Czech Republic CZECH REPUBLIC 2015 - Marta Jandová & Václav Noid Bárta - Hope Never Dies

[Ritararita]

CT needs to try hard and promote the contest in several consecutive years. Even if Marta and Vaclav manage to qualify (which I believe will happen), it still won't mean anything as it seems noone will be aware of that. I can't figure out how come Czech Republic is such a black hole for Eurovision. Even Slovakia which is considered to be in the same bandwagon, had way better atitude to the contest - they had both successful national finals and decent ratings. Let's not talk about the other currently inactive broadcasters - all managed to do something positive for Eurovision in terms of songs, ratings, general popularity. That's why I'm amazed by the fact that there is even a small bunch of Eurovision die-hard fans in Czech Republic. Full respect!

Thank you! But for Slovakia... well, I don´t know. Not long ago, I noticed that on YouTube was the whole 2014 Eurovision Final show, commented by quite well-known Slovakian radio hosts. Since I understand their language, I was curious about it and watched it, but... They were so incredibly disrespectful and clearly still full of bitterness from their unsuccessful participations, that the reserved/ironic approach typical for Czech media is actually nothing in comparison. One of their first sentences was "Welcome to Eurovision, the Europe's largest festival of pyrotechnics." Then they had some technical difficulties with broadcasting the original sound and their comments at the same time, which led to their decision to completely turn the original sound off and mocking what the performers are singing/saying. Lots of their jokes were very offensive and often clearly homophobic (Slovaks are not known as the most gay-friendly nation) and I was really shocked that this was aired live.

 

[BGN]

Yes, but I meant what Slovak official broadcaster (STV, RTVS) did in the past. There might be many opinions in the society, but broadcaster's atitude matters the most. My impression was that Slovak broadcaster managed to handle Eurovision in a more professional way when it comes to both promoting, selections and choosen songs. I don't know if I'm right, but CT lack of promotion is a big concern since their first participation in 2007. I don't know how they expect (or maybe they don't) good ratings and good feedback...

 

[Ritararita]

Yes, but I meant what Slovak official broadcaster (STV, RTVS) did in the past. There might be many opinions in the society, but broadcaster's atitude matters the most. My impression was that Slovak broadcaster managed to handle Eurovision in a more professional way when it comes to both promoting, selections and choosen songs. I don't know if I'm right, but CT lack of promotion is a big concern since their first participation in 2007. I don't know how they expect (or maybe they don't) good ratings and good feedback...

In that, you are probably right. I didn´t watch Slovak TV in the years of their participations, but with ČT it was exactly as you are saying. However, ČT´s management is now completely different than it was during 2007-2009 era, so let´s hope. I believe that their participation in ESC, Eurovision Young Dancers (hosted in Czech Republic, surprisingly) and possibly also Junior Eurovision (this one is only rumored at this point) in the same year could be a good sign of some change. Well, I WANT TO believe that, at least.

 

[BGN]

^ Hope never dies afterall. Who has tought that you will compete ever again, but now it's reality. Hopefully things will change

 

[tuorem]

Well we're only March 16th afterall, maybe ČT contemplates promoting the song (and the contest) in early May before the contest starts. I don't think it would be useful to tease Czechs so early anyway, it's better if the entry gets media coverage when the shows will start in a few weeks than now and nothing afterwards until the semis.

 

[lilka]

Anyway, here's an interview with Václav.

http://www.novinky.cz/kultura/36416...osongu-pokud-to-predem-vzdame-prohrajeme.html

The introduction to the interview:

Zpěváci Marta Jandová a Václav Noid Bárta představili tento týden písničku, se kterou budou reprezentovat Českou republiku na květnové soutěži Eurovision Song Contest. Jejich duet Hope Never Dies vybrala odborná porota. Finále šedesátého ročníku soutěže, která se uskuteční ve Vídni, odvysílá ČT 1 v přímém přenosu 23. května.

Is the website saying the ESC takes place in APRIL?

