[ SECRET POST #3073 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3073 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Master Chef]


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[The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater]


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[Harry Potter]


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[Star Wars]


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[Frank]


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[Discworld]


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[Baccano!]


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[Cher Lloyd/Kingsman: The Secret Service]


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[Eurovision]


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[Hannah Rutherford (Yogscast)]










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Comments

[fishnchips]

Eh, deserve is maybe the wrong word - sure, 0 points suck and I kinda pitied her but what did anyone expect? Germany never really wanted/chose that song and it was literally never played on any radio station, never promoted, and it was a massively boring song. If any and all support from a song's own country is missing and if the song is clearly one that just isn't right for the ESC, this was bound to happen. Just waving your ass into the camera won't get you any points anymore if your song isn't some OTT ballad with two key changes, some hyper euro dance trash pop, a drag number or otherwise OTT ~quirky/weird~.
Also: I'm still amazed that some people actually think that the ESC is in any way an actually serious music contest.

[(Anonymous)]

what? never on the radio? I had it stuck in my ear before I first heard it was our entry to the contest... not that I liked it though. I just don't like that shallow souly deep-voice-lady pop.

[fishnchips]

Well. at least not on the big radio stations in my state? And certainly not to the extent that other ESC songs were played in the past. I guess it was played one or two weeks after it "won" on TV but after that, nobody seemed to give a fuck anymore and it just... dropped off the radar.
I usually have a very good memory for music (I'm usually the annoying person in an ESC-watching group who points out the similarities of the entries to other existing songs) and I couldn't even remember what the song sounded like until they performed it on the show.

[(Anonymous)]

It's absolutely a serious music contest. It's just that the Big Five have given up and keeps sending shit. My country (Sweden) has ended up top three in the last five years - twice in top place - and it's because we take this contest seriousy and actually send good songs with good artists.

[fishnchips]

... You have a trashy eurodance song that's basically a copy of David Guetta's "Lovers on the Sun" and the only thing impressive and memorable about it was the show.
The ESC hasn't been a serious music contest in decades (if it ever was one). It's not about the music, it's about the show and about popularity won through advertising the songs beforehand.
It's trashy, it's colourful, it's loud and a hilarious, big party and that's what people love about it - the music is just a side dish.
That doesn't mean that there's never any good song among the lot, but the good music rarely wins.

[(Anonymous)]

The only similarity between Heroes and Lovers of the Sun is the guitar. The melody is completely different.

Let's go down the list of last years' winners, shall we:

Rise of the Phoenix - genuinely good ballad
Teartrop - radio hit
Euphoria - massive radio & dance hit
Running Scared - okay, that is a shitty one
Satellite - modern radio hit
Fairytale - massive etno-pop radio hit

Let's also remember that 2015 had some great songs!

Australia, Belgium, Estonia and Norway were all really good songs.

Yes, there is a lot of shit, but there is a lot of good music, and the best songs usually win or end up top three.