LalehForWD
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Re: CZECH REPUBLIC 2013
2007 Kabát - Malá dáma
2008 Tereza Kerndlova - Have Some Fun
2009 Gipsy.cz - Aven Romale
Of these, only Malá dáma is a serious attempt and the studio version is rather good. The actual live performance was terrible though, middle aged men trying to look like young rockers, fake digging to playback - ultraboring. To be frank, one could say you tried only once and it failed due to bad performance. What did the Czech people expect? Portugal has graced this competition for 50 years without winning. I usually like their songs and everybody in Europe knows what a Fado is. The most successful, Ireland has won 7 times in 50 years. Winning ESC isn't the main component, it's the chance to show your country's cultural excellence to 100 million Europeans. Showing crap or not take the chance at all is utterly stupid.
I suggest: Send a team playing traditional Czech folk-music every year. I think people will love it and the Czech Republic will participate with elegance and honour .
Yeah, because good bands/singers don't want to take part in this If we look at Czech national finals in 2007 and 2008, none of the participants were big names in our music (except for Kabát and Čechomor). Most of the singers are unsuccessful former Idol contestants. The more famous and respected names who were approached by our broadcaster refused this offer of taking part in our NF.
Besides, mainstream music really sucks, all Czechs are aware of this Czech radios and major record labels are the ones to blame - they don't support newcomers so it's mostly all the same crappy singers who sing for decades here, not many new faces. There are so many petitions and protest-songs by some artists against this "czech radio mafia".
That's why so many independent labels were founded in recent years and the situation gets better a little bit.
And some genres are almost extinct in CZ music. There were some attempts at doing czech rnb, it ended with failure. And you would have a hard time finding some "pure pop" music here, not even talking about pop ballads.
Rock/harder forms of rock music, rap/hip-hop and folk-rock singer-songwriters are the most popular here. E.g. latest album of Tomáš Klus, released last year, has been at #1 for 23 weeks (It's still number one this week)
Sad thing is that ESC is still ignored and image of Eurovision is really bad (And that's not only because of our bad placings. Some people in this forum called us 'sore losers'. I don't think we can be sore losers if most people don't really care. And those who cared were really embarrassed after our 2008 and 2009 participations and they even called for withdrawal, 'to stop this embarrassment in front of the whole world'). It seems like it will never change.
2007 Kabát - Malá dáma
2008 Tereza Kerndlova - Have Some Fun
2009 Gipsy.cz - Aven Romale
Of these, only Malá dáma is a serious attempt and the studio version is rather good. The actual live performance was terrible though, middle aged men trying to look like young rockers, fake digging to playback - ultraboring. To be frank, one could say you tried only once and it failed due to bad performance. What did the Czech people expect? Portugal has graced this competition for 50 years without winning. I usually like their songs and everybody in Europe knows what a Fado is. The most successful, Ireland has won 7 times in 50 years. Winning ESC isn't the main component, it's the chance to show your country's cultural excellence to 100 million Europeans. Showing crap or not take the chance at all is utterly stupid.
I suggest: Send a team playing traditional Czech folk-music every year. I think people will love it and the Czech Republic will participate with elegance and honour .