She was brilliant! Hands down the best act of the night
Spain has my vote
Not bad but not great. Not really a surprise we didn’t qualify.
Brooke was very good
Serbia was….interesting
The song is shite but she performed very well in fairness.
Thought we’d qualify. Dang! The UK entry is decent. It’s not his best song, he’s got some tunes. But he has serious pipes on him.
RTE: “Just as planned”
Is she able to keep her tongue in her mouth when the camera turns to her? Missed performance but saw the votes.
Don’t know the girl but I’m pretty sure she will look back on her career and think *oh yeah member that*
I really hope RTE & Co don’t suddenly start slating her because of the vote.
Every year they say oh this one. This is the one. They’re amazing. We lose and they go to town to rip the person to shreds
Maybe if they go back to having a proper contest to pick a representative instead of RTE more or less picking them…
Not getting through after a performance like that ?
That’s rich !
It was so much craic back in the nineties when you thought we might actually win, when we did, it was so much fun. We’re a long way from that for years, and it’s a real shame, it’s not like we don’t have great musical talent in Ireland that resonates with a European audience. It’s a shame to expend such a massive stage on mediocre pop, by no means not a craic at the performer, it’s a crack at the lack of appreciation for homegrown talent we have by who ever determines should represent our country in the biggest annual music competition in the world.
I’m not following it at all now to be fair.
But I just assumed Ukraine is a foregone conclusion no?
Yeah, that was poor. I don’t have an issue with Marty as a broadcaster, and I know that they need to praise our entrant, but the “Ah, we’re great” carry-on is tiresome.
“There’s Brooke! She was terrific” comment is so untrue.
Why do rte get to decide this? I know people text voted but rte decide who the options are.
Never forgot Donal Skeehan (yes the guy who thinks he’s a chef now) entered a song the year we sent Dustin.
We literally do have some really good musicians and performers in this country, why do rte get to spoil our chances year after year after year?
Sorry but is it just me or is she not a great singer 😅
Is there anything to be said for sending Dustin again. Honestly though we really need to send something truly left wing or totally different and at least shake it up vs the generic pop singer we send every year. Pity that RTE have no idea to think outside the box
Just threw it on on YouTube there.
I thought her energy and the choreography was just what Eurovision loves. Her singing just seemed a bit off throughout and the song while not terrible, was not amazing either.
But I know fuck all anyway
She did well with what she had but what she had was a far bigger turkey than Dustin. She’s a decent enough singer who looks good and she can dance well. The song, however, was a litany of negative, bitchy, condescending lyrics that made her appear arrogant but not OTT arrogant enough to be entertaining, just everyday mean and selfish arrogant. I disliked it immediately when I heard it on the Late Late. Her performance tonight was a big improvement, however, on her Late Late performance. This makes me think with the right material, she’d do well.
We should’ve sent the turkey
I’m fairness it wasn’t great, I don’t think we really deserved it this year.
Wow another bang average pop song that wouldn’t be out of place on the radio didn’t make it. I can’t believe it
The thing is, during the past 3-5 years there was a massive switch in what people like in Eurovision. You can’t just send a pop song anymore thinking this will do. It will be interesting to see Sweden’s results, as in my opinion they’re one of the worst offenders of generic pop songs in Eurovision.
Apart from charisma (and Brooke is very charismatic) you have to have a good voice, a great stage presence and style with a sprinkle of uniqueness.
I would love to see an Irish song on the stage. Or at least a more traditional sound rather than a generic pop song.
She wasn’t great but she also wasn’t bad, we definitely deserved it more than Azerbaijan and Australia
The song was atrocious sorry not sorry.
I , for one , Am shocked.
Shocked I tells ya.
Hasn’t been the same since Hard Rock Hallelujah by Lordi
Oh well. We didn’t qualify…again. But the most important thing is to not make any changes to how we pick a song, despite our complete and utter consistent failure.
I wouldn’t mind us sending someone who just sounds like any b-list singer from the USA if at least the song was actually good…
You don’t join a football tournament by playing tennis.
You can’t vote for your own country, what’s with the idea of sending entrants based on what ye like. The lyrics of the song are bad, doesn’t work internationally. The tune is boring and the performer is cookie cutter TV competition material.
Do the people that select these entries actually watch the Eurovision? It’s like ye don’t understand what this competition is looking for. You can’t win by sending Debbie down the street over to sing a copy paste of the last 10 for radio pop songs.
I genuinely thought it was a great performance.
Really disappointing that we didn’t get to go further.
She had the best crowd reaction apart from Sweden and she performed really well, thought we would at least qualify! Disappointing considering some of the shite that got in instead. She should be proud anyway.
We should have sent The Scratch!
Sorry, just a basic bitch song and dressed as Penney’s discount rack won’t cut it
Ah fuck it she was unreal. Gutted beyond belief she didn’t qualify, but lads I’ll tell ye one thing. Go to a Eurovision. Over in Turin and I have to say it’s so much craic!! You’d swear Ireland sailed through with the session that went on last night.
