#Eurovision2022

Kalush Orchestra have won the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest for Ukraine with their song 'Stefania'!
The dust has settled. We have a winner and now is the time to DISH! Eurovision blogger, Alesia Michelle will be covering everything that went down in front of the cameras and behind the scenes. This year’s Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) happened, in bringing hundreds of millions of people across the world together in unity and celebration.
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[@NYC222]

ALESIA - THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ALL YOUR WORK AND ALL THE INSIGHTS YOU HAVE SHARED - ALWAYS SHARP AND VERY INTERESTING, REALLY, AS IN NYC-INTERESTING - I WILL FOLLOW YOU IN THE NEXT EUROVISION.

[@AlesiaMichelle]

THANK YOU 🙏🏾 FOR WATCHING

[@andreaskolstad9682]

Honestly, I think the EBU should start paying you for the amount of good advice and ideas you bring to the table every year Alicia. Thank you for always criticizing and commenting on the aftermath of the current years' ESC. I think that videos like these are truly the best way to improve and ameliorate the contest for the years to come. Thank you again, your videos are priceless.

[@AlesiaMichelle]

Wow thank you and YES the point is to make things BETTER in the coming year. Part of the beauty of Euroviison is the fact that we get another year to do it all over again. This isn't a one and done thing. If we don't debrief HONESTLY we won't improve.

[@andreaskolstad9682]

@@AlesiaMichelle Yes! Exactly!

[@clionaduwe6427]

Lovely to meet you in Turin! Huntsman was the place to be. Great fun! Thank you for great shows! After the show all 40 songs have a place in my heart! Agree on rehearsals I think artists need space. That huge stage is a big leap from national finals. Looking forward to 2023

[@AlesiaMichelle]

Yes!!!! I was so hapopy to once again be back on the ground in Europe so I could actually meet folks. So Grateful!

[@itslikerufus]

i seriously don't understand why we didn't have green rooms interviews this year. like what was the reasoning behind that? it's one of my favorite parts of the show cause they are always so awkward and we get to know the artists a little bit

[@AlesiaMichelle]

Right!!

[@dartmagnan]

Diodato's performance was like the most powerful interval act in recent years. You could mention it, just to bring more positivity about the overall show 😢

[@starry2006]

His empty stadium performance will be the most remembered, I don't want to hear the crowd singing instead of him.

[@owenmain5727]

Just thank you Alesia! You deserve a break for all the time and effort you’ve spent in bringing us top quality content all season!! I ambushed you in leaving the Huntsman pub to tell you how much I appreciated your work and just want to reiterate it now. Enjoy the break!

[@Peevesiak]

I hate the fact that the Eurovision discourse has turned so hateful and unproductive and I am glad you bring it up. This vitriol hurts the artists, hurts delegations, hurts the community. I understand that it is a world wide shift and is not solely based in our little corner of the Internet, but it does hurt me in here more than elsewhere especially when I see it happening between the core fans of ESC and not just internet passerby The contest is supposed to be about bringing the continent together and celebrating art and people, so there should be no place in it for people tearing each other down instead of building each other up. Thank you Alesia for all your hard work and coverage!

[@elsafralves]

Alesia Michelle for EBU! 👏👏

[@JoseSantos-sf4uz]

Alesia, I love you! You always make very thoughtful comments! I am very grateful for your work on eurovision Song contest! Thank you so much! Very big hug from Portugal 🇵🇹

[@mike.a5726]

Thank you Alesia, you made this Eurovision season a lot more entertaining...We definitely gonna miss you...take care and see you around the fall

[@ddddeca]

I am so happy that you're speaking your mind and telling us your honest opinions! I can't handle the fake niceness that we see from other Eurovision reporters. By bringing some hard truth to the table you differentiate yourself from almost all other Eurovision media and I love it!

[@emiphone-home7613]

So glad you tapped on the Spanish fandome,,, indeed it has been tarnished by too many of the Spanish fans after Benidorm fest., I´m not a spaniard but I´ve been living in Barcelona for awhile so I´ve seen it first hand. Should point out that not all spanish Eurovision fans have mistreated her, however it has been sickening how some group of people, and few so called femenist and even some members of government where hating her just because other songs like Tanxugueiras and Rigoberta didn´t win, which btw neither of them would´ve done aswell as Chanel., Yet after she´s come back with a great 3rd. placement most of that hate has disappeared, truly astonishing that at first some wanted to burn our girl Chanel and now everyone wants to get onboard. Sadly some public figures are still spreading crazy ideas that her song enduces to prostitution, sickening but some actually believed that. In any case I as a femenist woman will always defend Chanel and any woman who wants to speak, dance and sing her truth in any corner of the world. Yes to freedom of speech, no to hate and fake news.

[@lighthouse620]

San Marino was my 39th song this year I still voted for it 5 times because it was just something I thought the final needed

[@AlesiaMichelle]

See: THIS 🙌🏾🙏🏾

[@Tollkirschenkind]

Oh the final definitely needed it! Belgium, Azerbaijan, Germany, Greece, Iceland, all in a row... No wonder Moldova got all the points. At this point I would've given an arm and a leg for that mechanical bull and the messy energy.

