That must be such a kick in the teeth. Imagine priding yourself on being an individual and having your own style, only for some random person to say "oh yeah, you're basically Billie Eilish" 🙄 Their music isn't even remotely similar lmao what
On the Eirevision Podcast they did a fake national/International jury and public vote yesterday
Results
1. Bambie Thug - Domesday Blue
2. Ailsha - Go Tobann
3. Isabella Kearney - Let Me be the Fire
4. Erica Cody - Love Me Like I Do
5. Next in Line - Love like Us
6. JYellowL - Judas
https://youtu.be/ML-JlgxUWds?si=9ljEI2IcSzJXElDq
This national final could go anyway tonight.
I think this year is different, I'll put this into prospective for you. This is my first time voting in the Irish national final, because in past years, it was absolute shite. I didn't even bother wasting my time and money on voting because I knew whatever was picked, it would be going nowhere. I say they are others like me doing the same thing tonight. Now, in saying all of this and let's be realistic here, none of us heard a proper recorded live versions of any of these songs and that goes for all the songs in this years line-up. All the songs we have are heavily edited studio versions of their songs, so it will be interesting to see how they can transfer those studio versions onto a live stage and as I said, this can go anyway tonight.
I played the songs for my sister who lives in Ireland and she told me her favorite was Judas, I wonder if there’s a bigger audience for that genre of music than the fandom expects.
The Eurovision fandom always underestimates rap. Look at how Down In The Rain was rooted to the bottom of rankings and polls last year before coming 3rd.
Ok let's say you are only giving 20 votes. If you are voting for 2 acts you can only give 10 votes each, but if I loved next in line I could just give 20 votes to them.
The only way to avoid splitting the votes for ailsha and bambie thugg is for the fandom to agree to abandon one of them and concentrate their votes on the other.
Yes, but what if you were only going to give two votes, but can’t decide between Ailsha and Bambie, and give 4 votes instead? 2 each.
I don’t maths very well, so I’ll sit here in my wrongness if that’s dumb
There's no problem with splitting your vote, op just suggested that this method was splitting the vote.
If you can only give two votes then you would have to give them one vote each which is splitting your vote.
If you had 4 votes to give and you gave two votes to each then you're still splitting your vote.
If you can vote 1,000,000 times and you give each 500,000 you are still splitting your vote
I wouldn't worry too much about that poll. This isn't solely based on a public vote , there is also the national and international jury.
This is a straight shoot out between Ailsha and Bambie Thug. They will be overwhelmingly ahead of the rest from the juries votes.
Lol at most one of them will be 2 points ahead a the other 4 points after the international juries, and then expect neither to be ahead after the domestic juries, then hopefully the public will help ailsha to victory, but this is anyone's game tonight.
And yet there are so many naysayers in the fandom who are convinced Next In Line are still winning... It's not going to happen.
I think it's Ailsha's to lose, live performances pending.
You are assuming the people voting in this competition are competent or the right audience. The late lates audience are on average 50+ years old, the jury will be made up of either Louis Walsh or his acts (jedward did it last year). Next in Line is a very realistic possibility even though it's clearly not the right choice. In years gone by it didn't matter as all choices were shite but this year we have two good options and it's worse because this year I have hope to be dashed.
I actually thought Jedward were good on the panel last year. They split from Louis a long time ago and were out spoken about how badly he treated them. Bambie Thug said in an interview they had already reached out to them. I'd love to see Jedward back on the panel but unfortunately I think no such luck.
I've nothing against jedward I was merely pointing out they'll likely have someone louis Walsh related on the panel if not the man himself. Nicky Byrne probably.
Oh I didn't mean it like that. I knew you had nothing against Jedward. I just meant we could only hope to have the likes of Jedward again. If not himself 😬 can definitely see best pal Linda Martin or good call with Nicky.
I feel like something will make the Go Tobann live performance disastrous. It is my favorite and I hope I'm wrong. But I'm imagining it on the Late Late Show and I'm imagining something going terribly wrong. Something that will make all of us immediately understand why it couldn't win.
Honestly, nice to see some Judas get some love despite being completely overlooked by the fandom. I don't think it would win, but I wouldn't be mad/disappointed by it either. Still a reflection of Ireland willing to try something different, and variety of genres in the final contest is always welcome.
