That is so much better. It's been upgraded yet again!

 

Could this actually do rather well? If it gets into the final, which I think it will now, and there's a good live vocal, I could see it finishing in the 11-15 region quite easily.

 

Oh, and like I've said before I think, I don't mind the lyrics at all. :wub:

The diabolical lyrics, it's like a 5 year old wrote them.

 

I adore the melody though, it's incredibly catchy and instant.

 

There are plenty of instances of weak lyrics in this years ESC though. I doubt Greece or Cyprus will be winning any awards for their lyrics.

 

I don't personally have a problem with the lyrics, they're not deep and life changing but they're still pleasant. It's lighthearted and fun. It doesn't mean I'm ashamed of adoring it.

Edited March 16, 201213 yr by Sabrewulf

I don't generally care about lyrics, and it's testament to how good the rest of the song is that it hasn't put me off, but when it gets to the point that I occasionally cringe at some of them, it does become a problem. Where to start...

 

'I was born in a distant 1980, the year that Irish Johnny Logan won' ('now he's old and also kind of famous' was a horrible line but has thankfully been removed from the final version!)

 

'When I join this grand parade of winners' (first Lithuania 2006, now Latvia, the Baltics are a confident bunch aren't they!)

 

'all the jobs I had before, I'm surely gonna quit'

 

'Sorry Mick, I'll call you back, one day I'll call you back'

 

But then Hold On Be Strong was my favourite entry of 2008, even with the notorious line 'love can be hard sometimes, yes it can catch you off guard like bad crimes'. Perhaps the fact that Mira Craig wrote it was enough for me to forgive it :wub:

I don't generally care about lyrics, and it's testament to how good the rest of the song is that it hasn't put me off, but when it gets to the point that I occasionally cringe at some of them, it does become a problem. Where to start...

 

'I was born in a distant 1980, the year that Irish Johnny Logan won' ('now he's old and also kind of famous' was a horrible line but has thankfully been removed from the final version!)

 

'When I join this grand parade of winners' (first Lithuania 2006, now Latvia, the Baltics are a confident bunch aren't they!)

 

'all the jobs I had before, I'm surely gonna quit'

 

'Sorry Mick, I'll call you back, one day I'll call you back'

 

I don't see a big issue with these. As I said before they're not life changing but when the melody is so good I don't mind. I can get an overall meaning and vibe from the song. That's good enough for me.

 

Most of the time, as long as the lyrics of a song aren't like "baby shake ma thang on da dancefloh" I can look past them to get to the melody.

The only one I have any issue with at all is the Johnny Logan one, because it opens the song and makes me cringe a little right at the beginning. Once I've got into the swing of the song, the rest of those sound absolutely fine.

 

OK, the one where she's sure she's gonna win isn't that great, but winning is a theme in quite a lot of Eurovision songs, isn't it? Even Jade indulged in it quite a lot.

There are plenty of instances of weak lyrics in this years ESC though. I doubt Greece or Cyprus will be winning any awards for their lyrics.

 

I don't personally have a problem with the lyrics, they're not deep and life changing but they're still pleasant. It's lighthearted and fun. It doesn't mean I'm ashamed of adoring it.

 

No, but Greece and Cyprus are just generic pop song lyrics, like those that fill up the charts across the world. Beautiful Song's lyrics are something else altogether, they're not unimaginative and generic, they're just really tacky (in my opinion).

 

And I'm not really ashamed in liking it, come on I happily admit that Scooch was my favourite entry of 2007, I have no shame when it comes to music taste :lol: If I was ashamed, would I rank it in my top ten!

 

What I meant was, I guess I do find it slightly shameful that I have it in my top ten above some well crafted and well written songs that just don't appeal to me as much musically. The Balkan countries have made some beautiful songs this year with real sentiment and power in their lyrics and I'd prefer to listen to a song that rivals Des'ree's Life in the shockingly bad lyric stakes! But outside of Eurovision some of the best songs ever written have crap lyrics, and some of the songs with the finest lyrics have nothing interesting about them musically, it's just one of those things. So maybe I should have phrased it differently, I'm not 'ashamed' to like it, but I do cringe when I listen to it, and weep on behalf of the songwriters, just in the same way that I appreciate Melanie C's If That Were Me musically but wonder what on earth she was thinking when putting those horrific lyrics to paper, and then actually seeing them through to the studio recording and single release!

