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Yep - though I don't agree with you about "This is My Life" - a sweet song, but far too lagom for Eurovision. (Popular in Sweden - but not really a song with wider appeal IMHO).
Sweden would have been far better to have sent Eric Saade a year early, or Ola with Unstoppable (which is still annoyingly catchy and very well produced).
Similarly they should have sent either of the Måns Zelmerlöw entries in previous years (Hope and Glory was better than Cara Mia I think - but both were pretty good), and whilst I think Eric was the right choice this year, I'd have been interested to see how Sanne Nielsen faired - because her performances are almost universally faultless, and her staging would really have suited the Düsseldorf set.
Reacting to this, the vast majority of entries were up tempo this year! Thus we got a number of ballads through to the final that didn't really cut the mustard (Switzerland for example) - essentially 'up tempo song fatigue' in the semis.
The big mistake that the BBC could make would be submit a ballad next year because a slow tempo song winning in 2011 - it will most probably be a ballad-y year next year.
To a degree.
If I'm honest I just didn't think many of the songs this year were that good.
No real decent pedal-to-the-metal dancefloor fillers. (Hera Bjorks "Je ne s'ais quo" last year for instance didn't really have a rival this year)
noggin
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The general rule of entries in order to get a winner is to stand out from the competition. In 2010, there was a huge amount of ballads, as a result some really great songs (like Sweden's "This Is My Life") didn't progress from the semis because of ballad fatigue. Germany won with an upbeat song.
Yep - though I don't agree with you about "This is My Life" - a sweet song, but far too lagom for Eurovision. (Popular in Sweden - but not really a song with wider appeal IMHO).
Sweden would have been far better to have sent Eric Saade a year early, or Ola with Unstoppable (which is still annoyingly catchy and very well produced).
Similarly they should have sent either of the Måns Zelmerlöw entries in previous years (Hope and Glory was better than Cara Mia I think - but both were pretty good), and whilst I think Eric was the right choice this year, I'd have been interested to see how Sanne Nielsen faired - because her performances are almost universally faultless, and her staging would really have suited the Düsseldorf set.
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Reacting to this, the vast majority of entries were up tempo this year! Thus we got a number of ballads through to the final that didn't really cut the mustard (Switzerland for example) - essentially 'up tempo song fatigue' in the semis.
The big mistake that the BBC could make would be submit a ballad next year because a slow tempo song winning in 2011 - it will most probably be a ballad-y year next year.
To a degree.
If I'm honest I just didn't think many of the songs this year were that good.
No real decent pedal-to-the-metal dancefloor fillers. (Hera Bjorks "Je ne s'ais quo" last year for instance didn't really have a rival this year)