EUROVISION 2023 - REACTING TO THE GRAND FINAL TELEVOTE RESULTS
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I reacted to the live televote results as they came in for Eurovision 2023.
Congratulations Sweden for winning, and Finland for coming second.
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Absolutely living for you slamming the cushion at Spain's televote then kicking it for Austira's. But also living for the extremely measured and sensible reaction you've given to the results despite your favourite not winning.
Public screaming Cha Cha was my vibe honestly
i was expecting a revolt when swe*en won
Yeah.. but still second place🤘
@@brandnewrock8375 You're so consistently desperate to be a stick in the mud whenever people praise Käärijä in these comments, stay mad that he won the popular vote by a landslide xD
I’m devastated by Spain’s result in the televote (even more than I am about the UK’s result as a British person!)
Spain imho had a bad result in juries' votes too. 95 points aren't that many, considering that Blanca Paloma's song is more juries-oriented than public-oriented.
I was a bit shocked by spains outcome but I guess it’s true that the song isn’t very accessible for many that don’t associate with that particular genre. As far as U.K., Ive known it was coming bottom 3 ever since the first pre party months ago
It was honestly to weird, a bit to "artsy" and it didn't really catch my interest this year. But I still appreciate the artistry of it.
I voted for Spain, from Italy, but I expected many more people along with me...
Get music taste!
Your reaction to Spain getting so few televote points is an entire mood
im a bit disappointed with Käärijä not winning, but im especially hurt by how mistreated were the Lords of the Lost, it just felt so bad... i hope all of them will have great careers after esc anyway!
Exactly!
They already have decent careers and a big name for themselves in Germany. I hope they can reach further now.
Competition was hard and that hurted us this year. LotL already said during their interview that they aren't too bummed though, because they have a nice Eurovision experience and would return and that they are fine going back into their established career preparing touring with Iron Maiden. I think overall taking part in Eurovision still helped them.
I’m greatful that LotL took part in Eurovision, otherwise I might have not found their music. They were my #3 overall and I cannot wait hearing more of their music. I guess I’m not the only new fan they got on this journey. ❤️
Finland song is not a song...but only noise and lights....absolutely no taste and second place is already too much
spain's televote flop was the biggest upset of the night, i said what i said
Me too when I heard she came last with the public I was like what!
I expected her to do better with juries, that is a jury song
I WAS IN SHOCK
I was also expecting Austria to get over 100 points from televote 😬
Ooh ty but dw, we are always treated this way in eurovision, I feel like if another person did what we have done these last years but with Italy flag for example they would be voted more and not so hated, still a 17th place is awesome for us after all these years bein last!
5 points for Spain? I think this is the saddest moment I have faced since I am a fan of Eurovision. Voted for her 20 times… 😢
I was shocked that Portugal, Spain and Austria were so low! They all deserved top 10 in my opinion!
Portugal's song was terrible and I for one think she can't sing. Oh well, it is what it is. Spain and Austrla both deserved to be in the top 10.
As a finn I am so proud of Käärijä and he has given me personaly the best Eurovision season of all times. I was 26 years when Lordi won and this is our second best score ever. And with a song sang in finnish by a rap artist who is not a great singer. And we won the televote!! The whole nation went cracy (and party) over this song 🇫🇮 ❤️ and it did us good.
Would have been so awesome if he had won, that song is one for my eternal playlist. That energy is something different, we need more of that ! But honestly if his singing was of a bit better quality the jury votes would have been higher and would have been a walkover win.
I agree. He is a great guy and we will love him forever for this second place and he will be remembered as one of the most iconic acts in Eurovision. I was so sad when Loreen won Mello because I new this would happen. Our second victory got out of our reach. I think a lot of Norwegians would agree we should introduce some better system to deside the winner or change the jury scoring criteria.
As a Brit living on Åland I was bummed that I couldn't vote for Käärijä. I tried to get all my family back home to vote for him. He deserved it.
I’m so happy and proud about Käärijä too! He united our nation to green craziness, with all the green boleros, green pine apple pastries, memes, special logos (also public services getting involved with the hype), green fabric running out from the fabric stores, esteemed poetsliterary researcher interpreting the lyrics on national newspaper, gosh the list goes on! That is the experience that I will cherish for good, the actual Eurovision is secondary to that 😄
I hated his song! Hated it! Bottom 5 for me! Be happy he made it to #2.
Mean amount of points for Finland in the public vote per country was 10.16 😮😮😮 This is huge especially for a song in Finnish!
wow. That is quite high support of a song. Kind of mind-blowing.
and yet... it was in my personal bottom 5! I really didn't like it! oh well, at least it didn't win!
@@freemangriffin4953 But it _did_ win. That's the point. The juries are diverging from the populace more and more. Next year they're going to tell even you to eat cake.
@@ezekielbrockmann114 keep telling yourself that.
@@ezekielbrockmann114 Not at all, as Sweden got 243 points from the people as well. Lots of people loved it.
As a German, I am devastated. Lord of the Lost were so passionate about the contest and were so much better than our last entries. Yet, we are still last. How can Poland get 81 and we get 15 points. C'mon Europe. Also I thought my favorite Finland would win, when their score got announced, because I am bad at maths, lol. Double heartbreak for me.
