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Eurovision by the way guys I have a little bit of a list cuz I'm straightening my teeth with aligners
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I remember the first time I was introduced to Eurovision was in
2014 when I visited Denmark and back then they were actually hosting Eurovision I had no idea what it was and then when I saw
It I was like wow there's this big deal out here so today. We answer the question. What is
Eurovision explained by the perfect candidate me an american logic now
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Thanks a lot now back to the main question. What is
Eurovision well first of all specifically it's the Eurovision Song Contest
Eurovision is actually the name of the network in Switzerland that kind of started the whole thing
Second of all in the shortest way
I can summarize it it's like the longest running
Most-watched singing competition in the world held in May with finals sometimes lasting up to four hours
It involves mostly all of the countries in Europe and a few that aren't even in it as well literally every country in Europe except
For Liechtenstein and no surprise Vatican City has competed at least once in the competition
Can you vatican priests competing in the competition who knows maybe one day? I mean Europe is pretty surprising, so how did it all begin?
basically back in the
1950s Europe had to figure out a way to make everybody cool with each other after World War two so
No shocker Europe's little rational psychiatrist Switzerland was like hey everyone likes music
So let's do a friendly little singing competition amongst each other to appease the masses and it worked
Switzerland the most neutral of all nations hosted the first competition in Lugano with seven countries and no surprise
Switzerland the most neutral competitor won
the first competition since then it's been going on literally for over 60 years slowly over time new countries joined in after the fall the
Soviet Union and Yugoslavia
tons of new countries wanted in and now over 40 are taking part basically each country submits an original song and a singer or group
To perform for the grand prize, you know on the surface. It seems kind of fun, but underneath the whole deal. It's like this whole
Systematically complex formulated competition it involves a lot of math politics and strategy and by strategy. I mean this
The rules are always changing because they always find new problems
But for one you get three minutes to sing and you can choose whatever language you want however
Recently a lot of people have just chosen to sing in English Belgium once told everybody by singing in a fake language twice
And for some reason Norway once sing in Swahili
Now because there are the biggest financial contributors there are five countries that automatically qualify for the final every year
They are France Germany Spain
The UK and Italy now you might think because these countries automatically qualify that might be unfair so to make up for these countries
Usually send in singers that like deliberately suck, so they can kind of make up for the advantage
Now how do you win well in order to win you have to get the points which happens through voting the voting system has changed
Throughout the years at first there was a single jury that voted then there was a jury in every competing nation that gave a point
system between 1 to 8 10 and 12 points to their favorite performers then in
1997 they experimented with the first call-in televoting system then that got messy because
politics so in 2016 they brought back the juries and fused the two together so each got a
50/50 say in the point system basically the rule is you can't vote for your own country
But you can give points to other countries. This is where politics usually comes in and why the televoting system
Got kind of messy you can really get a sense of who the real
Friends are like the Nordic countries always support each other the Slavic countries
Greece and Cyprus always give each other like the highest points and so on so that's why they had to bring the jury system back
To balance things out to this day
Ireland has the most wins at seven Sweden comes in next at six France and Luxembourg
And the UK each have five the Netherlands has four Denmark Israel and Norway have three and Austria Germany Italy Spain
Switzerland and the Ukraine each have two otherwise when it comes to performances pretty much anything goes you can wear wacky
costumes
You silly props you can incorporate elements that illustrate your nations culture or heritage you can run around in a hamster wheel you don't even
Have to use performers that are from your country. I mean Celine Dion won in the 80s
She competed for Switzerland, and she's from Canada can take the competition seriously, or you can make a complete fool of yourself
And that's kind of the other thing that needs to be addressed apparently from what I've been told many of the countries that compete in
Eurovision don't even want to win Eurovision as in they deliberately suck so that they can lose now
Why would you want to lose Eurovision because according to the rules the winning country of Eurovision has to host the next
Eurovision hosting a
Eurovision is like hosting a little mini Olympics
It costs a lot of money and taxes to accommodate such a huge event that gets bigger and bigger every year
And there's were the infamous troll contestants come in every year. There are so many with like over-the-top
Campy horribly constructed performances, and it's one of the biggest appeals to watching Eurovision everybody wants to see the trolls
And it's almost like there's an art to it
Typically you can tell if it's a troll if the song is either about partying dancing or having fun
usually played to a very poppy techno EDM track usually accompanied by
Over-the-top flashy costumes and props or bad dancing from what I've seen
Latvia and Lithuania seem to be really good at this like la vía. Once dressed up as pirates
Lithuania literally submitted this
Surprisingly, they came in sixth place that year. You know I usually who's gonna be a bunch of slip-ups and mistakes
Ireland once sentient a screaming puppet
The singing can get pretty intense
Oh and the lyrics sometimes they're just genius
One time Finland one with this group to Caracas
Oh and don't forget drag queens after drag queens after winning drag queens and there was that one time Russia was like eh screw it
We're just gonna send in a bunch of grandmas baking bread on stage
And they actually got second place in the end the Eurovision Song Contest is like Europe's complete musical Battle Royale
That brings in the entire continent plus some other countries that are not part of their continent
Which begs the question do I think the USA should take part in Eurovision no?
Absolutely not for one. We're not part of Europe second. We'd probably ruin it like seriously
I'm very doubtful any Europeans would be ecstatic to see an American in a European competition
We'd be like that really annoying cousin that your friend brought to your party that you kind of politely laugh at their horrible bad jokes
Just cuz you don't want to be confrontational and when he starts talking to you. You're like oh, yeah
Yeah, yeah hey I have to go to the bathroom, but um hey here. It's Estonia. Have you met Estonia?
Yeah, Estonia at us u.s., Estonia
Yeah, just say hi to each other
And yeah you two get along I gotta go to the bathroom and third we'd probably never win
I doubt we'd ever get many points if any at all and he may be the UK and Ireland would throw us some pity points
But nobody would want an American to win Eurovision
And if by some miracle we actually did win it would probably start a bunch of protests and boycotts
And inciting World War three four and five all at once so for the safety of the planet
I think it would be best if we set this one out so there you go Eurovision explained by an American
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