Eurovision Song Contest 2023

waywill1966 · 14-05-2023 12:13AM

Cornelia was the best part of the whole show!

Goldengirl · 14-05-2023 12:14AM

Gas though that nearly everyone on here was rooting for Finland , and a few others , but not Sweden ?

forumdedum · 14-05-2023 12:14AM

The Sweden encore the only one I really heard. Super mixing from the producers and I love the visuals. Decent song. Sad none of this is live anymore.

forumdedum · 14-05-2023 12:14AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120594492#Comment_120594492

or lack of lol.

Ragwort and Stones · 14-05-2023 12:14AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120594476#Comment_120594476

When and where should we protest. I'll be there!

Say Your Number · 14-05-2023 12:15AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120594483#Comment_120594483

Didn't think it would win, even accouting for taste I thought it would finish mid-table at worst.

Oscar_Madison · 14-05-2023 12:15AM

My my, at Liver-pool, Fin-Land did surrender 😛

Itssoeasy · 14-05-2023 12:16AM

It’s funny how Cornelia jakobs last year had a great song and then tonight she was great and yet this crap from Sweden won. I wonder was the jury vote a make up call from last year ?

Indestructable · 14-05-2023 12:16AM

Stockholm has a lot to live up to now, great show from Liverpool. That's it for another year. Thread on boards is my favorite every year, so thanks all!

glitterIsland · 14-05-2023 12:17AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120594499#Comment_120594499

There was no unique performance from the winner. She was rolling around on a floor feeling a screen in her face.

ctrl-alt-delete · 14-05-2023 12:17AM

Finland robbed, but sure that's what happens when you go to Liverpool.

Sweden nailed it in the end.

leahyl · 14-05-2023 12:18AM

Thought she performed it better the 2nd time but seriously annoying how bad her diction is. Like most people have said, the song is nowhere near as good as Euphoria but fair play to her for matching JLo’s record of only person to win it twice!

Ragwort and Stones · 14-05-2023 12:18AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120594511#Comment_120594511

My my, at Liverpool, Loreen beat a pretender😉

FixdePitchmark · 14-05-2023 12:18AM

OK song - but poor recorded vocals - and nowhere near the standards of winners over the last 10 years. Now CHA CHA CHA CHA CHA - was bullshit too. Great show - but a joke act.

hayrabit · 14-05-2023 12:18AM

RUBBISH this winner

to say it's "A Poor Man's Firework (Perry) " would be a gross overstatement

how tf did it win ????

😓

glitterIsland · 14-05-2023 12:18AM

Finland had more of a stage performance than Sweden. He burst out from a box and used his outfit to create shadows of a monster on the screen followed by dancers out from the box.

Say Your Number · 14-05-2023 12:18AM

Well that was a load of bullsh1t, see ye again next year.

freshpopcorn · 14-05-2023 12:19AM

I'm currently listening to Cornelia Jacobs entry!

saabsaab · 14-05-2023 12:20AM

Let TG$ organise the Eurovision process for us next year! RTE say they don't have the money for it.

acequion · 14-05-2023 12:21AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120594478#Comment_120594478

You're completely right. We are in the last century. I'm old enough to remember each of Ireland's wins vividly and to remember the feel good factor. But it was a very long time ago and Sweden have turned out great acts this century. So they deserve to be at our level of wins, though I didn't rate that song tonight and don't think it deserved to win.

For our younger generation, many who weren't even born when we were clearing up in the 90's, I really hope we get back there!

Kermit.de.frog · 14-05-2023 12:22AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120594525#Comment_120594525

Because it's Eurovision and Sweden are considered royalty (Abba basically). You don't think this is a song contest, do you? It hasn't been that since public voting was introduced back in the late 90's. The juries long lost any credibility too.

I just listened to Sweden's winning entry. Utterly forgettable (like most to be fair). It's not even a good song ffs.

Oscar_Madison · 14-05-2023 12:22AM

Complete and utter bastards- have a slow cancerous death Putin- and too your children

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65586701

Itssoeasy · 14-05-2023 12:22AM

https://youtu.be/rkWJI0-lpqM

This is the version I heard of Cornelia Jakobs before the contest last year. Even though it would’ve equaled our record it’s a much better song than this years one.

techman1 · 14-05-2023 12:23AM

thought it should have been Finland, then Israel, also the UK had a great song but did really badly.

Even if we send a great song and performance it still might come nowhere

freshpopcorn · 14-05-2023 12:23AM

Could JP back a few Limerick Lads for us next year!

Oscar_Madison · 14-05-2023 12:24AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120594523#Comment_120594523

Your intonation is much better than mine 😛

squonk · 14-05-2023 12:25AM

We’re just another country at Eurovision now. We always had a cachéof being good at it but the game has moved on and our good days are over. I’m actually concerned. I grew up in the 80s where we had won once at that stage abd always had an act in the final. Then 1987 and hold be now happened and it sparked off something and ( years later we couldn’t help winning. At gge time it was a shot in the arm as we weren’t the most exciting of places.

undoubtedly now all our records will fall by the wayside. It doesn’t say much as a nation tget we can’t even qualify now. We do so many things we’ll nowadays abd the country has moved on so much from where it was in 93 but another 10 or 15 years of this dross and only oul’ lads like I will be then will remember an Irish win. If this was rugby or soccer there’d be protests. I’m tired of this. It would be good to be back in tge final again and at least look like we’re competing I really am mad now. It’s a disgrace.

14-05-2023 12:25AM

There’s no real way of winning is there ? Look at the Oscar’s for example, banshees of innis played the game absolutely perfect, influenced all the right people and attended all the right festivals and put themselves right into contention. Sweden had the right people talking about them and they literally had the word “favourites” tagged into their name , and that’s what you have to do to stand a chance.

Irelands entry looked like a band in a local competition in a movie where they overcome odds to win with a powerful and spirited give it all performance, sadly for genuine musicians the top entries were extremely choreographed, over confident and rehearsed to precision. So thats what we need as a minimum next year along with visibility:)

Here’s my 3 point plan .

pick the best song humanly possible

hire someone like Lin-manual miranda or rammstein to transform it into a theatrical spectacle

get boots on the ground and hype the shite out of it