May 18, 20169 yr A video of Jamala performing a song then called 'Our Crimea' (according to ESC Kaz) in May 2015 has suddenly been made available online (despite being uploaded a year ago), and it turns out it is a Crimean Tatar-only version of what became '1944'. 6xivfN-MCjQ (From 4 minutes in) Potentially adds a new layer of politics, but I don't think the fact it was performing in May 2015 is an issue just like it wasn't for Anja Nissen or Anouk etc.
May 19, 20169 yr Statement on performance of Ukraine's winning Eurovision Song Contest song before September 1 deadline: "The Eurovision Song Contest rule (1.2.1a) which states that entries must not have been commercially released before September 1 exists to make sure that the Contest can welcome new compositions each year, and that every song can compete on a level playing field. The purpose of the rule is to prevent wide distribution of any song that might give it an unfair advantage in the competition the following May. In the past, songs that had been publicly available before the deadline, but had not been accessible by a wide audience, had been granted permission to compete in the Eurovision Song Contest by the Reference Group. In the case of Jamala’s “1944” the EBU’s attention has been drawn, after the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest, to a public performance of an earlier version of the song in May 2015. The video of a small concert had only been viewed by a few hundred people before it was discovered in the past few days. The EBU, based on previous decisions in the Reference Group, therefore has concluded that the published video did not give Jamala’s song any unfair advantage in the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest and the song was eligible to compete.” https://www.facebook.com/EBU.HQ/posts/1049921921766891
May 19, 20169 yr People are really trying to do anything and everything to try and take Ukraine's win away from them...what with the petitions, cries of suspect/mistaken jury voting and now this. Wish they would just let it rest. I don't expect Australia would want to win it in this way if the EBU had suddenly decided to void the result due to any of these instances.
May 19, 20169 yr God people need to stop being salty about this, she won and that's that. 2nd on both jury and televote is a rightful winner, as much as I love Dami. Dami only came 4th on televote which was her downfall sadly (bloody Poland). I mean I'd have preferred Dami but Jamala gave such an emotionally charged, stunning performance, it was beautiful. Just because a Western focused pop song didn't win for once it's suddenly an outrage and "all political!!!11111!1" rears its ugly head again.
May 19, 20169 yr I'm really coming around to 1944, the performance made it click properly although it was growing pre-contest. Sure it's not my favourite winner but it's a refreshing change to have something different win, and it's actually quite nice to have a completely uncommercial winner. I think people tend to forget (me included sometimes, when I just assumed Frans would win as it was the most contemporary song) that this is a contest to find the best song, not the biggest hit/potential smash. That said, despite being uncommercial, it's at least contemporary and sounds like it belongs to 2016, unlike Russia. The contest will be all the better next year for Jamala winning as more people will take risks and send more interesting and different sounding tracks. I was fearing a Sergey win as people might have mistakenly thought that dated cliched schlager was suddenly back in vogue. They still might but at least this proves that throwing the iamspamspamamisink into the performance of an average song won't help it to win.
May 19, 20169 yr russian news outlets are genuinely reporting that the organisers fixed the results of the voting to make ukraine win. oops. it didn't occur to them that the rules were set in place before jamala was even selected to represent ukraine. poor jealous hoes :')
September 22, 20168 yr wNECV2h-y58 Very good video, excellent in fact! Reminds me a little bit of a Sia video which is a very big compliment of course considering the standard of her videos.
September 22, 20168 yr Brilliant concept, works really well and it's great to finally have a music video for this. Probably the best music video a winning Eurovision entry has got in a long time.
March 4, 20223 yr SweSHhK89EU During the Germany national selection show. :heart: Edited March 4, 20223 yr by Colm
March 5, 20223 yr '1944' has been really emotional to listen to in recent days, she did fantastic here :heart:
March 5, 20223 yr '1944' was my favourite song that year anyway but it reaches a whole new level now </3 x
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