Think About Eurovision

The One With The Dancing Gorilla (2017)

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In this episode we Celebrate Diversity with 3 white male hosts, Kris & Kim both fail to predict each other's favourite songs and discuss news about the 2021 contest!a

  • Postcards 2010 - 2019 explained
  • Salvador Sobral's victory speech
  • Sweden's Robin Bengtsson wasn't happy about his speech
  • Salvador's SOS Refugees sweatshirt
  • Amar Pelos Dois and Salvador's Eurovision movie cameo
  • JOWST wanted to send a song for the UK, but the BBC rejected them
  • Behind the lyrics of Occidentali's Karma
  • Wikipedia can explain The Naked Ape better than Kris will ever be able to do
  • Epic Sax Guy, the best meme to come from Eurovision
  • The Curse of Number Two
  • The Anti-Defamation League article on the Okay Hand Gesture (NOTE: WE ARE IN NO WAY SUGGESTING THAT ROBIN BENGTSSON USED THIS TO REPRESENT WHITE POWER - JUST EXPLAINING WHY THIS MAY BE MAKING KRIS FEEL UNEASY)
  • Swearing isn't permitted in Eurovision, so Robin had to change the lyrics
  • One day we'll stop mentioning this stupid circular piano, but today is not that day
  • Jamala's Stage Invasion
  • Lucie Jones & Marisha Wallace performing Take Me Or Leave Me from RENT in 2019
  • Kris recreated this particular moment from Lucie Jones
  • The holograph of a performer disappearing and reappearing... yep, TWICE in the show notes we're linking to the stupid circular piano
  • France's song was performed before September 2016, however the EBU never made a final decision on it
  • The way televote numbers were announced was changed for the 2019 contest
  • Latvian spokesperson calling Sobral a "pop idol" and Salvador not looking happy
  • We've been guaranteed a 2021 contest with the same hosts, slogan & logo

    • Next time: 1998!  

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