Didgeridoos, Big Notes, Kings: Eurovision 2024 reviewed, pt8 (Australia, Portugal, UK) 

my favourite part of the evening is watching Gabe yap about eurovision

as a portuguese i'm very proud of the entry we sent and i'm happy to finally see someone giving it the appreciation it deserves

i absolutely love your analysis of the portuguese staging!!

Finally, someone understands us and our song. Eurovision Histories was the first one. Many many Thanks from Portugal 🇵🇹

i only just discovered this channel two weeks ago but i have been WAITING for you to get to Grito... you videos are so in depth and educational! I really enjoy them ❤

The weirdest narrative of this year’s Eurovision Twitter season is that Australia is bad - it’s one of the campest, danciest songs Eurovision has had in a while. There’s a reason it did so well in ESCBubble’s Public Reacts - the locals love that sort of thing! 🇦🇺🙌

Very much enjoyed the description of Portugal’s clever video-staging

Love this video- Portugal, Australia, and UK are three of my favorites! I feel like they haven't gotten much love in the community so it makes me happy to hear your appreciation for them. Portugal in particular is my #1 and I loved your analysis! And I think Australia and UK have the potential to do well depending on their staging. Can't wait to see how they all look on the big stage in May!

I really like Australia's song and I love didgeridoo sound. Portugal's song is really atmospheric and beautiful.

@iolandamusic Iolanda, you have to see this incredible analysis of Grito's performance and staging .Gabe managed to describe it perfectly. Thank you Gabe, for your care and dedication in this analysis ❤️🇵🇹🙌

Yeah it wasn't cool when Europeans made fun of Jess Mauboy's dancing when it was traditional aboriginal dance, but I get when people aren't aware or educated on the topic they can see something different and strange and make fun of it

Portugal is always underrated, i really hope they win again in the future

Brilliant analysis of the portuguese staging. Overall my #1 this year.

thank you for calling out the gross reaction to birth of a new age. i can understand the mishearing but i too found the laughing at it so uncomfortable. plus it's one of the most robbed entries of all time imo as a brit i'd say i feel worried but optimistic about dizzy. i like the song a lot and stream it often, but i don't think it's something i'd pick up my phone and vote for. HOWEVER i fully trust that we will get an amazing stage show and i do think we are in for a respectable jury score. fingers crossed it translates to a good result!

Thanks Gabe, for your heartfelt opinion about Iolanda and Grito. You saw beyond the surface… Grito is a musical masterpiece. Thank you for a Portuguese fan. ❤

It made my day to see someone who is just as fascinated with all of the amazing tiny details of Grito as I am ❣I won't be surprised if it comes in my top 5 most listened to songs of 2024 in my spotify wrapped 🤭

Ok so crazy story about Olly Alexander’s song, I got back from uni a few weeks ago and asked my parents if they had heard the UK Eurovision song they said they really didn’t like it. The reason? They first heard it on Ant and Dec’s Saturday night takeaway which had Ant and Dec clowning about in the background of the song. I showed them the studio version of the song and they really liked it 💀 Moral of the story? Ant and Dec are washed fr 😭

Can confirm that I had never heard King until I went to check just now.

Caroline Polachek mentioned in an ESC Gabe video, this is the best crossover I've ever seen

the SHADE that was not really shade lmao, i love it. Also, congrats on getting your holes filled!

Just as a clarification, the part where you say Leo is singing bossa nova he is actually singing in a samba like rithim Great video though- love from Brasil 🇧🇷

I really appreciate you going into detail about what makes it work in a song. For the music novice that I am, it helps me digest a sea of information in an entertaining way.

Thanks for acknowledging jeangu and his message. He deserved better !!

I hope as British Gabe will vote for Portugal❤️💚❤️💚

Gabe can you please do a video about why the UK is so poor at Eurovision and the BBC is apparently too cheap to host a British festival with semi-finals and why Scotland hasn't just made their own festival? Love your commentary.

Australia is one of my favourites this year and I'm hoping they qualify. Portugal is an interesting one for me because normally they're not my cup of tea and last year was the first time I quite enjoyed their entry. I like this year, not as much as last year, but I still think it's beautiful and I think it will grow on me. As for the UK, I agree with most of what you've said. Really curious to see what Olly's "gritty", "unexpected" staging will be. Also hoping, like 2022/23 there will be a ESC version.

great video loved the yapping 10/10

Thanks from Portugal ❤❤❤soo beautiful song and performance too ❤❤❤goo Iolanda ❤

You made an amazing analisys to Grito!!! Thank you!!! 🇵🇹 Obrigada 😊 TELEVOTE for Portugal at 1st Semifinal please!!!

I was so shocked when Zachariah the aboriginal person in electric fields was a man, I thought it was a woman 😭😭😭 love all of these songs

I really think everyone is wrong about Australia this year! I’m so sure they will qualify, electric fields performances are incredible and Australia know how to bring a qualifying performance

"First Brazilian Portuguese song in the final of FdC since 2017". Thanks, I had to check again that "Mar no fim" didn't get to the final. :(

gonna throw fucking hands if people mock one milkali

GREGGS MENTIONED 🔥🔥🔥

Ah Gabe! I waited for your takea on those. Seriously every friday is a celebration with your ramblings on here 🎉 (Also I am very glad you are also on Team Grito) ❤

13:00 not the mae muller slander 😭😭😭

Excellent point of view, analysis and arguments. Everything very well founded.I've enjoy it very much!! Thank you

I love all of these three. Australia is super fun and fresh and I actually really like the verses because I think it builds nicely into the chorus, the early didgeridoo is a bit of a teaser for what’s coming. Portugal is one of my favourite ballads, the staging is excellent and it sounds so magical to me. UK (my country!) is in my top 5, I know it’s not necessarily an esc song but I’ve been a big fan of Olly since his first album and Dizzy is very in keeping with the rest of his music, some elevation with staging would put it in good stead to finish comfortably on the left side of the leaderboard.

