How the European jury stole Lazarev's victory. Western media about Lazarev’s performance: “Challenging the laws of gravity One direction reaction to Sergei Lazarev Eurovision

On May 10, 2016, the first semi-final of the Eurovision 2016 contest started, in which Russia is represented by singer Sergei Lazarev with the song “You Are The Only One,” which has already become a hit in Europe. As the bookmakers predicted, Lazarev made a splash at Eurovision: many secular observers in Europe did not lose sight of the Russian’s performance on the European stage.

24SMI found out how the West reacted to Sergei Lazarev’s performance in the semi-finals of Eurovision 2016.

Mirror: “Zero stars for Russia”

A review of the first semi-final of Eurovision 2016 was published, in particular, by journalists from the British tabloid Mirror. Despite the high bookmaker ratings, the tabloid gives “zero stars for Russia,” although it admits that both the song and Sergei Lazarev’s performance were very good.

“Sergei Lazarev, representing Russia this year, suffered an unenviable fate. Leaving aside human rights violations and Russian laws, it can be noted: Russia's song is not bad, it is actually very good. Four stars for Sergei and his song, zero stars for Russia,” writes the Mirror.

Observers, in particular, noted that this year Russia at Eurovision 2016 is represented by a performer with a large number of fans in Europe, he is accompanied by a powerful team - the Russian Federation has spared no expense in participating in the competition. However, according to the Mirror, it shows that Russia is allegedly "desperate to win in Europe" to soften the reaction to "draconian anti-gay laws."

Observers summed up the idea that Sergei Lazarev really has a chance to win Eurovision 2016, but if Russia becomes the winner this year, then “next year the competition will be dead,” because in this case it will be held in the Russian Federation.

DN: “Challenging the laws of gravity”

In Sweden itself, where Eurovision 2016 is taking place, they also paid attention to the Russian participant: the Dagens Nyheter portal appreciated the high technologies that were used during Lazarev’s performance. In particular, journalists decided that Russia this year decided to challenge the laws of gravity, because during his speech Sergei Lazarev demonstrates the effect of flight.

“Sergey Lazarev presents himself as the winner. It's a very effective pop that comes with some neat interaction with the video screen. Mons Zelmerlev demonstrated similar effects. It seems that Sergei is defying all the laws of gravity and is simply lying in the air,” according to DN.

By the way, Sergei Lazarev’s song was in the top five songs of the semi-final according to this publication, which confirms the bookmakers’ opinions regarding the Russian performer.

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The 61st Eurovision Song Contest 2016 ended in Stockholm last weekend.
However, the result of the competition was so unpredictable that many doubted the objectivity of the voting.
Contrary to the rules of Eurovision, political discussions this year overshadowed the musical component of the competition, foreign media write.
According to the voting results of the international jury members, Australia won, the multimillion-dollar audience awarded the victory to Russia, and in the end Ukraine won, taking second place in both votes.

Ukrainian singer Jamala, who performed the politically charged ballad "1944", won the 61st annual Eurovision Song Contest.
However, all calls to disqualify Jamal fell on deaf ears because the song “did not contain direct references to current events,” writes the New York Times.

It is surprising that the winning song was allowed to participate at all, note the German media - Die Welt.

The reaction to Jamala's victory was very mixed, comments the British BBC channel.

Despite the fact that viewers noted the singer's good vocal abilities and impressive visual effects, many of them are sure that she won only because of her political overtones, and not at all because of her musical abilities.
In addition, discussions sparked new voting rules, where the opinion of the international jury was taken into account. As the media note, the principles by which its members make their decisions remain behind the scenes. The innovation, designed to revive the voting procedure, which has largely become predictable, disrupts the atmosphere of the competition and makes its results questionable.

"If the jury's verdict is so different from the viewer's, then who really chooses the best Eurovision song?" asks the Telegraph.

“The discrepancies between the opinions of the public and the judges are too obvious,” writes Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachtichten. “After all, if the winner, as in all previous years, was determined by the audience, then this time Russia would have won the competition.”
However, the jury had a different opinion and rated Sergei Lazarev’s song much lower - for reasons unknown to anyone, the publication writes.

The famous singer and one of the creators of the Russian entry for Eurovision 2016 - "You Are The Only One" - Phillip Kirkorov, calls on the European Broadcasting Union to reconsider the voting rules regarding the jury.

As a composer and producer of a Russian performance, I fully respect the results.
I know the rules and I accepted them.
As a fan of this competition, I am offended that the jury from 21 countries gave 0 points to Sergei Lazarev’s song!
While viewers all over Europe voted for him, and the lowest score received was 3 points.
29 countries gave it 8, 10 and 12 points!!
I really think the EBU should reconsider the way jury members vote.
Maybe take them into account by 25%?
Something needs to be done to ensure that Russia takes part again. It's my opinion, emphasizes Phillip Kirkorov on his Instagram.

The image below shows the difference between the jury vote and the TV viewer vote.

The head of the Spanish delegation has called for a fairer way of voting next year, and does not agree with Spain's 22nd place at Eurovision 2016.

