Eurovision 2024 is INSANE! 

Baby Lasagna's song is actually about how young people from Balkans' are forced to leave their countries due to poor job opportunities, salaries and corruption. It's awesome that you covered this.

As a European, i can comfirm - nothing makes sense, but it is fun to watch.

Useless fact: The background singer of Windows95 Man is the finnish voice of Chase from Paw Patrol

Croatia was so epic, that whole arena was dancing and singing

Nik making video on Eurovision is something i really wasn't expecting

Fun fact: that’s 2 acts in 2 years, that reference Rammstein as their influence, that have come 2nd but with the highest televotes in their respective years (Kaarija and Baby Lasagna) Baby Lasagna also references Electric Callboy as an influence

Electric Callboy really should've been part of this

Love how Finland always makes it to the thumbnail🥰

Joost Klein finishes his song with a very emotional personal message. So once he goes backstage after his song, he was promised not to be filmed. The camerawoman tried to film him in this environment multiple times, for which he asked her to stop multiple times. He had enough and raised his fist (not hitting or touching the camerawoman). For this he was disqualified. Standard reaction nowadays.... He wasnt allowed to win

Baby Lasagna was a guitarist in Croatian industrial/folk metal band Manntra and also co-wrote a couple of songs for German gothic/industrial metal band Mono Inc.

Gåte definitely didn't deserve last place. The Å isn't there for show, Nick. The vocal technique the singer uses is called 'Lokk', which is what was used to call in cattle for hundreds of years. They've been an established band in Norway for over 20 years.

I'm from the Netherlands, the whole country is angry a the EBU for the onjustful disqualification :( but Joost actually has a metal track as well haha it's called 'demonen in me lichaam', he said his brother put him on Linkin Park back in the day!

Baby Lasgna has said Electric Callboy is a huge influence on him and that he would loove to open for them sometime in the future. But yeah, we were robbed for the second year in a row -.- f them judges

Estonian Vsauce

Thank You for supporting Croatia bro ❤️🤘🏻

Please do a metal cover of europapa

Norway's entry was incredible.

The shouting in the chorus of the Norwegian entry is actually traditional "Cow calling" or herd calling, used throughout the times to make your cows come back to the farm after being in the fields. Also, Gåte has been a known band in Norway for a long time, so when they swing their guitars around I think its kind of to protest the forced playback of the instruments. Kind of what Nivada did on MTV that one time.

There was a Spanish Metal band that represented San Marino that didn't qualify for the final. They are Magara with the song 11:11. They had one of the best stagings this year.

WE'RE SELLING OUR COW WITH THIS ONE 🔥🔥🔥🐄🐄🇭🇷

Meow cat please meow back 😊

Eurovision is the most hyper-european event ever. Clash of ~50 different cultures, politics everywhere, crazy budgets, crazy staging, people that don’t care at all, people that care too much. Brexit. Love it.

When Eurovision is supposedly not political, but even people outside of Europe aren't as delusional as the EBU 🤣

Free joost klein.

Dark Side by Blind Channel to this day remains my favorite eurovision entry ever

I so fcking confusing why Gåte is on last place. What wrong with people?

Painting the superbowl as the biggest sports competition in the world is wiiild, it's not even top 5

A fun tidbit about Finland's performance I've been waiting to share: "Muna" means "an egg", but it's also slang for male genitalia. In their stage show, he comes out of an egg.

Just watched the Croatia Song and this is silly goosebumps gallore and I will be haunted by this for some time.

Eurovision is a perfect microcosm of democracy: the people want something, but the few rich and powerful decide what they get.

Have been watching ESC for 2 decades. Missed a few, but watched most of them with friends etc. We have a drinking game "One shot whenever a Celine Dion sings". There's no real definition of a Celine Dion, but we know when we see one. It also gives this nice cozy feeling of being connected to the rest of europe. Also highly recommend Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga. It's filled with references and weird details :D Nemo was instantly my favorite, 5 seconds or so into the track.

Wassup Nicolas Noturno!!! In 2018 Eurovision, a Metalcore band played that day, it was wild!! Their name is AWS, unfortunaly, their lead singer passed away in 2021 after battling Leukemia. RIP Örs Siklosi!!

AS A DUTCHIE I HATE THAT JOOST GOT DISQUALIFIED

I'm still heartbroken about Norway ending last, it was literally my all time favorite Eurovision entry. People and juries hate the combination of folk and modern take... I hate it !

