AUSTRIA EUROVISION 2023 - REACTING TO ‘WHO THE HELL IS EDGAR?’ BY TEYA & SALENA (FIRST LISTEN LMAO)
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- Опубліковано 8 чер 2024
- Hi guys, and welcome back to my channel! If you’re new here, my name’s Rachel and I’m a huge Eurovision fan as well as a musician.
In today’s video, I reacted to Austria’s entry for Eurovision 2023, ‘Who the Hell Is Edgar?’ by Taya and Salena.
So this one was such an experience. So quirky. But also full of musical ideas which kept the song moving along nicely. I really liked the synths and core rythmns throughout the track.
Also, insanely funny lyrics and general concept! Well done.
Initial Score: 7.5/10
Intro 00:00
Reaction 02:00
Thoughts & Comments 06:45
Outro 08:37
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Austrian here, I listened to a couple of interviews with Teya & Salena about Edgar:
On the one hand they think the process of writing songs feels a bit like a ghost taking over - when creativity just makes the work flow.
On the other hand Teya said Edgar Allen Poe was the first author who solely lived of his income from writing [not sure if actually true] and therefore always was in a financially meager situation, to which they can relate as broke artists. This ties in with the 0.003 (cents per streamed song) and other bits in the lyrics.
Also advancing in the music industry is much harder for women, so working under a male pseudonym would be advantageous.
The lyrics of the year, it's genius !
It's about ghostwriting, isn't it?
This song is a satirical take on ghostwriting in the music industry and the fact that big artists steal ideas then come out to say “oh I wrote this song in 10 minutes in my bed” and generate millions while smaller artists are ignored by the general public who only asks “who the hell” they are. 0.003 euros is the amount paid to the artist per online stream, and I’m guessing Edgar Allan Poe is a cheeky reference to Edgar Bronfman, the ex-CEO of Warner Music…
Very well thought through, amazingly written and composed, catchy beyond expectations, I love the dirty synths and the hidden instruments and elements to pick up on in every new listen!
and Edgar Allan Poe was a Poet and Lyricist in the US that tried to made a living of only writing in the 1840s but was either ignored or paid way to late because people choose other texts that were copied from Poets and Lyricists in the UK and due to no copyright laws being in place for things outside of the US he couldnt fight it, he died at 40 for unknown causes but could have died due to politicians forcing him to do something he didnt want
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe
I may be wrong, but I fear the majority of the grand final audience will not get all the hidden treasures in this song.
You are so right with this
This is a song that stays in your head weather you like it or not .
You were right. They did not
@@an9031 yes, unfortunately. TBH after often watching the video, the stage performance was also causing me thinking: something is missing. Without the visual storyline of the video the song/ performance is without context to relate to. Especially for non English speakers who also don’t know the music industry terminology. Therefore 15th place is not bad at all.
It's a musical AND lyrical genius! It's about how the music industry is destroying itself, especially for young and destitute writers. The '0.003' thing is a reference to how little income is generated for a single Spotify stream!
I love the message and totally agree with it! It’s made me like the song even more :)
Isn't the ESC sponsored by Spotify? If so, that's super ballsy!
I love the theme of the song being 'you might as well be posessed by Edgar Allan Poe, it's still not enough to pay rent', and the song itself being fantastic outside of that
This song is so addicting
They mocking the modern music industry in this one and Spotify in particular, which pays 0.003$ per stream or something like that. So poor ghost writers (hello, Edgar Allan Poe!) are able to create a great hit but their rates are kinda ridiculuous. I think it will qualify (one of the meme songs of this year), but I'm intrigued how professional jury will react to this.
I think this can go many ways and I (hope, as an Austrian myself) that the jury will take a liking to the clever writing, while the audience is brought in mostly through the catchy tune.
Also to add to the social commentary of the song: "Who the hell is Edgar?" refers to ppl taking inspiration from writers that most of their audience don't know anymore. Which then leads ppl to believe "wow, this writing is incredible", while really its either from a ghost writer or wholly copied from somewhere else. There's no real focus on what's genuinely clever or good anymore in the music industry, with the abysmal pays from streaming services quantity and dishing out "what works" is the main focus.
It’s everything we hoped for and more!
I am in love with this song, my favorite this year ❤ lyrics are awesome and the whole thing is wild but in a good Eurovision way 😂❤
This is only the third time I've heard this song myself, and ... I really like it. The catchy "Poe Poe Poe, Edgar Allan Edgar Allan" bit is kind of awesome. I love the way that the whole thing culminates in the upbeat "There's a ghost in my body" bit that starts at 6:11. And the vocals really are very good, aren't they? I give it a solid eight out of ten.
I want it to qualify 🙂
it deffinetly will because its full televote for the semi's, but the ohohooho after mio padre in that part is also amazing
@@flopjul3022unless they fail miserably on stage with their vocals this is a suuuure qualifier:) its also in second semi I think, which is the easiest one. I would love for it to reach top 5 at least🤩
Love this song so much what a bop
Such a fun song! It made the second semifinal a little more interesting.
