Let's Focus On The Positives. Share What You Liked about This Year.

• Switzerland got its first victory since 36 years.
• Croatia got its best result ever since participating as an independent country 31 years ago.
• Ireland got its best result in 24 years.
• Luxembourg got into the final upon returning to the Contest, unlike Monaco in 2004.
• Armenia got its best result in 8 years.
• Georgia and Latvia are back in the final after 8 years.

All 3 Baltics in the final 🇱🇹🇱🇻🇪🇪 and Dons proving everyone wrong take that Eurovision odds 🙌

I love that every single artist is someone's favorite. You or I might not care for a song, but go into any performance thread here and you'll see fervent supporters for any and every participant. There also seems to be an unspoken understanding to not bring a bunch of negativity into them.

The stage. It was beautiful and I think a lot of delegations fully leveraged all it had to offer.

Also France being very french and doing so well was oddly wholesome lol. Slimane sold the hell out of it.

Germany didn't get last

I liked getting to know amazing artists like Bambie, Silvester, Baby Lasagna.

I liked that Zorra did her thing, even if many apparently didn't understood it.

I liked that Petra was on point and Malin too, they were great presenters.

And finally, I like that it's finally over and I my anxiety can rest 😂

• Switzerland is a very deserving winner. That song is a bop and Nemo absolutely nailed the execution. Couldn't take my eyes off their performance.

• Armenia - what can I say? Immaculate vibes and by far the most fun performance this year. I was literally out of my chair dancing with them. Incredible song, incredible performance. They need to be proud, that 9th place finish is astounding.

• As others have said, Ireland nailed it. Bambie Thug had a vision and it came together wonderfully. It was so good to see them in the game again.

Ireland got rewarded for their risk taking. The entry doesn't have to be as theatrical every year, but the artist having VISION is important.

As a Swede, while I was disappointed in the quality of intervals (I guess we ran out of ideas huh) I'm proud of the quality of the stage, the sound and the camerawork. I think it really set up the delegations to make this the most visually impressive year perhaps ever. So many great shots throughout.

Iolanda is now Portugal's third best result since 2000 and it is overall our 10th best result since Portugal started Eurovision

I liked that quirky Dutch contestant, Joost Klein.

Petra Mede! That is all...

Song quality wise we took a major step forward from the previous years

5Miinust x Puuluup just being a vibe. 🥰🇪🇪

I have several!

• Nemo's victory! They deserved it and I'm so proud if them.

• Kindness between the contestants. Bambie Thug hugging Luna after her NQ and giving Nemo their crown come to mind.

• Ireland coming in sixth.

• The plethora of good songs we got from this contest!

• There were some funny jokes like the Eurovision Thong Contest. On the BBC, Graham said he thought Serbia's prop was a giant tooth at first lol.

• The GF happened, which is an accomplishment.

Dutchies giving us (Croatia) 10 points from the televote 🤝🏻 really didnt expect that tbh! thank you 🇳🇱

I love that Estonia is giving us the usual behind the scenes content despite everything going on right now. There’s so many fun clips of them in the green room and with other contestants

I know he didn't win, but Baby Lasagna had a phenomenal run and I hope he gets a hero's welcome at home.

Seeing the artists support each other was heartwarming as fuck.

Looking at how much being experimental and bold was rewarded and being stereotypical was punished, I think we’re going to have a really diverse crop of competitors next year.

I liked Joost while he was still in, he really stole the show and also my heart

I liked Slimane, and I'm not talking necessarily about his performance, enough said.

I'm adding a record number of acts to my eurovision playlist from this year, the lineup of songs has been exceptionally strong IMO with the lack of ballads. Croatia, Ireland, Austria, Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, UK and Armenia are all getting on to that playlist.

Armenia. 'Nuff said.

Ireland not just qualified, but got 6th place! In my opinion should have been way higher, but still they did awesome

So many countries took risks on things they wouldn’t normally send

None of the big 5 finished in the bottom 3

A country who hasn’t won for years took the trophy

The support between most of the delegations was incredible in what’s been a very turbulent year

I’m liked the unpredictably of the year, at different points of the year different entries were thought to have been contenders till the end. Although I do have a question: what was the statement regarding Italy in the original post referring to? This season has been a lot so I think I missed it.

-Bambi crowning Nemo was adorable!
-Armenia doing well! They deserved it!
-Ukraine being WARRIORS crushing the #2 Death spot.
-The CHILLSS I got from Slimane's acapella.
-The amount of songs I enjoyed! In a normal year I have one like DEFINITE fav! I could not pick between Italy, Ukraine, and Armenia but I also LOVED Serbia, Croatia, and Ireland.
-A silly little trend I saw was the women embracing their natural beauty with their hair down and shoes off while also others having some in full amazing glam and killer heels! I love that we get to choose what we look like without being forced into a certain standard.
-I LOVE PETRA! I'd watch a comedy special just of her!
The cheese humor and really playing into the memes. Some people find it cringe but I feel like it's so fun!

