Mentions (9)
"The working class people the world over don't want non-binary opera music. It's funny that left to their own devices, Europe comes up with the gayest possible approach to 'contemporary' music possible."
"Now, all these years later, I have to work with gays who aspire to the personalities of American HR women. They love Taylor Swift and Disney and Eurovision, they use slang from social media that just sounds awkward in an Irish accent, they want to go to Tel Aviv."
"There's an endemic European corniness that surrounds things like Banksy and Eurovision and Stromae etc that seems at odds with some of their more respectable aesthetic values."
"I believe italy is legally obligated to disclose the votes, but only after the contest. Someone at RAI is getting whacked today, it's been a shitshow since the anchormen started to talk shit about the management live during the news."
"Literally just gay act after gay act. Why does everything all have to be gay all the time now? it's not cool anymore. There are no taboos anymore so it's just cheesy as hell. The UK performance was an extremely homo erotic performance in a dingy prison looking shower."
"Italian telly votes were circulated last night (they generally don't go out until after the Grand Final) and Israel won the vote by a ridiculous margin. 40% vs their nearest rival of 7% (Netherlands). For context, Ukraine got something like 25% of the vote back in 2022. Absolute scenes if Israel win"
"Eurovision has a reputation as a transgressive, hyper-camp no-frills queer parade … and you watch the show, only for it to be a 50-50 melting pot of piano ballads and stale slop pop which would barely scrape an air-filling corporate PA radio in some mundane convenience store. It's exactly like Sam S"
"If adult Barney songs are the best cultural output that endstage neoliberal capitalism can produce, I think there are enough people who could think, fuck this, I'd rather pay the blood price to start over and try again."
"with a song about coming out as non-binary, after israel jumped over 300 points from the popular vote"