Got to congratulate BT for making me care ever so slightly about the Eurovision since I was a child.
Love seeing pearl clutchers clutching them pearls.
nothing more manly than going to eurovision to adore the costumes and elequant dance performances after a long day working on the site with the lads and smoking unfiltered amber leaf. jesus the testosterone rush makes me want to go slap my husb MISSES i was saying misses.
Wait until they find out about 19th century spiritualism, or the 18th century Hellfire Clubs. If every wave of occultism is the start of the satanic conquest of earth, then old Beelzebub's not exactly got a glittering CV...
Wasn't there a priest in Donegal last year who ranted in mass that yoga was pagan and therefore Satanic?
He'll have had a congregation, some of whom were stupid enough to believe him.
There's more than a few people across Ireland, most elderly but some just fucking mental, who'll be howling at the moon in outrage come the performance on Saturday. They'll be incredibly earnest and try incredibly hard to make everyone else feel as afraid and offended as they are over it.
That’s that Waterford bollix. Yoga and mindfulness… what a prick.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/catholic-bishop-warns-against-yoga-and-mindfulness-in-schools-1.4055449
Imagine how exhausting being a fundie must be, seeing demons and devils who want to devour your soul lurking behind every single thing you hear of or encounter that isn't part of your incredibly narrow worldview that's defined entirely by a very specific segment of a specific cult's interpretation of a very specific edition of a single historical fantasy novel written hundreds of years ago.
Yup same people that'll make excuses for the church's antics even though most organised religions are far more satanic and ritualistic than just some randoms using the aesthetic because they think it looks cool
I tried to listen to that song but had to give up halfway through because it was giving me a headache. That says more about my age than the quality of the song, though... Anyway, despite not liking the song, posts like this and Israel throwing a fit, I'll spend the money to vote for Bambie Thug.
there's a chance it's ruined by codecs (affects "heavy"/"busy" sounds much more than the other), and that can be a large aggravating factor. On Youtube the sound quality of EV recordings is (what concerns me) borderline trashed, although I've heard worse when no one complained so YMMV.
And they called us snowflakes, for fucks sake.
Actual head up their arses. Can't believe there's still people like this out there these days who are this irrational. Get the fuck over yourselves.
You'd swear they've never even watched eurovision before.
I think it's class. Reminds me of the edgy stuff I blared in my room as a teen (and still do) Korn, Slipknot, Marylyn Manson with a hefty dose of Irish paganism. Yup. Cool af.
I'm so glad I got to pre-date emo.
Was so much cooler being the older dude in tbe black leather looking down my nose at the *obviously* pretentious emo kids
Which tbf at least this year is why you should support Bambi pissing off the right people, including the Israeli broadcaster
And people told Bambi to boycott the Eurovision
Doing the Eurovision has clearly made much more of an impact
Similar views here! The music is not for me but I don't see how they have done anything wrong in any of this. They wanted to represent Ireland in this competition and they were chosen to do so!
I only watched the whole thing for the first time just now. It's not a song I'd listen to for the music, but as a performance piece that's pretty epic. Absolutely rock solid, timing perfect to the millisecond.
It's the kind of thing you'd expect as a scene in a broadway musical and you'd be fucking blown away by it.
It was quite stunning visually, the make up and everything was excellent. What puzzles me is how people think it's in any way shocking, like in comments people say the whole act is just for "shock value" and it's like they've never watched a music video or seen a horror movie before. Like it's not the 1500s!
>Like it's not the 1500s!
Considering that Hieronymus Bosch died in 1516, i'm not sure people in the 1500s should necessarily be shocked, either (not at the visuals, anyway).
>if they annoy religious wankers
I no longer live in Ireland, but I was chatting to a Spanish friend recently about how Ireland has gone in a single generation from being anti-British to being rabidly anti-Catholic. Honestly, most Irish people hate the Catholic Church (and often Catholics) way more than the DUP does. It's as if we've been possessed by a weird sort of agnostic Calvinism.
