So Celine Dion didn’t speak English when she won Eurovision. She is Canadian but spoke only French. She didn’t know why Switzerland chose her to sing for their country because she was relatively unknown at the time. When she won it was crazy because the UK entry was an Eurovision favorite and she beat them by only a few points. Also because she won she became famous around Europe and that’s how she became an worldwide sensation! It’s a bit late but I hope it helps! Love from the Netherlands 🇳🇱❤️
She couldn't speak English?? There is a video of her speaking English considerably well the day after she won Eurovision in Dublin: ua-cam.com/users/shortsBf0qWV7SSxA
And about the careers: Generally they do not come out of this with a large international career, but at the very least in their home country, they will be famous forever and they usually expand their fame into at least a few other countries. the most recent winner band from Italy was actually on SNL a few weeks ago, so it seems increasingly likely that artists can leverage this more than they used to, which draws some bigger names, so this year should be fun!
Agreed, the winning songs do tend to become quite popular, even worldwide. Volare (Nel Blu, dipinto di blu), though it came in 3rd and did not win, is a good example of a song becoming hugely popular after taking part in the competition. It was the no 1 Billboard single in 1958. ESC is different from singing competitions and talent shows in that it is actually the songs that are competing, not so much the artists. Traditionally, more emphasis was put on the songwriters, to the extent that the national selection had the goal of choosing a song, and the vocal performer could potentially be swapped out after the song was chosen. Nowadays, the artists are more in focus, but there are definitely songwriters that are very famous for writing many successful entries.
I hope eventually the United Kingdom will view it that way and take it more seriously so we can have some of the best artists in the world come to Eurovision
In the very beginning it was a rule to perform in your own language, I believe. I was surprised to see Abba perform in English 🤔 because they did sing it in Swedish first. But their story answers one of your questions 🤗 It was fun watching them again, it's been years since I watched it, but my parents always tell me who won. Our country only won once, but Sandra did get a hit out of it and she's still famous 'til this day. She was 15 and the entrance age was 16 😅 shame on us lol. Anyways, I saw a few groups and singers in there that made it, especially the performers in recent years. Nocturne - the one you recognized - is still a favorite of mine. As well as 'The Voice'. Sooo beautiful. I remember as a child that families would support our home country and them alone, but really it's a game of 'may the best performance win' 🤗 Gosh, the hairstyles and clothing... Crazy, but lots of those are making a comeback 😉😝 Greetings from Belgium!
@@Vlinder333 there were a couple of years in the 70's where it was allowed to sing in any language, before they switched back... And if I'm not mistaken, Sandra Kim was said to be 15 but was actually just 13
1965: France Gall became VERY famous. (Also) At the moment of the performance, she was fiancé with the most popular french singer: Claude Francois. (worldwide famous). And when she won, she immediately phoned him to tell the news. He broke up with her on the phone (from jealousy I believe) Then she had to perform again. She was crying, but not from joy.
Loving your Eurovision reactions. You mentioned the Riverdance, their debut was actually at Eurovision, they were the interval act in 1994 when Ireland were hosting the contest.
The history of the language rule at Eurovision 1965 - Until then it was assumed that each country would sing in their own native language(s) but this year, Sweden chose to sing in English, and thus the national language rule was enforced. 1973 to 1976 - The national language rule was suspended, with several countries choosing to sing in English, including the 1974 and 1975 winners. 1977 - The national language rule is reinstated this year but since Germany and Belgium had already chosen songs in English by then, they were allowed to perform in English. 1999 - The national language rule is once again suspended. While most countries choose to sing in English or their national language, there have been cases where other languages were picked: for example, Latvia sang in Italian in 2007 and Austria sang in French in 2016.
@@siennaxeurovision i would say the “goal” is just to win. Sure it’s a platform to show your culture but at least when I’m voting that’s not the many main focus. And also I want to add. You kept saying that had American accents. I would say they don’t, it’s just that in singing it can be hard to keep 100% true to any certain accent so the Irish winner you where saying had an American accent, is actually just singing 🤷♂️ if you listen to the Irish language you might understand why they sound the way they sound when singing. Also the song from Sweden “Fångad av en stormvind” is written by a Swedish man named Stephan Berg so if it sounds like a American song it might be the English version of it you’ve heard?
@@siennaxeurovision The goal of Eurovision and still is in some parts to test the limits of live broadcasting and having to share something peaceful, they chose a song contest to do that. It's not a singer contest. The performing artist gets to perform once again, and takes home the iconic glass microphone trophy as their prize. The winning TV station of the Eurovision network of the EBU gets to host... and is lucky if they don't declare bankruptcy in the process (hello ireland). Also cultures are diverse and ever changing... singing in french was the thing in the 50s and 60s ... nowadays it's english.. maybe in 30 years it's korean or whatever... you'll never know.
You forgot Belgium who in 2003 decided to invent a language. I imagine it was like 'we're so done having to sing in French or Dutch and everyone sings in English now. African language - we don't know anything and no one will know what we're singing about anyway so it'll sound make up.....oh hang on! Made up? now there's a thought. Yeah cool beans let's do that!' It's called Sanomi and it came second and it came very close to winning.
Didn't Austria sing in english as the forst country that was not ireland or the uk? Before sweden? Or did they just ignore that one as a one off occurence
OMG! I've always felt that there was something familiar about certain soundtracks from Chinese dramas but never noticed it was that Norwegian song!! When you pointed it out, it finally made so much sense lmao I've definitely heard it in Chinese dramas before
Participants ranged from big stars to no names, some big stars destroyed their careers by placing badly, some no names made their breakthrough, others disappeared again right after winning Eurovision. So there's all sorts of possible "impacts". Also, the selection processes varied from country to country, but I think most common was a national qualification show with a televote, so the national audiences selected their participants. Although I know in some countries they are also selected by governments or music school / expert groups directly.
Actually Johnny Logan won three times with songs he written himself. 1980 Hold Me Now. 1987 What's Another Year. And thrid time was 1992 with a song Why Me? song sung by Linda Martin. Johnny Logan is the King of Eurovision Song Contest.
@@siennaxeurovision I’m actually from Andorra, a tiny country between France and Spain, we participated 4 times, didn’t even qualify, and gave up, too expensive for a little country like mine!
@@engod1319 I love you Andorra please Come back (Your 2007 entry is one of my favorite and for me, This year you deserved to be in The final) But you participate 6 Times not 4 (2004-2009) But anyway, Love from France
@@engod1319 You guys have to come back. :( But I hope if/when you do, you bring an upbeat song that sounds fresh (cause the ones I remember sounded... a bit dated, except for Gisela maybe).
First I wanna say I loved your reaction video. As an ESC nerd I can tell that only a few of the winners has had an international career like Celine Dion and ABBA. Many of the contestants went from native languages to english so that people in other European countries would be able to understand what the song was about and perhaps get a great career in Europe and later international. Some of the ESC winners has had great careers in Europe like Vicky Leandros, her song Aprés toi has been recorded in several other languages including Japanese and France Gall had a good career during the 60-80's. But most of the contestants are mainly known in their home countries.
Sometimes people who performed in ECS did not get famous, but will become meme like Epic Sax Guy. Yes, it is from ESC - he is a part of music group SunStroke Project - they represented Moldova in 2010 and in 2017. Love from Poland!
Hi, I know you have already done some research and a lot of people have already responded to some of your questions, but I just thought this might help clear up some of questions you might have left or that will appear when watching more entries for this year. So this is what the Eurovision Song Contest is exactly and what it means to me from a European's perspective: So, as the name suggests, it's primarily a song contest, however when voting, factors such as vocal performance and staging are also taken into account. Especially the staging has become more and more profound over over years with state of the art technology. It is held every year, hosted by the country that won last year's contest. Only countries (or broadcasters to be exacr) who are part of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) can participate. There are however exceptions, for example Israel, who are allowed to participate due to their historic relation to the continent as well as Australia since they have been following the contest for a long time and are an associate member of the EBU. The countries can theoretically send anyone they want, they do not have to be from that country, but mostly are. The selection process is different in every country. In many places there are extra shows for selecting their candidate (often via public voting), in other places they are chosen by a selected jury. Sometimes winners from other independent shows are chosen to represent their country, as you can see with the Sanremo Festival (which is a little older than Eurovision) for Italy or X-Factor Israel this year. Often these people are professional, but no very well known, so that aspiring talented artists are given a platform. That depends on the country as well tho. When entering, there are a few rules to follow. The song cannot be longer than 3 minutes, it needs to be an original (covers or samples are not allowed), there is a maximum of 6 people on stage and during the live shows, even though prerecorded backing vocals are allowed, the main vocal line has to be sung live, so no lip-syncing. Back in the days the song had to be in the countries' native language, but that changed, now everything's allowed, but some countries do have self-imposed rules. For example France only sends entries which are at least 50% in French. The contest itself consists of three live shows. Since there are around 40 countries participating, there are two semi-finals and one grand final. The big 5 (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK) and the host country automatically qualify for the final, because they are the biggest donors and without them the contest couldn't take place, since it is incredibly expensive to host. (Some people say, that's why smaller countries actually try not to win). The voting is split 50/50 between a public televote and national juries of the participating countries. Each jury distributes points from 1-12 to their 12 favourite entries. The 12 points, infamously known as 'douze points' are the highest amount if point that can be given. Some people complain that there always is a political and historical component to it for example Greece always gives their 12 points to Cyprus and vice versa, but it's mainly fair. All points are being announced live, so there always is this dramatic voting showdown at the end of the show, where they 'videocall' every jury. The public can vote via call, SMS or an app. Oh and you can't vote for your own country. Many winners may not become international superstars, but will mostly remain icons in their respective country and will be remembered as part of the contest's rich history. Each year, past winners join in to perform at the live shows. It is the biggest non-sport television event in the world, watched live by around 200mio people live around the globe every year. In many places it is a big event, something you watch together with your family and friends (maybe like the superbowl?). It is also known for it's representation of cultural and individual diversity, in particular in the sense of LGBTQ visbility, with the first trans woman winning in 1998. Nowadays basically half of the contestants is openly queen. Many songs are inspired by traditional local music, even if they don't often win. That's the thing tho. Personally, I have the impression, that's it not really about winning, but participating and presenting yourself to the world. In the end it's just a big party, where Europe and Australia come together for one night every year to celebrate. Don't always take it to seriously, there always is a variety songs. Emotional, powerful ballads as well as fun dance songs. From generic pop tunes to to really unique sounds. I hope this helped you a little and that maybe you could even feel or at least understand the love and excitement some of us have for this crazy, unique event. I really appreciate that you try to learn about other cultures and hope you have fun with this one. Great reactions, I really enjoy them, keep it up! --------------------------- Oh and if I could suggest a video, last year's contest was pretty popular, the link below leads to kind of recap for all the grand final participants, just snippets of the songs, so you can get an impression of what to expect for this year. It's from the official Eurovison channel, hope it's not geoblocked 🤞 ua-cam.com/video/6LI0mFK6JDU/v-deo.html Stay safe
Speaking of LGBTQ+ visibility, 2014 winner's conchita wurst (Austria) (sorry for spelling) won in drag! (drag can be enjoyed by all but in this case its a man dressing as a woman) 😊🏳️🌈
The singers rarely get really big internationally, but they usually are already famous in their countries. After victory their status is usually solidified.
