#ieieotm

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if alina pash actually goes to vidbir like she’s rumored to I’ll be so excited 👀👀👀

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“Uku Suviste lost Eesti Laul 2019 to the Swedish Victor Crone, and complained that ‘Only Estonians should represent Estonia’, which is ironic since Estonia’s only winning act included Dave Benton, who is from Aruba.” - Swedish commentators

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“everything is frustrating” so true australia

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hoping for belarus disqualification news today though!

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MONTAIGNEEEE TRANS FLAG AND PRIDE FLAG

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im so tired of christer björkman (hes commentating for sweden now) saying that he likes it when music has ethnic influences and you can tell where it’s from by the sound but also proud of every entry produced and written by swedish people and almost only compliments the classical pop songs

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manizha amazing creative talented as always what else is there to say

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one day i’m going to write a thinkpiece of how the general eurovision fandom views any ethnic minorities, because even when people don’t intend to incorporate racial biases, or when they’re saying something nice i get veryyy strange vibes. for example i’ve seen a lot of people comparing manizha with jamala(!!!), and whilst both are very talented and artistic women, the similarities aren’t that many? i feel like people a lot of people connect them because they’re from eastern europe and also percievably “foreign” (maybe jamala less percievably so, but everyone in the general eurovision community knows she’s crimean tatar and that her family was deported to central asia).

it also shows in a very common comment about eurovision 2020 and 2021 - i saw so many people saying things like how it’s cool to “have so much african culture” or “so many african-americans” - instantly putting all black contestants in one category, when for example jeangu macroy is neither from africa or “african american” (which people usually use for black usamerican), but from suriname. i know the community is mainly white and european, but ihghgh this makes me uncomfortable and i wish people thought more about their possible inherent biases before saying Things.