Eurovision 2024: Semi-Final 2 Results (Reaction & Discussion) 

So pleased Dons (Latvia) made it, especially after the bookies gave him no chance. Loop (Malta) should have gone to the finals !

In my opinion, the televote was a bit of a flipside to the jury vote. In a "normal" year, Hurricane would have received more points from the jury and fewer points from the televote - and end up more or less at the same ranking. A perfect example is Israels Unicorn from last year, which received almost the same points from the jury and the televote, ranking 3rd overall

Didn’t the juries actually already vote for Joost in the grand final? I think he got around 58 points, which was 12th place. And all of that from a pre-recorded performance from the Semi final, rather than a live performance.

A good balad doesnt need a stage show. Latvia is so underrated

Personal preference side, you can't argue with the results, people genuinely resonated with Latvia in a way that most people in the bubble just flatly did not expect, and Malta was the annual girly bop the Community likes that the main public just didn't get at all.

Georgia, Netherlands, Latvia, Armenia and Greece ❤❤❤

I know many people voted for Israel, even people who usually don't watch Eurovision. Many TV news channels, at least in the UK and Sweeden, constantly discussed what had been done in the Eurovision fandom, the bullying and boycotting and they actually voted anti-woke culture and refused to support bullying

Kudos mama for bringing Freddy. Well done, love this new couple

Huge fan of Freddie..did I mention earlier that we want more Freddie and NEED more Freddie??

Love your videos and analysis, real cure for the post eurovision depression 😂 Btw, Switzerland came 5th with the televoting in the final. France was 4th with one point more.

i liked Latvia, Belgium and Armenia. But my best entry by far was the pre qualified France. Slimane performance touch my heart even so many days after final listening many times a day. It is an outstanding performance.

In the midst of all the drama in this year's Eurovision, Armenia was a literal breath of fresh air when it came on. I was surprised that their song was only 2 and a half minutes or so, because they packed so much in! "Jako" was the only song that made me forget all the twists and turns, and just enjoy music.

Where is Deban? I miss his comments 🙁

The fact everyone is forgetting Switzerland 🇨🇭 actually finished 5th in televote behind France 🇨🇵 Like the first winner ever to be so low in one of the tops (jury/tele). Jury power is a mess

I’m from the Netherlands and am happy for Switzerland to have won! Congratulations again 🎉. But we all know that if Joost and the Netherlands wasn’t unjustifiably DQ, the final result was gonna end up totally different. Because of the many televotes they would’ve gathered. Which now probably mostly went to Croatia and Switzerland instead

I dont know, I feel weird about this. Dons was always so sincerely grateful for your initial support, he even said in national television how grateful he is that wiwibloggs also wanted to interview him and how supportive you were - he was unintentionally doing a marketing for you on national TV. And now you are saying that he ("stage" is also a part of him) potentially should not have made it to the final so Malta could make it instead...

I was really worried Estonia would not get through, but they did so, handsomely!

I like Freddy - great, balanced analysis

I'd love to hear you guys discuss the televote only era of eurovision on the podcast! your favorite winners, entries in general, how you view that voting system in hindsight (especially since, from what I remember, William at least didn't start following Eurovision closely until after the juries had been re-introduced) etc. I feel like the 00s were such a significant era for the contest and, naturally, there isn't much commentary on it online.

Rightwinged people in my country were called on to vote for Israel in The Netherlands and we did give 12 points to Israel. Literally politicians were involved. Which I find weird. No politicians called to vote for other artists

It was he's dream to represent Latvia in Eurovision

Still Malta, Albania and Denmark had a killer voice!! Among the best performances👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Coming 1st and 2nd in the semi's (Israël, NL, Ukraine) but producers put them 2nd, 5th and 6th in the runningorder?!!

Would be happy to see u in Yerevan, guys!!!❤️❤️ Great video as always!!

Joost would've impacted Croatia the most, I think. The only reason Switzerland won was that we have 1 clear juries winner and 3 televotes winners /300+ points/. It would've been even more difficult to beat them with 4 televotes winners.