Gutted? It’s only a bit of fluff. We shouldn’t get too worked up about it
Honestly, I don’t see the point of sending a decent entry and risking mucking up their career with a semifinal exit, we don’t have enough countries that will consistently give us a good haul of points anymore. It’s only the UK that ever gives us points consistently.
It’s not really about the song quality until you get to the higher points tallies where that starts to make a difference.
I think Brooke did a fantastic job.
Quite few down votes.
She’s done more with her life than a lot of the losers in here.
Where’s Aladdin?
RTE just don’t get Eurovision.
It’s campy, poppy and very, very gay – RTE think they can just fart out Westlife b-sides year after year
Oh no, anyway.
Edit: Just listened to it. Completely flat song and she’s constantly missing notes, why would anyone be surprised that didn’t win?
Fuck it anyway.
​
Jedward were great TBH. They got way to much hate.
I’m sorry but it was shit. I couldn’t understand anything she saying – she wasn’t able to enunciate words clearly. Her voice was weak. The song was monotonous, one level stuff that had no strong uplift chorus AGAIN.
It felt like we ran a competition for Transition Year students to sing a Eurovision song and then sent the winner.
We have SO many talented singers in Ireland with strong voices, that are well able for this. Why we continue to send people that can’t be heard over the backing music, mumbling a song with no strong chorus, is beyond me.
Anyone would think we wanted to lose the Eurovision.
Idk. This performance was meh. Nothing new or exciting. And the voice changer added in ruined it completely. I thought this show was about putting out a performance of the year/decade even, not just tutsing out a casual lighting strobe choreography…. This would of been cool and great maybe 2010 ..
Im prepared to be downvotes to hell and bullied via comments and pms.
To people who weren’t following it, she was seen as a surprise non qualifier. Not just in the fandom but also serious reviewers who make a career out of Eurovision (wiwiblogs for example). She wasn’t predicted to do well till the rehearsals where she absolutely knocked it out of the park, most of the serious fandom believe she deserved a spot compared to some of the countries that did qualify, they reckon juries may have tanked her valuing the sad boy ballads that are dominating this this year. People jokingly called her the protagonist of Eurovision cause she had all this funny drama following her all the time. She did really well and it’s seems most of the hard work was her not RTE. It’s such a shame she didn’t qualify, other years I would have said nope this year I know we’re not qualifying but this year I actually thought we had a shot.
You all have short memories. It’s because we entered a latex turkey into the competition and made a mockery of the whole Eurovision movement.
We’ll be paying for it for years to come.
This is just another victim nothing to do with the act. Give it another few years Ireland. Try the junior version first. That’s a bit more low key. Try and get re established there first.
48 comments
She was brilliant! Hands down the best act of the night
Spain has my vote
Not bad but not great. Not really a surprise we didn’t qualify.
Brooke was very good
Serbia was….interesting
The song is shite but she performed very well in fairness.
Thought we’d qualify. Dang! The UK entry is decent. It’s not his best song, he’s got some tunes. But he has serious pipes on him.
RTE: “Just as planned”
Is she able to keep her tongue in her mouth when the camera turns to her? Missed performance but saw the votes.
Don’t know the girl but I’m pretty sure she will look back on her career and think *oh yeah member that*
I really hope RTE & Co don’t suddenly start slating her because of the vote.
Every year they say oh this one. This is the one. They’re amazing. We lose and they go to town to rip the person to shreds
Maybe if they go back to having a proper contest to pick a representative instead of RTE more or less picking them…
Not getting through after a performance like that ?
That’s rich !
It was so much craic back in the nineties when you thought we might actually win, when we did, it was so much fun. We’re a long way from that for years, and it’s a real shame, it’s not like we don’t have great musical talent in Ireland that resonates with a European audience. It’s a shame to expend such a massive stage on mediocre pop, by no means not a craic at the performer, it’s a crack at the lack of appreciation for homegrown talent we have by who ever determines should represent our country in the biggest annual music competition in the world.
I’m not following it at all now to be fair.
But I just assumed Ukraine is a foregone conclusion no?
Yeah, that was poor. I don’t have an issue with Marty as a broadcaster, and I know that they need to praise our entrant, but the “Ah, we’re great” carry-on is tiresome.
“There’s Brooke! She was terrific” comment is so untrue.
Why do rte get to decide this? I know people text voted but rte decide who the options are.
Never forgot Donal Skeehan (yes the guy who thinks he’s a chef now) entered a song the year we sent Dustin.
We literally do have some really good musicians and performers in this country, why do rte get to spoil our chances year after year after year?
Sorry but is it just me or is she not a great singer 😅
Is there anything to be said for sending Dustin again. Honestly though we really need to send something truly left wing or totally different and at least shake it up vs the generic pop singer we send every year. Pity that RTE have no idea to think outside the box
Just threw it on on YouTube there.
I thought her energy and the choreography was just what Eurovision loves. Her singing just seemed a bit off throughout and the song while not terrible, was not amazing either.
