Swiss singer Nemo celebrates after profitable the ultimate of the 68th Eurovision Track Contest (ESC) 2024 on Could 11, 2024 on the Malmo Enviornment in Malmo, Sweden. (Getty)
The LGBTQ+ group had much more trigger to have fun Eurovision than typical this 12 months: because it had an enormous variety of LGBTQ+ artists, together with non-binary singer Nemo from Switzerland. Now, the 2024 outcomes are in, and it’s Switzerland who’ve taken residence the trophy.
The 68th Eurovision Track Contest was broadcast stay from Malmö following Loreen’s 2023 win, with 37 international locations battling it out to prime the factors desk and earn the honour of internet hosting subsequent 12 months’s musical celebrations.
Nemo completely smashed it out of the park with their track “The Code”, sweeping previous all the opposite entrants to safe a powerful victory. They acquired a remaining rating of 591 factors.
“The Code” was written by Nemo to clarify how they got here to phrases with their identification. Their victory is a big win for trans and non-binary visibility on one of many world’s greatest phases – viewing figures for this 12 months are nonetheless to be launched, however round 163 million folks tuned into the semi-finals and finals in 2023.
The track consists of the lyrics: “This story is my fact, I went to hell and again to seek out myself on monitor, I broke the code,” as nicely: “Someplace between the zeroes and those / That’s the place I discovered my kingdom come.”
In an interview with AP forward of Thursday’s semi-final, Nemo spoke about how “lovely” it’s to be a non-binary artist on the world’s greatest music stage.
One other singer who did very nicely within the Eurovision 2024 outcomes was fellow non-binary artist Bambie Thug.
Bambie Thug, who was Eire’s entry, additionally did nicely on Saturday after breezing by the primary semi-final, carrying a dressing up celebrating trans Satisfaction. Bambie Thug obtained 278 factors for his or her “ouija-pop” anthem “Doomsday Blue”, which some superstitious viewers thought contained a “hex” in opposition to somebody.
Croatia, who alongside Switzerland had been tipped to do very nicely this 12 months by bookies, got here second with the enjoyable celebration anthem “Rim Tim Tagi Dim”, whereas the UK’s Olly Alexander sadly solely reached 18th place out of 25 with “Dizzy“, written by Alexander and frequent Dua Lipa and Charli XCX collaborator Danny L Harle.
Of their Eurovision 2024 victory speech, Nemo mentioned: “I hope this contest can stay as much as its promise and proceed to face for peace and dignity for each individual on this world.”
Eurovision 2024 outcomes: prime 5 entries
- Switzerland: Nemo – The Code
- Croatia: Child Lasagna – Rim Tim Tagi Dim
- Ukraine: Alyona Alyona & Jerry Heil – Teresa and Maria
- France: Slimane – Mon Amour
- Israel: Eden Golan – Hurricane
Israel – who had confronted protests about their inclusion on this 12 months’s competitors, because of the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict – carried out poorly within the jury vote, however got here second within the public vote with a rating of 323.