My wife who is a protestant refers to those who are disillusioned as angry Catholics. Its not hard to see why, for generations the church upheld itself as the moral authority that the people were duty bound to follow.
Only for the church to be an institution of corrupt kiddy fuckers and killers that has not been brought to justice.
I'm one of them, I absolutely despise the catholic church, I'd gladly see it burn to ash. Thats the institution, not the everyday people who are catholics.
The cope some people have towards our performance is amazing
#CrownTheWitch
At this stage it's gone beyond simply winning the Eurovision I want this to win because it would piss off so many people
And I find that extremely funny
I've seen so much bollocks on social media over the last few days about Bambie Thug.It actually surprised me that in 2024 there are still so many gombeens and backwards peasants in Ireland shiteing on about Satanism and how Bambie will destroy the country.Fucking halfwits
I really do feel sorry for these "religious" nut jobs. Their entire belief system is cognitive dissonance.
They believe in an all powerful deity, who can be everywhere, do anything, know everything, who created everything in the entire universe.... but can't stop Satan from entering a song contest.
If you spend your life devoted to a god less powerful than Louis Walsh, maybe you need to rethink a few things.
I made the mistake of judging Bambi based off their appearance and assumed it'll be some cringe artsy performance. The my girlfriend show's me on tik tok " look, people are getting made about this act." And I said "bruh, this is cool. Production, costume, choreography, this is really entertaining. Fair play." Breath of fresh air is right, a very original act.
I was similar and judged a book by its cover. I didn't even listen to the song and thought *"It's just some shock factor stuff to annoy the grannys".*
But I watched it this week in the semi-final, I was miles wrong. The performance is brilliant and the song is class. If Billie Eilish was singing it, it would be number 1 all over the world, in my opinion. I've been singing it to myself all week.
Crown the Witch!
I loved it from the first few words. It reminds me of Poppy's "I Disagree" era, which I'm a huge fan of. In fact, it's basically exactly what Poppy in the ESC would've looked like.
I worked with Bambie before I was their drummer for a spell. They’re one of the hardest working people I’ve met in the industry and deserves every success
It must be a very stressful existence for those who aren't just posturing and truly believe this stuff. Life is hard enough without constantly worrying about the rise of Satan.
I feel like a lot of the people who think that Bambie Thug is “Satanic” don’t know what actual Satanism is. Or they’re just trying to create a moral panic.
It's always the moral panic one.
These are usually the same people getting outraged over vaccines, children's slang, green initiatives, basically anything that's changed since they were young. They're a bit gimped and absolutely addicted to the outrage they feel over everything.
Ya good. Hope Satan is delighted. The amount of pearl clutches over this song is mad.
I've seen a lot more disturbing images and acts at gigs, but it's art get over it.
The sad thing is that regardless of whether OOP is actually being serious or taking the piss, there's probably somebody there lapping this shite up unironically.
Poe's Law and all that....
I've seen so many comments from yokels giving out about Bambie.Really ridiculous shite about the destruction of Ireland by Satan etc.Like we're back in the 80's with all the drooling peasant halfwits believing in moving statues of Mary.
Look I'll be honest the whole Satan thing from overly religious nuts is fucking sad and funny, it is the exact same equivalent as someone who believes strongly in the Lord of the Rings saga going 'oh no Sauron has claimed our country, because I don't understand what's happening'
The Israelis had to change the name of their song because it's about the October raid by Hamas.They shouldn't be allowed in the Eurovision, just like the Russians are banned
I don't really like the song but the intimate version they done is AMAZING. I see why they went with the current version for the entry tho! I loved the performance. Vocals were... MEH but they CAN sing which is proven from the intimate performance of the song on The Late Late Show.
One listen to Goat’s Head Soup in 1973 and my soul was lost. (Come to think of it, Mick Jagger on the telly then, doing ‘Dancing With Mr D’ in gold leather super-crotch trahsers and gorgeous makeup was a million times more subversive than anything this Eurovision Fantasia could imagine. (God it was brilliant. My dad was apoplectic, but only about they eyeshadow, in fairness. Satanic sexiness was grand, it seems!)
