#esc2022

trickstertime:

sushinfood:

softlyfiercely:

sarahsyna:

stolligaseptember:

menderash:

thesylverlining:

sapphicsallydraper:

emmorgzz:

beachdeath:

beachdeath:

do kids these days know about grace kelly by mika

WHAT. IS. THIS. SORCERY.

1. i can’t believe there are people in the world who haven’t heard this

2. go check out mika he’s great - important to note is that he’s mlm (he’s come out alternately as being gay, bisexual and ‘not interested in labels’ for a while) and a huge amount of his songs are about being mlm so in particular if ya need good mlm artists check him out

Seriously Mika is a gift and sunshine unto this sick sad world

mika is wildly popular in europe but his north american fanbase is like, six people and a napkin, and it’s killing me. 

ALSO, he came out as bisexual/‘not interested in labels’ like a decade ago, but much more recently he came out as gay, so he’s gay! his latest album, No Place In Heaven, is almost completely about being gay.
it’s got asong abt his sexuality and his religion, a song abt pining for your straight best friend, a song abt the music world that includes the lyrics “where have all the gay guys gone?”, a song abt gay and lesbian solidarity, a song abt heterosexual expectations from family, and twosongs that are just abt being super ridiculously in love w your partner.

please listen to Mika’s entire discography because there are a LOT of classics that i’m 100% sure you’ve heard at some point in your life, all the love songs are implicitly gay, it’s great, but ESPECIALLY listen to No Place In Heaven (2015).

it always surprises me to remember that mika isn’t actually a part of the global populace’s general consciousness

because his debut album, life in cartoon motion, was such a huge part of my generation’s tween and teen years

like, i guarantee you, you can walk up to any swedish millennial, and they will still know every single line of his song lollipop

it was just a part of our upbringing;

• become a crippling anxious mess
• develop an attitude problem
• and memorize all of mika’s lollipop

This is the song of his I remember being popular here in Ireland, Love Today!

I LOVE MIKA

Grace Kelly was such a big song for me… It’s hard for me to believe it’s considered an older song now. Bless, Mika. He’s just a wonderful person.

He also has a vocal range of FOUR octaves.

The average is about 1.5-2 octaves.

theuglymisandrist:

Me on my way to bother my older sibling

DOMENICA IN started with ukraine esc’s winning song and they’re still talking about the eurovision now, you can watch the show later tonight or tomorrow as well on raiplay

sayitaliano:

asterargureo:

✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️

“MA TESORO, GUARDA CHE HO DETTO JENNIFER LOPEZ EH”

Comunque non sono sicura ma forse stasera (o domani) trasmettono un film con jlo? Mi pare di aver sentito lo spot in TV

Non trovo conferma online ma se è così VOLO

Tonight (10:10 PM GMT+2) on RAIUNO there will be a Special 75 minutes docushow about Sanremo 72, how it was created and all the songs from behind the scene

But wait…

NOT LEO AGAIN

protosstar:

having lyrics addressing how mental health is just completely dismissed coupled with all that religious imagery in the staging hits incredibly hard when the cultural mindset in serbia is one of “mental illness isnt real you just need to go to church”

mali-umkin:

dukeofduckstblr:

I usually do not give a fuck about the Eurovision but this year is a bit special for me as it is my language and culture who will represent France, so I have some thoughts about it and need to get them out.

First if you don’t know anything about this, the “French” song that will be at Eurovision is called Fulenn and was made by Alvan & Ahez. Alvan is a Breton electro musician. Ahez is a band of three Breton women who met in Diwan, which are immersion schools teaching the Breton language, and learnt kan ha diskan, Brittany’s traditional way of singing, from Louise Ebrel, an absolute icon of traditional Breton music.

The song is entirely in Breton and inspired by a Breton legend, the legend of Katell Gollet. 

By the way Breton is a Celtic language of the Brythonic branch (with Welsh and Cornish, the other branch being the Goidelic one, with Irish, Scottish and Manx). Stats say it’s spoken by about 200K people nowadays, it is considered endangered. It’s spoken in Brittany, a western region of France.

Now I kind of want to point out the irony of it all… Diwan schools, where the members of this band met, are technically illegal in France. They exist, but they are in a very precarious position following the Constitutional Council’s decision of two years ago that officially ruled immersion schools as “against the French constitution”. The 2nd article of the French constition states that The Language of the Republic is French. France has quite the history of being absolutely terrible to the non-French languages spoken on its territory, hell it’s pretty terrible even to any Romance/French language that isn’t the standard (as regularly shown by the rampant glottophobia in our medias). 