Why Electric Callboy doesn't go to Eurovision? Well they wanted to three years ago... they sent their song to the NDR (German broadcaster, that hosts the national finals) but the NDR literally didn't even consider them for the national final, kinda borderline ignoring them. Something in the lines of "That Song isn't radio friendly enough" (That's literally the reason why Germany sucks at the ESC, except for Isaak this year - very proud) and now EC told the NDR to f off.

Hard rock Hallelujah on Eurovision in my hearth forever

Nik Nocturnal evaluating the ESC makes me an avid believer in quantum entanglement.

Greetings from Croatia \m/ ...we finally sent some good shit ...next year we sending some blegh chunky thall's

The guitarist in Gåte is actually playing his guitar like that during live shows. Even climbing around the stage playing the guitar. Crazy dude

Please make metal version of Windows95 Man - No Rules. We need it. pls

Käärijä and Joost will have a collab song coming out sometime, hopefully soon. It's basically about being stuck in a traffic.

Justice for Joost! Make Europapa a hit by streaming it. Joost already sold out 2x one of the largest venues in the Netherlands called Afas Live (6.000 people)with his headline show. Even before Eurovision started Europapa had 40+ million streams and Friesenjung 100+ million

Gåte is actually a quite established band in the Norwegian folk rock/metal scene. Their discography spans a wide range of cool sounds, although I personally prefer their post-hiatus material. Definitely worth checking out for really any rock/metal fan. Note that the "å" in the band name is not pronounced like the letter "a". If you're curious, google can provide an example :P

Letss go Estonia mentioned!

Someone should make a movie about Baby Lasagna’s random selection as an unknown, making music in his bedroom, all the way to Croatia’s favourite son and heir to the Eurovision throne with an epic performance in Malmo.

This year was wild indeed! Tbh, it has been bat poop bonkers for as long as I can remember, but this year was...unusual? 👀 Was personally rooting for Baby Lasagna (after Joost was barred), but Switzerland's Nemo has heaps of talent and a deserved win. Amidst all the politics, a win for Switzerland is some top-notch irony as well 😋 Still waiting on Electric Callboy in Eurovision, make it happen!!! 🥳

the "reporter" was saying something bad about joost kleins dead parents and, THE FACT that he was being photo shooted without his consent when he was going to the green room after performance (that was the deal because he was promised that he wouldnt be bothered with cameras) (i believe he was crying after the performance since the song is dedicated to his parents) and he got disqualifed... Like the dude is lovely hella lovely, käärijä himself have met him and the guy is the most humble person ever

One day Nik will discover Günther and Cascada and the Eurodance genre, and understand that Electric Callboy is just Günther with guitar lol.

No one: Estonia: VSAUCE! MICHAEL HERE!

My favorite from Eurovision is still Hungary back in like 2017 or 18, when they sent a metalcore band (AWS). They were awesome.

Bambie Thug was fuckin sick, song gets even better with every listen. Insane performance.

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Bambie Thug was amazing. Crazy performance with demons and pentagrams. Go Ireland. Crown the Witch. 😂

You must be the only one who doesn’t get Bambi Thug. Pity

They did Joost dirty asf

Bambie Thug was phenomenal. I want her to collab with Poppy.

Thanks for covering Eurovision, I love hearing your opinion on it

I WAS WAITING ON THIS VIDEO (Corekid and Eurovision fan)

Just saying, the chorus from Baby Lasagna is "Party In My Head" by Pain

While Windows95man turned out to kind of fun, another Finnish candidate Cyan Kicks was pretty much straight up metalcore. Of a soft, poppy kind, but still.

I'm so proud of our cork gem Bambie Thug.

Bambie Thug came 6th overall, 6th in the televotes and 6th in the jury votes = 🔥🔥🔥666 🔥🔥🔥

Love that you cover Eurovision. Even if it's not heavy enough for me, the shits just crazy fun and worth watching. The fun gives me a catharsis feel like metal.

Fun Fact: Marco (Baby Lasagna vocalist) is a former guitarist of croatian band Manntra. Check their song "In The Shadows", it's metal af.

Greetings from Finland ! I always love to watch those wonderful performances.