Probably a hot take but as someone who just started watching Eurovision in 2020/2021 this one has been my favorite since 2021.

I had 7 performances I really loved in the final. 6 of which made the official top 7. The other being Finland which I had no expectations for doing well, but I love comedy music and the camera work was flawless tonight.

I liked Europapa

I have a whole list compiled.

• I loved a lot of the performances this year. It was hard to give only 20 votes.

• bambie stole my heart. Bambie + Silvester friendship reminds me of Kaarjia and Alessandra from last year - also 2 of my favs!

• even though Slimanes performance felt familiar… it was in a good way. He reminded me of GIMS who is one of my personal favorites. I would lose my mind if they ever did a song together.

• Malin and Petra are iconic. 2 of the best hosts I have seen in a long time. I wouldn’t be mad if Sweden won again just to see them host.

• Finlands act was my favorite. Never failed to make me laugh. They had a great song and an iconic performance.

• so many wonderful female performances this year. They dominated. And tons of diversity within the performances… full glam, natural beauty, edgy, I loved all of it.

• the friendships among the contestants was beautiful. I loved seeing all of the clips of them together BTS.

• as much as it was a mess, it kept things interesting.

• JOOST. even though he didn’t make it to the final (which frankly, I think he would placed in the top 3) the amount of love + support he recieved was just beautiful. I won’t be shocked if he does something bigger now that ESC is over.

• these contestants set the bar high for me. I swear they get better and better every year. Tbh I think Switzerland will be a GREAT year next year.

All thee Baltic countries qualifying for the final, and none of the Big 5 getting last place this time. Also, Luxembourg returning after 31 years and achieving a respectable position.

Latvia qualifying against all odds.

So many different languages!

Switzerland being a surprise but absolutely deserving winner.

Ireland getting their best result in ages.

Croatia getting their best result period!

The Swedes put on a really good show!

The whole design of it all was amazing. Not just the stage and the fashions but even the little things like the fonts and how they always made references to the show’s history with those little flashbacks.

The majority of automatic qualifiers were actually pretty good.

Also, I loved the eastern European entries. Armenia, Baltics, Croatia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Serbia, Georgia. I hope Romania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Montenegro, Slovakia etc will be back in future editions.

Loved Edward af Silléns funny script and Petra and Malin's great delivery. So many genuinely funny moments throughout the week. I laughed way too much at that runestone joke!

• the cinematography and staging this year was beautiful, and Sweden really don't get enough credit for it

• We had one of the most diverse contests ever, and the cherry on the cake was a non-binary winner, and two non-binary people in the top 10.

• The quality of the songwriting this year was really high. All 36 songs I listened to out of the 37 were amazing, even the ones not to my taste were all utter bops.

• Nobody ended the night on nil points!

• In a weird way, this year really was united by a music contest. Promoting peace, unity and equality to all mankind.

I'm liked that Ireland, Latvia and Georgia finally qualified and broke theirs nq streaks. I hope San Marino, Malta and Denmark break theirs next year.

I liked that there were just so many bangers. There’s so many songs I regularly listen to and I’m glad a lot of the countries gave us some really good talent.

Dons & Sarah

Bambie & Silvester

Nemo & Marina

5minust & Puuluup

So many of the songs were good this year! Joost was so fun! I loved baby lasagna, trans excellence, SOY MAS ZORA TODAVIA!, blasting Estonias song in my car.

I also got a lot of my friends into Eurovision this year so I didn't have to watch it alone.

I loved europapa so much. Such a catchy fun song to sing along to, with his state presence. Latvia also had my heart too !! The three Baltic’s making it to the end makes me so proud.

This year was the jury redemption arc after last year's fiasco. They proved their worth and kept the integrity of the contest beautifully. It's amazing to see Switzerland get their first W in over three decades. Ireland proved that with talent and artistry any genre can gain jury points.

So many fantastic songs, in genres and languages that I would never have listened to otherwise.

There's been so many amazing friendships we've seen made over the past week. Watching the artist run to hug each other as the jury results were announced was so wonderful. And of course, Bambie crown Nemo at the end!

The songs were great. I found a lot of great music besides just the Eurovison entries from 5miinust, Joost, Luna, Aiko, M&M and others. 

And I am sooo glad for Issak and Germany!

Oh and I am glad so many queer folks did great because now we can say that it was really the god awful choreography that messed up Olly's chances not homophobia. (while there was a lot if that too, unfortunately). 

