The Eurovijan Song competition is going into the home stretch, with the second semi -finals on 15 May.
Prior to the week of the competition, artists from 37 participating countries gathered at the official inauguration ceremony last Sunday on the stage of St. Zakobshell in Basel, Switzerland. The program was designed to reflect the celebration of the competition and the inclusive nature. But it was not uncontrolled.
Start interrupted to Eurovion
For this year’s version, the organizers came with something special. Instead of walking the artists on an turquoise Eurovion carpet in the presence of recognized journalists and selected fans, he organized a parade through the city center.
The participants presented them on a turquoise catwalk in front of the town hall, then went into vintage cars and retro streetcaries and carrying them to the competition site along the route on Rhine Bridge, along with the brass bands, traditional dress groups and carnival clubs with some 100,000 viewers.
There were common flags of nations participating on the streets of the lining of those audience, as well as LGBTQ+ proud flags. But there were a Palestinian flag and indications accusing the complexity of Eurovision in the massacre.
In the song competition, Israel’s specially protest discovery manifestations have been provoked. Israeli artist Yoval Rafael was launched in front of the Basal City Hall, and there were threats to prevent gestures and strutcar, but it was not a serious incident.
Unlike Eurovision last year in Malmo, Sweden, there have been only a few hundred protesters, where thousands of people marched through the city center for several days. At that time, Israel’s representative, Eden Golan felt the anger of other Eurovision participants.
EBU intervenes, but keep quiet
This year, to prevent similar incidents from repeating similar incidents, the Eurovision Organizer, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) require artists, members of the official delegation and members of the journalist, to sign the code of conduct of the code of conduct. One of the central points of this Code is prohibited from any political statement.
“European song competition honors freedom of expression as a fundamental right. Participants maintain their right to freedom of expression outside the competition,” the document states.
Due to the stance by EBU, the article on Yoval Rafael on the official Eurology website avoids a significant experience in 24 -year -old life: the singer survived the Hamas terrorist attack on the supernova festival on the bodies of young people killed on October 7, 2023.
In response to Hamas’s attacks, what did Israel’s military campaign in Gaza protest on 2024 Eurovijan in Malmo. This year, Spanish broadcaster RTVE called the Broadcaster Kan special for the first time for the first time in the competition. [according to official Eurovision Song Contest rules, individual broadcasters take part in the event, rather than the countries where they are located],
A few days before the introduction of this year’s competition, more than 70 former participants, musicians and lyricists invited to exclude Israel. He accused the EBU of double standards, given that Russia was banned from the competition after launching on Ukraine in 2022. The demand for excluding Israel was later added by Nemo, Switzerland, the previous year’s Eurovision winner.
In response, Martin Green, director of Eurovizon, gave his support for Israeli’s broadcaster and emphasized that it was not EBU’s job to compare conflicts. The EBU justified the Russian First Channel and Rossia Channel from the Eurovision Song Competition due to non-compliance with public broadcasters principles.
Scam and front runner
In comparison to that debate, the resentment of Jian Marco Santinao, vice-president of the Italian Senate from Right-Wing Populist Party on Estonian rapper cash, does not exceed a storm in a tea leaf.
In his song “Espresso McChyato”, Cash makes fun of the common Italian clich and Italian. “I work around the clock, so I sweat like Mafioso” was a line that especially harasses centeno, and demanded Estonian to be excluded from the competition. But Estonia is unlikely to face restrictions.
Finnish trio Kaj, performing for Sweden, is a target on a national idiosyncrasy: in the song “Bara Bada Bastu”, they joke in love of Sauna’s fines. So far, this folk-pap composition, bending more cities, is a full-fledged favorite of the spectrum, books. This can only be Sweden’s eighth win in this competition, which will be a record.
Erica Vikman, from Finland, bombing “I cum,” for German “I am Coming,” sings, which is a very clearly clear for sexual climax. According to reports, the Eurovizan organizers asked him to staging, his dress and choreography a little less sexually described. Will she take it down?
On the other hand, twenty-four-year-old Miriana Conte from Malta to her R&B-style songs: original title, “Kant,” means “Kant,”, means, a pornography for female sexual organ in English-Alpine. “No longer visible.
The bookies’ audies have Miriana Conte, Erica Vikman and Tommy Cash who maintain their locations among the top 10 favorite a week before the Eurovision Final. But he gives “Maman” and “New Day Will Rise” by French singer Laune to Israeli singer Yoval Rafael, as well as the best potential for success by Pop Aria “waste love”, which was done by countertor JJ representing Austria.
Eurovision Trend in Basel
Germany expects Electro-Pop composition “bowler” by Duo Abor and Tyna, aka brother-in-law Attila and Tesis Bornmissza from Vienna, will be a success. Germany’s transnational collaboration with Austria shows a broad eurosion trend this year: Fins are competing for Sweden, a Norwegian for Ireland, a Slovacian for the Czech Republic and an Italian for San Marino – title “Tutta L’Talia” (“All Italy”) with the title “Tutta L’T’Talia” (all Italy “).
Another special feature of this year’s competition is the number of songs that are not only or only in English: more than half of the 37 songs are in other languages.
The winner will be determined on the first and second semi -final results and the results of the final on Saturday, 17 May.
This article was original in German.
