Germany GERMANY 2022 - Malik Harris - Rockstars

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Look where we are
We used to be the rockstars
Who never thought of no harm
'Til this thing we call life stopped gleaming
I wish there was a way to go back dreaming

Remembering gets so hard
When time is moving so fast
Wish there was a way to know that we're in
The good old days before we all just leave 'em

I tried getting rid of the pain
I tried to make it go away, but it probably won't change
Always thinking 'bout my own worries
Remember back when we had no worries?
Now life just ain't hitting the same
I sit and miss and reminisce about innocent old days
When I was afraid of nobody
Now I'm afraid of being a nobody

Don't wanna leave my bed
I'll just stay and never get it together
'Cause the voices in my head
They keep saying it'll never get better

Look where we are
We used to be the rockstars
Who never thought of no harm
'Til this thing we call life stopped gleaming
I wish there was a way to go back dreaming

Remembering gets so hard
When time is moving so fast
Wish there was a way to know that we're in
The good old days before we all just leave 'em

Sometimes I got this kinda sting that's right inside my chest
Its only purpose is convincing me that I'm a mess
And even though it's always been an uninvited guest
It finds a way in nonetheless
Wish I could change my address
And you know
Just be somebody else for a couple of days
Although I'm pretty sure we all feel the same kinda way
'Cause if you think about it
Aren't we all set in a place
Where we look back at better days
And wish they weren't so far away?

I wish that I could just go back and be the way I was
I wish I'd still not give a damn 'bout how I come across
I wish the way I saw myself had never gotten lost
In all the worries, all the thoughts, overthinking all the parts
So exhausted, always caught up inside my doubts and flaws
And I'ma count them all
Somebody catch me, I'm 'bout to fall
Yeah, I'm 'bout to fall
Can we press pause?
Or do a restart
And be who we are?

We used to be the rockstars
Who never thought of no harm
'Til this thing we call life stopped gleaming
I wish there was a way to go back dreaming

Remembering gets so hard
When time is moving so fast
Wish there was a way to know that we're in
The good old days before we all just leave 'em

Didn't we?
(We used to be the rockstars)
Didn't we?
(We used to be the rockstars)
(We used to be the rockstars)

Remembering gets so hard
When time is moving so fast
Wish there was a way to know that we're in
The good old days before we all just leave 'em​

 

[missbones]

Kurz hasn't submitted that particular song to NDR/ARD, though.

Let's be real... we won't face any well-established artists in our national final after Jendrik, Sisters, Levina, Ann-Sophie and Jamie-Lee and their them finishing last in the televoting (or Ann-Sophie and Jamie-Lee in total).

What I love about Kurz is his voice which is more memorable and remarkable than the voices we`ve heard in recent years. This doesn`t mean that his voice can´t be reminicent of another artist's voice.

I´d prefer another route, a more progressive and unique one, e.g. submitting a metal, folk or even Schlager song to Eurovision (just to try something different and to stick out in a competition with 24 other acts), but again, let´s be real.... 5 "experts" from NDR, ARD, BR will decide on the 5 acts who will be part of our national final.... they have been in charge of our national final and jury decisions for years now and look at what we just sent to Eurovision... they will not select artists such as Faun, Unheilig or other acts which got previously mentioned in this very forum/thread.... and that´s why I would love to see someone like Kurz with a good and honest and authentic song in our final - something which is representative of "what is being played/listened to in Germany".
It has always bothered me that we tried to submit English pop songs to Eurovision whilst most Germans either listens to rock, metal, Schlager or pop performed in German.
Apart from Nico Santos and maybe the likes of Lena and Co., we haven't been great at producing English pop music since, dunno, NoAngels/Monrose/Jeanette/Sarah Connor? - Let us finally submit something which is produced by and for Germans to finally get some support behind it... there is no need to submit something foreign which is not representative of our music scene.

Anyway, I would love to be wrong about this but I´m afraid that in the end, we will face another national final filled with boring English songs which may be radio-friendy but not really competitive by newcomers and the one occasional bop like "Wear Your Love" will be killed by a mediocre performance

thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis. As a foreign person who loves German music (i don't even stick to one genre, even tho i like rock/rap the most) , thank you so much for saying this! Every time i read this thread i feel like i'm wrong for liking certain songs or artists, not to mention when people say a song in German wouldn't work because... whatever? Have you seen the direction ESC has been taking these past few years? I'm not going to say French or Italian because people could be indeed more used to them, but why on earth would German be SO different to Ukrainian, for example? But you do you. I just love diversity and hate seeing artists i really like/songs that would add so MUCH to the contest being overlooked just because they don't sing in English.

 

[krivac]

thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis. As a foreign person who loves German music (i don't even stick to one genre, even tho i like rock/rap the most) , thank you so much for saying this! Every time i read this thread i feel like i'm wrong for liking certain songs or artists, not to mention when people say a song in German wouldn't work because... whatever? Have you seen the direction ESC has been taking these past few years? I'm not going to say French or Italian because people could be indeed more used to them, but why on earth would German be SO different to Ukrainian, for example? But you do you. I just love diversity and hate seeing artists i really like/songs that would add so MUCH to the contest being overlooked just because they don't sing in English.

German is not a beautiful as French & Italian and a ballad in German would've done way worse than a French/Italian ballad

If Germany wants to send a song in German let it be with Schlager or something more edgy.

 

[hungo]

German is not a beautiful as French & Italian and a ballad in German would've done way worse than a French/Italian ballad

If Germany wants to send a song in German let it be with Schlager or something more edgy.

Only something edgy could work in german.

