{"id":4205,"date":"2024-05-05T15:01:07","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T14:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/eurovision\/?p=4205"},"modified":"2024-05-05T18:45:40","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T17:45:40","slug":"its-malmo-with-an-a-not-malmo-with-an-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/eurovision\/2024\/05\/05\/its-malmo-with-an-a-not-malmo-with-an-o\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Malm\u00f6 with an\u00a0A\u00a0not Malm\u00f6 with an\u00a0O\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hey Eurofans \u2013 happy Eurovision week!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Welcome to Malm\u00f6 - Eurovision Song Contest 2024 Host City ?? | #UnitedByMusic\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tBzQQHJpLS8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As Terry Wogan would have said,&nbsp;<em>whoopee!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I can\u2019t quite believe we\u2019re here again, in what feels like less than twelve months since Liverpool hosted the Contest.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am happy to be watching from home this year. My days of travelling to the host city are over. I\u2019ve been there and done that, nine times. Great memories of each trip, with the added excitement of having accreditation so I could be in rehearsals and the press centre. What a fab Eurovision bubble it was!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The way I engage with the ESC has changed over recent years. Long-time readers may remember there were a few years where I didn\u2019t have much Euro-mojo, so I was listening to the songs less and less. And I didn\u2019t blog because I didn\u2019t have anything to say. Oh, and then there was the year when Portugal won, and to this day I still don\u2019t get how popular it was. My ears weren\u2019t hearing what everyone else was!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is brilliant about the ESC each year, is that it really does have something for all music tastes. A smorgasbord of performances to delight the eye and ear. ESC2024 is a strong year for songs, I\u2019d say. I can\u2019t comment on the performances yet as I haven\u2019t seen any of the rehearsals footage.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You see, that\u2019s how I\u2019m doing the Contest this year; sitting down to watch it on the telly and seeing the performances for the first time then. So, on the blog this year, you will get my reaction after the semi-finals on Tuesday and Thursday, on Wednesday and Friday. And this time next week (Sunday) we will have a winner so I will deffo have something to say about that!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who might win? If the bookies odds are anything to go by, potentially Croatia, Switzerland, Italy, Netherlands. Ukraine is up there also, but that would raise a conundrum if they did win &#8211; but I can\u2019t see that happening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve just read a great article from the BBC\u2019s music correspondent, Mark Savage. His summary of the musical smorgasbord is broadly how I\u2019d categorise it: chart ready pop vibes, ethnopop vibes, rock vibes, ballad vibes, and rather too many quirky song vibes that are leaning a little towards being novelty songs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have said to you in the past on the blog that a winning Eurovision song is often a song you haven\u2019t heard before, but you already know it. A handful of songs are leaning into last year\u2019s runner-up for Finland &#8211; K\u00e4\u00e4rij\u00e4\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Cha Cha Cha<\/em>. You\u2019ll notice that influence on both Switzerland and Croatia\u2019s entries (and others).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once again this year we can all live out our formative pop years from the 80s and 90s, because a number of entries draw on music from those decades \u2013 which is fab and familiar. Or a cop out and clich\u00e9. Potato \/ vodka!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can check out Mark\u2019s article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/crgy7l6er7vo\">here<\/a>, and you will get my thoughts on all of the songs in more detail as we go through the week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For performance footage check out Eurovision on TikTok <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@eurovision?lang=en\">here<\/a>, and news and photos via the official website <a href=\"https:\/\/eurovision.tv\">here<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Years ago I would have spent a lot of time embedding stuff on the blog \u2013 not anymore! \ud83d\ude00 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, and one final thing for today. For my blog post title today I am channelling Liza Minelli vibes&nbsp;<em>(\u201cIt&#8217;s Liza with a &#8220;Z&#8221; not Lisa with an &#8220;S&#8221; cause Lisa with an &#8220;S&#8221; goes S not Zee\u2019<\/em>).&nbsp;Can we please be clear that the Swedes pronounce Malm\u00f6 with an&nbsp;<em>a\/er<\/em>&nbsp;sound at the end, rather than a hard&nbsp;<em>O<\/em>&nbsp;sound. At the launch event in Malm\u00f6 back in January viewers were schooled by some Swedish linguists\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Semi-Final Draw - LIVE from Malm\u00f6 ?? | Eurovision Song Contest 2024 | #UnitedByMusic\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q_-2hMEq5sk?start=239&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019ll do my head in all week when people say it with the hard O! A bit like when Ukraine changed to Kyiv rather than Kiev, and peeps still said Kiev!&nbsp;&nbsp;Not so much these days, obvs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Right, enjoy Eurovision week, get streaming those songs! I\u2019ll be back soon!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tack! \ud83d\ude00&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey Eurofans \u2013 happy Eurovision week!&nbsp; As Terry Wogan would have said,&nbsp;whoopee! I can\u2019t quite believe we\u2019re here again, in what feels like less than twelve months since Liverpool hosted the Contest.&nbsp; I am happy to be watching from home this year. My days of travelling to the host city are over. 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