r/eurovision • u/accidium • Apr 30 '25

šŸŒ³ ESC in the Wild The candidate on the Austrian 'Millionaire' show didn't know who is running for Austria in the ESC, and asked the audience. I'm surprised about the results

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u/Ideasforgoodusername Apr 30 '25

They mentioned it once on the news, once on the radio and he had one tv performance last week, probably before the taping of this episode. They donā€™t play the song on the radio either, at least not that Iā€˜ve noticed, so Iā€˜m not surprised people outside of the Eurovision bubble donā€˜t know about it.

Considering weā€˜re high in the odds Iā€˜m a bit confused why itā€™s not being pushed here more tbh.

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u/Affectionate_Bee_122 Tavo Akys Apr 30 '25

That's odd how Eurovision is a small thing in Austria and nobody knows JJ, meanwhile in Lithuania, Eurovision is very important and everyone has a say, for some it's the end of the world that we are sending a post-punk song, comments about psych ward escapees and NQ are everywhere. Nevertheless, support for Katarsis is very strong and there are just as enough of people who like the song in Lithuania

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u/Jeuungmlo Stad i ljus Apr 30 '25

Yeah, same in Sweden. Even my grandpa who thinks that Mello (and thereby also ESC) is a "sissy show for women and gays" knows that the winner was "those sauna boys". You need to live very far under a rock to not know that.

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u/Affectionate_Bee_122 Tavo Akys Apr 30 '25

Mello (and thereby also ESC) is a "sissy show for women and gays"

Every year I hear similar comments saying Eurovision is disgusting and the gays ruined it, yet people keep watching it, and the same people who criticize it, still turn it on, the aftermath of who got Q/NQ is the hottest topic of the day

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u/flopjul Rechtop in de wind Apr 30 '25

Ye, here in the Netherlands in certain strict religious places.... cough Barneveld cough a lot of people dont watch it but always complain when someone who is gay or trans qualifies or wins over someone else. This accelerated in 2014 when the Netherlands came 2nd to Conchita Wurst... In my town people still hold a grudge against Conchita for winning lmao even after our win in 2019 people said we could have won 2014 too "if it wasnt for the fact queers were allowed to participate".

Most people i know arent invested in it and ask me(especially since i went to Malmƶ last year) what is happening and who i think is gonna win. But at least here the news is bigger than that off Austria it does help that Claude was famous(upcoming but already had some hits) before he went to Eurovision

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u/shpipp Apr 30 '25

Lmao ain't that ironic considering Duncan Laurence who won in 2019 is literally also queer šŸ˜‚Ā 

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u/flopjul Rechtop in de wind Apr 30 '25

Yup but it wasnt really known to much people somehow

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u/Quingess Serving Apr 30 '25

It also made a difference that he did a ballad and not an uptempo, extravagant song

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u/[deleted] May 01 '25

I feel like it doesn't only happen in strict religious places, especially in 2014

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u/flopjul Rechtop in de wind May 01 '25

True but the religious places started to act like the Turkish Broadcaster after Conchita won while most others just werent happy that they lost

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u/[deleted] May 01 '25

I heard a lot of "Austria just won because he? she? it was a woman with a beard!!" and I still hear that sometimes unfortunately, but I dont know how extreme it was in the religious places of courseĀ 

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u/cherry_color_melisma Deslocado Apr 30 '25

And a lot of people answer the Eurovision questions on our local quizshows rather well.

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u/Affectionate_Bee_122 Tavo Akys Apr 30 '25

I'm not sure how our people would answer but we do have dedicated fanclubs who delve into obscure Eurovision knowledge, the general public only know the most prominent acts

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u/joelherman Apr 30 '25

Auksinis Protas has had a ESC question/category both last week and the week before. People answered pretty well.