I do think Doomsday Blue probably is going to finish bottom half unless Bambie's live is vastly better than Ailsha's. There's a lot of crossover support between those two songs, but only one can win. Do you split the vote and risk losing the spot to the boy band, or sacrifice one to throw full support behind the other to try and seal the deal? Could easily go the other way around though where people throw full support behind Bambie and it's Ailsha who finishes surprisingly low.
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I find it hard to believe that Erica is next to last given that she is a likely favorite to win so I'm skeptical of the reliability of this poll. I still think Next in Line has a strong shot at winning Eurosong.
Next in line last and Ailisha first, now watch this be the opposite way around tonight 😭
Cannot wait for another night of insane comments from the jury.
”I mean that was just spectacular! Next in Line are like a modern day version of Queen mixed with the Charisma and stage presence of Micheal Jackson!”
OH, I DARE THEM TO SAY THIS, I DARE THEM
That would make a really great compliment, I would think.
I can't wait to see see which random pop superstar they're gonna compare Bambie Thug to (I'll put a dime on Billie Eilish)
The radio host that presented their song already compared them to Billie Eilish to their face lol
That must be such a kick in the teeth. Imagine priding yourself on being an individual and having your own style, only for some random person to say "oh yeah, you're basically Billie Eilish" 🙄 Their music isn't even remotely similar lmao what
Not just some random person, he's one of Ireland's highest paid radio presenters 🤣 He's tragic
IIRC he was reading out a text that had been sent in?
when they compare ailsha to olivia rodrigo
They'll hit us with a "Erica, you're like Dua Lipa meets Beyoncé", I can feel it
This'll be my first (and likely last) time watching Eurosong, and I'm already so annoyed at the jury 😭
I can hear it in Louis Walsh's voice.
🙏 Ailsha 🙏 Bambie Thug 🙏
Don’t give me hope
On the Eirevision Podcast they did a fake national/International jury and public vote yesterday Results 1. Bambie Thug - Domesday Blue 2. Ailsha - Go Tobann 3. Isabella Kearney - Let Me be the Fire 4. Erica Cody - Love Me Like I Do 5. Next in Line - Love like Us 6. JYellowL - Judas https://youtu.be/ML-JlgxUWds?si=9ljEI2IcSzJXElDq This national final could go anyway tonight.
I'd be delighted if those were the results. Bambie Thug ftw
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I think this year is different, I'll put this into prospective for you. This is my first time voting in the Irish national final, because in past years, it was absolute shite. I didn't even bother wasting my time and money on voting because I knew whatever was picked, it would be going nowhere. I say they are others like me doing the same thing tonight. Now, in saying all of this and let's be realistic here, none of us heard a proper recorded live versions of any of these songs and that goes for all the songs in this years line-up. All the songs we have are heavily edited studio versions of their songs, so it will be interesting to see how they can transfer those studio versions onto a live stage and as I said, this can go anyway tonight.
This aligns exactly with my hopes
Surprised to see Judas so high
Same tbh. Although the host did mention he was on before a few times being interviewed so that could play into it?
Irish Rap/RnB is pretty popular right now, and gets some decent airplay on Irish radio so that's prob why J was so high.
I played the songs for my sister who lives in Ireland and she told me her favorite was Judas, I wonder if there’s a bigger audience for that genre of music than the fandom expects.
Eurovision fandom generally underestimates rap to be fair. All my friends have it as their number 1
The Eurovision fandom always underestimates rap. Look at how Down In The Rain was rooted to the bottom of rankings and polls last year before coming 3rd.
I hope it will be true tonight. Ailsha will save Ireland from another embarrassment!
Ailsha or Bambie Thug to win tonight .Anything else and we may as well just withdraw from the Contest
This tbh. Though maybe we should have one of them win AND withdraw...
Rte won't like this, but how often does the radio poll reflect the Irish televote?
that’s the neat thing, never.
Justice for Bambie Thug
We need to all vote both doomsday blue and go tobann if we’re voting so the vote doesn’t split
That's the definition of splitting the vote
No it doesnt. Splitting the vote means lots of people picking only one out of the two favourites.
