With a certain crushing inevitability, Michael Schulte has actually been one of the few breakout stars of Eurovision in recent years as far as I can tell.
He does well on Spotify and appears to have had some modest post-Contest hits in Germany, anyway.
The only things the producers knew that they HAD to work with last night were a) filling 2 hours of television, b) honouring the 41 artists and songs in some way and c) acknowledging the current situation we find ourselves in. That’s it. That leaves a lot of potential and yet a big defence that I’m seeing this morning seems to be that it was somehow the only show they could possibly have made in this climate.
I never thought I’d say this about ANYTHING but they would have done well to take a leaf out of Comic Relief’s book. Ok so the actual content of that is often painfully unfunny, but Eurovision has much better content to actually draw from. The point is when you make a show 80% entertaining, fun and uplifting, then the 20% when you bring the mood down and offer a sobering reminder of “why we’re all here” then the emotional bits are genuinely emotional.
When you string the attempts at being tear-jerking together one after another for two hours, most people will just get numb to it all. You can acknowledge the strange times we’re living in and be sensitive about it without continually referencing it and not letting the viewers forget it.
Out now!
The only things the producers knew that they HAD to work with last night were a) filling 2 hours of television, b) honouring the 41 artists and songs in some way and c) acknowledging the current situation we find ourselves in. That’s it. That leaves a lot of potential and yet a big defence that I’m seeing this morning seems to be that it was somehow the only show they could possibly have made in this climate.
I never thought I’d say this about ANYTHING but they would have done well to take a leaf out of Comic Relief’s book. Ok so the actual content of that is often painfully unfunny, but Eurovision has much better content to actually draw from. The point is when you make a show 80% entertaining, fun and uplifting, then the 20% when you bring the mood down and offer a sobering reminder of “why we’re all here” then the emotional bits are genuinely emotional.
When you string the attempts at being tear-jerking together one after another for two hours, most people will just get numb to it all. You can acknowledge the strange times we’re living in and be sensitive about it without continually referencing it and not letting the viewers forget it.
I know right, he wasn’t even shirtless.I don’t know about you lot but I lost the will to live at the point Måns turned up to do an acoustic version of Heroes from the back garden of his two-bed semi in Basildon over a montage of health care workers. Who the fuck asked for that?!
I hope the EBU remember that Hooverphonic guy wouldn't take part in the singalong when they are deciding his place in next year's running order.
If only there were stats for the number of people who tuned in and then gave up after a few minutes.This got 2.4m last night on BBC1 and the 6.30 show got 2.9m (for comparison Pointless was nearer 4m )
I mean I knew it was going to be lower but that's horrific. However much as I'd love to say it was the doom and gloom format, this likely would have happened even with a poppers-fuelled camp as tits vibe. Clearly the casuals had no interest whatsoever
Clearly the casuals had no interest whatsoever
If only there were stats for the number of people who tuned in and then gave up after a few minutes.
If only there were stats for the number of people who tuned in and then gave up after a few minutes.
I don't agree that this would have happened regardless of the format - of course it wouldn't rate as highly as a real contest but if the tone had been 75% positive and 25% sombre you'd have held people's attention.
In other news, apparently Hooverphonic refused to participate in the Love Shine a Light singalong because Alex Callier quote "hates that song"
What a WANKER
IKR! How dare they have a CHOICE and OPINION!Oh I love the song and it would have been a fairly harmless thing for them to be a part of but if he thought it was all going to be a bit crap and didn’t want to do it then so be it...
Of course the sheer OUTRAGE among the Eurovision Twitter fraternity makes me all the more #TeamHooverphonic the more I read of it.
*rolls out claustrophobic relationship ballad*
I’d like to think they hadn’t planned it to all be ballads