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This is an excellent time to mention my best friend The Eurovision Song Contest! It's the longest running international music contest show and it gets hundreds of millions of views.
Here's last year's crop of music videos. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmWYEDTNOGULUJYEhh-EUa32rEcHuNXO7
Croatia's Rim Tim Tagi Dim is a real banger. It's about the stress of moving to a richer country or city for work and losing your culture.
Italy's La Noia is amazing. Angelina Mango's live performances are stellar, and if she's not huge internationally in a few years I'll be super disappointed. Her new song (not part of the contest) Melodrama is exceptional too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqF0MSpPcj8
Switzerland sent Nemo, who became the first non-binary person to win the contest. It was said that if he could nail the vocals from the video in the live performance, there would be no stopping them. And they did! Amazing work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO8cQpGNplc
I have so many recommendations, if anyone wants more!
- Oh also: !lemmyvision@jlai.lu
  
  Oh nice, I only knew about !eurovision@lemmy.world. Subscribed
- Eurovision got in trouble last year for allowing Israel to join. Israel is in the middle east of Asia, not in Europe. The only thing European about Israel is that white people are committing a genocide to steal land.
  
  More the hypocrisy for having denied entry to Russia while allowing Israel's to remain.
  The actual terms for entering are being a part of the European Broadcasting Union; which includes Israel and Australia, despite the "European" in the name.
  
  Well, Australia is also in the Eurovision.
  
  White people committing genocide to steal land. Checks out. That's the criteria for entry.
  
  Israel being part of Eurovision isn't a new thing. The only difference is that they've been going mask off on their genocide aspirations lately.
- Yo just because Europapa was disqualified doesn't mean it's not a banger.
  
  Totally agree, and he performed it very well live! The story of the song is so good too. It's about watching ESC as a kid with his parents, but more his parents have passed away and their old house burned down.
  
  I like the song, and this is a catchy backstory, but I've got to admit - the actual lyrics are actually pretty terrible 😅
- Holy shit that Nemo song was so good
  
  It is SO GOOD!
  My inner city Philadelphia friends even like it.
- Will Ferrell did a Eurovision movie I enjoyed. Probably not everybody's cup of tea, but it was fun.
- Updoot for ESC and Melodrama! I've had some of Mango's songs on rotation lately

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