That's false, i'm a spaniard and i can recognize a lot of those songs, and some were so popular, i didn't know where they were coming from, because maybe it was from a year i wasn't even alive or i didn't have internet yet. The majority become super popular at least in Europe, and from that they can be trendy in other places. But yeah, usually it is famous in Europe.
Eimar Quinn, who sang The Voice was part of the Irish vocal group Annuna, who in turn did the singing part for Riverdance. So you're absolutely right to connect the two.
Yes, Yugoslavia participated since the 60s. In Yugoslavia the national broadcaster was JRT - it had regional broadcasters for each country named after the capitals. TV Zagreb for Croatia, TV Ljubljana for Slovenia, TV Belgrade for Serbia etc. Slovenia and Croatia were the most westernized part of Yugoslavia and had the most modern music scene so it is no surprise that Croatia has the most representatives for Yugoslavia. Basically every regional broadcaster entered a song in to the national competition Yugovision anwhoever one represented the country. Because Riva is a band from Croatia and represented TV Zagreb the hosting right for the contest in 1990 was given to Croatia who chose Zagreb. Until the last day there were controversies as TV Zagreb wanted to show off Croatia, but the broadcaster tried to impose Serbian hosts etc. Luckily in the end TV Zagreb held a successful contest and 2 years later Yugoslavia broke up.
Yes, Johnny Logan won twice, three times if you count him writing one winning song (Why me). So glad you're still interested in exploring Eurovision with us, everyone subscribe and like if you love Eurovision :). Edit: My favorite Eurovision year is 2015 and if you want to learn more about the latest winner Maneskin, then there is so much music online to discover. They're so awesome.
@@siennaxeurovision You should watch "for your love" live at a that one German channel. Omg it's when I fel in love with them 💖. Thank you for your videos.
Hi Sienna, I'm a big Eurovision fan and I enjoyed your reaction. You are such a pleasant person with a nice voice, so it would have been nice if you had spoken a bit more. :) Regarding the careers, as it's not a talent show, but the countries are supposed to bring their best singers, many of the groups or solo singers already had a bit of a career, but there were some who just ran for the pre-elections while no one knew them in their home country. There was a German singer, Nicole, who won the contest at the age of 17 in 1982 and this totally made her a star. While Udo Jürgens from Austria was a famous and popular singer before and Eurovision didn't change much for him. It's a lot about the song composers as well, if their songs win, they sometimes get more credit than the singer. I also like that there is a pre-election (sorry, that might be the wrong word in English) in the singers' home country to choose which singer will go to Eurovision. One time, there was a group called "No Angels", which had won the German equivalent of American Idol before, who lost the pre-elections in Germany against a wonderful, but rather unknown singer called Roger Cicero. This was mostly due to the fact that Roger composed his own music and really put his heart into it and had a lot of unique character, while No Angels had no personality at all and were just the synthetic product of a talent show for beginners. Eurovision wants character and real musicians, no bog-standard, vanilla bands who just play to the crowd, but No Angels looked literally shocked that they didn't win, because of their huge ego. lol. I would say, in general it's still a great push for a band or singer, if they win at Eurovision, but for the non-winners, even the runner-ups, it all depends on how popular they were before.
Hello!! Sorry for the late reply, but thank you so much for this write up!! Also, thank you. It's hard to strike a balance. There are ppl that comment that I talk too much, and then there are those, like you, who wish I'd speak more. 😅 Thank you for answering my questions (also, instead of pre-election, you'd say pre-selection. Election is a bit more formal and is mainly used for government related situations).
@@siennaxeurovision Ah yes, I think it's always like that in the comments. ;) But you find the right balance. You're welcome, it was fun to reply! Thank you for explaining the word, that's interesting to know. :)
15:59 she is, but it’s a country AND broadcasters competition so being a citizen or even resident of the country you compete for has never been a requirement
Can I just say, un banc un arbre une rue is one of the most beautifully sung songs in eurovision history, it's just overlooked by the more modern stuff (un jour, un enfant is also the same)
The 2018 winner was inspired by the # Me Too movement - 'Wonder woman don't you ever forget, you're divine and he's about to regret, you're a ...." makes chicken noices "I'm not your toy, you stupid boy, I'll take you down, I'll make you watch me, dancing with my dolls to the motherbucka beat "
britain actually had a couple candidates who are very popular. katrina and the waves who won also sings walking on sunshine, bonnie tyler and olivia newton john have also performed for britain but they both lost.
The UK have by far and away the most second place finishes as well. But since the early 2000's, it's been dire with few exceptions. At least their song this year is ranked 4th most likely to win (but Ukraine, Italy and Sweden combine for a 60% chance of winning, so there's not much left.)
Ireland in the 90s were on fire. 2nd in 90 and 97, winners in 92, 93, 94, 96.......heck, even the Nowegian violinist winner in 95 was Irish! They also had Riverdance to top it off. It's been downhill since.
Sandie Shaw 1967, yep all in English. Sandie Shaw, MBE (born Sandra Ann Goodrich; 26 February 1947) is an English singer. One of the most successful British female singers of the 1960s, she had three UK number one singles with "(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me" (1964), "Long Live Love" (1965) and "Puppet on a String" (1967). With the latter, she became the first British entry to win the Eurovision Song Contest. She returned to the UK Top 40, for the first time in 15 years, with her 1984 cover of the Smiths song "Hand in Glove". Shaw retired from the music industry in 2013.
You mentioned Riverdance! Do you know that he first ever appearance of Riverdance was the interval act of Eurovision 1994? You can find the video, it's amazing
10:43 as always I said in another reactions these is the Most Important act in the 70s decade (not only in Eurovisión) ABBA gives to Sweden their first victory in almost 20 years "Waterloo" is a disruptive song in your time, a fantastic Masterpiece under three minutes and ABBA perfomance was iconic, and still now is the Best in all Eurovisión history (voted in 2005, to the 50th anniversary of Eurovisión) and in September 2021, after 47 years of these victory, and after 39 years of the last song recorded, ABBA comes back again with two amazing new songs, and a full album "Voyage" in last November 2021 that is a worldwide success Now ABBA is in another level of the rest, is in the Podium of the Greatest Groups in músic history, as the same level as BEATLES... and even someone more
Sandra Kim who won for Belgium in 1986 is the youngest winner ever at 13 years old. She will have that record forever probably, since you have to be at least 16 to participate nowadays. 😊
I highly recommend you listen to salvador sobral's winning song from 2017, and also Sergey lazarev's entry called "you are the only one", from 2016. They really show both ends of the spectrum, to where Sergey's performance is suuuuper elaborate and keeps you engaged that way, whereas Salvador Sobral just keeps all the focus on him and the song itself, but is still a really magical experience. Salvador even suffered from a serious heart condition and was waiting on a transplant at the time of the contest, and wasn't even able to participate in all the rehearsals prior to the live shows because of that. And to add to that, his song translates to "my heart can love for the both of us". He did get his surgery in the end BTW, and is fine today luckily.
It's funny a lot of recent winners have competed in a reality TV singing competions - the Italian band were second on the X Factor in their country, Duncan Lawrence was in a similar competition in the Netherlands and Netta was on a program called Israel's Next Star. The 2015 Swedish winner was already well known in Sweden as a successful contestant on Sveige Idol. Duncan Lawrence prompted new songs during the interval of last year's show and during the program released in 2020 when the contest was cancelled due to Covid as did the previous winner Netta during the latter. Maneskin have been on quite a few American TV shows with a cover of Beggin which they originally did for the X Factor - they even performed at New Year's Eve at Time Square for an American TV show and seem to be getting a lot of attention. I really hope they become huge as they're so talented and charismatic and yes their singer Damiano really did do a dead man's drop live on stage at Rotterdam.
Build Me Up, Buttercup is a song by a British band (The Foundations) consisting of "West Indians, White British, and Sri Lankan". And Sweden's first winner, ABBA's Waterloo has actually often been accused of sounding a lot like that song, so it's interesting you think their third winner did too.
Eurovision is really a contest between public broadcasters (think of PBS in the US or in some ways NBC) that are part of the European Broadcasting Union (the world is divided into broadcasting areas that band together) so even countries like Morocco have participated before as they fall into the European Broadcaszing Area and hence the Union as well. They don't participate anymore, because of Israel. Australia's broadcaster is an associate of the EBU and they have been broadcasting for 40 years so they let them in in 2015. Switzerland has 4 broadcasters as they have 4 official languages and the French language one chose Celine Dion, a relatively unknown singer outside of Quebec to represent them. Likewise, all of Luxembourg's entrants were actually French and not Luxembourgish as they had the money to hire them and French is one of the country's official languages. The first time they sent a song in Luxembourgish was 1993 I believe and that is also their last participation cuz their broadcaster lost interest.
All of them were wellknown in their own countries. Some became famous outside too. Many great singers !!!!! Many of them.❤🙋♀️🌍loved the french songs . I was a kid from the 60 s. Learned the songs. Sang all the time. Especially in the 70 s and 80s I learned the songs.
about careers and such, its very nuanced, it completely depends on the year, one year a country could send someone with their first ever song, other years its one of the nations biggest domestic/international stars, it all just depends who applies to go that year. and when it comes to post Eurovision, an artist will rarely get wide-reaching international fame (if they didn't have it before) but it can happen (e.g. abba, celine dion, maneskin etc), but if they do well (definitely if you win) they will have long term fame in their own country and the surrounding region, it seems with the increase of social media this may change, the last two winners both went mega viral and have experienced massive success
The first few decades artists sang in their native language. With the rise of Hollywood, the internet, etc, English became such a dominant language that countries used it to get a higher chance of winning. Same with genres, early days was all schlager then cheesy pop songs took over. The odd one out is typically a counter reaction, like Hard Rock Hallelujah or the minimalist Portuguese song standing out between all the crazy staging and visual effects.