[@stavripapaleontiou4384]

As a native Greek speaker yes the word Logistikis comes from the word logos (λόγος) which has 2 meanings 1) Thinking 2) Word

[@koens9172]

Lisbons stage really looked great indeed! I loved it

[@imagiraffe2848]

I really appreciated what you said about fans not having any sort of access to the rehearsal footage. Since February, when i first saw the Sekret FIK performance, i immediately became a fan of Ronela and after talking to some of her fans, and seeing their reactions at her stage outfit....uuf! It's hard to believe that her own "fans" can be so harsh to her. And insult her in every way imaginable just because she wore pink...She was insulted because of a stupid color. And you would think those are children and their young brains don't process what's comin out of their mouths but they are in fact adults. So i absolutely agree with you, we really don't know how to behave online. So no rehearsal footage, especially if the situation is similar to Ronela's, where she agreed for a different video to be posted and ESC posted the wrong one. How does that even happen? I didn't really enjoy this year, i actually thought it was a bit forced and all those ballads in the final? Snoozefest (in my opinion)

[@luca__pegasus497]

Diodato was the best interval act! 😀

[@jovanagiovanna7749]

Yes! But they shoul put it in the finals 🤩

[@deandrake2723]

I remember Alesia being the only KZbinr who said Ukraine is coming for Salvador Sobral's televote, and everyone is saying Ukraine is not going to win and they're lucky to get a top 5. Ms. Alesia did not fumble the bag with that prediction. Also, it sucks that everyone decided that Ukraine should be their punching bag post Eurovison. Those guys are awesome and deserving of the win.

[@KrisSverige]

As a Spaniard, I totally agree. The behaviour of many of us after Benidorm was unacceptable: calling Chanel bad names, she had to delete her social media... Bringing politics into the results was the worse thing to do, that is the most divisive topic in Spain, and parties are like a cancer extending its toxic tentacles willing to dive into culture just to pick some votes, no matter what they destroy in their path. Sadly, many people follow them as a religion and that's why they think their opinions are right and no one has the right to challenge them. And now, the same parties that brought the election to the Parliament are congratulating Chanel. Hypocrites!!!!! I still remember in some Twitter spaces people saying Chanel was not singing at all, her voice was garbage, she was selling prostitution and all kind of shit just to try to justify their favourites didn't win. I just felt so down in those moments, Chanel brought a closed pack to the stage and deserved the victory and she was being dumped just for doing a good job. It's totally insane that people over 20 or even 40 were behaving that way and some of them still are, they need to move on and grow up, stop being so childish. And after the grand final, many of that spanish people (basically the most politicized ones) were saying the members of the Ukrainian delegation were nazi, even the polish spokesperson. They were using false pictures to try to demonstrate that, I don't know why, maybe just to lick Putin ass, as they have been doing since the beginning of the invasion. I am so ashamed of being an Spanish fan and find me in the middle of this nonsense, please, just remember we all are not the same fanatics and we can talk, have our opinions and respect others, a basic in human behaviour in society. Finally, I just wanna say I'm so happy for Chanel and her result. I literally cry watching her getting her 12 points from other countries, and hope she never has to say again "it doesn't matter if I don't feel the support during this journey" just for people being so rude and childish after Benidorm. That broke my heart in so many pieces and I will never forget it.

[@jaimefercon]

Where have you been all of my Eurovision life?? Smart, eloquent, and insightful. I love how much love you have given Chanel even when our own Eurofandom has been toxic and rude, not just to her but to other contestants as well. They are a minority, but sadly, they are the loudest. Awesome job. Congratulations from Spain.

[@MP-jy5ic]

I love your analysis, very objective and insightful.....Will be looking forward to next year 😀

[@nacht98]

you are the best at this. thank you...soon season 2023 will start.

[@alanalan2732]

