Hey, this is my friend Jessi from New York
that I met when I Iived there and Jessi's here and we're going to show her The Euro-vision
And see what she thinks of that.
[Funky music starts]
All of the countries in Europe
and Australia
send a representative to sing, and then...
- Like, one person or a band?
Uhm....an act. It depends?- okay
And then people vote
and it goes from 0 points to 12 points
So its kind of like...almost like The Super Bowl
In the sense that like...
Every year it's a different place
Everyone's watching it
but like....
It's like the gay superbowl.
i think, is probably the fairest way to- its the gay superbowl
You ready?
Yeah.
You ready to Euro-vision?
I am ready.
Is this sphere a big deal?
...Nah
Is that just... What they blew their budget on? yeah
There is a man
Who's that ?
If you thought that was Jackie Chan, it's not.
Feels like the opening to a Bond movie.
Oh, is this the one from last year?
This is Conchita Wurst that won it last year.
ohh, she is flying!
Yeah, it's Euro-vision, like...
I have no idea what's going on...
So this is what rap music is like in Europe.
eh?
what its doing here
whoa
How did he do that?
I totally missed that.
He disappeared.
"The world's biggest music show or as Australians put it"
"breakfast TV"
Oh yeah, that's funny.
Yes
'Cause they have to watch it ...
It's the first year for Australia, this.
Just, because...
See you always get this nice little...
Oh, this is what Sweden looks like. ...package of...yeah
They're always quite nice.
So Sweden, like, put this together, right ?
But Sweden, like...
..was like, "Hey guys, I have this great video idea, you're gonna be astronauts..."
So they're also going for, like, performance value here
They're going for, like ... - Oh, it's theatrics.
So it has nothing to do with, like, really... talent?
hmm a little, little less than-?
Now he's dancing with the little guys.
Hi-five him!
[satisfied noise]
This is a good Euro-vision song, this is...
you get some...
[sing-a-long]
you can get good stuff like this
Oh, he's living his dream.
Look how excited he is.
"Start voting now"
How many people are, like, the finals?
27
so, this is the final
that's a lot
so now
you text, which country you want,
uh-hum or you can call in
and... it's amalgamated
people vote mostly based on what countries are next to them,
so traditionally England always give Ireland quite a high score
Okay traditionally Ireland, never give England anything...
Why?
History.
So this is how is works now,
They go to this lady in... somewhere...
Montenegro
"How's Andre able to keep her head up with those earrings?"
ha hahaha
wait but now that I'm looking at them
I'm like imagining her ear lobes, just like,
[glurb?]
[glurb]
when she takes them out the just sway
do they go through every country?
like, this is who we voted for?
so everyone text in and depending on like
oh, most people text for england...
so like the results section is like just as long!
"Azerbaijan"
"Les Azerbaïdjan huit points"
Where's that?
"And finally..."
"Italy I think"
"Our twelve points..."
"Go to..."
"Italy"
They always pause, like make it really dramatic
heh, that's SO dramatic
Okay, France are probably going to give twelve points to Belgium
"Pour La Belgique"
Boom!
Ireland!
I don't know who we had to do it
Nicky Byrne from Westlife?
cute.
"Twelve points from Ireland..."
"go to..." Latvia
"Latvia!"
So you've got to think about who's living here
'cause you can't vote for your own country
So often times where there's a lot of
Ooohhhh!
Like Ex-pats
I see what's going on there They vote for their own country
"We have further countries coming up"
"but it's no longer possible-"
[gasp]
Oooh, he's so happy!
ahhh, that was the best reaction ever!
So Ireland have won it 7 times
and Sweden have won it 6 times
To be fair
In 2008, we sent a puppet of a Turkey
to- as our entrance
Wait, what?
The puppet we sent was called 'Dustin the Turkey'
Who was a Turkey puppet
but like in a jacket, and a hat
was it like slim pickings that year?
Was there no one else to send?
It was the most interest people had in it for years
Every musician who had dreams of being on it is like what?!
You sent the Turkey?!
So like that's what he looks like
That is the- literally not what I was expecting.
No. He doesn't look like a Turkey.
[Return of the Funky music]
Okay, you can bring up the Superbowl, but like
the half-time show of the Superbowl, in terms of like,
production-value and how many people are watching
no, I don't think- I mean like, other than American Idol
American Idol meets the Superbowl
Meets Rupaul's drag race
Meets Rupaul's-? Sure.
I think- I mean I think like women and like teenage girls
would be like SO down to clown with this
In terms of style, and the way it's shot and all the music
and how like 'baaah' it is
like, I feel like that's much more European than... us
We kinda like to be more down to Earth than like that cool rap section and-
Famous down-to-earth Americans
you don't- Shut up!
Ha!
no but like, you know like with- I don't know.
with our music it's- it's less like 'Dance music~' and more like
'we're tryna say a message you know'
yeah, what's 2 Chainz's message?
I don't know! What's he tryna preach?
I'm just- I don't- maybe I- I'm probably a- I don't know
[Outro Music]
America's entrance for the Euro-vision 2016!
Evanescence
and... Ja Rule
like It'd be something weird and stupid like that, like...
ah, where did they go?
Waiting for their Euro-vision call.