Week 105: Eurovision Week 6! #1 - Eleni Foureira - Fuego 

This song was a turning point in Eurovision history. This song closed a chapter and started an era. Before this song, dancing divas were always undervalued by juries regardless of how popular they were with public. This song and this performance proved a concept how to do dancing diva staging. And followed my many successful interpretations of it like Chanel and Noa Kirel. Ps video effects are allowed. You already watched many performances with video effects and pre recorded videos within performances.

Eleni brought something to Eurovision that had been forgotten for so many years. Something about a diva that can ACTUALLY sing and dance at the same time and doing it on her level, with that confidence and this amount of choreography. She really kicked down the door for all the women that came after her and we‘ll forever be grateful for that.

And this performance invented the word Hairography ❤

A person from Cyprus is called a Cypriot 😊

the real winner of 2018

What makes this impressive is that the vocals were completely live. Pre-recorded backing vocals were introduced in 2021, which I'm still ambivalent about.

Eurovision Best of 2019 1. Netherlands - Arcade 2. Italy - Soldi 3. Norway - Spirit in the sky 4. Iceland - Hatrið mun sigra 5. Australia - Zero Gravity

Eleni is actually Albanian, raised in Greece and represented Cyprus. She tried 3 times to represent Greece but the broadcaster didn't want her. In Cyprus they also speak Greek with their own dialect. There are a lot of similarities between Greece and Cyprus cultural wise but also some differences.

The host country in 2018 was Portugal. They were aiming to lower costs of running the event so they opted to not have any LED screens on the stage, just lighting. So some countries utilised on screen graphics to varying degrees of success, Cyprus was probably one of the better ones

This was the song that turned around Cyprus's fortunes at Eurovision, and Eleni was the performer who started the raft of girl bop clones in the coming years after 'Fuego' dropped! But this one will always be the one for me that blew me away the most. Everyone literally slept on this, right up until that first semifinal performance....then she shot up the odds and everyone went crazy! If you get a chance to, please react to: *Hatari - "Hatrid Mun Sigra" (Industrial Punk Techno Rock) *Dami Im - "Sound Of Silence" (Emotional pop) *Keiino - "Spirit In The Sky" (Cultural Pop) *Voyager - "Promise" (Rock) And for something WACKO: *Ping Pong - *Be Happy" 🤣🤣🤣

Some of my favorite songs from Eurovision and the ones I think they're great to react to: 1. Arcade - Duncan Lawrence 2. Discoteque - The Roop 3. Hatrid mun sigra - Hatari 4. Heroes - Mans Zelmerlöw 5. Grande Amore - il volo

That year made us friends with the world of Eleni. She is the real Eupopean Fuego. Hope you'll make a reaction series to her talent on Greek and Cypriot stages as well as all around Europe.

Hey guys, amazing reactions as always!!! We already have all 37 songs for eurovision 2024, and i cant wait for you to react to them. And btw a person from Cyprus is called a cypriot.

Unironically your map section was very entertaining and I would watch more of it lol. You should react to more music from different countries!

The real winner of 2018

The song & performance ate literally Eurovision gold, she should have won

That song was 28th on the odds before the live shows and after the first rehearsal Cyprus became the hot favourite to win the contest.

I am so happy with this amazing Eurovision week, and having the queen Eleni as the cherry of the cake. One of my all time favorite entries and just today, March 15th my birthday. Thank you guys for this present. Love you!

True winner of 2018❤

So people from Cyprus are called Cypriots. We speak Greek and as you correctly noticed we use the Greek alphabet. We are basically Greeks but we are an autonomous, sovereign country island with its own flag etc. However, we share the same culture, cuisine, religion, traditions, and national anthem. A fun fact is that throughout the history of Eurovision, Greece and Cyprus exchanged 12 points, and this created a lot of controversy in the Eurovision fandom lol. But that is simply because we listen to the same artists (the majority of whom are Greek artists as Cyprus has only 1.2 million people so the music scene here is tiny) so we obviously feel more connected to each other's songs. Love your videos guys, can believe another Eurovision week is over. Can't wait for your reaction to this year's songs!!!

