Week 96: Eurovision Week 5! Bizarre Performances #2 - Netta - Toy 

She got so much hate from haters... and she still does. She's such a good performed and her voice is amazing.

It was very exciting the battle for first place between Toy and Fuego

My favourite thing about this song winning is watching the previous year's winner present her the trophy at the end of the show. He had very publicly slagged off Netta and her song as not being 'real music' and encapsulating everything wrong with modern pop music. The look on his face when Netta won and he had to personally hand her the trophy. Chef's kiss.

That guy in the chicken 🐔 costume kills me every time 😂

One of my favorite winners, it's such a banger and showcases such incredible vocal prowess in ways not normally seen. Slept on winner, definitely not just a gimmick.

An absolute classic Eurovision banger

Netta is amazing 😍👑

The Staging design reflest the rings on the Armillary Sphere, one of the centarl features on the arms in the flag of Portugal, the host nation. The entire theme of that year reflected Lisbon/Portugal's legendary Nautical hisotry: theme that year was "All Aboard!"

You have to be a EBU (European Broadcasting Union) member to participate. Australia and Israel are, which is why they can compete despite not being European countries. Some countries opt out every now and then, usually for financial reasons. The countries that participate are split into two semifinals. The top ten from each semifinal move on to the final, which has 26 entries. Apart from the 20 countries that qualify through the semifinals there is the host country (typically last year’s winner) plus the ”big five”, ie Germany, France, Italy, Spain and the UK, that contribute the most money to the EBU and automatically qualify for the final.

He's right it was a tough fight and that note was crucial / coach me!!

Destiny’s Child week 2 please!!! 1. Independent Women 2. Soldier 3. Jumpin’ Jumpin’ 4. Bills, Bills, Bills 5. Girl

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 laurence 4- la forza by elina nechayeva 5- soldli by mahmood

Different kind of recommendation - do opening/interval acts week. They are not all available as a separate video on RU-vid, so I tried to find ones that do: #5 - Eurovision 2013 Intro. Loreen and kids - Euphoria. #4 - Eurovision 2020 - opening of the show Europe shine a light, and right after it - Buildings in the spotlight. I know it's not one video, but they really should go together and they're not long. #3 - Eurovision 2019 switch song #2 - Eurovision 1994 Riverdance #1 - Eurovision 2016 Love love peace peace

One of my favourite winners ever, in my top5 absolutely. Hugs from Sweden. ❤

I think the most beautiful music videos are: 1 The Common Linnets "Calm After the Storm" (The Netherlands 2014) - mesmerizing dark atmosphere 2 Teya and Salena "Who the Hell Is Edgar?" (Austria 2023) - the most funny eurovision music video probably 3 Vesna "My Sister's Crown" (Czech Repiblic 2023) - the most cinematic clip with original concept 4 Sennek "A Matter of Time" (Belgium 2018) - music video in the style of old classic films 5 Greta Salóme & Jónsi - Never Forget (Iceland 2012) - beautiful natural nordic views

Man I love watching your Eurovision reactions! Some of the best!

This Eurovision Mega Church was in Lisbon. Pavilhão Atlântico hosted Eurovision 2018. Portugal won the previous year so it was the host for 2018.

Noo don't do music videos, it ain't worth it. The live shows are where the fun's at!

Here's my list of five modern Eurovision music videos. It's not a ranking, I was trying to ensure a nice, varied flow. Enjoy! 5. Eduard Romanyuta: "I Want Your Love" (Moldova 2015) 4. Blanche: "City Lights" (Belgium 2017; my favourite ESC song of all time) 3. Teya & Salena: "Who the Hell is Edgar?" (Austria 2023) 2. Mahmood: "Soldi" (Italy 2019) 1. Daði og Gagnamagnið: "Think About Things" (Iceland 2020; the ð is pronounced like a "th")

There’s a RU-vid video as a guide to Eurovision, that will explain a lot, but essentially, apart form the ‘big 5’ who automatically qualify for the grand final, everyone else goes through one of the semi finals. The big 5 qualify as they pay for most of the annual show and as such have always qualified since semis came in.

The 'power growl' almost certainly elevated this to the winner's spot. Its what's known as the 'Jury Note' (or Jury Bait) because its the kind of thing that gets a song noticed by the juries, which are responsihle for half of the total score (public vote is the other half).