"And Daddy smiled when gave me my guitar" (surely 'giving' would suit better?)

 

"I was born in distant nineteen-eighty" (no article!)

 

"I will buy oh my own mike to sing in" (oh? in? in what?)

 

It would be understandable if Anmary herself wrote the lyrics but she DID NOT. Someone ELSE wrote them.

Most of the time, as long as the lyrics of a song aren't like "baby shake ma thang on da dancefloh" I can look past them to get to the melody.

 

See I'm so used to hearing songs like this that these sorts of lyrics don't bother me or even make me think twice when listening. I mean look how awful the lyrics to Taio Cruz's Hangover are, yet as far as generic club songs go, it's got a brilliant melody and production, so I let it slide. I never let a strong melody pass me by, even if it has lyrics like that. However, that doesn't mean that I'm not going to rip the lyrics to shreds for being absolute abominations, and in Taio's case, pretty vulgar.

 

The only one I have any issue with at all is the Johnny Logan one, because it opens the song and makes me cringe a little right at the beginning. Once I've got into the swing of the song, the rest of those sound absolutely fine.

 

OK, the one where she's sure she's gonna win isn't that great, but winning is a theme in quite a lot of Eurovision songs, isn't it? Even Jade indulged in it quite a lot.

 

Yeah, it's more the cringe factor that I was talking about, rather than being ashamed.

 

As for Jade, her lyrics were just X Factor winner's song by numbers I guess, and they're all very cliched 'I've made it', 'my life is complete', 'I've achieved my dreams' as well.

OK, the one where she's sure she's gonna win isn't that great, but winning is a theme in quite a lot of Eurovision songs, isn't it? Even Jade indulged in it quite a lot.

No no no! Lithuania 2006 and Iceland 2007 are the only ones that have lyrics about winning Eurovision. Jade wasn't singing about it AT ALL.

 

edit: Ireland 2008 too of course, how could I forget! :lol:

Edited March 16, 201213 yr by Caïn

"And Daddy smiled when gave me my guitar" (surely 'giving' would suit better?)

 

"I was born in distant nineteen-eighty" (no article!)

 

"I will buy oh my own mike to sing in" (oh? in? in what?)

 

It would be understandable if Anmary herself wrote the lyrics but she DID NOT. Someone ELSE wrote them.

 

Yeah, it's very bad English. It's almost as if they were written in Latvian and then fed through Google Translate and put to music without somebody making sense of them. I sound like Bray/you, I guess bad English irks me more than I thought :drama:

The lyrics don't exactly stay a lot about the Latvian standard of English do they (or at least the songwriter's standard of English)?

 

Gah, Jade was the first one I thought of. The idea of 'it's my time' indirectly is singing about winning, very 'X-Factor-ish', yes, trying to be all metaphorical and glorious so it looks excellent on a record of winners, should it win (I'm not saying it did win). Maybe not the best example though. Singing about winning doesn't have to be be as horribly cringeworthy as We Are The Winners.

There are plenty of instances of weak lyrics in this years ESC though. I doubt Greece or Cyprus will be winning any awards for their lyrics.

These lyrics sound like a poem to me and Latvia's also when I think about the Montengrin lyrics. "Always stay cool, like a swimming pool..." :blink: so I don't think it's the right thread to discuss it :lol:

Nope, the new version still does not convince me. This still remains in my bottom 5 for this year.

The production is a bit outdated, and the lyrics - and I never use to mind bad lyrics - make it impossible for me to listen. The idea of her "Beautiful Song" playing on the radio and making her big dreams come true is all alright but the verses make me feel like punching her or the writer in the face to make them write proper lyrics.

This is a solid 0/10 moment for me, sorry.

The bad english is almost endearing though.

Some intresting opinions. Haters gonna hate.

Such EPIC lyrics !!!

BEST SONG EVER. :heart: :wub:

Edited February 4, 201411 yr by AlexRange