Just like with the semi-finals, this is the live thread for the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2024.
As there is (to my knowledge), no Lemmy equivalent to https://reddit-stream.com/, the best alternative is refreshing the website about once after each song. This should still be okay for now as this community is relatively small.
Sort by New to see the newest comments or additionally click on the Chat button to break the replies apart and even show the newest replies.

Thanks to @[email protected], there are some links for the Grand Finale:
The Grand Finale Livestream on YouTube: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ckGRHJ-J9G4

National broadcasts:

Perhaps one of these might not be geoblocked, but not guaranteed)

And some background information:

  • hyves@feddit.nlEnglish
    47·
    8 months ago

    Highlights from the Dutch broadcast (paraphrased):

    • “The EBU reminded us that we’re contractually obligated to do this broadcast.”
    • “Instead of the Netherlands we skip to Isreal, good thing they are completely uncontroversial.”
    • “Everyone makes mistakes, the EBU also knows a lot about that.”
        • cosmicrookie@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8·
          8 months ago

          Every user can vote 20 times. It just takes dedication and maybe some rigging to get that many points

        • khannie@lemmy.worldEnglish
          61·
          8 months ago

          Yeah what? Like it was a grand tune but absolutely was not expecting that from the public vote.

          Edit: Just saw the result of the Irish public vote and Israel got 10 in fairness with Croatia getting a well deserved 12.

  • Korne127@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
    25·
    8 months ago

    Switzerland is just really great. How he’s able to sing while leaning backwards and spinning on the disk, it’s insane. And additionally to that, it’s the hardest song of the year (I’d even say by quite some margin). His singing talent is insane and I love the song itself as well. It’s just beautiful.

      • You@feddit.deEnglish
        3·
        8 months ago

        Deserved in my opinion. And they seem to be Conchita’s favourite too.

    • margaritox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      Yea, I was looking for someone to point that out. That’s almost opera-level singing.

      I don’t understand why this person is getting so much hate. I admit, the song is not to my personal taste, but I I was wow-ed by his vocal abilities.

  • You@feddit.deEnglish
    24·
    8 months ago

    Ireland is quite unique and should get extra points for a their original performance.

  • Korne127@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
    222·
    8 months ago

    The long extensive loud booing was sooo nice to hear; it made me so happy.

  • Kage@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    16·
    8 months ago

    Switzerland deserved it, im suprised about germany, ireland deserved a bit better and i think fuckery happened with israel. Really bummed about netherlands tho.

    • Korne127@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      13·
      8 months ago

      If Netherland wouldn’t have happened, this would have been such a great ESC. But yeah… they just needed to fuck it all up.
      Honestly, while I’m happy about Switzerland (and Germany tbh), I’m just… still feeling awful, because I feel so sorry for Joost, as this was so important and emotional to him with his parents. I really despise Österdahl and the EBU right now for taking that from him.

      • Kage@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        51·
        8 months ago

        I dont get why the jury from netherlands was banned aswell, felt really awful

        Correction from comments: Not banned but stepped down, still felt wierd

        • Korne127@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
          10·
          8 months ago

          As far as I know, they weren’t banned, there was just no-one willing to be a spokesperson lol. But this is just what I heard from a comment in a thread, so don’t take it as verified.

          • hyves@feddit.nlEnglish
            12·
            8 months ago

            Nikki de Jager (who was supposed to be the spokesperson) said on TV that it didn’t feel right to hand out points. The Dutch broadcaster then told the EBU to just figure it out themselves.
            Käärijä (Finland) also stepped down but got replaced, and Alessandra (Norway) already stepped down earlier because of Isreal.

        • zaphod@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          5·
          8 months ago

          Were they banned? It’s just announcing the twelve-point vote, I assumed they didn’t want to participate anymore after being disqualified.

    • Bloody Harry@feddit.deEnglish
      9·
      8 months ago

      I wanna like her so much and I really love the song, but unfortunately her live singing performance is mediocre at best :(

      • Microw@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        8 months ago

        People told ORF in the last few years that our acts aren’t good at stage performances, so they chose a performer/choreographer this year haha

    • Freeman@feddit.deEnglish
      3·
      8 months ago

      Yea but “ram di dam dam” is just too ridiculous imo. Love the show, the song, dance and everything but that text sounds like satire of the genre

    • Freeman@feddit.deEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      Felt that as well, the song slaps.

      And also Joost had his own Rammstein moment…

      • khannie@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        8 months ago

        I saw that. It was very cute and he took the crown on stage with him. Lovely stuff. They seemed to have a genuine bond.

    • You@feddit.deEnglish
      81·
      8 months ago

      I went grocery shopping today and got myself some extra treats for today. The theme they have in common: Comfort and unhealthy.

  • Korne127@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
    10·
    8 months ago

    I wonder how the voting would have been different with Europapa. I think Croatia would have considerably less televoting as many people switched from Netherlands to Croatia (a post suggesting to do that on Reddit literally has 10 000 upvotes). But otherwise, I don’t really know what would have been different.
    I’m still really heartbroken for Joost and I definitely hope that this all will be resolved with strong consequences for the EBU.

  • Korne127@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
    10·
    8 months ago

    Germany got points by three juries in a vote?! This is actually really nice :0 :D

    • Korne127@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      9·
      8 months ago

      A little bit of consolation after the horrible horrible Netherlands disqualification :(