Do you also think that the ESC has become extremely bad since the 90s?
There were a lot of really hot songs in the 60s and 70s that are still on the radio today. Since 2000, nothing has been featured in the Eurovision Song Contest – a pile of garbage.
Have you ever seen the 90s at the ESC? Most songs that ran there had nothing to do with modern or contemporary music! You can even read the German contributions. This dream may never die, dreams are there for everyone to live fRei, fall in love with you, etc. Who remembers that?
Well, the last few years weren’t like that, but Malik has reached an eighth chart position, sometimes apart from Rosa Linn’s title “Snap” (Armenia), which still runs up and down on the radio.
For the 1990s, I only make one exception and that was the UK in 1996:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-smkBGYqLnQ
No, I think it’s more varied. If you look at what has been for songs or artists in recent years, it’s a lot more colorful than at that time. At that time, ABBA was already the exception, which were opened with something completely new.
I now also find it good that the audience decides and throws some jury decisions about the heap.
Alone 2022 Had been the quality of songs on point. The songs were undervalued by the spectators, however, because unfortunately these days it goes very much to entertainment. There are so many good songs in the 2000s-2023. The problem -> semi-final participants do not participate in the final -> guess in oblivion.
There are many good songs of every year, only most of them deal too little with the ESC, because unfortunately it is only once a year for the majority this is being looked at. My opinion.
Not even. Every year I find 1-2 songs really mega. Says: there’s a Luschen year, of course, but also one with 3-4 songs I liked and which I recorded in my ‘All-TIme-Faves’. But don’t always have to be the winners and unfortunately – maybe it’s that – ESC songs survive, unlike earlier internationally, just no longer long.
Even if it is a matter of taste… I would like to mention a few examples (in my opinion):
Iceland 2009
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9FZhr93V3A
Austria 2016:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaPGwvAis3U
Israel 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpWKfcjXcp0
And yet one with recognized international class and success:
Sweden 2012 (Winner)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5qURKt4maw
And as I know, I’m gonna put my hand in bed someday tonight and tell me… Meeeensch, why did not post the song, now I forgot the best:D 😀 😀
This can be said in the broadest sense, it started with “Wadde hadde dudde da” and, strictly speaking, with Guildo Horn in 1998 – I can still remember well the debates that had emerged at the time due to alleged decline in values and morals… the first high priority of the “Grand Prix d’Eurovision de la Chanson”. That has always been a certain event, because the whole family sat in front of the TV, that was not different with us.
However, many Grand-Prix contributions were nothing high-quality – it was reputable, catchy pop music or well-made percussion music, but nothing in the actual or content sense remarkable.
I think it’s really funny how in the years before Guildo hardly anyone else looked the ESC and then when Guildo came in 1998, all the newspapers were outraged at once and it was talked about it again.
That’s true, though. Between 1990 and 1997, the whole thing was totally uneventful and was in the sand, in 1998 it was hot again and Guildo was a media issue. I always found him very friendly.
Yes, it used to be about beautiful melodies and voices, with a matching rhythm. Nowadays, it’s only about show, noise and light effects, so that the musical lack of performance is in the background. Proof: None of the songs from the past 30 years is an evergreen.
I’m definitely different. Compared to previous years, the ESC today is much more diverse and varied, as many music genres have been added over the last twenty to thirty years. It is understandable and correct that not every genre of every human thing is, since every person has his own taste as well as may have. Nevertheless, the ESC has great songs to offer. From 1956 to today.
On the contrary. In the 1990s, the ESC threatened to sink into meaninglessness. With Guildo the odds went up again.
For me, the ESC was best from the middle of the ’70s to the middle of the ’90s and from this time more often songs are taken on the radio. After that one or other good song came, but nothing else you hear often.
In 2011 a very particularly good song came in the “traditional-altmodic” style. But that was a great exception.
Amaury Vassili – Sognu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTiBNPT-x_Y
I can’t judge, I was still liquid in the 60s and 70s
I haven’t seen it for ages. In the past, there were still sung in the national language, there were unknown artists and the music was still halfway tolerable. Today this is only show and more appearance than being…
Grain and lordi and lol are probably not best choice
Germany zero point, lall eh manje …
Nee, that was always the worst music, with us mostly the same composer and only embarrassing.
Let’s go.
With the pieces from the 60s and 70s, you could not win a flowerpot today.
Maybe you’re fooling yourself…
A bit of peace is still internationally legendary today
https://youtu.be/Zt9BrV3xIco