It’s unfortunate these guys didn’t get into Eurovision back in 2013 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dllo85ZSUk
That is the best thing I have seen all week.
PR exercise for Israel time!
And now they banned pride and palestinian flags!
They allowed Palestinian flags this year, and pride flags have always been allowed
https://nltimes.nl/2025/04/27/eurovision-bans-non-national-flags-drawing-backlash-lgbtq-advocates Maybe you missed it, but they banned “non-national” flags on stage which means: pride flags, palestinian flags, eu flags. Last year:
This is not the first time the EBU has restricted the use of rainbow flags at Eurovision. Last year, fans were required to leave their rainbow flags at the entrance to the event.
The EBU wants it “non-political” which means states (like Israel) can wash their crimes, while you shouldn’t be allowed protest it.
There isn’t enough PR in the world to help Israel
Eh, I’m not supporting eurovision anymore. It’s best to boycott it
Isn’t it only sweden who religiously watches that stuff?
It is/was certainly big here in Norway. I don’t know how big it is these days however. Me and my friends used to have MGP parties where we printed out forms and rated the performances on multiple criterias and such. Was a lot of fun
For Norway, NRK started releasing viewership numbers since 2018. So not that many years, 2022 was the best year so far with 1.22 millioner concurrent viewers on NRK. Then 2023 saw a decline and 2024 saw a decline and became the weakest year in the tracking with 861.000 concurrent viewers. So still quite a lot of people though it’s a 30% decline.
Would assume this year is also weak, as I haven’t seen to much hype about the Norwegian song, nor much Eurovision hype in general tbh. Would guess 800-850 thousand Norwegian viewers.
Yeah, it’s increasingly an old person thing. I mean it somewhat was back then too, but there was absolutely more hype in general
I think it has more to do with the hypocrisy of letting Israel perform. It just pisses off most of their viewership, which are mostly anti genocide.
The lyrics of a midway song that the hosts sang (“no matter how kind or brutal” or some shit like that) doubles down on the hypocrisy of kicking out Russia but allowing Israel.
I certainly hope that is the reason
No it is all over yurope.
Replace Europe with Israel, then its accurate.
