🧵 Vidbir 2024, Ukraine selection for Eurovision songs:
Alyona Alyona & Jerry Heil-Teresa & Maria
Arguably two of the most popular 🇺🇦 artists joined forces to sing about women friendship . “Song unites us as two women and is saturated with theme of girl power.”
ANKA - Palala (Burning)🔥
Anna Korchenova is from Kyiv and been playing flute since 3 and sang in folklore groups. Her music combines folk motifs, flute & dance music. Song Palala (Burning) is about uplifting yourself back up and continuing going forward.
Melovin - Dreamer 💭
Kostyantyn Bocharov from Odesa returns after performing in Eurovision 2018. He describes this song as a manifesto and an “ode to all the dreamers of our world." For inspiration of this song he claimed to walk on cemeteries. “Dream and don't be afraid.”
Ingret - Keeper 👩👧👧
Ingret Kostenko took part in X-Factor, The Voice and competed in Vidbir 2018. INGRET always creates theater and underground magic. Main goal of her performances is to exchange energy, kindness and love with the audience.
Nahaba - Glasss 🪞
NAHABA is a duo that combines a strong female voice with male drive. An experimental mix of Ukrainian neo-folk with different genres (witch house, folk, breakcore, gabber).
Nazva - Slavic English 🇺🇦🏴
Galician-Donbas band Pavel and Yaroslav play double bass,viola,keys, violin, flute. Song is synthesis of poetry, quotes and works of the classic music and rhythms of various peoples of world. They identify their style as "alternative ethnoart chaos”
Yagody - Tsunamia 🌊
Yagody is a Lviv theater and music group performing in the genre of "ethno-drama" and theatrical performance. The band has been known for a long time among connoisseurs of ethnic voices. They strive to popularize the Ukrainian folk songs.
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🧵 Thread of courageous ukrainian women who took part in social video of “Teresa & Maria” by Alyona Alyona & Jerry Heil ⬇️⬇️
Iryna, callsign iSky, is a soldier of the 59th OMPBr named after Yakov Handziuk and an artist. Since March 2022, she has been traveling to frontline positions to film crimes committed by the Russian occupiers.
Olena Gerasimyuk is a famous Ukrainian writer, the author of the books "Deafness", "Shooting Calendar", "Prison Song". Paramedic of the volunteer medical battalion "Hospitaliers".
Debunking every lie Vivek Ramaswamy said on todays GOP debate 🧵
Lie 1: ‘Ukraine is not a democracy because they banned 11 opposition parties’
For security guarantees these parties that were subsidized by the Kremlin and who were working for Russians during the war have been made illegal to counter Russian influence. It’s not about power, it’s about national security.
Banning parties collaborating with the enemies during war seems reasonable.
Some of what these parties believed:
Lie 2: ‘Ukraine consolidated media into one state TV media arm’
Under martial law and the importance of a unified information policy a joint information telethon which was launched after full scale invasion was formed.
Winston Churchill did the same to centralize military authorities under his own in WW2.
Television channels owned by four Ukrainian media groups continued to broadcast around the clock to bring verified information to the public regarding the war.