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Take it or leave it
It is a truth universally acknowledged that Melfest 2013 was the nadir of the franchise in the modern era. Having won big the previous year with Euphoria, the stage could have been set for a glorious, pressure's off celebration of everything that had made the Contest great over the previous decade.
Sadly, the producers made another choice, inviting notably fewer reliable Melfest regulars in favour of stacking the deck with Contest debutants and new artists. Which, sure, makes sense on paper, but the results were a disaster. The new kids were for the most part painfully lacking in the kind of stage presence needed to deliver on such a large stage, and their songs were largely middling to outright uninspired anyway.
As an unintentional but embarrassing side effect, just one woman reached the finals out of 12 qualifiers. Industry veteran Louise Hoffsten, who like most of the 2013 finalists qualified by virtue of basic competence rather than any particular fabulosity.
That said, I like Only The Dead Fish quite a bit in a Stevie Nicks after one toke too many sort of way, and I certainly wouldn't have placed it at the bottom of this particular heap. But Moopy has spoken, so out she goes!
11th: Louise Hoffsten - Only The Dead Fish Follow The Stream (5th 2013)
Sadly, the producers made another choice, inviting notably fewer reliable Melfest regulars in favour of stacking the deck with Contest debutants and new artists. Which, sure, makes sense on paper, but the results were a disaster. The new kids were for the most part painfully lacking in the kind of stage presence needed to deliver on such a large stage, and their songs were largely middling to outright uninspired anyway.
As an unintentional but embarrassing side effect, just one woman reached the finals out of 12 qualifiers. Industry veteran Louise Hoffsten, who like most of the 2013 finalists qualified by virtue of basic competence rather than any particular fabulosity.
That said, I like Only The Dead Fish quite a bit in a Stevie Nicks after one toke too many sort of way, and I certainly wouldn't have placed it at the bottom of this particular heap. But Moopy has spoken, so out she goes!
11th: Louise Hoffsten - Only The Dead Fish Follow The Stream (5th 2013)
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