I believe that this year we just saw the completely different way of doing television in different countries. In Italy there is no talk of a horrible or ugly contest. We talk about success. Why this? Because such a big event had never been done in Italy. Our television, our direction, is accustomed to a different, slower, less tight work. Eurovision is a scientific method, which must not be flawed, calculated to the smallest detail. The Italian director of Eurovision in a commentary on TV said that it was the most difficult job of their life because it is an "English" way of making television that is diametrically opposed to the Italian method. None of them had ever worked that way. In Italy there are not many indoor musical events, in fact apart from Sanremo, which is a very small theater, the largest indoor event is the X-Factor final (but it is managed by SKY and not by RAI). RAI is specialized, so to speak, in large open-air concerts in arenas, amphitheaters, squares and football stadiums. As for the stage, it was very nice to my taste. Ok the sun didn't move but in the end the delegations who knew how to use the lights did a wonderful job and the stage was magnificent. Even from that point of view, a less technological television was found. In the sense that in Italy every television program that makes music, even the little Friday afternoon talk, always has a piano, a band, an orchestra. This is to say how Italian TV has increasingly focused on live music rather than on what is the stage or cutting-edge special and super-technological effects. This is to show how what may seem like a step back in one country can be seen as an experiment, a step forward in another country. For example, as an Italian, it was not strange to me to see the cameramen framed in passing, this is because it is a very normal thing on our television. You know that they are there. However, I understand how the Eurovision method is more towards almost "music video" effect. Often in Italian television cameramen are called by their names, applauded, presented, framed on purpose. Even the technicians who assemble the instruments or the sets for the next show are also framed. It's just a different world. For the conductors I think it goes to taste. For example, I like more a little more patchy way, it reminds me that they are human like us, it makes me smile. For me last year they were almost robots (always personal taste, no offense). Alessandro for me was the best. Laura and Mika defended themselves. I think their choice was also for their big names and the audience they could have added, Mika North America and Laura all Latin America where she is considered a goddess of music. I honestly have never seen the importance of postcards. In the end you have the commentator who introduces the singer and between seeing Emma in 2014 making the Italian flag with food and seeing a beautiful landscape or a beautiful city I prefer the latter. Here, however, I am biased as an architect. As a music lover I would like to see more interval acts like this year. Many have accused that it was all about Italy but I wish it were always like that. I want to discover the music of the host country or remember their beautiful songs. Another utopian desire of mine is that one day live music will return to Eurovision. Sometimes without the musical instruments it all seems very fake. My hope after this Eurovision is that we have rediscovered how the singers, music and lyrics should be at the center. The stage and the show must be there but they should never overwhelm what the music is. In fact, I loved the Estonian effort, the stage was empty but he filled it up and made it his own by making it live. Lastly, I must say that this year Eurovision made me feel more sick than well. I had never in my life read so much hate on social networks against my country, against workers who did their best, offenses on the social profiles of the stage designer. Stereotypes, clichés, teasing that began months earlier because it would have been a total disgust. Honestly, for a moment I hoped that RAI would withdraw from Eurovision again as in '98. An absurd toxicity. I also sincerely hope that my nation won't win Eurovision anymore because it was really a tough time. All this novel just to express my opinion with you who have been accompanying us for years with beautiful and professional contents. My message has no intent of controversy it is just my vision as an Italian. There are most likely a lot of grammar errors. I apologize but I haven't trained in writing for years. I wish you all the best, and good luck with your work and family. I can't wait to start the journey towards the 2023 edition with your videos. An affectionate CIAO from Italy

[@davideva8640]

I remember when Italians started a cruel campaign against Chanel on the social networks even insulting her with sexist comments. During the broadcasting for Italy, the commentator (from RAl) was telling CHANEL is a Jlo on discount and in every track to show the numbers to vote did the same every time. It has been horrible but you Italians helped a lot to make this journey so sad.

[@axeleurope]

@@davideva8640 oh yes I saw about the Italian TV insulting Chanel to avoid people's votes for her. So unfair, at least.

[@elsafralves]

That is ok that Italians did their best, however there were a lot of issues that need to be discussed to make things better next time.

[@DrKeroro]

Despite the inevitable mishaps and drama, we always come back every year - honestly it's like a family gathering with the good and the bad. Did anyone else feel as though the sound guys were not great in all the shows? I'd be messaging my friend and I would comment multiple times each night that the vocals were too quiet compared to the music/backing track for a lot of the performances.

[@litojones9894]

Thanks for all of your amazing content Alesia, you always make Eurovision season better for me! Enjoy your break! Greetings from The Netherlands :)

[@kieranedmunds2936]

43:00 They should have known about the postcard issue with travelling and restrictions and done a Malmö 2013 with each of the artists showcasing their home country or city, would have been way better and more intimate to the artist. Or a 2014 where they make their flag with different cultural symbols, structures, objects or landscapes etc

[@sirprintalot]

So glad you went in on Spain, somebody with a platform needed to say something. A small, but noticeable, percentage of their fanbase have behaved terribly in 2022. Not just post-Benidorm but post-contest, with regards to bullying Chanel and speaking disgustingly about Ukraine.

[@axeleurope]

Some others have had a horrible behavior against Chanel, Spanish fans and Chanel's supporters. It has been cruel

[@lindastephens]

Thanks Alesia for all the amazing commentary, I watched all of your videos and love your content. Italy seemed very unorganised this year, really sad to hear of all the online backlash. Hoping for more love from the fandom and a better host city next year xxx

[@lucypagano2454]

To be honest I love the coziness that this Eurovision had and I loves ALL of the interval acts way more than the other Eurovisions of previous years, but I agree on some of the messiness. All I know is that people that don't usually follow Eurovision though it was great. Thank you for all your content. Can't wait for 2023!!

[@87leafar]

Evryting you say in the Drama section is true, if we don't get the rehersals next year I'm on it.

[@formy52]

Just found you from Novympia's channel and I really liked your video! Some really interesting opinions - not all I agreed with - but you come from a clear place of passion and knowledge. I'll definitely be listening to you for 2023!

[@davideva8640]

This year has been too toxic

[@AlesiaMichelle]

Hopefully everyone has got it out of their systems.