So France is going to be represented by a song born of something France is constitutionally against. I’m kind of amazed by the audacity. 

To be fair, it’s not the first time France sent a Breton song to the eurovision, the other time was in 1996 with trad artist Dan ar Braz (check him out!).

So that’s for the fun political bits.

If you’re curious about the legend of Katell Gollet, here it is: Katell Gollet was a beautiful young woman whose only love was dancing. Her uncle wanted her to marry so she said ok, I will marry any man who can keep up with me and dance with me for 12 hours straight.

Many men tried, they all died of exhaustion.

Katell’s uncle was horrified and locked her up in a tower but she escaped and went to another party to dance again. Her dance partner died of exhaustion too, then the musicians died of exhaustion too, but she still didn’t want to stop, so she invoked musicians from the depths of hell to keep playing for her, and the Devil himself came to dance with her. The Devil and her then went through the gates of hell still dancing.

Of course originally it’s supposed to mean “Be a good girl, settle down for a man and marry, if you like dancing and having fun too much you’ll go to hell” because Brittany was catholic as fuck for a long time (hello Irish cousins). Personally I see a woman who didn’t want to settle down for anyone who couldn’t keep up with her and I dig that energy. 

I highly encourage you to go check the song out, there are many videos of it with English translations on youtube. I think it’s a bop, personally, it’s a fun mix of electro and traditional singing. The lyrics are beautiful too!

Fun little language fact: Fulenn is a very versatile word, in the song it means “spark”, as in a spark of fire (which sometimes is written “Fulenn tan”), but in other contexts like “Fulenn erc’h” it means snowflake, and “Fulenn aour” is a gold chunk. 

Fulenn is also a collective noun, which means that its default form “Ful” is plural, and you have to add a suffix to it (-enn) to make it singular. Ful= sparks. Fulenn= spark. This is of course because you rarely talk about a single spark, a single snowflake, those usually come in groups. Other collective nouns are usually cattle related, but my favourite one has to be “Krampouezh/enn”. It means crepe, and it’s a collective noun because whomst the fuck would only eat one crepe, am I right?

Anyway, I’m super happy about this song, about the visibility, about the lovely singing of those Breton-speaking women. Nothing would make me happier than this song winning the eurovision, forcing France to organise the eurovision (and as we all know, no country actually wants that) next year. 

One correction: it’s Scottish Gaelic or just Gàidhlig, not Scottish. And yes, go Britanny! It makes me so happy to know that so many people in Europe will hear Breton this year, often for the first time.

itsgiovsstuff:

Quindi è finito tutto?

sinflowerss:

just so we’re clear, i’m not claiming whatever dark energy we’ve just unsleashed by giving uk 466 points

asterargureo:

✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️

“MA TESORO, GUARDA CHE HO DETTO JENNIFER LOPEZ EH”

Comunque il fatto che abbiano fatto vedere Cavour e Grinzane Cavour come cartoline… un applauso
Sarà andata tipo così, dopo aver messo lo speciale sul sito della RAI e cercato su Google: “oh guarda questi due comuni si chiamano Cavour” “dai mettiamoli tutti e due”

Peccato non si siano accorti del Canale che attraversa tipo mezzo Piemonte a sto punto

fakeboism:

Wanna laugh of me?

I actually woke up with Serbia song in my mind and tried to sing it (sorry) while washing my hands.

L'ESC mi prova ogni anno di più, sto invecchiando

sayitaliano:

I-

THIS is the show I lost (I see one Latvia’s veggies eater too)

mydiaryofthoughts:

So did you learn the difference during ESC? :’)

First one is “what are you doing/saying / what do you want?”
Second one is first one reinforced “what the hell are you doing/saying / what the hell do you want / what the hell is going on?”

federicobernardeschi:

everyone’s like “see ukraine won because of pity” … as if that was a problem. like the songs a banger but even if other countries felt bad for them and voted so???? your point being? the countries being destroyed and ppl die because of the war CANT they have at least a little happiness?? what’s so bad about that??? there is literally no other country that deserved that win more

ailendolin:

Ukraine winning means we get Verka hosting next year, right?

Oh come on, surely no one has BLEACHERS to angst upon except Americans