Love your Eurovision content! Would love to see you guys react to 2019. In no order: Duncan Lawrence- Arcade Mahmood - Soldi Hatari - Hatrid mun Sigra Keiino - Spirit in the sky Kate Miller Heidki - Zero gravity To be fair I just really want to see y’all react to Hatari tho

Oldest wine on the world is from Cyprus!

Yes to a geography stream, actually! You could play one of those games where you have to guess the countries in a map of europe.

Hairography on point, girl bop origin story

You could also do a week with songs from this year's eurovision (2024) The songs are all out now, but the show will be in may, so now is the perfect time to watch the videos and choose your favorites before the show.

it almost feels criminal to make you guys react to fuego AFTER slo mo. like, feugo walked so slo mo could run and it feels like we set you up for disappointment.

Cyprus is the 3rd biggest island in the Mediterranean

Fun fact about Cyprus; It was such an important exported of copper in antiquity that eventually the metal took the name of the island. From the Roman "aes cyprium" (metal of Cyprus) >cuprum >copper.

yeah yeah fire 😉

Please do an Eurovision commentary 2024! Semis are may 7th and 9th. Final is may 11th

I really want that that geography stream now to happen

LEGEND

We speak greek... occupied the half island by Turkey since 1974.. it is “Cypriot”... Cyprus has many conquers (England, Latins, Francs, Byzantine empire, Arabians Ottomans) in history because of geographical position is in the middle of three continents Europe,Africa and Asia... we are a part of European Union since 2005 if I remember well... the currency is Euro since 2008. Before was the pounds... before the independence of Cyprus we are conquered by England... but now the half island as i told you on the begin is occupied by Turkey.... until today its geographical position is very important...

Yes to the geography stream! ❤

If you are going to cointinue down the eurovision road here are some of my personal favourites that you still haven't reacted to: 1- fairytale by alexander rybak 2- arcade by duncan laurence 3- heroes by måns zelmerlöw 4- Saudade saudade by maro 5- soldli by mahmood

6:30 this was the year that a lot of countries used video effects overlayed on top of the live feed.Most of them looking sad. like at 4:24 as well. Unfortunately the audience in the stadium don't see it, but as I'm saying Eurovision is a TV event that happens to have a live audience, not a concert.

This was so goooood 2018🤩

In terms of Eurovision, Cyprus is best known for almost always giving their 12 points to Greece. (It's called bloc voting.)

yeah yeah fire

my winner 2018🥹

Eurovision is made to be enjoyed from home, therefore some effects are not visible for the audience

One of the greatest performers of Greece, a real superstar! (If you ever watch Greece's Geography Now video you'll see Greece and Cyprus are basically almost kinda one and the same). As for this performance, there is a video of what was happening in the Green Rooms while Eleni was on stage. Safe to say ALL the contestants were dancing and singing their asses out. In my opinion, one of the best performances of Eurovision ever

OMG, 2018 was such a good year in Eurovision! This came 2nd. Why not reacting to some more out of the top 5-10 from 2018? You already did Netta "Toy" (1st) and Elina Nechayeva "La Forza" (8th). You could also do: 4th - Michael Schulte - "You Let Me Walk Alone" (Germany) - super emotional/ tear jerking performance 6th - Mikolas Josef - "Lie To Me" (Czechia) - just a legend 7th - Benjamin Ingrosso - "Dance You Off" (Sweden) - for the cringe factor 9th - Rasmussen - "Higher Ground" (Denmark) - Vikings! 10th - DoReDos - "My Lucky Day" (Moldova) - it's amazing what this country always brings to the stage, even without big budgets.

Swedish production , song swedish , choreography and background dancers to. Only Eleni is a Greek preformer born in Albania.So Cyprus it is! There is a clip , where all the other artists dance to Fuego in green room!

Yes pls do the Europe geography stream!! And be sure to go to Antwerp, Belgium ;)

Eleni is probably the biggest Greek pop star rn She is Albanians but raised in Greece

Next esc week: 1)Iceland 2019- Hatari with hatri mun sigra 2) Moldova 2017 3) Greece 2006 4) Ukraine 2004 5) Azerbajan 2009 Some of the best or my favs everr

This perfomance is from the Eurovision in Portugal. Portugal, it's not rich and so it saved a lot of money adding video effects live to most of the performances. Also Eurovision as always been more of a TV show, than a live show, even without the video effect.

