They're a joke. They tried last year but were disqualified, let's hope Eurovision disqualifies them for the political message

I want another Senhora Do Mar, Todas As Ruas Do Amor! :( Last year was great too but TARDA/SDM just takes incredible to the whole new level.

Back to crap for Portugal :( The last three years were so promising too!

This is another Portuguese music beyond Fado, and exists since 70's...

 

lol why people complain about the winner?? people dont realize that Portugal will never win? so we send a song like this just to joke (like spain sent in 2008 and it was next to Senhora do Mar) or not depends on you, now if this is worst than those metal/rock monsters finland won years ago then I dont want to discuss your awfull and boring tastes....accept it and respect it!

 

For us Portuguese is easy to understand the song thats why it wons, now for foreign people they have to understand it, the music by itself is typically portuguese which reminds those music against the dictatorship, this one is also a song against the system/governments, and what we call - music of the people...its a kind of a "complain" about this crisis, etc etc...thats why you see then dressed in portuguese typical characters that made part of the revolution of April against dictatorship....

 

They have been around years ago, when ministers/politics are in the street they go there saying trues about their political way of leading a country/council ....

here they are in the Republic of Bananas that made 100 years old last year, complaining about what Republic did to the country:

 

:)

 

this was their song for eurovision 2010:

 

Another song from them :

As you hear the song is typically portuguese

 

So all this is about the rich becaming richer and the poor becaming poorer with this global system and crisis (its their message to fight against it) ....

 

and lets agree - this will be the first social protest on stage in eurovision :P

Edited March 6, 201114 yr by Odaisul

I want another Senhora Do Mar, Todas As Ruas Do Amor! :( Last year was great too but TARDA/SDM just takes incredible to the whole new level.

 

here it goes another kind of Senhora do Mar but male version : http://ww1.rtp.pt/tvonline/sites/festival_...dex.php?tag=105

They're a joke. They tried last year but were disqualified, let's hope Eurovision disqualifies them for the political message

 

they cannot be disqualifies because their political message is under irony....

I actually like this song! Catchy.

 

here it goes another kind of Senhora do Mar but male version : http://ww1.rtp.pt/tvonline/sites/festival_...dex.php?tag=105

MEH.

 

I expect that he sucks bigger time live than Britney.

lol why people complain about the winner?? people dont realize that Portugal will never win? so we send a song like this just to joke (like spain sent in 2008 and it was next to Senhora do Mar) or not depends on you, now if this is worst than those metal/rock monsters finland won years ago then I dont want to discuss your awfull and boring tastes....accept it and respect it!

You kind of just destroyed your own argument in the same paragraph, given the Finns were probably thinking the same up until 2006.

Portugal will never win?? Well not with this kind of entries, no.

 

If the song selection jury actually made an effort to qualify modern pop songs or just that something different Portugal would actually might have a chance.

The RTP selection jury is still sticking with the same old boring formula of Portuguese guitar driven ballads/easy-listening that won't take us anywhere.

I'm still stunned they qualified Filipa Ruas.

 

Anyway, not expecting this to do better than Gipsy.cz, but there's always room for surprises I guess...

I actually like this song! Catchy.

 

Me too :o It's like Todas As Ruas Do Amor meets one of their 70s entries. maybe Portugal No Coracao.

"Homens da Luta (english possible translation: The Men of the Struggle) is a Portuguese improvisational comedy and musical street show, composed by Vasco Duarte (Falâncio) and Jel (Neto). Their songs are a parody of songs sung at the time of the post- 1974 democratic revolution, and the characters played are caricatures of the revolutionary singers of that time. They often use the term struggle to invoke the slogans that became famous during the revolutionary era, slogans such as “a luta continua” (english possible translation: “the struggle must go on”). "

Portugal will never win?? Well not with this kind of entries, no.

 

If the song selection jury actually made an effort to qualify modern pop songs or just that something different Portugal would actually might have a chance.

The RTP selection jury is still sticking with the same old boring formula of Portuguese guitar driven ballads/easy-listening that won't take us anywhere.

I'm still stunned they qualified Filipa Ruas.

 

Anyway, not expecting this to do better than Gipsy.cz, but there's always room for surprises I guess...

 

Word on all of that. But then I'm not a fan of 90% of portuguese music anyway, I was just born in the wrong country :lol:

I was just born in the wrong country :lol:

 

thats the most stupid post I ever read here....well but you dont need to be stupid enough to show such stupidity - you never though of being born in the wrong sex/body? lol ;)

Edited March 7, 201114 yr by Odaisul

Well obviously I'm joking being born in the wrong country (sorta :lol:), but yeah I dont identify with most portuguese music at all. And that's not stupid, its my opinion.

Well obviously I'm joking being born in the wrong country (sorta :lol:), but yeah I dont identify with most portuguese music at all. And that's not stupid, its my opinion.

 

I wasnt calling you stupid in person, it was a way of expression....

Word on all of that. But then I'm not a fan of 90% of portuguese music anyway, I was just born in the wrong country :lol:

I feel like that too! Only my percentage is like 98-99%. :(

heres a translation I found:

 

THE STRUGGLE IS JOY

 

Sometimes you find yourself feeling blue

Sometimes you find yourself feeling wary

Sometimes you find yourself feeling alarmed

Sometimes you find yourself feeling despair

 

By day or by night

The struggle is joy

And the people moves forward shouting out on the street!

 

Of little use is the belt always tight (this expression of belt tight is about your own economical situation the more the belt is tight the less money you save from your wages)

Of little use is nagging around

Of little use is always looking sullen

Of little use is anger for helping you.

 

By day or by night

Struggle is joy

And the people moves forward shouting out on the street !

 

Bring on the bread, bring on the cheese, bring on the wine

Come old man, come young man and little boy

Come celebrate this situation

And let us sing against reaction! (reaction means the Governments/The Systems)

 

Bring on the bread, bring on the cheese, bring on the wine

Come on old man, come on young man and little boy

 

There are plenty of people warning: watch out

There are plenty of people wanting to shut you up

There are plenty of people leaving you resentful

There are plenty of people selling you air itself

 

By day or by night

Struggle is joy

And the people moves forward shouting out on the street !

 

Bring on the bread, bring on the cheese, bring on the wine

Come old man, come young man and little boy

Come celebrate this situation

And let us sing against reaction!

 

Bring on the bread, bring on the cheese, bring on the wine

Come on old man, come on young man and little boy.....

Edited March 9, 201114 yr by Odaisul

*cringe*

heres a video of them , this time they sang lot better, and they have more people:

 

 

they sing definitely better in that program and is Live, the nurse sings way better than the womans in the festival you can hear her sweet voice in the tune perfectly....they have more portuguese character in this one they showed a portuguese fireman (which sometimes they also play in firemans bands with percussions), the soldier of April (a important character in the carnation revolution against dictatorship), the nurse, the black one is the Retornado character (which mean the portuguese who were expelled from ex-colonies in Africa in the 60's/70's) and the Zé Povinho (the most typical character created in the first years of bad republic, meaning the people)....would love they could send this version....

 

and in a interview to a news channel they said that are asking to be interviewed by BBC and Greek channels...and that the Portuguese channel RTP secured them that the song will not be disqualified....