The artists sang in their official language during many decades (1966-1972, 1977-1998) because the rules forced them too, they didn´t have the choice that they do now.
Generally up till recently winners haven't gone big outside of their own country or language with the exception of ABBA & Celine Dion. Most of ABBA's fame came from Australia as they were big here and because of that the other countries took notice & Celine Dion enough said. Though being Australian we know alot of the winners from the UK like Sandy Shaw & Lulu as they were big in the 60s (Lulu was also an Actress). And Johnny Logan (Holds the records for the most Eurovision wins) also pretty popular outside of Ireland especially in the UK and here in Oz. Bucks Fizz also had a couple of songs that were big here in the 80's. Then most recently Måneskin, but because of social media this will help alot with growing your fan base.
There is one that mentioned probably not knowing that it comes form Eurovision. Riverdance was originally the name of an interval act in 1994 Eurovision. It was so popular that they kept repeating it and then they created a show.
The 2016 Ukrainian winner is especially poignant at the moment she performed the song at the German national final this year and it was a moment. 'Where's your heart, humanity cries, you think you're a God but everyone dies, don't swallow my soul, your souls'. Solidarity to 🇺🇦. It might be worth you reacting to that.
This is what me and my friends start talking about every year around this time of year. We are all eurovision lovers we can answer some of you questions
What’s interesting is looking them up and find out random stuff about them like how many are teens! Or that at 2:27 she won it in 1960 but her father came in last place the year before! Or that lulu at 8:08 was married to Maurice Gibb and then John Frieda! But most probably don’t remember her… Or that for 1986 Sandra Kim from Belgium was only 13! And plot twist 23:31 it’s not costumes 😜 but speaking of costumes, conchita wurst is awesome, she’s great but he’s great too even without that persona
Can you do it twice - Logan is part of a long line of returning winners and to date the only one who was successful a second time. It's not just winners the first Austrian winner did so on his third attempt, Cliff Richards would compete twice for the UK, the 1991swedish winner Carola had already achieved a third place in 1983 and would return again in 2006 getting sixth, quite a few previous Swedish contestants at Eurovision compete in their prestigious national final and many do well although no one's won in years, Dima Bilan had already come second in 2006 and won on his second attempt the bands Wind and Hot Eyes entered frequently during the 80s for Germany and Denmark respectively, Chiara competed three times for Malta and then there's Valentina Monetta who has competed four times for San Marino.
Almost everyone competing in Eurovision is a professional, but most of them are not very well known internationally, although there were some exceptions, like Cascada or The Rasmus There were also some people who were very well known in their country, but not outside of it, like Jamala, Michał Szpak or Maneskin
I get the feeling that most of the really well known songs from ESC didn't win but rather placed 2nd-5th, recommend watching the videos of 2nd places through out the years, as well as 3rd places... Most of the artists are rather well known in their home countries prior to ESC, and the national selections can be a way to become famous in your home country as well. I also think that most countries nowadays hold broadcasted selections and let the people decide what song to represent the country. Sweden has done that since 1959 (entered ESC in 1958 so every year except for the first year)
It's kinda funny how you can tell by Starpower at which time countries were fed up loosing. Abba and Toto Coutugno means they took out the big guns. Imo Celine Dion was the last relevant winner of the period in which this competition mattered a huge deal and launched careers. From Dana International onwards the LBGT Community basically took over the competition and transformed it into what you know now and which I think is way more entertaining and saved Eurovision from going extinct as it felt a bit outdated in the mid 90's.
Funny you bring up Riverdance, as it was literally invented for an interval act during Eurovision '94 (interval acts are acts that go on while the votes are being tallied). XD
@@siennaxeurovision Traditional Irish dance has been around for a while, but Riverdance as a company and As a specific style of Irish dance was invented at Eurovision, yes.
France Gale was very young when she won as a French for Louxembourg. She didn't get along in France after the success and went to Germany, where she sang in german and was a star. Later on she went back zu France an in the 80s she was agein a hugh star in Germany and France. Udo Jürgens was a big star in German-speaking countries til his death a few years back. ABBA became a world wide succuss after winning ESC. Vicky Leandros (Greece/German) was a hugh star in Germany with over 20 Single hits in the charts. Johnny Logan was a hugh star from Ireland and so was Katarina and the waves or Cliff Richard who only got second place at the ESC but was a big star in the UK before ESC. Sandy Shaw was very successful in the UK and in Germany
@@siennaxeurovision I think it's fair to say, that in the last 20 or 30 years years the winner of ESC didn't became stars outside of their countries, with exception of a few outliers. A few were famous in their countries before they went to ESC but seldon the get another hit after ESC in other countries.
1992 Linda Martin won with a song written by Johnny Logan. You made the remark about an American accent, Well Linda is from Belfast Nth Ire she has an Nth Irish accent not an America accent.
Many of the singers are already popular and have carriers in their own countries. Some are completely new. This is in now way similar to American Idol or similar competitions. After they win, they get to tour for a long time around Europe on different summer festivals. So those that weren't famous definitely become famous for at least that year in Europe. Many Europeans are also multi-national, which means that sometimes you can see a person perform for multiple countries. In Sweden at least, many of the songs are written by the same 5 people but performed by different groups/people (I even noticed that other countries started to use them). We have a contest and then the winner goes to Eurovision. (The format we have for choosing our winner is similar to the format you have for the US song contest). Anyone can enter the competition locally in Sweden, the one rule is that it has to be an original song. There is a representation of different styles, and a representation of famous people, people who perform for the first time in their lives, and those that won Swedish Idol.
I'm from Germany and basically none of the acts that perform for us are or become popular after the show. The only one is Lena who won for Germany in 2010. She actually won a casting show especially for the Eurovision 2010 but since then she is quite famous here. But in Germany we have the problem that the people who decide on the act for the coming year don't know or don't care how to get Germany in the top spots. In the last years we always were last and even we Germans make fun of our acts knowing we're gonna end up in one of the last places. The people that are planning our acts try to go 'undercover', which basically means they don't want the German act to stand out negatively - which mostly comes around as don't stand out at all. And that's crucial in such a show where 25 songs play in a row. You need to stand out either by song or performance. But the only criteria that seems to matter to our planners is: Does the song perform well on radio? This year, we didn't have a bad song but a song that sounds like 10 other famous pop songs put together. And tbh, radio is not the no1 medium that you should look for in an act. We had a band this year who signed up for the casting but wasn't taken because they make music that's not your everyday pop song but metal and 80s outfits. But what I can say other than about our acts is that many of the last winning songs were or still are played a lot on radio or TV. So at least the winning songs are heard for years, but not often the artists. I basically never heard of any of them with another song again.
A few people have gone on to have big careers, 1969 Lulu, Scottish girl, Ex Mrs Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees. She sang and starred in the film "To Sir with Love" with Sidney Poitier a Bahamian-American actor, film director, and diplomat. In 1963, he was the first Black actor and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. He has just died aged 94. Hattie McDaniel (June 10, 1893 - October 26, 1952) was an American actress, singer-songwriter, and comedian. For her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939), she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the first African American to win an Oscar. Lulu Kennedy-Cairns CBE (born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie; 3 November 1948) is a Scottish singer, actress and television personality. Noted for her powerful singing voice,[1] Lulu began her career in the UK but soon became internationally known. She had major chart hits with "To Sir with Love" from the 1967 film of the same name, which topped the Billboard Hot 100, and with the title song to the 1974 James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun. In European countries, she is also widely known for the Eurovision Song Contest 1969 winning entry "Boom Bang-a-Bang", and for her 1964 hit "Shout", which she performed at the closing ceremony of the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. To Sir, with Love is a 1967 British drama film that deals with social and racial issues in an inner city school. It stars Sidney Poitier and features Christian Roberts, Judy Geeson, Suzy Kendall and singer Lulu making her film debut. James Clavell directed from his own screenplay, which was based on E. R. Braithwaite's 1959 autobiographical novel of the same name. The film's title song "To Sir with Love", sung by Lulu, peaked at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States for five weeks in the autumn of 1967 and ultimately was the best-selling single in the United States of that year. The movie ranked number 27 on Entertainment Weekly's list of the 50 Best High School Movies.
Fortunately, Spain is always sending songs in Spanish (which is also a very popular language). But this year, SlowMo is a mixed song (with a bit of English) by Chanel, our chosen song for Eurovision by Spanish TV (RTVE) on Benidorm Fest. In fact, Spanish TV has a rule for Eurovision. The chosen song must be in Spanish or in a co-oficial language of Spain (ex: Galician, Catalonian, Asturian, Eo-Navian, Basque). You can use a foreign language but only for a 34.3 % of the song. So Chanel's team had to rework the song to follow the rule because they had been included too many words in English.
@@mariomirceski661 Actually, the rule was put in place after Say Yay! the verses of Do It For Your Lover are fully in Spanish, some people having the theory that the main reason the jury of their national final favored the song for the sake of having an excuse not to send a song mainly in English ever again.
That's a great question you ask at 4:17. First of all, this is a song contest, not a performer's contest. Then, all you have to know is every country in all the history of Eurovision has send their best performers and also newcomers at one time. There really isn't a pattern, but I believe the first 15 years or so were more of already established singers in every country than newcomers, while the 80's and 90's were definitely more newcomers due to the lack of interest of professionals (or rather a consequence, I don't know) and eventually those newcomers fail to make a difference in music industry, either in their own country or international. For many people it was to be sent into a lion's arena. Only few performers (like ABBA) began an international career outside eurovision, especially after the 60's. You'll never see someone like "The Beatles", "Rolling Stones", "A-ha", "Ace of Base", or anyone who made the charts all over the world because they didn't need that boost to their careers anymore. After all, you don't get money to go to the Eurovision, so it wasn't financially that interesting. Unless you needed to reboot your career in your own country or internationally. Sadly, apart from one exception in 1997, this didn't go well for many. EDIT: and yes, she's canadian. There's no rule about the singer's nationality, as long as the author's song is from (or bought by) the country! Crazy but true.