I feel like I’m cramming for a test binging all of these the night before. That being said, the same shirt color and wall color is definitely a choice.

The video for Oz was really unnerving - didn't like from the get-go. The staging (ironically) was what let Dizzy down. Portugal was utterly sublime - deserved better result.

Poor Mae

I'm really glad you had your holes filled 🙏

If Sheppard would’ve been chosen for Eurovision instead of Electric Fields, they probably would’ve gotten some high points from the Netherlands😅 For some reason they were all over Dutch radio for a long time

Im still waiting for Rina Sawayama to be on esc 😭

Did anyone even think of milk before you mentioned it? I mean it’s mil-kali. The k is very obviously part of the second syllable. I’m not sure there was anything to be concerned about until you pointed it out.

Hey anyone know SBS's PO Box? I have a therapy bill to send them. I may have more since WHAT DO YOU MEAN SHEPPARD SUBMITTED A SONG AND GOT TURNED DOWN?!?!?

Gabe, don’t de Mae like that lmaooo.

The way Australian Aboriginals/Black people (Black is the term for Native Australian people) are treated compared to indigenous European cultures is appalling.

29:20 right back at ya (sorry) i never really care about how my country does, but i actually think both germany and the uk have the same problem. i think if we sent entries that are more culturally niche they'd stand a better chance. easier for germany than for the uk, but still, there's plenty of genres and subgenres of music that are just more bri*ish than sending radio pop that could have come out of any country in a half-the-globe radius. I just now realized why I liked Dizzy so much, it literally reminded me of the pet shop boys. So thanks for that aside about Olly's acting background I guess XD So yeah, that was more british than your usual entries and more well-received by at least some fans. Just.. .not enough to pick up the phone for unfortunately. I had to chuckle at the phrasing about hoping for an "unsettling" performance live... I'm sure there were plenty of people unsettled by the gay soft core porn. Not that we didn't have plenty of soft core hetero porn, but that is just "normal" I guess.

Light up the room puh puh puh puh puhpuh puh puh No but seriously you guys seem to be going through the reawakening that we in the Netherlands had after Anouk, love to see y'all getting back up to sending quality

Portugal 🇵🇹✨🇵🇹✨🔥🔥

Gabe you must have musical training, b flat and bosanova lol

I don't dislike the Australian entry but I don't think that it delivers what is needed for Eurovision. I also think that is one of this year's weakest songs. As someone who listens to almost any genre of music, I am really struggling to engage with Portugal's entry. I have listened to it multiple times, but I do not know how to connect with it. If and when it clicks with me, I am sure I will feel differently about it, but at the moment, it is not doing it for me. She is a good singer, though. The UK entry this year is good enough to finish middle of the pack, but there are so many much stronger entries. Sadly, it feels too safe and formulaic and I'm not sure why there are Christmas type bells in it. But still a good song and I am sure Olly will do a good job on the big stage.

Take a shot every time he calls something special

The hook in Dizzy is from Sanna Nielsen - Du och jag mot världen

Not to be that guy but I know you’re a boss at pronunciation; Yankunytjatjara is pronounced like yung-kun-jarra

Love from Portugal!

Electric Fields should have stuck with their song from a few yrilliant.ears ago. Millenials? It was b

All the UK needs is people at the BBC's partners such as TaP to respond to their emails. Yes I'm still salty that we could have had Rina and absolutely stomped it 😡 Olly could be a good contender in previous years but there's way too much wild competition this year.

The UK is my favorite entry this year! 🇬🇧

PORTUGAL!!! 🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹

When will you be doing Poland?

Come on Olly!!!! 🇬🇧💙🌀🇬🇧💙🌀🇬🇧💙🌀

Congratulations on your holes being filled 🎉

Can u include time stamps pls

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Countries next week?

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humbly. Nor Australia, nor Portugal deserve final this year. Europeans aint gonna appreciate australian indigenousness enough. And Portugal is just crying ballad. And having just vocals aint gonna save it. Pelas Costuras would be a better option by miles. But oh well, why would Portuguese juries vote for something modern and fresh right? As for UK. I wish them the best. Hope Olly uses his experience as an artist to transform the song into something audience catching.

I don’t think people will have an issue Aboriginal language in the song. mcRoys song was boring and there’s no Aboriginal immigration to Europe. Racist as that sounds, I feel that could have affected the voting.

Mae Muller devoured the high note wtf are you saying??

"You know my broccoli" is not disrespectful or racist. It's just a fun pun. Exactly like "Go Tiffany" is from this year's icelandic selection.

i don't really see it with australia, unfortunately... i'm not denying that there may be aboriginal influences in the song, but as someone who's not familiar with them, i didn't catch them at all. to me it just sounded like an extremely basic pop song with nothing special about it, other than 2-3 words in a non-english language in the chorus. and i think most people will miss those cultural influences you were talking about as well

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Australia’s song is just bad, it really ain’t that deep

Australia - pretty good, but nothing really special Portugal - great vocals, but the song is boring UK - the best UK entry of this century