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It's a shame you didn't inherit good musical taste from your mother.I was looking for support for my opinion that the Croatian song is bad. So I played it for my old mother - thinking that a song like that doesn't appeal at all to the elderly. But - unfortunately - she likes it! A devastating blow ...
It's a shame you didn't inherit good musical taste from your mother.
It's a shame you didn't inherit good musical taste from your mother.
She has taste!I was looking for support for my opinion that the Croatian song is bad. So I played it for my old mother - thinking that a song like that doesn't appeal at all to the elderly. But - unfortunately - she likes it! A devastating blow ...
I instead see it as a basic composition both in music and lyrics elevated by a good but not even so epic interpretation. The strong points, vote catchers, are the confusing "collage" between Rock*, joke entries and 00s ESC nostalgia + a staging that has already been tested (not exceptional but solid). I'm happy that Croatian fans can enjoy the competition but we are faced with an overvaluation on biblical levels. Surely, without making mistakes in the staging and the vocal side, in a weak year like this, it will enter the Top 10. I'm sure it will get votes both from lovers of the joke genre and from those approaching Rock and from the Bubble. Good support from Eastern Europe will not be missing.Melodically and lyrically this song is really clever, but all in all it just is noise from hell to my ears.
The Rock in this song is only a facade. A mainstream product, a mask. It may obtain consensus in a competition between emerging artists but in the world of Rock, less subject to rules of courtesy, by TRUE ROCKERS artists and extremist Rock fans it will be looked at as a poor product. I am ugly and bad? No, it's reality. In the past we have witnessed historic groups massacred and losing fans because they winked at the mainstream. And for me, I say it without fear, with Måneskin we got closer to Rock but we always witnessed lambs dressed as wolves. In the golden age of Rock perhaps they would have opened a few concerts and been forgotten, lost in the "Game of Thrones".
I opened a much broader discussion. I didn't focus on the R&M fanbase to weave a sterile apology.That "true rockers" argument isn't worth much IMO, it just sounds like the ESC Version of the Standard "not true metal" BS some Death & Black Metal Fans throw at everything else. It's mostly just showing the complainers lack of an open mind and exceptance of how varied music is.
ESC always has more "Radio version" Rock (& metal) compared to whats out in the wild, but I don't see how that makes the music worse or worth less by definition. Something like "ChaChaCha" (metal, not Rock, I know) was a massive hit with many "true" metal fans, to my knowledge even more so than Måneskin (who had a great show, lots of charisma - but to me a way more "we're writing this for the radio folks" song than Käärija or Baby Lasagna).
As an actual Rock & Metal Fan, I love "Rim Tim Tagi Dim", and so do most of the friends I've played the song to. You don't have to like it ofc, but please don't use Rock/Metal Fans like me as an argument for it
I don't know what it has to do with Baby Lasagna, since his song has NOTHING to do with a joke entry.Honestly, if I had to vote for a joke song, instead of opting for shades of Midsommar, I'd rather go for a walk around Europe with "Europapa".
Following your reasoning why by all eurofans the direct opponent of "Rim Tim Tagi Dim" is "Europapa"? Why do many say that the fall of one would represent the success of the other?I don't know what it has to do with Baby Lasagna, since his song has NOTHING to do with a joke entry.