Week 105: Eurovision Week 6! #3 - Sergey Lazarev - You Are The Only One 

"maybe it's just a camera turn because this doesn't make any sense" narrator: it was in fact not a camera turn

It's been like 8 years and I still really don't know how they managed to do this staging it was flawless

My number one of 2016. And the most beautiful visual performance in the history of Eurovision (for now) in my opinion.

One of my favorites!! The stairs to climb are actually behind the screen (it is very flexible, like a sheet) and he has to push the screen with his body to go up the steps behind the screen, so he REALLY needs to know where exactly every step is, from memory, to do this. If I remember correctly, he fell during a rehearsal, doing one of the jumps, but he did great the actual day of the show. He finished 3rd, but he won the public vote (so he was number one for the public)

the most incendiary, intriguing, artistic, fiery performance of all time. Lazarev ❤👍👍👍

One of my favorites through the years and I was so mad back then that it finished 3d Such a great performance

Guys, Eurovision 2024 is on its way. 35 songs have already been released. 7 weeks x 5 songs and you'll be ready for the grand final on May 11. :)

This has to be one of the best staging at Eurovision EVER!

With regards to your question about stage design, LED and lightning: the host broadcaster is responsible for the physical stage design and which lights are to be used and stuff. Each artist is from a different country and is supported by their own national broadcaster. Each national broadcaster is responsible for everything from their artist's performance: the host broadcaster will provide them with schematics (i.e. size of the LED wall and floor) so the national broadcaster can design whatever needs to be shown on the LED screens. They will tell the host broadcaster what to do with lightning. The national broadcaster even determines camera movements, fireworks and pyro technics stuff and the host broadcaster will make it happen. It depends on the national broadcaster's budget (they'll have to pay for fireworks and stuff but also man hours for the host broadcaster's light technicians, for example). Each artist can have props on stage. Between songs there are 1 minute postcards to introduce next artist. That's when the host broadcaster quickly changes everything on the set. ESC is like a military operation: planned for every single second.

Something else you need to keep in mind watching these performances is the beer, wine, whisky or vodka which by law we all have to consume in Europe from at least 30 minutes before the start of the show, local time. It can make all the difference. Our party got *very* excited by Sergei that year...

The winner in 2015 was Måns Zelmerlöw with the song "Heroes". His performance was new:ish for Eurovision (but not new in the world of music video and staging) and after winning it was inevitable that a fair number of performances would lean into the same type of music. I can really recommend having a look at Måns performance, then think back to this performance, and see the similarities.

The host have the LED screens available for anyone and program them differently for different entries. Also if your delegation brings props for your entry, you have to make it available to all other delegations. Sweden brought a wind machine one year that was very popular with other delegations.

The quality of the camera work (and the contest overall) varies a lot depending on who hosts it. This performance was in Eurovision in Stockholm 2016. The year before, it was in Vienna Austria, and the camera work was bad. In the winning performance (by Sweden), you can see the cameraman by accident several times. You see him running for his life with the camera. Kind of embarrassing but mostly just hilarious. The performance I'm talking about is "Heroes" by Måns Zelmerlöw, from the grand final 2015.

I LOVE your Eurovision reactions guys! You should definitely do a live reaction to this years contest please! I’d love to see you watching the entire thing for the first time!

The true winner

Haha, your faces! This was everyones face back in 2016! He brought choreography and vocals to a performance that was pulled off superbly! Russia really had some creative ideas with their performances. This one was inspired by the winner from the previous year....Swedens Måns Zelmerlöw with 'Heroes', but they took it beyond anything that Måns did. Unreal. In the rehearsals, i remember he fell off the back of the wall and was taken to hospital, but he was okay and delivered an amazing performance at the ESC finals. He was beaten to the punch by both Ukraines Jamala, and Australian Dami Im (who delivered one of the best vocals of any Eurovision performance!). If you havent reacted to Dami Im, please react to her performance....her vocals are stratospheric!

This is arguably the greatest Eurovision staging of all time, especially when considering execution. Just outstanding work from Sergey Lazarev, the consummate performer.

Omg i'm loving this week!! Can't wait to see numbers 2 and 1 😍. All these videos you are doing are what I like to call "proper Eurovision entries" ❤

This presentacion gives chills everytime, and the song is 🤯 You should react to more 2016, is one of the most amazing contest!

Hey Joe and Mike, Aunt Lorrie here, I love this video and you both too!

He was in eurovision 2019 to and that performance are just as good

If you are going to cointinue down the eurovision road here are some of my personal favourites: 1- fairytale by alexander rybak 2- fuego by eleni foureira 3- arcade by duncan 4- Saudade by maro 5- soldli by mahmood

I loved this ❤ soo much. He's amazing 👏 😍

Countries bring their own props and can mess with all the available functions of the stage

One of my favourite entrys from Eurovision 8 years ago 2016. 1st place from the public.

