Eurovision Song Contest 2022

My gawd. Get off your high horse.

The irony of someone accusing an entire country of looking down their noses at the Eurovision by themselves looking down their nose at people's other interests.

It's only the Eurovision. A bit of craic once a year, with the breakdown of the final results, and the identity of the winner, quickly forgotten by the bulk of the populace inside a month. I openly admit to only tuning in, when I can, to gawk at the European hotties.

Those sort of people that brand themselves as 'Eurovision experts' are the same reason why such god awful, gutter tv shows (Love Island etc.) have such good ratings. It's simply low brow television. There is nothing cultural about it at all.

The bastion that is the Eurovision! Sure look ar our two most famous former winners, Logan and Martin. Two absolute divas that haven't really matured.

But hey at least a possible Ukraine win will stick it to Putin.

Brooke missed loads of notes. And she husks her voice at the start whennahes on the floor, to the point that that some of the words are inaudible.

It was shite from start to finish. It had a mildly catchy bit in the chorus, but that's it. Only the biggest eurovsion fans in this thread will remember it this time next year.

I'm sure she's a sound woman and at a house party she's probably a good singer. Nowhere near professional singing. And her acting is terrible, stage presence, horrible American accent and dancing were all dreadful. It was poor. Maybe it could have squeeked through in 10th, bit it didn't and that's fair. Ireland has nothing to complain about. The event itself will be no poorer for their absence.

Belgium and Germany have rap this year and they are certainly not the first.

And no doubt she’ll shoehorn in the fact that she is a previous winner…..

Dustin the Turkey has done more damage to Ireland’s reputation at Eurovision than you think…

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No singer/song writer with an ounce of self respect wants anything to do with the Eurovision. You're forever tarred with that brush thereafter and by and large forgotten about even after winning it. No cash prize is going to change that.

This Brooke one sounded like a cat howling singing a song that a group of 8 year old girls would knock together in an evening. Even calling the girl a singer is a bit of a stretch. She works full-time as a secretary for an estate agent and really hasn't pursued any sort of music career since the voice because she's not good enough for that.

Money talks.

Songwriter for the Rasmus song included Desmond Child.

One of the songs on late late had members of the coronas and picture this as writers (not a fan of either but picture this in particular have a huge following).

Maneskin?

There was no attack on Brooke in that post though. He pointed out the gulf in class between Brooke and other singers in the contest which is 100% true.

To give you an idea how far away we are listen to Amanda Tenfjord for Greece. She's a 300-1 shot!! and is in an entirely different league to Brooke.

Ya true. Its about as rap as most of the rock songs are rock

I actually thought Australia, Poland,Belguim,Sweden,Estonia were all very good....

Ireland should stick with what it's good at which is a good catchy ballad.....big chorus...something the audience doesn't forgot....

The Irish entry just wasn't good enough and sounded dated....

On Linda Martin delivering the Irish vote tomorrow night....

We all know that Sweden take the Eurovision very seriously and it is a hugely popular event with the Swedish public. Linda became a big news story there when she won in Malmo in 1992, with 'Why Me?'.

The following year, close to Christmas, I was working in Malmo and some of my Swedish colleagues asked about our work Christmas party, back in Dublin. We were going to one of the mass corporate big night out events, held at The Royal Marine Hotel in Dunlaoghaire - as it happened, Linda was the live entertainment, before the DJ was due to take over for the end of the night. When my Swedish colleagues heard this, they were amazed at how our small company in Dublin could arrange to have a Eurovision winner sing at our Christmas party.

I didn't have the heart to tell them that we were one party table in a hall of hundreds and that Linda wasn't as big back home as they thought she should be. The Eurovision win may have done wonders for her career in Europe, but back home it merely resulted in a slight move up from the chicken and chips cabaret night out in The Belgard Inn, to slightly bigger corporate events.