 Vamos ahead with life now it's over (or while we wait fir the post drama analysis). 

The intervals in semifinals

Allsang på Skansen feels like watching a Swedish show

And of course Moomins!!!

Everything tbh. Sweden delivered on hosting

Great line up in the final

Breathtaking performances

Technical magic

And drum roll please for the breakout stars of the week

   The Camera Crew 

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           Operators

I'm just glad the favourite didn't win, nothing against Croatia, it's a fun song.

But in previous years the favourites always won so it's nice to see the exchanges/bookmakers get it wrong for once.

The graphic where it showed what country’s jury was voting currently on the LED looked really good. And the way that whole shot looked with the green room present, very well done. The show looked good, the graphics looked good, postcards were good as well.

I’d say it’s strong year visually for Sweden despite me not loving the brand presentation back in January - I think if you’re gonna show us what it’ll look like this year, you gotta show us all the elements, not some 30 second to 1 minute clip. Not showing all the elements of the show can sometimes leave a bad first impression. I finally came around to loving all the elements in the show, but it took a long time though.

• I like the Balkan countries sending such good entries. Loved all of them. Glad my own country didn't send a generic ballad like it used to do for many many years. (I'm Croatian)

• having my country's entry be popular in Europe, such a novel experience

• BL uniting Croatia like no other artist before

• Most of the songs were such vibes, I think many of them will end up on my Spotify list to listen to while I'm driving.

• The visuals. Like, great visual performances - Ireland, Serbia, Slovenia, to name just some.

• Folk elements - loved Armenia and Estonia

• Petra Mede being the best host for 3rd time
  
• uniting everyone against Isr*el's oppression
  
• the best year in history if we are talking about how good songs were
  
• finally brilliant electronic songs instead of trashy EDM half baked songs like Poland 2018 or Finland 2019 (Gustaph started this trend last year so thanks king)
  
• Joost Klein being Joost Klein

The staging and the vision this year were something else! 🤩

Also one of the shortest ceremonies in a while, which was lovely. I have a rest of my day now, and I never get that

• Ireland FINALLY sent something different, sending something risky and it paid off massively for them. Hopefully this is a turning point from the safe radio-friendly poppy nothing burgers we saw in Eurosong.

• Latvia was in the final, against all the odds, for the first time in 8 years. I’d like to thank whoever said on this sub that they feared Latvia would withdraw if they didn’t qualify. I think that might’ve done it haha. I loved that song but I had already written it off as a “dead on arrival”. That has shown me not to write anyone off in the future

• Also Georgia was finally in the final, Nutsa is a great vocalist and this was fully deserved

LONG CROATIA TALK AHEAD:

• Croatia may not have won the contest, but they have won at just life. From producing the song entirely in his bedroom, only for an album filler, to sending it to Dora, essentially forgetting he sent it in.

Then, he was listed as the reserve entry, fortunately someone withdrew, meaning BL had a lot less time to prepare for the contest, especially considering he up to that point had never sang solo on stage.

The first performance of RTTD was a hot mess, yet it got through, and the performance for the final was a lot more tidier, and it rightfully landslided the televote.

Somehow, come May, despite only performing the song live on TV twice (excluding the winners reprise at Dora), he performed in that semi like he’d been doing it his whole life. The glow up from the semi final of his Dora performance to the semi final and subsequent final of Eurovision is incredible.

Baby Lasagna is going to go far, I know already.

For all of the mess that surrounded the contest, there were some truly beautiful moments that shouldn’t be overshadowed by the negative connotations surrounding the contest and the actions of the EBU

As a French person I can say Slimane made us very proud, and his performance was incredible

The surprise winner after two obvious years.

If this final was the ending of Game of Thrones, Switzerland was Arya Stark defeating the King of the Night instead of Croatia/Jon Snow. The Netherlands was Melisandre burning itself for the greater good.

I like that we deservedly might get a complete new management team next year :)

congrats to Switzerland !

I missed the start of the GF (5am is very early to wake up when your pregnant and co-sleeping with a toddler). I didn't realise the guy who sang "Hooked on a Feelin" was Swedish and performed as the opening act!! Eurovision bringing the education!

A great winner, virtually every song was great TV, brilliant graphic design, Latvia, Luxembourg and Ireland qualifying, no big 5 nation in last, excellent interval acts.

Same as every year, I just love that I get a broad cross section of music from different countries and cultures. It's not something you get exposed to a lot in Australia unless you go looking for it. Every year I get hooked on a couple of artists whose discog gets added to my playlist. Last year it was Lord of the Lost and Brunette, this year it'll be Nebulossa, Raiven, and Gåte.

