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Previously on the Novympia channel:

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- You're freaking me out.
- We're women in STEM, we'll figure it out

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We're not women in STEM,
we don't even know what it means.

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And coming up:

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It's a good hook.

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Oh

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I find you very rude.

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Ah, g'day.

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Yes, hello, bloody hell, yes.

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Welcome to another
Novympia Eurovision reaction video.

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My name is Nova.

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Yeah, and I'm Olympia.

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Today we are dressed like chicks.

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Yeah.

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Sometimes that happens 'round here.

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Sometimes. Sorry 'bout it.

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Mmm meant to tell you about that.

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Today we are reacting 
to Australia's entry for Eurovision 2024.

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"Oh my god!"

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Why are they even in it, 
they're not even in Europe

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(laughs)

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Joking, I'm joking

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I would just like to say that 
Olympia is actually not Australian.

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"So you're a liar. 
Not only are you fake, you're a liar.

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There you go. Ba-boom."

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I'm not Australian, no.

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That is a lie.

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Ah, yes, no I am.

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And also, how lovely 
to react to my home nation today.

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She's a liar.

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Yes.

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And a fraudster.

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Also, just very very quickly,

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because I know good goddamn well 
there will be comments:

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Australia, yes they're not in Europe.

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They were invited to take part 
in Eurovision in 2015

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as a bit of a milestone celebration

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'cause they'd broadcast Eurovision 
for years and years and years.

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And then they were just like, 
well we're already in it,

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we might as well stay in it.

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There are several countries in Eurovision 
not in Europe, but they are in the EBU.

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The requirement is that you are a member 
of the European Broadcasting Union,

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and Australia now are.

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So they're in it, 
and I love that they're in it,

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and we're not gonna talk about it 
any more.

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Now, who is representing Australia 
for 2024, Nova?

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Are they called Electric Fields?

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So, Electric Fields are a duo.

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It's electronic music and I know that 
the one artist is called Zaachariaha.

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Forgive me, I can't remember 
the name of the other one.

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What I do know is that Electric Fields 
participated in Australia's national final

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which they haven't had now 
for a couple of years,

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but they did have one 
called Australia Decides.

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It was really good.

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And they entered into, 
I want to say it was 2019

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with a song called "2000 And Whatever".

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So we are aware of Electric Fields, 
and in particular

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the vocalist Zaachariaha,

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who is an Indigenous artist, 
nonbinary artist, has a killer voice.

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The charisma that exudes 
when they're onstage

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A really infectious stage presence.

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And the vocal is insane.

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So, we have heard the song 
they're submitting this year.

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We have, I'm also glad 
that we're not doing a blind reaction.

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I know a lot of you guys 
prefer a blind reaction,

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but sometimes I think it is best 
for us to listen to a song a few times,

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do a little bit of research, 
and just sit with it.

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Because my initial reaction to this 
probably wouldn't have been

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as positive or a strong 
as the feelings I have for it now.

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Yes, and I mean, some of the songs 
we have reacted to blindly,

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some we've sat 
and milled over for a while,

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so there's gonna be a whole, you know-

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throughout the whole playlist 
of reaction videos for this year,

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there's a bit of a mixed bag in there.

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But we thought 
"2000 And Whatever" was sick,

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I think that would've been 
an excellent entry for Australia.

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Yeah, I liked that.

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Let's watch this one if you're ready to.

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Yeah.

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And we'll talk about how we feel 
that this is gonna go for them.

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So the song is called "One Milkali", 
which translates to 'one blood'.

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I will say, straight off the bat, 
that this is a "music video",

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if you can call it that.

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This is a lyric video, let's be real.

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So interestingly, the Eurovision channel 
called it "official video".

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On their channel, 
it's called a lyric video.

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Is it? Okay, interesting.

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Because - but I've said this, though.

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Hang on a second, 
let's just pause it before.

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I've said this before, though,

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Eurovision has a way of defining 
how it uploads its videos,

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either as "Official Music Video" 
or "National Final Performance".

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They're very binary like that,

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they don't come up 
with anything in between.

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So they've called this 
"Official Music Video",

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it's not a music video!

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Like, it literally isn't, 
'cause they're just sitting there

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with the lyrics - it's a lyric video.

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Okay, okay.

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So this doesn't give away anything, 
really, does it?

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Okay.