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The morning after the semi-final, and we’re still working through the implications of the results. What is clear is that this year’s Eurovision Song Contest is as surprising and exciting, and could easily go down as a classic year for voting.
Of course Eurovision is with us all year round, and it’s fertile ground for academic study, and facilitating this is one of the aims of the Eurovision Research Network.
Daily News from Dusseldorf, Wednesday 11th May
Hosted by Ewan Spence with…
Karen Fricker (Eurovision Research Network)
Paul Jordan (ESC Insight)
Andrew Main (All Kinds of Everything)
Toni Sant (Eurovision Malta)
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The United Kingdom had problems as well with the sound, it was cutting out every so often. Both the Polish and Norweigan songs cut the microphone out every so often, the only country out of the first five countries that made an impact was Albania. I think it is too late to change anything now but they could however add another country from semi final 1 to make country 16 as an apology. So the country that missed out and got the highest votes but placed 11th should make it to the final.
It’s an elephant in the room but given the fact that the two women of colour (Stella and Senit) did not qualify, is there any feeling that this was a factor?
Damon, which room? I mean, is this even a ‘thing’ for Europeans themselves?
The Eurovision Research Network probably has someone looking into that if you are interested.
I wouldn’t know, but conventional factors seem sufficient to explain their non-qualification without need for an additional hypothesis.