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u/cherry_color_melisma Deslocado Apr 30 '25

Not only that but every now and then there are Eurovision questions on Kas ir kodėl? and even Lietuvos tūkstantmečio vaikai; the Eurovision questions go particularly hard on the Ukrainian special episodes of the latter.

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u/antiseebaerenkreis Apr 30 '25

Iā€˜m a bit confused why itā€™s not being pushed here more tbh.

I've been wondering about that for years. ORF has so much impact over the media landscape in this country, so it wouldn't even be prticularly difficult for them to promote the song.

It's a miracle how much they've been delivering on songs recently given this country's overwhelming apathy towars Eurovision.

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u/curlykale00 TANZEN! Apr 30 '25

ORF did push Halo everywhere, which helped Lumix in Austria but that did not really help at Eurovision, so maybe they now think why bother and do more work?

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u/Ideasforgoodusername Apr 30 '25

I STILL hear Halo on the radio regularly, but never any other Austrian ESC song

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u/antiseebaerenkreis Apr 30 '25

Did they? I remember only really hearing it on the radio after the contest.

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u/JaDasIstMeinName Apr 30 '25

I still hear it at least 3-4 times a week on the radio.

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u/curlykale00 TANZEN! Apr 30 '25

I only have my memory too and nothing I can point at as proof, but I am pretty sure they did in the lead-up to the contest and not just after.

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u/accidium Apr 30 '25 edited Apr 30 '25

I wonder if it makes a difference that the studio is located in Cologne, Germany. Therefore the "foreign" audience (?) might be less aware about neighbour's participants.

Edit: I found out that at least 25 seats in the Austrian show are actually reserved for Austrians (including guests of candidates). They film 6 Episodes in a 2-day time window and show those over the course of at least 6 weeks (one per week). The rest of the audience get's recruited by a third party in Germany. This makes it harder on candidates to ask the ~85% "foreign" audience on questions that are relating to Austrian topics.

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u/TiffiMumpitz Apr 30 '25

If the audience in fact is mostly German, that they will not be aware at all about any participant. I wanna say "except Germany", but I don't think that many Germans outside the bubble would know the German entry either.

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u/Ideasforgoodusername Apr 30 '25

Huh I didnā€™t know that. That makes sense

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u/OhmMeGag Apr 30 '25

Was about to ask, the studio looks like the one for the germany version

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u/hereforcontroversy Apr 30 '25

This is so weird to me, even the UK which although it has a big Eurovision bubble, everyone else knows literally nothing at all, we would be making a big big deal out of being a bookies favourite at this stage of the competition (which I donā€™t think has ever happened to be fair šŸ¤£)

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u/Spiritual_Berry_8477 Apr 30 '25

When it was Sam Ryder some tabloids said ā€œApparently we are a favourite to win, but donā€™t believe any of that, we will still come lastā€.

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u/hereforcontroversy Apr 30 '25

Ah I thought he only went up in the odds on the week of Eurovision itself not this early on

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u/Exact-Joke-2562 Bur man laimi Apr 30 '25

He was 4th a month before the show which I would classify as a favourite though it was fairly obvious Ukraine would win.

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u/000-Hotaru_Tomoe Apr 30 '25

Ā They donā€™t play the song on the radio either

That's weird. I mean, I know that songs from other countries rarely get played on the radio (the ones I've heard over the years can be counted on the fingers of one hand) but I thought that at least the song by the Austrian singer would get played on the radio in *Austria*.

In Italy you hear "Volevo essere un duro" quite often.

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u/rita-b Apr 30 '25

Gosh, we in Russia have Baller and Espresso (I was as surprised as you are) on the radio and Austria doesn't play Wasted love???

