2017 Eurovision Grand Final - I Feel Like Chicken (Kyiv) Tonight!

[cocotaffy]

Great evening everyone, thanks and now to bed close to 2.00 AM here. Congrats to Portugal.

 

[MichaelK]

Wonderful statement by Salvador!

 

[tony]

Portugal was nice but still Romania and Yodel It aren't leaving my mind for a long while.

 

[marbri]

And he blows the bad health sympathy he got with a pretentious speech knocking the majority of songs at Eurovsion this year

 

[tony]

She should've sung! Amazing.

 

[MarieM]

And singing with Luisa who has also a great voice is such a nice touch !

 

[Eden]

A very well deserved first place to Portugal, and I am glad that Israel voted as same as I did regarding giving its 12 points to Salvador.
On a different note:
It was so sad to watch Ofer (the Israeli presenter) saying good bye to ESC from channel 1.
And the translator just wrote: It was an honor to serve you for 31 years.
I hope that the new Israeli public corporation Kan will continue the tradition of participating in ESC.

 

[Hanna]

Sister singing is fabulous

 

[Loves_Shizuka]

Romania and Croatia were my faves

I liked Portugal.

But I'm shocked Bulgaria did so well. It was the epitome of generic to my ears

 

[MarieM]

And he blows the bad health sympathy he got with a pretentious speech knocking the majority of songs at Eurovsion this year

and IMO, he kind of has a point. That wasn't a really good year.

 

[allezfred]

and IMO, he kind of has a point. That wasn't a really good year.

It's euroVISION!

 

[Chemistry66]

A very well deserved first place to Portugal, and I am glad that Israel voted as same as I did regarding giving its 12 points to Salvador.
On a different note:
It was so sad to watch Ofer (the Israeli presenter) saying good bye to ESC from channel 1.
I hope that the new Israeli public corporation Kan will continue the tradition of participating in ESC.

The issue, though, is that the new corporation doesn't meet EBU membership requirements. So even if they want to participate, they can't.

 

[Shyjosie]

Liked it best when they sang together. Another great brother-sister-team!

My favs were Belarus and The Netherlands.

 

[Madhatter]

But I'm shocked Bulgaria did so well. It was the epitome of generic to my ears

Really not a surprise. Cute, strong voice, radio-friendly. All the younger demo would have been all over it. (I really liked it too, although nothing woukd have beaten Romania in my heart.) Also: he was almost last up - that makes a major difference. People tend to remember those better.

 

[SHARPIE]

Proper Eurovision - Tina Karol 2006, talk to my WHAT?

https://youtu.be/mRqhkwTIuU8


Shady lady 2008
https://youtu.be/P8FbpoSLk2E

 

[MarieM]

It's euroVISION!

Well there are very good songs too. Top 15 is usually very good or funny.
Apart Moldavia and Romania, none really were that fun

 

[tony]

I'm enjoying that we at FSU seem to be the majority of the Romania fan club

 

[Loves_Shizuka]

Really not a surprise. Cute, strong voice, radio-friendly. All the younger demo would have been all over it. (I really liked it too, although nothing woukd have beaten Romania in my heart.) Also: he was almost last up - that makes a major difference. People tend to remember those better.

Fair enough.

That whole Justin Timberlake/Bieber-esque sound does NOTHING for me. Like, nothing.

 

[Loves_Shizuka]

Apart Moldavia and Romania, none really were that fun

Croatia!!

 

[allezfred]

Well there are very good songs too. Top 15 is usually very good or funny.
Apart Moldavia and Romania, none really were that fun

Have been watching Eurovision since I was a child and the standard this year was pretty much on a par with the past few years.

 

[DaiKozOda]

Salvador and Luisa duet was magical for me. I enjoyed it even more than Salvador's performance during the final. For that moment alone it totally worth it.
Beautiful melody, such bittersweet poetic lyrics, his unique interpretation and the jazz vybe...

Special mention to Moldova. That was a lot of fun.

 

[Loves_Shizuka]

I feel I need to post this: Still my favourite Eurovision song of the last decade.

Nelly Ciobanu Hora din Moldova 2009

 

[Seerek]

Really not a surprise. Cute, strong voice, radio-friendly. All the younger demo would have been all over it. (I really liked it too, although nothing woukd have beaten Romania in my heart.) Also: he was almost last up - that makes a major difference. People tend to remember those better.

Bulgaria with back-to-back top 4 finishes since they returned in 2016 shows they're serious in winning, imo.

I wouldn't be surprised if Kristian Kostov makes an appearance again sometime in the future.

 

[sus2850]

I almost feel sorry for Italy. Or maybe not.
Bulgaria won best dressed for me, and I am happy that the public liked Belgium more than the juries. And: glad, that Ireland saved Germany from being last again.

 

[allezfred]

Eurovision Semi Results

Denmark got 5 points from the televote in the semis and still qualified. I think that may be a record.

San Marino scored 1 point total. Think it may be bye bye to them.

 

[allezfred]

Winners Press Conference now live!

 

[shuilee]

Romania wuzrobbed!

Based on twitter trends, the results from USA would've been this (if USA had a vote):
1. Romania
2. Bulgaria
3. Belgium

 

[cocotaffy]

If you're wondering why the Portuguese song was so appreciated maybe understanding the lyrics would help, here it is with the english subs
It didn't help me though, very simple song about love not much in there tbh.
I went to bed before hearing his speech, my god what a pretentious speech. How disrespectful to all the other contestants and the public who partly comes to have fun. I mean Eurovision is supposed to be fun and light entertainment not a deep soul searching event Get over yourself Portugal. I mean his song is a small touching song but it's hardly breaking ground either. After that speech I feel even more like wuzrobbed Romania

 

[MichaelK]

I am very happy about the results and think Portugal is a very deserving winner. Like last year the song with the most emotional impact won (in my opinion), although Ukraine 2016 and Portugal 2017 are of course very different.

Congrats also to Bulgaria and Moldova for their best ever finishes in the contest.

Blanche finally did the song justice although the staging could have been much better, in any case 4th is a very good result.

The only entry that I would have ranked much higher is Armenia, I thought it would do much better than 18th.

There are some quite interesting changes from the semifinal to the final. The most significant is Israel, placing 3rd in the semi but close to the bottom (behind all the other acts from that semifinal) in the end. Maybe running order (last in the semi, first in the final)?

In Germany the usual whining why we did not do so well has started. But really it is not surprising: the song was mediocre, Levina is a competent but not stellar performer and there was nothing interesting in the staging. "Perfect Life" in a sea of grey? I don't think so. Yesterday there were too many excellent acts for Germany to place well.

 

[allezfred]

It has to be said that if Portugal can win, any country can win. I'm just going to ignore the musical snobbery from our winner. We'll probably have a big stonking pop song win next year anyway.