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Ah, g'day.
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Yes, hello, bloody hell, yes.
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Welcome to another
Novympia Eurovision reaction video.
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My name is Nova.
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Yeah, and I'm Olympia.
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Today we are dressed like chicks.
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Yeah.
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Sometimes that happens 'round here.
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Sometimes. Sorry 'bout it.
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Mmm meant to tell you about that.
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Today we are reacting
to Australia's entry for Eurovision 2024.
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"Oh my god!"
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Why are they even in it,
they're not even in Europe
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(laughs)
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Joking, I'm joking
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I would just like to say that
Olympia is actually not Australian.
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"So you're a liar.
Not only are you fake, you're a liar.
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There you go. Ba-boom."
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I'm not Australian, no.
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That is a lie.
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Ah, yes, no I am.
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And also, how lovely
to react to my home nation today.
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She's a liar.
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Yes.
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And a fraudster.
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Also, just very very quickly,
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because I know good goddamn well
there will be comments:
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Australia, yes they're not in Europe.
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They were invited to take part
in Eurovision in 2015
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as a bit of a milestone celebration
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'cause they'd broadcast Eurovision
for years and years and years.
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And then they were just like,
well we're already in it,
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we might as well stay in it.
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There are several countries in Eurovision
not in Europe, but they are in the EBU.
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The requirement is that you are a member
of the European Broadcasting Union,
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and Australia now are.
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So they're in it,
and I love that they're in it,
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and we're not gonna talk about it
any more.
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Now, who is representing Australia
for 2024, Nova?
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Are they called Electric Fields?
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So, Electric Fields are a duo.
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It's electronic music and I know that
the one artist is called Zaachariaha.
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Forgive me, I can't remember
the name of the other one.
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What I do know is that Electric Fields
participated in Australia's national final
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which they haven't had now
for a couple of years,
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but they did have one
called Australia Decides.
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It was really good.
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And they entered into,
I want to say it was 2019
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with a song called "2000 And Whatever".
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So we are aware of Electric Fields,
and in particular
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the vocalist Zaachariaha,
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who is an Indigenous artist,
nonbinary artist, has a killer voice.
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The charisma that exudes
when they're onstage
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A really infectious stage presence.
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And the vocal is insane.
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So, we have heard the song
they're submitting this year.
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We have, I'm also glad
that we're not doing a blind reaction.
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I know a lot of you guys
prefer a blind reaction,
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but sometimes I think it is best
for us to listen to a song a few times,
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do a little bit of research,
and just sit with it.
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Because my initial reaction to this
probably wouldn't have been
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as positive or a strong
as the feelings I have for it now.
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Yes, and I mean, some of the songs
we have reacted to blindly,
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some we've sat
and milled over for a while,
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so there's gonna be a whole, you know-
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throughout the whole playlist
of reaction videos for this year,
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there's a bit of a mixed bag in there.
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But we thought
"2000 And Whatever" was sick,
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I think that would've been
an excellent entry for Australia.
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Yeah, I liked that.
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Let's watch this one if you're ready to.
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Yeah.
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And we'll talk about how we feel
that this is gonna go for them.
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So the song is called "One Milkali",
which translates to 'one blood'.
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I will say, straight off the bat,
that this is a "music video",
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if you can call it that.
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This is a lyric video, let's be real.
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So interestingly, the Eurovision channel
called it "official video".
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On their channel,
it's called a lyric video.
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Is it? Okay, interesting.
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Because - but I've said this, though.
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Hang on a second,
let's just pause it before.
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I've said this before, though,
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Eurovision has a way of defining
how it uploads its videos,
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either as "Official Music Video"
or "National Final Performance".
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They're very binary like that,
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they don't come up
with anything in between.
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So they've called this
"Official Music Video",
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it's not a music video!
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Like, it literally isn't,
'cause they're just sitting there
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with the lyrics - it's a lyric video.
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Okay, okay.
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So this doesn't give away anything,
really, does it?
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Okay.
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Okay so we've got--
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This is the bit where I feel like
we've got like, it starts to get going.
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There's literally a digeridoo in this,
which is- I'm obsessed with that,
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I love that element
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So it's very easy listening
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(singing) Milkalila, milkali
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When I first saw this,
I was a bit disappointed,
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Because again, we're provided
with this visual which looks
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incredibly low-budget and very simple,
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and I was a bit disappointed with that.
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I also didn't initially react very well
to the song, but now I think it's a vibe.
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Yeah, I'm not in love with like,
a message song.
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They tend to be sometimes
very kind of like, I don't know,
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feed the world, or save the Earth,
or we're all one voice, or whatever.
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They tend to be sometimes,
a little bit like, an eyeroll.
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So the idea is like, we are one blood,
we are one kind of like, human,
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and therefore
we should celebrate our differences
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rather than be divisive about it.
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So, it's a very straightforward message.
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They don't tend to do-
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I don't think they tend
to do very well at Eurovision though,
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I feel like that's something
that people are gonna resist about it.
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I don't like the lyrics.
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Some of the lyrics are a little...
perhaps a bit clunky.
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I don't even know if it's clunky,
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I just... maybe it's just me
being a miserable sod,
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but it's kind of a bit too happy for me,
and I want a bit more of an edge to it.
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And maybe the edge is that
this is a queer couple
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and that's kind of lost on us,
being queer
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I don't know if they are a couple,
I don't know if we can say that
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They just went in for a kiss,
they just kissed each other
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So? I kiss Char all the time,
what's your point?
