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Helena Paparizou, Soraya, Aysel (of "Always" fame), Sopho Khalvashi, Jamala and Desirée Nosbusch all confirmed as spokespeople for the final :disco: In other news, it looks like Slovakia's EBU station might be dismantled and cease to exist altogether under their new government :(

Live performance in Austria yesterday...

Albania will qualify based on diaspora Germany won’t end bottom 5 Israel will get a 3-digit televote score in the final

Both Estonia’s and Lithuania’s spent many weeks at #1 on their national Spotify charts too, probably the most domestically successful entries other than the Netherlands and Croatia

Doomsday Blue (Candlelight Version)

New single:

If I didn’t know anything about fan polls or odds etc I genuinely would assume Switzerland and the Netherlands were narrow qualifiers at best :D I feel the most out of touch I’ve ever been this year

Always good to have countries back, but I believe they have a huge debt with the EBU and are on the verge of bankruptcy so it’ll presumably take a while (or considerable effort). It’d be good for the contest to be opened up to commercial broadcasters in cases where the public one isn’t taking part

Spain doesn’t recognise Kosovo and votes against it at any given opportunity (eg at this Council of Europe vote)

This is definitely the most realistic their debut has been, I dread to think of the drama it will cause with Serbia (and possibly even Spain)

I’m fairly sure the size/influence of the country/broadcaster plays into it somewhat, e.g. Germany very rarely getting early draws vs Czechia getting put 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 14th (earliest possible second half draw) every single time they qualified, even when they were expected to do well, plus...

It’s just another element that moves it away from a totally fair playing field and that doesn’t really sit right, although I suppose it’s not massively different to what we had previously. I’m not sure why we have to have changes every time Sweden hosts :confused: It feels like a change for the...

Another new Bambie look

Obsessed with her declaring that her appearances at the five pre-parties are a piece of conceptual art based on the five stages of grief :D

The official site has retroactively rebranded them as Türkiye which means we’d have to put up with that name should they come back :bad: https://eurovision.tv/country/turkiye