The map part was very fun. I would love to see more of it

This was an incredible performance!

Halummi is a Cypriot cheese

It is indeed a video effect, as was a smoke effect earlier, but they are allowed (though used quite sparingly in general). Eurovision is above all an audiovisual product, and while it seems to be immensely fun to attend live, performances are primarily designed for viewing via a television screen, so she shouldn't really be chastised for using them per se.

i can especially recommend Equinox Bones from Bulgaria

Im from Cyprus Ayia Napa ❤️

I just had a peek at your ko-fi page and the most recent Eurovision request has two really cool performances. One of them is my all-time favorite called zero gravity. Definitely make sure you watch the grand final performance with this one. I hope to see you guys reacting to that requesters list soon.

YESSSS

PLEASE include Australia 2019 on your next Eurovision week! PRETTY PLEASE

the audience in the arena can see whats being showed on TV (like the video effects) on screens that are displayed around the stadium 😊

La Diva Foureira🔥

❤💜 for you.🎉

My winner ❤❤

I keep still hearing this song in random places (bars, malls, radio etc) time to time. That's how you know it's a real Eurovision hit.

Hi guys, would love to see your reaction to some of the favourites from this year's Eurovision. 5. Greece - Marina Satti - Zari 4. Netherlands - Joost Klein - Europapa 3. Switzerland - Nemo - The Code 2. Italy - Angelina Mango - La Noia 1. Croatia - Baby Lasagna- Rim Tim Tagi Dim

I was in the audience in 2018 when this performance happened, unfortunately the flames in the bridge were not on stage and are video effects. When the real flames appeared they nearly burnt my eyebrows off 🤣🤣👍🏼

It’s a tv show guys. The judges must go by that people see on tv. I was in the audience and you couldn’t see. But instead we get to watch the camera guys, the mounting of stages etc… and there are also big screens so you can see how it looks.

Eleniiiiiiii the real winner 🏆 🇨🇾🇬🇷🏳️‍🌈

Come to Crete guys!! 😀

lets go eurovision 2024

"Are they allowed to use video effects?" my man has never seen a Poland performance before. They LOVE their Windows Moviemaker effects and use them to the fullest.

You became Eurovision expert so fast guys ! You reacted almost every popular songs on Eurovision :) Now it’s time to watch live Eurovision 2024 in May and share thoughts about all night & songs with us :)

"RAYE" WEEK 1. Oscar Winning Tears (Live at the Royal Albert Hall) 2. Escapism (music video) 3. Hard Out Here (music video) 4. Black Mascara (music video) 5. Ice Cream Man (music video)

Yes we are Cypriots, you are correct! We share same history, language and tradition with Greece but we are an individual country.

Boysss it’s Eurovision 2024 timee!

The fire effect was from the screen wall behind the singer

"Fuego" has Swedish song-writers, Swedish choreographer and stage director, Swedish backup singers, and Swedish dancers.

Cyprus is known for Anna Vissi, sometimes referred to as the "Greek Madonna"

Eurovision goes performance art #5 Sébastien Tellier - Divine (France 2008) 18th #4 Luke Black - Samo Mi Se Spava (Serbia 2023) 24th #3 Let3 - Mama ŠČ! (Croatia 2023) 13th #2 Hatari - Hatrid mun sigra (Iceland 2019) 10th #1 Kate Miller-Heidke - Zero Gravity (Australia 2019) 9th These are epic and you need to see these

Guys watch pls Inga & Anush Jan Jan Eurovision 2009 4K . One of the best performances and arena is so good

Sad that another Eurovision week is over - already looking forward to the next one! And here it is - playlist all ready, just for you guys 😊 ru-vid.com/group/PLV5PVJP106wiPejKhUxcviVqCB_q43Rwg&si=ZK-8dQ506foQZLke

Great Job on Weekly Top 5! Can I be cheeky and suggest some Simple Minds for some future Top 5 treatment!?🤔😁 - 1-Don't You forget about me 2-Alive and Kicking 3-All the things She Said 4-Glittering Prize 5-Waterfront Keep up the fantastic work!

