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For those who don't know, Käärijä played Cha Cha Cha live for the first time yesterday. It's difficult to call it a day because of course the quality of the clips are quite bad, but the singing parts are somewhat... eh. Of course it doesn't sound that good tbh.
BUT : this is not the kind of song that relies a lot on singing in the end. He doesn't pretend to be some kind of Mariah Carey or whatever, so in the end i think it... works in a sense ? Let's also assume this is the end of the show also.
On the other hand, the rap verses are top notch, he's just spitting fire. But the singing parts, will juries like it ? Nothing is written in stone yet.
I keep hearing the comparisons between Robin Packalen and Benjamin Ingrosso, but in my opinion "Girls like you" can't even come close to hold a candle next to "Dance you off"
And I'm pretty certain it won't either after the staging is known
Hmm, I partially agree with what you say about the juries downvoting Cha Cha Cha, but I think we all forget that juries will give points to less jury-friendly songs if they've got enough hype behind them. If you think about the heights reached by songs ranked low by the juries but with a high televote (2021, 2022), their overall results are impressive.cha cha cha will not win eurovision that's for sure. there's no way juries are going to put this in their top 10.
but it will still get a decent result i think. probably around the lower top 10 (7th - 9th).
I do think acts like Kuumaa, Robin and Lxandra have the same potential because they are more jury friendly. Robin could easily pull a Benjamin Ingrosso in 2018, Lxandra can easily pull Amanda's result from last year and Kuumaa is a risky choice but I can see it doing decently with both the jury and the televote.
Hmm, I partially agree with what you say about the juries downvoting Cha Cha Cha, but I think we all forget that juries will give points to less jury-friendly songs if they've got enough hype behind them. If you think about the heights reached by songs ranked low by the juries but with a high televote (2021, 2022), their overall results are impressive.
Would we have considered Zitti e buoni a jury-friendly song? I'd say no. A (very) quick look at Eurovisionworld.com is telling me that it got points or less from about half the juries and only got points from 4 juries, but it was still their 4th place; there were enough s and s about to make up for quite a few zeroes.
Where am I going with this? Not sure, but I think we sometimes give juries too much blame for killing potential winners, when they can be overcome. By winners, I mean outright winners.
Anyway, my thoughts are if Dark Side came 6th in a very tough year, Cha Cha Cha should finish higher as long as it isn't a mess live
Yes, but they could almost send anything and qualify for the final. But the hype mostly seems to be about Cha Cha Cha, even though Ylivoimanen is no. 1 on the finnish Spotify top 50 atm.I haven't yet listened to any of the Finnish songs, but I spotted Finland third in the odds so I figured there must be something big in the horizon. From what I'm reading here "cha cha cha" seems to be it. Am I right?