The Team
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salvador sobral: *tries to pass an important message about helping refugees but isn’t allowed to bc it’s too political*
salvador sobral: *thanks his sister and the composer luis figueiredo for making the song, giving them all the credit*
salvador sobral: *can’t get excited during the voting bc of his heart condition but when his sister is singing on stage he flails adorably at her performance*
salvador sobral: *during the press conference always refers to THE SONG WINNING - NOT HIMSELF bc that’s it’s the song that really matters*
salvador sobral: *doesn’t consider himself a national hero, he just wants to sing and live a peaceful life, he just hopes the song can make a change*
salvador sobral: *makes a slightly bad worded speech directing at ALL POP MUSIC, and NOT just for Eurovision competitors*
amar pelo dois: *a song with no specified gender, no specified sexuality, just the simplicity and strength of emotions conveyed in song can be applied to almost anyone over the world if you empathize with it, uniting people with a language that not the majority of the world knows about*
tumblr salty people: dude this guy is an arrogant shit saying he’s better than everyone what does he know about eurovision it’s supposed to be glamorous and full of glitter how straight is this guy with his incestuous boring duet ballad that puts anyone to sleep
me: ……….
for #CelebrateDiversity this ESC was very white and heterosexual
[presses my head to the table] can we all please remember that europe is not only significantly “whiter” than the US in terms of percentage, but “white” doesn’t necessarily mean “top dog” when it comes to european countries. western europeans? yeah, if you’re from there and you’re white you’re not gonna have a problem. eastern europe? balkans?? the amount people care or empathise with these groups in western europe - where the power-houses of the EU (e.g. germany, france, UK pre-brexit) are? very little. these countries are not in the same economic positions and it doesn’t matter if they’re white if they immigrate to, say, England (because i can tell you first hand). english people treat balkans/eastern europeans like total shit.
white europe isn’t a homogeneous group of evenly powered people - diversity here means more than your race. it means pride in our individual cultures too. whether that was achieved i can’t say since i haven’t cared about eurovision for years but i’m really fed up with ignorance when it comes to the impact of nationality (and even cultural groups within said nationalities) on the european experience. i’d argue the fact that so many countries whose brunt doesn’t reach very far getting such a large audience is a celebration of diversity every year really
for #CelebrateDiversity this ESC was very white and heterosexual
breaking news: not all Europeans are the same shade of white
Also skin colour and sexuality aren’t the only traits that a contest can be diverse in and ALSO how do you know what the contestant sexual orientations were? Should they make it public before they participate or
plot twist: Europe is actually dominantly white and our diversity lies in culture, not skin colour.
As an Ukrainian let me tell you what “Celebrate diversity” meant.
It meant the diversity of Ukrainian and European cultures. I’m sorry to break it up to you but 99% of Ukraine is white, same goes for Europe.
But I admit, they could have at least put one woman as a host.