Yeah, seeing how much heart and love they’ve not only put into this but also shown the other songs and contestants; I’m really gutted. They’ve put on such a good show and then to see it get 18 points💔
same
You're not bad. This time we had to calculate +58 points from "Rest of the World" as a 38th country. I also calculated the points from 37 countries and before Sweden's points were announced only 185 remained so I thought that Finland was the winner! Germany didn't deserve the last position. I really think that being a Big 5 is not beneficial at all. All the other countries have the opportunity to be voted and loved on semifinals while the Big 5 have only those 3 minutes on the final and most of the public can't appreciate them properly. Italy and Ukraine were exceptions, but Mengoni is known a bit and well loved and Ukraine... Of course a good performance but, again, lots of solidarity points...
I feel for the German entry. I voted for Croatia in the end, but I really thought Germany would get a lot higher. I don't know about a win, but they deserved to be in a higher position than the Swedes for example (I found it uninteresting e.g. the staging stayed the same and the song didn't hold up to that staging. I could easily forget it other than it won), but that's just my opinion. Belgium, Finland, France, Slovenia, Germany, Portugal and Czechia, Croatia (in no particular order) scored highly for me purely from looking at my top list on my scoring sheet, even if I forgot any of them, were the ones I would be more happy to see win. Ultimately it was a fun night with my family and our Sushi tradition and doesn't really matter.
The laws of Eurovision are harsh. People don't like anything with guitars, rock and heavier genres never do great unless they wear dumb masks. I'm sad about this fact every time :( One of the worst songs ever in a final, Poland getting so many from televoting is an absolute disgrace and says a lot over who is actually voting.
I felt the heartbreak!! The public vote for Kaarija was massssive! and the audience in the arena really summed up the senitment. It gave us hope.
For a dreadful song imo. Oh well!
@Freeman Griffin god, youre annoying
@@freemangriffin4953 I felt that last year. Not for the winner but for a song I thought was dreadful but did really well. 🫂
He will have a great career though :)
very sad for slovenia. that was undeserved.
REAL AS F
Honestly one of the worst songs in 2023's final after Poland, Croatia and Ukraine, sorry mate.
I liked the song, but didn't vote for it but on my 9 top songs from my list when I look back at it (idk why I didn't pick 10 from my scores lmao). It was a familiar message, but nonetheless, a good sound if I remember correctly, for me it beats Sweeden
Sorry, the song is quite unspectacular…but very charmatic guys!
very underrated
Norway's jury score was pitiful and absolutely unjustified. France also had way too low of a jury score imo.
Sorry but it was definitely justified. Her singing wasn't anything special by this Eurovision's standard, and the song was extremely cheesy and generic. If you want to talk about pitiful jury points, talk about Germany.
Alessandra's score was justified as her jury performance was shocking.
I heard she missed the big note during the jury show from ESCTom.
You should watch the jury should as I did she forgot her own lyrics and fucked up the whistle note massively
@@maxkho00and giving all the points to Sweden was justified? 😂😂😂😂
Give Spain & Germany their justice
These Eurovision results were such a disappointment, my whole family is extremely bummed out
Estonia placing so high was a pleasant surprise, but yeah, everything else (especially Spain coming LAST in televote! [the song wasn't even my cup of tea, but there is no world in which it is not at least in the top half], Australia getting so few televote points, Serbia, Slovenia, Austria, and France all coming in so low, and Germany being dead last) was quite disappointing.
cry
😂😂😂😂
Eurovision imp us a geopolitical and corrupted contest as always..... Spain was stolen last year and ignored in this one. Spsin shouldn't participate in this corrupted contest any more
My heart aches for SPAIN! Such a shame about UK too. I was praying so much that they don't end last. Belgium surprised me with televotes! That made me really happy. Once again, great spending Eurovision season with you! ❤
I love Mae but she really can't sing.
Well...the UK weren't that good tbh
It aches , yes
I am mad, I expected my country to do better (Spain), expected Germany not to be last this time and at the end expected Finland to win the whole thing. Disappointed :/
This🙌 😢 YES
Yeah, ESC is not for anything innovative or entertaining. Maybe everyone should send generic, sterile, beige pop songs next year and make the jurys happy?
Why do Spaniards think they always do so badly? What do they think of eurovision generally and the UK's staging of this show in particular? Thanks.
@@ktkee7161 I'm not a Spaniard, but I have to say that BBC did an amazing job! The best hosting ever!
@@marsukarhu9477 Where are you from, UK? My impression is the spanish and french arent as interested in eurovison as other countries. Seems to be more a northern and eastern european thing in popularity? But I'm speaking from complete ignorance.
There were nice surprises (Belgium, Italy, Estonia's jury score), but also major disappointments (Spain was my ideal winner, Slovenia, Germany, Serbia!!!!, Poland's non deserved points - my own country's televote gave her 3 points I'm so disappointed). Me and my sisters really wanted Käärijä to win, but oh well. I'm still so happy for Gustaph and Marco!!
i think the ebu has to start diversifying the musical backgrounds of the jury members that are chosen, because it just doesn't make sense to me that spain would only get 95 jury points (and no 12s!!) for a song that so clearly displays incredible vocal ability. the public ig i get, tho im upset but if jury members are listening to blanca sing and just hearing wailing i think thats an issue.
Fr, I was CONVINCED she'd get Top 3 with the jury. I knew the televote would be hit or miss because the song is very divisive, but the jury result was really disappointing
The Jury was just crazy AGAIN. Televotes possibly should be weighted more.
