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Ah, g'day.

Yes, hello, bloody hell, yes.

Welcome to another
Novympia Eurovision reaction video.

My name is Nova.

Yeah, and I'm Olympia.

Today we are dressed like chicks.

Yeah.

Sometimes that happens 'round here.

Sometimes. Sorry 'bout it.

Mmm meant to tell you about that.

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

"Oh my god!"

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

(laughs)

Joking, I'm joking

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

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

There you go. Ba-boom."

I'm not Australian, no.

That is a lie.

Ah, yes, no I am.

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

She's a liar.

Yes.

And a fraudster.

Also, just very very quickly,

because I know good goddamn well 
there will be comments:

Australia, yes they're not in Europe.

They were invited to take part 
in Eurovision in 2015

as a bit of a milestone celebration

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

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

we might as well stay in it.

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

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

and Australia now are.

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

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

Now, who is representing Australia 
for 2024, Nova?

Are they called Electric Fields?

So, Electric Fields are a duo.

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

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

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

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

but they did have one 
called Australia Decides.

It was really good.

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

with a song called "2000 And Whatever".

So we are aware of Electric Fields, 
and in particular

the vocalist Zaachariaha,

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

The charisma that exudes 
when they're onstage

A really infectious stage presence.

And the vocal is insane.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

throughout the whole playlist 
of reaction videos for this year,

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

But we thought 
"2000 And Whatever" was sick,

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

Yeah, I liked that.

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

Yeah.

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

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

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

if you can call it that.

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

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

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

Is it? Okay, interesting.

Because - but I've said this, though.

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

I've said this before, though,

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

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

They're very binary like that,

they don't come up 
with anything in between.

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

it's not a music video!

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

with the lyrics - it's a lyric video.

Okay, okay.

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

Okay.