About the “American” accent. It wasn’t just popping up, it was Irish. The American accents stems from Irish and Scottish. That’s why you think you heard an American accent when the Irish people where singing.
Two quick comments: 1) you don't have to be from the country you represent, really the only rule is that the song is selected by the national broadcaster of the country you're representing 2) your song cannot sample or be based on another song, songs actually had to be withdrawn when that was found out thanks for doing this! it's one hell of a rabbit hole i can tell you :D
@@siennaxeurovision You could! the UK Winner from 1997 is originally from the US, and especially smaller countries do this frequently because the talent pool is just sometimes not that deep in a country of 100K people. Last year, Flo Rida did a rap in the middle of the number for San Marino, that was mildly ludicrous. Dita von Teese was in the German performance from 2009 too, and occasionally there's someone like a Greek-American performing for Greece.
@@siennaxeurovision just to add to the OG comment: you dont have go be from the OG country and even if you have a big career that doesn't guarantee you a high place. For example, a small country of San Marino was represented by.... Flo Rida. YES THIS FLO RIDA. And he got only 13 points from the public (winners got 318) and placed closer to the bottom of the list. If you could see Flo Rida's face 😂😂 if you would like to experience what we do every year, please react to 2021 public vote results. It was one the most shocking and entertaining piece of television I've ever seen
@@siennaxeurovision ua-cam.com/video/HeaaoZSJksY/v-deo.html here's the link. This is the second part of the voting, half are votes of juries from each country, the other half is the televote. Both juries and the televotes award their top 10s with points 12,10, 8, 7,6,5,4,3,2,1. Each country presents their jury votes one after another and then the televotes are summed up and given from bottom to top. This is a completely chaotic Circus and last year it was the best one so far.
To clarify: that's the current rules. During the first decades the singer/band could be from any country, but the composer/lyricist had to be from the represented country. Many people get it wrong: it's a competition for songwriters, not for singers/bands.
I'm from The Netherlands. Artists not from here who had more hits after eurovision are Abba, Lulu, Celine, Bucks Fizz, Vicky Leandross and Udo Jurgens.
Not all songs or artists become famous, but some do get at least one hit or two. I can't talk for songs before 2000 (wasn't interested in Eurovision and was too young), but since then there's a few that became huge hits in Europe (and based on some comments even in some Asian countries). The first that come to my mind are Euphoria (massive), My Number One (her single after that also got some airplay but it wasn't big here if I recall correctly), Fuego (finished #2 on Eurovision 2018 but was HUGE in some countries), Satellite was pretty big as well, Fairytale I wouldn't say "big" as in "reached high peaks in many countries" (didn't check so I don't know though), but it's become a classic among Eurovision entries (and it has A LOT of views and streams nowadays compared to others), Arcade from 2019 was pretty big even outside of Europe from what I've heard, and of course Maneskin became a worldwide sensation since they won. I also recall Turkey's only win (Everyway That I Can) was a hit in some countries, but maybe not as big as the others I've mentioned (again, not sure xd). Oh and on 2020 Eurovision was cancelled because of covid, but Russia's entry UNO went viral and I think it's safe to say it was a hit in some places (I think it's the most watched video on Eurovision's channel, and they didn't even compete!). And Ukraine's entry for I think 2007 called Lasha Tumbai was kind of a "troll" entry, but it's also a classic among Eurovision songs and I've heard it used on many videos and memes (even outside of Eurovision) as well. It was quite memorable.
If you liked the 2021 winner, you should react to their winning performance or one of the performances they recently did in the US (like on SNL or Jimmy Fallon). About the languages, I agree with your take, I would love if every country sang in their own language. I think the reason they don't is that English songs are obviously more commercial, plus it's easier for people to understand the lyrics and the message that way. For example, I speak Spanish so I loved and really connected with Ay Mama (one of their songs you reacted to), but not many people would go out of their way to google and understand the lyrics to 40+ songs each year.
@@siennaxeurovision Beggin is actually a cover, so maybe you don't know their version, though it is immensely popular. And I completely agree with your take on the languages, just wanted to explain 🥰
Teddy Scholten and Corry Brokken were considered very well known singers in The Netherlands in their time. I don't think many people outside of our country knew them.
18:00 All Eurovision entries are written by the artist / band / songwriter within a year from the competition. That being said. Those songs can be translated, and used elsewhere after the competition.
Back in the day it was common that labels bought translation rights to a popular song and released in their country. The thing is that if you spotted an American song in the contest it's the other way around. Eurovision rules say it has to be an original song, so if there is an American version it has come after the song got popular enough to translate
@@siennaxeurovision The song you said reminded you of an American song. If it was a translation then it was translated from the Eurovision one. Not the other way around as translation songs are not allowed in the Eurovision
Yeah I just wanted to explain the rules of the competition so people don't get the wrong idea if they hear something that sounds familiar. They all have to be original songs so for example when I hear a familiar tune that is because it has been later translated into Finnish. We did that a lot back in the day
yeah, that was ALL in the queen's english.... you also have to realize that in nearly every participating country there were elaborate song contest to nominate a winning song, first with professional juries and later mixed professional juries and popular vote. By the time the winning song for a country was final, those singers were well known celebrities in their countries. If they won they remain immortal in their own countries (forever), but not necessarily international, Udo Jurgens, France Gall, and then breakout group ABBA had international success. Celine Dion particpated an won, but she never reaped international success from the contest. she had to wait for that big boat. The contest pretty much went from early middle of the road very stiff to a low period post ABBA then revived as a pure and wonderful campfest where literally any act or style goes - kickstarted by the LGBTQI society and massively taken over by mainstream audiences. Countries CAN import foreign singers, especially for tiny countries like Malta, San Marino absolute necessity, as some don't even had a million inhabitants. Thoroughly recommend you watch video's of the worst act, weirdest costumes, crazy acts, and infamous list of ZERO point singers. The voting system is unique, and takes up half of a 3 hour show... The folkloristic acts, the imitation acts, the anti-fuck it all parody songs (some great ones from countries that didn't end up winning for decades, some that even won ), the sexual diversity fully embraced. (even Russia had some borderline lesbian singing duo) . And Barbara Dex (who designed her own dress) and was immortalized in her own private but always ongoing Competition. www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-e&q=Barbara+dex+award
I'm from Spain and here there is like a bad feeling about if you go to eurovision you are going to fake later as a singer. But its nonsenses. There are lots of singers that continue singing. In eurovision maybe you know Olivia Newton john, Bonnie Tyler, dita von teese...
Really, USA will have a hard time measuring up to this contest. The art , the camp, the politics, the political voting, the tourist videos. it's a thing.
It went onto a very slippy slope of a political voting system after the 90's and that's also why they switched to English to cover a greater audience, as most of Europe speak English, but also they dropped into voting cliché that meant it was about politics and current affairs not music... You'll notice it got a lot grander, bigger and flashier too... It became a statement rather than a competition.
As to why Celine Dion was in this is because countries do not have to have a singer from their country represent them in the contest. For the most part countries use singer that are from their country but every so often a country will use someone from another country. So technically an American could be asked by a Eurovision country to represent their country, even though America can not enter the contest. As far as I know this has not happened, but it could.
Can't help but comment: The accents that you refer to as American are actually Irish. American English is highly influenced by the Irish as they were the largest group of immigrants during most of the 19th century.
I think one of the conditions of entry is it was a unique piece, so it's more likely the American artist copied it from here, whilst no one there knew anything about it...
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So Celine Dion didn’t speak English when she won Eurovision. She is Canadian but spoke only French. She didn’t know why Switzerland chose her to sing for their country because she was relatively unknown at the time. When she won it was crazy because the UK entry was an Eurovision favorite and she beat them by only a few points. Also because she won she became famous around Europe and that’s how she became an worldwide sensation!
It’s a bit late but I hope it helps!
Love from the Netherlands 🇳🇱❤️
She's from Quebec that's why she speaks french
She couldn't speak English?? There is a video of her speaking English considerably well the day after she won Eurovision in Dublin: ua-cam.com/users/shortsBf0qWV7SSxA
Actually the songwriters i think may have selected her she was famous in canada already
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And about the careers: Generally they do not come out of this with a large international career, but at the very least in their home country, they will be famous forever and they usually expand their fame into at least a few other countries. the most recent winner band from Italy was actually on SNL a few weeks ago, so it seems increasingly likely that artists can leverage this more than they used to, which draws some bigger names, so this year should be fun!
Agreed, the winning songs do tend to become quite popular, even worldwide. Volare (Nel Blu, dipinto di blu), though it came in 3rd and did not win, is a good example of a song becoming hugely popular after taking part in the competition. It was the no 1 Billboard single in 1958.
ESC is different from singing competitions and talent shows in that it is actually the songs that are competing, not so much the artists. Traditionally, more emphasis was put on the songwriters, to the extent that the national selection had the goal of choosing a song, and the vocal performer could potentially be swapped out after the song was chosen. Nowadays, the artists are more in focus, but there are definitely songwriters that are very famous for writing many successful entries.
I hope eventually the United Kingdom will view it that way and take it more seriously so we can have some of the best artists in the world come to Eurovision
In the very beginning it was a rule to perform in your own language, I believe. I was surprised to see Abba perform in English 🤔 because they did sing it in Swedish first. But their story answers one of your questions 🤗 It was fun watching them again, it's been years since I watched it, but my parents always tell me who won. Our country only won once, but Sandra did get a hit out of it and she's still famous 'til this day. She was 15 and the entrance age was 16 😅 shame on us lol. Anyways, I saw a few groups and singers in there that made it, especially the performers in recent years. Nocturne - the one you recognized - is still a favorite of mine. As well as 'The Voice'. Sooo beautiful. I remember as a child that families would support our home country and them alone, but really it's a game of 'may the best performance win' 🤗
Gosh, the hairstyles and clothing... Crazy, but lots of those are making a comeback 😉😝
Greetings from Belgium!
@@Vlinder333 there were a couple of years in the 70's where it was allowed to sing in any language, before they switched back...
