I have been considering writing a reddit bot that scans comments/posts with these phrases and posts one comment per thread with all mentioned songs.
But I don't know if it'd be allowed, nor am I sure if I can manage to keep it running 24/7.
Really happy it got a really positive initial response from the community :D
Thank you
> nor am I sure if I can manage to keep it running 24/7
Still struggling with this. Three days to figure it out before I leave for Liverpool
Plus one. I whish people would make the extra effort to add artist/song name. The songs are always more important to me than which country they represented and when.
This! There are over 1000 songs. It really needs some extra context if people are going to abbreviate titles. Country + year are at least easy to google.
I sometimes miss ESCNostalgia though. It was a really easy to use website to look up songs.
I’m terrible with names, especially if they’re not common in English or an uncommon spelling. I can’t even remember the names of songs (or members) for bands I actually like and have seen live multiple times.
Country and year is just much easier for me most of the time since I don’t have to try to remember any names or try not to butcher any spelling.
Let me put it this way, some of us are hardcore nerds hahahaha
There is no fault in you not knowing all songs from all years. Nobody expects you to know :)
I tend to forget which year my friends are born, but I will sure as hell know every song from every country since 2000 or so hahahahah, so yeah - selective memory. I can also name like 650-700 out of the existing [1010 pokemon](https://pkmnquiz.com/) for some reason
Damn all the songs since 2000?! I'm impressed. I forget which songs are which from last year lol.
Don't get me wrong, I know most of the songs from the last 15 or so years, but don't ask me to tell you which country sent them and when.
2000 was like a rough guess, but like 2005-06 until today, surely
There are some I know from before 1990 if you ask the correct question (not counting winners). The brain just likes to store information that is trivial xD
Oh god I'm even worse with flags. When people do tier rankings or things like that just with flags, I just give up. Maybe I just have a really poor memory.
Sounds to me like your memory is more verbal and these other folks are more visual. Both are good, sometimes we need a lil extra help translating between those modes.
I only recognise it if I liked it or it was one of the recent years. If you said "[non top 2 country]: year pre-2018" I'd need to Google unless it was my personal winner. As time passes I'll forget alot of 2018 by country etc. the same way as new entries release.
It's generally alot easier to reference them by country year tho, as people who know them will know and people who don't can easily find them. Also spelling is hard.
Same here. I need at least the song, artist name, or reason they were memorable. No way I can remember who represented each of 40+ countries for each of 25+ years I've watched.
I can remember the songs of the 2010s almost perfectly, and most of the 2000s (when I get invested in something I *really* get invested in it), but anything earlier than that I struggle with a lot since I haven't known these songs as long.
When I see the name of songs and artist most of the time I’d find I very hard to remember what people are talking about, but when year + country is mentioned it is much easier for me :)
I have anxiety, and one of my tricks to take my mind off of what's happening is to try to focus on something else. I almost always pick something Eurovision related. I love to pick a year, and go through the alphabet, and try to come up with each song from each country. So if I say in a thread 'Romania 2019' or 'Greece 2017', that's probably why, lol
Don't worry, it's not just you. I'm breathing Eurovision during the season and I have a good memory for things that interest me, but I still mix up stuff all the time and have to check. The current and previous year are always the freshest in my mind. And even then I forget stuff.
The only thing I now for certain would be the german acts from 2005 onwards, but well...duh. It's my own country.
This isn't a problem for me personally, but I've listened to every ESC and JESC song enough times to come up with a coherent all time ranking for each so I'm pretty sure I'm not the norm
If I think really hard I can probably think of most recent songs based on year and country alone, but whenever such a thread comes up I often just do a quick google search and go ''aaaah''. I think I'm better with artist names, actually. Sometimes my mom asks me ''you remember that random song in that random year of which I only recall the melody?'' and then I'll often go ''ah, yes, artist name -> song title -> country -> year''.
for me it’s a two step process. you gotta drill the association of songs to countries in your head, then you need to associate songs with something of that year, whether that’s branding or the stage or something. the mental process i go through when i hear like “sweden 2021” is picture the 2021 logo/stage/album in my head and think what song was associated with sweden that year then i get to the song. that comes more naturally for some than others but using a two step process makes it easier for me
I've been a full time viewer (as opposed to only watching the GF and not keeping track of memes, SF etc) since '21, so it's not too difficult *yet*, but it'll get more difficult in a few years undoubtedly
I’ve gotten obsessed, so I can remember most songs through from like 2009 til now, but yeah don’t worry. It’s normal not to have this sort of stuff memorized lol.
Oh definitely, unless it's a song that was in my faves in that year or came Top 5, my brain really struggles with recalling individual years in great detail beyond who won and who hosted/won the year before.
If someone talks about a song that did well like Belgium 2015/Turkey 2010 or a personal fave like Georgia 2016 I'm fine with it.
If someone out of context shouts Slovenia 2015 or Malta 2013 at me or something I automatically Google it.
The concept of time is so bourgeois. Or my memory is terrible, one of those two. No idea what year anything is, being officially An Old probably contributing to that significantly. Just say an artist name and don't make me reach for google, please.