Glad to see nik talking about Eurovision, and glad to see I'm not the only one comparing Croatia to Rammstein

Nice that you make a vid of this topic. I live in Sweden and watch it every year of course. About the playing of instruments, it is quite some years ago they took that posibility away and forbid all live music it has to be recorded how ever they have to sing live. I also liked Croatia the best! 🤘 Like your channel - keep up the god work 😃👍

The song from Croatia is just if Rammstein made 'Party in my head' from Pain

Did not watch Eurovision... But I did watch Lord of the Lost the day before the EV event, in Malmö with their own Eurovision special concert. Was a complete banger of an evening. 🤘🥳🤣

YES FINALLY

As a swede, this is the worst part of the year.. need to have tv turned off and radio for a month or more

You should check out San Marino, they didn't get to the final but were pretty badass !

Btw, electric callboy, applied for ESC in Germany (i think 2022?), but the NDR (who decides who goes to ESC for Germany) Said No. There were an online petition where the whole fanbase voted, but it didnt work...

Looking for a video to watch and finish my after work joint before hockey and o have found it lmao. And, great Will Ferrel movie. I didn’t know it was based on a real thing.

the swiss guy actually goated, amazing song🇨🇭

Israel was pretty nice, but it could've been better if there were metal guitars from the second chorus

How cool of you doing a video to the ESC! 🦝🤘🏿Croatia‘s Baby Lasagna favourite this year, sadly due to f*cked up voting system the public got robbed again but hey, we secretly know the "special“/ non mainstream people the last years landed on place 2. Ireland‘s („gothic spiritual metal“) act kinda got me hooked, gave a bit of "Zeal & Ardor“ vibes in my pov, with that chilled/ poppy lyric parts and then going straight to darkest screaming like in mid of ("satanic") bm gathering. XD Greets From Germany!

you need to see the metal version of europapa it slamss🤘

I have been watching the Eurovision Song Contest since the earl y 1970s and to be honest as I am from the punk / hardcore / post-hardcore generation I have viewed it as an ethnographic study of a exotic tribe. It is interesting to see what countries think will win at Eurovision Song Contest Personally I like the audience member videos of the 3 minute performances from the arena to compare with official TV version and this year Baby Lasagna's was a concert like performance and the crowd responded. BTW Baby Lasagna (Marko Purišić) was until last year the guitarist in a Croatian folk metal band called Manntra - who had produced seven albums (?) I did a word analysis of the song and it has a total of 433 words made up of 59 separate unique words of which six "rim", "tim", "tagi", "digi" "woah" and "dim" represented about half the total word count.

Hey Nik, have you heard of Opal in Sky? They have both fantastic music and funny tiktoks/shorts. I highly recommend both. ❤️‍🔥

You should check out We Could be the Same by maNga. It was in 2010 competition

Sorry to be that person. But you have the wrong Eurovision logo in your thumbnail. It should have the Swedish flag in the heart as the competition took place in Malmö, Sweden.

Funny and important fact: Irelands song was written by Sam from Wargasm and Casyette, which gives this alternative metal vibe to the song

Can you Make Baby Lasagna metal? I know you are tempted 😅

Justice for Joost Klein, disqualified by false aquesation

Bambi Thug scared my mom and my sister. My kids and I loved it.

you should do a video on the dutch metal scene! plenty of great upcoming bands in there!

Still haven't forgiven Eurovision for not giving SunStroke Project the win back in 2010.

Bambie Thug technically have their own subgenre of music they call Ouija Pop, but yeah they are definitely metal-adjacent

Nik talking about Joost Klein is something I would never seen coming:) the last part of the song goes pretty hard

Joost from the Netherlands wrote the song in a memorial to both his parents who he lost. The lady he attacked was apparantly asking a lot of questions regarding his parents even though he told her multiple times he didn't wanna answer anything regarding them. She kept on asking thing related to them to the point he snapped

Yes.

Us Croatian always seem to get 2nd or 3rd in pretty much most things... except for Water Polo and Handball for some weird reason! 🤷‍♀🤣

huge estoner checking in

Always loved Gåte❤ And Finland never disappoints. I love the Bambie song. :)

The chorus in Rim Tim Tagi Dim sounds exactly like the chorus in Party In My Head by PAIN

No metal entry winning Eurovision and all I'm thinking about is Nik's bingo card😂

Finally!

HEHEHE Proud European here :) I loved Norway's entry! CANNOT BELIEVE IT GOT LAST!

I made a metal parody of Eurovision (on my channel), for those who are as deprived of metal in Eurovision as me haha :D