Eurovision Song Contest 2024

yerwanthere123 · 17-12-2023 1:41am #1

Selection season well under way so time to start the thread.

Semi-final 1: 7 May 2024

Semi-final 2: 9 May 2024

Final: 11 May 2024

Is 2024 the year Ireland finally lose their crown and Sweden get win #8?

yerwanthere123 · 17-12-2023 1:48am

It's still 2023 and we already have two entries for 2024!

France

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niaeTRN-NDs&ab_channel=EurovisionFrance

Nothing particularly original about this ballad, but if he brings it live then I think the juries will really appreciate it. Not sure how the televote will go.

Czech Republic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DbRldMKFUU&ab_channel=Aiko

Nothing to get excited about here I think, can't see the it making a televote-only top ten in the semi final.

I think Olly Alexander is good news for the UK. He's reasonably well known, has had chart success and he's actually a fan of the contest so will give it his all. Have heard his live vocals are supposed to be pretty ropey though, so who knows. At the end of the day it all depends on the song.

RoTelly · 18-12-2023 4:21pm

I hope we win, that should put RTÉ in its place, they plan to spend 200k on Eurovision in 2024, excluding the 100k entry fee.

Welsh Megaman · 20-12-2023 12:01pm

Phwoar!

https://youtu.be/JWtop3GEBs8?si=RvSsqM7N2S5CLzfI

odyssey06 · 20-12-2023 12:05pm

Oh dear, shouldn't be using Energon cubes in stage design, that's just inviting a Transformers battle to take place at the venue...

https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Energon

Welsh Megaman · 31-12-2023 11:14am

Here we go! 😊

https://twitter.com/escdiscord/status/1741265012033720682?s=46&t=1Tq7f1OuPZ7fta27ygU7Fg

yerwanthere123 · 31-12-2023 3:09pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121553124#Comment_121553124

Not long until our hopes are dashed for another year, looking forward to it already 😍

Joking aside though, I'd love just once for something decent to be among them. Like not a contender to win, but maybe a song that'll easily qualify and maybe finish 9th in the final. I think I'll have to keep dreaming though.

yerwanthere123 · 31-12-2023 3:31pm

Meanwhile, here's Albania

https://youtu.be/7rEDP1lSoDQ?si=N5wVvw48bmmzuUvH

Maybe a bit less wailing this year, but it's still a woman singing a power ballad as per.

yerwanthere123 · 05-01-2024 12:16am

Apparently these are the six acts/songs due to be unveiled next week

https://twitter.com/ItsMatthewJoyce/status/1742894888872534363

I only heard of Bambie Thug a few days ago, but god wouldn't she be a welcome change in direction for Ireland?! Tsunami is a bit of a tune.

The Ailsha song looks like it could offer something a bit different too, if this brief, low-quality clip is anything to go by.

Next In Line are another Louis Walsh conveyor belt boyband. Tbf to them they can actually sing pretty well, but I wouldn't be holding out much hope for the song.

yerwanthere123 · 05-01-2024 12:22am

If the above list is true, then it seems the Gardiner Brothers & Luke Thomas were rejected by RTE

https://twitter.com/Gardiner_Bros/status/1729589983302815900

Somewhat surprising, because the song isn't terrible and the brothers have 1.3 million followers on Instagram so would've been able to promote the song quite heavily. The Irish dancing did scream Irish for the sake of being Irish though, surprised they didn't have a leprechaun drinking Guinness in there too.

Cruachan were also rejected for the second consecutive year, and have now said they're not gonna bother applying again.

According to this thread on Escforum four acts were chosen from songs submitted to RTE whilst two were seemingly put straight into the final. I'm guessing Louis Walsh's band must've gotten the free pass, because Louis' had so much recent success when it comes to Eurovision in Ireland?

odyssey06 · 05-01-2024 10:22am

Ah I'm guessing the Bambie Thug song will need some lyric work to make it Eurovision safe...