Deep Dive Town - Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland :) Straddles the Irish border. And for the next Eurovision week I won't provide a list because there are sooooo many but I think you do need to see Iceland 2019 as others have posted. And why not, before Eurovision 2024, look at some of this year's entries? 5 for you (this for me is one of the strongest years ever so will try to go diverse in genres but will stick to songs we have already available live): 1. Bambie Thug - Ireland 2. Silvester Belt - Lithuania 3. Joost Klein - Netherlands (there's a live version just released) but I'll give a back-up sixth option as this hasn't been performed in a final and selected that way. 4. 5Miinust & Puulup - Estonia 5. Baby Lasagne - Croatia 6. Windows 95 Man - Finland There are so many other great options on stage that won national finals - it's less than 2 months away guys! Others - Italy - Angelina Mango, Spain - Nebulossa, San Marino - Megara, Ukraine - Jerry Heil + Alyona Alyona, Serbia - Teya Dora, Norway - Gate (one of my personal favs), Denmark - Saba, Germany - Isaak, Portugal - Iolanda, Latvia - Dons, Sweden - Marcus and Martinus. There are others but I think those probably represent the broad range. And there are amazing songs that we don't have live performances of yet, but have great music videos such as Switzerland, Belgium, Greece, Armenia, Cyprus (not as good as Eleni but similar :D ), Georgia, UK, Poland, Australia (didgeridooooo!), Slovenia, Austria....agh, so many.

Eurovision Song Contest is a tv show so video effects are allowed guys! Its not the first time that is used! And yes, the audience could see it but on the screens! 😊 Cyprus 🇨🇾 is a small island in the Mediterranean sea very close to Greece, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Egypt. Yes, we are called Cypriots! 😊 There is a mixture of civilization in the island, I can confirm that! The official languages here is Greek and Turkish! We are in the European Union! Thank you Weekly Top 5 for commenting! 😊 ❤ If you ever come to Cyprus you will find a lot of things to do and visit! From ancient places to modern life and good food!

Oh yeah her and Netta were my favorite please do a Mamamoo week🙏🙏

Ok guys, so I think it’s time for you to discover the great Dimash! Here’s my top 5 for you: 5. SOS 4. Across endless dimensions OST 3. Stranger 2. The story of one sky 3. When I’ve got you Dimash is the best vocalist in the world right now, I promise you’ve never seen anyone like him before. Besides he has a huge army of fans across the world and you will gain a lot of new subs really fast. Love from Ukraine 👋

Bro, y'all gotta get more legends on the channel frfr. I have a few in mind but for right now, you definitely should give the Queen of Hip Hop & Soul, Mary J. Blige her flowers. So I have some songs/videos you should check out in particular. All That I Can Say, Deep Inside, No More Drama, Enough Cryin, Take Me As I Am, The One, We Got Hood Love, Someone To Love Me, Mr Wrong, Right Now, Whole Damn Year, Come See About Me. All dope frfr..

🔥❤️😍🤩

she opened Eurovision 2024 (semi-final 1)

Y'all need to react to Iceland's entry in eurovision 2018 (or 19 can't exactly remember the date) hatari - hatrio mun sigra. You won't be dissapointed its one of my favs

Eurovision 2009 and 2010 please 🔥❤️

You must react to the Eurovision Flag Parade 2023!!! Is pretty good!!!