Yeah totally agree with you about the lack of bass in this song. I don't mind it so much in the studio recording, but I am hoping they turn it up in the live performance so it punches a bit harder. Everything else about it is just so good, adding more bass would raise the energy even more live. I think lyrically its a commentary on the difficulties songwriters have making money in the streaming era, so I like that there is a real meaning behind the goofy vibe of the song.
love this song is and bop my 3 of all songs
I' obsessed it's so iconic ♥️😭😭😭
Interesting is the right word the first time I saw it I wondered every moment what was going to happen not only in the video but in the music too.
I like it and I hope they will qualify.
I actually think the song has the best lyrics this year. They're talking about how you don't really need a song to be about anything, to be a hit (the "poe poe poe" in the chorus kinda proves that) and how the music industry is exploiting artists, who can not live by the few money they get of streams
I love this, my top 5 ❤
Hahaha i hoped that you would react to this one! Love it
I love this one, I hope they can translate much of the video on stage, and of course, the people got the message. The song is full of hooks and their voices are amazing together. They're doing a critic to the music industry as it's today and compares what Edgar Allan Poe had to live in his life as a writer, it's what I feel. I love it!
Teya & Salena need to be booked as entertainment for next year's Edgar Allan Poe festival in Baltimore, Maryland. Yes, it actually exits!
The lyrics are a masterpiece😮
Hi! Sorry for my English in advance. For what I read this morning on Twitter, the song starts with a criticism about sexism by asking Teya how is she able to write in such a good way (referring to the idea that women can't be the real authors - or a man is always needed). This topic is also mentioned (or represented) where producers are shown, since we only see men there. But the most obvious idea is the critic behind fast fashion music (like the one produced only for TikTok), and it's the idea of the chorus, so I'm guessing maybe Poe is used thanks to its short name. Apart from that, they are mentioning the amount of money (or the lack of it) in streaming platforms, as other comments here mentioned before (0.003). It was so much better explained there, but here's a short summarize of it.
I think IPI is something related with compositors, but I don't really remember at all.
so good!winner vibes.
Edgar A. Poe and Cha Cha Cha covered in Blood and Glitter with Mama Šč. Oh my Godness.
One more thing, something that only German-speakers will get. See, there is a German word, „Po.“ It's slang for "butt" or "bum".
Now, I'm an American who speaks German, so I can't say that Austrians, Swiss, and Germans will all hear the chorus of, "Poe Poe PoePoePoe…" and think, "butt butt buttbuttbutt…". I just find it amusing. 😁
Quoth the Raven: "CAWR (blimey)! CAWR (blimey)!"
Not complaining, but it's really beginning to feel like 2008 again with all these novelty acts, and this is one of those I can't help but love. It's just so bloomin' dumb, that it's actually good 😂 This is how you do satire at Eurovision without sacrificing musical integrity. Err... well... totally, anyways. As they say "it pays to be funny!"
Any person who, in thier musical take on a Eurovision song, makes a reference to "Put A Donk On It", deserves all of my undivded attention!
omg the put a donk on it reference had me screaming. Growing up in the 00s in Manchester, kids used to listen to it all the time. Wasn’t expecting u to make a connection to that ahhahaha
Oh god it reached us down here in the south as well 😂 this and that awful H20 song still give me nightmares to this day
Trending at no.4 on UA-cam too.
Rach I play guitar and have wrote a few songs how about you and me club one up about Maggie thatcher or Norris from Corrie next year? We can win it 🥇
McFinchy Ozone bounce still bangs lol
Big fun of yours but that clock almost gave me an aneurysm 😂😂😂
Seriously though this song just saved Eurovision for me! Funny yet brilliant, silly yet meaningfully… I’ve read somewhere that the song is a critic to how music industry works nowadays, there is a reference at the final bridge 0,003…. Where this is the actual amount of dollars an artist earn from every listener on Spotify (give me to 2 years and your dinner will be free!)
I’m honestly so accustomed to my clock I can’t hear it at all lol 😂
Hey Rachel, so what did you think of the whole Eurovision final??
And where in England you from, I'm in Kent right between Dartford/Bexleyheath 😃
Edit-so you spoke about Sheffield later on in the video so your from there then lol
My fav decades for music is 80's/90's, and some of the tunes this year were very retro!
And as we all know now will be held in Sweden next year 🤘
This is tremendous fun but I wonder if it is a great song as it is a Eurovision SONG contest? I have heard this song a few days ago, lots of fun! I give it an 8.5! It will be interesting to see how they stage this in their semifinal....
This used to be Eurovision before all that juror vote crap 😢🎉🎉❤
React to Finland!! They may win this year !!!
I dont know how they did it..but this song delivers alot of different emotions for me..
On my top 5
Hottest record of the day for real 🪗
Love Austria for their originality, vocals and mixing of genres ❤
04:35 yeah not my favorite bass, but I liked e.g. Ruff Driverz (bassline at 04:25 is forgiven by low base at 02:25 :))
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I do like it but also wonder if it may get irritating over time. Likely to qualify with ease but the juries may have something to say about Edgar in the final.
