Eurovision winner Nemo hits out at competitors’s “unbelievable double normal”, says it “wants fixing”
Eurovision winner Nemo hit out on the competitors’s “double normal”, branding its organisers as “unbelievable”, moments after their victory.
The Switzerland entrant received the competition final night time (Might 11) in Malmö, Sweden with their music ‘The Code’, after topping the jury vote and coming in fifth within the public vote.
Nemo’s victory is the primary for the nation since Celine Dion picked up the win in 1988 with ‘Ne partez pas sans moi’. They’re additionally the primary ever non-binary winner within the competitors’s historical past.
Throughout their look on the post-show press convention, Nemo took the chance to criticise the best way that the competition was run by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), making particular reference to their coverage of not permitting non-binary flags into the sector.
“I needed to smuggle my flag in as a result of Eurovision stated no, however I did it anyway, so I hope some individuals did that too,” they stated. “However, I imply, come on, that is clearly a double normal.”
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Nemo additionally appeared to interrupt the crystal winner’s trophy, and added: “The trophy may be fastened – possibly Eurovision wants fixing a little bit bit too, once in a while.”
They went on to explain the Eurovision expertise as “actually intense, and never simply nice all the best way”.
“There have been a number of issues that didn’t appear to be it was all about love and unity. And that made me actually unhappy and on the identical time … there was a lot love right here as effectively,” they continued, and devoted their win to the “individuals which can be daring to be themselves and those who have to be heard and have to be understood.”
Eire’s entrant Bambie Thug was extra scathing of their views on the EBU of their press convention. “I’m so pleased with Nemo successful,” they stated, sounding near tears. “I’m so proud that each one of us are within the high 10 which have been preventing for this shit behind the scenes as a result of it has been so onerous and so horrible for us. I’m so pleased with us.
“I simply wish to say,” they continued, “we’re what the Eurovision is. The EBU isn’t what the Eurovision is. Fuck the EBU. I don’t even care anymore. Fuck them. The factor that makes that is the contestants, the group behind it, the love and the ability and the assist of all of us is what’s making change.”
“The world has spoken,” they concluded. “The queers are coming. Non-binaries for the fucking win.”
This 12 months’s contest was dogged with controversy following the EBU’s determination to permit Israel to compete amongst the Israel-Palestine battle.
The transfer was criticised as “cultural cowl and endorsement for the catastrophic violence that Israel has unleashed on Palestinians” by organisations equivalent to Queers for Palestine, who wrote an open letter to UK entry Olly Alexander to boycott the competition this 12 months.
Over 1,000 Swedish artists referred to as for Israel to be banned this 12 months, equivalent to Robyn, Fever Ray, and First Support Package, and artists equivalent to Olly Alexander confronted calls to boycott the occasion.