Almost all Western Europe gave Israel 12 points. I liked the song but many people just liked to show their support to Israel. Why is that so hard to believe? I didn't see any Israel commercials. I saw them in the past for other artists (I don't remember really but I think I saw them for example for Destiny)

For your podcast: Maybe talk about the absence of some countries right now (Montenegro, Hungary, North Macedonia, B&H, Slovakia...) and their reasons and chances to return soon? Or another idea would be to start a series called "What happend with... idk Serbias Winner after ger win or Dustin the Turkey or other acts that made an impact at esc in any way. Great discussion. Loved every minute of it and looking forward to the grand final video. PS: Justice for Malta Sarah aka Susan Bonicci🤧🥳

I am so happy for Israel.... I was not aware of the campaign behind the scenes, however, I have voted for Israel and I thought it was a deserved winner for the semi-final. Despite what was going on, they have displayed the best performance of the night. Well done!!

I don’t agree that the Netherlands would have stolen votes from Switzerland. Maybe stolen votes from another party song such as Croatia. But I doubt it as in the final, staging and vocals matter and it showed BL had undergone vocal training to improve his breathing while singing and that Nemo had mastered breathing while singing and doing acrobatics. Unfortunately, Joost’s singing of the Europapa chorus didn’t do the song justice.

Hi, where is Deban? I really miss him, is everything ok?

What happened to the sound of The Netherlands?On tv it came across very soft,though I heard you say that it was ok in the Arena?

For the podcast: talk about songwriting camps! Nemo wrote their song with a team in a camp, but I know many people feel divided on them. Are these camps good for Eurovision, and are they good for songwriters?

I think the low Malta score is because Malta dont have 'allies' in the way that the ex Yugoslav countries are often mutually supportive for example. The girlbop votes will have gone to Austria, Georgia partly for being later in the running order, and therefore more in the memory. Not wholly fair but there you go. Cyprus didn't suffer from going first in semi final one but they have built up a pedigree and following for that kind of content. I actually prefer the Cyprus song as a bit fresher somehow

You two in Armenia, yaaaaaaaaaay😍

I think Joost would've impacted the winner in the grand final. Also it would've impacted israel because they were literally next to each other in the running order. I think even though he would've gotten points away from Croatia, he would impact Switzerland too much that it would've been a closer fight with Croatia & Ukraine for the win (maybe around 160s in the televote instead of 220s for Switzerland). It may have also impacted Ukraine... it's near impossible to have 4 countries with 300+ pts, Ukraine was the country closest to being knocked off the 300s and was on the same half as Israel and the Netherlands, so I would imagine they would maybe drop to the 290s. The Netherlands wouldn't have won still but would've made Croatia and Ukraine a better fighting chance against the juries' love for Switzerland.

Joost is scheduled to be in Vancouver at the end of the month!!!!

The results of the San Marino votes here do no look aggregated from other nations. This means a jury likely voted and would explain how different it was from the others voting countries. I wish there was more transparency on this.

If the voting for Armenia had supposedly come from diaspora, then why didn’t we make the cut in previous years when our songs were quite popular with the Armenians. I don’t think this is anyhow related to the diaspora (including the overall televote results in the finale). I was surprised to see how juries from so many countries went from it (some countries never voted for us before). We received points from almost every single Scandi country. On a different note, I’d rather make a video how Armenia votes. We gave 5 points to Malta btw. I’d say Armenia has an open voting every year (apart from France in recent year when France aligned with Armenia in politics). But we always voted for France. To understand the diaspora vote, we have to analyse data from each country (e.g. the UK always give huge points to Lithuania every year, but no one talks about that).

Freddy and his Jude Law accent 😍

I love how nobody realized Gåte was a classic folk metal band and most people loved it. Even in other types of metal, they often sing about folklore and warfare, not just the biblical devil or witchcraft. If people were aware of this, they might also understand that the biblical theme of the devil belongs to the theme of the genre, it is not meant literally in the sense of worship, it is simply a characteristic of the genre.

If the juries were still in the semis, I'm pretty sure Switzerland would have won SF2 in a landslide

Freddy and me are the only ones who have noticed how good-looking was the male half of Ladaniva.

Yeah, we Dutch are really disappointed and I was sooo cranky watching the grand final. I don't think Joost would have won, but he sure would have made an impact. In this semi, Malta coming last was harsh but I think all the right countries got through. Can I also say we need more of Freddy?