HOW EUROVISION WORKS IN PRACTICE, ROUGHLY Please note, this is the _current_ format. Notable changes to the format have happened in 2023, 2021 (backing vocals), 2016 (current point reveal), 2000s (Big 5, semis), 1997 (televote)... I think the official max number of countries that can take part is 45, but for the last two years it's been about 37. Basically, each eligible country (if their broadcasting company is a member of the European Broadcasting Union aka EBU, not all broadcasters can be members, I think there's requirements about providing both news and entertainment - only exception so far is Australia, who's like an associated country and can take part thanks to a special contract with EBU, but they still gotta pay etc) decides individually if they want to take part/if they have the money to take part. Then each country/broadcaster chooses their performer and the song. Song cannot have been performed or released _anywhere_ before September preceding the Eurovision it's taking part in. So songs in 2024 Eurovision must come out in/after September 2023. Sometimes the broadcaster just chooses someone, most countries hold their own show to choose who goes. Sometimes a jury chooses, sometimes the public chooses, most times it's a combination of both. These take part generally January to March, although some countries choose earlier, and the latest is like super early April. Song is max 3 minutes long, max number of performers on stage is 6, music must nowadays be prerecorded, backing vocals were live until Covid, main vocalist must sing live, no live animals on stage. The minimum age of the performer is 16. Eurovision is held in the first full week of May, generally in the country that won the previous year (unless there's a good reason not to do so; Ukraine won in 2022 but for obvious reasons they couldn't host in 2023, so the runner up UK stepped in - also, Ireland won so many times in the 1990s that they asked someone else to host instead, UK stepped up back then too). So 2024 is in Malmö, Sweden. There's two semi-finals (Tuesday, Thursday) and the Grand Final (Saturday). Semis are like three hours, and the final is like four. 6 countries qualify automatically to the Grand Final; the host country (so in 2024, Sweden), and the 5 biggest financial contributors; UK, France, Spain, Germany, and Italy. The rest of the countries are split between the two semifinals, and ten countries from each, will make it to the final. Semis usually have 16-18 acts, Grand Final has 26 (25 if on of the biggest financial contributors won, like in 2022 after Italy won in 2021). Since 2023, the acts qualifying from the semis are determined by televote/public vote only. You cannot vote for your own country - unless you have a phone registered to a different country. In the Grand Final the winner is determined by a 50/50 split of a professional jury vote and a public televote. Juries have 5 people, music producers, artists, radio DJs etc - however there's been talk for years that juries need to be bigger to diversify so we'll see if they keep the 5 person juries. Especially as there has been corruption and point fixing scandals between the juries of different countries in the past. Jury awards points 1-8, 10 and 12 to their ten favourite acts based on a jury show, that was like the final rehearsal earlier that same day before the broadcast, and a spokesperson announces the points on live television (this results in so much drama, the betrayals when a country you have good relations with doesn't give you points is absolutely devastating on social media, so many memes) - this time is used to count up the televotes, which are then revealed from top to bottom in whatever order the jury votes has left the board in. The country that received least point from the jury get televote points first and so on. This keeps the excitement up really well.

this song is hilarious imo, also as a drummer it's very fun to play too, there's a lot of space for weird fills and build up stuff

If you do a music videos week make sure you choose a list with Think About Things from Iceland. It is an essential watch

Amazing 😍

Yes yes yes, that was good. Yes, that was a fairly good sing, a bit predictable, but the catchiest of the year iirc, from the get-go, as soon as it was released we knew we were looking at a potential winner. Yes, it was a stonking performance, helped by the fact that all the build-up was about the first few seconds and Netta's 'live-recorded' vocals (her first few seconds of vocals were immediately sampled and played back on her rythm-box, 'live' on stage, that was the gimmick, because there's a rule about the main vocals not being pre-recorded) but when it came to the night Netta delivered much more than just a beatbox of technology, she really delivered, that revved-up 'boy-oy-oy-oy' reverberated around Europe that night it should have had a Richter Scale all to itself, it was glorious. And thirdly, Yes to your reaction, that was the most I've enjoyed that song since 20-wheneveritwas, it feels like eons ago, but honestly, your reaction made it feel fresh again, thank you, that WAS a reaction, and I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Oh sweet Lord this song STILL irritates the hell out of me. Her performance is an absolute killer though! ALSO: this year’s songs are currently being chosen - when we have all of them (pre-semis) I’d like to see you both do a full watch WITH voting. Be interesting to see if you can pick a top 5 after all your hard work researching Eurovision.