The Key Change ❤❤

That was an amazing performance ❤

We want TLC and Toni Braxton please!

I love your reaction to this one!! 😆♥💯

🤩😍❤️ best staging!

Thanks to SVT, the producer of the 2016 contest, all the camera work was completely automated.

❤💜 for you.

Cameras in eurovision are super important. If you want to see a good example of how just the camera angles play a huge role in the live performance watch the Swedish entry for Eurovision 2018, the song is called dance you off.

2016 was such a good year, you need to react to more songs from that edition

With the stage, you're right, it's set and that doesn't change but the acts can dress it how they see fit for the performance and pick what goes on the screens and what lights to use. In the last few years, stages have become a lot more adaptable with moving LED walls, so they can be configured differently for different acts or rotate to just have a wall of lights. Liverpool IMO probably made the most of the adaptability of the stage, resetting multiple times through the performances sometimes. Israel 2019 also made good use of this as well. I can't remember other years off the top of my head...

I'm sorry but we need Russia back in Eurovision

Here’s my list of suggestions for your next Eurovision week - the 1990s at Eurovision! Some context for the 90s at esc - all music was done by live orchestra and up until 1999 the representatives from each country had to sing in one of their official languages. I’ve put the English titles in brackets in my list. 1. Dinle (listen) - turkey 1997 - 3rd place 2. Ooh aah, just a little bit - uk 1996 - 8th place 3. Hajde da ludujemo (let’s go crazy) - Yugoslavia 1990 - 7th place 4. Vuelve conmigo (come back to me) - Spain 1995 - 2nd place 5. Mama Corsica - France 1993 - 4th place I hope you enjoy some of the oldies of Eurovision, 90s is one of my favourite decades of esc

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..

You definitely must watch a whole final and this year is probably as good as any. A lot of good music at least.

The real winner of Eurovision 2016!

This song was also part of the most politically charged final in the history of Eurovision!!! Thunder and lightning!! This was the year after the Russian invasion of Chrimea and Ukraine send a song about the Russian invasion of Chrimea, but the one that happened in 1944. (Song was called 1944) It ended up being Russia and Ukraine in the top two and because of new voting rules it was impossible to know who had won until the very final score was revealed. Ukrain ended up beating Russia and the intesity of that moment was unmatched anywhere! This is why i LOOOOVE Eurovision so much. Its so silly so fun and so political at the same time! One of these days it will bring world peace, mark my words. 🎉🥳🩷🩵💫🤩😂

Considered the GREATEST Eurovision performance of all time!

TLC week please‼️ (1) No Scrubs (2) Waterfalls (3) Creep (4) Unpretty (5) Red Light Special

2016 was legendary. Legendary stage, legendary performances, legendary hosting by Måns and Petra. You should definitely check out "Love Love Peace Peace" and the other interval performances. Not to mention the winning performance "1944" by Jamala.

You guys should be invited to Eurovison i Malmö Sweden in may this year. So we can react to your live Eurovision experience afterwards 🤩

I think he was a coach on The Voice of Russia, lol but seriously this was epic

The producing TV-company builds a stage and have experts who in collaboration with each competing entry designs a stage show. You can bring your own stuff but there are limits. For example you have only allowed to hang a limited weight from the ceiling. And all countries aren't as skilled in the art of producing and filming and ESC show. This it is in Sweden, so it is going to be good! The stage is a bit different than it is usally so it's gonna be interesting. But I trust SVTs skills!

Jeff Buckley please 🙏 1.Grace 2.Lover, You Should've Come Over 3.Hallelujah 4.So Real 5.Last goodbye

Fokas Evaggelinos is one of the best scenic artists. He was the person in charge for the Russia's scenery that year and many countries trust him for the Eurovision performances. This year he is in charge of his hometown entry, Greece.

Any other year this performance would have won by a landslide, and it nearly did in some areas, if not for 2 factors: 1. People were FURIOUS with Russia for invading Crimea, and the Ukrainian entrant sending a song about past Russian atrocities drew a lot of sympathy (and votes away from Sergey) 2. Dami Im of Australia showing up with possibly one of the most flawless vocal performances the competition has ever seen. She came 2nd, bumping this song down to 3rd.

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

Ah, 2016. Also known as one of the best ESC years. Sweden is always fenomenal as a host nation. Btw, Justin Timberlake was the interval act that year😊

The thru wimmer of the year

You've still got it in your heads that there's weeks of rounds before the final. That's not the case. There's one round of semi finals, which are held the same week in the same venue, and the performances do not change between the semis and the final.

Eurovision 2021 has some awesome behind the scene videos on YT. You can see the stage being built, changing the staging between the countries and the creating of the augumented reality.

