Just listening to last night's #Eurovision entries on Spotify and the #Finland entry is peculiar. It starts off all threatening and unsettling with pumping bass, guttural grunting vocals, spiky distorted synths and all that ChaChaChaaaa business, then halfway through suddenly remembers there needs to be some kind of melody and goes on a jolly family holiday to autotune city.
It's catchy as hell, but strangely uneven in tone.
#Latvia's entry sounds like Ed Sheeran after he's been listening to too much Radiohead. The verse in 5/4 and the chorus in 6/4 (or is it 5/8, 6/8?) like when Radiohead do clever time signatures to try and mess with your head.
Unfortunately the instrumentation, arrangement and performance are bland. #eurovision
#Ireland - a Coldplay tribute band performing a medley of Castle on The Hill / Where the Streets Have No Name. Ireland, you're better than this. #eurovision
#Croatia then. Is it about Putin? Anyway, I saw them described as looking like a Psychedelic Gestapo Village People. The actual song has a chorus, but it seems too wacky and "We're funny fellows, you just don't know what crazy antics we'll get up to next"
Good for them that they qualified, but it's either top 3 or Nil Points. #eurovision
I missed out the guy with the lobster phone from #serbia. I'm sure there's a good song in there, but the whispering and start-stop style just puts me off. It's like Sandman and Robert Smith had a baby together and he listened to a lot of Burial and Grimes . #eurovision
So I listened to #Euphoria then #Tattoo straight after and I actually prefer Tattoo as a song as Euphoria feels like a chorus in search of a verse and Tattoo is more of a whole piece. Euphoria is more of an event than a song.
Quite why Loreen isn't a global superstar is quite mystifying, she's obviously a superb performer & singer. Is she being suppressed by Big CharlieXCX or Big Eilish? #eurovision
@Bez_Lightyear Have you checked out Statements? Some deem it a more complete performance than either Tattoo or Euphoria. It is certainly deeper lyrically, although how one rates it depends on one's taste for a darker kind of pop.
Still widely accepted to be far better, at any rate, than the actual Swedish Eurovision entry that year.
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