Such a pity, it was the only international competition we were really good at and have most wins in. I’d like to blame Dustin the Turkey’s mock entry for our change in fortunes but we (RTE?) keep picking a disproportionate amount of awful entries.
Fuck Eurovision Ireland need to qualify for World Cup.
It cost RTE too much to host it so they started sending in absolute joke entries
I was always thought we had decent songs in the 90’s but also we were not a country that anyone hated, so we always did well. Now the music market has fragmented into so many sectors and Eurovision has also been affected by that. Btw I am in no way defending some of crap that gets sent to represent in the contest.
We used to send talented people with catchy songs, if it’s not catchy we won’t winning
You’ll never know the excitement of those early to mid 90s years
One of the entries this year opens with the line “I don’t eat meat, I eat veggies and p_ssy”. Great craic.
A Spinning Records artist is representing Austria.
Our entry this year has a good voice, and the song isn’t an embarrassment at all, but I don’t think it’ll be remembered when up against the more profound, the more crazy, the more party choons. The song is a bit safe.
We have no shortage of artists here. I would like if there was a proper national competition ike other countries do, so by the time the contest is on that there’s more enthusiasm boosting the artist. Big disconnect there.
We are a country that pride ourselves on the arts, so it’d be nice if we represented that better. And take risks! Put some weird music on there!
Up until 1999 countries had to enter a song in their national language. Ireland and UK had an advantage in having more ‘internationaly recognisable’ songs than say Norway or Greece. From 99 neither UK nor Ireland have won but more then half the winners have sung in English. Pre ’99 only us and the Brits had the monopoly on English (maybe Malta but too late to Google…)
Here me out. let’s send two priest and a song about a lovely horse
When they removed the ‘ you have to write the song in your own language ‘ rule it killed us.
Being a ‘nuetral’ kind of country who could sing songs in English was pretty damn handy.
Ireland since 2019: Better than last place in our semi pls.
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Such a pity, it was the only international competition we were really good at and have most wins in. I’d like to blame Dustin the Turkey’s mock entry for our change in fortunes but we (RTE?) keep picking a disproportionate amount of awful entries.
Fuck Eurovision Ireland need to qualify for World Cup.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Eurovision_winners_map.svg
It cost RTE too much to host it so they started sending in absolute joke entries
I was always thought we had decent songs in the 90’s but also we were not a country that anyone hated, so we always did well. Now the music market has fragmented into so many sectors and Eurovision has also been affected by that. Btw I am in no way defending some of crap that gets sent to represent in the contest.
We used to send talented people with catchy songs, if it’s not catchy we won’t winning
You’ll never know the excitement of those early to mid 90s years
One of the entries this year opens with the line “I don’t eat meat, I eat veggies and p_ssy”. Great craic.
A Spinning Records artist is representing Austria.
Our entry this year has a good voice, and the song isn’t an embarrassment at all, but I don’t think it’ll be remembered when up against the more profound, the more crazy, the more party choons. The song is a bit safe.
We have no shortage of artists here. I would like if there was a proper national competition ike other countries do, so by the time the contest is on that there’s more enthusiasm boosting the artist. Big disconnect there.
We are a country that pride ourselves on the arts, so it’d be nice if we represented that better. And take risks! Put some weird music on there!
Up until 1999 countries had to enter a song in their national language. Ireland and UK had an advantage in having more ‘internationaly recognisable’ songs than say Norway or Greece. From 99 neither UK nor Ireland have won but more then half the winners have sung in English. Pre ’99 only us and the Brits had the monopoly on English (maybe Malta but too late to Google…)
Here me out. let’s send two priest and a song about a lovely horse
When they removed the ‘ you have to write the song in your own language ‘ rule it killed us.
Being a ‘nuetral’ kind of country who could sing songs in English was pretty damn handy.
Ireland since 2019: Better than last place in our semi pls.