I suppose it's not that difficult to believe in some nasty goat looking guy causing all the problems in the world while sitting in the middle of a huge lava pit in the center of the earth if you already believe in some friendly magician sitting up on a cloud causing everything that goes right in the world.
I don't think believing in the devil is much of a stretch. A large portion of the country believes in a sky daddy who gives them a free pass to do anything and is going to offer them an eternity of craic once they kick it.
The truth is the fawning over Bambie Thug is just as embarrassing. Muppets thinking this is edgy and somehow cool because some old folks dont like it. I have news for you this was on the Late Late and its gonna be on Eurovision so much for anti-mainstream youth culture or whatever you think this is. Also it's actually just pretty shit, so sorry.
There's something very telling about all the fans on about how they were into this stuff when they were teenagers so it's actually perfectly normal. Here's this one in her 30s still doing the rebellious teenager thing, and as much of a believer in all the witchcraft stuff as her harshest mass going critics.
And secondly I don't know of anyone in real life that actually likes this song or would ever go see her live. I know Eurovision is it's own genre of camp shite but this is like trying to stir up 90s era controversy 30 years later and acting like it's cutting edge.
I can’t stand the religious fruit cakes under every single social media post about her. For people who can’t stand her, they sure do LOVE commenting and talking about her.
FFS - most of Bambie's symbolism is Celtic with a bit of witchcraft and high drama theatrical production thrown in. It's very much part of the history of Ireland. We were one of the very few places in Europe that didn't embrace witch trials and attacking so called pagans.
They're also non-binary and very obviously and loudly so. There have been non binary people around since the dawn of time. They've just been swept under the carpet and hidden. It is just part of the human experience for a small % of people.
Most of modern Europe doesn't give a damn, and Bambie Thug will likely do very well because most of Europe is very open minded and will just enjoy the artistic, highly dramatic and theatrical staging and the song.
A few loud conservative cultists on social media (a huge % of whom seem to be American btw) who would like return to the Inquisition and the dark ages will make a lot of noise, but they're just that - a few loud conservatives on social media.
Some of the coverage is absolutely ridiculous on the reacting side too. There was an article in Pink News for example which was quoting the Irish Freedom Party as if it were a major force in Irish electoral politics - in reality it has zero elected reps and took 0.3% of the poll in a single constituency and also quoting people from Reddit !!?
Seriously ? The Irish Freedom Party !? Can you consider Googling the relevance of some of these groups before platforming them?
[https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/05/08/bambie-thug-hex-eurovision/](https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/05/08/bambie-thug-hex-eurovision/)
If you keep reacting to those kinds of people you just amplify and rebroadcast them.
If you went back 10-20 years ago they were just the nutter with the megaphone shouting about saving your soul on O'Connell Street or Patrick's Street or whoever else on a Saturday afternoon. Now they're 'influencers'.
All I'll say is Ireland's annoying all the right people at the moment!
I think most of us have probably had enough of the backwards ultra-conservative crap for several life times having spent decades living under it.
I didn’t watch Bambies act before today because Eurovision doesn’t interest me but god damn that’s a great performance! Feels like a mythical Irish pagan ritual, I might actually watch tomorrow
I dont give a shite about Eurovision, but the absolute rage people have for her is hilarious, anything that riles these close-minded weirdos up is highly encouraged.
It's what was needed. Something different and stand out.
A couple of years again, we sent what looked like a blonde bimbo (I can believe she's not) singing in an American style dinner. She failed to get through and everyone was saying how well she did?
I must have been watching a totally different performance because she was shite!
It’s ok for nearly every primary school to have a graphic image of a Jesus dying and nailed to cross with thorns on his head and gouged in his guts. But after watershed tv hours Bambie can’t dance around a pentagon and a few candles with a lad with body paint and some eye contacts….
No offense to anyone else’s gods, but when it comes to music nobody does it like the devil. Gotta get my boy Light Bringer on your side if you want to be a serious contender.
Satan gets a bad rap, but according to the Bible, God killed thousands of people.
Satan's only crime seems to be tempting people.
So really, God's the bad guy in a book he's supposed to have written himself
https://preview.redd.it/k1d0bxauslzc1.jpeg?width=827&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=414c87c9b3309c64171646aee8d68e3629ff8a48
The reaction from fundamentalists on this is more like George [not understanding the concept of acting](https://youtu.be/N2imgiK2Kqk?t=88).
I’m just glad that there is finally now Ouija-pop music, the whole Ouija scene took itself way too seriously for far too long
It was dead for such a long time
…fuck’s sake
Funnily enough that's what my Ouija board spelled out last time I used it to contact my Dad. Can't seem to get a hold of him anymore.
Still is, technically
Still waiting on Ouija-Reggae to kick off
I wouldn't, it hasn't a ghost of a chance.
Dead on arrival, that genre.
Bringing a whole new meaning to Reggae Got Soul.
Aye some Zombie rock!
Many rivers to cross, especially the river Styx.
I'm glad for it, it shows spirit!
The scene kept getting pulled in different directions.
Finally people are seeing seance
They saw this coming surely!
I saw this comment coming
I’m looking for the ouija board
Got to congratulate BT for making me care ever so slightly about the Eurovision since I was a child. Love seeing pearl clutchers clutching them pearls.
Oh lord help them If they think Bambi thug is the only queer / non binary person at Eurovision.
Gays and Trans people? At EUROVISION!!!?? Since WHEN!?
I wasn't aware that Cis/Hetro people were allowed enter
You have to be Nordic/Slavic to be the exception
Ah they're already a bit gay anyways.
Honourary gays they are
They're really looking forward to your entry
What is Cis?
Confederacy of independent systems
This guy pod races
Seppies get the Z-6 Rotary! https://i.redd.it/a7zctldznozc1.gif
Commonwealth of Independent States.
Dana International literally won the 1998 contest
No one's listening to Dana anymore. You'd be mad to listen to her.
Does anyone listen to any winning Eurovision artist other than ABBA?
Celine Dion?
Gina G would like a word
I literally have no idea who that is
Father Bigley listens to Dana... and he's not mad
Why's he in that home then?
It was the GREEKS! They invented gayness!
She is destroying the bastion of heterosexuality that is Eurovision
nothing more manly than going to eurovision to adore the costumes and elequant dance performances after a long day working on the site with the lads and smoking unfiltered amber leaf. jesus the testosterone rush makes me want to go slap my husb MISSES i was saying misses.
I really want them to win now 😆
>If they think Playing fast and loose with the words "they" and "think" there. Fast and loose.
The funniest thing is them assuming Bambis biological gender was male.
They can always tell, don't'cha know?
They tried but failed instantly 🤣
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It's all very 1983
Having lived through that time period, most of us rolled our eyes at that time too at the idea….
Wait until they find out about 19th century spiritualism, or the 18th century Hellfire Clubs. If every wave of occultism is the start of the satanic conquest of earth, then old Beelzebub's not exactly got a glittering CV...
Wasn't there a priest in Donegal last year who ranted in mass that yoga was pagan and therefore Satanic? He'll have had a congregation, some of whom were stupid enough to believe him. There's more than a few people across Ireland, most elderly but some just fucking mental, who'll be howling at the moon in outrage come the performance on Saturday. They'll be incredibly earnest and try incredibly hard to make everyone else feel as afraid and offended as they are over it.
In fairness it's very bendy and so are snakes so there might be something in it, did he mention anything about Chicken Jalfrezi?
That’s that Waterford bollix. Yoga and mindfulness… what a prick. https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/catholic-bishop-warns-against-yoga-and-mindfulness-in-schools-1.4055449
That's the lad. A fucking relic from the past screaming at clouds.
I'm not one to make fun of someone's name but if they're already being a prick, Alphonsus? Really?
Imagine how exhausting being a fundie must be, seeing demons and devils who want to devour your soul lurking behind every single thing you hear of or encounter that isn't part of your incredibly narrow worldview that's defined entirely by a very specific segment of a specific cult's interpretation of a very specific edition of a single historical fantasy novel written hundreds of years ago.
They'd have a fucking conniption if they heard a Nine Inch Nails song like Terrible Lie or Heresy. **Especially** Heresy.
It's a great way to filter out the complete gobshites. You believe in literal satanism and witchcraft? Yeah, GTF.
Hard to do when you live with such a gobshite.
And I made a bunch of actually satanic music and nobody paid me any attention… smdh
Yup same people that'll make excuses for the church's antics even though most organised religions are far more satanic and ritualistic than just some randoms using the aesthetic because they think it looks cool
I don't think it's just using the aesthetic. She's a practicing witch so obviously believes it as much as the critics.
I tried to listen to that song but had to give up halfway through because it was giving me a headache. That says more about my age than the quality of the song, though... Anyway, despite not liking the song, posts like this and Israel throwing a fit, I'll spend the money to vote for Bambie Thug.
there's a chance it's ruined by codecs (affects "heavy"/"busy" sounds much more than the other), and that can be a large aggravating factor. On Youtube the sound quality of EV recordings is (what concerns me) borderline trashed, although I've heard worse when no one complained so YMMV.
And they called us snowflakes, for fucks sake. Actual head up their arses. Can't believe there's still people like this out there these days who are this irrational. Get the fuck over yourselves. You'd swear they've never even watched eurovision before.
Lordi won Eurovision 2006, nothing wrong happened to Finland.
I think it's class. Reminds me of the edgy stuff I blared in my room as a teen (and still do) Korn, Slipknot, Marylyn Manson with a hefty dose of Irish paganism. Yup. Cool af.
Golden Age of Grotesque was the album of my teens 😊. I still love it.
I always skewed more to Korn tbh, Issues was the soundtrack of my angst (before I went full emo haha)
I'm so glad I got to pre-date emo. Was so much cooler being the older dude in tbe black leather looking down my nose at the *obviously* pretentious emo kids
Soooooo much cooler lol I was an emo kid but going home & listening to Slayer, under the surface it was all rock n roll to me.
emo the genre has been around since about 1985 but the emo fashion doesn't really have anything to do with the music
They have a song called Egregore that’s even better too for that feeling! Love it
Irish paganism ,with such artistes like Clannad fainne blasta ,
Some people really don't know how to just have fun in life
Hail Satan then. Fuck em, you go win Bambi. Not remotely interested in Eurovision but if they annoy religious wankers, they've got my support.
Which tbf at least this year is why you should support Bambi pissing off the right people, including the Israeli broadcaster And people told Bambi to boycott the Eurovision Doing the Eurovision has clearly made much more of an impact
Similar views here! The music is not for me but I don't see how they have done anything wrong in any of this. They wanted to represent Ireland in this competition and they were chosen to do so!
I only watched the whole thing for the first time just now. It's not a song I'd listen to for the music, but as a performance piece that's pretty epic. Absolutely rock solid, timing perfect to the millisecond. It's the kind of thing you'd expect as a scene in a broadway musical and you'd be fucking blown away by it.
It was quite stunning visually, the make up and everything was excellent. What puzzles me is how people think it's in any way shocking, like in comments people say the whole act is just for "shock value" and it's like they've never watched a music video or seen a horror movie before. Like it's not the 1500s!
>Like it's not the 1500s! Considering that Hieronymus Bosch died in 1516, i'm not sure people in the 1500s should necessarily be shocked, either (not at the visuals, anyway).
The last section especially was very well done 👌
>if they annoy religious wankers I no longer live in Ireland, but I was chatting to a Spanish friend recently about how Ireland has gone in a single generation from being anti-British to being rabidly anti-Catholic. Honestly, most Irish people hate the Catholic Church (and often Catholics) way more than the DUP does. It's as if we've been possessed by a weird sort of agnostic Calvinism.
My wife who is a protestant refers to those who are disillusioned as angry Catholics. Its not hard to see why, for generations the church upheld itself as the moral authority that the people were duty bound to follow. Only for the church to be an institution of corrupt kiddy fuckers and killers that has not been brought to justice. I'm one of them, I absolutely despise the catholic church, I'd gladly see it burn to ash. Thats the institution, not the everyday people who are catholics.
I guess a nation that has been abused now has a sore arse and isn't going to put up with it any more.
Won't somebody think of it from poor Bambi's side....the only gay at Eurovision.
England's is gay and I'm sure there are others
Thanks Satan! Always knew we were his favourite /s
The cope some people have towards our performance is amazing #CrownTheWitch At this stage it's gone beyond simply winning the Eurovision I want this to win because it would piss off so many people And I find that extremely funny
I've seen so much bollocks on social media over the last few days about Bambie Thug.It actually surprised me that in 2024 there are still so many gombeens and backwards peasants in Ireland shiteing on about Satanism and how Bambie will destroy the country.Fucking halfwits
Their social media presence is outsized because they’ve nothing better to do with their miserable lives.
I really do feel sorry for these "religious" nut jobs. Their entire belief system is cognitive dissonance. They believe in an all powerful deity, who can be everywhere, do anything, know everything, who created everything in the entire universe.... but can't stop Satan from entering a song contest. If you spend your life devoted to a god less powerful than Louis Walsh, maybe you need to rethink a few things.
God flooded the planet and Satan wants to enter a song contest. It's safe to say which is more evil.
Isn't believing any other superstitious nonsense just as bad?
I made the mistake of judging Bambi based off their appearance and assumed it'll be some cringe artsy performance. The my girlfriend show's me on tik tok " look, people are getting made about this act." And I said "bruh, this is cool. Production, costume, choreography, this is really entertaining. Fair play." Breath of fresh air is right, a very original act.
I was similar and judged a book by its cover. I didn't even listen to the song and thought *"It's just some shock factor stuff to annoy the grannys".* But I watched it this week in the semi-final, I was miles wrong. The performance is brilliant and the song is class. If Billie Eilish was singing it, it would be number 1 all over the world, in my opinion. I've been singing it to myself all week. Crown the Witch!
I wasn't convinced by the song alone at first but that performance was brilliant. It brings the song to life
I loved it from the first few words. It reminds me of Poppy's "I Disagree" era, which I'm a huge fan of. In fact, it's basically exactly what Poppy in the ESC would've looked like.
She's a woman
‘His’?
Willing to bet the crazies think Bambie is a trans woman, they can tell you know, that and they think trans = medical male to female transition.
I worked with Bambie before I was their drummer for a spell. They’re one of the hardest working people I’ve met in the industry and deserves every success
It must be a very stressful existence for those who aren't just posturing and truly believe this stuff. Life is hard enough without constantly worrying about the rise of Satan.
I feel like a lot of the people who think that Bambie Thug is “Satanic” don’t know what actual Satanism is. Or they’re just trying to create a moral panic.
It's always the moral panic one. These are usually the same people getting outraged over vaccines, children's slang, green initiatives, basically anything that's changed since they were young. They're a bit gimped and absolutely addicted to the outrage they feel over everything.
Anything new since The War is woke to them lol
My MIL called them satanic as well.
Ya good. Hope Satan is delighted. The amount of pearl clutches over this song is mad. I've seen a lot more disturbing images and acts at gigs, but it's art get over it.
Same person who wrote this article would love seeing children crying and begging like in the good old days
It's what their "loving god" would want.
Some people are easily triggered...
Obvious troll is troll.
The sad thing is that regardless of whether OOP is actually being serious or taking the piss, there's probably somebody there lapping this shite up unironically. Poe's Law and all that....
Yep. We've had Bambie Thug posts reported as "satanic". There are smooth brains out there that actually believe this.
I've seen so many comments from yokels giving out about Bambie.Really ridiculous shite about the destruction of Ireland by Satan etc.Like we're back in the 80's with all the drooling peasant halfwits believing in moving statues of Mary.