But I know fuck all anyway
She did well with what she had but what she had was a far bigger turkey than Dustin. She’s a decent enough singer who looks good and she can dance well. The song, however, was a litany of negative, bitchy, condescending lyrics that made her appear arrogant but not OTT arrogant enough to be entertaining, just everyday mean and selfish arrogant. I disliked it immediately when I heard it on the Late Late. Her performance tonight was a big improvement, however, on her Late Late performance. This makes me think with the right material, she’d do well.
We should’ve sent the turkey
I’m fairness it wasn’t great, I don’t think we really deserved it this year.
Wow another bang average pop song that wouldn’t be out of place on the radio didn’t make it. I can’t believe it
The thing is, during the past 3-5 years there was a massive switch in what people like in Eurovision. You can’t just send a pop song anymore thinking this will do. It will be interesting to see Sweden’s results, as in my opinion they’re one of the worst offenders of generic pop songs in Eurovision.
Apart from charisma (and Brooke is very charismatic) you have to have a good voice, a great stage presence and style with a sprinkle of uniqueness.
I would love to see an Irish song on the stage. Or at least a more traditional sound rather than a generic pop song.
She wasn’t great but she also wasn’t bad, we definitely deserved it more than Azerbaijan and Australia
The song was atrocious sorry not sorry.
I , for one , Am shocked.
Shocked I tells ya.
Hasn’t been the same since Hard Rock Hallelujah by Lordi
Oh well. We didn’t qualify…again. But the most important thing is to not make any changes to how we pick a song, despite our complete and utter consistent failure.
I wouldn’t mind us sending someone who just sounds like any b-list singer from the USA if at least the song was actually good…
You don’t join a football tournament by playing tennis.
You can’t vote for your own country, what’s with the idea of sending entrants based on what ye like. The lyrics of the song are bad, doesn’t work internationally. The tune is boring and the performer is cookie cutter TV competition material.
Do the people that select these entries actually watch the Eurovision? It’s like ye don’t understand what this competition is looking for. You can’t win by sending Debbie down the street over to sing a copy paste of the last 10 for radio pop songs.
I genuinely thought it was a great performance.
Really disappointing that we didn’t get to go further.
She had the best crowd reaction apart from Sweden and she performed really well, thought we would at least qualify! Disappointing considering some of the shite that got in instead. She should be proud anyway.
We should have sent The Scratch!
Sorry, just a basic bitch song and dressed as Penney’s discount rack won’t cut it
Ah fuck it she was unreal. Gutted beyond belief she didn’t qualify, but lads I’ll tell ye one thing. Go to a Eurovision. Over in Turin and I have to say it’s so much craic!! You’d swear Ireland sailed through with the session that went on last night.
Gutted? It’s only a bit of fluff. We shouldn’t get too worked up about it
Honestly, I don’t see the point of sending a decent entry and risking mucking up their career with a semifinal exit, we don’t have enough countries that will consistently give us a good haul of points anymore. It’s only the UK that ever gives us points consistently.
It’s not really about the song quality until you get to the higher points tallies where that starts to make a difference.
I think Brooke did a fantastic job.
Quite few down votes.
She’s done more with her life than a lot of the losers in here.
Where’s Aladdin?
RTE just don’t get Eurovision.
It’s campy, poppy and very, very gay – RTE think they can just fart out Westlife b-sides year after year
Oh no, anyway.
Edit: Just listened to it. Completely flat song and she’s constantly missing notes, why would anyone be surprised that didn’t win?
Fuck it anyway.
​
Jedward were great TBH. They got way to much hate.
I’m sorry but it was shit. I couldn’t understand anything she saying – she wasn’t able to enunciate words clearly. Her voice was weak. The song was monotonous, one level stuff that had no strong uplift chorus AGAIN.
It felt like we ran a competition for Transition Year students to sing a Eurovision song and then sent the winner.
We have SO many talented singers in Ireland with strong voices, that are well able for this. Why we continue to send people that can’t be heard over the backing music, mumbling a song with no strong chorus, is beyond me.
Anyone would think we wanted to lose the Eurovision.
Idk. This performance was meh. Nothing new or exciting. And the voice changer added in ruined it completely. I thought this show was about putting out a performance of the year/decade even, not just tutsing out a casual lighting strobe choreography…. This would of been cool and great maybe 2010 ..
Im prepared to be downvotes to hell and bullied via comments and pms.
To people who weren’t following it, she was seen as a surprise non qualifier. Not just in the fandom but also serious reviewers who make a career out of Eurovision (wiwiblogs for example). She wasn’t predicted to do well till the rehearsals where she absolutely knocked it out of the park, most of the serious fandom believe she deserved a spot compared to some of the countries that did qualify, they reckon juries may have tanked her valuing the sad boy ballads that are dominating this this year. People jokingly called her the protagonist of Eurovision cause she had all this funny drama following her all the time. She did really well and it’s seems most of the hard work was her not RTE. It’s such a shame she didn’t qualify, other years I would have said nope this year I know we’re not qualifying but this year I actually thought we had a shot.
You all have short memories. It’s because we entered a latex turkey into the competition and made a mockery of the whole Eurovision movement.
We’ll be paying for it for years to come.
This is just another victim nothing to do with the act. Give it another few years Ireland. Try the junior version first. That’s a bit more low key. Try and get re established there first.