Basel, Switzerland – Austria crowned the winner of Saturday in the Eurovision song competition, the world’s most popular singing championship, overcoming strong competition from Israel Switzerland To come in the first place in an evening full of magic and magic.
The song “Love Love” was won by JJ, 436 points through a group of votes from viewers and situations of music specialists from every participating country.
JJ is an anti -Opera singer, and the song uses his impressive audio collection. It begins with a swelling orchestra with a dance club.
Despite widespread rumors and high expectations for the appearance of return to the homeland by Celine Dion, who won the competition while representing Switzerland in 1988 (artists should not be one of the countries they represent), the Canadian star was unable to attend. The singer cleared her last general manifestations due to the diagnosis of the cruel person’s syndrome. It was earlier Send a video messageShe played during the semi -finals on Tuesday, which she said “will not love anything more” than the attendance of Eurovision, and called for winning the competition “Change of Life”.
Each country is competing in Eurovision also votes for the winner, which means that regional competitions and alliances from the real world leak into the results.
Greek allies and Cyprus have a long history of giving each other 12 points (the most possibility), which often corresponds to booing from the crowd. Greece only reached this year, and Cyprus gave it 12 points.
On the other hand, neither Armenia nor Azerbaijan, who fought wars on the disputed lands in Nagorno Karabakh, did not grant her neighbor more than a handful of points. This year, Azerbaijan did not reach the final. Azerbaijan again did not give any jury to Armenia.
The most part -time participant was Joval Rafael in Israel, whose song “New Day Will Rise” revolves around finding hope after the tragedy. While the song does not mention any specific events, Rafael escaped the terrorist attacks led by Hamas in Israel on October 7, 2023, where about 1,200 people were killed and 250 others were taken into account.
More than 53,000 people were killed in Gaza, more than 53,000 people, and the remaining population has brought about 2 million people to the brink of hunger. For many critics, the inclusion of Israel in Eurovision is tantamount to accepting its military campaign, and the demonstrators are demanding the expulsion of Israel from the competition, just as Russia was in 2022 after its full invasion of Ukraine.
Raphael’s song, which was met with scattered dirt, as well as chants, ranked second, with 357 points.
There were nurtures of disbelief in the audience when the other competitor, Switzerland, did not give any points from the public.
Sweden’s failure to victory was a surprise in its favorite position, which was driven by “Para Bada Basto” from Kaj, a comic poem of the North traditions of going to the sauna. Finns’s performance in Act’s TROO of Finws has shown a sauna fu with backup dancers – a vision for European culture, not just winning on Saturday.
This event was Glitz and Showbiz Glamor, with fans from all over the continent chanting their favorite contestants as a TV audience of hundreds of millions who watched at home and at viewership.
Eurovision began in Switzerland in 1956 as a way to test new TV technology, and to help combine Europe after the war. At that time, the competition appeared only seven countries. This year, there were 37 countries that participated, as they retreated to 26 contestants in the semi -finals earlier this week. Production is now giant, with hundreds of crew members and 22 cameras that pick up this procedure.
The first performance of the 19 -year -old Kyle Alessandro was from Norway, who took the theater wearing a series for a scoop show of fireworks for his entry, “lighter weight.”
His song started with an offer that included an unforgettable offers, including the Finland Erika Vikman, which ends “Ich Komme”, which was sexually shipped with her suspension in the air on the top of a giant microphone from which sparks are emitted.
Justyna Steczkowska returned from Poland to Eurovision after 30 years with the performance of “Game of Thrones” who witnessed the 52 -year -old player It was lifted in the air with ropes when the CGI dragon pounced behind on the LED video wall on an area of 8000 square feet.
About 163 million Watch people finish eurovision and half the semi -finals last year. Final viewing numbers are not available yet for this year’s competition, but it will certainly remain one of the most watched events in the world. It attracts more viewers from Super Bowl, who had 123.4 million viewers last year, according to CBS.
These viewers are likely to see “lost love” climbing plans throughout Europe. For some winners in the Eurovision, such as Dion and Aba, is awaiting international stardom.
Most artists are not fully lucky, but the huge platform means that the winners can see the levels of fame they dream about.
The Italian rock band Månskin performed a performance on “Saturday Night Live” after its victory in the 2021 competition, and the Dutch singer Duncan Laurence performed his song “Arcade” winning in the “Today” program from NBC when she started climbing American plans after she became a virus on Tiktok.
For the 25 artists who have not won, there is still hope to find new fans.
Holly Ann Hull, a member of British law for this year, to remember Monday, told NBC News in an interview with Zoom last month that for her group, the result is secondary for the opportunity to be able to perform together on the world stage.
She said, “We do not do it even for direct view. We do this because of the fact that we can live in this group every day until that moment.” “All we dreamed of is to do this band full time.”