Many facts speak about the incompetence of international jury members at Eurovision 2016.
One of which is a scandal in the Russian team of the very jury who chose songs not by quality and vocal abilities, but by their own political or other considerations.

The media also report that the Danish jury mixed up the evaluation system for participants and gave Ukraine 12 points instead of zero, despite the fact that the highest score was intended for Australia.
The chairman of the jury, Hilda Heick, said: “This is my biggest mistake, and I honestly admit it.”
The European Broadcasting Union has been informed of the error, but this will not affect the final result of the competition.

A lot of Western media criticized the EBU, talking about the politicization of the song competition.

Norwegian publication VG stated the following:
- Eurovision has always prided itself on being a non-political event. It's over now. Jamal due to political reasons.

Danish commentator Ole Tøpholm believes that it was thanks to politics that Ukraine was declared the winner of Eurovision 2016.

Countries such as Great Britain and Australia do not agree with Ukraine’s victory.
Who question their participation in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017.
Referring to the unfair results of the Eurovision Song Contest 2016.

Eurovision is considered one of the largest entertainment shows in the world. For the first time this year, the final of the competition was shown in the USA.

The Eurovision 2016 final took place on May 14 in Stockholm (Sweden). How Russian stars reacted to the third place of their own representative, singer Sergei Lazarev, watch on Ivona.

The winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 became known after the voting results of all participating states.

According to the results of the 12-point rating scale, the winner of Eurovision 2016 was Jamala with the song 1944. The representative from Russia, Sergey Lazarev, came third.

Colleagues of the Russian artist, in particular Keti Topuria and Nyusha, expressed their own words of help to him on social networks:

Serenya, these are not soothing words, but facts - the performance was impeccable, experienced and wonderful! Sounded like a record! And knowing the degree of nervous tension in that place, you did everything 200%, no, 300%! You are the FIRST among the people! Isn’t that the most important thing? These are the people who buy tickets to national concerts, these are the people who buy national albums, these are the people for whom we go on stage, no matter what, no matter how tired or unwell, because they love us. EXPECTING!

And these people put you in FIRST PLACE! Based on this, Serenya! Congratulations on your victory!“, Polina Gagarina wrote on her own social page.

Watch the online video where singer Vlad Topalov congratulates Sergei Lazarv on his victory and says that he was better:

Let us remind you that after the announcement of the winner, a press conference was held with Jamala.

Eurovision Final 2016 watch the online performance of Sergey Lazarev (Russian Federation):

Kirkorov and Lazarev’s reaction to Jamalla’s victory

Yesterday the music competition ended in Skokholm. The first place went to the contestant from Ukraine Jamala, the second place went to the participant from Australia, and the honorable third place went to the representative of Russia Sergei Lazarev.

This situation caused a storm of emotions among users of social networks. Many felt that this year's competition was too politically inclined. Internet users were especially unhappy that the winning song touched on the topic of genocide, because, according to people, such topics should not be raised at Eurovision, where the focus should be on music.

Let's have every country sing about genocide and other disasters next year, and let the jury decide what's better is a good idea, right?

One Internet user wrote, and others agreed with his thoughts:

Oh my God! Let France and Belgium sing about terrorist attacks, then they will definitely win.

Residents of Poland were also dissatisfied with Ukraine’s victory:

Next year the competition should be without a jury! And next year Poland will sing about 1939, then we will definitely win!

The general mood of those dissatisfied with the outcome of Eurovision can be described by the following phrase from one of the Internet users:

The song is political, so it should have been disqualified. She doesn't deserve to win!

This is how Sergey Lazarev commented on Eurovision:

We are in a musical competition, not a political competition, and I try to think that the music is the main thing here.

Among those dissatisfied with the Eurovision results was Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, who on his Twitter suggested sending the leader of the Leningrad group to the competition next year.

We will send Shnurov to the next Eurovision. He won’t win, but he’ll send them all somewhere,

Written by a politician.

While some expressed their dissatisfaction with the political situation at Eurovision, others were indignant that Sergey Lazarev took only third place, although according to the results of the audience voting he should have become first.

Written by one of Lazarev’s fans.

Bravo to the Russian performer, who became the first according to the results of the audience vote!

I hope the Russians understand that the show did not show the real opinions of the Swedes and other Europeans. I am very ashamed of our countries that behave this way on the show because of the political situation.

But although many were unhappy that the first place went to the representative of Ukraine, and not Lazarev, there were also those who thought that Jamala deserved her victory:

Stop talking about Jamala's victory like that! She deserved it! Her performance was pure art. What makes you think she won unfairly? This is a song about the history of her country, so stop spreading hate just because you don't agree with something.

I didn't like his song - it turned out raw and outdated. But his performance was amazing, so he deserved third place!

Someone thought that neither Jamal nor Sergey Lazarev deserved first place. Australia should have won:

I would like Australia to win as their representative was the best and sang a wonderful song. So this year I was once again convinced that Eurovision is a complete hoax!

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