadechesterton7357]

You should check out San Marino, they didn't get to the final but were pretty badass !

[@JustK4Y1512]

Megara’s song that they tried in the Spanish national final last year was sick as well, I’d say that’s even clear over this year’s entry…….

[@mQnstera]

I had them in my top 10. Such an uderrated performance.

[@JustK4Y1512]

@@mQnstera sameeeeeee

[@sheppardWG]

This year was wild indeed! Tbh, it has been bat poop bonkers for as long as I can remember, but this year was...unusual? 👀 Was personally rooting for Baby Lasagna (after Joost was barred), but Switzerland's Nemo has heaps of talent and a deserved win. Amidst all the politics, a win for Switzerland is some top-notch irony as well 😋 Still waiting on Electric Callboy in Eurovision, make it happen!!! 🥳

[@MaorKaplan]

Israel was pretty nice, but it could've been better if there were metal guitars from the second chorus

[@meisnameless]

everything is better metal

[@chrisp.14]

Bambie Thug was phenomenal. I want her to collab with Poppy.

[@KeepTheAngerFlowing]

True and it's definitely not completely out there to happen.

[@lukehopkinson7577]

My favourite performance this year. Ngl that collab would be insane

[@asteria9963]

*them, but yeah

[@ivantrba7412]

Absolute garbage entry.

[@TrueChaoSclx]

She was insufferably narcissistic

[@StenWasTaken]

The backstory on the dutch song is that its about europe using european music genres and dutch music genres influences, it was basically perfect. and as far as we know now he didnt do anything at all backstage and was bascially DQ'ed for no reason

[@nickname_Kanzan]

Fun Fact: Marco (Baby Lasagna vocalist) is a former guitarist of croatian band Manntra. Check their song "In The Shadows", it's metal af.

[@yaroslavkachanovskiy8052]

Funny and important fact: Irelands song was written by Sam from Wargasm and Casyette, which gives this alternative metal vibe to the song

[@JustK4Y1512]

Bambie also has a few heavy-ish song by themselves, so I’m not surprised they went along with this. Track absolutely slaps, CROWN THE WITCH 👑🖤

[@dansken610]

I'm surprised Nik didn't like it more

[@JustK4Y1512]

@@dansken610yeah, probably just a bit confusing on the first watch. Also, the story behind it made me respect that entry even more so yeah

[@ImMetalGhosty]

They did Joost dirty asf

[@nietzscheente1271]

Croatia, Ireland and Norway had descent rock/metal tracks.

[@Kasino80]

Bambi Thug scared my mom and my sister. My kids and I loved it.

[@chickennuggie4738]

The song from Croatia is just if Rammstein made 'Party in my head' from Pain

[@sponthemon]

I'm so happy to finally see someone else saying this! I thought I was going crazy hearing that because when I posted it on twitter people were just like "no it sounds nothing alike"

[@MultiSky7]

And both, Rammstein and Pain heard Rim tim tagi dim, and liked it very much.

[@JustK4Y1512]

Fun fact: Pain doesn’t even give a tiny f*ck that the chorus just sounds the same in the first 2 seconds, they even joked about it on TikTok

[@chickennuggie4738]

@@JustK4Y1512 that's pretty awesome

[@hetsie9956]

This! This is what I said as soon as I heard it

[@thanasisgot8841]

Just saying, the chorus from Baby Lasagna is "Party In My Head" by Pain

[@nutrianrineynutz8477]

Nope Nik, you don't hear Rammstein, you hear "Party in my head" by Pain

[@johncrwarner]

I have been watching the Eurovision Song Contest since the earl y 1970s and to be honest as I am from the punk / hardcore / post-hardcore generation I have viewed it as an ethnographic study of a exotic tribe. It is interesting to see what countries think will win at Eurovision Song Contest Personally I like the audience member videos of the 3 minute performances from the arena to compare with official TV version and this year Baby Lasagna's was a concert like performance and the crowd responded. BTW Baby Lasagna (Marko Purišić) was until last year the guitarist in a Croatian folk metal band called Manntra - who had produced seven albums (?) I did a word analysis of the song and it has a total of 433 words made up of 59 separate unique words of which six "rim", "tim", "tagi", "digi" "woah" and "dim" represented about half the total word count.

