Apart from the trans flag bikini, I think it's fine. A performance about a witch cavorting with a demon isn't that different than Lordi performing as demons, and everyone agrees that was the best Eurovision entry ever. I'd rather have subversive rock and metal entries like those than garbage like I Don't Feel Hate.
A fair, balanced take. Ireland has sent boring generic pop songs for over a decade and did terribly, so they went the other end of the spectrum and for some reason, people like it. It sounds like shite to me, but I tend to enjoy the more cheesy europop.
The last time we sent a protest act (2008), it also did terribly - a turkey puppet who is a national treasure, but failed to resonate with our friends on the continent.
Maybe if she admitted to being a she, and didn’t literally stand there in the trans bikini with a defiled Irish flag with “Crown the Witch” inked on it, I would let it pass…
And sure, it’s all an act (as is very obvious from that interview I linked), but unlike Finland, it’s not even good. It’s fully intended to piss off as many people back home in Ireland as possible (successfully, I might add), but unlike Slovenia, which also did an act/song about a witch, I would call it more just shit, than subversive…
Even the extremely gay Australian Eurovision host thought it went too far, which says a lot.
I think the difference is that Finland has a history with this sort of… “Subversive” subculture, even before Lordi. Ireland does not.
But really I just hate anyone who tries to force those around them to use their bullshit “no -binary” pronouns, so maybe that plays into my dislike more than almost anything else…
Apart from the trans flag bikini, I think it's fine. A performance about a witch cavorting with a demon isn't that different than Lordi performing as demons, and everyone agrees that was the best Eurovision entry ever. I'd rather have subversive rock and metal entries like those than garbage like I Don't Feel Hate.
I never liked the Lordi song. It's the same eurotrash bland bullshit as always, but sideways.
A fair, balanced take. Ireland has sent boring generic pop songs for over a decade and did terribly, so they went the other end of the spectrum and for some reason, people like it. It sounds like shite to me, but I tend to enjoy the more cheesy europop.
The last time we sent a protest act (2008), it also did terribly - a turkey puppet who is a national treasure, but failed to resonate with our friends on the continent.
Maybe if she admitted to being a she, and didn’t literally stand there in the trans bikini with a defiled Irish flag with “Crown the Witch” inked on it, I would let it pass…
And sure, it’s all an act (as is very obvious from that interview I linked), but unlike Finland, it’s not even good. It’s fully intended to piss off as many people back home in Ireland as possible (successfully, I might add), but unlike Slovenia, which also did an act/song about a witch, I would call it more just shit, than subversive…
Even the extremely gay Australian Eurovision host thought it went too far, which says a lot.
I think the difference is that Finland has a history with this sort of… “Subversive” subculture, even before Lordi. Ireland does not.
But really I just hate anyone who tries to force those around them to use their bullshit “no -binary” pronouns, so maybe that plays into my dislike more than almost anything else…