February 16, 201411 yr And following last night's OOPS F U BYE Dr Alban decided to say what he really thinks about Melodifestivalen :D http://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/melo...icle18375006.ab It would be all great if his song wasn't straight from 20 years ago.
February 16, 201411 yr And following last night's OOPS F U BYE Dr Alban decided to say what he really thinks about Melodifestivalen :D http://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/melo...icle18375006.ab It would be all great if his song wasn't straight from 20 years ago. Speaks of sour grapes to me. I didn't get through so therefore the whole contest is a joke.
February 16, 201411 yr He speaks some sense though. Given so far 13-year old girl material like Yohio and Oscar Zia (to add Sean Banan for 2013 obv) got through so easily this year. However, last year was like an OLD PEOPLE JIZZ PARTY in the final! Louise Hoffsman, Ravaillacz, Ralf! It's mostly down to the songs anyway. Oscar Zia won't win the final no matter how many girls want to vote for him.
February 16, 201411 yr Author And following last night's OOPS F U BYE Dr Alban decided to say what he really thinks about Melodifestivalen :D http://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/melo...icle18375006.ab It would be all great if his song wasn't straight from 20 years ago. It isn't dated at all? It's really, really current with obvious 90s influences. This is KEITH MILLS 'euphoria is a dated 90s rehash!' level criticism.
February 16, 201411 yr yeah singrid, ace of base-esque pop is coming back in to fashion DID NO ONE GIVE U THE MEMO
February 16, 201411 yr It's pure Ace of Base to me too. It has a few modern production touches here and there but nothing that would tell somebody who'd just awoken from a 20 year coma that music had drastically moved on :lol:
February 16, 201411 yr Author You could've said the exact same thing for Euphoria! The difference is that the production touches very clearly make them modern. Hell, you only have to listen to the intro - you'd have never gotten that in 1994.
February 16, 201411 yr Euphoria's entire production was modern and easy to hear on the track, but maybe with the atmosphere and some buried synths from a Tina Cousins song or something. Around The World has some modern influences, but they're heavily buried under a cod-reggae soundscape, and not evident at all at various parts of the track. I could just about tell it was from this sort of era (well maybe 2010 - Lady Gaga, Akon, Iyaz etc...) but I wouldn't say it wears on its sleeve 'I'm from 2014'.
February 16, 201411 yr The problem was not the production. The song was catchy enough as Panetoz' or any other Jalla Dansa Sawa. The problem was the mess of a performance they put on stage. It was everything but the kicthen sink behind them while they stood still singing like it was 1996. They couldn't sell the song as modern even if they could've had a morden radio hit on their hands.
February 16, 201411 yr they could've had a morden radio hit on their hands. http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/50709000/jpg/_50709204_morden_pa.jpg :lol:
February 16, 201411 yr Yeah, the performance made it feel more dated, the styling, the staging, while it did have hints of modern cod-reggae. I really do think some people (yes you Tirren) are focused on the fact that these "old stars" aren't making it through as opposed to some of the material. You acknowledged last night that Ace's song is your sort of thing but you were disappointed for Shirley and Jessica (not Alban). Surely it's a good thing that Melodfestivalen is evolving? I was delighted to see Ace going through because she was a new female, many of which struggle like Janet last year. Sanna's proved that with superb material that felt pretty modern (Tedder-esque drums etc), the old guard can still make it through, but as much as I really like Shirley's song, it was 3 minutes of big notes in a song that didn't sound particularly up to date with what does well. I don't personally want Melodifestivalen to stick in the past and I question why anyone wouldn't want it to reflect the sort of things that do well in current charts to an extent.
February 16, 201411 yr Author I was disappointed for Jessica AND Alban, but obviously moreso Jessica as I've been a fan for a while. I'm more than aware that it was the terminal performance that did them in, but I don't see how it's at all unnatural to be unhappy that artists that I'm fans of are struggling even when they update their sounds to ones that fit in a current climate while keeping a touch of that former Melodifestivalen pop gold (I don't hold anything against Zia at all in that respect - that's precisely what he did. Well, he kind of forced an old sound to be relevant so all the more power to him for that.). I enjoy Busy Doin' Nothing (and I'll probably be all over it by the time we get to the final, I'm just a bit sore it was the one that plunged the knife into Jessica's last chance), and of course, yeah, the contest needs to evolve - and I should emphasise here that I am really happy with this year's contest musically so far as a whole. It's just a little disappointing that more and more it's the case when pop is going through it's stuff that is an utterly identikit hand-me-down from the charts (hell - young pop entries as a whole. Stand up Aleo, Bedroom, Glow, Love Trigger...). Busy Doin' Nothing being for all intents and purposes Miley Cyrus doing a Wake Me Up/I Love It mash-up makes it a fun track, but it's pretty faceless (which feels like an odd thing to say about a shouty track, but it's essentially the pop song equivalent of someone who dyes their hair an unnatural colour and sticks their tongue out sometimes and calls it a personality). There's very little about it as a pop song that has the je ne sais quoi I'd associate with what I come to Melodifestivalen for. Yeah, obviously Shirley wasn't exactly T4 bait. I'm not calling for the likes of Burning Alive to win Melodifestivalen any time soon. But at a time when seemingly every other type of genre or representation can get through in some form (and of course, modern stuff should be a part of that), the old schlager dolly is getting totally squeezed out. Is it wrong that that disappoints me a bit - when it's a big part of what I fell in love with the contest for, when it's what the contest's popularity was in large part built on, and given it's something you don't really get anywhere else? It'd just be nice if there were a hope in hell that any of them could make it through these days. It's all about balance. Thank GOD for Linda Bengtzing *.* *sets personal hype to max*
February 16, 201411 yr Tirren's actually not bad at all. Some people on the OTHER PLACE (we're still doing this I assume) were FAR WORSE last night/this morning.
February 16, 201411 yr Author **ALCAZAR** We'll have EACH ONE (plus Magnus Carlsson) hold down a limb of Anton each whilst Linda prepares the SACRIFICIAL KNIFE http://www.moopy.org.uk/forums/images/smilies/disco.gif
February 16, 201411 yr We'll have EACH ONE (plus Magnus Carlsson) hold down a limb of Anton each whilst Linda prepares the SACRIFICIAL KNIFE http://www.moopy.org.uk/forums/images/smilies/disco.gif Yes please! Putting on my sparkling disco boots.
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