@@GEMINICT I think the Jury was more fair then it usually is, usually there is one country that gets majority of the 12 points but this year it was very diversified, Loreeen got 6points, 4 points, that's how it should be working, jurys are fine, music taste is subjective and ithought Spain lacked in everything except the voice (which isn't everything).
@@ESPirits87 Lorren was well performed but it was a copy and paste .... on the night I thought Portugal really pulled it out. Norway always seems to be hit hard by the Jury votes. What happened to Austria and Serbia? My favourite was Finland, it came over as fresh, innovative stagging and sung in Finnish - wow!
Exactly, if they only hear screaming and shouting is concerning, someone else fine but juries who are supposed to be people that understand music, they should value Spain's performance more even if just the vocals or the staging. I always hear "bring a song in their original language, something ethnic, culture, blah blah blah...." why? it's never valued anyway, with all respects to Chanel , we should bring songs that appeal to everybody, like hers, so mainstream really. boring....
Are we the only 2 ppl who appreciated Spain? The televotes for Spain blew me away in the worst possible way. 💔
the third vote is from me
i would have voted for me if i could trust me, that was one of my favorites from the beginning...
Spain belonged in the top 10 - certainly way much more so than that dreadful 'song' from Israel and that noise from Australia and Estonia!
The 5 points for Spain came from Portugal and the Rest of the World
I always thought it was strong
I'm beginning to wonder which kind of people vote. Spain, Portugal and France getting so little points! I expected much more for Serbia as well.
Running order matters. The countries you mentioned all performed early (before the first break). Even Sweden with coming 2nd in the televote from 9th position did not get a single 12 from anyone.
Public taste? they need instant big Macs and a nice color show. 'Study music and appreciate subtlety? I have a family to feed and need a good piss up'.
@@kennet7837 I don't think that it really does. I will remember the songs that made me move, got me excited or evoked emotions no matter if they were the first, the last or in the middle.
@@marsukarhu9477 For you maybe not, but it is statistically evident. Norway 3rd in the final with televoters from spot #20, 6th in the semi by going first. Austria came 2nd in the semi, opened the finals and flopped hard with the televote. Portugal similar story, got the "death slot" (#2) in the final, only 16 points. Malta #2 in the semi and finished last.
@@kennet7837 Maybe... but the Semifinals and the Finals are quite different anyway, so you should expect different results too. And not only because of the juries... If you're lucky, you can get a Semifinal slot with a lot of 'friendly' countries that understand your music and will give you plenty of points, but that love might not be there in the Finals and now those voters vote for something else. Or the other way around. And you might get a slot in the Semis where other songs compliment and enhance your song/performance in some way, but you have a hard time standing out in the Final because your sandwiched between more memorable performances. Or the other way around... I still think that an amazing song will rise, even from the "death spot" if it's good enough...
As a German, I'm obviously quite devastated by our televote result, also by Australia's (they were my 2nd favourite of the contest). But I guess Rachel already hinted at one of the possible reasons when she revealed that she spent all her 20 votes on Finland. I did the same, and I suspect there's probably a pattern here. This was very much an "all eggs in Käärija's basket" situation, where everyone knew that he needed all the votes to even have a shot at beating Loreen. Hence, people probably threw a lot of votes at him, instead of sprinkling them around a bit more onto other countries. I'm guilty of that, I didn't give Australia (or Spain, which was my 3rd favourite) anything, so I really can't be mad at people elsewhere who potentially really liked Blood & Glitter, but ended up giving all their points to Finland as well. Anway...congrats to Loreen and well done UK, it was a really great show (we finally got to see Dadi perform on stage at a Grand Final!) Very much looking forward to Måns and Petra hosting again next year 😄
Agree with you. Same for me from Italy. I liked Germany... and I ended up voting only for Finland!
I spread my votes around, but I suspected everyone would assume jury would rob Finland so gave them all votes.
I think the public knew they had a duty to get Käärijä enough votes to win, and it nearly worked :)
I hate to admit I was livid when Australia got 21 points. I was not expecting the jury to be their big score.
I was expecting a lot of audience votes from the US, UK, and viking countries.
I was so happy for us getting the 12 points from Iceland and Portugal. Two countries I love so much 🇦🇺🇮🇸🇵🇹❤
Such accurate reactions 😅 How many times was I sitting there like 😲 especially when the points for Spain and Austria were announced...
Fans and juries keep asking for "culture, original languages, blah blah blah" but then give Spain 5 points... We should just retire at this point. We've had worse performances and placements in Eurovision history, but this one just wasn't fair. Blanca Paloma nailed the performance, the song was interesting, filled with culture, and a great representation of Spanish history and culture. I knew she wasn't going to win, but I expected her to be at least 10th. I'm extremely surprised with how little they voted for Austria and Australia in the televote as well. This year just didn't feel right to me, like at all.
Yes, i don't want to fall in conspiracy theories, but some things don't make sense
It was the Fulenn of this year, utterly undeserved!
Yeah France experienced the same last year, so now there's no reason countries should send creative original and ethnical songs. That's sad, let's just all vote for generic songs now !
I personally really liked her and the moment when she was kneeling down with her hand in the air was a magical experience ✨ but i wanna give you other perspective after watching eurovision with my family. They heard her song for the first time and said it sounds like some kind of arabic prayers with the aeaeaeaeee shouting lol
It was a very good entry and that's all that really matters. I'm glad Spain sent something so original. Even if the song didn't get the votes it deserved, it brought something good to the whole show. We needed it!
