Just like with the semi-finals, this is the live thread for the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2024.
As there is (to my knowledge), no Lemmy equivalent to https://reddit-stream.com/, the best alternative is refreshing the website about once after each song. This should still be okay for now as this community is relatively small.
Sort by New to see the newest comments or additionally click on the Chat button to break the replies apart and even show the newest replies.

Thanks to @[email protected], there are some links for the Grand Finale:
The Grand Finale Livestream on YouTube: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ckGRHJ-J9G4

National broadcasts:

Perhaps one of these might not be geoblocked, but not guaranteed)

And some background information:

  • hyves@feddit.nlEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    Highlights from the Dutch broadcast (paraphrased):

    • “The EBU reminded us that we’re contractually obligated to do this broadcast.”
    • “Instead of the Netherlands we skip to Isreal, good thing they are completely uncontroversial.”
    • “Everyone makes mistakes, the EBU also knows a lot about that.”
  • Korne127@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    Switzerland is just really great. How he’s able to sing while leaning backwards and spinning on the disk, it’s insane. And additionally to that, it’s the hardest song of the year (I’d even say by quite some margin). His singing talent is insane and I love the song itself as well. It’s just beautiful.

    • margaritox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      Yea, I was looking for someone to point that out. That’s almost opera-level singing.

      I don’t understand why this person is getting so much hate. I admit, the song is not to my personal taste, but I I was wow-ed by his vocal abilities.

  • You@feddit.deEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    Ireland is quite unique and should get extra points for a their original performance.

  • Rolando@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    My tier list:

    Top

    • Ireland. Bambie Thug is a legit talent beyond this competition. I look forward to what they do after this.
    • Spain. A classic. Top five, possible winner.
    • Switzerland. Fun mix of genres, great performance.
    • United Kingdom. The song grew on me, and the staging is still amazing.
    • Croatia. Energetic, though there are a couple better performances in this competition.
    • Greece. Sounds like Mediterranean reggaeton in the best way. Is it my imagination, or was the camera work better during the semis?
    • Netherlands. It wasn’t the very best, but it was a first-tier Eurovision song.
    • Estonia. Lots of fun.
    • Norway. Great song, great staging.
    • Armenia. Fun song, energetic performance.

    Mid

    • Lithuania. Upper mid tier. Decent dance song, great performance. I like the outfits too.
    • Luxembourg. Upper mid tier. Solid song, decent staging
    • Sweden. I like it better the second time around, at the top of the mid tier.
    • Finland. They’re trying something fun, at least
    • Ukraine. Another song that grew on me, but still mid-tier.
    • Serbia. A very good, though not outstanding, song.
    • Italy. Nice beat, awesome graphics, bland song and dancing.

    Lowest

    • Austria. Nice boots she’s wearing though.
    • Portugal. Nice masks on the dancers though
    • Cyprus. Unimaginative.
    • Slovenia. Ok song, but there’s a lot of competition.
    • Israel. Everything else aside, it isn’t that great of a performance.
    • Germany. ISAAK is giving it 100% but it isn’t that great a song, and the staging is bland.
    • Georgia. This is fine.
    • France. He has a great voice, though.
  • Kage@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    Switzerland deserved it, im suprised about germany, ireland deserved a bit better and i think fuckery happened with israel. Really bummed about netherlands tho.

    • Korne127@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      0·
      6 months ago

      If Netherland wouldn’t have happened, this would have been such a great ESC. But yeah… they just needed to fuck it all up.
      Honestly, while I’m happy about Switzerland (and Germany tbh), I’m just… still feeling awful, because I feel so sorry for Joost, as this was so important and emotional to him with his parents. I really despise Österdahl and the EBU right now for taking that from him.

      • Kage@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        0·
        6 months ago

        I dont get why the jury from netherlands was banned aswell, felt really awful

        Correction from comments: Not banned but stepped down, still felt wierd

        • Korne127@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
          0·
          6 months ago

          As far as I know, they weren’t banned, there was just no-one willing to be a spokesperson lol. But this is just what I heard from a comment in a thread, so don’t take it as verified.

          • hyves@feddit.nlEnglish
            1·
            6 months ago

            Nikki de Jager (who was supposed to be the spokesperson) said on TV that it didn’t feel right to hand out points. The Dutch broadcaster then told the EBU to just figure it out themselves.
            Käärijä (Finland) also stepped down but got replaced, and Alessandra (Norway) already stepped down earlier because of Isreal.

        • khannie@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          6 months ago

          Yeah what? Like it was a grand tune but absolutely was not expecting that from the public vote.

          Edit: Just saw the result of the Irish public vote and Israel got 10 in fairness with Croatia getting a well deserved 12.

          • VonReposti@feddit.dkEnglish
            1·
            6 months ago

            Danish public vote awarded 8 points to Israel. What a fucking disgrace.

            Come to think of it, in Denmark we could only vote by SMS and we know how easily phone numbers are spoofed. Maybe someone with time on their hand could correlate the numbers between SMS voting and votes to Israel if it’s possible to get those numbers.

        • cosmicrookie@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          Every user can vote 20 times. It just takes dedication and maybe some rigging to get that many points

      • khannie@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        I saw that. It was very cute and he took the crown on stage with him. Lovely stuff. They seemed to have a genuine bond.

    • Freeman@feddit.deEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      Yea but “ram di dam dam” is just too ridiculous imo. Love the show, the song, dance and everything but that text sounds like satire of the genre

  • Korne127@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
    0·
    6 months ago

    What’s going on?!?!?!
    This really means people rallyed around Croatia (and maybe some around Israel or Ireland too, in general the popular ones)

    • khannie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      I expected Ireland to do a little better on the public vote but happy to see Croatia get the public vote win. Superb tune and performance.

  • SorteKanin@feddit.dkEnglish
    0·
    6 months ago

    Ugh, once again the public’s favourite is shoved aside by the jury’s favourite. What’s the point of voting when the jury gets to decide every time anyway?

    • Korne127@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      Every time?!

      Source for the graphics

      I am genuinely sorry if your favourite didn’t make it, but that just… happens for most people when there are many songs. My favourite in 2021 was Switzerland, who won the jury vote but didn’t win overall. But like yeah, Maneskin won and it’s fine, because it’s not just about me. Keiino was my favourite in 2019 as well, but yeah, Arcade was also a great song and a winner. And today, Nemo certainly deserved to win.