American Reacts to Eurovision! 

One important thing to remember is that its a SONG CONTEST, not a SINGING CONTEST.

The Eurovision actually started as a way to unite Europe through music after WWII...

You can`t vote for your own country.

It wasn't mentioned in this video, but the original reason for the ESC was togetherness not competitiveness. The European powers wanted a fun way to get people to like each other again after WW2. That's part of why this is such a spectacle with so little lasting controversy. It's not really about whether or not your country wins, it's about all these groups touring Europe and doing a big show together.

You can’t have a go at someone for singing in their own language. English isn’t the only language in the world. You can’t vote for your own country

The Máneskin song was brilliant and they have become world wide famous since the competition.

This video is a bit out of date: Sweden won in 2023 with Loreen's song Tattoo, making Sweden and Ireland tied for most number of wins in ESC and Loreen the second person to ever win ESC twice, as she won in 2012 with the song Euphoria as well.

Eurovision is really camp and great fun. Many people in the UK and across Europe and even Australia will hold Eurovision parties to watch together and of course, it's an excuse to dress up and drink a little too much!

There’s a hilarious episode of Father Ted which is loosely based on Ireland’s attempt to lose Eurovision so they wouldn’t have to host it next year!

JJ I'm BEGGING you to stop the annoying slaps.

Eurovision is a Friendly "contest" Not competitive at all. It's one big family and everybody is enjoying the music and party that comes with it. It started to unite Europe again after the War.

You definitely don't need the slaps and graphics

'' My Lovely Horse '' by Father Ted Crilly and Father Dougal Maguire is the BEST euro-song ever.

Of course the USA would do the American Song Contest just having people from the USA. Do one for the Americas involving Canada, USA, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, etc etc...

No more Slap.

Olivia Newton-John was born and lived her very early life in Cambridge, UK.

"Hard Rock Hallelujah" was and is the best ever winning Eurovision song in my opinion. Such epic winners 🤘🤘🤘

Please stop all the slaps.

Please stop the slaps etc.

Why have you started with all theses ‘Slaps’ ?

Johnny Logan is no longer the only person to have won Eurovision twice… Loreen from Sweden has matched his feat

Contrary to popular belief, the Eurovision Song Contest is NOT just for Europe. It gets its name from Eurovision, the television company that created it in the 1950s. Entry to the contest is for any FULL member of the European Broadcasting Union and ASSOCiATE members thereof. This means that apart from European countries, it is ALSO open to ALL African countries along the Mediterranean coast (and much of the rest of Africa,) much of Asia (including China and Japan,) New Zealand and Australia, much of South America and even Canada and the US. Basically, almost 2/3 of the countries in the world COULD take part if they so chose to do - most do not because of the cost of entering and the cost of hosting should they win.

I really enjoy your video reactions. Your voice is like honey to me… there I’ve said it. However, these recent videos with the slaps and on screen pop ups, is… well… I guess rather annoying. Just honest straightforward talking is enough for me. Please stop with all these ‘tacky’ additions. Thanks 🙏

One thing you need to know, Germany almost always is in the last place. Doesn’t matter what group/singer/ song gets send there. Greetings from Germany 😂😂😂

god dam it the slaps and other shit still there huh

USA! USA! USA! SSLAP! ...I get it, gimmicks to stand you out. But honestly...stop it! I'm not anti USA...IRELAND! IRELAND! IRELAND! ...is equally as annoying. I really like your reactions and you come across very well and intelligently, but gimmicks eegh🥴. I don't mean to be mean so sorry but I just had to say it....SSLAP! 🤦🏻‍♂️

Please stop doing the slap thing - its so annoying when you are a great reactor and do not need to do that

Olivia Newton-John was born in the UK and is described as a "British and Australian singer and actress". Countries are not allowed to vote for themselves. 😉

Last year it was was filmed right outside my house so it was impossible to watch it live on tv because the seven second delay made me feel dizzy hearing it come through the window then on the telly 😆

Well JJ, I have enjoyed your reactions for a while. But the slaps, reverse slaps, prizes, voice effects and silly spelling has lost me. Let me know if you revert to just reacting and I'll watch again. Thanks for the fun along the way

Olivia Newton-John was born in England, her parents emigrated to Australia when she was five.

Please just stop with the slap and other shit now!!

RU-vid has an official Eurovision Song Contest channel with official music videos of the entries.