We will be hearing Cha Cha Cha all summer. Looking forward to it. Congrats to Finland.
I'm from Finland and at first I was so disappointed with juries having such a big say in the final results. But you put Loreen's win so elegantly in the context of her winning twice as a female singer and especially as a 39-year-old female singer that now I'm truly happy for her. Thank you again for such good reflection on the acts and results. :)
Watch her last video before this, jurys check alot of things in the song, vocals, perfomance, staging, presence, there is alot of ways jury thinks differently than the people, that's why the jury exists, and i'm glad it exists because before it had the jurys the songs that won could suck alot.
Finland was amazing. No need to be disappointed, you have to be very proud.
@@ESPirits87 So have the juries weed out contestants at semifinals. It's not great when you have the popular favorite pitted against the jury favorite, and the popular entry loses despite getting an avalanche of votes. People spend some hard-earned money voting. Of course they're upset. "This year we have the rest of the world vote." No we did not. It's getting to be painfully obvious that the list of criteria that the artists are judged by does not include diversity.
@@henriikkak2091bro Poland would’ve been top 8 and Spain last if it weren’t for juries
This year’s results has left me more dissatisfied than all other years. My favourite was Spain and I was so happy before when so many were backing up her song and then for it to just flop like that? And Austria right after with 16 points was like another low blow. And to top it all off, I was rooting for Finland to win after all my favourites had just been slaughtered by the televote but no Loreen won and yes I think she deserves it to a certain extent but it just does not sit right with me that she won 2 times because that could’ve gone to literally anyone else who hasn’t experienced the win before. To say I’m disappointed is an understatement after seeing nearly all my favourites on the right side of the board… it’s just heart-breaking. The only thing I was happy with was Estonia and Cyprus finishing on the left side of the leaderboard because their vocals were absolutely top notch and their placing was well deserved!👏👏👏
This whole voting was a huge dissapointment...
I found the jury votes boring. If Sweden weren't in the first 9, you just knew the 12 points were going to go to them and I knew there was no way Loreen was getting less than 200 in the televotes. It was a good, not great song for me but I think it was the staging which took it to the next level for the juries.
Its not the staging. Its the performance.
@@stellakr75 I can see why a lot of people liked it, very powerful vocals. Just wasn't my cup of tea. I placed it 8th in my top 10.
I found The Sweeden entry uninteresting e.g. the staging stayed the same and the song didn't carry it through with staging like that and I could easily forget it other than it won, but that's just my opinion, as it is a contest to judge what is put forward. edit: I realise it could be unclear by staying the same I mean it didn't do much or go anywhere and a country can definitely do that very effectively if the song carries it through, otherwise I feel an interesting experience is wanted.
@@stellakr75 it was not the staging nor the performance, it was the hype..
It really does feel as if the jury punished originality
Bravo Marco...the best 💚🤍❤
Yes it was.
The results this year seem so extraordinarily random... besides the two landslides that literally everyone predicted, a lot of strange results such as Spain being DEAD LAST with the public, and the fact that the Finnish televote did not give Sweden a single point. I've got a bit of mixed emotions about the result, since I would've preferred Finland to win, but huge congrats to Sweden, and to Loreen for both of her records. You cannot say it was undeserved 😀Some of my highlights: - Belgium doing so well. The song grew on me loads, and all of us at my friend's place were over the moon when he started getting 12s, really made me feel part of my second country after Malta's unjust last place in semi 1. Also, the Belgian jury randomly throwing a curveball and awarding Austria 12 points was so typical and so hilarious, gave us a jolly good laugh 🤣 - The crowd chanting Kaarija's name was heartwarming. I almost believed he would pull the underdog and beat Sweden by a tiny number of points after the televotes. - Italy being top 5 when we least expected them to just proves how a song with such a simple but great composition can be so effective. - Czechia getting their 2nd top 10 deserves a huge congrats. - Nice way to welcome Croatia back with a left-hand side score. - I was happy to see some juries not resorting to bloc voting - Moldova getting 7 from Romania, the Yugoslav bloc not giving each other high points if any, and of course Greece only giving Cyprus 4 POINTS. 4!! The less good: - SPAIN'S TELEVOTE LAST PLACE IS A TRAVESTY. PILLOW TANTRUM FULLY JUSTIFIED. - Germany and the UK were so underrated. What does the former have to do to get some points, though?! I really thought they'd pull a shocker and get top 10 😢 - France was underrated. Destiny effect, I think, same starting position and before the huge wave that was Spain-Finland leading to a mid result. - Poland getting top 10 in the televote and 3RD IN SEMI 2!! - Australia was also underrated by the public, but at least they got a top 10 result. Hope they return from now on, got used to them joining the party. Oh well, another year another Eurovision, as they say!
I can't believe that Malta came last with three points - my dad was the one to throw the pillow in protest when he found out lol
@@ThePeaceAround I don't blame him at all, I was super annoyed myself. We actually sent a genuine product that was 100% made in Malta, which is what people wanted, and that wasn't good enough. Oh well, TVM has already announced that they're doing a songwriting camp to find an "authentic Maltese sound" for next year's NF. I am intrigued and (by nature) also a little sceptical, but we just have to wait and see... Just one thing I would ask them - can we at least this once try our luck bil-Malti?!
@@Doivid297 they better not send Ludwig Galea again as a 20th anniversary 😣 he was on the jury this year as well haha
@@ThePeaceAround LEEEEEE 😬😬
Thank you for being respectful about the results and winner, a lot of people need to learn from you.