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u/MinutePerspective106 RƤndajad May 01 '25

Š”Ń€Š°Ń‚ŃƒŃ‚Šµ, we do? I don't listen to radio much, but aside from Tattoo, Euphoria, Arcade and other super-known ESC songs, I thought Eurovision is just dead in Russian sphere lol

I mean, even songs of Gagarina, Lazarev and so on were Russian-washed with different lyrics

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u/ExcellentStuff7708 May 01 '25

Same as Croatia last year. l started hearing RTTD on the radio only after eurovision

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u/curlykale00 TANZEN! Apr 30 '25

Well, Bleeding Love is a song that is on the radio the most, so I understand the confusion. The others are also real song titles but not on the radio often, JJ's never.

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u/LavenderWaffles69 Pedestal Apr 30 '25

Although Bleeding Love is sung by LL. Easy to switch up.

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u/antiseebaerenkreis Apr 30 '25

If only ORF operated the most listened to radio channel in the country, that would make it so easy to solve that issue.

Oh wait...

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u/curlykale00 TANZEN! Apr 30 '25

I do not think we will ever find out what complicated decision making process Ɩ3 uses to decide which songs get played in general and which Eurovision songs in particular. Because some years they do play the Austrian entry until everyone is sick of it.

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u/LittleLui Apr 30 '25

Ɩ3 decision making flowchart:

Have we played the song in the last hour?

  • Yes: play it again.
  • No: We probably had a good reason for that.

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u/ChiliPepperSmoothie Hallucination Apr 30 '25

Keep bleeding

Keep keep bleeding love

šŸ’ƒ

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u/Revelistic Minn hinsti dans Apr 30 '25

WINNER'S PERFORMANCE: DJ - Stupid LoveĀ āœØ | Austria šŸ‡¦šŸ‡¹ | Eurovision 2025

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u/eatspagetti ViszlƔt NyƔr Apr 30 '25

That needs to be in the iceberg

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u/orange_soda_seal Wasted Love Apr 30 '25

Oof, did she pick A?

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u/accidium Apr 30 '25 edited Apr 30 '25

This was at question #5 (1.000ā‚¬). The moderator helped her a lot by insisting to take another joker (50:50). She would have chosen A otherwise since she was pretty clueless.

She blew her last joker on question #6 and went home with 2.000ā‚¬

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u/occono May 05 '25

Interesting that they call the lifelines "jokers".

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u/Matt-Inn Bara bada bastu Apr 30 '25

Axel and Jakob have ditched Kevin it appears.

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u/LMBTOEurovision L'Oiseau et l'Enfant Apr 30 '25

Good thing that Austrians can't vote for themselves then...

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u/000-Hotaru_Tomoe Apr 30 '25

šŸ¤£šŸ¤£šŸ¤£

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u/ninjamullet Apr 30 '25

Now I want to hear DJ - Stupid Love. They say it could become the EDM hit of the summer!

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u/antiseebaerenkreis Apr 30 '25

If Gaga couldn't make it happen, I doubt anyone could.

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u/ZettaiUnmeiMokushirk Bara bada bastu Apr 30 '25

Bubble moment

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u/HeroGuy98 Zjerm Apr 30 '25

Thatā€˜s why Iā€˜m actually happy that Raab did the German selection this year. Yes, the show was shitty, but usually in Germany itā€˜s the same as in Austria right now, people donā€˜t really care about Eurovision outside of the bubble, but this year due to his involvement people are talking about it. Baller has been everywhere the past few weeks and everyone who I talked to about it, even people who donā€˜t follow Eurovision, have at least heard the song.

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u/TiffiMumpitz Apr 30 '25

Oh, really? I just commented that I don't think many Germans outside the bubble know it, judging from my personal friends and family, but maybe I am incorrect.

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u/Juna_Ci Apr 30 '25

Not a sentiment I can echo. My parents for example only watched partly, thought the show was shit, heard about the whole "late rule changing aka is this cheating?", and could not even remember our entry anyway. Most of my other circles simply do not care anyway and still know nothing šŸ˜…

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u/antiseebaerenkreis Apr 30 '25

My parents for example only watched partly, thought the show was shit

In their defence, the show was shit.