I would've preferred San Marino or Belguim over Austria i gues.s sorry :( tough semi i loved them all. I'm so happy for Latvia though

Despite being an Armenian myself, I don't like tashi-tushi songs. I despise them and always did, intentionally skipping any type of events I might hear such songs. Yet I liked "Jako" from the very first sound. A huge smile stretched my face the moment I saw her peeking through that doily type of curtain and heard lelei lelei la. What I liked more was the idea of making the feast song even more welcoming by including musical instruments which usually dominate in other cultures, so that many people would feel at home while listening to this. What I loved even more was the fun, non-propaganda, liberating aspect of the song. We come with the music, we have fun together as one, we don't put ourselves inside walls built by society's expectations, we dance and liberate ourselves for 2 minutes and 30 seconds. That's it. Nothing stressful, not even difficult lyrics for the audience to feel pressured to learn. Armenian folk songs usually contain fewer words but more melismas, ad-libs. Just try "Shalakho" by Varduhi Vardanyan for example. Not even one word, but the rhythm and crescendo are insane. I don't think we received votes (not much by the way) due to diaspora. Many Armenians, in fact, didn't like this song. I just think this ticked the OG Eurovision box and Zhaklin was very loveable. I don't understand why are people dismissive when it comes to the only non-problematic entry of the year then all of a sudden they feel surprised that we ended up in the Top 10. There was zero reason to not be in the Top 10, I'd say. Now the Greek entry I didn't expect to see out of Top 10. I'm shocked. Still, I'm happy Nemo won. I was rooting for Switzerland from the get-go and voted for them too.

Feel sorry for Norway it was so undeserved!!!!

For your podcast: talk about what was going on behind the scenes? Bambi thug talked about working so hard for changes in the contest?

Freddie is cute

If Malta sent The Code, or Tattoo, they will still come last. Its Geography and Politics.

11:36: a huge gap between Greece and Switzerland. Imo it would be preferable to range the votes not in line order, but in groups.

Joost would have been a great televote contender in the final❤

Despite Jury boosting Switzerland, I think in the TV vote in finals, Netherlands might take enough votes, to change the winner of Eurovision, which probably would be Croatia.

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The jury gave Netherlands 58 points on the semi video they judged instead of his live performance in the jury rehearsal. I heard it on Maxxy. But the public would have been over 100.

Crazy semifinal.😅

You can't stop doing backstage content when the fans are always eager and almost harassing the EBU for not posting everything the second it happened though. But I get the point.

Alexander Rybak 2018 won his semi but were only 15th in the GF.

How is no one talking about that Nemo got bit less televote because if his styling and makeup? We all said that since we saw the rehearsals, everyone said they dont like the outfit and now people act as if he didnt get the points cause of his song or performance.

Zero televote points doesn't mean least popular. Olly Alexander came 11th or 13th in some countries,but only the first ten positions get points.

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Malta did not deserve last omg😭

The Netherlands got 3 12 points those 3 countries then give 12 points to Israel, Israel got 10 12 points Switzerland got 1 12 points Armenia got 1 12 points as well I think Greece did as well. I think Armenia 12 points came from Israel. I personally would take out Latvia over Malta . It makes me laugh people can't believe Israel did well make me laugh soo much 🤣 😆 😂 😄 😅

I know a lot of fans are upset that Malta didn’t qualify because Sarah did an amazing performance. I agree on her performance, but don’t forget that before rehearsals, most fans had Malta out because of the song. So Malta didn’t qualify because the other songs were just much better. It’s a SONG contest and even though the staging is important, the song is still essential. Malta needs to start sending better songs and then they will qualify.

Where are you filming these episodes? Looks like you're a danger to the people around you, blocking a Fire Exit. ;) Then again it also looks like a cupbord...

I believe that if the Netherlands had taken part, it would have been even easier for Switzerland to win. A lot of the televotes from Croatia would have gone to the Netherlands instead, because both of them are fun songs while Switzerland is a completely different vibe. And since Joost would have finished only mid-table with the juries, it would have weakened Croatia and given Joost a top 5 result maximum.

I disagree with "Israel wouldn't have been affected" as Armenia, Estonia, San Marino, Malta, Belgium, Greece and Austria all gave higher points to NL than to Israel. Surely Israel would have been denied quite a few points in the final if Netherlands was there too.

I gave all my points to Israel because I have a lot of Sympathy towards Eden. There was so much that went south for her, she was crying so much after her performance. It was so sad and she shouldn’t have been booed. Reminds me of the Tolmachevy Sisters, Polina, and Yulia

Justice for Joost

Belgium should have gone through. Epic song!!!

People like Israel and her people. Get over it 🙄

People were sympathetic to Eden given the treatment a 20 year old girl was receiving from many of the live audience. They are not necessarily sympathetic to Israel.

I would have preferred Czechia with Denmark, or Albania or Malta - instead of Austria and Norway. (Staying off the Israel topic).