I was shocked to see 3 countries receive more than 300 points from the televotes. I don't think this has even happened before.

iolanda with a stellar performance managing to get top 10, despite odds only putting her at 11%. Every other top 10 was predicted, and then Portugal comes in from 23rd in the odds.

A lot of countries singing in their native language.

Portugal, Spain, France, Netherlands, Italy, Norway, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Greece, Armenia, Lithuania, Estonia, Ukraine

Musically I felt like this was such a solid year. On the music alone I've been able to introduce a lot of people to the competition (what a hell of a year for them to experience their first eurovision). The diversity of the songs this year, the quality, the genuinely nice people of the performers themselves...

There's a lot of songs this year that have made the all-time eurovision favourites playlist for me.

Under the circumstances, Malmö did a great job of hosting and keeping people safe. I mean everyone, from the volunteers/staff at the Eurovision village, the staff at Malmö arena, and the police, and the people of Malmö whose lives were disrupted (including the dog walkers who were kicked out of Folkets Park for a week). Honestly, it says something that no one was seriously injured and everything was relatively calm and orderly.

Nemo got his trophy repaired or replaced

The first 4 places were awesome artists

Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia being in the finale

Everything was just perfect. The beautiful moments were in harmonious balance with the insane drama. The entire event was a force of Nature. Nemo, Bambie, Marina, Megara, and Ladaniva were my favorites of the year. As someone who experiences synesthesia, I found the stage, lights, and camera direction pleasing to my hidden sense. I cried when Nemo wore that crown all the way down to the stage and performed with it. I'm so happy for all of them.

Joost becoming close second in the semi-final with 182 points. 💙

I liked being able to cheer for another country without having to hope my country was gonna do well, of coarse i only knew about this hours before the contest, but hey

Number of countries with 100% qualification streak has increased! We now have 2: Ukraine and Luxembourg

I can’t wait for Helvetica to be next year‘s typeface. 😂

The fact that one of my favourites actually won🥹🥳 That never happens, sometimes they don't even qualify 😂

EUROPAPAPAPAPAPAPAPAPAPAPA. Thats all i like this year(maybe even windows)

Split screen for Croatia and Switzerland

I cried with happiness when I saw the winner will be one of them. I loved them both and this whole time I was hoping it will be between them two. That was the moment for me when I knew I’ll be happy no matter who wins this year😭❤️

Germany getting 12th place. I enjoyed that song and performance but didn't expect such love

Luxembourg getting a respectable position and they've even confirmed their participation for 2025

Ukraine breaking the 2nd position curse

The LEDs, stage parts and camera angles were so good

Having a great song win after such a chaotic year. I'm just hoping for world peace and hoping for a much peaceful next year with more countries returning

The Top 5 countries were well deserved and I enjoyed their performances

Georgia & Latvia breaking their NQ streaks and my fav (Sweden) being in the top 10

GERMANY NOT LORD OF THE LAST PLACE!

-I fully fell in love with Baby Lasagna from the jump this year and I feel so immensely proud of everything he and his team accomplished. I was cheesing so hard for both SF1 and his GF performance.

-I didn’t love ‘The Code’ at first (even though I liked it more than last year’s entry), but it really grew on me over the course of the lead up this year and Nemo’s performance and just them in general sealed the deal for me that I still felt so happy when they won. To borrow a term from my wrestling fandom, it was still a babyface ending to be happy about.

-Bambie Thug’s strength of vision, but most importantly, their strength of character. I’m in absolute awe of them.

-5miinust x Puuluup just being extreme goofballs both in the competition and online really just brought a smile to my face every time.

-Ladaniva just being a joy from their song and staging. Jaklin is a force.

-Jerry and Aloyna continuing the streak of Ukraine being some of the best to do Eurovision. Everything about ‘Teresa and Maria’ brought tears to my eyes.

-‘Zorra,’ ‘Uvehelm,’ and ‘No Rules!’ were so great even if they didn’t get ideal rankings in the points. The first performance of ‘No Rules!’ especially during the SF had me crying with laughter.

-Danny from Voyager’s points announcement! Voyager has been one of the artists from last year that I actively follow (Fearless in Love is in constant rotation in my car) and I just loved seeing him again. The keytar solo, The Simpsons joke, the ‘Promise’ pun, the metal voice for Ireland… 12 points all around! I hope he continues to kick cancer’s ass!

Loreen Forever ❤️

I loved Ireland this year. Their whole journey was great to see. I also loved that my country took a risk this year by sending Joost. Loved Croatias Cinderella story. Loved the first out non-binairy win. Loved the second semi in terms of hosting.

Also the stage was amazing and a lot of artist made proper use of it.

Star of wonder...