Eurovision 2024

Eurovision: The Year of Broken Dreams

Some time has passed and I think I'm not the only one who needed space and time to process the most political year of Eurovision.

Without a doubt, this is one of the worst years that we as eurofans have experienced. This year more than others, we the fans have had to defend the indefensible, with an EBU unable to do anything. I could not believe what was happening, we were nearly close to see die a song contest that was born as an illusion, as an idea; if you want naive to unite a continent torn to pieces.

I personally lived it as one of the most stressful moments of my life, I could not sleep for a week, is this normal? The answer is no, letting something like Eurovision consume your life is a bad thing, but I love it so much and care enough to write this.

How is it possible to get so low, knowing the EBU it honestly doesn't surprise me, they always find ways to take something away from us the fans, examples? there are plenty: From removing the live orchestra to the backing vocals, because if you didn't know it now the backing vocals are pre-recorded, because nowadays even the song order matters, now it turns out that our voice is worth less that of a supposed professional jury.

Somehow we find ourselves with a '90s Eurovision, where political conflicts somehow mark the process of the competition. Because until not so long ago Croats, Serbs, Herzegovinians were destroying each other in a war after the fall of the former Yugoslavia.

Israel with its Hurricane took the last event we have, where it doesn't matter what country or continent we are from, what matters is our love or dislike whether justified or not for a song. I know that Israel has always been the elephant in the room.

How is it possible that this Song Contes has transformed into a football club, where fans have to be separated and even remove?

This silent contract between fans, press and artists has been broken; just look at the presence of police and snipers in Malmö. I want to be clear on this: The EBU was responsible for removing Palestinian flags, those of the LGBTQ+ community even the flag of the European Union.

They even censored the musical performance of of Eric Saade, who wore a Kufiya, almost removed the rehearsal of the singer Iolanda of Portugal for wearing the nails painted with the same color of (and I hate to repeat myself ) a Kufiya. This organization forced Bambi Thug of Ireland to remove "cease fire" from her/them body, this message was written in a language that incidentally nobody speaks, and that in addition no one would have noticed but thanks to the EBU everyone knew about it

And what surprises me the most is that the EBU basically gave the Israeli delegation permission to harass singers, fans and the press. Because the personal interests of its largest contributor is worth more than those of the other 36 delegations.

Never in the whole history of Eurovision had the general coordinator of the show been booed, and that to make it worse they did not even bother to hide it, because how do you hide that?

The EBU shattered the dreams of several artists who wanted to represent their country with pride: singers like Silvester Belt from Litiania, Joost Klein from the Netherlands or Nemo from Switzerland. How do you apologize to all of them?

And now what we have a result of this poor management is this huge Joost Klein problem that we will never know the answer, because the police are not called for a simple thing . We have a victory full of doubts, because although Nemo deserved to win. People will wonder, it’s my personal belief that them won by them own right and destroyed every single contestant, that them could find, them won because them fought hard for it, and non the less there will always be questions about them win.

We ended up with a Croatia with its best historical result, which ended up paying the price and lost to make Switzerland win. Croatia with Baby Lasagna came close to winning, and if you ask me, they deserved it. (though second place is just as awesome as first )

Baby Lasgna deserved much more, a boy like him who entered as a replacement at Dora and won, a boy who breathes and lives music and who had given up his dream because in a country like Croatia, there are few who manage to make a living from it.

Now Eurovision returns home and it will be Switzerland's responsibility to repair the relations that were broken. Switzerland, the most neutral of nations, will have the difficult task of convincing the other delegations that it is worth returning.

The only thing I have left to say is that, it is an extraordinary irony, that although Israel almost achieved its goal of subduing Eurovision through its propaganda machine spread throughout Europe and the United States, we were the ones who took control, we said enough and if that were not enough we stop a delegation willing to do anything to destroy the foundations of a contest like Eurovision.