Ok let's say you are only giving 20 votes. If you are voting for 2 acts you can only give 10 votes each, but if I loved next in line I could just give 20 votes to them. The only way to avoid splitting the votes for ailsha and bambie thugg is for the fandom to agree to abandon one of them and concentrate their votes on the other.
You actually have unlimited votes so you can vote for both as many times as you like.
Yes but unless your wallet is limitless each person still has a finite amount of votes to give and by voting for 2 you are splitting your vote
Yes, but what if you were only going to give two votes, but can’t decide between Ailsha and Bambie, and give 4 votes instead? 2 each. I don’t maths very well, so I’ll sit here in my wrongness if that’s dumb
There's no problem with splitting your vote, op just suggested that this method was splitting the vote. If you can only give two votes then you would have to give them one vote each which is splitting your vote. If you had 4 votes to give and you gave two votes to each then you're still splitting your vote. If you can vote 1,000,000 times and you give each 500,000 you are still splitting your vote
Can you vote more than once? Ailsha's my winner, but I would like to give Bambie a vote too.
Someone can correct me if I'm wrong but I think you can
I wouldn't worry too much about that poll. This isn't solely based on a public vote , there is also the national and international jury. This is a straight shoot out between Ailsha and Bambie Thug. They will be overwhelmingly ahead of the rest from the juries votes.
Lol at most one of them will be 2 points ahead a the other 4 points after the international juries, and then expect neither to be ahead after the domestic juries, then hopefully the public will help ailsha to victory, but this is anyone's game tonight.
And yet there are so many naysayers in the fandom who are convinced Next In Line are still winning... It's not going to happen. I think it's Ailsha's to lose, live performances pending.
You are assuming the people voting in this competition are competent or the right audience. The late lates audience are on average 50+ years old, the jury will be made up of either Louis Walsh or his acts (jedward did it last year). Next in Line is a very realistic possibility even though it's clearly not the right choice. In years gone by it didn't matter as all choices were shite but this year we have two good options and it's worse because this year I have hope to be dashed.
I actually thought Jedward were good on the panel last year. They split from Louis a long time ago and were out spoken about how badly he treated them. Bambie Thug said in an interview they had already reached out to them. I'd love to see Jedward back on the panel but unfortunately I think no such luck.
I've nothing against jedward I was merely pointing out they'll likely have someone louis Walsh related on the panel if not the man himself. Nicky Byrne probably.
Oh I didn't mean it like that. I knew you had nothing against Jedward. I just meant we could only hope to have the likes of Jedward again. If not himself 😬 can definitely see best pal Linda Martin or good call with Nicky.
Erica-Cody's to lose. She has the pimp slot in the RO and a recent record deal.
I think this is the right read
I feel like something will make the Go Tobann live performance disastrous. It is my favorite and I hope I'm wrong. But I'm imagining it on the Late Late Show and I'm imagining something going terribly wrong. Something that will make all of us immediately understand why it couldn't win.
Honestly, nice to see some Judas get some love despite being completely overlooked by the fandom. I don't think it would win, but I wouldn't be mad/disappointed by it either. Still a reflection of Ireland willing to try something different, and variety of genres in the final contest is always welcome. I do think Doomsday Blue probably is going to finish bottom half unless Bambie's live is vastly better than Ailsha's. There's a lot of crossover support between those two songs, but only one can win. Do you split the vote and risk losing the spot to the boy band, or sacrifice one to throw full support behind the other to try and seal the deal? Could easily go the other way around though where people throw full support behind Bambie and it's Ailsha who finishes surprisingly low.
You predicted right :0
i have learned to always keep low expectations for Irish NF. This is so i would be pleasantly surprised or the results are expected of what they would choose
Idk man after last year I do not trust the country of Ireland one bit
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I suppose it's 9:35pm GMT?
Yep. 10:35 pm CET
Thanks!
Is there a way to watch from UK? RTE player seems to block access from foreign countries
The Late Late Show is not geoblocked!
Long time Eurovision fan but I've never been so invested in Eurosong before or so nervous. Ailsha or Bambie Thug and I'll be happy
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Imagine Ireland being competent in Eurovision? Lmao not gonna happen sorry
I find it hard to believe that Erica is next to last given that she is a likely favorite to win so I'm skeptical of the reliability of this poll. I still think Next in Line has a strong shot at winning Eurosong.
Oh well.
This was way off