I laughed out loud when you threw the pillow! I felt so bad for Spain. Such a class entry. I was very happy that Marco did so well - the only performer who could really wow the audience with no gimmicks, just a voice and a song. Loreen's song did not wow me, but her performance was 100% and she fully deserves the adulation. Norway sang about Queen Of The Kings, Sweden didn't have to, they just sent Loreen. Show, don't tell!
Marco Mengoni is amazing, but his voice cracked at the end, he was very nervous and shaking. I think he was tired. Well deserved position anyway.
@@Lorvina1 He was emotional, on the verge of tears, it happened in Sanremo too. I think it adds to the song 🤣
I'm so mad about Spain's and Germany's results, lol. Germany deserved to be on the left side of the scoreboard. Don't even get me started on what Spain deserved... I need to sleep 🙃.
Honestly the most surprising and shocking televoting results I've seen
All the 3 winners came out of boxes. This for me sums it up.
I am with you about Spain... A shame
Dw, we'll play sad flamenco music and do sad paellas until we feel better!
I knew this was going to be the results. I KNEW. And I still hoped that Finland will make it 😢
As a Swede I’m devastated that Käärijä didn’t win. Tattoo is maybe a top10 act but the level of this show was so high on average that I don’t really understand how Loreen got that many deuces from the juries. I’m happy about the result of Aus, Est and Lit that was really nice to see but oh my god, Spain and Portugal were so much better than the score they got… and poor Germany…
I feel the same I 100% expected Sweden to win the jury and she was fantastic so it's very deserved, but THAT many points?? This year had so many strong songs a lot more should have been getting 12 points, I feel really disappointed because of that. A lot were unrecognised by the jury. Sweden having 200-something jury points felt more realistic, but not 300+
@@kingtrebor7215 The sad thing is that the Finnish people did not vote for Sweden (tactical voting), but Swedes gave Finland 12 points! some of my Finnish friends said that in Finland they should vote Sweden out, (they were also disappointed by this action) because they were the biggest competitor! is it better with that kind of voting or all politically marked votes?
Also swedish and I'm very disappointed that Loreen won. There were more songs that I thought were better. I hoped for Armenia to win. Would have been happier for a Finnish win than Swedish. It feels as if the jury and many from the audience had already decided on Sweden. That there was no other option.
@@migaelz So the judges wich normally listening to all kind of music is incompetent and the public nows?
@@lennartandersson75 that's incredibly sad especially considering Sweden did the exact opposite.
It's a pity for Finland, they deserved this year, Sweden was good but something like already heard... Israel there was so unexpected. Italy also was over my expectations.
"Shut the front door."
So proud of our boy Käärijä!!!! 💚💚💚💚 Doubters in 🇫🇮 saying you can't have success with a boozy party song especially when it's in Finnish. Käärijä proved them all wrong! And it melts my heart that so many people in Europe and around the world loved it, too! It's too bad that there is a secret society of only about 5 million people who can appreciate all the quirky nuances of the lyrics in Cha cha cha. The English translation only delivers the very superficial meaning of the song. There are so many weird and amazing levels in Käärijä's writing, it deserves a translation that more closely conveys that. Loreen was a clear winner from the get go. The sheer talent and top tier Swedish production value of the song, paired with her fame and admiration among the ESC crowd really made it quite obvious. And then Käärijä made it interesting 😎. Oh well, such is life. Kohti uusia pettymyksiä, as we say in Finland. It was a great journey and so much fun. Käärijä, you are once in a lifetime! 💚💚💚 Our own Verka Serduchka.
I'm so happy for Italy and Marco! His performance tonight really touched me more than I even expected. This is the six years Italy has been in top 6. Really impressive!
And deserved.
Italy should have won last year but people got carried away by the propaganda campaign that was going on in the world and Brividi - the best song ever in Eurovision - didn't win, nor did Ochman's River from Poland ):
👃🏻🇮🇹❤️👋🏻
Even tho I'm kinda sad Finland didn't win, I'm very happy that his televote score alone is more than what Lordi got 2006 (both iconic af) and I hope they continue to send bangers in Finnish. I'm genuinely pissed about Germany coming last. Chris Harms is one of the best male vocalists this year and I'm disappointed the juries didn't see that. The public is another story because there were lots of rock entries but still. I'm glad Ukraine did well i don't care. I like a lot of other songs more but their staging was amazing and Jeffrey sounded great, well deserved 6th place no matter what's happening in the world.
Germany deserved to be last. If it wasn't one of the big 6 it wouldn't have qualified nor would it have deserved to - a totally dreadful song!
Italy was really good!
Desde España gracias por tu sentimiento hacia nuestra canción, me dio mucha pena ver a Blanca Paloma con tan pocos votos en el televoto. Volveremos con la misma ilusión el año que viene pero muy orgullosos de nuestra representante de este año porque ha llevado algo nuevo y diferente, incomprendido pero con mucha calidad. ❤ Gracias por tus bonitas palabras siempre
The most honest reaction. 100% totally to the point.
Thanx For your massive amount of world For The past weeks, Greetings from Finland. Cya next year ❤
Omg these results!!!!!! 😩
Disappointed with the low televote for Australia but so happy that we finished in the Top 10. We've been in 8 contests and finished in the Top 10 5 times. Pretty impressive!
I liked Australia. Very good song.