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(laughs)
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The thing is, okay-
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The thing that disappoints me-
or, it's not even disappointing,
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but knowing the performance that
Zaachariaha gives consistently onstage,
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and the vocal,
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it's difficult to know exactly
quite how impressive
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and how much of a show this is gonna be,
just based on the studio recording.
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It's not very much to go off, is it?
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It's not much to go off,
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and I think a lot of people
have written this off,
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but would be foolish to.
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Because I think this is going to be-
I mean, the production on this is lovely.
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It's not, like,
the most fresh-sounding thing.
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There are a few elements
that make it a bit dated in my opinion.
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It's very retro, I would say
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It sounds a little bit... I don't know,
there's a few kind of like house elements,
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or things that are a bit...
not necessarily too fresh.
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I hate that that was the way
the song was introduced.
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You'd rather nothing?
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I would really have preferred
a live performance,
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and I find it odd that
they couldn't have scrambled together
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to put a live performance together.
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Even if it was then
dubbed with the studio cut,
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like, I think that would've been
more pleasing to look at.
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I think this automatically
makes people go like, no budget, er...
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It does feel a bit weird.
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I don't know.
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Perhaps they're just biding their time
and when it's gonna be done live,
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it is gonna be a show
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Hopefully.
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Because if you go
and watch "2000 And Whatever"-
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I mean, I can't undersell
how impressive Zaachariaha's vocal is.
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I much preferred that song, I have to say.
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And their style of performing
is just very, very impressive,
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and it gets- it's like
a party starting kind of like,
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I don't know.
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It just like, turns everything into like,
an arena - almost - feeling.
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'cause it is just like,
very, very impactful.
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I like the point of view,
I like that these are queer artists,
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Zaachariaha's a nonbinary artist,
I like the Indigenous elements to this,
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the digeridoo is sick,
the intention is strong,
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and the performance is strong.
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I think it will be.
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We've got some
Indigenous language as well.
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The language - I love that,
especially from Australia.
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I don't believe we've had that
from Australia before.
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Correct me if I'm wrong,
but I don't think we have.
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I'm not sure.
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So I love everything about that.
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I just wonder if the message angle
about it is a little- some of the lyrics,
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yeah, they are a little bit trite.
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Again, it might just be me being
super cynical and being miserable,
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but I do almost do a bit
of an eyeroll at some of this.
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Just because I feel like
it's so positive,
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and it's so happy and feel-good.
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And that's fantastic,
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and a lot of people need
and want this kind of music,
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but for me, I would just like
a bit of an edge somewhere.
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And I feel like I'm almost getting that
in the production.
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Some of the the production I really like
has elements that I'm like,
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ooh, that's a nice little twist,
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but ultimately,
it's just a bit too feel-good.
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It almost borders on cliché to me,
and that's where I personally resist it.
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It's- I think this is one
of the bigger question marks of the season
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in the sense that
we really just don't know
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how this is gonna play out on the stage.
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The other thing is, yeah,
in terms of what we're being given
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with this studio cut--
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We've got no idea.
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It's nice, I mean,
we thought it was lovely,
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we will listen to it,
but is it going to translate to the stage
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in the way that we all kind of want it to
and hope that it will?
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It's a little bit of a question mark,
'cause again,
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the video's not really giving
anything either.
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I've seen a lot of comparisons
to Belgium last year with Gustaph.
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I actually really responded well to that
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I feel like people described that
as a surprise qualify.
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I hated that song (laughs)
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I was not surprised to see that qualify,
I liked the song,
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and it was staged really well
and performed really well,
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but that to me was more of a dance track
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I was- I had that kind of access to it,
that it was a dance track.
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This - you can dance to it.
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It's more mellow.
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But it's, yes, it's a bit more mid-tempo.
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It's more mellow, I don't think
it's gonna lean that dancey at all.
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If this had a faster tempo to it,
maybe that would draw me in a bit,
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I don't know, again,
I can only speak
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on my own personal opinions
and feelings with this.
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It's just there's something about this
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that doesn't quite resonate
with me completely.
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Yes, I think that it has
every respectable quality to it
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where it should qualify,
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and might well qualify
based on the performance alone,
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which I'm guessing - a lot of this
is obviously guesswork,
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but is it actually going to...
it's hard to say at this point.
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Don't know. Just don't know.
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Who is it up against?
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Um- (strained mumbling)
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So, I don't know.
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It is kind of mid-tempo,
it is kind of mellow.
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It is going up against Finland's,
which is obviously very like (low gasp)
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(scream)
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Um, it's going up against Slovenia
and Portugal.
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Ah, there's a quality to them that... ugh.
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I don't think there's anything like,
directly comparable to this.
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It's in the second half
of the first ceremony,
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so it's like a nice slot, but...
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Are people gonna pick up
the phone for this?
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I think it really is dependent
on the live performance.
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Are they going to?
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It's so dependent on the live.
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Which again, I've said all along,
is probably gonna be sensational and--
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I also think, though,
that a good live performance
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is not gonna be good enough,
it has to be staged well.
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Staging has become so integral
to Eurovision, especially this year
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where the standard is so high.
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I think a lot of great acts
and great performances
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are going to be set apart
by how they're staged.
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Yeah, it's very very hard to know.