Australia AUSTRALIA 2021 - Montaigne - Technicolour

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I wanna be close to my mother
I wanna belong to the world
A mirror that shows technicolor
I'd be a magnificent girl

But everything is frustrating
Everything moves along
Faster than I can relate to

But I got power, yeah
Midnight is the hour, yeah
Time to take off your cloaks

Techni-technicolour
Techni-technicolour
If we stand together
We can do whatever
Techni-technicolour
Techni-technicolour
If we care for one another
We can

I wanna know that there's a future
That I can move myself towards
And yet I promise you
Yes all you nasty dudes
I don't need certainty
To get my pot of gold

Everything is frustrating
Everything moves along
Faster than I can relate to

But we got grace, yeah
We got style and lasers, yeah
Time to take off your cloaks

Techni-technicolour
Techni-technicolour
If we stand together
We can do whatever
Techni-technicolour
Techni-technicolour
If we care for one another
We can

Shine
Shine
Shine
Shine

Techni-technicolour
Techni-technicolour
If we stand together
We can do whatever
Techni-technicolour
Techni-technicolour
If we care for one another
We can

Shine​

 

[Preuss]

I don't understand why you people still expect juries and televoters should agree: that's not the point of 50-50 system. And let's be fair, in 2017 Australia was not borderline jury qualifier: they came 2nd in the semi and 4th in the final. Pushing it to top 10, like 9th or 10th, would have been some sort of "let's at least bring you somewhere", but ranking it 2nd and 4th meant these jurors obviously had their own angle which they used to judge the song. And also, among all those jurors, I don't really think all of them were "Australia friendly". Most of them probably didn't care about the name of the country.

amen, preach. Eurovision fans are like "i don't agree with these results so something must be off" and will then start conspiracy theories right to left

people seem to forget that the juries actually gave us a top ten in 2014, 2015 and 2017 where the televoters didn't vote for us, so we've got more top ten placings handed by the juries than Australia where this has only happened once

 

[Citelis]

Actually juries shouldn't agree with t/v because if they agree on everything there is no point to have them.

 

[Ezio]

I am very surprised about the poor reception of Australia this year, because this song is unque and I love it the most of all of Australian entries so far, that mainly consisted of radio frienldy pop.

 

[mauve]

 

[Loindici]

Hello, I'm back.

Looking at how grandiose the Open Up stage is, I think Australia might be on a demise.

 

[crashworld]

Montaigne will join the semi-final 'live" show from the SBS studios at 5am Australian time via video-conference.
I am sure she will do the same for the grand final "live" show should she qualifies.

Source: https://eurovoix.com/2021/05/01/montaigne-live-sbs-studios/

 

[Preuss]

I don’t think it would’ve been Sound of Silence or Zero Gravity level, but it’s a pity that we won’t see her on that stage

 

[GianlucaTomoe]

God, how much I want juries to shower this entry with votes. I want to see the haters' faces green with rage and anger

 

[Luffy]

She still struggle to sing this without moving much at all.

I really worry about her tape without the energy of an audience and without having much time to rehearse.

If she is the only artist not going, they should really let her have another take with a small cheering audience since there will 3 500 fans in Rotterdam

 

[Preuss]

Let's wait for the stagings, but as of now, it really feels like Australia is gonna NQ this year

 

[GianlucaTomoe]

It's because it's representing the wrong country. If this same entry had been sent by a certain Nordic country which always qualifies no matter what cr*p they send, Norway, not only it would qualify easily, but it would've also received a lot of fans' love.

 

[Preuss]

We didn't even qualify back in 2016...

don't point the gun at us, point the gun at our good friends in east

 

[Betwixt Tales]

We didn't even qualify back in 2016...

don't point the gun at us, point the gun at our good friends in east

Yeah, I was confused by that remark as well. Sweden is the one always going to the finals. You guys have missed it a couple of times this past decade.

 

[Preuss]

Yeah, I was confused by that remark as well. Sweden is the one always going to the finals. You guys have missed it a couple of times this past decade.

Yeah, and we're not even doing consistently well. Such bullshit, we've had our bad moments the past decade as well

 

[Betwixt Tales]

I really love Montaigne's voice, and had this been last year, she would be in my top favorites.

This year, her song is ruined for me because of that (obnoxious) cheerleading chant in the middle. The entire song comes crashing down.
I will, however, continue to listen to, and enjoy, Don't Break Me, which I love and think is so powerful and beautiful.

 

[Betwixt Tales]

Yeah, and we're not even doing consistently well. Such bullshit, we've had our bad moments the past decade as well

*cough* Alexander in '18 *cough*

...

 

[Preuss]

*cough* Alexander in '18 *cough*

...

yikes... that was bad
I feel like we've done well when we've deserved to do well

 

[Betwixt Tales]

yikes... that was bad
I feel like we've done well when we've deserved to do well

I LOVED your entries in '13, '15, and 20 (I think you could have won if last year had happened). I really liked your entries in '12, '14, and '17. So you've had a really good run. '19 I'm not as hyped about as others are.

(Sorry for talking about Norway in the Aussie thread.)

 

[crashworld]

Teaser of "Technicolour" music video.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1389078675677609986

Video link, premiering on 5-May.

 

[Nienor]

It's because it's representing the wrong country. If this same entry had been sent by a certain Nordic country which always qualifies no matter what cr*p they send, Norway, not only it would qualify easily, but it would've also received a lot of fans' love.

Sorry but what? Australia has a perfect qualification score since entering the competition and always has strong jury support.
And you probably mistaken Norway for Sweden because Norway had its fair share of struggles in the past.