I disagree here, the two massive televote threats Croatia ans Netherlands would have taken points from each other and not the ones from Switzerland....!

Norway!❤

.... let's be honest how can we compete with the jury?....whatever the audience decides, the jury has the last vote!....what can I say except that this competition is pointless if we ask the profession!....most of the audience has no musical education, but that's made for the audience, not for the jury!..if they want quality versus what the audience wants, they shouldn't have such an influence!.....it should be proportional, they must know that the majority of the audience is not musically educated!.....like physics competition - quantum physics or normal physics, or it doesn't matter!.....which direction?!?!...????...if it's for the audience, the common man has no idea, but he knows what he needs I like it!....if we're going to act professionally, why the audience's vote?!?!...what's the point?....guide us!... Feedback

Eden Golan ❤️❤️❤️

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I believe Malta had a great song, but the performance didn't meet expectations, so it wasn't surprising it didn't qualify. However, I was shocked that Czechia didn't qualify! Their performance was one of the best in SF2. I'm not a fan of betting odds sites influencing voters like that; it's unfair. Countries like Czechia, Albania, San Marino, Malta, Cyprus, Moldova, Iceland, Slovenia, etc., are consistently underrated and have little to no chance of winning Eurovision under the current system.

My heart breaks for joost. The top 10 placement that never was

Belgiums dozen microphones I found weird

Re Malta, her performance was gret, but I'm saying again.... We have seen and heard it too many times, I'm actually shocked Cyprus went through. They were all my bottom entries. Boring AF

Mustii (Belgium) non qualifying made me cry.

Joos Klein confessed of raising his hamd against a camera woman.... what is your problem always defending him. No matter how much you get filmed you do not damage gear and you do not insult stuff that is just doing their job. Meanwhile everyone is trashing on Eden Golan that literally did nothing wrong. It is not the contest that is messed up, but the hardcore fans.

Last year, Austria Australia came top 2 in the semi-final , but completely flop in the final. Running order really makes a huge difference

Can you please react to Loreen's performance during the final? I personally think that she could've won the third time with that stellar performance!

Unfortunately Metlers win is rigget

Only israel

Yes, Joost Klein could have won or end in the top 2. I'm pretty sure about that. I hope he will come back for revenge at the Eurovision 2025. He will win. People will support him for the injustice. It was such a minor incident. It was disproportional. He was harrassed. AVROTROS and Joost said to not film Joost. He revive his trauma of having discovered his mother death on the sofa. But the woman kept fliming him and was too close. He panicked and made a gesture.

So they removed the Netherlands to prevent Israël or Ukraine from winning and thus have an organizational headache ?

Come on, guys! Austria, Norway, and Czechia were all flawless, and everyone knows it. The only reason their scores were low is because Israel's voting communities, along with Armenia and Greek diaspora, heavily voted for these three countries, leading to an unfair result. Let's not try to invent mistakes with Austria, Norway, and Czechia.

Eurovision's future isn't bright at all imo😢

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im so happy for Armenia 🇦🇲 this is eurovision for me ❤️❤️❤️

I'm sad Malta didn't make it through to the final. I would put it through and replace with Armenia. I'm surprised Armenia went through. Snap is way better. It came bottom 5 or 6 but internationally it's a big hit and the artist Rosalind doing well. I'm sad about Denmark too. But I understand why it didn't go through. I prefer Denmark way more than Greece. I would put through Denmark over Greece. I don't like Armenia and Greece song. However I do understand both those countries have more things going on in their stage performance than Denmark. I think Malta is the most robbed.

If Beyonce was singing "hurricane" she would brake the internet. This song is insanly amazing, got great reactions from almost all youtubers. When such song meet angelic voice like Eden's voice, the magic happens. 6 millions jews in the world outside of Israel cannot bring 323 points, what indicates that the song touched in the heart of millions at home

Armenia was in 3rd place but was last announced that was stressful and breathtaking 😅😅😅❤🇦🇲

Israel 🇮🇱 ❤

If Netherlands was in final Israel would have got 10 12 point and would have put Israel below Ireland but Switzerland would have got even less point if the Netherlands was in. And Croatia would have won

Voting communities = people’s Facebook and whatsapp groups. It’s completely legal to encourage people to vote. Whether you talk to your friends verbally and encourage to vote or whether you list it online, it’s completely allowed and people who have a problem with it are simply haters. If the Israeli song and performance sucked, people would not be excited to support it, that’s simply how it is. If a song is bad the likelihood of people blindly supporting it just because of its national origin is very low.

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