This is likely to happen in the grand finale as well.īut that's a quibble. Both of the semi-finals that aired on Peacock earlier this week were plagued by audio delays that got progressively worse as the show went on. Having the live - and on-demand - Eurovision finale so easily available in the U.S. This year, Americans will be able to watch the Eurovision Song Contest live on Peacock. (Logo got the rights to broadcast it live in 2018, and in 2019 Netflix acquired the finale, but only made it available two months later.) In the past, the only way us Yanks could take part in the global phenomenon along with the rest of the world was by setting up a VPN (ask your kids), logging onto a Swedish livestream or hopping on a plane to Europe.
viewers will be able to watch the Eurovision finale live, more easily than ever. What's new and important, however, is that this year, U.S. Two semi-finals on Tuesday and Thursday eliminated 13 countries 26 remain for the Grand Finale, which will take place on Saturday. No dancing, no backup dancers, just the performer planting their feet and emoting their guts out in front of a light show that bathes them in (usually) the Purple Glow of Performative Melancholy.Įurovision took 2020 off, as you can imagine, but it's back with a glittery, splendiferous vengeance this year. Ballads Slow, emotional, achingly sincere. Dance moves, if any, are scaled way way back in favor of posing defiantly.ģ. Anthems Stirring, bombastic, heedlessly over-the-top barn-burners about not giving up, or standing up, or looking up, possibly. Generally involve backup dancers who haven't had a carb since the London Olympics.Ģ. Bops Up-tempo, egregiously catchy tunes made for the darkest, sweatiest, stickiest dancefloor in, say, Ibiza. The Eurovision Song Contest pits 26 European nations - and sometimes Australia (long story) - against one another in a three-hour display of pure, exuberant, insanely catchy and/or just plainly insane songs, painstakingly engineered by teams of professionals to worm their way into the ears and hearts of an audience numbering in the hundreds of millions.Įach song clocks in at three minutes in length, and tends to slot into one of three categories:ġ. At that time, vast stockpiles of sequins, lasers, dry ice and fireworks scattered around the world will dry up spontaneously-only to reappear all at once, en masse, on a stage in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Eastern Standard Time, you may sense a diffuse but palpable shift in the global marketplace of finite resources. This Saturday, May 22, on or around 3:00 p.m. Norway's TIX (Andreas Haukeland) performs during the Eurovision Song Contest dress rehearsal in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
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