Absolutely iconic. And it gave Jack White a eurovision award for writing so no complaints,

ESC music videos make the most sense for 2020, when live performances were canceled due to Covid.

'The Olympics of Entertainment'-sounds awesome!

Netta is nowhere near the top 5 bizarre Eurovision performances of all time, there would have been so many other choices. Crossing my fingers that no. 1 will be Hatari 😁

Ehh I would love to see Hatari on a Eurovision week

Love to see Eurovision Rock Week

I still would recommend Måns Zelmerlöw - Heroes from Sweden a great Live show. I liked you chain saw remark.

Definitely more Netta reactions

Netta Is number 2 And there are so manny more bizarre entries. There is only one place left - where Lordi? Where Hatari? Watch those two, please. Lordi is ICONIC, so you may be familiar with it, but try Hatari, please ❤

I love your Eurovision reactions! My list for top 5 music videos of Eurovision would be: - Bulgaria 2017: Kristian Kostov - Beautiful Mess - Azerbaijan 2019: Chingiz - Truth - Lithuania 2020: The Roop - On Fire - Switzerland 2021: Gjon’s Tears - Tout l’univers - Czechia 2023: Vesna - My Sister’s Crown

LOVE

For your next Eurovision week, I'd suggest Moldova's entry from 2018. One of the best stage shows from last decade, although never recommended!

I was in tel Aviv the year after and it was a great vibe to be in a hosting city.

Love this eurovision videos keep it up!! Ps. Do not do the music video idea, usually the artists put all af their afforts into the eurovision performance, so the music video is never great.

by the way, it is funny that it got to you just now. To spare you any more embarrassment in the future please react to this year's contestant for Eurovision Eden Golan representing Israel with the song Hurricane. a masterpiece in my opinion

So #1 has to be (spoilers) Lordi from Finland right?

Love her!!!!

There’s two semi finals, one on Tuesday and one on Thursday of the same week followed by Grand Final on the Saturday. So 3 shows in one week. Twenty countries compete in each of the semi finals with 10 qualifying from each for the Grand Final. 5 countries are automatically in the Grand Final, so 25 counties or so in Grand Final. All countries get to vote

I would love to see your reactions on Ru Paul's Drag race best Lip Sync Performances. You two are hilarious duo!

I would say there was already super much hype in advance due to the great music video (studio version) and then it didn't really matter if the live wasn't as amazing

I love Netta and "Toy"! She is a great singer and performer, the song is a banger with a strong message empowering women ❤

Eurovision is a religion👊🏻

2:35 So the chicken noise is a cultural reference joke. If I remember it correctly in Israel chickens, or more specifically roosters commonly symbolise men? Some sort of thing like that. So them acting like chicken is directly meant to be adding more salt into the wound. Cause this is very like "girl power" song. And also why some of the male fans in the audience were wearing chicken head. Netta specifically is a rare looper artist, that I feel like are much more common in Europe than oversees and she creates a lot of electric music as well. She unfortunately couldn't perform her usual way - but they definitely adapted the effect well enough with the back up singers (looping machines and other audio editing is not allowed during the competition - they didn't allow any recorded or prerecorded lines until C19, and before like 2000s they also required live orchestra).

After you guys did the music videos please go do the live performances again.. 1. Duncan Laurence - Arcade 2019 winner 2. Common Linnets - Calm after the storm 2014 runner up 3. Eleni Foureira - Fuego 2018 runner up 4. Elina Born & Stig Rästa - Goodbye to yesterday 5. Helena Paparizou - My number one 2005 winner Love the channel!!

As a biiiig Eurovision fan, I want to commend you on all these reaction videos. It's so great to see you enjoying them and coming at them with an open heart and curiosity. Also, it super to see how much you get right when you guess at things, even with little background knowledge. Hope you'll watch the whole show in May this year! (Come watch with us and the gang in Seattle!) So, my list for Eurovision music videos: Iceland 2020 - Daðdi og Gagnamagnið - Think About Things ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VFZNvj-HfBU.html (one of the best ever) Iceland 2019 - Hatari - Hatrid mun sigra ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UGrRhIj4FRw.html (what a difference a year makes) Ukraine 2021 - Go_A - Shum ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-U7-dxzp6Jvs.html (you've seen the performance, but this is also worth watching) Moldova 2021 - Natalia Gordienko - Sugar ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1zvnsvxA3to.html (better than the live performance) Azerbaijan 2020 - Efendi - Cleopatra ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-I0VzBCvO1Wk.html (talk about cultural appropriation!) Although "Who the Hell Is Edgar" (mentioned by others) is also good.