[@desperatemedstudent2876]

The only thing I disagree with you is about the jury. As much as i hate it when they vote for political reasons and mess things up, we can't deny that generally their voting is based on the quality of the song, the accuracy of the vocals, the staging etc and not on the show so much. People will vote a good song yeah, but also will go excited and vote every stupid song that seems weird. So we need the balance For example, a wonderful song like Greece's didn't get the public votes it deserved but fortunately the jury appreciated this song and helped it make it into top 10

[@joelfernandes6865]

And some countries, like Portugal for exemple, are almost always underated by televote.

[@axeleurope]

@@joelfernandes6865 Portugal is overrated by juries many years

[@1974sca]

Passionate,intelligent,smart,informative and most of all fun!!! Thanks Alesia,you have been amazing and always look forward to your reviews. Until next year ❤️ p.s what does Ireland need to do to qualify 🤷‍♂️

[@gianlucadefilippo8009]

The worst part of this year’s Eurovision was the fandom criticizing everything including the artists and production. People were so mean. They were criticizing it even before the show started only because it was held in Italy! The show was very good, the stage looked amazing and it was even better in person ( finally something different and creative)! I’m so happy I had the chance to live this and I thank italy and Turin for organizing the show, making me live the best experience of my life making me feel welcomed all the time. Stop criticism, thanks! Love you Alesia 😘

[@tonyttt31]

Agreed.

[@eurovizusayay3591]

Strange as it might sound, you should consider making a post that's specifically about how to give feedback and criticism. It's your channel, your standards. I really don't think commentors intend to come off as rude or hurtful as they often do, for the most part. Still, we all want to get our individual points across and not be misunderstood. Expressing disagreement is vital to open, honest communication, but there are always better ways to go about it. Perhaps a think piece to establish expectations and offer ideas can lead to even greater discussions.

[@ceeaich]

Love the positive vibes, commentary, and straight talk in your videos 😎 This was only my second year watching ESC live, but even I could tell there was some messiness in the planning 😬 Shrug. Go get ‘em next year guys 😂 Hopefully (and likely?) 2023 will be a much more collaborative and unified process. Still enjoyed this year a ton, there were some really great voices! Also, the success of Maneskin really makes me hopeful for further success of other ESC contestants. Fingers crossed 🤞 Love to all!

[@mattwagner7521]

In terms of Ireland, I was skeptical going in, but when a number of performances weren't bringing their A game in the semi-finals, Brooke brought a strong vocal performance, certainly the strongest I had seen from her, and she deserved to qualify. Also, I think in years a Big 5 country hosts, whoever has the highest 11th place score in the semi-finals should fill out the 26 entries, because I really wanted North Macedonia to qualify.

[@nicolamarchbank1846]

I would be cool with no rehearsal access. I started watching in the 1990s when there was no rehearsal footage and fan bloggers weren't really a thing. As a viewer, I personally like to come at this as unsullied as possible and be surprised by what people choose to put on the stage and if it's good, it's a really positive experience, so I go out of my way to avoid rehearsal footage and even stills. I am judging it as both a song and a complete presentation, so I like the idea of being as unbiased as possible coming into Semi 1 and judge based on what I see in those three minutes. I rarely actively dislike any songs on offer, so I find it preferable to let my gut instinct and my heart decide with a finished product whether I am going to support a song with my vote or not or even just say "yeah, that was better than I thought it would be" or "phew, they didn't wreck it" or "oh that wasn't very good" (kind of a default feeling if you are British). It makes watching entries like those from Moldova more fun, to be honest, you are getting the craziness the way the group intends, unfiltered and pure. People talking up a fan favourite just because of a professional performance rather than anything spectacular or surprising just because, especially if the staging has changed very little indeed just makes the Contest look more like a popularity contest and could potentially give some countries like Sweden an unfair advantage in the momentum stakes. It can be really hard to avoid footage and stills. I avoid a lot of social media in Eurovision-related threads because everyone wrongly assumes that you want to see everything and you cannot avoid it. There's quite a lot of entitlement in the fandom now, especially more recently with the deluge of content available. The meanness of some people is troubling to me, I don't think that's consistent with being a fan AT ALL. To me, the artists are there to give their best. It seems unfair and disrespectful for some unpleasant person on the internet to start anonymously mouthing off about X act's outfit, Y act's body movements or Z act's LED backdrop when they are trying to concentrate and prepare for the biggest night of their lives. I wonder often how that same random typer would feel, wherever they are, if Ronela for example, were to come and critique them on their performance of THEIR job, whether they would be so happy to dish it out. Rehearsals also probably have an unfair influence on people's perceptions in general and we don't know, they could be working with technical issues (such as the sun this year) or even health issues we don't know about at all or didn't realise was as serious making the whole process more stressful than it needs to be. I acknowledge I am probably in a tiny minority of the online fanbase. I'm happy to listen to the songs and engage with anyone who wants to talk about that, but watching the staging, the bit that makes it Eurovision, I leave that to competition night - it maintains the excitement and suspense FAR better that way and keeps me away from the nasty parts of the fanbase.