We are living in a new world poerder. The world is not the same as it was. Every single other song just kinda went down a level once this masterpiece dropped. I reckon it will be quite poepular in Liverpoel too.
Why did you skip some countries? I was waiting to hear what you think about Serbian entry.
The song is about the music industry in the present
The beggining is a criticism about sexism in the music (one of the singers has to dress like a men in order tobe hear and takes her song)
In the lyrics says "don't know how he possessed me but I'm happy that he did" this part talks about how she think the spirit of Poe could help to write a awesome song to merge in the music industry and the part of "cause this song is feeling special and is gonna make me rich" and talks about many musicians who they thinks are gonna be succesfully
The part in both singers are in a meeting room sings and the CEO'S are dancing is a joke about how they see the musics today as build it around tiktok and the challenges
In the verse 1 talks about the nonsense lyrics in many songs with the part "yeah, the words are spilling out, what the heck is this about?"
Sorry too much text, I will continue in response of this comment hahahahah (and sorry for my english 😳😳)
Well I will continue with the references:
"What's you IPI? Where's your A&R?" Are Interest Party Information and Artist & Repertory
"Girl, call Universal you're about to be a star" this part is a pretty standard phrase who the talent haunter using to charm a new talent and they ask to the IPI and A&R to make sure is an artist with records
Zero, dot zero three is the reference to the pay of spotify to the artist for each stream of the song in the platform and with this money is literally impossible to pay o you mut wait until pay a cheap dinner in two years (the prison is like a metaphora of this situation)
"At least pay to be funny" is about tiktok 🤣🤣
And the reference to Poe is he past away in the poverty without recognition until several years later
The song is one of my favorites this year and it was mostoy "The event" of this season
Thanks
Where is the reaction for Serbian entry?
Btw, I love this song:)
Basically the backstory is Teya and Salena noticed that some countries couldn’t be bothered to write their own songs (Poland and Switzerland) so they hired a ghost writer (Ghost writer being Edgar Allen Poe in this song). This song is trying to say that they should write their own songs next time.
Shots fired 😂
I advice you to react to Jann from poland
Sheffield baselines, or as it's known generally: DONK MUSIC :D
Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe
POE POE POE POE POE POE
God I completely forget about put a donk on it oh lord
It haunts me 15 years later haha
Girl, we’re all waiting for FRANCE 😅
*North of England, not north of the UK.
Rachel, you're focusing on the music side of things, I started really focusing on the lyrics. Partly due to frustration that people praise certain ESC 2023 songs that simply tell their story in a sub-par way. Most of these songs do have a good/great sound, so most people could care less what they're singing.
I've started treating lyrics like food: what the body gets is what the body gives.
And if I "ingest" nihilistic, sad, meaningless, or depressing songs, many times masked behind a more upbeat sound, I think my subconscious will still register the overall core message or pointlessness. Which, in turn, WILL have an effect on me. So I've become more careful what I listen to.
To me 🇦🇹 is somewhere in the middle. There's an interesting critique of the music industry in the second half, I think that part is by far the cleverest and I wished the song revolved mostly around that. There's also that sort of breaking of the 4th wall where the song references itself. So, for me, no EAP needed at all. The sound could have been a big clever FU to the state of the music industry, from the top of my head they could have written catchiness around "Foe, foe, foe" 🤪
I think this song tries to tie in too many concepts. And the result is that it's all over the place, it's too disjointed. The EAP inclusion is the clumsiest IMHO, I feel as if they started writing this song with "Poe, Poe, Poe" as their foundation, as their main hook, because for some reason they wanted to build the song around him. Or maybe they wanted a quirky title. I think it's a rather silly concept 😛 It would have worked better if they either went ALL IN only on the music industry or only on this EAP thing. The first concept would probably have slightly more serious/clever lyrics, the EAP verions would have probably been more of a "What does the fox say" type of song. Very catchy, very silly, very funny.
Sound: 7/10
Beat: 7/10
Vocals: 8/10
Lyrics: 6/10
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RATING: 7
Albania , France , represents there country just like they should be
Somehow i think the song would actually be better if it was less random lyricly because the message doesnt come through enough and it feels like something is holding it back and its not extremely quirky musically either
Some plonk said Edgar Allan Poe used ghostwriters in their comment. Get an education, please, and don’t insult one of the greatest writers to have lived.
Not my cup of tea, it doesn’t scream Austria… I do prefer songs in local language
Extremely overrated but I guess people just like it so I can't really be mad about it. It doesn't do it for me but it's not horrible certainly.
The song is fun, but for me too many effects on the voices, it makes it feel fake, I don't like that much
Certainly overhyped. If you took away the quirky literary reference, what do you have left? Not much. Now I have "Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more" stuck in my head!
Don't see anything funny, just cringe
Also musically it is completelly dead