And if I'm not mistaken, Sandra Kim was said to be 15 but was actually just 13
@@Phlippan87 She was even younger? 🙈 She did well 🙌🏻
You're right, Euphoria was a massive dance hit in Europe.
Yeah
1965: France Gall became VERY famous.
(Also)
At the moment of the performance, she was fiancé with the most popular french singer: Claude Francois. (worldwide famous).
And when she won, she immediately phoned him to tell the news. He broke up with her on the phone (from jealousy I believe)
Then she had to perform again. She was crying, but not from joy.
France gall had so much trauma from Eurovision, she also said that Kathy Kirby slapped her across the face when she won
Loving your Eurovision reactions. You mentioned the Riverdance, their debut was actually at Eurovision, they were the interval act in 1994 when Ireland were hosting the contest.
Best interval act ever
@@Aaron-he3qd love love peace peace was good too :D
@@Aaron-he3qd I like 1994, 1999 (seriously that is so underrated) and 2016.
The history of the language rule at Eurovision
1965 - Until then it was assumed that each country would sing in their own native language(s) but this year, Sweden chose to sing in English, and thus the national language rule was enforced.
1973 to 1976 - The national language rule was suspended, with several countries choosing to sing in English, including the 1974 and 1975 winners.
1977 - The national language rule is reinstated this year but since Germany and Belgium had already chosen songs in English by then, they were allowed to perform in English.
1999 - The national language rule is once again suspended. While most countries choose to sing in English or their national language, there have been cases where other languages were picked: for example, Latvia sang in Italian in 2007 and Austria sang in French in 2016.
@@siennaxeurovision i would say the “goal” is just to win. Sure it’s a platform to show your culture but at least when I’m voting that’s not the many main focus. And also I want to add. You kept saying that had American accents. I would say they don’t, it’s just that in singing it can be hard to keep 100% true to any certain accent so the Irish winner you where saying had an American accent, is actually just singing 🤷♂️ if you listen to the Irish language you might understand why they sound the way they sound when singing.
Also the song from Sweden “Fångad av en stormvind” is written by a Swedish man named Stephan Berg so if it sounds like a American song it might be the English version of it you’ve heard?
@@siennaxeurovision The goal of Eurovision and still is in some parts to test the limits of live broadcasting and having to share something peaceful, they chose a song contest to do that. It's not a singer contest. The performing artist gets to perform once again, and takes home the iconic glass microphone trophy as their prize. The winning TV station of the Eurovision network of the EBU gets to host... and is lucky if they don't declare bankruptcy in the process (hello ireland). Also cultures are diverse and ever changing... singing in french was the thing in the 50s and 60s ... nowadays it's english.. maybe in 30 years it's korean or whatever... you'll never know.
You forgot Belgium who in 2003 decided to invent a language. I imagine it was like 'we're so done having to sing in French or Dutch and everyone sings in English now. African language - we don't know anything and no one will know what we're singing about anyway so it'll sound make up.....oh hang on! Made up? now there's a thought. Yeah cool beans let's do that!' It's called Sanomi and it came second and it came very close to winning.
+ there are some exceptions when some non English songs won Eurovision after 2000. 2007, 2017, 2021 being some examples.
Didn't Austria sing in english as the forst country that was not ireland or the uk? Before sweden? Or did they just ignore that one as a one off occurence
OMG! I've always felt that there was something familiar about certain soundtracks from Chinese dramas but never noticed it was that Norwegian song!! When you pointed it out, it finally made so much sense lmao I've definitely heard it in Chinese dramas before
Participants ranged from big stars to no names, some big stars destroyed their careers by placing badly, some no names made their breakthrough, others disappeared again right after winning Eurovision. So there's all sorts of possible "impacts". Also, the selection processes varied from country to country, but I think most common was a national qualification show with a televote, so the national audiences selected their participants. Although I know in some countries they are also selected by governments or music school / expert groups directly.
Actually Johnny Logan won three times with songs he written himself. 1980 Hold Me Now. 1987 What's Another Year. And thrid time was 1992 with a song Why Me? song sung by Linda Martin. Johnny Logan is the King of Eurovision Song Contest.
he wrote Terminal 3 which was runner up in 1984 sung by Linda Martin
He didn't write his first winning song What's Another Year but it's still an impressive feat.
I recommend to also watch last year’s top 10, it was a very good year! Love from a country in Europe who doesn’t want to participate in Eurovision :D
@@siennaxeurovision I’m actually from Andorra, a tiny country between France and Spain, we participated 4 times, didn’t even qualify, and gave up, too expensive for a little country like mine!
@@engod1319 I love you Andorra please Come back (Your 2007 entry is one of my favorite and for me, This year you deserved to be in The final)
But you participate 6 Times not 4 (2004-2009)
But anyway, Love from France
@@vavah2071 we’re like the only country who has never qualified 😢 but thanks! I also hope we can someday return!
@@engod1319 Wow, I have read a comment from somebody from Andorra!! 🤩
@@engod1319 You guys have to come back. :( But I hope if/when you do, you bring an upbeat song that sounds fresh (cause the ones I remember sounded... a bit dated, except for Gisela maybe).
First I wanna say I loved your reaction video. As an ESC nerd I can tell that only a few of the winners has had an international career like Celine Dion and ABBA. Many of the contestants went from native languages to english so that people in other European countries would be able to understand what the song was about and perhaps get a great career in Europe and later international. Some of the ESC winners has had great careers in Europe like Vicky Leandros, her song Aprés toi has been recorded in several other languages including Japanese and France Gall had a good career during the 60-80's. But most of the contestants are mainly known in their home countries.
Sometimes people who performed in ECS did not get famous, but will become meme like Epic Sax Guy. Yes, it is from ESC - he is a part of music group SunStroke Project - they represented Moldova in 2010 and in 2017.
Love from Poland!
Hi, I know you have already done some research and a lot of people have already responded to some of your questions, but I just thought this might help clear up some of questions you might have left or that will appear when watching more entries for this year. So this is what the Eurovision Song Contest is exactly and what it means to me from a European's perspective:
So, as the name suggests, it's primarily a song contest, however when voting, factors such as vocal performance and staging are also taken into account. Especially the staging has become more and more profound over over years with state of the art technology. It is held every year, hosted by the country that won last year's contest.
Only countries (or broadcasters to be exacr) who are part of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) can participate. There are however exceptions, for example Israel, who are allowed to participate due to their historic relation to the continent as well as Australia since they have been following the contest for a long time and are an associate member of the EBU. The countries can theoretically send anyone they want, they do not have to be from that country, but mostly are. The selection process is different in every country. In many places there are extra shows for selecting their candidate (often via public voting), in other places they are chosen by a selected jury. Sometimes winners from other independent shows are chosen to represent their country, as you can see with the Sanremo Festival (which is a little older than Eurovision) for Italy or X-Factor Israel this year. Often these people are professional, but no very well known, so that aspiring talented artists are given a platform. That depends on the country as well tho.
When entering, there are a few rules to follow. The song cannot be longer than 3 minutes, it needs to be an original (covers or samples are not allowed), there is a maximum of 6 people on stage and during the live shows, even though prerecorded backing vocals are allowed, the main vocal line has to be sung live, so no lip-syncing. Back in the days the song had to be in the countries' native language, but that changed, now everything's allowed, but some countries do have self-imposed rules. For example France only sends entries which are at least 50% in French.
The contest itself consists of three live shows. Since there are around 40 countries participating, there are two semi-finals and one grand final. The big 5 (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK) and the host country automatically qualify for the final, because they are the biggest donors and without them the contest couldn't take place, since it is incredibly expensive to host. (Some people say, that's why smaller countries actually try not to win).
The voting is split 50/50 between a public televote and national juries of the participating countries. Each jury distributes points from 1-12 to their 12 favourite entries. The 12 points, infamously known as 'douze points' are the highest amount if point that can be given. Some people complain that there always is a political and historical component to it for example Greece always gives their 12 points to Cyprus and vice versa, but it's mainly fair. All points are being announced live, so there always is this dramatic voting showdown at the end of the show, where they 'videocall' every jury. The public can vote via call, SMS or an app. Oh and you can't vote for your own country.
Many winners may not become international superstars, but will mostly remain icons in their respective country and will be remembered as part of the contest's rich history. Each year, past winners join in to perform at the live shows.
It is the biggest non-sport television event in the world, watched live by around 200mio people live around the globe every year. In many places it is a big event, something you watch together with your family and friends (maybe like the superbowl?). It is also known for it's representation of cultural and individual diversity, in particular in the sense of LGBTQ visbility, with the first trans woman winning in 1998. Nowadays basically half of the contestants is openly queen. Many songs are inspired by traditional local music, even if they don't often win. That's the thing tho. Personally, I have the impression, that's it not really about winning, but participating and presenting yourself to the world. In the end it's just a big party, where Europe and Australia come together for one night every year to celebrate. Don't always take it to seriously, there always is a variety songs. Emotional, powerful ballads as well as fun dance songs. From generic pop tunes to to really unique sounds.
I hope this helped you a little and that maybe you could even feel or at least understand the love and excitement some of us have for this crazy, unique event. I really appreciate that you try to learn about other cultures and hope you have fun with this one. Great reactions, I really enjoy them, keep it up!
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Oh and if I could suggest a video, last year's contest was pretty popular, the link below leads to kind of recap for all the grand final participants, just snippets of the songs, so you can get an impression of what to expect for this year. It's from the official Eurovison channel, hope it's not geoblocked 🤞
ua-cam.com/video/6LI0mFK6JDU/v-deo.html
Stay safe
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Speaking of LGBTQ+ visibility, 2014 winner's conchita wurst (Austria) (sorry for spelling) won in drag! (drag can be enjoyed by all but in this case its a man dressing as a woman) 😊🏳️🌈
The singers rarely get really big internationally, but they usually are already famous in their countries. After victory their status is usually solidified.
That's false, i'm a spaniard and i can recognize a lot of those songs, and some were so popular, i didn't know where they were coming from, because maybe it was from a year i wasn't even alive or i didn't have internet yet.
The majority become super popular at least in Europe, and from that they can be trendy in other places. But yeah, usually it is famous in Europe.
Eimar Quinn, who sang The Voice was part of the Irish vocal group Annuna, who in turn did the singing part for Riverdance. So you're absolutely right to connect the two.
