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4 days agoThat’s so mean to say, the Eurovision entries are genuinely creative! Both music and performances. The winning Bulgarian song Bangaranga by DARA for example is about self-empowerment and defiance of a non-conforming society featuring visuals of literal masking and multiple genre changes in the music.
Other notable songs, in my opinion, are:
- Lithuania’s entry Sólo Quiero Más by Lion Ceccah, which is about what keeps people alive in a hopeless world.
- Romania’s entry Choke Me by Alexandra Căpitănescu mixing alt rock with opera singing.
- Greece’s entry Ferto by Akylas about gambling addiction and escapeism.
- Switzerland’s entry Alice by Veronica Fusaro about toxic relationships and abuse towards women with visuals of being captured and bound by a web of lies.
Every artist who makes it to Eurovision can be proud of themselves, it really is a great contest. Nonetheless I would also want the EBU to exclude Israel from participating. It’s hypocrisy to exclude Russia for starting a war but not Israel.
It’s good that OG directly linked to the toot but I always hate when dates are cutoff. This toot is from 2024 when Google started introducing manifest v3 which prevented ublock origin from working, hence many people were looking for alternative browsers and Brave was one of the more popular ones. While I would not recommend Brave, I’ve heard the crypto rewarding program is opt-in and the affiliate link injection was removed soon after getting backlash.
Brendan Eich is still an ass though, and Brave has very bad business practices. Only recently Brave announced a 60$ (free on Linux though) minimalist variant that removes unwanted features like the crypto rewarding program, Brave VPN and AI chatbot which are built-in for the default browser variant.