[@karinao.1961]

I think you should one day be the Eurovision supervisor (or whatever Österdahl is)! I would happily volunteer to be your deputy 😍

[@meg5323]

I didn't follow the rehearsals at all in 2019 (or any year prior), and honestly, it did not limit my Eurovision fan experience whatsoever. It's nice to have them, but if getting rid of them is what it takes for people to stop harassing the artists, then I'm all for that. This fandom never ceases to disappoint me, I swear.

[@Eva-S-L]

I was sad that we didn't hear zitti e buoni even once. That's the true crime

[@jovanagiovanna7749]

And I would prefer if Diodato performed in the finals. His performance was so good, too bad if someone missed it if they didn't watch the semifinals.

[@lgrcen2008]

Yeah when was the last time we didn't hear last years winner at a eurovision?

[@Eva-S-L]

@@jovanagiovanna7749 I also missed it because they played commercial at that time! Ugh!

[@kikak2227]

I’ve never been more frustrated during the voting, the host DRAGGED it OUUUUUT. no one laughed.

[@bryanng8599]

I feel like this year's organization for the whole contest felt very chaotic and unprepared for some reason.....from the venue debacle to delegations complaining about the organization and camera angles and then the staging fiasco, i feel like it affected the Eurovision's atmosphere to a degree in this season.

[@mikestagraming]

Love your insight and opinion - basically you are correct about everything here 👍🏼

[@hedgiecc]

I think they needed Mika for speaking the French bits

[@myeurovisionalbum]

I need some help, post eurovision depression is hitting harder than ever before because I was actually there HELP!!😪😪

[@AlesiaMichelle]

We shall make it thorugh together.

[@myeurovisionalbum]

@@AlesiaMichelle yesss, I can't stop dancing to Slomo around the house 🤣🤣

[@blackburdy5261]

well i learnt that i am clearly not very good at picking a winner, as most of my favourites didn’t make it into the top ten. but i still had fun.

[@ramonparada]

Perhaps the 3 hosts is a legacy of the times when broadcasting was done in 2 or 3 languages (English, French and host). I think there was always one who was mainly in charge of the French part. I don't know, I speak hypothetically but I think the stage problems must be easier to some countries. Big countries can redesign a stage in a week because they have a dedicated team, they probably had several stage designs already created, and if they need anything they probably already have it back home, so just load it into and plane, done. Smaller countries don't have those and of resources and they probably had a limited budget and already used all of it.

[@impossiblesoul]

i was quite annoyed when the first rehearsals weren’t on youtube, and yes i still don’t like this ebu and tiktok partnership, but in hindsight i can see now that we didn’t even need those rehearsals. you get unnecessary hate, you limit the surprise factor , and these artists should have the opportunity to just rehearse without the public seeing most of it

[@mehmetcelik5730]

The camera angles were by far the worst in modern times eurovision. Oslo 2010 , düsseldorf 2011 , baku 2012 , stockholm 2013 , copenhagen 2014 , vienna 2015 , malmö 2016 , kiew 2017 , lisbon 2018 , tel aviv 2019 , rotterdam 2021 all those contests were better technically. Especially camera shots. Please watch Slovenia LPS - Disko look at the camera shots it repeats itself for 4 to 6 times like this shots are not live but they re showing the ones they shot it before.

[@flordi8235]

I loved Lisbon 2018, one of the best in my opinion! The big intro sounds, so big, the hosts, definitely was a great show!

[@davideva8640]

@@flordi8235 it was not the best

[@benjaminblackburn7715]

Can't wait for Eurovision Song Contest 2023

[@flordi8235]

More fraud?! Please nooooo!

[@avraampavlidis2862]

Loved this video. Already watched it twice.

[@paidatomriehuja]

Ireland... it's hard to pinpoint what went wrong. Running order perhaps? Maybe it got drowned by all the ballads and vocal powerhouses? Visually it was great. She was vocally on point too. The only critique I can think of is it sounded a bit hollow and empty at times. I think she could've used some backing vocalists to give it a little something more. Something to attract the attention of the Juries.

[@annakurzawa555]

Irland, you mean this big lady in pink with big legs? Terrible. i still need to recover.

[@annakurzawa555]

Oh no, Irland was the lady in blue boots, ok. Ok, also don;t remeber her song. Better than the pink, but nothing special.

[@dv2483]

I enjoyed the hosts, although Mika came across as very fabricated. I wouldn't mind seeing Alessandro as a side kick for Petra Mede. Wouldn't it be nice to bring a united contest after the united vote we had this year? I also wondered why they couldn't move the vinyl with so much time in between songs. thanks for covering. hopefully in two years the RTBF won't do singer - choreography - wide shots like they did 5 times in a row now and that only worked for Loic Nottet (who made the choreo himself and can dance). And the Flemish broadcaster had a dip in 2018 and will continue on the path of 2016 and 2021 next year. Grtz from Belgium

[@mikescarlat7551]

Totally agree about mika and bla bla moment. Was quite awkward

[@pogodziej]

Yeah, I would've enjoyed North Macedonia qualifying instead of Azerbaijan with his 0 points. She was serving a vocal just as good as his. Low key - everybody was serving good vocals save for Cyprus and Austria.

