Silas

Don’t even. I’m still traumatised

Those with exceptionally heated taste will know my songs. For the rest of you, there’s always fierce rivalry I guess Not too surprising. AM pays more, isn’t full of AI Slop and has an app that doesn’t make me want to claw my eyes out

Literally my pet peeve of hosting. My sheet is sorted by country name when im keying the votes in to make it easier to find everything and then these votes take like 5 times longer

Literally my only critique is their storyline got done dirty. Their book is so good. They have a really really great story. I’m glad we got to see them, they’re a vital part of the Hollanov story, but I wish we got to see more of them in the second half of the season

Best place to be tbh Not that I’m biased

Added it immediately too, can’t wait for the rest of the soundtrack to be released but this one was key. I said it before but that club scene is STILL living rent free in my head.

We have a very similar source of inspiration this month it would appear 🫣

Made the BBC!! https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9wx579999wo

We watched this. Im still so confused

I CANNOT get the end of episode 4 out of my head. I made the mistake of listening to All the things she said and it made it like fifty times worse That club scene was perfect. The song detailing exactly what was going through their minds and the switch in version to match the switch in perspective slayed me I have to watch it again. If I wasn’t in the office today I’d have it on while I worked

Obsessed My social media feed has just been HR since episode one but I had to wait to watch it with the move and finishing the other series we had on the go and visiting family etc so was absolutely desperate to watch it and we devoured it in two nights Absolutely loved the show. While impatiently waiting this last week to finally start the show I read the entire Game Changers book series (and I’ve read like a dozen other books in the same genre since. What can I say, i love love). The show does a good job of bringing the source material to life. I liked that big chunks of dialogue were one to one copied across and the narrative changes that were made were strong and justified (Svetlanas bigger role for example). Skip were defo done dirty tho. The first book is wonderful and I’m not a fan of how their story was handled. I know the show had limited budgets etc but idve liked to have seen their story take place across the correct time frame or at least that we see them in episode 4 and 5 and not just Kip at the cup final. There was too sharp a disconnect for me between the end of episode 3 and the cup final scene in ep 5. literally my only complaint about the entire season I cannot wait for the sequel. I really hope we get to see the other 3 books unfold as well and not just The Long Game. Especially as there’s such a strong timeline overlap between them all

forced enshitification of every aspect of our lives by tech bros and dipshit ceos chasing short term stock market gains by following along the latest pyramid scheme of choice in corporate America does not need to find its way into my online escape thank you I would prefer a ban on any and all AI generated „music“ from being entered into the contest tbh. It’s not music, and therefore it’s not eligible to participate in a music contest. It’s nothing more than soulless theft of the creativity of real musicians by tech bros with the emotional depth of a piece of paper who see the world purely as dollar sign It’s a little challenging in practice to get that call (banning an AI song) correct every time and it’s only gonna get harder to detect with time but let’s see.

Rd'Á has voted

Yea I’m seriously considering changing travel plans for 2026. I’ve like too many memes about the thin skinned baboon in charge…

I have to be honest, I dont think I can bring myself to watch something I love be utterly destroyed for the sake of a few fragile egos and a country that isn’t even f***ing European.

The République has voted!

At this point I wouldn’t bet against Israel replacing Spain in the Big5 as part of a pay to play deal with the EBU I hope they win. I will probably avoid this years contest tbh. I know Eurovision can feel political at times but that has, until the last 2 years, never dominated or become the sole feeling you have when watching. We went out on a high with Käärijä and Baby Lasagna winning the last every Eurovision Song Contest with their mashup and collab Euro Dab. In my head cannon the contest is cancelled because Croatia and Finland couldn’t agree how to split hosting duties

EBU - we’ve passed rules to ban vote influence campaigns by governments! not even a nano second later KAN - The president of Israel went round every country in the EBU that’s not Arab majority or on their list of know enemies and threatened them with accusations of antisemitism and Mossad until they agreed we could stay EBU - we’re so happy a consensus could be reached on keeping the contest non-political

The VTSS love 🥰 Inland 05 / Molly Sandén - Vi Ska Aldrig Gå Hem 09 / 6euroneunzig - Zur Party 27 / 6euroneunzig - Tittentraining 31 / Annalisa - Maschio 36 / Apache 207 - Roller 59 / Say Now - Can’t Keep A Beat 77 / Clara - Nero Gotico 92 / Sofia Martin - Tóxica Ausland 14 / Leony - Remedy 19 / Grossstadtgeflüster- Ich Kündige 39 / Riton & Kah-Lo - Ginger 63 / bbno$ & Ironmouse - 1-800 67 / Haiku Hands - Not About You Also one of the few who prefer Apple Music to Spotify. I do a lot of listening on YouTube while at work so it’s not a complete picture and misses out some of my obsessive periods with my own entries like VTSS

I expected bbno$ to be killed by the veto which is why even tho I’ve been obsessed with 1-800 for absolute months on end I haven’t even tried it 🫠

One Touch was released 25 years ago today!! Insane to think how old but how fresh it is

Ohhh good point. @Freeze any chance you also know what I sent? 😅

Vanity Edge defo rings a Bell. A very old and rusty bell I had long forgotten about

Sabrewolf single handedly responsible for my Kate Miller Heidke obsession back in the day. These Words is still a banger. @matto - if it’s only email that is the hold up then Joseph can support to update the email associated with the account. A lot of people were locked out when the site upgraded and we all suddenly had to remember what 15 year old email address we had used 😅

She did four BJSC tracks in total! I Know & I Love You as entered by Tinnmark Butterflies & Look Back as entered by Rd‘Á She also did perpetual Rd‘Á potentials Winner of a Losing Game & Stuck in My Head (with Vinni Live on stage) and one track that’s been vetoed, Imagine featuring the Eric Saade live on stage