 

[nofuxCZ]

The introduction to the interview:

Zpěváci Marta Jandová a Václav Noid Bárta představili tento týden písničku, se kterou budou reprezentovat Českou republiku na květnové soutěži Eurovision Song Contest. Jejich duet Hope Never Dies vybrala odborná porota. Finále šedesátého ročníku soutěže, která se uskuteční ve Vídni, odvysílá ČT 1 v přímém přenosu 23. května.

Is the website saying the ESC takes place in APRIL?

No, that's a linguistic false friend between Polish and Czech květen = may. duben = april.

 

[Ritararita]

The introduction to the interview:

Zpěváci Marta Jandová a Václav Noid Bárta představili tento týden písničku, se kterou budou reprezentovat Českou republiku na květnové soutěži Eurovision Song Contest. Jejich duet Hope Never Dies vybrala odborná porota. Finále šedesátého ročníku soutěže, která se uskuteční ve Vídni, odvysílá ČT 1 v přímém přenosu 23. května.

Is the website saying the ESC takes place in APRIL?

No, "Květen" means May. In Czech, April is called "Duben".

 

[lilka]

Oh, ok. I was shocked so I'm glad you explained it to me.

 

[nofuxCZ]

Listopad is November in Czech, but October in Croatian. there are more examples of this I think. I guess the leaves fall earlier in Croatia

 

[GRE]

I will never understand the similarities and the diferences between the slavic languages !
Who are most similar?
I guess russian-belarussian, polish-ukranian, croatian-serbian.
And what about bulgarian?

 

[CatEye]

And what about bulgarian?

I'd say Macedonian.

I didn't know that october is listopad in Croatian.
In Slovene listopad is also november. October in vinotok - wine flow... drunks....

 

[Ritararita]

I will never understand the similarities and the diferences between the slavic languages !
Who are most similar?

It can be said that all Czechs and Slovaks are billingual, automatically understanding each other. The differences are more like differences between two regional dialects inside the same country. With Polish it´s way more tricky, because as was proved above, some words sound very similar or even the same, but their meaning is sometimes completely different.

And for the rest of Slavic languages it can be generally said that Czechs don´t understand them without learning. We only understand some specific words or phrases. For example, I was surprised when I understood the meaning of "Ceo svet je moj" refrain - in Czech it would be "Celý svět je můj", which sounds and looks very similar. But the rest of the lyrics is much more enigmatic for me and I wouldn´t dare to say that I actually understand Serbian language.

 

[BGN]

And what about bulgarian?

We understand almost all of what Macedonians say in their language. However, Bulgarian is kind of isolated from the other slavic languages. We understand pretty well Serbian speech (but less compared to Macedonian one), just a little bit of Russian, and Slovenian, Croatian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, etc are very far from our language. But if I have to wrap things up - we understand better the slavic languages that use cyrillic.

 

[ESCTurkeyFan6767]

Re: CZECH REPUBLIC 2015 - not taking part

Check out my inteview with Marta Jandova::

http://themusicofnow.com/marta-soon-we-will-rehears-our-live-performance/

 

[kvesc2014]

Czech Rep. can make the final with this, but they will have to be very good live. Good Luck 6pts.

 

[nofuxCZ]

 

[revallsay]

I'd say Macedonian.

I didn't know that october is listopad in Croatian.
In Slovene listopad is also november. October in vinotok - wine flow... drunks....

In Polish, 'Listopad' is November too

 

[tuorem]

Please, I want the same exact hairstyles and outfit for Eurovision, I love them like that

 

[Ritararita]

Please, I want the same exact hairstyles and outfit for Eurovision, I love them like that

Personally, I don´t like Václav´s scarf and Marta´s high heels. There´s a good chance that she will fall on the stage, taking Václav with her, and for the rest of their lives, people will be questioning their soberness. And I´m saying this because something really similar already happened few years ago during Marta´s live tv performance of a duet with Miro Šmajda (aka Max Jason Mai, the Slovakia representative for ESC 2012). She staggered on the stage as if she was drunk, and finally fell to the ground around 4:30: