Eurovision 2019: Semi-Final 1 winners / qualifiers press conference
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- The 10 qualifiers from Semi-Final 1 of Eurovision 2019 attend the winners' press conference. The acts competing in the grand final are:
Greece: Katerine Duska with “Better Love”
Belarus: ZENA with “Like It”
Serbia: Nevena Bozovic with “Kruna”
Cyprus: Tamta with “Replay”
Estonia: Victor Crone with “Storm”
Czech Republic: Lake Malawi with “Friend Of A Friend”
Australia: Kate Miller-Heidke with “Zero Gravity”
Iceland: Hatari with “Hatrið mun sigra”
San Marino: Serhat with “Say Na Na Na”
Slovenia: Zala Kralj & Gašper Šantl with “Sebi”
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Hatari's Klemens asking Serhat to answer question about Hatari: Gold.
Also, the press room applauding Klemens'every word.
Klemens the Queen :)
@@leelena Queen Klemens of Europe, First of His Name. 😊
He really was awesome!
When was that? I missed it.
27:34
Breaking news : Australia and Austria are the same country.
No u
Greece - 1st Half
Belarus - 2nd Half
Serbia - 2nd Half
Cyprus - 1st Half
Estonia - 2nd Half
Czech Republic - 1st Half
Australia - 2nd Half
Iceland - 2nd Half
San Marino - 1st Half
Slovenia - 1st Half
Thank
Stevenall true
@Stevenall they put Austria instead of Australia >_
When Tamta mentioned she was sad about Georgia and PORTUGAL not making it through. I felt that.😢 I am happy seeing Greece and Cyprus going to the finals.❤
Actually Tamta said she was sad for Georgia and MAD for Portugal didnt make it through. Also Czech Republic guys nod of the head when she said that just shows disbelief.
Am I the only one who cannot believe how bad this moderator is?? Seriously, the worst ever!
Serhat, I have really uncomfortable question: Is San Marino Turkey?
Hahaha
@@dundaetf83 France actually did NOT participate in the first semi final....
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA OMFG THIS COMMENT HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
@@ryancollins7021 You pretending to not know that France was one of the Big 5 + host alongside with Spain and Israel entitled to vote in semi final1???? or is it real ignorance??
Ryan Collins they voted in it, they didn’t perform
idk why some people are saying that Slovenia and Iceland were rude, because they were Not!
Katerine & Tamta - true professionals💖 beautiful inside and out 👍🏼😊 (Greece, Cyprus)
Victor is a gentleman (Estonia)
Australia is beautiful inside and out too!
Just hearing William shouting "yaaaas". Love it!
I totally stand behind what Gasper said. + If this changed your opinion about the song you need to grow up. They actually have the guts to stay true, honest and real.
+ Press sometimes needs this kind of answers on their stupid questions.
✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻
Deni Pregelj totally agree
@Adam Chasing i'm not blindly idolizing them. I accept and appreciate their honesty because they are real. - this thought is based also on the other interviews with them.
What about Iceland? Hatari is being totally provocative and twisting the ESC this year.....and then Gasper says something and everyone is shook. 🙃 (I still like iceland's song, and also the portuguese one, eventhough he also behaved unprofessional last night at wiwijam). What can you do...🤷
ZALA: We're really sorry if anyone got the impression that we do not want to be here or that we aren't grateful for the opportunity to present our song. If we didn't want to participate at the Eurovision we wouldn't have ever signed up for EMA in the first place. We wanted our performance to be the way we had imagined it, the way we wanted to present our song, both visually and in terms of the sound. That's why we put our 100% into the performance, we gave our all at every rehearsal. After two weeks of rehearsing and then two days of constant rehearsals (we were at the venue for practically 12 hours) - we really tried to make our performance the best it could be - that's why after the fourth rehearsal, the one that was actually the actual performance in the semi-final, we didn't have any energy left. I was exhausted, I collapsed onto the sofa in the greenroom, because even though our performance isn't the most energetic one, I still gave my all mentally. We wanted our energy on the stage to be the way we had wanted it to be and we're really happy that we managed to do that - even better than we had originally planned. But that resulted in us having no energy later on, and even though we should have made the effort to tell people that we're thankful - because we are, we're the most thankful in the world, I can't even put into words how amazing it is that this song, which was created in our bedroom, touches people - but there are no words that could actually express that, especially not after two days during which we put our all into the song. This song is, after all, the reason we're here. And maybe we should have been a little more skilled when it came to our words and gestures, but we're learning each day and we had learned so much here already, thank god we did, because we're awkward and sometimes we do things we don't mean and now we can truly thank every person out there - even if they only like the tune, even if they only like one word that's the most wonderful thing. Because that is all we really want - we want our song, our music, to touch people. We don't want what we say at the conference, at 2am when we're exhausted (I was very cold), to touch people. But it wasn't right to put out our opinion in a way that seemed impolite, that is the last thing we want. We still can't say that we're sorry for thinking some of the things that we do, because the fact is that we do feel uncomfortable sometimes. Maybe that's because our attempts to present our music to the world fail in some interviews, because they aren't asking about our song and we don't know what exactly to say (for example when being asked about our clothes or how we spend our days here).
GAŠPER: After the performance we were exhausted, we had spent 13 hours at the venue. After the conference we just wanted to go and take a rest, cuddle up and fall asleep, and we had said that at the conference. What we had said didn't sound the way we had intended. Once again, because of the fact that there are people willing to vote for our song out of all the 17 songs in the 1st semi-final, we are very proud. We're also proud of having won at EMA, even though first few weeks after it had happened weren't all that easy. We're proud that we are here. However, the music is still the most important to us, not the interviews, and we want to focus on our song, not our relationships with the journalists. We're doing this because of the music, not the interviews.
ZALA: One more thing - people have noticed that I covered myself with the Slovenian flag when we were waiting for the results. I didn't do that to show that I didn't care, quite the contrary, I was a little nervous. Even if we wouldn't have qualified, we did the best we could and we wanted to get forward in the competition, who wouldn't. And I just covered myself, that's something I do when I am nervous. I thought that was funny, I didn't think it implied that I didn't care. Sometimes we do things that people misunderstand, we're sorry and we're planning on better expressing how we feel in the future. We don't want you to misunderstand us, we don't mean anything bad by it and we're certainly not indifferent. This experience is priceless to us.
GAŠPER: The situation is a little difficult - this is a carousel of emotions. Are we tired? Yes, we are. Are we upset because we feel misunderstood during interviews sometimes? Yes, we are. Are we happy that the song has made it so far? We're the happiest on the planet. In the moment you simply express what you're thinking and we still stand for that. We definitely want to feel more understood, especially by the Slovenian media that are most critical of us at the moment.
ZALA: Maybe we wish that we could tell, for example, ten good things and one that maybe isn't as positive in an interview, and they wouldn't ignore all the good things we said and speak only about what we said was negative (and even exaggerate it!). That's not what we want, that's not our aim. Even our song speaks about how important it is to be who you are. It's true - we say things awkwardly sometimes, but we don't mean anything bad by that. All of us should focus on positive things more - after all, we're in the final, we tried our very best. And instead of talking about that, they're focusing solely on the fact that we were tired at the conference that took place at 2am, after two days of constant rehearsing. Honestly, that is a little upsetting. We're happy to be in the final, even though it is a show, with sparkles and feathers, but we are here, in the final. We're going to do our best again, and we hope that people will notice it.
GAŠPER: I hope that you'll point out our positive thoughts as well - the way you had pointed out the words we said when we were exhausted. We're so grateful that our music is where it currently is, that people actually care about it.
Where did they say this?
So happy they addressed it! Do you mind if you share in which interview they said that?
I like 🇸🇮 Slovenia, i am so happy that thay made it. And yes thay look like this, cuz thay stay behind the music not all circus which is Eurovision. Thay are artist, special artist. Thay don't need to jump and smile to show that thay are happy. Just because that thay will look cool. So many are fake there and thay just show what thay mean. This why Europe love tham❤️
Oh and just cause you put on a show like for example Tamta from Cyprus then it doesn't mean you're not artistic. Beyoncé is the best entertainer in the world who puts on a show, but she's artistic aswell. She's really artistic actually even though she has created pop songs.
Yeah, the answer from Slovenia was straightforward and kinda rude but I have to agree with them. I felt that instead of this long boring question (which other acts didn't like either, just look at Klemens) the time should have been spent on other journalists
Still didn't justify the rudeness on such an occasion.
No they were very rude and disrespectful
Didn't come out nice, yes. But I say: give them a break. They're quite young, indie, and not skilled in playing the pretending game. Interesting how in this word honest persons always end up worse than pretenders (I bet a lot of the others thought the same but wouldn't want to express it)...
I don't like when people are rude, but still, I don't get why they have press conferences. Anything interesting has never ever been said at a press conference.
What time was this?
Love Tamta's smile and reaction to Albert's mentioning the Wiwi Jam and the resulting cheers at the 13:00 mark : )
Hatari's response on 20:07 shows the real situation pressure and freak that is held behind the scene
TAMTA ❤️ CYPRUS & KATERINA ❤️ GREECE
Everyone hating on what Gašper said. Yeah he was a bit rude, I must agree on that without a doubt. I was surprised aswell. But I can understand him. The question was really dumb. Like literally you could ask something connected to their music, maybe next hits, something to get an interesting answer. Question about what number would they like to have in the final is really dumb.
Kozle streljata in sta videti domišljava. Nekdo jima mora razložiti, da predstavljata svojo državo, ne zgolj samih sebe. Meni sta začela presedati, ljudje pravijo, da ne bodo več glasovali zanju, češ da sta nesramna. Zelo slab vtis pred mediji!
As well is two words, not one.
The host is as much to blame as the questioner.
I think they didn't like how the host treated Klemens from Hatari
Serhat says 'always be yourself, never act'. Everyone applauds. Then the Slovenian couple don't act like they're having fun, but are themselves instead. Everyone hates them.
I ❤️ Hatari
How am I gonna convince my friends about this contest credibility when San Marino qualifies ahead of Portugal??
This is so unorganized.
Also, some of you might be complaining that Slovenia's too rude and straightforward.
Well, would you rather have a politician that'll explain in a convoluted way to explain for them?
That question about when would you like to perform: first, middle or in the end is sooo stupid!!!
My favourites are Slovenia, Iceland, Czech Republic and Serbia 💓🌍💓
What are your favourites from the 1st semi final qualifiers?
So I have to ask... Did you sense friction between the presenter and Iceland? Feels like they Hatari is getting a very raw deal in general from Israeli production.
I think the friction goes both ways (bi-friction?).
Sorry but their whole act is getting kinda rude sometimes
Hatari has been disrespectful to the contest since day 1. They got a final warning from the EBU to tone it down or get disqualified.
@Stevenall To tell you the truth. I loved their song. Even though I hate their personalities I put that aside and gave them a few votes because if I preach no politics in the contest I have to practice it in my voting. I gave most of my votes last night to Portugal though. Really good song and so disapointed they didn't make it. My favorite, Malta, performs tomorrow so I am keeping my fingers crossed they make it so I can vite them on Saturday.
Shes awful klemmens is great
Love the fact that Klemens and Kate are sitting right next to each other, they look very whimsical together. @wiwibloggs you need to post this pic!
All the contestants except Slovenia were nice and polite, despite the fact that they're all tired, and Klemens is the only one who made this conference a bit funny cause the whole thing was pretty uncomfortable.
"The air conditioning is killing me ... it's really cool." lol
Vvestlana I can’t 😂
Yeah shes being sarcastic. Love her❤️
Played Austria's song when Australia picked.
SAVAGE
The fact they played Austria's song over Australia has made my night better despite Conan non qualifying
Aleksander Pagels i see your comment everywhere 😂
You're a dickhead.
@@RockSchooled Me?
We couldn’t vote from the U.K. for the first semi final but I would have voted for Slovenia. Easily the best song of the night. Haunting descending chords backing is great. I also couldn’t believe it was announced as a finalist last - I was WILLING it to go through to the final!
stevealexR1 Not the best but for sure one of the best.
Why are you constantly repeating thid
@@Alda1821 plus I don't get why people on YT reply to a comment that has the original commenter's opinion and impose their opinion. It's THEIR, not yours, THEIR opinion
Haha at Deban & William!
Honeeeeeey!
Best eurovision channel 😄😄
Hatari ❤
Y'all seriously being too sensitive about Gasper
_oh thats a good question...good question_
"We cannot even describe how thankful we are to be in the final and to see that our song has touched so many people. We were very very tired, that is why we might seem a little rude or not focused when answering to the press." ~ said Zala and Gašper.
belarus is busy during the greek press conference she is really liking some comments.
DId I get it wrong but this lady didnt ask for jurnalist question for Hatari? That is why they asked about Hatari when it was San Marino turn.
yes, she seems to have forgotten then came back to them after San Marino
@@juliettesirkis "forgotten" 😅
Tamta is one classy lady ❤
Wait did they draw which half they’re in?
For some reason the only song which did not sound when she was on the micro was Australia , They Played Paenda song instead of Zero Gravity !!!
Alex Fescu you’re discriminatory
CONAN🌹😓
That comment by Gasper at the end about the question being boring was not cool
"We cannot even describe how thankful we are to be in the final and to see that our song has touched so many people. We were very very tired, that is why we might seem a little rude or not focused when answering to the press." ~ said Zala and Gašper
When they played Austria's song instead of Australia's 🤦♀️
Deban slaying with his question on 32:30
Tulia 😞🙏💓
Why was Gasper being so rude :( I love Sebi but why the unprofessionalism? If they didn’t want to go Eurovision then why did they stay until the semi final? They’re song is amazing and they should be more grateful. This really saddens me :(
Oh for God sake, they are tired and introverts, period, the didnt kill anyone's cat.
This is what pisses me off. They're introverts and they come across as real brats. It's too overwhelming for them, but it's no excuse. They should know better. Their team should explain a few things to them.
jesseparker85 being honest =/= being rude. They could have been a bit more respectful.
I really love Slovenia, but these two are too unprofessional. I understand they are tired, but see how Katerina, Serhat, Tamta, Kate and others professionally answered the questions. So I can’t understand Zala and Gašper! If you're not excited about the finals, why are you even taking part? Go home and free the place for someone who would answer all the questions with a smile!
Thz for u answer !! I totally agree , Georgia and portugal Deserve that place !!!
Way past their bedtime which is 8:30pm.
They will go home when they win
All they've done from EMA to now is be authentic to how they are. They're being themselves as they would be with anyone else who met them and hoping that resonates with people. If it doesn't, it doesn't. If it does, it does. Just super chill
Bailey Duryea telling someone their question was boring is not chill lol
So Gasper really just said that lmao
Andrej D at 45:08 he basically said questions like these are the reasons he wants to end interviews and go home
@@guadualupe5443 i didn't hear the question.What,was it?
Sara LouisXClementine it was about, if they could choose, what running order they would choose in their half
@@guadualupe5443 thank u
@45:03 why so rude Slovenia?!
@jesseparker85 It is rude, there was no need to answer like that, he could have been more polite, especially after qualifying.
jesseparker85 no he was extremely rude and disrespectful to the host woman. Everyone else probably thought it was a boring question but didn’t blurt it out
"We cannot even describe how thankful we are to be in the final and to see that our song has touched so many people. We were very very tired, that is why we might seem a little rude or not focused when answering to the press." ~ said Zala and Gašper
@@eva3645 It's always good to acknowledge when one makes a mistake.
Can someone tell me what did they say? I can't understand a single word of this dude
They really do Australia like that
The guys in the middle look like the wiggles 🤣
GREECE FOR THE WIN 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷
Right now I feel like Greece is getting the 13 spot. They might not be, but who knows
They did!
Tamta 😍🇨🇾
I am really sad that they put Slovenia last, in that corner..
That was because they qualify last
@@alienmapping3536 yeah.. lol
What is wrong with the sound??????
i wonder if relentless scam inc had 2nd half in the plan im sure they did on schedule hatari!!
Second half is gonna be so hard 3/5 of the big five are in it
Actually 4/5 only Germany is in the first half
vukan bozovic omg even worse 😂
@@salma3343 Exactly! And guess what? There's only 3 places left in the second half and 7 in the first half... bad news for 10 finalists from second semi final... Expect seeing Netherlands, Azerbaijan, Sweden, or Switzerland in the first half...
Omg yaaas Stig Rasta is there with Victor
45:35 chair for the Lake Malawi founds a place at the right moment..
Does anyone know when are we going to learn who won the first semi final?
The day after final i guees
Sunday
They hand out the results after the final is done because it stops people from trying to set up the winner
Thank you!!!
Australia
Czech republic ❤
Klemens! ❤ And some people are being ridiculous, of course Hatari won't do anything "political" in the Grand Final. They are here to perform send a message with their song and staging only that we saw in SF1. They don't want to comment anything in order not to be understood as being political.
they waved the Palestinian flag during the telrvoting
Haha your comment did NOT age well
love greek song
I prefer polite and funny Conan or nice and friendly Oto instead of rude and annoying Gasper, what a brat 😒
Me too 😞
oh hell no
You are just jealous because Slovenia qualified and political Georgia didn’t
@@waterteal No, I'm just disturbed that the boy is being so very rude to the poor people trying to do their jobs. Everyone in that room was tired and wanted to leave. That doesn't give him the right to be so arrogant and childish.
Everyone is surprised about San Marino, but today I respected him both as a singer and personality. Very positive, talented and the real gentleman!!! I'll definitely vote for him in the Grand Final! Disliked the behavior of Iceland and Slovenia, not nice. I didn't like their song either. Georgia and Hungary deserved more to be here instead of them.
I have a crush on Stig Rästa
Representative of Slovenia just said out loud what he thinks about this pretentious shiitshow called Eurovision. And isn t it hypocritical that everyone is laughing, while a few kilometres away, war is raging? Get a grip people, and open you eyes. It is not all show. Can you for once imagine a place where everyone takes off their masks and shows their real self? That would be delightful.
what the link between slovenia attitude and war raging ? none .....
@@jeremypereira7231 It could be anyone's attitude and it would be justifiable. I wouldn t like to be there either. And there IS a link between war and this festival - just like this festival has shitty music and people wearing masks, so do America, Israel, Arabic countries and essentially also some European countries wear masks and breach the code of human dignity and morality by undermining the sovereignity of countries they seek to exploit - Afghanistan, Syria, Lybia, Iraq, Iran, ... . So yes, I d say there is a link.
@@roxerc out of topic for me .... but ... hum OK
Ne slism kaj odgovarja.. U cem je problem.. Kaj je rekel
And yet she didn't say anything about the situation in Israel.
The only thing she mumbled was something about the air-conditioning and their own inconvenience, don't mix things up.
The only ppl implied anything about what you said were Hatari, twice.
Speaking about how boring a question is because you are tired or how cold you are from the air conditioning can hardly qualify as a political statement.
And BTW feeling cold, bored and tired is completely understandable but it could be stated in a more polite way.
I really hope Hatari was joking and dont do something silly. They can't change anything now
I'm pretty sure it was a joke, they've been refusing to answer questions for fear of being too political a lot lately as a joke
They can't change anything, it's too bad that the Icelandic reporter didn't know better that the performances are locked in.
You guys know what happened during the televoting right?
Gaspar was rude, If I were him I would have answered with civility. On the other hand, people need to be told: please ask one question in one sentence.
Question for Serbians: You don't have 19 in your country, do you?
Huh?
@@ndjukic2464 Nevena said that her lucky number is 9, she got second half, so 19 would be an obvious choice.
Iceland will win Eurovision this year!
I really hope so, they were amazing yesterday!
Hatari mun sigra!
They are the best
most boring press conference ever
Can you imagine if Slovenia win ESC. ZALA e GASPER probably will not go to the stage to sing winning song because they will be so tired and sick😂😂😂 Personaly I vote for Slovenia but in the final I will not do that, because ok the song but I like to see also EMOTIONS
Is the Slovenian girl in under a diazepam dosage ?
Zena sings in english but she does not speak english...WTF
But.. she does.. She can speak English, just prefers Russian
Slovenia is Canceled.
Yes, when they win
its not that deep
And we have rude Slovenians instead of loveable Belgium and Portugal or even Hungary. Congratulations to everybody, happy Greece gone through with our other friends in the final, and Australia was by far the best on the stadium, dont know about tv. I am so happy I am in my first eurovision in Israel, people are so kind and helpful here, as far for the mistake of the Austrias song, come on we are humans... that s why we love eurovision because of acceptance... and acceptance of mistakes, but being rude to a journalist who works and is the host crosses the line, yesterday many singers wanted to go through and would have been very pleased and honoured to answer silly questions. Kisses from a Greek fan in lovely Israel (I hope Israel wins again soon, great hosts). Good luck to all participants
Get some manners Slovenia 👌🏻 xx 💋
A lahko te dva spomnite, da sta vedla kam gresta in da bo naporno, da predstavljata Slovenijo in naj se tudi temu
primerno obnašata!! Si sploh ne morem predstavljat da bi mela še kakšno promocijo ker bi skp padla od utrujenosti...
In?
Jaz se strinjam z njima. Bila sta iskrena. Daj furaj s temi vprašanji. "Katero številko si pa vi želite v finalu?" Naj raje vprašajo o njuni skladbi...
The slovenian kids are so rude….lol
Don't be too harsh about the two autistic children...
@@oanimalinho2 such happiness they are spreading to Europe ! lol
Oh Slovenian guys, please, if you both want to go to sleep please go home, leave your place in the final for someone who really deserves it. But it wont happen, so, I actually wish the last place for you in the final. You are so unprofessional.
A music contest not mr. simpatico contest
@@MrBlondpower1 sorry but there are a minimum to do ! for artists, their behaviour was clearly unprofessional.