Eurovision is supposed to be a celebration. Those lucky enough to bag tickets to the live shows are usually seen on TV dancing around the arena, cheering and having a fabulous time.
But during the jury show at this year’s song contest in Sweden, the atmosphere was anything but jubilant. Instead, the scenes inside the Malmö Arena were tense, and it’s not hard to guess why.
Clips shared online show how the usual cheers and applause were replaced by hostility, all of it directed at Eden Golan, Israel’s entry in this year’s competition. As she launched into her performance for the night, footage shows Golan being drowned out by booing and chants of “Free Palestine” from the audience. According to one attendee in the crowd, who shared their experience online, the “atmosphere inside the arena was horrible”.
How is this one lady who’s got amazing talent being held responsible for the wrong doings of her countries government?
Like that’s not how blame works, but I suppose this is their outlet?
A big shame none the less.
Eurovision participants are sent to eurovision by the public broadcaster of their country. Often the government takes part in making the choice of who goes and what the song is. She also publicly supports the actions of her government, and in previous songs that got rejected she wrote about supporting the war.
Slightly off- This same song was originally written as an October 7th memorial song, but the title (October Rain) had to be changed, along with some of the lyrics.
Either way, it won’t win.
Wrong month. If she was doing a bangin cover of November Rain by Guns N’ Roses, I’d give it a listen. That’s a great song.
She’s a wailing pop singer. I don’t think you’d want to hear her cover.
Ugh. You’re right. No wailing, please.
*November rain
Whoops. I’m a doofus. Thanks!
I wouldn’t be so sure. At least for Italy, whose votes were leaked, 40% of the votes were for Israel.
The runner up were The Netherlands, who got 7% of the votes. They are also disqualified now for “threats” against a member of the program. Coincidentally, also the only singer that publicly criticized Israël. Take that as you want.
She’s going to enroll in the IDF to murder some innocent people. She said so herself.
They also had to change the title from October Rain to Hurricane and some of the lyrics because the song was originally about what happened on October 7th.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/mar/07/israel-to-compete-at-eurovision-song-contest-after-changing-lyrics-to-its-entry
Because she is a representative of a certain non European country committing crimes against humanity and genocide while she sings?
Last I checked Israel is not in Europe.
Dude, have you actually heard the song? She’s not a bad singer, but “amazing talent” goes way too far. We’re not talking about Madonna here.
Also, the choreography in the music video is fucking hilarious.
Setting aside what others have said here. I think the article does a lot of framing by suggesting the protests and criticism are entirely directed at Israel’s entry. From what I’ve seen, the whole event itself is in the midst of a crossfire of criticism for letting Israel participate as well as being heavily biased in favor of the Israeli contestant. The Q&A with the contestants yesterday seemed to be very politicized in general. But once Golan was asked something, the organizers felt the need to clarify that she does not have to answer anything she felt uncomfortable with. That rubbed the (now probably former) contestant of the Netherlands the wrong way, asking “Why not?”. Well, the Joost situation certainly doesn’t help the organizers either. Whether they had anything to do with it or not, it puts the spotlight on them even more.
They’re continuously making fun of Joost on social media. Basically behaving like jackasses. They seem to like getting special treatment while behaving like a bully.