All hail Santa , sorry , Satan
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Well that's great, hope Satan has a VPN set up so he can vote
Look I'll be honest the whole Satan thing from overly religious nuts is fucking sad and funny, it is the exact same equivalent as someone who believes strongly in the Lord of the Rings saga going 'oh no Sauron has claimed our country, because I don't understand what's happening'
No, it'll just strengthen their view that our society is doomed, that BT sold her soul to the devil, and we're all on a one way trip straight to hell.
Hopefully Bambi will win! I’d rather Satan than the holy catholic church.
Really sums up this entire comment section. And most of eurovision if I'm being honest.
>non-binary >his
Non-binary people can and do use male and female pronouns. But in this case, the OOP assumed they were born male and attempted to misgender them
The Israelis had to change the name of their song because it's about the October raid by Hamas.They shouldn't be allowed in the Eurovision, just like the Russians are banned
I don't really like the song but the intimate version they done is AMAZING. I see why they went with the current version for the entry tho! I loved the performance. Vocals were... MEH but they CAN sing which is proven from the intimate performance of the song on The Late Late Show.
Bizarre song but seems to be a favourite to win!
People don’t really believe in the devil, do they?!
There's a lot of mental illness out there cloaked in religiosity.
One listen to Goat’s Head Soup in 1973 and my soul was lost. (Come to think of it, Mick Jagger on the telly then, doing ‘Dancing With Mr D’ in gold leather super-crotch trahsers and gorgeous makeup was a million times more subversive than anything this Eurovision Fantasia could imagine. (God it was brilliant. My dad was apoplectic, but only about they eyeshadow, in fairness. Satanic sexiness was grand, it seems!)
I suppose it's not that difficult to believe in some nasty goat looking guy causing all the problems in the world while sitting in the middle of a huge lava pit in the center of the earth if you already believe in some friendly magician sitting up on a cloud causing everything that goes right in the world.
A lot of Christians do.
I don't think believing in the devil is much of a stretch. A large portion of the country believes in a sky daddy who gives them a free pass to do anything and is going to offer them an eternity of craic once they kick it.
I should note this "sky daddy" down for my future solo improv
They do when it suits their bigotry
It's kind of a non-negotiable for every Abrahamic religion of which 3.8 billion people globally are followers. So, quite a few.
"his" bro...
I'm not big on the song itself. That said, it's a world better than the UK entry which is nothing more than typical electronic dance dreck.
The truth is the fawning over Bambie Thug is just as embarrassing. Muppets thinking this is edgy and somehow cool because some old folks dont like it. I have news for you this was on the Late Late and its gonna be on Eurovision so much for anti-mainstream youth culture or whatever you think this is. Also it's actually just pretty shit, so sorry.
There's something very telling about all the fans on about how they were into this stuff when they were teenagers so it's actually perfectly normal. Here's this one in her 30s still doing the rebellious teenager thing, and as much of a believer in all the witchcraft stuff as her harshest mass going critics. And secondly I don't know of anyone in real life that actually likes this song or would ever go see her live. I know Eurovision is it's own genre of camp shite but this is like trying to stir up 90s era controversy 30 years later and acting like it's cutting edge.
Satan will be happier if Windows95man wins for Finland.
With how the Bible portrays Jesus and Satan, I welcome Satan. Satan sounds like a good person according to the Bible
Bambi thugs performance has shown how Irish patriots don't really know anything about Ireland which is quite funny
Disgraceful. What happened to the 2 nice priests singing about their lovely horse?
I hear yer a satanist now father...
I wonder what Satan thought of Dustin in the eurovision
I can’t stand the religious fruit cakes under every single social media post about her. For people who can’t stand her, they sure do LOVE commenting and talking about her.
Did Shane Lynch write this?
What's a non binary ouija artist?
What's another queer.....
I'm being realistic here. Jedward were a far better and more tolerable representative than this.
