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Please post any and all discussions regarding the contest itself, host country and city, organisation, rumours and other topics not related to any specific country's selection process.
EUROVISION 2021 - General Discussion Thread
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oooo Chelcee Grimes. She was one of the singers in one of my favourite songs of 2019
Amanda Holden also a great choice.
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The Karaoke version of this year's songs are out on Spotify. So for those who want to do their own covers.
The ESC United Jury returns for 2021, and we're live from tonight!
All the details #YOU need are below...
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All the details #YOU need are below...
The ESC United Jury is back for 2021 – and this time it’s LIVE!
That's right, it's time for the ESC United team to officially pass judgement on the 39 participating songs of this year's Eurovision Song Contest - and for the
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Fierro
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karaoke version is bonkers. Without vocals sounds like OM top-contender for the win
crashworld
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I have compiled the list of staging directors for the respective competing countries.
Please feel free to add on as there are some that do not have information.
Marvin Dietmann
*Edit: Germany's source: https://escxtra.com/2021/02/25/jend...feel-hate-germanys-entry-for-eurovision-2021/
Please feel free to add on as there are some that do not have information.
Marvin Dietmann
- Austria
- Bulgaria
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Estonia
- Spain
- Albania
- Georgia
- Malta
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Greece
- Moldova
- Belgium
- The Netherlands
- Lithuania
- Germany*
- United Kingdom
- North Macedonia
- Ireland
- San Marino
- Azerbaijan
- France
- Poland
- Israel
*Edit: Germany's source: https://escxtra.com/2021/02/25/jend...feel-hate-germanys-entry-for-eurovision-2021/
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Mimmon
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'The Power of Water' set to make a splash!
Singer Davina Michelle and actress Thekla Reuten will star in a water-inspired interval act during the first Semi-Final of the Eurovision Song Contest in Rotterdam.
Lance Esgard
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For Australia, Montaigne revealed her team in a video blog on her channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abhzm1F6Niw
The choreographer/staging director is Marko Panzic, who Aussievision notes was part of the planning for the performance last year.
She does not know what she going on with the travel to Rotterdam situation and may end up going there, but her wording "I might end up going to Rotterdam" confirms that currently she would not be going.
In the video she also opens up about a recently diagnosed medical condition which has been negatively affecting her energy levels and from that sleep and nutrition. This is in turn has implications for her voice. This is why the betting odds (last I checked) for her are so low despite polling, running order and community sentiment suggesting more of a borderline qualifier status.
Best wishes to Montaigne in managing that condition as best as possible.
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rasmuslights
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well I think this year is unfortunately one of the weakest if you look at the overall quality. We have quite a few great entries: Bulgaria, Romania, Belgium, Italy, Russia, Sweden, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Australia... but a lot of the songs are really weak, not to mention that almost every single country made a wrong choice in their nf. Hope next year will be better because I'm not feeling it this year except for 15 songs or so.
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Eurovoix has announced a ESC home concert - Concert in the Dark, which will takes place on 21st April (Wednesday) at 2100 CET.
15 acts from this year's contest alongside with past ESC participants and both past and this year's NF participants will perform.
The concert will be streamed "live" on Eurovoix.tv.
Source: https://eurovoix.com/2021/04/16/concert-in-the-dark-lineup-revealed/
15 acts from this year's contest alongside with past ESC participants and both past and this year's NF participants will perform.
The concert will be streamed "live" on Eurovoix.tv.
Source: https://eurovoix.com/2021/04/16/concert-in-the-dark-lineup-revealed/
theditz83
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I swear to lord above, if I see another mournful, self-indulgent acoustic version of one of this year's entries, I'm going to start a petition for all delegations to do happy hardcore versions of them all as well. 
Mimmon
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JENDRIK STYLED SONGS PLEASEI swear to lord above, if I see another mournful, self-indulgent acoustic version of one of this year's entries, I'm going to start a petition for all delegations to do happy hardcore versions of them all as well.
anto475
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Unfortunately I have to agree, this is the weakest year in my personal rankings since 2006
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You can add Portugal to the "Excuse you?! Staging what?!" group.
Lance Esgard
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For me this is the worst year in terms of National Final choices, all the more so because as we had less of them the ratio of bad-to-good picks is higher. But I find this both a strong year and a bad year in terms of the entries we have. I have more entries than in a usual year at the top of my rankings, with more entries that I would like to have in my Top Ten than spaces for them, but there are also a higher than usual number of entries at the bottom of my rankings, usually connected with the National Finals that picked what is to me not the strongest or one of the strongest available entries in said National Final.
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yeah, agree... it could've been much stronger if countries like Norway, Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Albania, Portugal and then also Germany and Poland made wrong internal selections... made the right choices... it is what is I guess, have much higher hope for next year.
theditz83
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EBU - expect my strongly worded letter in the coming days...
This one is at least a bit closer to the original, but yeah - ENOUGH
Well, Jendrik was sort of the first one who did an acoustic version of his song ...
Ianp16
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Just want to post here that, in terms of "recording only', this year has been my favourite year for songs since I became a proper ESC stan in 2014. I think there's only a couple of songs I genuinely don't like, and even these entries, such as Italy, I can understand their quality, despite not being a fan. I'm just ready for disappointments for at least half the entries when it comes to the live performances because there is always a good 5-10 which don't translate as well in a live performance or live up to their recorded version.
I am loving 2021
I am loving 2021
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Speaking of 2014... That was an amazing year! This year I really like about eight songs, then there's like 10 that I kind of like, and the rest are meh.Just want to post here that, in terms of "recording only', this year has been my favourite year for songs since I became a proper ESC stan in 2014. I think there's only a couple of songs I genuinely don't like, and even these entries, such as Italy, I can understand their quality, despite not being a fan. I'm just ready for disappointments for at least half the entries when it comes to the live performances because there is always a good 5-10 which don't translate as well in a live performance or live up to their recorded version.
I am loving 2021
And I'm still bitter about Estonia's NF. I loved Jüri.
