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Belgium BELGIUM 2020 - Hooverphonic - Release Me

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escYOUnited

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Your Austrianness prevents you from seeing the obvious televote potential, which is why you lose that vote all the time...x

your Belgianness prevents you from seeing that belting divas have a televote flop potential higher than your contempt for Autriche. however my contempt for greasy Belgian cuisine is unheard of. #nowaffles
 

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your Belgianness prevents you from seeing that belting divas have a televote flop potential higher than your contempt for Autriche. however my contempt for greasy Belgian cuisine is unheard of. #nowaffles
I refuse to be lectured on cuisines by somebody who fucking BOILS GIANT BALLS OF DOUGH and calls it a dessert :-/
 

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the dough contains delicious vanilla sugar and is later on filled with glorious jam, cream or chocolate and may also be sickeningly iced :mad:

and I am a salad tiger anyway....
 

NikolaiMoller

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Alex Callier said following:

“Next year I will choose a great song again. With or without lift — I don’t care. I can imagine that we now need a happy and up-tempo song. I may write something like that, but it is too early to say anything about it.”

I hope we'll get a lot of up-tempo and uplifting songs next year!
 

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Alex Callier said following:

“Next year I will choose a great song again. With or without lift — I don’t care. I can imagine that we now need a happy and up-tempo song. I may write something like that, but it is too early to say anything about it.”

I hope we'll get a lot of up-tempo and uplifting songs next year!
I think an up-tempo song would be fantastic. Even though I really loved "Release me", I am not sure if ESC would have honored it. Probably it was too slow and melancholic for people to like it.
 

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My review:

BELGIUM 2020 - Hooverphonic - Release Me: "me likey"

Well, it seems like Belgians can't get enough of what some people call "James Bond music" as if it were a genre. I was looking forward to Hooverphonic and - against all odds - I wasn't disappointed overall.

Yes, it's another "Bond" theme, yes it's quite repetitive, yes the female singer's voice isn't what I prefer tone-wise, and yet I still like that song. To keep me content, just give me a good ol' melancholic ballad. The retro-vibe, the classy instrumentation and the dramatic atmosphere are really super similar to "A Matter Of Time" for obvious reasons, but I feel like "Release Me" feels more complete in its development, although there's not even a shadow of a climax. I'll say that while that effort pleases me for what it is, I think that Belgians will have to think of new ideas after 2021, because it seems to me they are a trapped in a cycle to try to reiterate their recent successes.

While that song will make my top 10 easily, I guess it would have had a hard time in the real contest. I envisioned a nocturnal and ethereal staging that they most likely wouldn't have been able to pull off because visuals have been either tragic or non-existent after Blanche. And "Release Me" would have needed a very special presentation to stand out imo. The most likely outcome would have been a Sennek 2.0 I think.

With that being said, I'm glad the group is back and they'll offer something less slow in 2021; unless it's botched, it can only improve their chances of qualification. I'll keep an eye on our neighbours ;)
 

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I still have it on repeat xlove One of my favorites from 2020 and I'm sure they would've gotten a great result. Unfortunately, this year's song is slightly weaker, but I still hope for a qualification.

12 points.
 
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