How much longer are we to watch this injustice?
The Euro Vision Song Contest has long since ceased to be an event where only the audience’s favorite wins. More and more, the jury’s favorite wins in the end! So also this year.
If the more than 200 million viewers all over Europe and the rest of the world had had their way (yes, there was also this rating this time), Saturday evening would NOT have Sweden’s Loreen (39, “Tattoo”) won the title.
Would have won – by a large margin – Finland’s Käärijä (29) with his completely insane, awesome metal-electro number “Cha Cha Cha”.
Undoubtedly a good song, but not the audience’s favourite: Sweden’s Loreen with “Tattoo”
With 243 points, Loreen “only” received the second best value. Käärijä, on the other hand, got an incredible 376 points! A mile-long lead of 133 points.
But the juries prevented Finland’s second success after Lordi 2006 (“Hard Rock Hallelujah”). Why? Because they gave Loreen loads of points (340) and punished Käärijä in fourth place with 150 points.
Finland’s Käärijä delighted the crowds and clearly won the fan vote, but did not win the ESC
But why? Because it was canned Swedish pop again? Because that kind of music doesn’t hurt when listening to the radio on the Autobahn? Because the actual star of the evening is not really suitable for the masses?
My demand as a big, long-time ESC fan: finally create it ESC-Jury off!
Even they got off better with the audience than with the jury: Our ESC rockers “Lord of the Lost” received 15 points from the spectators, but only three points from the so-called “specialist jury”.
I’m fed up!
Again and again the audience has to watch how democratic principles are being destroyed by an elite group of so-called “music experts”. In recent years, videos have repeatedly circulated on the Internet in which jury members from various countries preferred to tinker or talk on the phone during the performances.
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has actually already learned something new. In the two semi-finals on Tuesday and Thursday, the juries were no longer effective. Only the votes of the spectators were counted for the entry into the final.
Lo and behold: Finland won the semifinals clearly ahead of Sweden, receiving twelve points out of 7 out of 19 possible countries (including Germany and Sweden)! Sweden, on the other hand, only got the maximum number of points twice.
But: For reasons of fairness, the results of the semi-finals will only be published after the final. Also to prevent unrest in the hall?
Frustration interview after ESC bankruptcy “We really didn’t expect that”
In fact, the juries were reintroduced in 2009 to prevent injustices caused by neighboring country scores. However, reality shows: Exactly the opposite is the case!
In 2019, it was not the clear audience favorite “Keiino” from Norway that won, but Holland’s jury favorite Duncan Laurence (“Arcade”). In 2016, Russia’s Sergey Lazarev would actually have landed ahead of Jamala (“1944”) from Ukraine.
If the viewers had had their way, the band “Keiino” would have won the ESC for Norway in 2019 with their song “Spirit In The Sky”.
Only when the audience is given full power over the winning decision again does it make itself felt ESC believable again. But as it is, it degenerates more and more into a farce, steered by the music elite.
Suggestion: let Germany and the other countries of the “Big Five” (Great Britain, France, Spain, Italy) also take part in the semi-finals again. Only if we can also qualify for the final there can we be sure that there won’t be another debacle for last place.
Those were the days! Lena at her ESC triumph in 2010. That was 13 years ago. A felt eternity
“Lord of the Lost” delivered a terrific show, thrilled the hall, but in the end only got a meager 18 points! Because it feels like 90 percent of the viewers already form their opinion in the semi-finals, we have no way of standing out. This is proven by the many last places in recent years.
You never see this kind of chaos Conversion madness at the ESC
Exception: Lena with her victory in 2010 (“Satellite”) and Michael Schulte with his fourth place in 2018 (“You Let Me Walk Alone”).
Give our acts the opportunity to shine in the semi-finals. I’m tired of seeing us at the bottom again and again. We as fans and our musicians didn’t deserve that.
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