I voted for you 5 times thank you for bringing such good entries every year !
I'm totally in love with Australia and I have voted 32 times for them (didn't they say 20 votes was the maximum?) Thrilled with their 9th position but in shock with the televote which was concentrated mainly in Finland and Sweden. On the other hand I'm speechless seeing Poland and Albania getting far more points than Australia.
@@pompeya402 Albania it's ok because it was nice, sang in Albanian with beautiful topic. I didn't like the song but I admit that it's quality. However Poland should not even be in the final (Iceland and Georgia were way better). It's a shame that this song had so much points
I too was very surprised that it didn't get more televotes. It was my second favourite song of the night after Finland.
You’re right they teased Sweden’s win in the beginning with showing the record of ireland’s victories. I think that was really clear message: ”it’s gonna change tonight”
Im glad to see that the feeling of Blanca Paloma was a winner contender at last Top 5 level wasn´t "a spanish fantasy", "get music taste" hahahaha even the commentator was surprised!! 😘😘
I feel you Rachel! I am so proud for both Sweden and Finland, Both of them made their countries really proud! Scandinavia rocks!! ❤️❤️🇸🇪🇸🇪❤️❤️🇫🇮🇫🇮❤️❤️ Ok for now I am going to talk about Albania, one of my personal favs this year, I literally spent all my 20 votes on her, and guess what,,,She came 10th in Televote!! That is amazing for Albania, i am still so happy for them!!
Thank you from Albania !
We Spaniards feel absolutely robbed (especially for our televote's last place) but we are absolutely proud of the performance of our Blanca Paloma
She did great. I voted for her about 15 times. I was also gutted that she was swept to one side. But I guess part of the fun of Eurovision is that it suprises us sometimes
It was spectacular!
I really tried to vote for her as much as I could! Blanca was my winner this year so seeing the result was heartbreaking, but despite the score, she gave us an incredible performance and I'm grateful to have discovered her music ❤️🕊️
Why do Spaniards think they always do so badly? What do they think of Eurovision generally and the UK's staging of this show in particular? Thanks.
Spain deserved to be in the top 10, even the top 5. Cyprus was my #1 and at least it made it to 12th place. Oh well, another year and another disappointing final results - what else is new? I got introduced to new performers I would not have otherwise ever known and that's what I love about Eurovision!
I don't care about Sweden. I don't get the hype. I really wish I did. She is talented for sure but the song did not move me, nor did her performance. My winner was Armenia, followed by Czechia and Italy. My other faves were Slovenia, Serbia, Israel, Austria. And at the end I was rooting for Finland!!
Yes! I loved Armenia! She's so talented! Also in my personal top5 : Czechia, Slovenia, Norway and Finland no.1 of course :)
I SCREAMED MY HEAD OFF YAAAAS LOREEN YOU MADE IT HONEY🥺🥺🥺😭😭
i'm so bummed out, lol. i expected the winner and understood why, but the rest of the results make me feel pretty disheartened.
We need more respectful fans like you! This fanbase is so foul. Tattoo is outside my top 10 as well, but I accept that it is what it is and popular songs win. I wish people do that instead of creating these conspiracy theories. Two days ago, the “televote was rigged”, today the “juries are rigged.” What’s next?
Something something abba anniversary is the popular ones apparently. Sometimes tight competition is just tight competition
@@imageez I’ve seen that one. It’s one of the dumbest theories I’ve seen. ABBA are a historically significant band, but they don’t have enough legacy to justify “rigging” an entire competition just to celebrate some dozen years of their debut. Why would Sweden even want to rig the contest if they win every decade anyway? They had to host TWO insanely expensive editions in the 2010s alone. This isn’t to mention that Måneskin got a similar jury treatment in 2021. What Swiss ABBA were the jury trying to celebrate then by voting Gjon?
@@UsernameUsername0000 I don’t think that it was Sweden that rigged it but the EBU in general because they know that Sweden is the ‘powerhouse’ of Eurovision success. ABBA has had an incredibly huge impact on the way that Eurovision is now and they were a catalyst in creating modern day eurovision. Of course the EBU wanted Sweden (a country with the financial means to have a massive 50th anniversary contest for one of the most famous Eurovision acts) to win. Loreen was amazing and I voted for her but she was over 100 points ahead of SECOND PLACE after the juries voted and even when Finland got one of the highest televote scores of all time it wasn’t enough. I just think it was very convenient that not only did they submit one of the most loved eurovision winners the year before the 50th anniversary but that the public just simply didn’t have enough power to choose a winner.
@@carly6192 hahahahahahahahah conspiracy theorists are just so entertaining. So silly.
Spain was my favorite of the night, so much emotion it made me cry haha
For such an exciting and hyped build-up, it feels like the voting results put a pin in everyone’s balloon and now we’re all deflated and very, very disappointed
This describes my feelings exactly...
@@Esiriel01 At days end you will remember the good ones,and forget the smelting, sorry, voting.
Exciting and hyped?, have you been living under a rock?, Loreen was the clear winner all the way back to the Swedish finals who are one of the last, she carried the hype, she had 52% odds of winning, why are people surprised?.
@@ESPirits87 Sadly she stole the song V Plenu by Mika Newton, I feel a Watergate scandal on the near horizon. Thought we'd forgotten an 11 year old song by an obscure Ukranian songstress huh Loreen? It's on the tube for your viewing pleasure. At least she changed the lyrics, I think, and pressed the turbo boost.
