Austria AUSTRIA 2015 - The Makemakes - I Am Yours

[Mlyn]

itunes top 100

5. I Am Yours
6. Feel Alive
27. Who You Are
57. Absolutio

 

[Mlyn]

If Austria chose this song in 1990 for Zagreb, they would have won

 

[anselm]

I think I'm leaning towards The Makemakes now... It's the most complete package.

 

[marty]

I think I'm leaning towards The Makemakes now... It's the most complete package.

i cant decide between dawa and the makemakes. probably i will vote for both on friday :-)

they both are the only ones who stayed with themselves and their own concept. folkshilfes song is just not folkshilfe anymore, same with jsb and zoe if she will perform in french and english. celina ann we never will hear from again after friday..... dont understand why she was chosen.

 

[sigi]

If Austria chose this song in 1990 for Zagreb, they would have won

1990 was the first NF i watched on TV... I didn't know anything about ESC but the NF was legendary
The woman from "Duett" passed out during the performance 1:43

Duett won the NF and a week after the NF they got disqualified because the song was already performed in a German preselection.
Papagena Sonnenkind was my favorte

 

[sigi]

I think our NF-1990 stage was far better than the ESC stage in Zagreb

..and the female singer from Papagena Sonnenkind is Stella Jones btw

 

[Mlyn]

I think our NF-1990 stage was far better than the ESC stage in Zagreb

..and the female singer from Papagena Sonnenkind is Stella Jones btw

But the ESC stage of Zagreb was also ahead of its times. Best stage of the 90's! It even looks better than Copenhagen or Tallinn did in 2001 and 2002.


Das Duett wasn't really an Austrian act, I guess they came from Switzerland and Germany. I didn't like their cheesy entry, but they were very upset about Simone's 10th place, because they considered it a bad placing.

Eurovision seemed like a big deal in 1990 for Austria, because in 1989 they were intermediately leading the scoreboard with Thomas Forstner.

 

[sigi]

But the ESC stage of Zagreb was also ahead of its times. Best stage of the 90's! It even looks better than Copenhagen or Tallinn did in 2001 and 2002.


Das Duett wasn't really an Austrian act, I guess they came from Switzerland and Germany. I didn't like their cheesy entry, but they were very upset about Simone's 10th place, because they considered it a bad placing.

Eurovision seemed like a big deal in 1990 for Austria, because in 1989 they were intermediately leading the scoreboard with Thomas Forstner.

Simone deserved a better place....

 

[Mlyn]

Simone deserved a better place....

Yeah, but the juries punished her for looking like Kelly Bundy.

 

[sigi]

Yeah, but the juries punished her for looking like Kelly Bundy.

too sexy and the jury misunderstood the lyrics "keine Kleidung mehr....

 

[Mlyn]

Austria also won the Protest Song Contest 2015

[video=youtube;StDnFwcNkRM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=StDnFwcNkRM[/video]

But there were only acts from Germany and Austria

 

[sigi]

The Makemakes - I am Yours reminds me always to "The Scientist" from Coldplay.

 

[Iuris]

^ MY FAVOURITE.

 

[Chorizo]

Yeah, but the juries punished her for looking like Kelly Bundy.

Wouldn't that have been a reason to favor her back then?

 

[Chorizo]

The reaction to JSB here is like the reaction to the British entry on a smaller scale.

 

[anselm]

The reaction to JSB here is like the reaction to the British entry on a smaller scale.

Really? I got the impression the reactions to JSB were mostly positive and even enthusiastic in the beginning. Although the band obviously polarises as well. But yeah, many people are a bit disappointed with their NF song.

 

[Mrm]

Only DAWA out of these entries can make me really satisfied..they are so GREAT!

 

[Chorizo]

Really? I got the impression the reactions to JSB were mostly positive and even enthusiastic in the beginning. Although the band obviously polarises as well. But yeah, many people are a bit disappointed with their NF song.

Well, I expressed myself in an exaggerated manner, of course. I meant at first just about everyone seemed excited (comparable to the hype in the UK thread before the British act was revealed) and now most seem to have moved on to other favorites and JSB is somewhere in the middle of the ranking now for many or even close to the bottom. They didn't live up to the huge expectations and the hype. I didn't mean to say that they are hated now, of course. Nevertheless, some have described them as a joke entry comparable to the Trackshittaz. :shock:
I based my comparison on these circumstances but I also added "on a smaller scale".

I also expected more and I am disappointed that there is no harpsichord in Absolutio, for example. Furthermore, Absolutio seems repetitive in a way that I don't fully enjoy. It's not the Around the World kind of repetitive and there are other weaknesses. I think they have songs on their album that are much better than their Eurovision songs and I think they compromised their style because they were told they needed to be more mainstream and because they wanted a powerful start and ending to stand out among the competition. I really enjoy their older songs including songs that probably don't have any mainstream appeal but I also understand that not every style of music would work on the Eurovision stage. Three minutes among 26 other acts and the need to appeal to a mainstream audience watching from home is limiting in many ways.

Nevertheless, I still prefer them and I feel like I'm the only one here now.
I have been listening to their songs a lot. Well, it's possible I still like them because I like their other songs.

I suppose DAWA would be okay too. The Makemakes or Celina Ann have nice enough songs but nothing special. And I'm not a fan of the rest of the competition.

 

[Mlyn]

The Makemakes - I am Yours reminds me always to "The Scientist" from Coldplay.

This song is like strawberries with cream

 

[GRE]

strawberries with cream

Not bad at all !