So lemme give you some break and introduce you to Junior Eurovision. A contest introduced to give some more spotlight to the youngest singers and child-targeted genres and music. Like original Eurovision it started quirky and kinda amateur, but thesw days it's really competing in quality with adult competition (I blame Poland tbh, for going to hard at one point). Some additional information - Junior ESC allows for kids between like 9-14. And there have been winners and performers form JESC who later on competed in adult contest (people probably will recommend them at some point). Also before introduction of JESC rules for ESC didn't fully specify the ages. Making it possible for Sandra Kim at age 13 (which she actually lied to the producers that she was 15 to be allowed). There will never be a younger winner, due to modern rules that push younger kids for the junior competition. So my recommendations - you probably could go by year like you did with ESC (Eurovision site has lists of all contestants and their placements btw. for both competitions). But I would also give you a nice group of five winners that in my opinion are worth checking for multiple factors (you could check last five ones, but competition really has been dominated by France and Poland lately, lol). 1. "Cœur" - Zoé Clauzure (2023/last winner). 2. "Superhero" - Viki Gabor (2019 winner). 3. "Not My Soul" - Destiny Chukunyere (2015 winner). 4. "Bzz.." - Bzikebi (2008 winner). 5. "Ti si moja prva ljubav" - Dino Jelusić (2003/first winner). There are obviously also a lot of other really good songs, like "Antes muerta que sencilla" from 2004. "Nebo" from 2012. "Tu primo grande amore" from 2014. "Anyone I Want to Be" from 2018 or "Qami Qami" from 2021. And if you ever decide to check full competitions at some point - just to get a vibe. From Junior Eurovision, 2020 is definitely the year to check out. It was one of the best events in the whole franchise and actually the only Eurovision event in 2020, because adult one has cancelled for safety reasons (junior is usually few months after so there was more ways to secure event). Whole thing was made inside studio in Warsaw, but also in half of the other competing countries, that didn't decide to travel to Poland (as everyone was allowed to film in their own places, for safety of the kids). Each country was given strict stage rules to make it all fair for everyone, but it also allowed for a lot of freedom never seen before - especially when it comes to stage graphics/CGI. It was especially fun to watch, because Poland won in 2018 and 2019, and both wins were first time Poland ever won in the whole franchise. Which made them go all out for their final hosting opportunity. With both Polish winners slaying a performance with 2019's adult winner - Duncan Laurence. Some additional cool stuff about Junior Eurovision - they kept the old rule from main contest of songs having to be at least 50% in the native languages. Probably for fairness reasons (not everyone can speak English at that age) and for some cultural heritage recognition. This lead to rare languages to be used. Like Irish Gaelic (the Irish broadcaster uses that language so they go with it instead of Irish English). Suprisingly - Dutch (Netherlands rarely use it in adult ESC). Welsh (before UK as whole decided to come back) and Kazakh - as Kazakhstan was allowed to compete, which they did between 2018-2022).

Nationality-wise Cypriots are Greek. It's similar to let's say Austria and Germany, same culture, language, same people, but had to become 2 different countries, though many times they tried to unite.

Little Mix week please!! 🙏🙏🙏 (5) "Heartbreak Anthem" (with Galantis and David Guetta) (4) "Sweet Melody" (3) "Power" (featuring Stormzy) (2) "Touch" (1) "Confetti" (featuring Saweetie)

Cyprus is known for giving all their 12 poins to Greece in Eurovision every year

I think you would like this list: 5. 2009 Armenia 4. 2016 Ukraine 3. 2015 Belgium 2. 2021 Azerbaijan 1. 2019 Norway

Avicii week 1 This young swedish artist has some iconic songs and some inspiring music videos. I bet that all of us all have some great memories connected to his music during the 2010-2020. I have listed my favorite ones. The number 1 in the list (wake me up) is from his contribute concert from after he died, I thought it would be appropriate to put it last (#1) in my list for you to react to. #5 Avicii The nights #4 Avicii - Waiting for love #3 Avicii - Hey brother #2 Avicii - Without you (Part 4) ft. Sandro Cavazza #1 Avicii Trubute Concert - Wake me up (Live Vocals by Aloe Blacc)

Since you(and we)cannot get enough of Eurovision, here are some suggestions for another week! #5 Blanche - City Lights #4 Zdob si Zdub - So Lucky #3 Måns Zelmerlöw - Heroes #2 Tusse - Voices #1 Sunstroke Projects & Olia Tira - Run Away

PLease do this year's Dutch entry :3

The arena was sooooo hot with all that fire 😅 In the Ukrainian performance (Melovin) as well...

Haha it's not cheating, check out Heroes by Manz 🎉that was amazing to watch , all projections