Moldova 2024: Natalia Barbu - In The Middle

[auretz]

It appears to be free voting via the QR codes, when Romania tried something similar via Facebook we got DGT (and everyone’s accounts got hacked)

 

[Lucille]

I’m guessing it’s between ANTI-PRINCESS and the BILLIONAIRE’S WIFE then?

I wonder which way it’ll go?

 

[Smurfie]

Gosh - this was hard work. Must be Natalie Barbu, although toilet roll lady was quite the entertainment.

 

[Kala]

I LOVED Fever, the one by Catalina. Sure it’s a bit throwaway pop and Dua Lipa lite but it was FUN!

 

[Soldi]

!

 

[Lucille]

WHAT!!

 

[Ill Advised]

WHAT!!

What!? I’m on MF now

 

[Lucille]

Soldi’s post!

 

[Ill Advised]

Are the two men currently the bottom 2?

 

[Ill Advised]

Valeria Won

 

[Ill Advised]

Oh maybe not

 

[Lucille]

What is happening

 

[Ill Advised]

 

[D5K]

FFS never use the jury winner to break the tiebreak

 

[Ill Advised]

I think it was a tie. Valeria won the televote and Natalia the jury

 

[Lucille]

I’m guessing it’s between ANTI-PRINCESS and the BILLIONAIRE’S WIFE then?

I wonder which way it’ll go?

 

[Lucille]

It was the best song though!

 

[Ill Advised]

so ridiculous!

 

[Lucille]

I’m more shocked it was only the jury vote they rigged!

 

[VoR]

 

[auretz]

Moldova hasn’t sent someone new to Eurovision since 2019, which I think is a record for returnees in a row

 

[Kratz]

Oh it’s not OUR NAT

 

[Dark Carnival]

Still waiting for them to send DoReDoS again

 

[Lucille]

Imagine having billions of euros and choosing to spend your time entering the Moldavian national final.

 

[VoR]

Imagine having billions of euros and choosing to spend your time entering the Moldavian national final.

We’d all do it, let’s be real.

 

[Tisch]

Where Kitty Brucknell leads...

 

[Lucille]

Do we know who her husband actually is? There is mysteriously NO RECORD of it online?

 

[VoR]

The runner up is not taking this result lying down

 

[Lucille]

I’m all for anyone trying to takedown the 1%!!!!

 

[D5K]

Apparently it hadn't been announced in advance that the jury winner would take any tie-break so she might have an argument.

These appeals never overturn the result though do they?

 

[Kala]

Why do countries do this fucking SHIT way of scoring? Germany did it, Estonia did it. TERRIBLE.

 

[IntoTheDark]

This is an AI translated clip but I am screaming at how Natalia also accused the second place entry of cheating, live on TV on some talk show after the NF had finished For context, for the first 20 minutes of this after-show, the second placed entry and her manager were complaining about the result and how the public vote had been ignored

 

[IntoTheDark]

Natalia was confirmed as the representative. The broadcaster doubled down on their choice to let the jury be the tiebreaker in the selection process, because according to their investigation over 1000 votes of the second placed entry were invalid and many of her votes also came from “exotic countries” such as Aruba, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Indonesia or Vietnam

 

[Kratz]

I guess anywhere is ‘exotic’ when you’re in Moldova

 

[auretz]

This has been given a revamp with better production:



I actually really quite like it, although I appreciate it’s unlikely to qualify

 

[Saltwater]

Quite like this one too

 

[Penelope]

God both Hera Bjork and Natalia Barbu really ought to be ASHAMED of themselves - what limp comebacks!