Thank you for reacting to such a beautiful song that has stayed one of the most pleasant & strongest French entries at Eurovision Song Contest for years now. As U said Nicole Rieu's voice is angelic & crystal-clear. This artist has kept on singing since then having success in France & French-speaking Europe & Canada until the mid-80's. She stopped for a few years and came back in the 90's but much more discreetly than at her beginnings. Eurovision 1975 was the very first one I watched on TV making find out what this contest was. I skipped the 1976 edition to watch ESC in 1977 again, the year when France won the contest for the last time. I was a child and then a teen when I found out Eurovision. Then, I stopped watching it in 1983 until 1996 & I stopped being interested in it again until 1999. Actually, I'm not deeply interested in ESC because I have noticed with time that the best songs did not win very often & that geopolitics has corrupted the contest through years as never due to the presence of Eastern ex-sovietic countries mostly. Since the 2000's it has become obvious. 2022 has certainly be a top of that downward slide when Ukraine won again. In my opinion, France has no chance to win again for a VERY long time. The country would have to withdraw for a few years to make other participants miss it and then see its come-back with joy making it be seen more positively. Italy that also belongs to the Big-5 group withdrew from 1998 to 2010... and since it came back, this country has got very good rankings most of time.
Thank you for reacting to such a beautiful song that has stayed one of the most pleasant & strongest French entries at Eurovision Song Contest for years now. As U said Nicole Rieu's voice is angelic & crystal-clear. This artist has kept on singing since then having success in France & French-speaking Europe & Canada until the mid-80's. She stopped for a few years and came back in the 90's but much more discreetly than at her beginnings.
Eurovision 1975 was the very first one I watched on TV making find out what this contest was. I skipped the 1976 edition to watch ESC in 1977 again, the year when France won the contest for the last time. I was a child and then a teen when I found out Eurovision. Then, I stopped watching it in 1983 until 1996 & I stopped being interested in it again until 1999.
Actually, I'm not deeply interested in ESC because I have noticed with time that the best songs did not win very often & that geopolitics has corrupted the contest through years as never due to the presence of Eastern ex-sovietic countries mostly. Since the 2000's it has become obvious. 2022 has certainly be a top of that downward slide when Ukraine won again.
In my opinion, France has no chance to win again for a VERY long time. The country would have to withdraw for a few years to make other participants miss it and then see its come-back with joy making it be seen more positively. Italy that also belongs to the Big-5 group withdrew from 1998 to 2010... and since it came back, this country has got very good rankings most of time.