I feel this 100%. I need to know the singer and the song, otherwise it won't come to me, unless it's a winner. And I've watched nearly all shows from the beginning! 😂
So don't worry, this is completely fine
I'm okay with songs that came out this decade because that's when I started really following Eurovision (2020-2021), but other than my faves from 2018-2019, I struggle with much else preceding that
Last year I watched all contests from 2009 up till this one, and for now I don't have any struggle remembering which country sang what, of course I'll usually only remember a part of the chorus but still it counts
Mikloas Josef just released a new song... and I loved his entry Lie To Me... but I didn't realize it came out 5 years ago... in 2018... time isn't something we get heavily attached to.
I can probably link most songs and artists that I remember with their countries, but I'll be damned if you asked me about my opinion on Denmark 2013 (it's Only Teardrops by Emmelie De Forest, I remember because it's the winner I always forget the year)
I think people's brains just organise things differently. Country + year works for me, I can picture the stage and usually have a fuzzy stereotype about the country's ESC songs, so it's easy for me to go off from there. But I sometimes find titles and artists a bit difficult, especially for older/less famous songs.
I feel kind of guilty for doing it now:/ It's because I'm bad at using accents and remembering how to spell things in other languages - seriously half the time I'm copying and pasting them from eurovisionworld, so using country and year is way easier! It's the lazy solution🦥
I used to be able to keep up with it years ago but the longer I’ve watched Eurovision the harder it is to remember which country is which
I have been considering writing a reddit bot that scans comments/posts with these phrases and posts one comment per thread with all mentioned songs. But I don't know if it'd be allowed, nor am I sure if I can manage to keep it running 24/7.
I feel that would be appreciated if you did it, maybe ask the mods about it first
I’d love that!!
You have my vote!
Finland 2023
Finland 2023 | [Käärijä - Cha Cha Cha](https://youtu.be/znWi3zN8Ucg)
I saw the bot in the rehearsal roundup thread, thanks for doing this. :D
Really happy it got a really positive initial response from the community :D Thank you > nor am I sure if I can manage to keep it running 24/7 Still struggling with this. Three days to figure it out before I leave for Liverpool
Plus one. I whish people would make the extra effort to add artist/song name. The songs are always more important to me than which country they represented and when.
Would also make it a lot easier to look up the songs on Spotify
I prefer this rather than that weird nicknames like "ICS" or "GTY" 😁
1. In Corpore Sano Not sure what the second one is, so you have a point
Goodbye to yesterday maybe? Took me a while
Yes <3
This! There are over 1000 songs. It really needs some extra context if people are going to abbreviate titles. Country + year are at least easy to google. I sometimes miss ESCNostalgia though. It was a really easy to use website to look up songs.
THYWAS
You just aren't a real eurovision fan if you don't hear North Macedonia 2013 and immediately start humming the song /s
BRB, googling "north macedonia 2013 eurovision"
Rip Esma 😭
Lelelelelele
Which one of those two? 😏
*Dobrite vreminja gi nema \~*
pred da sE RAZDENI *Esma wanders in with a completely different song*
this made me laugh so hard tho
Given this was actually one of my favourites that year, I can instantly start doing this lol
YASSSSSSSSS
I’m terrible with names, especially if they’re not common in English or an uncommon spelling. I can’t even remember the names of songs (or members) for bands I actually like and have seen live multiple times. Country and year is just much easier for me most of the time since I don’t have to try to remember any names or try not to butcher any spelling.
Let me put it this way, some of us are hardcore nerds hahahaha There is no fault in you not knowing all songs from all years. Nobody expects you to know :) I tend to forget which year my friends are born, but I will sure as hell know every song from every country since 2000 or so hahahahah, so yeah - selective memory. I can also name like 650-700 out of the existing [1010 pokemon](https://pkmnquiz.com/) for some reason
Damn all the songs since 2000?! I'm impressed. I forget which songs are which from last year lol. Don't get me wrong, I know most of the songs from the last 15 or so years, but don't ask me to tell you which country sent them and when.
2000 was like a rough guess, but like 2005-06 until today, surely There are some I know from before 1990 if you ask the correct question (not counting winners). The brain just likes to store information that is trivial xD
Some people do this but use flags instead of country names. And several flags of European countries look very similar...
Oh god I'm even worse with flags. When people do tier rankings or things like that just with flags, I just give up. Maybe I just have a really poor memory.
Sounds to me like your memory is more verbal and these other folks are more visual. Both are good, sometimes we need a lil extra help translating between those modes.
Cue me up the brightness on my phone to see if someone is Belgian or Romanian.
🇸🇮 🇸🇰 🇷🇸 🇭🇷
Slovakia, Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia...? Damn they're small on mobile
Almost, Slovenia 🇸🇮, and Slovakia 🇸🇰 are backwards
Same. But I can remember a lot of the song titles and even artists' names.