Carola (Sweden 1991) "Fångad av en stormvind" (Captured By A Lovestorm) is influated by Pointer Sisters "I'm So Exited".
Nice react from you. 🥰
Yes, Yugoslavia participated since the 60s. In Yugoslavia the national broadcaster was JRT - it had regional broadcasters for each country named after the capitals. TV Zagreb for Croatia, TV Ljubljana for Slovenia, TV Belgrade for Serbia etc. Slovenia and Croatia were the most westernized part of Yugoslavia and had the most modern music scene so it is no surprise that Croatia has the most representatives for Yugoslavia. Basically every regional broadcaster entered a song in to the national competition Yugovision anwhoever one represented the country. Because Riva is a band from Croatia and represented TV Zagreb the hosting right for the contest in 1990 was given to Croatia who chose Zagreb. Until the last day there were controversies as TV Zagreb wanted to show off Croatia, but the broadcaster tried to impose Serbian hosts etc. Luckily in the end TV Zagreb held a successful contest and 2 years later Yugoslavia broke up.
They will be remembered in their countries forever. If they get International fame is up to them, but in their country, they will be famous forever.
Yes, Johnny Logan won twice, three times if you count him writing one winning song (Why me). So glad you're still interested in exploring Eurovision with us, everyone subscribe and like if you love Eurovision :).
Edit: My favorite Eurovision year is 2015 and if you want to learn more about the latest winner Maneskin, then there is so much music online to discover. They're so awesome.
@@siennaxeurovision You should watch "for your love" live at a that one German channel. Omg it's when I fel in love with them 💖. Thank you for your videos.
and he wrote Why Me? with Linda Martiin who won in 1992.
Hi Sienna, I'm a big Eurovision fan and I enjoyed your reaction. You are such a pleasant person with a nice voice, so it would have been nice if you had spoken a bit more. :)
Regarding the careers, as it's not a talent show, but the countries are supposed to bring their best singers, many of the groups or solo singers already had a bit of a career, but there were some who just ran for the pre-elections while no one knew them in their home country. There was a German singer, Nicole, who won the contest at the age of 17 in 1982 and this totally made her a star. While Udo Jürgens from Austria was a famous and popular singer before and Eurovision didn't change much for him. It's a lot about the song composers as well, if their songs win, they sometimes get more credit than the singer.
I also like that there is a pre-election (sorry, that might be the wrong word in English) in the singers' home country to choose which singer will go to Eurovision. One time, there was a group called "No Angels", which had won the German equivalent of American Idol before, who lost the pre-elections in Germany against a wonderful, but rather unknown singer called Roger Cicero. This was mostly due to the fact that Roger composed his own music and really put his heart into it and had a lot of unique character, while No Angels had no personality at all and were just the synthetic product of a talent show for beginners. Eurovision wants character and real musicians, no bog-standard, vanilla bands who just play to the crowd, but No Angels looked literally shocked that they didn't win, because of their huge ego. lol.
I would say, in general it's still a great push for a band or singer, if they win at Eurovision, but for the non-winners, even the runner-ups, it all depends on how popular they were before.
Hello!!
Sorry for the late reply, but thank you so much for this write up!!
Also, thank you. It's hard to strike a balance. There are ppl that comment that I talk too much, and then there are those, like you, who wish I'd speak more. 😅
Thank you for answering my questions (also, instead of pre-election, you'd say pre-selection. Election is a bit more formal and is mainly used for government related situations).
@@siennaxeurovision Ah yes, I think it's always like that in the comments. ;) But you find the right balance.
You're welcome, it was fun to reply! Thank you for explaining the word, that's interesting to know. :)
Whoever wins Eurovision becomes their countrys national pride in their country and they are always respected
15:59 she is, but it’s a country AND broadcasters competition so being a citizen or even resident of the country you compete for has never been a requirement
Can I just say, un banc un arbre une rue is one of the most beautifully sung songs in eurovision history, it's just overlooked by the more modern stuff (un jour, un enfant is also the same)
In Sweden we have something called Melodifestivalen and that is a contest to see which song that is gonna be in Eurovision 👍👍👍 Comment from Sweden
The 2018 winner was inspired by the # Me Too movement - 'Wonder woman don't you ever forget, you're divine and he's about to regret, you're a ...." makes chicken noices "I'm not your toy, you stupid boy, I'll take you down, I'll make you watch me, dancing with my dolls to the motherbucka beat "
britain actually had a couple candidates who are very popular. katrina and the waves who won also sings walking on sunshine, bonnie tyler and olivia newton john have also performed for britain but they both lost.
The UK have by far and away the most second place finishes as well. But since the early 2000's, it's been dire with few exceptions. At least their song this year is ranked 4th most likely to win (but Ukraine, Italy and Sweden combine for a 60% chance of winning, so there's not much left.)
Ireland in the 90s were on fire. 2nd in 90 and 97, winners in 92, 93, 94, 96.......heck, even the Nowegian violinist winner in 95 was Irish! They also had Riverdance to top it off. It's been downhill since.
Sandie Shaw 1967, yep all in English.
Sandie Shaw, MBE (born Sandra Ann Goodrich; 26 February 1947) is an English singer. One of the most successful British female singers of the 1960s, she had three UK number one singles with "(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me" (1964), "Long Live Love" (1965) and "Puppet on a String" (1967). With the latter, she became the first British entry to win the Eurovision Song Contest. She returned to the UK Top 40, for the first time in 15 years, with her 1984 cover of the Smiths song "Hand in Glove". Shaw retired from the music industry in 2013.
You mentioned Riverdance! Do you know that he first ever appearance of Riverdance was the interval act of Eurovision 1994? You can find the video, it's amazing
The Eurovision Song Contest is open to Countries who are part of the EBU (European Broadcasting Union) hence Australia can take part.
Australia are huge Eurovision fans. If they ever win they cannot hold the contest in their country.
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as always I said in another reactions
these is the Most Important act in the 70s decade (not only in Eurovisión)
ABBA gives to Sweden their first victory in almost 20 years
"Waterloo" is a disruptive song in your time, a fantastic Masterpiece under three minutes
and ABBA perfomance was iconic, and still now is the Best in all Eurovisión history (voted in 2005, to the 50th anniversary of Eurovisión)
and in September 2021, after 47 years of these victory, and after 39 years of the last song recorded, ABBA comes back again with two amazing new songs, and a full album "Voyage" in last November 2021 that is a worldwide success Now
ABBA is in another level of the rest, is in the Podium of the Greatest Groups in músic history, as the same level as BEATLES... and even someone more
Sandra Kim who won for Belgium in 1986 is the youngest winner ever at 13 years old. She will have that record forever probably, since you have to be at least 16 to participate nowadays. 😊
I highly recommend you listen to salvador sobral's winning song from 2017, and also Sergey lazarev's entry called "you are the only one", from 2016. They really show both ends of the spectrum, to where Sergey's performance is suuuuper elaborate and keeps you engaged that way, whereas Salvador Sobral just keeps all the focus on him and the song itself, but is still a really magical experience. Salvador even suffered from a serious heart condition and was waiting on a transplant at the time of the contest, and wasn't even able to participate in all the rehearsals prior to the live shows because of that. And to add to that, his song translates to "my heart can love for the both of us". He did get his surgery in the end BTW, and is fine today luckily.
@@siennaxeurovision Yeah, I def reccommend you do :) "You Are The Only One" tends to be a highly requested one for reaction videos too 😁
It's funny a lot of recent winners have competed in a reality TV singing competions - the Italian band were second on the X Factor in their country, Duncan Lawrence was in a similar competition in the Netherlands and Netta was on a program called Israel's Next Star. The 2015 Swedish winner was already well known in Sweden as a successful contestant on Sveige Idol. Duncan Lawrence prompted new songs during the interval of last year's show and during the program released in 2020 when the contest was cancelled due to Covid as did the previous winner Netta during the latter. Maneskin have been on quite a few American TV shows with a cover of Beggin which they originally did for the X Factor - they even performed at New Year's Eve at Time Square for an American TV show and seem to be getting a lot of attention. I really hope they become huge as they're so talented and charismatic and yes their singer Damiano really did do a dead man's drop live on stage at Rotterdam.
also Loreen was on the swedish version of American idol I believe (idk it was a type of American idol show)
Build Me Up, Buttercup is a song by a British band (The Foundations) consisting of "West Indians, White British, and Sri Lankan". And Sweden's first winner, ABBA's Waterloo has actually often been accused of sounding a lot like that song, so it's interesting you think their third winner did too.
Eurovision is really a contest between public broadcasters (think of PBS in the US or in some ways NBC) that are part of the European Broadcasting Union (the world is divided into broadcasting areas that band together) so even countries like Morocco have participated before as they fall into the European Broadcaszing Area and hence the Union as well. They don't participate anymore, because of Israel. Australia's broadcaster is an associate of the EBU and they have been broadcasting for 40 years so they let them in in 2015. Switzerland has 4 broadcasters as they have 4 official languages and the French language one chose Celine Dion, a relatively unknown singer outside of Quebec to represent them. Likewise, all of Luxembourg's entrants were actually French and not Luxembourgish as they had the money to hire them and French is one of the country's official languages. The first time they sent a song in Luxembourgish was 1993 I believe and that is also their last participation cuz their broadcaster lost interest.
All of them were wellknown in their own countries. Some became famous outside too. Many great singers !!!!! Many of them.❤🙋♀️🌍loved the french songs . I was a kid from the 60 s. Learned the songs. Sang all the time. Especially in the 70 s and 80s I learned the songs.
So many of them were teenagers too!
So glad I found your channel ❤️😍😁🇬🇧🇺🇸
about careers and such, its very nuanced, it completely depends on the year, one year a country could send someone with their first ever song, other years its one of the nations biggest domestic/international stars, it all just depends who applies to go that year. and when it comes to post Eurovision, an artist will rarely get wide-reaching international fame (if they didn't have it before) but it can happen (e.g. abba, celine dion, maneskin etc), but if they do well (definitely if you win) they will have long term fame in their own country and the surrounding region, it seems with the increase of social media this may change, the last two winners both went mega viral and have experienced massive success
The first few decades artists sang in their native language. With the rise of Hollywood, the internet, etc, English became such a dominant language that countries used it to get a higher chance of winning. Same with genres, early days was all schlager then cheesy pop songs took over. The odd one out is typically a counter reaction, like Hard Rock Hallelujah or the minimalist Portuguese song standing out between all the crazy staging and visual effects.