[@Frederic1406]

With all the drama this year it seems that 10 things I don't want to see at Eurovision 2023 will have to be 20 things! It is a pity because all in all it was nice but there was a lot of distraction and drama which is really unnecessary. A side question. I know the 12 points system is iconic. But it was created at a time when Eurovuson had only 15 participants approx. With our 26 participants in the finals and 18 in the semi, there are too many countries that get zero points when each country votes (16 in the final and 8 in the semi do not get any poi to whenevera country votes). If you make it in the top 10 of a country voting you just get one single point. The points are not reflecting the mix of quality and impact of the songs. Why can't we change that? That would avoid these unpleasant zero points moments which are really unnecessary and not reflecting the correct impact of the song.

[@ChefNatys]

the TOP 5 was pretty clear since the beggining, UKRAINE, Spain, UK and Sweeden and italy, and whoever in fifth was always at risk to lose it to a random darkhorse.

[@mattiasp6554]

About the rap in the Ukrainan song, i feel like it suits a eurodance song! Listen to stakka bo - here we go for exemple!

[@goodman9896]

Took for granted last yeats green rooms, postcards, stage and even nikkies interviews on KZbin

[@AlesiaMichelle]

Let's see how we do next year!

[@annakurzawa555]

Secondly, in the green room he spoke only with some crews/ artist not showing other/ unfair. Speak to all or none.

[@abey4003]

For me the best song and performance + show was Spain. My absolute favorite and winner. Congratulations Chanel! 💕❤️💕❤️💖❤️💕💖

[@axeleurope]

Iconic!

[@SHAUUNZERS]

I agree that the fans don't need to see any rehearsals, but I think the press needs to be in the press room. If fans are attacking the artists based on what some journalists are saying (Greeks, cough), then the EBU should have a mechanism that monitors THIS instead of blocking live streams cos you can see the screens for a second and a half. Let's keep in mind that the press helps delegations achieve their visions, and it is the exceptions that ruin it for the majority that are probably doing the job that they need to be doing.

[@handycandy7244]

This ESC fan is making me to feel bad. She is so into it, that even myself being european feel bad about not to be so involved. I am czech and i would love to see video about how countries ate progressing/growing in esc

[@kristinajohansson1351]

Where is it going to be held this year? That's what I want to know. Congrats on your mainstream success this year!

[@joelfernandes6865]

Maybe the jurys liked more the ballads this year because this year they were better. In my opinion the only not ballad that deserve to qualify is Ireland. And in the final maybe Serbia were underated by the jury. But say that the final had to much ballads isn't logic if they are better .

[@axeleurope]

People did not give so many points to the UK 🇬🇧 Portugal 🇵🇹 Sweden 🇸🇪... But gave a lot to Ukraine 🇺🇦 Moldova 🇲🇩 and Spain 🇪🇸. We should respect the people's deccisions

[@oekmama]

Can we see you yell? Coz you come across sooo friendly! I think they wanted a native speaker and that’s why they went for Mika. At first I thought Mika was of Italian-descent… but whatever…🤷🏾‍♀️ No, you’re not picky. There’s always been a bit of a homemade vibe to Eurovision, that people have probably made a drinking game with it by now. You’re right about the green room interviews. Did you watch Eurovision 2010 in Norway? I think that was a fantastic show, probably the best in years, that I still measure other years/host countries on. About Eurovision being politics: it’s not quite that… it’s about the emotions in televoters. That’s my theory and I need a few years to test this though.😁 Do you know about the Overthinking it channel? They are also Americans doing Eurovision coverage…would be so cool for you to do a collab with them… or maybe a VR to their who would have won if it wasn’t Ukraine

[@jovanagiovanna7749]

I think Mika was maybe selected as a host bc he lives in Italy.

[@axeleurope]

Poland 🇵🇱 would be a great country for hosting. Culturally close and geographically

[@ChrisStevens6]

cameras were awful this year.

[@RyanXander06]

Okay, for France i think they are a good song, but got messed up because they are not in anyone's top 10, like even at the grands when i see the performances, they end up 12-14 in my ranking, which when using eurovision points system, would get 0 anyways, if they went Seule it won't change it because jury went ballad, and televote went more upbeat and Seule is just in the middle, (maybe will finish near where Jezebel finished which doesn't change much)

[@kikak2227]

It was really obvious that the hosts lip-synced during their performances. That’s completely fine but it ruined the fun for me

[@petarpoljak6918]

I personally disagree about Spain this year. The song is in my top 10, but she got a good score because she was the only bop in the final since Cyprus and Albania were eliminated in the Semi, and with the abundance of ballads this year she simply stood out. If she competed last year, she would have gotten a lower score.

[@marinzivkovic4662]

I love the mess/drama part 😁

[@user-ep6gr4vt2f]

Are you satisfied with the 8th place of Greece?