Another thing that you have probably heard of that became internationally famous is 'Riverdance', which was the interval entertainment in 1994; it turned Irish dancing into a mainstream global phenomenon, along with one of its stars Michael Flatley, who created 'Lord of the Dance'. I vividly remember watching it as a child, it was truly impactful and impressive - bearing in mind that most of us had never seen anything quite like it before.

Stop the sllapp or else i slap the subscribed (to unsubscribe)

Love you, hate the slaps etc, it's like having too many adverts during your tv programmes over there.

7:22 That's not how the Olympics works 😂

for every video from now on with get a thumps down from me that has slaps or reveres slaps untill it stops

For god sake please stop with the childish editing, you're a grown man.

“Rock songs rarely make an appearance in the competition?” That’s not true!

Down voted for the annoying 'funny' comments throughout. Although it's my own fault for watching, I guess.

I don't get the 'awards' and 'slaps'. Your channel used to be good.

Lol how the hell do Americans have no idea about this???? Even Australia has sent their own contestants! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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Should check out the 1994 Dublin Eurovision Song Contest interval show called Riverdance. Is very good.

Ughh, more slap nonsense. It'd be such a shame if this stays. This is a great channel but the slap crap is so irritating.

Old Info - Sweden won 2023, so now there is a tie between Ireland and Sweden, both co untries have seven wins, of which two of the winning songs sung by the same artist (Ireland: Johnny Logan) (Sweden: Loreen)

The first English language winner was Sandie Shaw representing the UK won in 1967 with “Puppet On A String”.

The 2003 uk entry, the woman had a red dress and the guy had a white shirt and spiky hair, the reason why they sounded bad is they had earpiece & microphone issues and couldn't hear properly and so had sounding issues, it wasn't cause they couldn't sing, as i heard them in semi finals to pick the song that they sang and they sounded good vocally. I watched that year like i've done every year since i was 5 and now i'm 47.

You are not allowed to vote for your own country. Mostly the country that wins host next years contest unless they choose not to if they for example can't affort it(Israel won 2 years in a row in 1978 and 1979 but couldn't affort to host in 1980 so The Netherlands did instead) and if the EBU decide like with Ukraine in 2023 where for safety reasons because of the war the 2nd place from 2022 The UK held the contest but chose to co-host with Ukraine in Liverpool, so it was both english and ukrainian hosts and both english and ukrainian interval acts(acts performing when the voting takes place/the voting is counted). The countries to win the most is sweden(won their 7th time in 2023)and ireland who have also won 7 times, and the 2nd place joined is UK, The Netherlands, France and Luxembourg I think with 5 wins, 3rd Israel with 4 wins, and 4th is Norway, Italy, Ukraine, and my country Denmark to have won 3 times.

Olivia Newton-John was was borne in Cambridge, England and grew up in Australia and so had an Australian accent and duel nationality, she was very well known in Britain before Grease.

only a couple months till the next one hosted from Sweden... cant wait :(

Please stop these silly 'slap' additions, awards, etc. Not necessary, and definitely not in any way funny. Just, er, very American...........? Thanks.

my finger is hovering over the unsubscribe toggle.... Your slaps are now becoming really annoying 😮

Important thing to note: Germany doesn't try to lose. We are just genuinely bad (and our internal song casting is awful)

I think that it goes without saying - You cannot vote for your own country - However! It was well known back in the day that voters would rush over the border in Northern Ireland and find the nearest phone box and vote for their own country i.e. Irish residents would cross over into Northern Ireland and vote for their own country and vice versa😅

unsubscribed. SLAP

Twin Twin was brilliant, i love the Moustache song. Verka Serduchka is my fave 😀

Unsubbed due to the slaps and all of the other shit. I preferred your reactions when they were just that - reactions! None of this stupid shit. Ah.. who are we kidding.. He doesn't even read these comments anymore after getting trolled early on. His loss.

for anyone interested this years dates are Tues, 7 May 2024 - Sat, 11 May.

You can actually look at this years Eurovision songs!! They’re all on RU-vid and today we are getting the host country’s song

It's such a fun event. Hope you get to react to the actual event. Most of us in the UK have get-togethers and mock everything we see (Including our own acts most of the time). It can be a really funny and chaotic viewing.