[@Cr0wsMurd3r]

Did not watch Eurovision... But I did watch Lord of the Lost the day before the EV event, in Malmö with their own Eurovision special concert. Was a complete banger of an evening. 🤘🥳🤣

[@bruhbruhbruh8438]

Justice for Joost Klein, disqualified by false aquesation

[@bostons_departed3631]

Looking for a video to watch and finish my after work joint before hockey and o have found it lmao. And, great Will Ferrel movie. I didn’t know it was based on a real thing.

[@manifestationsofasort]

We need Electric Callboy in Eurovision so badlyy

[@bjhellstream]

Bambie Thug was amazing. Crazy performance with demons and pentagrams. Go Ireland. Crown the Witch. 😂

[@linsus12]

Btw, electric callboy, applied for ESC in Germany (i think 2022?), but the NDR (who decides who goes to ESC for Germany) Said No. There were an online petition where the whole fanbase voted, but it didnt work...

[@MrScrubsJanitor]

Your annual and honest ESC review

[@VXNCEKUTHERRIE]

you should do a video on the dutch metal scene! plenty of great upcoming bands in there!

[@flipkidgawen]

you need to see the metal version of europapa it slamss🤘

[@jaakkomaaniemi2136]

While Windows95man turned out to kind of fun, another Finnish candidate Cyan Kicks was pretty much straight up metalcore. Of a soft, poppy kind, but still.

[@JustK4Y1512]

I actually saw Cyan Kicks live once with another rock band that was popular because of Eurovision (national finals) and they slap WAY harder live. Studio versions were ok I guess, also they got screwed over by camera work in that national final

[@MaggaraMarine]

IMO their song just wasn't great. It sounded like a generic rock song from 2005 (the only thing about it that didn't sound dated was the breakdown).

[@TheCivildecay]

Nik talking about Joost Klein is something I would never seen coming:) the last part of the song goes pretty hard

[@thomasleerling]

Joost from the Netherlands wrote the song in a memorial to both his parents who he lost. The lady he attacked was apparantly asking a lot of questions regarding his parents even though he told her multiple times he didn't wanna answer anything regarding them. She kept on asking thing related to them to the point he snapped

[@feuerklinge9004]

Hey Nik, have you heard of Opal in Sky? They have both fantastic music and funny tiktoks/shorts. I highly recommend both. ❤️‍🔥

[@WaschiTV]

How cool of you doing a video to the ESC! 🦝🤘🏿Croatia‘s Baby Lasagna favourite this year, sadly due to f*cked up voting system the public got robbed again but hey, we secretly know the "special“/ non mainstream people the last years landed on place 2. Ireland‘s („gothic spiritual metal“) act kinda got me hooked, gave a bit of "Zeal & Ardor“ vibes in my pov, with that chilled/ poppy lyric parts and then going straight to darkest screaming like in mid of ("satanic") bm gathering. XD Greets From Germany!

[@GingerCycleNinja]

So Bambi Thug, Irelands entrant is actually playing Mainstage at Download the Saturday morning this year! Lord of the lost are also at Download!!!

[@yassenhany447]

We do FUN EUROVISION THINGS HERE!!!!!

[@lens_hunter]

Still haven't forgiven Eurovision for not giving SunStroke Project the win back in 2010.

[@atvena]

Satellite is a bop

[@eko6625]

You should check out We Could be the Same by maNga. It was in 2010 competition

[@deprivalli]

huge estoner checking in

[@Kedrok]

Yes.

[@Alex-pk1iy]

Bambie Thug came 6th overall, 6th in the televotes and 6th in the jury votes = 🔥🔥🔥666 🔥🔥🔥

[@no_suns_no_summers]

No way a reaction to eurovision on this channel!!! 😱❤️❤ You made my european heart jump 😂🎉

[@verdandi5569]

Megara for San Marino was great too! Rock-ish!

[@peeweewallabowski7084]

The chorus in Rim Tim Tagi Dim sounds exactly like the chorus in Party In My Head by PAIN

[@charliesandersson7948]

As a swede, this is the worst part of the year.. need to have tv turned off and radio for a month or more

[@kornaros96]

Send Amon Amarth