[@Suspended4thYT]

San Marino should have opened the show, as it wouldn't have hampered their final result in the end. However, Czech Republic were completely shafted by that running order - 22nd best?? Ridiculous

[@elvis9248]

Alesia please give as a reaction to the outcome of ASC, scince you haven't made a video about it 🙏 I'm curious about your thoughts 😁

[@AlesiaMichelle]

I actually did, that was the ESC pre-show ASC crossover kzbin.info/www/bejne/oYCxeZVnnr-Ln5o

[@koens9172]

Thank you Alesia for the great videos this year! You did an amazing job! This year really wasn’t for me, because everything just felt very off. Starting with the long bad national selection season, a lot of slow songs, the broken stage, all the drama about disqualifications , the press accreditation drama, RAI being very lackluster, the camerawork (it was so bad), the ugly postcards and so on. It was such a dropdown compared to last year. Especially if you compare the grand finals. What a quality change. I dont want to look rude, but it just wasn’t it. I’m sorry

[@dianas3627]

Respect your opinion but ultimately Eurovision by RA1 was successfully televised ,there was a winner,with no major mishaps,the hosts were not robotic as usual but spirited,encouraged some heartwarming audience sing along parcitipation through the night,in rehearsal s which is why we have them ,few camerawork issues occurred but no major concerns on the night when it importantly mattered . The stage looked great on the evening was not broken,was the sun backdrop which the EBU wanted and commissioned,Italy was against the sun and voiced their concern s and they had to work with the new rules of the press centre and no rehearsals footage..Don’t know when all this has become so serious,can never please everyone especially diverse Europe..Italy did good,👏🏼👍💕this is my opinion only as yours,thanks..

[@koens9172]

@@dianas3627 I do get your points. We all indeed have our own opinions and that’s great! We only have to respect them, which unfortunately not everybody does. Let’s hope we both love the next season!😁

[@mehmetcelik5730]

İ think 1 year suspencion will be enough it s too harsh to ban a country forever.

[@dv2483]

I really wondered why there was no time to move the vinyl during all that padding (great word, I didn't know that).

[@annakurzawa555]

As far as the host is concerned, he mistook my country over Holand. qrva matsh

[@clemwithanm4008]

OHH Alesia you tell them girl. Their countries Juries broke the rules like haha 🤣 of course they were punished

[@stefaniamunteanu5732]

Rehearsals are spoilers anyway and I regret watching them. Imagine my „enthusiasm” while watching Sergey's performance in 2016, already knowing every part of it. 😑

[@AlesiaMichelle]

As someone who saw every rehearsal... I still have my jaw on the floor watching the performance. I will forever be WOW'd

[@ire1842]

@@AlesiaMichelle just thinking this was made by the same person who almost always screws up Greece’s stagings, fokas evaggelinos 🤯 Thanks god this year wasn’t thaaaat bad…

[@Tollkirschenkind]

This year was the first year I followed all the circus way before the finals, usually I'm a final and done girl, but I decided to see what the bubble has to offer this year. Won't do it again, from extremely toxic fans and haters to over-analyzing every last drop of every second of every rehearsal it took away the fun. Also going into the final knowing what will be my favourite and which songs I didn't like didn't help either. My opinion was formed months ago and didn't change and took away so much fun. So next year I'll try to avoid everything going into the final and then watch the semis and all that afterwards. And of course, don't participate in any conversation or comment section, there are a lot of downright creepy, toxic and sick people out there.

[@impossiblesoul]

the postcards were cheap and horrible. even if they’re such a little part of the show i feel like postcards give such a big feeling of what eurovision is

[@starry2006]

Add up the time and they take up a reasonable number of minutes.

[@tonyttt31]

Mika didn't come across well to me. He looked uncomfortable.

[@axeleurope]

some people defend that Ukraine has won thanks to the people's vote but then they don't like being told that people didn't want the United Kingdom to win second place or didn't vote for those wonderful ballads

[@trildi]

''people didn't want the United Kingdom to win second place'' - why exactly please?

[@satsuma1754]

SOA top 10 what a joke 🤣

[@oisin25]

Were there youtubers being rude in rehearsals? Love Eurovision but I really don’t get involved in the drama. I said one good and one constructive thing about each country.

[@AlesiaMichelle]

No... but the content we produce gets fed to the masses and the masses don't always "act, right."

[@oisin25]

@@AlesiaMichelle ah fair. You’re dead right. Some very hateful members.

[@benjaminblackburn7715]

Congratulations Sam Ryder and United Kingdom

[@benjaminblackburn7715]

I hope a win for United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest next year 2023

[@mimmiblu6138]

I never thought Eurovision was about politics... but this year it was about politics in my humble opinion, but who could blame Europeans for being supportive of Ukraine?

[@Mloofylicious]

It's always present but that'a a part of the charm of the whole thing. Since the fall of the Eastern bloc in Europe, it's quite predictable sometimes who is going to react supportively.

[@sgrunc80]

Haters gonna hate

[@J1mmyMack]

Also the problem with cheating juries is that in many countries, playing the system, bribery and corruption are normal. It's expected. So when we westerners say "just don't do it, why bother" it won't hit home with them, they'll just try to think of better ways to do it because it's culturally ingrained as how you operate in life.

