EUROVISION 2021 - General Discussion Thread

[escYOUnited]

Please post any and all discussions regarding the contest itself, host country and city, organisation, rumours and other topics not related to any specific country's selection process.

 

[crashworld]

With Australia now confirmed they won't be able to travel Rotterdam for the actual performance, I really hope the remaining 38 entrants/delegations will be able to get there with no issues.

 

[crashworld]

I have compiled the list of staging directors for the respective competing countries.
Please feel free to add on as there are some that do not have information.

Marvin Dietmann

• Austria
• Bulgaria
• Croatia
• Cyprus
• Czech Republic
• Estonia
• Spain

Jean Baptiste Group

• Albania
• Georgia
• Malta
• Sweden
• Switzerland

Fokas Evangelinos

• Greece
• Moldova

Hans Pannecoucke

• Belgium
• The Netherlands

Povilas Varvuolis

• Lithuania
• Germany*

Jerry Reeve/Tom Denning

• United Kingdom

Mari Forsman Ryberger/Tine Matulessy

• North Macedonia

Fredrik Rydman

• Ireland

Luca Tomassini

• San Marino

Mads Enggaard

• Azerbaijan

Marika Prochet

• France

Mikołaj Dobrowolski

• Poland

Moshe Kaftan

• Israel

Source: https://eurovisionworld.com - You can also check the previous works for the respective staging directors.

*Edit: Germany's source: https://escxtra.com/2021/02/25/jend...feel-hate-germanys-entry-for-eurovision-2021/

New updates:

Birgitte Næss-Schmidt

• Denmark

Cristian Miron

• Romania

Jaagup Tuisk

• Estonia

Source: EurovisionWorld

 

[theditz83]

Apologies if this was already been promoted somewhere, but there's a free live concert with 15 of the 2021 artists performing tonight along with other previous Eurovision stars. You can watch it over on Eurovoix.tv from 21.00CEST

Hoping we'll finally get some proper live vocal performances from and

 

[mauve]

Apologies if this was already been promoted somewhere, but there's a free live concert with 15 of the 2021 artists performing tonight along with other previous Eurovision stars. You can watch it over on Eurovoix.tv from 21.00CEST

Hoping we'll finally get some proper live vocal performances from and

And the line-up is:

• – Albert Cerny and Lake Malawi – Czech Republic 2019
• – Albina – Croatia 2021
• – Annsofi & Me – Melodi Grand Prix 2013 super finalist
• – Dadi Freyr – Iceland 2021
• – Dami Im – Australia 2016
• – Efendi – Azerbaijan 2021
• – Elena Tsagrinou – Cyprus 2021
• – Eva and Ewa – Melodifestivalen 2021 participants
• – Fyr og Flamme – Denmark 2021
• – Gebrasy – Runner up in Pabandom iš Naujo! 2021
• – Go_A – Ukraine 2021
• – Helene Boksle – Melodi Grand Prix 2011 participant & interval act for MGP 2021
• – James Newman – United Kingdom 2021
• – KEiiNO – Norway 2019 – Måns Zelmerlöw – Winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2015
• – Patrick Jean – Melodifestivalen 2021 participant
• – Rafał – Poland 2021
• – Roxen – Romania 2021
• – Senhit – San Marino 2021
• – The Black Mamba – Portugal 2021
• – Tusse – Sweden 2021
• – Victoria – Bulgaria 2021
• – Vincent Bueno – Austria 2021
• – Zoe London – International renowned DJ

 

[Mimmon]

And the line-up is:

• – Albert Cerny and Lake Malawi – Czech Republic 2019
• – Albina – Croatia 2021
• – Annsofi & Me – Melodi Grand Prix 2013 super finalist
• – Dadi Freyr – Iceland 2021
• – Dami Im – Australia 2016
• – Efendi – Azerbaijan 2021
• – Elena Tsagrinou – Cyprus 2021
• – Eva and Ewa – Melodifestivalen 2021 participants
• – Fyr og Flamme – Denmark 2021
• – Gebrasy – Runner up in Pabandom iš Naujo! 2021
• – Go_A – Ukraine 2021
• – Helene Boksle – Melodi Grand Prix 2011 participant & interval act for MGP 2021
• – James Newman – United Kingdom 2021
• – KEiiNO – Norway 2019 – Måns Zelmerlöw – Winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2015
• – Patrick Jean – Melodifestivalen 2021 participant
• – Rafał – Poland 2021
• – Roxen – Romania 2021
• – Senhit – San Marino 2021
• – The Black Mamba – Portugal 2021
• – Tusse – Sweden 2021
• – Victoria – Bulgaria 2021
• – Vincent Bueno – Austria 2021
• – Zoe London – International renowned DJ