The artists sang in their official language during many decades (1966-1972, 1977-1998) because the rules forced them too, they didn´t have the choice that they do now.
They had to, the rules stated as such.
Btw do not get the wrong idea, yes artists can represent any country but in like 99% of the cases they represent the country they are actually from :)
Generally up till recently winners haven't gone big outside of their own country or language with the exception of ABBA & Celine Dion. Most of ABBA's fame came from Australia as they were big here and because of that the other countries took notice & Celine Dion enough said. Though being Australian we know alot of the winners from the UK like Sandy Shaw & Lulu as they were big in the 60s (Lulu was also an Actress). And Johnny Logan (Holds the records for the most Eurovision wins) also pretty popular outside of Ireland especially in the UK and here in Oz. Bucks Fizz also had a couple of songs that were big here in the 80's. Then most recently Måneskin, but because of social media this will help alot with growing your fan base.
There is one that mentioned probably not knowing that it comes form Eurovision. Riverdance was originally the name of an interval act in 1994 Eurovision. It was so popular that they kept repeating it and then they created a show.
2017 Portugal ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤song. Wonderful, finally a peaceful song. 2009 norwegian Alexander ❤became very popular
2014: Say what you want -but I'm just sitting here ignoring all the hate and just thinking why it hasn't been in a Bond movie yet?...
Yes!
Awesome reactions
The 2016 Ukrainian winner is especially poignant at the moment she performed the song at the German national final this year and it was a moment. 'Where's your heart, humanity cries, you think you're a God but everyone dies, don't swallow my soul, your souls'. Solidarity to 🇺🇦. It might be worth you reacting to that.
This is what me and my friends start talking about every year around this time of year.
We are all eurovision lovers we can answer some of you questions
Wow, great reaction,and you are very intelligent. In my country Germany the two female winners became very famous, and it holds on til today.
What’s interesting is looking them up and find out random stuff about them like how many are teens! Or that at 2:27 she won it in 1960 but her father came in last place the year before! Or that lulu at 8:08 was married to Maurice Gibb and then John Frieda! But most probably don’t remember her… Or that for 1986 Sandra Kim from Belgium was only 13!
And plot twist 23:31 it’s not costumes 😜 but speaking of costumes, conchita wurst is awesome, she’s great but he’s great too even without that persona
Can you do it twice - Logan is part of a long line of returning winners and to date the only one who was successful a second time. It's not just winners the first Austrian winner did so on his third attempt, Cliff Richards would compete twice for the UK, the 1991swedish winner Carola had already achieved a third place in 1983 and would return again in 2006 getting sixth, quite a few previous Swedish contestants at Eurovision compete in their prestigious national final and many do well although no one's won in years, Dima Bilan had already come second in 2006 and won on his second attempt the bands Wind and Hot Eyes entered frequently during the 80s for Germany and Denmark respectively, Chiara competed three times for Malta and then there's Valentina Monetta who has competed four times for San Marino.
Almost everyone competing in Eurovision is a professional, but most of them are not very well known internationally, although there were some exceptions, like Cascada or The Rasmus
There were also some people who were very well known in their country, but not outside of it, like Jamala, Michał Szpak or Maneskin
I get the feeling that most of the really well known songs from ESC didn't win but rather placed 2nd-5th, recommend watching the videos of 2nd places through out the years, as well as 3rd places...
Most of the artists are rather well known in their home countries prior to ESC, and the national selections can be a way to become famous in your home country as well. I also think that most countries nowadays hold broadcasted selections and let the people decide what song to represent the country. Sweden has done that since 1959 (entered ESC in 1958 so every year except for the first year)
Yes, the most famous one being Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (aka Volare) which came 3rd in 1958.
It's kinda funny how you can tell by Starpower at which time countries were fed up loosing. Abba and Toto Coutugno means they took out the big guns.
Imo Celine Dion was the last relevant winner of the period in which this competition mattered a huge deal and launched careers. From Dana International onwards the LBGT Community basically took over the competition and transformed it into what you know now and which I think is way more entertaining and saved Eurovision from going extinct as it felt a bit outdated in the mid 90's.
Funny you bring up Riverdance, as it was literally invented for an interval act during Eurovision '94 (interval acts are acts that go on while the votes are being tallied). XD
@@siennaxeurovision Traditional Irish dance has been around for a while, but Riverdance as a company and As a specific style of Irish dance was invented at Eurovision, yes.
France Gale was very young when she won as a French for Louxembourg. She didn't get along in France after the success and went to Germany, where she sang in german and was a star. Later on she went back zu France an in the 80s she was agein a hugh star in Germany and France.
Udo Jürgens was a big star in German-speaking countries til his death a few years back.
ABBA became a world wide succuss after winning ESC.
Vicky Leandros (Greece/German) was a hugh star in Germany with over 20 Single hits in the charts.
Johnny Logan was a hugh star from Ireland and so was Katarina and the waves or Cliff Richard who only got second place at the ESC but was a big star in the UK before ESC. Sandy Shaw was very successful in the UK and in Germany
@@siennaxeurovision I think it's fair to say, that in the last 20 or 30 years years the winner of ESC didn't became stars outside of their countries, with exception of a few outliers. A few were famous in their countries before they went to ESC but seldon the get another hit after ESC in other countries.
6:36 that was English, she’s actually English and a Londoner of all places hah and I got every word, but it’s ok if you blanked out xP
1992 Linda Martin won with a song written by Johnny Logan. You made the remark about an American accent, Well Linda is from Belfast Nth Ire she has an Nth Irish accent not an America accent.
Katrina and the Waves is also famous for the song Walking on Sunshine
As to Tom Pillibi, maybe you've heard Julie Andrews' version and that's how it felt familiar. :)
1997 UK winner Katrina was from Topeka, Kansas, the first and possibly only American singer to take part.
Many of the singers are already popular and have carriers in their own countries. Some are completely new. This is in now way similar to American Idol or similar competitions. After they win, they get to tour for a long time around Europe on different summer festivals. So those that weren't famous definitely become famous for at least that year in Europe.
Many Europeans are also multi-national, which means that sometimes you can see a person perform for multiple countries.
In Sweden at least, many of the songs are written by the same 5 people but performed by different groups/people (I even noticed that other countries started to use them). We have a contest and then the winner goes to Eurovision. (The format we have for choosing our winner is similar to the format you have for the US song contest). Anyone can enter the competition locally in Sweden, the one rule is that it has to be an original song. There is a representation of different styles, and a representation of famous people, people who perform for the first time in their lives, and those that won Swedish Idol.
I'm from Germany and basically none of the acts that perform for us are or become popular after the show. The only one is Lena who won for Germany in 2010. She actually won a casting show especially for the Eurovision 2010 but since then she is quite famous here. But in Germany we have the problem that the people who decide on the act for the coming year don't know or don't care how to get Germany in the top spots. In the last years we always were last and even we Germans make fun of our acts knowing we're gonna end up in one of the last places. The people that are planning our acts try to go 'undercover', which basically means they don't want the German act to stand out negatively - which mostly comes around as don't stand out at all. And that's crucial in such a show where 25 songs play in a row. You need to stand out either by song or performance. But the only criteria that seems to matter to our planners is: Does the song perform well on radio? This year, we didn't have a bad song but a song that sounds like 10 other famous pop songs put together. And tbh, radio is not the no1 medium that you should look for in an act. We had a band this year who signed up for the casting but wasn't taken because they make music that's not your everyday pop song but metal and 80s outfits. But what I can say other than about our acts is that many of the last winning songs were or still are played a lot on radio or TV. So at least the winning songs are heard for years, but not often the artists. I basically never heard of any of them with another song again.
A few people have gone on to have big careers, 1969 Lulu, Scottish girl, Ex Mrs Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees.
She sang and starred in the film "To Sir with Love" with Sidney Poitier a Bahamian-American actor, film director, and diplomat. In 1963, he was the first Black actor and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. He has just died aged 94.
Hattie McDaniel (June 10, 1893 - October 26, 1952) was an American actress, singer-songwriter, and comedian. For her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939), she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the first African American to win an Oscar.
Lulu Kennedy-Cairns CBE (born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie; 3 November 1948) is a Scottish singer, actress and television personality.
Noted for her powerful singing voice,[1] Lulu began her career in the UK but soon became internationally known. She had major chart hits with "To Sir with Love" from the 1967 film of the same name, which topped the Billboard Hot 100, and with the title song to the 1974 James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun. In European countries, she is also widely known for the Eurovision Song Contest 1969 winning entry "Boom Bang-a-Bang", and for her 1964 hit "Shout", which she performed at the closing ceremony of the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
To Sir, with Love is a 1967 British drama film that deals with social and racial issues in an inner city school. It stars Sidney Poitier and features Christian Roberts, Judy Geeson, Suzy Kendall and singer Lulu making her film debut. James Clavell directed from his own screenplay, which was based on E. R. Braithwaite's 1959 autobiographical novel of the same name.
The film's title song "To Sir with Love", sung by Lulu, peaked at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States for five weeks in the autumn of 1967 and ultimately was the best-selling single in the United States of that year. The movie ranked number 27 on Entertainment Weekly's list of the 50 Best High School Movies.
Fortunately, Spain is always sending songs in Spanish (which is also a very popular language). But this year, SlowMo is a mixed song (with a bit of English) by Chanel, our chosen song for Eurovision by Spanish TV (RTVE) on Benidorm Fest.
In fact, Spanish TV has a rule for Eurovision. The chosen song must be in Spanish or in a co-oficial language of Spain (ex: Galician, Catalonian, Asturian, Eo-Navian, Basque). You can use a foreign language but only for a 34.3 % of the song. So Chanel's team had to rework the song to follow the rule because they had been included too many words in English.
@@siennaxeurovision Yes, I think is quite funny. A 34.3 % is really specific but that's the truth.
wait is that a new rule? Because I remember do it for your lover (2017) and Say yay (2016) were fully in english
@@mariomirceski661 I think it is.
@@mariomirceski661 Actually, the rule was put in place after Say Yay! the verses of Do It For Your Lover are fully in Spanish, some people having the theory that the main reason the jury of their national final favored the song for the sake of having an excuse not to send a song mainly in English ever again.
Well, barei sang in English
That's a great question you ask at 4:17.