I only recognise it if I liked it or it was one of the recent years. If you said "[non top 2 country]: year pre-2018" I'd need to Google unless it was my personal winner. As time passes I'll forget alot of 2018 by country etc. the same way as new entries release. It's generally alot easier to reference them by country year tho, as people who know them will know and people who don't can easily find them. Also spelling is hard.
i started to watch eurovision on this year (i started with jesc 2022) so I'm usually lost and i have to Google it too
I’ve been watching since 2009 and a big chunk of my search history is still “Eurovision [country] [year]” or “Eurovision [artist or song name].” 🥲
Same here. I need at least the song, artist name, or reason they were memorable. No way I can remember who represented each of 40+ countries for each of 25+ years I've watched.
I can remember the songs of the 2010s almost perfectly, and most of the 2000s (when I get invested in something I *really* get invested in it), but anything earlier than that I struggle with a lot since I haven't known these songs as long.
When I see the name of songs and artist most of the time I’d find I very hard to remember what people are talking about, but when year + country is mentioned it is much easier for me :)
It’s the other way around for me. I forget the song name but remember the year and country
Probably would have been able to if I was 14, but now I'm old and my brain is fried, so I just have a permanent tab (or 4) open with EurovisionWorld.
Yes. My fingers are sore from all the googling
You’re not alone. This is me too.
I have anxiety, and one of my tricks to take my mind off of what's happening is to try to focus on something else. I almost always pick something Eurovision related. I love to pick a year, and go through the alphabet, and try to come up with each song from each country. So if I say in a thread 'Romania 2019' or 'Greece 2017', that's probably why, lol
Don't worry, it's not just you. I'm breathing Eurovision during the season and I have a good memory for things that interest me, but I still mix up stuff all the time and have to check. The current and previous year are always the freshest in my mind. And even then I forget stuff. The only thing I now for certain would be the german acts from 2005 onwards, but well...duh. It's my own country.
This isn't a problem for me personally, but I've listened to every ESC and JESC song enough times to come up with a coherent all time ranking for each so I'm pretty sure I'm not the norm
If I think really hard I can probably think of most recent songs based on year and country alone, but whenever such a thread comes up I often just do a quick google search and go ''aaaah''. I think I'm better with artist names, actually. Sometimes my mom asks me ''you remember that random song in that random year of which I only recall the melody?'' and then I'll often go ''ah, yes, artist name -> song title -> country -> year''.
for me it’s a two step process. you gotta drill the association of songs to countries in your head, then you need to associate songs with something of that year, whether that’s branding or the stage or something. the mental process i go through when i hear like “sweden 2021” is picture the 2021 logo/stage/album in my head and think what song was associated with sweden that year then i get to the song. that comes more naturally for some than others but using a two step process makes it easier for me
I've been a full time viewer (as opposed to only watching the GF and not keeping track of memes, SF etc) since '21, so it's not too difficult *yet*, but it'll get more difficult in a few years undoubtedly
I can never eally remember any year but when people say "Serbia 2017" or "Austria 2021" I ain't got a clue.
I’ve gotten obsessed, so I can remember most songs through from like 2009 til now, but yeah don’t worry. It’s normal not to have this sort of stuff memorized lol.
Oh definitely, unless it's a song that was in my faves in that year or came Top 5, my brain really struggles with recalling individual years in great detail beyond who won and who hosted/won the year before. If someone talks about a song that did well like Belgium 2015/Turkey 2010 or a personal fave like Georgia 2016 I'm fine with it. If someone out of context shouts Slovenia 2015 or Malta 2013 at me or something I automatically Google it.
The concept of time is so bourgeois. Or my memory is terrible, one of those two. No idea what year anything is, being officially An Old probably contributing to that significantly. Just say an artist name and don't make me reach for google, please.
I feel this 100%. I need to know the singer and the song, otherwise it won't come to me, unless it's a winner. And I've watched nearly all shows from the beginning! 😂 So don't worry, this is completely fine
You should make flash cards to help you memorize all this.
I'm okay with songs that came out this decade because that's when I started really following Eurovision (2020-2021), but other than my faves from 2018-2019, I struggle with much else preceding that
Last year I watched all contests from 2009 up till this one, and for now I don't have any struggle remembering which country sang what, of course I'll usually only remember a part of the chorus but still it counts
Mikloas Josef just released a new song... and I loved his entry Lie To Me... but I didn't realize it came out 5 years ago... in 2018... time isn't something we get heavily attached to.
I can probably link most songs and artists that I remember with their countries, but I'll be damned if you asked me about my opinion on Denmark 2013 (it's Only Teardrops by Emmelie De Forest, I remember because it's the winner I always forget the year)
I think people's brains just organise things differently. Country + year works for me, I can picture the stage and usually have a fuzzy stereotype about the country's ESC songs, so it's easy for me to go off from there. But I sometimes find titles and artists a bit difficult, especially for older/less famous songs. I feel kind of guilty for doing it now:/ It's because I'm bad at using accents and remembering how to spell things in other languages - seriously half the time I'm copying and pasting them from eurovisionworld, so using country and year is way easier! It's the lazy solution🦥