Thank you,I was planning to do top after this event its like annual thing

 

[Mimmon]

And the line-up is:

• – Albert Cerny and Lake Malawi – Czech Republic 2019
• – Albina – Croatia 2021
• – Annsofi & Me – Melodi Grand Prix 2013 super finalist
• – Dadi Freyr – Iceland 2021
• – Dami Im – Australia 2016
• – Efendi – Azerbaijan 2021
• – Elena Tsagrinou – Cyprus 2021
• – Eva and Ewa – Melodifestivalen 2021 participants
• – Fyr og Flamme – Denmark 2021
• – Gebrasy – Runner up in Pabandom iš Naujo! 2021
• – Go_A – Ukraine 2021
• – Helene Boksle – Melodi Grand Prix 2011 participant & interval act for MGP 2021
• – James Newman – United Kingdom 2021
• – KEiiNO – Norway 2019 – Måns Zelmerlöw – Winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2015
• – Patrick Jean – Melodifestivalen 2021 participant
• – Rafał – Poland 2021
• – Roxen – Romania 2021
• – Senhit – San Marino 2021
• – The Black Mamba – Portugal 2021
• – Tusse – Sweden 2021
• – Victoria – Bulgaria 2021
• – Vincent Bueno – Austria 2021
• – Zoe London – International renowned DJ

Destiny is in aswell

 

[mauve]

It's such a nice concert!

 

[theditz83]

I turned on just in time for KEiiNO - fate

And yes, I do still burst into tears everytime Monument gets to the last 30 seconds

 

[Synergise]

Just tuned in to the Eurovoix concert - that was James Newman's first "live" performance of Embers right? Vocals were stronger than I was expecting.

Senhit's wasn't the strongest live vocal - waaaay too much vibrato.

 

[NikolaiMoller]

Senhit giving me winner vibes and her vocals were perfect

 

[Synergise]

Senhit giving me winner vibes and her vocals were perfect

Hahahaha, I feel like we were listening to different performances. It wasn't awful by any means, but would say it was far from perfect. If she's going to have to do choreo, that excess vibrato is only going to get worse.

I still stan the queen though.

 

[theditz83]

Hope there will be a chance to view the performances again as really keen to hear James' live vocal on Embers

 

[NikolaiMoller]

Hope there will be a chance to view the performances again as really keen to hear James' live vocal on Embers

here you go sis

 

[94ayd]

That was a real mess of a concert. Some artists didn't even perform their whole entries, while others performed 2-3 songs... Not to mention the cringe interviews with Mans and Dami and the hosts' guessing game... Also very heavy bias towards entries with composers, only wasn't featured.

 

[theditz83]

here you go sis

She sounds okay actually, would be interesting to see her with full choreo, but nice to hear it full live with the actual backing track and not an awful dreary slow acoustic version.

Also, is that a little hint at what we might be hearing at Eurovision if Mr Rida can't travel to perform in Rotterdam - a 2:20 Senhit only version? I mean, there's no reason why she can't splice in her sung middle 8 from the other version of the song I guess

 

[tararaaam]

I really think that most of those videos are quite unreliable for serious discussion, especially some entries like Azerbaijan had EXTREME voice editing, I almost felt personally offended that some of those are supposed to be "live", with excessive backing track, echo effects and autotuning. Out of the ones I heard, only Senhit, Roxen and Rafal dared to not have all these effects.

 

[NikolaiMoller]

She sounds okay actually, would be interesting to see her with full choreo, but nice to hear it full live with the actual backing track and not an awful dreary slow acoustic version.

Also, is that a little hint at what we might be hearing at Eurovision if Mr Rida can't travel to perform in Rotterdam - a 2:20 Senhit only version? I mean, there's no reason why she can't splice in her sung middle 8 from the other version of the song I guess

I expect Flo Rida to appear as a hologram doing his rap part meanwhile Senhit casually jumping into a huge aquarium filled with great white sharks

 

[mauve]

That was a real mess of a concert. Some artists didn't even perform their whole entries, while others performed 2-3 songs... Not to mention the cringe interviews with Mans and Dami and the hosts' guessing game... Also very heavy bias towards entries with composers, only wasn't featured.

Especially Vincent Bueno ... so short! He didn't have to take part if he peformed only a few seconds (that's what it felt like). Some songs I had the feeling that they didn't sing or that they edited parts of it.

 

[Zeus]

Three minutes is short for a song, but with San Marino and Cyprus it feels really long. Three minutes of the same thing over and over again with no dynamic in it. Simplicity in music doesn't have to be bad all the time, but this just feels simple in a cheap way to me.

 

[midnightsun]

At least it helps us separating the wheat from the chaff. Some songs didn’t do the artist a favor; I just hope they‘ll be better in May.