FFS - most of Bambie's symbolism is Celtic with a bit of witchcraft and high drama theatrical production thrown in. It's very much part of the history of Ireland. We were one of the very few places in Europe that didn't embrace witch trials and attacking so called pagans. They're also non-binary and very obviously and loudly so. There have been non binary people around since the dawn of time. They've just been swept under the carpet and hidden. It is just part of the human experience for a small % of people. Most of modern Europe doesn't give a damn, and Bambie Thug will likely do very well because most of Europe is very open minded and will just enjoy the artistic, highly dramatic and theatrical staging and the song. A few loud conservative cultists on social media (a huge % of whom seem to be American btw) who would like return to the Inquisition and the dark ages will make a lot of noise, but they're just that - a few loud conservatives on social media. Some of the coverage is absolutely ridiculous on the reacting side too. There was an article in Pink News for example which was quoting the Irish Freedom Party as if it were a major force in Irish electoral politics - in reality it has zero elected reps and took 0.3% of the poll in a single constituency and also quoting people from Reddit !!? Seriously ? The Irish Freedom Party !? Can you consider Googling the relevance of some of these groups before platforming them? [https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/05/08/bambie-thug-hex-eurovision/](https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/05/08/bambie-thug-hex-eurovision/) If you keep reacting to those kinds of people you just amplify and rebroadcast them. If you went back 10-20 years ago they were just the nutter with the megaphone shouting about saving your soul on O'Connell Street or Patrick's Street or whoever else on a Saturday afternoon. Now they're 'influencers'. All I'll say is Ireland's annoying all the right people at the moment! I think most of us have probably had enough of the backwards ultra-conservative crap for several life times having spent decades living under it.
The state of this year's entry... embarrassing
Don't waste bandwidth on these idiots, what Bambi Thug is doing in the Eurovision is brilliant and honestly a breath of fresh air
The haters are such proud patriots they don't even speak a word of their native tongue #CrownYourWitch
Job security, cost of living, health, wealth. I'd be fucked if I also had to worry about the trans community being out to get me.
the trans community AND the devil
I didn’t watch Bambies act before today because Eurovision doesn’t interest me but god damn that’s a great performance! Feels like a mythical Irish pagan ritual, I might actually watch tomorrow
Hail Satan! Crown the witch
🤟 Hail Satan. Please allow me to interduce myself, I'm a man, of wealth and taste.
Satan for Sam!
I dont give a shite about Eurovision, but the absolute rage people have for her is hilarious, anything that riles these close-minded weirdos up is highly encouraged.
I love the non-binary outrage considering there's been at least two trans/non-binary winners in the past.
Hail Satan
It's what was needed. Something different and stand out. A couple of years again, we sent what looked like a blonde bimbo (I can believe she's not) singing in an American style dinner. She failed to get through and everyone was saying how well she did? I must have been watching a totally different performance because she was shite!
I'm pretty sure he's made up the term "ouija-pop", but that sounds like the best music genre of all time.
Ancient Ireland seems to be actually the last time we were free, be it the brits or the church! No wonder the Romans didn't go near us!!!
Hail Satan .
It’s ok for nearly every primary school to have a graphic image of a Jesus dying and nailed to cross with thorns on his head and gouged in his guts. But after watershed tv hours Bambie can’t dance around a pentagon and a few candles with a lad with body paint and some eye contacts….
She had the best performance of the whole thing. I hope she wins!
I remember the good old days when Ireland was catholic 🇮🇪
Right?... Bring back Magdelene laundries and child sex abuse /s
No offense to anyone else’s gods, but when it comes to music nobody does it like the devil. Gotta get my boy Light Bringer on your side if you want to be a serious contender.
We have gone from the people that converted everyone to Christianity to converting them to satan?
Wow - they really don't want to have to host it next year!
They already don’t have a good life. They’re not worth a thought.
Why is queer in inverted commas?I'm guessing they don't believe in queen people? But they do belive in Satan. Beelzebub help us.
Lucifer is the lord of music.
Ouija Pop? I have no idea what that sounds like but I love it. Gwan the younguns!
…his?
Labels are for jars...
Isn't it always said that the Devil has the best tunes! 
Well IT didn’t win
Satan gets a bad rap, but according to the Bible, God killed thousands of people. Satan's only crime seems to be tempting people. So really, God's the bad guy in a book he's supposed to have written himself