I assume the selection process is on the LLS? Has the date been set yet?

yerwanthere123 · 05-01-2024 2:25pm

It is, depressingly, a part of the Late Late again this year. No official confirmation yet, but I've seen January 26th being mentioned as our date for selection.

yerwanthere123 · 05-01-2024 5:00pm

January 26th confirmed

https://twitter.com/EirevisionPod/status/1743296037316387023?t=y57K1eMEPjgCJVGkuNcxmQ&s=19

supereurope · 05-01-2024 5:05pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121575628#Comment_121575628

The Late Late Show format doesn't work, the results from the past few years confirm that. The night after the 2023 LLS special, I watched the final of the Norwegian selection, held in a massive arena and a proper television event, like it is in Sweden. RTÉ doesn't even bother holding a stand-alone national final, but incorporates it into another show, then acts surprised when the chosen act gets nowhere.

yerwanthere123 · 05-01-2024 5:08pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121575654#Comment_121575654

Agreed 100%, but the Late Late format is here to stay unfortunately. Michael Kealy basically confirmed this in a recent podcast. RTE aren't willing to invest in it, and even less so since the Tubridy debacle broke out and far less are paying their tv licenses. It's a pretty handy excuse for them.

supereurope · 05-01-2024 5:09pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121573080#Comment_121573080

Don't forget Louis managed Johnny Logan when he won in 1987 and Linda Martin when she won in 1992, so OF COURSE he knows all about how to win Eurovision in 2024. Honestly, keeping Louis and Linda so closely involved in our selection for years is much of the reason we've struggled so much post-2000. Yes, Linda is a winner and I'm not denying that (though she didn't deserve to win in 1992, but she should have won in a landslide in 1984), but just because you won Eurovision once doesn't make you an expert on how to do well know. You don't see Abba involved in the Swedish section or Bobbysocks in Norway's.

EDIT: adding this paragraph in. Cheryl Baker made an absolute fool of herself while acting as a pundit for the BBC during the 2021 semi-finals. She criticised the excellent Ukrainian singer as being "pitchy" and said the pre-contest favourites like Lithuania had no hope of qualifying. Every prediction she made was wrong. Since then, she's been kept away from punditry, the BBC realising that someone who won the contest years ago might not be the best person to talk about the modern-day event.

supereurope · 05-01-2024 5:18pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121573080#Comment_121573080

Oh, and I think it was best that Gardiner Brothers number didn't make it in. We need to drop all that diddly-aye rubbish, Europe had repeatedly said no to it. And while they're big on social media, I don't know how much of a help that really is. I mean, Jendrik from Germany (2021) and Reiley from Denmark (2023) were both huge on TikTok and social media, and look what happened there.

RoTelly · 08-01-2024 11:04am

Just post this here also a few thought on Ray D'arcy show interview with Michael Kealy, RTÉ's Eurovision boss

He says he had wanted to move to a show across several weeks
He says events outside of our control (actually those events were all to do with RTÉ and well with in their control, RTÉ just got out of control)
Ye have to laugh, yeah!
Selection process started in June (Wait so you just said that you'd wanted to move the show, but didn't all of this happen in June, so that was probably the shortest thought that anyone has ever had)
They usual start in September, I would love to know what this guy does outside of the Eurovision.
380 entries receive boiled down to 60 and then got people to listen, any eurovision fans get to listen?
He knows how to use excel
5 with the Wildcard being about who's who, when did their entry arrive ?
PIL and Wild Youth both being wild tracked last year (that worked out)
He approached them and they came back to him (yeah very fair)
no science, at all, I like some, others like some, Europe likes NONE
Future, should be stand alone but it all depends on finances (why what happened, what happened, did something happen, I wonder what happened)
We look down at the Eurovision, making it credible (just not in RTÉ, honestly I have watch Eurovision over the last 3 years, first year was quiet good and surprising, last 2 years not so much (maybe I only watched 2 years), I won't be going back it wasn't that good TBF).
Boycott due to Israel, its shocking, we are a public service broadcasting service (expect what happened back there in June)
Same as we did last year, I think! International Jury, National Jury and Phone Vote
Weighting of the vote is spelt weighting not waiting, why explain this?
6 finalist will be announce on Ray D'Arcy
TLLS will have a Eurovision.
Are you hopeful ....
Is Kevin Bee hopeful :)