I always know the results will be terrible! What I love about Eurovision is that it introduces me to performers I would have never ever heard of otherwise. The voters are morons imo. Cyprus was the best song this year, Italy was the best song last year, and Spain had the best song the year before (and I think it came in 25th!)... Grrrr!
I didn't have Czechia or Estonia in my top ten. So glad I was wrong. Shocked France and Spain didn't do much better.
last place for my country again 😂😂 it’s not even a surprise anymore, but at least we tried this year… and congrats to loreen although käärijä definitely got robbed by the juries 💔🇫🇮
Pretty sure you need 5 more last places to beat UK, so no honours yet :D But today was undeserved, so much garbage that got so many points... Europeans don't like guitars, it's pretty sad.
@@ThaGamingMisfit it is what it is I guess 😌
You didn't come last, there are many countries that didn't make it to the finals, but since Germany buys their spot i guess the answer is yes / no.
What do Germans think is the reason for this? And what did Germans think of the UK's staging of the show?
@@ktkee7161 the other contestants were just better. nothing else. and the uk did a very good job imo
I’m not the only one who stands up during results. 🤣🤣 I’m too excited to sit.
Immensa delusione, la Finlandia meritava il podio, resto sempre sorpresa e delusa dai voti delle giurie internazionali, troppo distanti da quelli del pubblico! 🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹 💚💕💚💕💚💕
... non è che la nostra "giuria internazionale" abbia fatto molto meglio.. dare 12 punti ad una canzone fotocopia di mille altre pop song del momento di cui i 3 minuti canonici si riducono a 2.25 per la parte finale solo di ballo... mi aspettavo tale scelta dal televoto nkn da "espert" come Massarini, Tosca e compagni...
@@Barbara_M. Non salvavo neanche quella italiana di giuria , trovo sempre scorretto lo scambio di voti tra stati , sempre gli stessi...
Loved your reaction and thank you for the positive message in the end.
So, next year all countries will buy songs from Swedish composers and Eurovision will become a monotone contest. I'd be happier for Sweden if they showed more from their culture from time to time, I'm starting to think they don't have one
You might be right, on both accounts.
Well there are already many countries that works with Swedish composers 😉 Our culture is actually very much about pop music. We are proud of our music in Sweden 😊
Sweden is defining the sound of Eurovision, and somehow people are buying it. It's annoying the winner is known 1 month before the contest but I got to say there wasn't much competition this year, only Finland and wished that had won above a song that felt like it already existed. It felt like a worse version of Euphoria, yet it was a jury magnet. It was a great performance that is for sure, but as almost every year I'm disappointed in the taste of the average European.
Next year? Bro it’s been happening since like 2012, so if it’s monotone it should be like that already. And our pop is our musical culture, it’s what we listen to and what we produce. Maybe we should’ve sent Jon-Henrik Fjällgren once though
That’s like saying the UK doesn’t have a culture
OMG. Loved your reaction video (again)! Thanks for the amazing quality!
I can’t believe Australia got only 21 points from the public after they won the semi 2! I don’t always get people. 😅
Yeah that made no sense to me. The won a semi with 3 12-point televote scores and then only 21 points? What? Maybe they were 11th in a lot of places lol
I think people who voted for Australia in the semi consolidated their votes to Finland in the final.
As an Australian, I’m not upset. They were shown so much love, but in the end people usual vote for only one country, and the competition this year was deep enough that unfortunately they could have fallen just outside the votes people were placing. All good, and we’re proud of them! 👍🏻
It just shows that running order influences the televote A LOT, which is also why it's absurd they eliminated the juries in the semis
It's because everyone was in an alliance to vote for Finland. Finland was not in Australia's semi. I'm still so proud of voyager! They did incredible getting those 12's from a couple juries and coming 9th. It was the first Australian entry I actually loved and felt really represented Australian music, we have band culture here ❤
Conclusion: Spain too difficult for the public, Finland too different for the jury. Sweedish industry is fine tuned to hit the sweet spot.
The beige spot you mean....
2022 was the one time over the last decade when I genuinely loved a song from Sweden and thought it deserved to win. Everything else has sounded middle of the road- or worse.
I expected Sweden to win and it was my favourite, so in that regard I'm very happy. But, as a spanish person, it broke my heart to see we came last in the televote with only 5 points. I already expected a flop in the televote since we didn't do as well with the juries as expected (9th place was still fine), but certainly I didn't expect us to finnish last with only 5 points. We didn't even come last in the televote in 2017 (and we received the same amount of points). And we've received more points in the televoting with weaker entries. So it's still hard to process...
I tried it ... phoded 5 times
Why are you so surprised? As a Spaniar you might like the song, but it wasn't suitable for the international ear. Chanel, on the other hand, got a lot of points last year.
The song is very divisive. Literally 3 out the 5 people in the room here hated it. As in hated 'turn off the tv', they couldn't stand the sound in their ears. 2 of us including me kind of liked it, but I felt something was off with her voice and that causes the earpain with the others.
@@Dani-jx3hm Nobody expected us to come last in the televoting. As I said, I had the feeling we would flop but IN NO WAY coming last in the televote.
@@ThaGamingMisfit Yeah, I feel like her performance at BenidormFest was better. And yeah, I have a German friend and he didn't like it either. But still... Last?
Thank you for your videos, they were great to watch! 🎉
LA ZARRA SHOWING THE MIDDLE FINGER THREW ME, MA REINE.