I love too your ESC reactions! 👍🏻 Here is the list of my favorite songs : - Sergey Lazarev - You are my only one (Russia🇷🇺 2016) - KEiiNO - Spirit in the sky (Norway🇳🇴 2019) - Kati Wolf - What about my dreams? (Hungary🇭🇺 2011) - Eleni Fureira - Fuego (Cyprus🇨🇾 2018) - Conchita Wurst - Rise like a phoenix (Austria🇦🇹 2014) The Russian production was incredible in 2016, the Norwegian song is still a hit from 2019. 😊

If we're talking bizare, you should definitely look up Let3 - Mama ŠČ from last year 👀😂

Most countries will have their own local competition to choose who will represent their country. Then they have 2 lots of semi finals where normally around 6 or so countries don't go through to the final. Then of course you get the final.

I'm not your toy🎶🎶♥️♥️yes this one was my favorite with Fuego the runner up of that year❤❤❤

Eurovision Week - TOP 5 Best-staged Eurovision performances that will blow your mind with some very special effects!! #1 RUSSIA | Sergey Lazarev - You Are The Only One - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-e94dst20C9Y.html #2 AUSTRALIA | Kate Miller-Heidke - Zero Gravity - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Eo5H62mCIsg.html #3 ARMENIA | Iveta Mukuchyan - LoveWave - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nL066Rp7J7k.html #4 SWEDEN | Måns Zelmerlöw - Heroes - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5sGOwFVUU0I.html #5 ICELAND | Hatari - Hatrið mun sigra - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kTb69WkBbvs.html

I have a Eurovision List for you... VOCAL POWERHOUSES: #1 Sweden 2014: Sanna Nielsen - Undo #2 Iceland 2009: Yohanna - Is it True? #3 Spain 2012: Pastora Soler - Quédate Conmigo #4 United Kingdom 2017: Lucie Jones - Never Give Up On You #5 Italy 2015: Il Volo - Grande Amore Please please please, these vocal performances are ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE. !!!

There is coming a Eurovision 2024. Not every country has a national selection first, but like as Finns (yeah, I am from Finland) do. The Final of our selection is in the 10th of February. ❤. We have only 7 artist. The other countries can have and has more. In Norway they have 4 semis before the selection as and so on. Some countries just have decided which one of there Artist will represent them in Eurovision. Those countries appier in Eurovision that pay the participation fee. For example Australia has participated to Eurovision couple of years now. 😂 Not really a country of Europe either 😅.

would be so cool if you guys could react to Käärijä's newest song Huhhahhei, I think you'd love it!

see the music video. she was not alowd to have her mixing table in the competision. this was a last minut fix that she prefomed with.

It’s time to react to the runner up of this year. Cyprus Fuego Elena foureira

Eurovision week itself is quite gruelling watch: two semi-finals to whittle down the numbers then the grand final.

Maybe you could react to Little Big's 'Mustache' feat. Netta, as a bonus round? 🥸

Now you definitely have to do a Netta week.❤ - Matematika - Playground Politica - Bassa Sababa - Sing Halleluja - CEO - Cuckoo - I Love My Nails They are my faves

you should react to eleni - fuego 2nd place inb 2018 after neta

Davina Michelle - The power of water. Interval act from Holland. Chills guaranteed

No, not every country performs every year. Some countries come and go, especially given financial constraints in poorer European countries. And even if a country can afford to select a song and send it, it's not necessarily a given they will have the resources to stage it well. So it's not always a fair and equitable proposition, which is unfortunate when a country has a really good song or a really good concept but can't pour a huge amount of money into the stage production.

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2nd place, Fuego should have won.