[@davideva8640]

There are suspicious patterns almost every year but this time EBU decided to replace the votes

[@axeleurope]

The London city is the epicenter of corruption in the world

[@annakurzawa555]

So far: Italian organization of the contes was a mess. Our journalists tsaid this even before the final.

[@mariad.s.6760]

racism and prejudice. how this last eurovision was a mess but Rotterdam 2021 wasn't? they really don't look that different.

[@dianas3627]

Everyone keep cool,in the end Italy pulled of a good Eurovision,heartwarming feel to it,the hosts included the fans to sing along..Everyone is a critic but forget to put one kind word…Eurovision happened successfully without hiccups and there was a winner,well done Italy,you can never please everyone ,nowadays people are so serious🇮🇹👍

[@esclover8025]

@@dianas3627 Good? Not in my book.

[@thomash7294]

@@mariad.s.6760 Italy tried and it didn’t work out perfectly and that’s fine, everyone can learn from that. I don’t see how racism is involved since Italians are not a race. Perhaps you mean discrimination?

[@gianlucadefilippo8009]

The organization was good

[@axwleurope9519]

My perfect winner in a perfect ESC would be Spain, Chanel is a superstar. I can't stop dancing and playing SLOMO. 3th jury and 3th in televote tells everything! I think Chanel will become a superstar.

[@flordi8235]

No way!!

[@aliceevans5064]

I personally disagree because of the song. The song wasn’t good enough to win...it was everything else that pulled it together. I think there were better songs this year.

[@abey4003]

It's my favourite song this year and the best performance ever. That's why all the hate she has received. There is no comment about Chanel without some replies with hate or trying to discredit her. She is the best!

[@davideva8640]

@@flordi8235 you are in almost every comment about Chanel in so many videos... This time you haven't been less rude. This year has been so toxic thanks to people like you, I hope most of the Portuguese people don't act like you do. This person is telling Chanel is HIS / HER favourite.

[@axeleurope]

Slomo is the most streamed song these days amongdt6the eurovision songs. That is telling us the true winner

[@axeleurope]

UK 🇬🇧 just got 183 points from televote. I think Poland 🇵🇱 is a better option for hosting. It's a closer country also culturally to Ukraine 🇺🇦

[@GospodinNelson]

I wish Serbia won Eurovision 2022

[@AlesiaMichelle]

There's always next year.

[@starry2006]

Montenegro was a song that got away, also they put in Italian to mix things up and the end was better. Never liked the Irish song, the two note hook seemed cheap. The Israeli song was surely better than the Irish song, it switched things up more. I didn't think Sweden or Italy took any risk. Sweden just brought national final staging again. They get by on reputation. The best native language songs for me Netherlands and Iceland. Iceland grossly undervalued and S10 not making top 10. I thought Subwoolfer had the best overall contribution to Eurovision this year. In Italy they tend to think Sanremo is better and Italophiles no doubt reassure them of that. So the messy nature of that transferred to Eurovision. Part of what Eurovision has become is the noisy audience, and how for some it's a party and not even about the music anymore. Tired of these people in the arena audience. I care more about decent music than flag waving or obsessing over placings. It's been more a song festival than a song contest for me. The voting part is a bit of light entertainment.

[@ubuntuposix]

Communication professional arguing that yelling is the way to go. Oh boy.. here comes the conservative era. Yelling to someone paralyzes them, they only "learn" to be afraid of a superior, but it increases the chances of mistakes (which are not done by ill intention/insubordination). And even in this case (where the problem is insubordination and not mistakes), yelling - and brute force don't make them understand why they should do something, but just to be afraid of the superior. And this creates the well known phenomenon of the dad feeling humiliated by the boss, taking it out on the mom, which takes it out on the kids, which takes it out on animals or whatever..

[@AlesiaMichelle]

It was a joke…

[@lowkeyvels3430]

Ukraine won out of sympathy votes. That’s a fact. 439 points from Televoting to the weakest winner in recent years has only one explanation and people should not be afraid of calling things by their name: Sympathy votes. Let’s not lie to ourselves. Ukraine knows how to do Eurovision, sure…but this is not Ukraine’s finest. In a “normal” year, Ukraine didn’t stand a chance with Kalush. Alina Pash would have been a more deserving winner.

[@lowkeyvels3430]

@@UsernameUsername0000 I know for many it’s a pill hard to swallow, but it’s easier to accept it. 28 countries giving Ukraine 12 points in the Televote…you guys know it’s obvious why, right? Bunch of hypocrites.

[@davideva8640]

@@UsernameUsername0000 you know what? Time will show us which song was the best.

[@davideva8640]

@@UsernameUsername0000 is a mainstream appeal a massive televote?

[@axeleurope]

We also got the weakest runner up with just 183 points from people's support

[@tom_4546]

Yeah Ukraine was tradegy but i am happy for them …

[@branc2658]

So, because Petra did interviews in the green room, everyone else has to do the same?

[@AlesiaMichelle]

There have been green room interviews for YEARS, before Petra- I just cited an example. I (emphasis on I- meaning me) would have liked more green room interviews to fill the padding opposed to the hosts improving and long shots of the audience.