Gigliola Cinquetti!!  

She looks fantastic for a 74-year old, and ""Non ho l'età" is still an amazing song.

 

 

The line-up this year was actually pretty decent. Most of the songs were actually quite good. But I still rank Switzerland, Poland and Azerbaijan at the bottom, and would gladly have replaced any of them with Ireland.

Edited May 14, 20223 yr by I Am A Swede

One song that really has grown on me is the Netherlands. A powerful ballad without the vocal gymnastics that other countries indulge in, and I love that it's performed in Dutch.

And just like predicted.... the televotes went in favour of the Ukraine. Not at all surprising, but still slightly disappointing. 

There's no doubt in my mind that they got a lot of sympathy votes they wouldn't have received under normal circumstances.

The final result, with total score (jury+televoting)

	Country	Total points	Jury	Tele
1	Ukraine	631	192	439
2	United Kingdom	466	283	183
3	Spain	459	231	228
4	Sweden	438	258	180
5	Serbia	312	87	225
6	Italy	268	158	110
7	Moldova	253	14	239
8	Greece	215	158	57
9	Portugal	207	171	36
10	Norway	182	36	146
11	Netherlands	171	129	42
12	Poland	151	46	105
13	Estonia	141	43	98
14	Lithuania	128	35	93
15	Australia	125	123	2
16	Azerbaijan	106	103	3
17	Switzerland	78	78	0
18	Romania	65	12	53
19	Belgium	64	59	5
20	Armenia	61	40	21
21	Finland	38	12	26
22	Czech Republic	38	33	5
23	Iceland	20	10	10
24	France	17	9	8
25	Germany	6	0	6

 Some very noticeable discrepancies between the juries and the public: Moldova, Australia, Azerbaijan, Serbia, Norway, Poland and the Netherlands. Not to mention Switzerland who got the dreaded nul points from the public.

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Like every year, there was some drama concerning the voting: In semi-final 2, six national juries apparently decided to swap votes. However, this was noticed by the EBU, so the jury votes of these countries were declared null and void, and artificial results were calculated instead. The same happened again in the Grand Final. The involved countries were Azerbaijan, Georgia, Montenegro, Romania, Poland, and San Marino.

https://eurovision.tv/mediacentre/release/ebu-statement-irregular-voting-2022

I'm fine with Ukraine winning – I mean, it was kind of to be expected

It was also clear that Germany would finish last once again – after all, our broadcaster NDR just doesn't give a damn. In the pre-selection, they made it very clear that they were looking for "the perfect radio song". Well, they got exactly that – a radio song which is fine as background noise, but doesn't work on a big stage. I just feel sorry for these young artists that get burned year after year.

 

Edited May 20, 20223 yr by Huntress

Not exactly a big surprise.....

 

I will start a new thread once the host city has been announced, but in the meantime, the *country* for 2023 has now been confirmed… we’re off to the UK for the ninth time in the contest’s history.

https://eurovision.tv/story/united-kingdom-host-eurovision-song-contest-2023

Former British Eurovision winners have differing opinions which city should host it: Lulu (winner 1969) votes for her hometown Glasgow, Cheryl Baker (winner 1981 as part of Bucks Fizz) thinks Cardiff would be perfect, while Katrina Leskanich (winner 1997 as part of Katrina & The Waves) gives her support to Manchester.

Eurovision: Bucks Fizz star backs Cardiff to host 2023 event

 

Edited August 1, 20223 yr by I Am A Swede