• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Probably another Israel protest…

    Maybe because Israel’s contestant is someone they literally held a TV contest to find, and then told her what song she’s allowed to sing.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/arts/music/eurovision-israel-eden-golan-hurricane.html

    It’s pure propaganda and rubbing everyone else’s nose in Israel being allowed to participate while actively committing a genocide.

    The song was written explicitly to attract sympathy, and it was so bad originally Eurovision had to make them change some of they lyrics.

    I miss the days Little Big did a Spanish language song to piss of Russian nationalists, now they’re living in exile in LA and this shit is going on.

    I don’t follow Eurovision that closely, did I just never notice this before? Or has it always been like Olympics and FIFA?

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      6 months ago

      Always has been. The whole introduction of the public vote really highlights (what has always been) the political voting of the judges. All the scandi countries voting for each other, border buddy voting, no-one voting for the UK etc.

      It was only a few years ago that Iceland got in trouble for briefly showing a Palestine flag in the finals because the rules state “no politics”, but half the songs are making political statements.

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        6 months ago

        Neighborhood voting is usually more frequent in televoting tbh (as is running order bias)