Just like with the semi-finals, this is the live thread for the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2024.
As there is (to my knowledge), no Lemmy equivalent to https://reddit-stream.com/, the best alternative is refreshing the website about once after each song. This should still be okay for now as this community is relatively small.
Sort by New to see the newest comments or additionally click on the Chat button to break the replies apart and even show the newest replies.

Thanks to @You@feddit.de, there are some links for the Grand Finale:
The Grand Finale Livestream on YouTube: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ckGRHJ-J9G4

National broadcasts:

Perhaps one of these might not be geoblocked, but not guaranteed)

And some background information:

  • @SorteKaninAEnglish
    2•1 month ago

    Ugh, once again the public’s favourite is shoved aside by the jury’s favourite. What’s the point of voting when the jury gets to decide every time anyway?

    • @Korne127@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      10•1 month ago

      Every time?!

      Source for the graphics

      I am genuinely sorry if your favourite didn’t make it, but that just… happens for most people when there are many songs. My favourite in 2021 was Switzerland, who won the jury vote but didn’t win overall. But like yeah, Maneskin won and it’s fine, because it’s not just about me. Keiino was my favourite in 2019 as well, but yeah, Arcade was also a great song and a winner. And today, Nemo certainly deserved to win.

      • @SorteKaninAEnglish
        3•1 month ago

        Alright not every time, but it’s still dumb that it’s not just democratic. Last year was also the jurys favourite despite Finland winning the public vote.

        I don’t feel like they deserve to win when it’s not the people’s favourite. I don’t like the jury system. They werent even the public’s number 2.

        • @Korne127@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
          4•1 month ago

          Honestly, it’s not dumb. Televoting is super biased towards running order, just see how the same 10 songs last year got ranked in a completely different order in the semifinals and the finals by televoting only:

          It’s completely different, some places are basically upside down!

          Also, there is just a reason the jury got reinstalled. While the televote is important in my opinion to also allow different songs that are experimental or just fun to have success at ESC, jury vote is equally important to really take a value at the singing quality and difficulty.
          Just look at last year: Spain with one of the hardest songs and an insane singing quality got almost no points from the televote because it’s not directly catch on the first listen, the jury was definitely necessary. Also, Poland (with a cheap summer song) got higher than Portugal.

          The jury fixes those mistakes of the televote and the televote fixes the mistakes of the jury that sometimes doesn’t care so much for different fun songs.

          Edit: Fixed the image

          • @SorteKaninAEnglish
            4•1 month ago

            Televoting is super biased towards running order, just see how the same 10 songs last year got ranked in a completely different order in the semifinals and the finals by televoting

            Do we have any evidence that the jury’s vote is not similarly biased? It may as well be. Also tbf many people only watch the finals so it could also be explained by a difference in demographic.

            jury vote is equally important to really take a value at the singing quality and difficulty

            I disagree on this point - the jury might be musical professionals, but they are not the authority on what is good or bad music. That is a personal judgement and the only way to agree on a winner is a democratic vote.

            A difficult song does not equal a good song and an “easy” song can still be a masterpiece. I don’t think you should be awarded points for singing a difficult, yet bad, song.

            • @Korne127@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
              7•1 month ago

              Do we have any evidence that the jury’s vote is not similarly biased? It may as well be.

              Yep. Here is a literal study coming to exactly that conclusion: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003188933-12
              But also, you don’t really need a study for that. It’s pretty clear that people who just see songs and a recap and vote for what they have in their memory are more susceptible for it than a Jury that needs to literally rank every single song in a list from 1 to 25/26 in different categories.

              And the image I posted above definitely shows how much running order impacts the televoting, as well as this image does (from when the running order was drawn at random):

              That is a personal judgement

              I’m sorry, but I just disagree. With a relative of mine having studied musical theory for years, I definitely know that there is a huge difference between opinions of random people and people who literally have spent years with the theory and can judge the quality of singing and the challenges of a song in completely different and finer ways. There definitely is another level of appreciation.

              • @SorteKaninAEnglish
                4•1 month ago

                It comes down to a philosophical disagreement on whether art has inherent/objective qualities or whether it can only be judged from a purely subjective perspective. I strongly lean towards the latter while you and the EBU lean more towards the former. I don’t agree that there truly is a different level of appreciation (perhaps a different method of reaching that appreciation, but just as valid). I think we can only agree to disagree on such a fundamental thing.