Ireland has never won Eurovision singing their native language - therefore ABBA is not the first representative to not sing in their own language. Ireland never has sang in their native language. Irish is still spoken to this day and there are even some ppl in Ireland who only know how to speak Irish. And yes Ireland has had Irish songs up for application to the contest.

Eurovision is not only a song contest. It was set up as a European wide television service, for news etc. The Song Contest is just the most famous use of the service, the others gradually falling away & little used.

On BBC iplayer, they have subtitles for songs not in English and they're hysterical

I can't get over the fact that you thought a competition that's been going on for the past 70 years wasn't real and was just a joke.... 😂😂 That's hilarious! 🤣

Olivia Newton-John was born in England and her family emigrated to Australia when she was a child.

BTW...you can't vote for your own country in Eurovision. However, if your had a televised show to select the song that represents the your country, then you probably already did.

Finally, what took you so long. This is what you want to see

The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual song contest organized by the European Broadcasting Union EBU. In which all EBU members can participate. The Israeli public broadcasting company is a full member of the EBU, which gives it the right to participate in the competition. Associate members of the EBU are e.g. Australia, China, India, USA and Canada. I don't know why out of the associate members only Australia participates in the competitions.

Will Ferrell has a Swedish wife, that's how he was introduced to the phenomenon and made the movie

eurovision is at least for me something that i like so much i just love to see all the different countries preform and tbh a lot of people who watch eurovion hangout and like do a party and watch it togheter !its really fun

We always have a party on eurovision night :)

Such an American thing to do. Watch the video explaining what something is instead of watching the actual thing. And then making "usa" references whenever possible. And of course... making reference to America needing to make a version without realising they already have. And as with everything else they copy, they sucked the life out of it and made it bad.

Olivia Newton John born 26 September 1948, Cambridge, England

You should do a follow up this week watching some of the 2024 entries!

I remember seeing Lordi a couple of years ago in Brighton and they are absolutely hilarious live

Lithuania Luktelk Silvester Belt (English Translation) Genius English Translations [Verse 1] The day has passed and another one It's like the time has stopped here I'm going here, I'm going there And when the sun goes down and it's all over again [Pre-Chorus] Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow I promise to love you tomorrow In the good, in the good, in the good You'll find me in the good night [Chorus] Am I still alive? Do you still recognize me? The sun doesn't rise Tell me, will you stay close? [Post-Chorus] Wait a bit, wait a bit One more minute, wait a bit Wait a bit, wait a bit One more minute, hold on [Verse 2] The night has passеd, another night Like always, I'm repеating it again [Pre-Chorus] Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow I promise to love you tomorrow [Chorus] Am I still alive? Do you still recognize me? The sun doesn't rise Tell me, will you stay close? [Post-Chorus] Wait a bit, wait a bit One more minute, wait a bit Wait a bit, wait a bit One more minute, hold on [Bridge] We're standing in the silence of a radio playing I no longer want to dance, I no longer want to dance We're standing in the silence of a radio playing I no longer want to dance, but I need to dance [Instrumental Break] [Chorus] Am I still alive? Do you still recognize me? Sun doesn't rise Tell me, will you stay close? [Post-Chorus] Wait a bit, wait a bit One more minute, wait a bit Wait a bit, wait a bit One more minute, hold on

The best thing about Eurovision is the gentle mocking of each countries songs, and or intro videos by our UK host on VO. It used to be the late, great broadcaster Terry Wogan (Irish) and now we have Graham Norton, also Irish, who is a perfect successor, also gently mocking of any entries that deserve a light mockery. Nothing offensive, just calling out weirdness, like "this man seems to be stuck in a spiders web, seems like a very unfortunate situation to be in, but what do I know". But he gives credit where it's due for a good song/staging/performance.

For an American Song Contest, maybe make it so that each STATE competes?

Tell ya what, we'll invite America to the Eurovision when you invite the rest of the world to your, ahem, (not)World Series sporting event. Baseball I believe?

I get the not wanting arts to be "competitive" but keeping the origins of the Eurovision Song Contest in mind, I think it's a good tradition to have a friendly rivalry about writing and performing songs to remind ourselves what the alternative would be (A Europe at war).

The video forgot to mention that Loreen has won eurovision twice for sweden and that sweden has tied ireland. I'm assuming that this was because the video was made before Eurovision 2023.