My favourite song ever 👌🇮🇱❤️

Live wasnt so good They took her looper away, i guess that was a his for her. So the video clip was wayyy better Check her live performances with the looper she sound so great!! Personally i was very disappointed in the live efter hearing her live in the competition to win to go to eruvision

Sir you skipped Marija Serifovic Molitva

Here is my list for the Eurovision Music Videos. If you like at least one video from this list, give a like! Thanks! Go_A - Shum ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-U7-dxzp6Jvs.htmlsi=97hsZZQAXIrmMQbh Teya & Salena - Who the hell is Edgar? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZMmLeV47Au4.htmlsi=6q6Ps94RbO04_jnb Francesco Gabbani - Occidentali's Karma ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--OnRxfhbHB4.htmlsi=Fm7T59rEkzIwncpo Rosa Linn - Snap ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gVqGKkm7xBE.htmlsi=QijIc95SXD3T3j0Q Roxen - Amnesia ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dVTEZixU0BQ.htmlsi=AZk-xviDDXkhTK6v

She has a video it’s little big - MOUSTACHE

React to MAMA ŠČ by let 3

Pls react to Aysel&Arash-always 2009(Azerbaijan)❤

Netta features in Little Big video "MOUSTACHE".

It was the year of #metoo, so was a popular sentiment at the time

I hope u can react to Vesna - My Sister's Crown

Fun fact: The hook of "Toy" has some, well obvious, similarities to "Seven Nation Army" and after an actual legal dispute over this Jack White of The Wihte Stripes got offically credited as one of the writers of this song.

Eurovision music videos! Here's a collection of some of the most creative ones that are kinda infamous in the fandom. (At least that I know of) 5. Sugar- Natalia Gordienko (Moldova 2021) 4. I Wrote a Song - May Muller (UK 2023) 3. My Sisters Crown - Vesna (Czechia 2023) 2. On Fire - The Roop (Lithuania 2020) 1. Think About Things - Daði og Gagnamagnið (You've reacted to the icland 2021 song, this is the 2020 song that went pretty viral. Also make sure you're reacting to the video on Dadi Freyr's channel and not the national final performance on the official eurovision channel)

masum halkların üzerine bombalar yağdıran bir örgütün şarkısını dinlemiyoruz, boykot ediyoruz. sizde insan olun bunu değerlendirme dışı bırakın. onurunuz olsun.

Still sick of this one

I dont think this one is bizarre, there are many others that you could have watched

Personally, I wanted Cyprus to win. I think the song was better and also I wanted Cyprus to win Eusrovision for the first time.

Yes Bizarre is the name! Cannot understand the hype. (As ppl cannot understand my hypes in this competition, the battle between us is real - and funny).

fuego should have won. react to it. p.s. Joe...yammy

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#FreePalestine

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Have you guys heard about The International Court of justice of the United Nations? They held a public hearing today on what’s happening daily in Palestine because of Israel and its allies. Free 🇵🇸

Damn bro reacting to isreal in these moments. Not into it

FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸 🍉

One of the WORST winners of all time!!!

The topic is of course important but the song and the performance are total bs

Free Palestine 🇵🇸

Sorry, but this is, and was, cringe. Fuego deserved to win 🔥

Free Palestine 🍉

I can't find it now, but someone posted the suggestion of a top five interval acts. If we're going to suggest "Love, love, peace, peace", we should wait until they have watched the songs referenced so they can get all the jokes! I found this amazing list of all the references. There was only one reference missing as far as I could tell, which was the iconic end pose of Sweden's 1984 winner Herrey's, see the gold clad backup dancers at 03:40. Here's the list: @morrzila3978 2 years ago In case someone didn’t post it, here’s all the references! Horns: Ukraine 2004 Drums by topless men: Ireland 2013 Grandma on drums: Moldova 2005 Old guy with instrument: Azerbaijan 2012 Violin: Norway 2009 DJ: UK 2006/Greece 2014 Stripping: UK 1981 Måns’ outfit: Russia 2008 Petra’s outfit: Sweden 1999 Ripping shirt: Russia 2008 again Songs about love: way too many Songs about Peace: way too many Songs about war: ironically Ukraine 2016 “Wind to blow”: Spain 2012 “Break the rules of fashion... “: Austria 2014 “Smile on the TV camera... “: Sweden 2015 Lights: way too many Flags: Sweden 2006 Melody structure of the song: S&M 2005 Grannies: Russia 2012 Hamster wheel: Ukraine 2014 (watch that one) “Pretending we’re in love”: Azerbaijan 2011 Key change: way too many songs Snow: Sweden 2012 Burning piano: Austria 2015 Russian man on skates: Russia 2008 again Girl churning butter: Poland 2014 Stump/Fistpump: Sweden 2015 again Lordi: Finland 2006 Måns’ dance move: Greece 2009 Loreen appearing: Sweden 2012 again “Party for everybody”: Russia 2012 again Random Swedish dancers: Sweden 2013 interval act Fire: way too many entries Pyro: way too many entries