 

[missbones]

German is not a beautiful as French & Italian and a ballad in German would've done way worse than a French/Italian ballad

If Germany wants to send a song in German let it be with Schlager or something more edgy.

well, i wouldn't know about beautiful, to me it is and i love learning it. I would say it just isn't a musical sounding language. But that's exactly why i said Ukrainian, also Origo and Hatrið Mun Sigraa did really well televote-wise a couple of years ago, and those are definitely not friendly languages. But they were all songs that stood out for different reasons: it obviously is about the song and not the language (a bland song will always be a bland song). I'm just saying i can't understand the argument of disregarding something just because "it wouldn't appeal people, it sounds too strong" while having so many examples of songs that were and sounded indeed.... strong.

 

[I bims]

thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis. As a foreign person who loves German music (i don't even stick to one genre, even tho i like rock/rap the most) , thank you so much for saying this! Every time i read this thread i feel like i'm wrong for liking certain songs or artists, not to mention when people say a song in German wouldn't work because... whatever? Have you seen the direction ESC has been taking these past few years? I'm not going to say French or Italian because people could be indeed more used to them, but why on earth would German be SO different to Ukrainian, for example? But you do you. I just love diversity and hate seeing artists i really like/songs that would add so MUCH to the contest being overlooked just because they don't sing in English.

Spain has been sending spanish songs most of the time and that never helped them. So have a lot of balkan states. Just because there've been amazing french and italian songs this year that did really well, that doesn't mean the whole contest is now suddenly changing and language is now the main factor. The songs that did well this year were first and foremost amazing songs with amazing artists. That's what we need and that's what we're lacking.

 

[krivac]

non-English songs are working only for Italy & France nowadays. For the rest is mostly a huge failure with few exceptions.

For example Israel, since they abandoned Hebrew they have a qualification streak. And then there's Georgia which their worst songs & results were with songs in Georgian.

Most of the worst ESC songs ever are in not in English.

 

[Grinch]

non-English songs are working only for Italy & France nowadays. For the rest is mostly a huge failure with few exceptions.

And English is working for other countries? Nah!

The problem with this contest was having mostly 2 kind of songs for many years: bland pop songs & boring ballads. People were fed up with that. In 2021, countries dared to send risky, different entries and it worked!
So it's not the language, it's the music and the dated concepts.

 

[missbones]

Spain has been sending spanish songs most of the time and that never helped them. So have a lot of balkan states. Just because there've been amazing french and italian songs this year that did really well, that doesn't mean the whole contest is now suddenly changing and language is now the main factor. The songs that did well this year were first and foremost amazing songs with amazing artists. That's what we need and that's what we're lacking.

that's exactly what i said in my next message? My point wasn't about the language itself, it was about disregarding interesting german songs/artists in every single list or message and not thinking of giving them a chance just because they do german music (which for most people only involves radio friendly Deutschpop, apparently, as if there's just that and schlager, no more options!).

 

[lasse braun]

The problem with this contest was having mostly 2 kind of songs for many years: bland pop songs & boring ballads.

mostly but not 100%.
in 2019 was lilly among the clouds - true timeless quality and maybe the best (possible) german ESC-song of all times.
thrown away for selfishness (from mister s. )

 

[I bims]

that's exactly what i said in my next message? My point wasn't about the language itself, it was about disregarding interesting german songs/artists in every single list or message and not thinking of giving them a chance just because they do german music (which for most people only involves radio friendly Deutschpop, apparently, as if there's just that and schlager, no more options!).

Oh sorry, I may have misunderstood you bc you emphasized the language aspect. My mistake :')

And I mean I would give artists a shot that sing in german... but it is a uphill battle because I really hate the sound of our language.

 

[Sammy]

They tried to do that with Xavier Naidoo in 2016 and it failed in the last minute.

Speaking of this „genius“: his newest warning (and this is NO joke): vaccination turns people into zombies that will cause and apocalyptic desaster.

Xavier Naidoo: Geimpfte schuld an der baldigen Zombie-Apokalypse

Auf Telegram lässt der Ex-Musiker mit einer neuen Sprachnachricht aufhorchen

www.derstandard.at

unfortunately only in german…

 

[ESC94]

Speaking of this „genius“: his newest warning (and this is NO joke): vaccination turns people into zombies that will cause and apocalyptic desaster.

Xavier Naidoo: Geimpfte schuld an der baldigen Zombie-Apokalypse

Auf Telegram lässt der Ex-Musiker mit einer neuen Sprachnachricht aufhorchen

www.derstandard.at

unfortunately only in german…

Well, at least it only destroys the brain cells of people with German skills.

 

[AlekS]

Speaking of this „genius“: his newest warning (and this is NO joke): vaccination turns people into zombies that will cause and apocalyptic desaster.

I crave for flesh good music only, so he's out of danger

 

[Mainshow]

According to NDR's representatives, we will see a national final in which 3 up to 7 acts are about to compete in.
source: "Clubtreffen, Cologne last weekend".

 

[lasse braun]

3 up to 7 acts

ok,3 acts then and one act is "seeded" and coming direcly from the black box.
brothers?
brothers & sisters?
brothers & sisters family?
kelly...

 

[CPV4931]

According to NDR's representatives, we will see a national final in which 3 up to 7 acts are about to compete in.
source: "Clubtreffen, Cologne last weekend".

As far as I understood in Cologne, Alexandra didn´t mention 3 to 7 as a fix corridor, but as examples that 5 isn´t the fix number of participants

 

[lasse braun]

 

[Vondenburg]

And now to the performance.
I still think they need an oxygen tent after the 3 minutes, if they want to do a good show.

 

[Vondenburg]

Hard-Style:

Pump It (Harris & Ford Remix)

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[Mainshow]

Another (officially) known submission for our national final.