I love how at the beginning only Israel and Australia are highlighted as non-European countries are outed when in fact Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan also are Asien countries and part of ESC for quite some time :D Whether a country is invited to the ESC though has nothing to do with whether that country belongs to Europe or not. EBU is alliance of public media services and organizations which i.e. regulate the exchange of data between members of that union. ESC is basically just a byproduct of their business and there are actually plenty more countries with a membership in that club. There are even African countries like Morocco, Tunesia or Egypt or middle-east states like Lebanon, Lybia or Jordania in it which theoretically could participate in the ESC. While Australia is not within the "natural broadcasting area" of the EBU, it though acquired an association member status by simply applying for it. This is usually done in order to simplify the exchange of data among various telecommunication networks. On the list of countries with an association member status are also countries like Brazil, China or the United States. Australia was allowed to participate in the yearly ESC as these seem to like that format and in 2015 they basically were allowed to join the ESC for a guest appearance. As this guest visit was really perceived positive by plenty of member broadcasters they were invited next year againg, but this time with a permanent slot and since then they have been regular members of the ESC community. In 2022 EBU also tried to establish a partner program called ASC (American Song Contest) which held several rounds of preselection rounds per state whose winner then had to compete against winners of other states in a couple of rounds till they had shortlisted 10 winners which they then let compete in a nation-wide show. The format was perceived with mixed reacitons, according to Wikipedia. In the end EBU stopped the project due to a lack of promotion and "quality" of the shows as American broadcaster CBN obviously didn't want to take care of and invest money into the organization.

I'm seventy five years old, and this has been going on for most of my life - and I still don't believe it's real!

This guy looks like the perfect combination of Hayden Christensen and Sebastian Stan.

Americans are surprised by everything...

Please note that in Europe, we're not as gay as the contestant

Yes my friends it’s real….and it’s physically impossible not to watch it every single year 😂

I understand that the name Eurovision is the name of the Swiss broadcaster that televised the first event.

Anakin Skywalker reacting to Eurovision was not on my bingo card, but alas the surprise is a welcome one. Cheers from Croatia!

You're not allowed to vote for your own country. SLAP! Sweden won the contest he was talking about, last year, and the UK came a respectable 25th out of 25. Terrible song. We've heard 20 seconds of this years and it's . . . better. Dance track, not really my thing. Fully released tomorrow, I believe. Actually, now I have the stage, I have to say that I don't like that the songs are all released ahead of time. Some are huge hits before we ever get to the contest. I think the first time we hear them should be on the night. But that's why I'm not the head of a major music company, I guess. Anyway, the best bit is as it always was, the voting. "Here are the results of the Finnish jury . . . "

Dont talk about the American Song Contest again 😳😳😳😳

You should go to quintessentially British Eurovision party where we REALLY let our hair down! But as a small aside, by the end we're so drunk it doesn't matter who won......we had FUN . Till next year then

Hey btw, you can also vote for the songs in eurovision and will be placed in a rest of the world vote which gets counted equal to one country’s televotes

8:29 they dont let you vote for your own country to avoid bias, so unless you get a vpn, you cant vote for your own country

Some Eurovision related videos you could watch Eurovision flashmob (interval act 2010) Eurovision Love Love peace Peace Eurovision Winners 1956-2023 Eurovision Runners Up 1957-2023 [Country of your choice] at Eurovision.

12:05 the songs are released as music videos way ahead of the competition, and are generally performed live at national nominating competitions.

First of all, DO NOT WATCH THE EUROVISION FILM!! It is the worst movie I've ever seen in my life (and I've seen the Stepford wives remake). I LOVE Eurovision. I watch it with my mum every year. We get a takeaway, plenty of munch and score each country out of 10 and write a piss take comment about each performance. I wish that countries would sing in their native languages again though. I wouldn't be able to understand them but I'd appreciate it more. I love the quirky songs. I still sing "before that wolf eats your grandma give the wolf a banana" quite often. I didn't rank Loreen's tattoo winning song much last year but I absolutely love it now (thanks to Layton and Nikita dancing to it on strictly). I got a giggle out of your captions,JJ

Fun fact: Have you ever heard of Riverdance? An Irish dance troupe that was a huge, world-wide success in the late 1990s and early 2000s. They had their big break in 1994, when Ireland hosted Eurovision AGAIN in Dublin. They gave a 7-minute performance during the interval, after all the songs had been performed and voting was going on. Nobody really remembers the winning song or artist, but Riverdance was an absolute sensation!