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Try to explain THIS to your non-eurovision-friends [2019 edition]
Miki unexpectedly interrupts Luca Hänni interview for Spanish TV.
I would like to be both of them
When the teacher unexpectedly says you`re going to have a test right now
me coming back to the eurovision tag when the new season starts to spew my shit that nobody ever asked for
It’s almost time for Eurovision, so watch out, because that’s when I’m at my most powerful
Luca being a cutie on his first day of rehearsal +bonus:
I was afraid that when Australia said that they were going to have a more sober staging at Eurovision they would have avoided bringing the swinging pole. Now they have 3 swinging poles. Very sober. I approve.
i got second hand anxiety from just watching one
but three ??? o h n o
1/2 kidding aside, kudos to them and hope it goes well in the semi-final!
Country: *submits a pop song*
Y'all: hMmMMmMm dO I sMeLL a F U E G O knOck0FF??
oh this fantastic season of the year when you wake up with some random eurovision song playing in your head
I missed it
Something amazing will happen to you in May 2019.
Something WONDERFULLY amazing will happen to you in May 2019 ✨✨✨… a great and happy occurrence.
And y'all know what’s that thing
Good afternoon, folks, and welcome to today’s statistical blog, which relates to something about which I have some passionate beliefs: the democratic process at national finals, or in other words, letting people have their say in who represents them at Eurovision.
Over the last few years, it has seemed like the momentum has been away from internal selection and towards national finals - for me, generally a good thing given that they raise the profile of your representatives in their respective countries, ensure that the act is already ready to make a convincing performance that will win over voters, and allow the choice to reflect the taste of a nation (or at least, its eurofans) rather than the arbitrary choices of a broadcaster.
64% of all top 10 songs in the past five years have come from national finals, with 6 of the past 7 winners having emerged from them. We have seen some unlikely countries like France abandon internal selections for the first time in ages. In 2015, about half of all countries opted for internal selections, but as a result of this trend, that number is down to just 13 this year. However, a top 3 that comprised of two internal selections and one internally selected song from a national final-winning artist certainly gave pause to think to other delegations, a few of whom - like Armenia and Switzerland - abandoned their national finals to pick internally this year.
So, 28 of 41 countries had some sort of national final involved in picking their song, artist or both, but not all NFs are created equal. Only two - Georgia and Spain, the latter having learnt their lesson from the Manel Navarro scandal - have a 100% televote in the final selection. Today, we’ll have a look at all the other national final formats, some of which are about as democratic as an internal selection.
The most common NF format by far, which I call the Swedish model, is modelled after the arguably most famous NF, Melodifestivalen - and involves a 50/50 split between the televoters and the jury, often international in its composition in the aim of simulating Eurovision and picking a cross-culturally effective act, albeit often at the expense of something unique from that country. 11 countries have the Swedish model, and a lot of the “new” NFs that emerged this year or last have notably replicated it. This is one of the formats whose rationale I can most understand, but in practise, it’s less than ideal. In Sweden, the juries have a lot more power than the televoters because their points are usually far less dispersed than the public’s, whilst in France, the opposite has happened two years in a row.
Second after that is the similar Estonian model, which has the same jury-televote split up until a superfinal in which only the public’s vote counts. This ensures a big say for the jury in determining who qualifies to the last stage, but leaves the final choice to the public. 3 countries have been known for this format - Iceland and Norway - but this year, Montenegro ditched its 100% televote system in favour of this model.
Another model that has seen growth this year is the Hungarian model, where the public have the final say - but only after the jury has had an exclusive or near-exclusive say in who qualifies to the superfinal stage. This has somehow worked wonders for A Dal, and whilst one of Hungary’s neighbours, Romania, ditched this model this year, another picked it up, Slovenia. The UK’s bizarre “sing-off” where they made a big deal of choosing between two versions of one song, only to exclusively allow 3 dubious jurors to make that decision, can be classified somedeal under this model too.
We also saw an expansion of the Italian model - where the jury and televote make up less than 50% of the vote each and a third representative or expert group is drawn in - because of Latvia’s adoption of a more complicated model including in-person voting in a mall, of the current Israeli model, where only an artist is chosen and the song is picked internally - this is how Finland formatted UMK for a second year and how Malta chose to replace MESC - and of the Albanian model or “open internal selection” to Belarus, where the process of picking a song is public, but only juries have a say in it. We also saw the sad return of the old Maltese model whereby the televote is a small fraction of the jury - in Romania, the public only had one seventh of the vote.
Personally, I will never truly understand restricting the public’s ability to make a democratic choice of who their representative will be or allowing outside folk to override a public decision. I’d sooner see smaller national finals where every song is one the broadcaster thought would be a worthy winner and where the winner was picked 100% by televote than the current hodgepodge of systems that are semi-democratic at best and, like in 2017, the year of National Final fiascos, can undermine public confidence in the selection process.
we are only 3 weeks away from the best time of the year!!!
TEA AND COOKIES FOR THE EUROVISION FANDOM
You should stop assuming the sexuality of the artists only because you have some weird sexual fantasy. That’s creepy and gross. Like MARUV. She’s actually married to a guy. She only used BDSM-lesbian vibes in her video for aesthetic porpuses. That’s all. SHE IS NOT A LESBIAN!!!
Stop shipping people in real life. That’s creepy and gross. People who expect two artists to fuck one another (E.G Eliot and Miki, or Mahmood and Bilal) or even worse (Klemens and Matthías (THEY’RE FUCKING FAMILY!!!)) makes me feel really sick. DON’T SHIP ANYONE IN REAL LIFE YOU FUCKIN ASSHOLES.
Toxic fangirls on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook making creepy and inappropriate comments about their faves, or even worse, fangirls commenting on the official Instas of their faves with creepy things like: “MARRY ME, OR F*CK ME UP, OR STEP ON ME…” are sick af. One thing if we do some innocent and harmless thirsty comment in our tags on Tumblr, because that’s not real life and Tumblr is a dumbass site. but doing that in their Insta posts are sick af. And making any of these comments in real life…is the most fucked up thing ever. Just be a normal fan, have fun from the distance, don’t be a creepy one.
Stop treating your faves as if they belong to you. THEY ARE NOT. and they will never be. They have family, kids… I repeat, don’t be a stalker for God’s sake.
Only because you don’t like an artist or their music, you have no right to insult them as a person. You can criticize their music, but always with respect towards them as a person.
Also, stop calling out other people for not liking your faves. Not all people think the same.
Stop hating on countries only because you don’t like them at Eurovision. Europe is much more than a dumb festival like Eurovision.
JUST STOP DOING CRINGEY THINGS. Have some self-respect and don’t embarrass yourself for God’s sake
My new aesthetic: Klemens reminding Matthías not to smile
Matthias looks like a kid that just got scolded by his dad (basically Klemens in this case)
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Less than a month to go Europe (and Australia)
Our time is coming