DISCLAIMER: THIS IS GONNA BE A LONG POST (and obviously a biased one cuz she was my favorite).
First of all, Jamala's comments and questions were
disgusting (that's even an understatement). I don't care about her issues, I don't care about their political issues and I literally hate Russia's politics but It's a MUSIC CONTEST, act like it or get out. She has so much experience as an artist and the level of unprofessionalism she has shown is unbelievable. I actually loved her song and I chose to close my eyes to the political message back in 2016 and even voted for it (my dumb ass regrets this). Because her behavior wasn't enough, she BLOCKED (yes, blocked) everyone on instagram & facebook who disagreed with her questions or said what she did wasn't okay. (She blocked me on insta (i sent her a dm saying her act was terrible & i regret voting for her) & facebook (literally i just put angry reactions and she blocked me, ok sis)). Okay, lets move on to something that really matters now.
Maruv. The queen. I am a gay man and when I saw the performance for the first time i gasped, I was intrigued, I was attracted. I was living for it. Her vocals were not the best, obviously, but she made up for that. She won fair and square.
I cannot BELIEVE people are defending UA
BC when literally every Ukranian person who is living in the 21st century and isn't a nationalist defended MARUV and put the blame on UA
BC (as they should).
The contract they made her sign was unbelievable & inhumane. I was fuming the moment I read it. Melovin said himself he had a different contract and supported MARUV till the end. A lot of other famous artists supported her too. Like, I can live with the 'don't go to Russia and don't sing there", but paying over 60k euros for a fricking dance move, talking to reporters without their approval etc etc. They wanted her to be a political puppet. You will say what we want and if you don't you'll get a fine. She even had to pay for everything herself (what?). I don't get how dumb they can be including politics and getting an artist not to sign a contract when that artist is one of the main favorites???? WHERE'S THE LOGIC? I CAN'T FIND IT!
The moment she didn't sign the contract (made the right decision) the first thing I thought is the hate the representative is going to get, undeserved and I felt pretty bad, but then saw the other runner ups decline the request and it gave me life. I would've lived for a disqualification from the EBU but okay.
There's nothing disgusting in Jamala's comments. She experienced provoking, physical attack & political questions herself in 2016 :? If she wanted to screw her she would gave her 1-3 pts. She's already gave her more than enough, considering she dislikes such kind of performances.
+ I don't get how it influenced anything considering MARUV gave the right answer)). In fact it added her more televoting points. If you think it's disgusting then step in our shoes first. We're fighting against army which has nuclear weapons with the most powerful propahanda resource in the world and not even the EBU can guarantee us equal treatment with everyone else. Journalists and even broadcasters abolish the EBU rules against us and this won't stop
Performers should be ready for all kinds of attacks. It seems unfair but it comes from our own Eurovision experience & accidents in the past, starting from 2015.
Jamala was physically attacked by Russian journalist in Stockholm, Russian journalists invaded her parents home in Crimea. She's like no other knows everything about provocations at Eurovision and I totally approve all her actions.
And btw, she's not the only one in charge of her social network accounts.
MARUV (or someone from her team) deleted almost all negative comments in their Instagram account. Including mine, where I just quoted the EBU rules
I'm not a nationalist and I voted for MARUV but this is mainly her & her label's fault
UA
BC's fault is that they didn't show the contract obligations to all the NF participants.
Melovin signed a different contract because STB channel (as his sponsor) had taken the vast amount of responsibilities)))
This year STB didn't collaborate with our performer.
MARUV actually agreed with
all parts which differed from the EBU's contract. If you think it's unfair then write angry things on EBU's Instagram & Facebook
- this is their contract for every participating broadcaster.
She disagreed with EBU's demands only.
- The EBU fines the broadcaster if performer abolishes the rules. Alyosha was fined in 2010. Is 30% of participation fee fair to you? No? Blame the EBU.
- MARUV refused from following her own scripted performance. It's not a secret that all broadcasters send the detailed script of their performance. Eurovision techies need it to program their cameras/lighting/special effects. The same system works at any big professional event here. The software doesn't give a shit if she decides to improvise in the middle of performance.
- MARUV's label refused to give copyrights to Universal. No comments.
- Coordinating her interviews & press-conferences with UABC. She called it abolishing the freedom of speech Gurl, each delegation has the Head of Press or a person responsible for PR + Eurovision has its own PR team which also has their demands for every delegation. UABC coordinates their press releases with the EBU btw.
Even if they had money UA
BC (funded from the state budget) has no right to sponsor other commercial projects. They pay participation fee, commentators & for the broadcast. Performers pay for themsleves and have artistic freedom (within EBU rules) + royalties, and their profit increases in 4-10 times after Eurovision
STB channel funded our 2016-2018 performers as a charity.
Record label funded Greek performer last year. Moldova 2018 also funded themselves. Estonia 2018 was funded partially by the broadcaster.
If UA
BC didn't want her as our representative they wouldn't have had 5.5-7 hours negotiations and they wouldn't have prolonged the deadline for her. Not to mention they had a final saying when she was selected for the Vidbir.
STB's fault is that they've got unprofessional team (damn, their press releases, and getting those long ad breaks back
). They would do anything for scandals & ratings (and I don't mind that) but they did it extremely raw & unprofessional. The script & all the scandals were orchestrated by STB/Vidbir bosses so I question their professionalism too. They've had enough time. 4 years is enough time.