I've only just now watched your reaction to the jury points, and I absolutely love it! Reliving that moment all over again. You are doing a brilliant job here, it is both very relatable as if you are right next to me on the couch, watching with all emotions as a fan and at the same time commentating like a professional, surpassing some of the commentators on tv. Thanks fo guiding us through Eurovision this season and will tune in next season!
Loving your reactions, as always!
You're so cute. Love your Eurovision reactions despite one on Theodor Andrei, but actually you were right at the end :) new friend here.
More than being sad, this year I am angry. Spain many years "almost all" has deserved to be in the last positions, but this year NOT. I think that except for Italy "which already did it in its day", the rest of the big 5 should stop competing for a while so that we are valued more. This contest was created many years ago for the diversity of cultures and unfortunately it has become a circus. For my part, I am very proud of the candidacy of Blanca Paloma. Even more than Chanel's last year.
Spain and UK literally got on the podium last year. France the year before that. And before 2021, Germany was the only BIG5 Country with a win since the BIG5-system was introduced. If they’d withdraw - they won’t be more appreciated, they’d just be forgotten.
@@escadri4407 Pues que pongan el dinero para este circo friky de concurso otros y todos contentos ;)
To be honest I thought Finland deserved the win. Makes me wonder about the jury vote process. But credit to Loreen for a great song too.
Thank you for your fantastic commentary!
the amount of countries getting only a handful of points made this one of the most painful moments in recent eurovisions. congrats to queen loreen, she totally deserve it but the bitter taste of so many favorites getting pennies makes me not wanting to see this edition in a long time
Good surprises of the final: Czechia in Top10 and Lithuania really close. Disappointing outcomes: France (underrated again 😑 ), Portugal, maybe Armenia too. Anyway, congratulations to Loreen.
Need more of your videos, Rachel. Your reviews and reactions on music and performances are always great and enjoyable, so, please, post more often.
Perfect result
Us spaniards will use flamenco as a torture device now, we'll be starting tests this summer in the beaches of benidorm.
martin österdahl made a significant error in only counting me and my friend's votes and must have forgotten the 498 votes awarded to spain.
Yeeeeesssss! Let's do it it will serve them right!!!!! 😢😢🕊🕊🕊🏹🏹🏹
I love how kind and respectful you are to all contestants. No matter who wins, we shouldn't spread hate.
We are so proud of our Käärijä 💚 I really hope that he will know how massive the public vote was as his first reaction was to apologize for not winning 😭 I really think this should have been our year after such an unique performance, I don’t think we’lle be able to match it soon
Spain was so robbed.
I really appreciate your reaction here! You seem like one of the non-toxic fans! (Which is quite a group that gets smaller and smaller, it seems). It takes a somewhat good person to be happy even when something doesn’t go the way you want. Eurovision is at it’s core, and should really aim to stay, a friendly event! Where people support and lift each other. The contestants all seem lovely to each other, so I hope that coziness and respect will spread to the fandom! :)
I really appreciate your comment :)
7:20 so relatable
Love your gracious reaction. And putting it in the context of women over a certain age in the contest too! 💕
the atmospehere in the arena through the whole voting was so weird!
Wanted to go into Eurovision completely blind this year, so I have a lot of your videos to catch up on. Käärija was my favorite too, before Armenia, Czechia, Israel and Estonia. Agree that Spain was totally robbed, but all my friends who I was texting with, really disliked it... Sad!
Spain was very divisive here as well. We were watching with 5 people, and 3 of us really hated it (as in 1 or 2 on a score of 10), they really begged for the song to stop. I didn't mind it personally but I found if she was a better singer the song would shine.
Yes, loved Finland, Czechia and especially Armenia! I love that song and the best thing about it is that she wrote it herself!
I usually go into it blind, best way to judge it and perhaps be surprised
I felt that pillow throw to my core.
Great discovery of the year: your channel!!! Sorry for not seeing it before. I really love your reactions in this video and especially when you throw the armchair cushion away ha. That is passion. Finally at the end of the video, you turned red. Absolute passion! Also I was disagree with jury in respect to Spain (I saw all the musical videos of the competition thanks to you). You made me a real Eurovision fan. And of course a total fan of yours. Greetings
Just to say a massive thanks for all your Eurovision coverage again this year, Rachel. The competition just wouldn't be the same without it. Hopefully you can soon get some rest for a while ;)
what happened with some televotes. Gutted for Spain, didn't deserve that! also shocked for Austria, UK and Portugal and of course France, what the hell. The fan base has a lot to do it with Italy's televotes, he's massive in Italy and so is Loreen generally. Bit disappointed with the results, also bookmakers might influence how the people vote. what a coincidence it's the 50th anniversary of ABBAs win next year!!
Sweden were bookies favourites before people had ever heard the song, why do you suppose that was, unless it had already been decided, like all voting these days.
14:00 on your TV screen shows the UK's public vote.... 12 points for FINLAND 🇫🇮. Very very popular here and they got my 20 votes. Finland's 376 televote = much more than Sweden's 243. CHA CHA CHA always the winner for me.
So disappointing! Käärijä was the winner of our hearts and jury has robbed the victory 😭 He deserved to win so much 💚
i think that is a stretch, Loreens hype before the Finals were huge, she also had 52% odds on her side, people have emotions and vote thereafter, that's why it's good that the jury exists, because i don't trust the people, why?, because Finland got 370 points.