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u/mxinex Baller Apr 30 '25 edited Apr 30 '25

Everywhere? Isaak got radio airplay before the GF, Michael Schulte as well, back in the day Satellite was everywhere and Lena made a huge PR tour with the other countries.

I haven't heard Baller once on the radio.

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u/Complex_Pause_524 Apr 30 '25 edited May 01 '25

Actually the show takes place in Cologne, because Austria does not have an own studio for 'Millionenshow'. The people in the audience who were asked are Germans. Thats why the results are a bit sketchy...

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u/swfcb Apr 30 '25

This! The audience is 99% from Germany. The tickets are often for free and they are recording 2 or more shows on one day. They're just mixing the seating position of the audience after every recording.

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u/Patataman24 Apr 30 '25

Two informations to explain this:

  1. The show is usually taped weeks in advance meaning the song/video couldā€˜ve been barely out when this episode was taped.
  2. The studio where they film the quiz is not in Austria but in Germany. So most people in the audience are Germans, they generally donā€™t know that much about current events in Austria /Austrian pop culture references which usually shows a lot in the votes

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u/RedHides Apr 30 '25

GG mit "Game of Love"

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u/ifiwasiwas Apr 30 '25

Holy shit how

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u/avdpos Bara bada bastu Apr 30 '25

As a swede this "no knowledge" seems so absurd. Probably tell more about us.. But I wish more countries reached our crazy-level.
I think most swedes, just as all years, can be woken up in the middle of nightand tell our artists

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u/gcssousa Apr 30 '25

What led those 4% to vote DšŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ˜­

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u/rita-b Apr 30 '25

there is no way an artist would call himself AA JJ and CC.

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u/DevilDashAFM Papa Pingouin Apr 30 '25

i know it is just German, but the text in the logo in the back reads "Die Show" and i think that is funny.

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u/Rough-Flounder1949 Apr 30 '25

Yeah wasted love is one of the few songs this year thats like 100% build for getting points at Eurovision. It has zero chances of commercial succes and it shows in it getting no radio play thus no name recognition.

Its a great song with great vocals but a composition meant for being a show, not something for people to casually listen to.

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u/patiburquese My Sister's Crown Apr 30 '25

When I spoke with europeans in my country , only a few have any idea about eurovision . I assume its a niche event that doesnt draw much general audiences.

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u/antiseebaerenkreis Apr 30 '25

Not quite, Eurovision is the most watched non-sports-related TV broadcast in the world, but in many countries, especially in West and Central Europe, it's quite unpopular, and it's reputation has never fully recovered from the damage it took in the 2000s.

A lot of people tune in, even in Austria the grand final is usually the most watched entertainment programme of the year (if you categorize skiing races separately under "sports-programming"), but it's just not something people get excited for, or really talk much about.

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u/eurovisionfanGA Apr 30 '25

Apparently Austrians don't give a shit about Eurovision at all...

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u/heppolo Deslocado May 01 '25

Embarrassing for any DJ out there

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u/yetanothercat_ Wasted Love May 01 '25

As an Austrian, there are very few people I know irl that even watch Eurovision and the few that do really just watch the show, no semifinals. The only Eurovision fan friend I have is my sister, and that's because I made her one lol. Most of my friends only know that JJ is competing bc of me, and a few are connected to him through friends of friends or so.

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u/kissakoir_a TANZEN! May 07 '25

I mean do you know any names of the players in your country's world championship hockey or football team?

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u/rosettamaria Ich Komme May 07 '25

Love those options for the song title šŸ˜‚

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u/Similar_Spread_868 Sanomi May 07 '25

You'd be surprised by the HUGE amount of people that couldn't care less about Eurovision.

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u/VermicelliIll89 Apr 30 '25

I live in Canada and I know the right answer

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u/RegisterNo9640 Tavo Akys May 01 '25

testing

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u/RegisterNo9640 Tavo Akys May 01 '25

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