First of all, this is a song contest, not a performer's contest.
Then, all you have to know is every country in all the history of Eurovision has send their best performers and also newcomers at one time. There really isn't a pattern, but I believe the first 15 years or so were more of already established singers in every country than newcomers, while the 80's and 90's were definitely more newcomers due to the lack of interest of professionals (or rather a consequence, I don't know) and eventually those newcomers fail to make a difference in music industry, either in their own country or international. For many people it was to be sent into a lion's arena.
Only few performers (like ABBA) began an international career outside eurovision, especially after the 60's.
You'll never see someone like "The Beatles", "Rolling Stones", "A-ha", "Ace of Base", or anyone who made the charts all over the world because they didn't need that boost to their careers anymore.
After all, you don't get money to go to the Eurovision, so it wasn't financially that interesting. Unless you needed to reboot your career in your own country or internationally. Sadly, apart from one exception in 1997, this didn't go well for many.
EDIT: and yes, she's canadian. There's no rule about the singer's nationality, as long as the author's song is from (or bought by) the country! Crazy but true.
Diggiloo diggiley was actually the intro song for a TV series
Wait, it really was a theme song??? 🤯🤯🤯
About the “American” accent. It wasn’t just popping up, it was Irish. The American accents stems from Irish and Scottish. That’s why you think you heard an American accent when the Irish people where singing.
Dana International from Israel in 1998 was the first (and so far only) transgender contestant and winner!
Two quick comments:
1) you don't have to be from the country you represent, really the only rule is that the song is selected by the national broadcaster of the country you're representing
2) your song cannot sample or be based on another song, songs actually had to be withdrawn when that was found out
thanks for doing this! it's one hell of a rabbit hole i can tell you :D
@@siennaxeurovision You could! the UK Winner from 1997 is originally from the US, and especially smaller countries do this frequently because the talent pool is just sometimes not that deep in a country of 100K people. Last year, Flo Rida did a rap in the middle of the number for San Marino, that was mildly ludicrous. Dita von Teese was in the German performance from 2009 too, and occasionally there's someone like a Greek-American performing for Greece.
@@cupidboy I was also going to mention Flo Rida last year XD
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@@siennaxeurovision just to add to the OG comment: you dont have go be from the OG country and even if you have a big career that doesn't guarantee you a high place. For example, a small country of San Marino was represented by.... Flo Rida. YES THIS FLO RIDA. And he got only 13 points from the public (winners got 318) and placed closer to the bottom of the list. If you could see Flo Rida's face 😂😂 if you would like to experience what we do every year, please react to 2021 public vote results. It was one the most shocking and entertaining piece of television I've ever seen
@@siennaxeurovision ua-cam.com/video/HeaaoZSJksY/v-deo.html here's the link. This is the second part of the voting, half are votes of juries from each country, the other half is the televote. Both juries and the televotes award their top 10s with points 12,10, 8, 7,6,5,4,3,2,1. Each country presents their jury votes one after another and then the televotes are summed up and given from bottom to top. This is a completely chaotic Circus and last year it was the best one so far.
To clarify: that's the current rules.
During the first decades the singer/band could be from any country, but the composer/lyricist had to be from the represented country.
Many people get it wrong: it's a competition for songwriters, not for singers/bands.
I'm from The Netherlands. Artists not from here who had more hits after eurovision are Abba, Lulu, Celine, Bucks Fizz, Vicky Leandross and Udo Jurgens.
Not all songs or artists become famous, but some do get at least one hit or two. I can't talk for songs before 2000 (wasn't interested in Eurovision and was too young), but since then there's a few that became huge hits in Europe (and based on some comments even in some Asian countries). The first that come to my mind are Euphoria (massive), My Number One (her single after that also got some airplay but it wasn't big here if I recall correctly), Fuego (finished #2 on Eurovision 2018 but was HUGE in some countries), Satellite was pretty big as well, Fairytale I wouldn't say "big" as in "reached high peaks in many countries" (didn't check so I don't know though), but it's become a classic among Eurovision entries (and it has A LOT of views and streams nowadays compared to others), Arcade from 2019 was pretty big even outside of Europe from what I've heard, and of course Maneskin became a worldwide sensation since they won. I also recall Turkey's only win (Everyway That I Can) was a hit in some countries, but maybe not as big as the others I've mentioned (again, not sure xd). Oh and on 2020 Eurovision was cancelled because of covid, but Russia's entry UNO went viral and I think it's safe to say it was a hit in some places (I think it's the most watched video on Eurovision's channel, and they didn't even compete!). And Ukraine's entry for I think 2007 called Lasha Tumbai was kind of a "troll" entry, but it's also a classic among Eurovision songs and I've heard it used on many videos and memes (even outside of Eurovision) as well. It was quite memorable.
If you liked the 2021 winner, you should react to their winning performance or one of the performances they recently did in the US (like on SNL or Jimmy Fallon).
About the languages, I agree with your take, I would love if every country sang in their own language. I think the reason they don't is that English songs are obviously more commercial, plus it's easier for people to understand the lyrics and the message that way. For example, I speak Spanish so I loved and really connected with Ay Mama (one of their songs you reacted to), but not many people would go out of their way to google and understand the lyrics to 40+ songs each year.
@@siennaxeurovision Beggin is actually a cover, so maybe you don't know their version, though it is immensely popular.
And I completely agree with your take on the languages, just wanted to explain 🥰
15:03 she was only 13! Can’t tell by the clothes and makeup but she was definitely 13!
Teddy Scholten and Corry Brokken were considered very well known singers in The Netherlands in their time. I don't think many people outside of our country knew them.
I found out recently that Cory actually hosted in 76 - she didn't do a bad job.
Popularity of contestors always varied between National treasure and "the new act Record companies wanna push" or Lordi
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All Eurovision entries are written by the artist / band / songwriter within a year from the competition.
That being said.
Those songs can be translated, and used elsewhere after the competition.
I really wanted to see what she would say about Lordi, I thought she was gonna be scared but she liked them
Back in the day it was common that labels bought translation rights to a popular song and released in their country. The thing is that if you spotted an American song in the contest it's the other way around. Eurovision rules say it has to be an original song, so if there is an American version it has come after the song got popular enough to translate
@@siennaxeurovision The song you said reminded you of an American song. If it was a translation then it was translated from the Eurovision one. Not the other way around as translation songs are not allowed in the Eurovision
Yeah I just wanted to explain the rules of the competition so people don't get the wrong idea if they hear something that sounds familiar. They all have to be original songs so for example when I hear a familiar tune that is because it has been later translated into Finnish. We did that a lot back in the day
The songs are in English because the chance to win is bigger!
That man that won 1966 looks like the rock 🪨 😂😂✨✨😂
you seemed to enjoy Finland 06 and Italy 21 the most. In case you didn't realize it you are a rock fan :p
I loved Blind Channel in 2021 as well - I actually preferred them to Maneskin!
Hi first I am big fan of ESC🇪🇺 Please React All Runner Up ESC🥈☝️
yeah, that was ALL in the queen's english.... you also have to realize that in nearly every participating country there were elaborate song contest to nominate a winning song, first with professional juries and later mixed professional juries and popular vote. By the time the winning song for a country was final, those singers were well known celebrities in their countries. If they won they remain immortal in their own countries (forever), but not necessarily international, Udo Jurgens, France Gall, and then breakout group ABBA had international success. Celine Dion particpated an won, but she never reaped international success from the contest. she had to wait for that big boat.
The contest pretty much went from early middle of the road very stiff to a low period post ABBA then revived as a pure and wonderful campfest where literally any act or style goes - kickstarted by the LGBTQI society and massively taken over by mainstream audiences. Countries CAN import foreign singers, especially for tiny countries like Malta, San Marino absolute necessity, as some don't even had a million inhabitants. Thoroughly recommend you watch video's of the worst act, weirdest costumes, crazy acts, and infamous list of ZERO point singers. The voting system is unique, and takes up half of a 3 hour show...
The folkloristic acts, the imitation acts, the anti-fuck it all parody songs (some great ones from countries that didn't end up winning for decades, some that even won ), the sexual diversity fully embraced. (even Russia had some borderline lesbian singing duo) .
And Barbara Dex (who designed her own dress) and was immortalized in her own private but always ongoing Competition.
www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-e&q=Barbara+dex+award
Dana International from Israel 1998 winner was born male
So many songs here that I was shocked you didn't know!! Some of these songs were massive in europe
Italy keep sending songs in Italian every year, just a few time with some English adding to the lyrics
I like your react to eurovision song contest, soon they start simular in usa, american song contest.
France Gall she a superstar in francophone countries and yes she career debuts with eurovision when she won in 1965
18:00 are you sure it wasn't just the english version she sang after she won? Called Captured by a lovestorm (parenthesis in video is wrong)
I'm from Spain and here there is like a bad feeling about if you go to eurovision you are going to fake later as a singer. But its nonsenses. There are lots of singers that continue singing. In eurovision maybe you know Olivia Newton john, Bonnie Tyler, dita von teese...
Really, USA will have a hard time measuring up to this contest. The art , the camp, the politics, the political voting, the tourist videos. it's a thing.
It went onto a very slippy slope of a political voting system after the 90's and that's also why they switched to English to cover a greater audience, as most of Europe speak English, but also they dropped into voting cliché that meant it was about politics and current affairs not music... You'll notice it got a lot grander, bigger and flashier too... It became a statement rather than a competition.
As to why Celine Dion was in this is because countries do not have to have a singer from their country represent them in the contest. For the most part countries use singer that are from their country but every so often a country will use someone from another country. So technically an American could be asked by a Eurovision country to represent their country, even though America can not enter the contest. As far as I know this has not happened, but it could.
Love how the intensity of head bobbing indicates approval level
You're so sweet though!
Can't help but comment: The accents that you refer to as American are actually Irish. American English is highly influenced by the Irish as they were the largest group of immigrants during most of the 19th century.
Celine Dion is Canadian but sang for Switzerland.
Yes like Luxembourg didn't use any native singers when they won. Probably because the country is tiny af. 😅😅😅
I think one of the conditions of entry is it was a unique piece, so it's more likely the American artist copied it from here, whilst no one there knew anything about it...
Yep, you saw right: 1969 there was indeed four winners.
Yes!! Apparently, that years results caused them to change the rules!!