Make a Grand Final 2024 stream with live reaction! You gonna love the whole show!

You will definitely enjoy this too. One of the most elaborate performances in Eurovision: Kate Miller-Heidke - Zero Gravity - Australia 🇦🇺 - Grand Final - Eurovision 2019://ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Eo5H62mCIsg.html

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In rehearsal for this, he actually fell off the tilted screen and hurt his leg.

This is cheesier than cheddar

Please view these great ESC performances- I haven’t found them on your page yet, they are worth the time :) 1. Australia: Zero Gravity (Kate Miller) see the Grand final 2. Moldova: Run away (Sunstroke Project) 3. Moldova: Soarele si luna (Pasha Parfeni)

this year's best song is hurricane representing Israel

Mates, I've created a playlist of Australia's Top 5 Eurovision performances: ru-vid.com/group/PL150w6WMSHX-w98QF8naFSB6_UzWL5vG8&si=VGz4FD4uubdgQrr6 5. Sheldon Riley (2022 - 15th) 4. KMH (2019 - 9th) 3. Guy Sebastian (2015 - 5th) 2. Dami Im (2016 - 2nd) 1. Electric Fields (2019 National Final) Electric Fields have been internally selected to represent Aus at Eurovision this year, so lets get hype for them! They came second to KMH at our 2019 National Final.

Guys, you have to react to Eurovision 2024

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He fell down during the rehearsals from the wall.

This is inspired by the previous year's winner Heroes by Måns Zelmerlöw which used Video walls interactively successfully. The problem for this song was that Russian aggression against Ukraine and its occupation of the Crimea two years earlier left bad feelings towards Russia and sympathy for Ukraine who won this competition.

The video and the song Greeks made it

OMG this song is soooo cheesy. Never got the hype. Guess it ended up in 3rd place, because of the visuals and I bet this is why this song got suggested to you (because you like video clips and this is completely like a video performed live). Sergej came back some years later and also finished in 3rd place, but with a much better song, IMHO.

This was huge at that time but I think Australia 2019 remains as the most incredible stating to this day.

he imitated måns zelmerlöw, who won the year before this.

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Honestly wish Putin would sod off now because Russia brought some fantastic acts to Eurovision.

I think Sergey Lazarev - Scream perform is better than this

YES YESSSSSSS THE KING WITHOUT CROWN 🔥🔥🔥🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶

Please. React to to SLOMO - Chanel from Eurovision 2022

The song is fairly trashy and cheesy, but the staging is obviously very impressive and he has an excellent technical voice.

mans zelmerlow - heroes :)

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THIS SHOULD BE THE WINNER... NOT UKRAINE BECAUSE OF THE FOOKING POLITICS!!!

Please Türkiye and Azerbaycan reaction video put them together in a video 2009 Azerbaycan and Türkiye 2010 Türkiye 2013 Azerbaycan 🇹🇷🇦🇿

Even though I don't want Russia back in ESC until they respect Ukraine (the whole of Ukraine) as a sovereign nation and while they still have Putin and his likes in power, when I see some of their past entries I kinda miss the vibe they had some years. Like Sergei Lazarev was really good and always so over the top dramatic in a good way!

Don’t do reactions of Russia, there r not in contests anymore!

hahaha im the best!! im Russian!! europian steryotype#

Eurovision was one those arenas we hoped we could be a bridge to russia, but the war in Ukraine has ensured that they'll be out of Eurovision for a long time. At least as long as putin is the emperor of russia.

all this is cool, but after many years I don’t understand how a show overloaded with special effects is connected with the meaning of the song? Why these wings, why these squatting figures and raised arms? It seems that Sergey Lazarev wanted, in addition to a very good song, to attract attention and voices with a separate production. But there is no connection between them and it was a fatal mistake, it seems to me

Unfortunately one of those entries, that paved the way to impress the audience mainly by an overwhelming staging instead of an overwhelming song. I mostly felt uncomfortable watching him, especially when he was climbing through this kind of obstacle course in a rather strained manner. And all these visuals didn’t elevate his song for me, I just found it dull and cheesy.

Fun fact : they hired a greek team to compose , do the staging and choreo . The only thing Russian in it is him and one the song co writer (.

I fail to see the appeal of this entry; it seems rather average to me.

Jamala 1944

Russia 2016: one of the best third places in the history of the Contest. In any other year, he probably would have won by a country mile.

Ik it's not about politics but this dude is Z and pro-war

It's pretty sad when Russia sends a really good song ... but they literally cannot win because they're russia and ultimately no one wants eurovision to take place there xD

Unfortunately he is from country404🤮

With the retrospective of today I think Russia should have won that year. Ukraine just won undeservedly for political reasons 😷

Don’t like 🤮🤢

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