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Why does Andorra not participate in Eurovision anymore?
Andorra participated in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009, but it has never come back since.
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What happened?
In 2004, ATV (Andorra’s public TV channel) sent Marta Roure, who sang in the Catalan language for the first time in Eurovision history. Catalan is the native language of Andorra, but also of the rest of the Catalan Countries: Catalonia, the Valencian Country and la Franja in the state of Spain; Northern Catalonia in the state of France, and the city of l’Alguer in Italy. ATV didn’t have enough money to send a participant alone, but Andorra wanted to take part in the contest and to promote their language (Catalan) and culture.
For these reasons, they decided to partner with TV3, the public TV channel of Catalonia. This makes sense, given that it’s part of the same nation, with the same language, and Catalonia has a bigger population and a music industry that’s a bit more developed, and TV3 has more money than ATV because of its population and size. The contest to choose who would be sent was made in collaboration between ATV and TV3 and aired simultaneously in both TV channels.
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Spain’s threat to not air Andorra’s song
When TVE (the Spanish TV) saw that Andorra was working with Catalonia and one of Andorra’s purposes for participating in ESC was to promote Andorra’s language (Catalan), the director board of TVE threatened that they would not air Andorra’s performance because they considered it was a way for Catalan people to be present in Eurovision, which they didn’t think should be allowed. Basically, TVE would air the whole contest as usual, but cut to commercials when Andorra performed as if they did not exist.
After negotiations, the directors of TVE did not change their mind, but for unrelated reasons the director was changed in April 2004. The new directors didn’t care as much about Andorra’s participation and they decided to air the whole festival.
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Andorra’s results and TVE’s meddling
Andorra’s songs never did well in the classifications, they never had enough votes to pass to the final. The change arrived in 2009, the song chosen was “Get a life / La teva decisió” by the Andorran-Danish singer Susanne Georgi. After its release before Eurovision, the song was a success in Andorra and in the state of Spain. The hopes were high for the song receiving many votes!
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But, last minute, TVE (Spain’s TV) decided to not air live the Eurovision semi-final where Andorra was taking part. TVE decided to record the semi-final and air it on a different day. This means that Spanish citizens (including most Catalan people), who could have voted for Andorra, had no way to watch the semi-final and, as a result, they could not vote.
Once again, Andorra didn’t get to the final. And this was when they thought they had a chance with a successful song! After this, Andorra has never come back to the song contest. The fact that they never qualified for the final, Spain’s continuous meddling, and the high economic cost of participating in ESC (which is very difficult to afford for a microstate’s TV) grew even more difficult with the economical crisis that was starting in all the continent.
However, Andorra has always maintained that they would like to come back to ESC.
Andorra has been the only country to sing in the Catalan language in ESC. Even though most Catalan-speaking territories are under Spanish rule and about 10,000,000 Catalan speakers live in the state of Spain, Spain has never sent a song in Catalan. In fact, when they chose the Catalan singer Joan Manuel Serrat in 1968, he said he would sing the song (called “La, la, la”) in Catalan. Then, the Spanish TV decided to take him out of the contest because they would only allow songs in Spanish. The song was given to the Spanish singer Masiel, who sang the same song in Spanish and won the Eurovision Song Contest 1968. Spain has never sent a single song in one of the languages of the territories its state occupies, even when some like Catalan and Galician have millions of speakers, and Basque has hundreds of thousands.
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the uk and spain competing for first place is really something i never thought i would see
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I know we're shitting on the jury votes (I do too), but let's see what songs got robbed by televotes
🇷🇸 Serbia (24. place) - 16 points televotes (30 in total)
🇵🇹 Portugal (23. place) - 16 points televotes (43 in total)
🇪🇸 Spain (17. place) - 5 points televotes (100 in total), this one is just brutal and did not deserve that
🇦🇹 Austria (15. place) - 16 points televotes (104 in total)
🇨🇿 Czechia (10. place) - 35 points televotes (129 in total)
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me when:
luktelk
rim tim tagi dim
no rules
zorra
(nendest) narkootikumidest ei tea me (küll) midagi
#esc 2024#this is one of the most unpredictable years i've kept up with#esc lithuania#esc croatia#esc finland#esc spain#esc estonia#silvester belt#baby lasagna#windows95man#nebulossa#5miinust and puuluup#once all songs are out i can rank!!
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Spain serving period blood vibes, kinda loving it
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I hate everything, Finland was robbed and it was embarrassing to have Germany and Portugal so low on the charts.
This edition was rigged
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But why does Benidorm have Jessica Rabbit in the jury?
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io la butto lì: Blanca Paloma alla prossima Notte della Taranta
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Spain reminding me of menstruation.
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Happy birthday to the following: Bojan Cvjeticanin - of Joker Out (Slovenia, 2023); and Miki (Spain, 2019)! May your birthdays be filled with endless joy and beautiful music respectively. 🎂🥳🎊🎁
#eurovision#eurovision fan#eurovision song contest#guys of eurovision#eurovisonfan#men of eurovision#esc#bojan cvjetićanin#miki nunez#esc slovenia#esc spain#esc 2023#esc 2019#birthday#happy birthday#birthday boy
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Well,the only thing I can say now that Eurovision 2023 has finished is that Blanca and her girls did such a beautiful and breathtaking performance, vocally perfect and the scenography was marvelous.
I was feeling overwhelmed watching it and also so so proud, they have shown Europe and the world our musical culture and they did such a wonderful job. Maybe we should have given Europe a commercial pop song but I am proud that we have been brave enough to send this kind of song that shows our roots that I must say we are really proud of.
El flamenco and our culture has to keep growing and spreading into the world so people can understand it better and feel it and see it how we see it, but to my mind, Europe and the world are clearly not ready for flamenco yet.Spain has done a marvelous job this year and I know that the victory that we so deserve will soon come but for now it is what it is, best luck for us next time.
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In the wake of yesterday Euro-mess what I've got to say is f*ck the jury's vote, but this time also the public's vote. Not that we shouldn't put the blame on the jury (and their blatantly scandalous behaviour), but public's vote this year has been obscure to me, to say the least.
Germany deserved a million times better and that's a fact, even if they weren't actually winning material.
185 points awarded to Israel will always been the most misterious mistery to me. Not talking politics here, but their entry literally represents everything I dislike about pop music😅. Yet another cute girl with a voice that's barely above average (for a singer) and a song like a thousand others? Is this what so many people really like? At least Loreen has a powerful voice 🤦♀️
P.S. Also, if people gave 185 points to Israel, why only 5 to Spain? I haven't forgotten spanish fans' absolutely toxic behaviour last year, so somebody is saying this serves them right, but stil...
#eurovision 2023#eurovision#esc 2023#esc norway#esc israel#esc germany#esc spain#public votes#just my two cents#ramblings
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Waking up the day after genuine talent was once again discarded and spat on by the braindead juries and sheeple.
#eurovision#esc 2023#esc 23#esc23#esc#esc australia#esc germany#esc spain#esc portugal#esc Moldova#esc finland
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🇪🇸 Chanel after the draw for her performance in the Eurovision 2022 Grand Final
#eurovision#esc#esc 2022#chanel#chanel terrero#esc spain#eurovision song contest#eurovision 2022#gifs#mine
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