Czech Republic CZECH REPUBLIC 2018 - Mikolas Josef - Lie to Me

[Alaska49]

This guy could get a lot of votes from gays who have a long experience with Czech porn sites. He perfectly embodies the Czech gay porn actor.

Ehm... it's just a hearsay xshifty

i am offended on behalf of every czech porn actor and fan that you would compare them to a guy that just looks like monsters inc's fungus after the scream extractor

 

[lavieenrose]

 

[Krishoes]

i am offended on behalf of every czech porn actor and fan that you would compare them to a guy that just looks like monsters inc's fungus after the scream extractor

 

[Sammy]

 

[lavieenrose]

I love this. The bridge sounds like a Linda Bengtzing song.

 

[Ritararita]

absolutely horrible trash. shame on you, czech rep. i was rooting for you we were all rooting for you.

Newton's Third Law, I guess. Well, I do not intend to take part in any verbal arm-wrestling and I will not dare persuade you to change your opinion. Obviously, you don't like the song and that's OK. However, I would appreciate if you could spare few seconds asking yourself whether is it really necessary to put your opinion in such words as "horrible trash" and "shame on you, Czech Republic" and how exactly does it make your life better. Thank you.

 

[RainyWoods]

I enjoy what this topic has become. I should visit more often.


I came here to upgrade my... I can't remember what to a 6. I've got such a weird relationship with this song. One day I dislike it, the next it's in my head. The one thing I do know is that i'd like to see dear Czechia doing very well with it.

 

[Ritararita]

This guy could get a lot of votes from gays who have a long experience with Czech porn sites. He perfectly embodies the Czech gay porn actor.

Ehm... it's just a hearsay xshifty

Unlike many pornstars, models and other victims of the omnipresent spirit of male objectification, "this guy" actually has a name, a personality, a song that he wrote, produced and filmed all by himself for his own money (earned mostly by busking and other music-related activities, certainly not porn) with hope that some people will enjoy it. Despite of what we can see few posts above, I am slightly more optimistical than you, believing that even gay Eurovision viewers and listeners are able to base their opinions on more factors than is just physical attractivity of the performer (or lack of it). At least I hope so.

 

[Krishoes]

Unlike many pornstars, models and other victims of the omnipresent spirit of male objectification, "this guy" actually has a name, a personality, a song that he wrote, produced and filmed all by himself for his own money (earned mostly by busking and other music-related activities, certainly not porn) with hope that some people will enjoy it. Despite of what we can see few posts above, I am slightly more optimistical than you, believing that even gay Eurovision viewers and listeners are able to base their opinions on more factors than is just physical attractivity of the performer (or lack of it). At least I hope so.

Guuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurl.

It was a joke, don't turn everything into a socio-political essay, we're not here for that.

I like your entry, musically!

 

[Sammy]

Guuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurl.

It was a joke, don't turn everything into a socio-political essay, we're not here for that.

I like your entry, musically!

May I just add another joke I've read recently on a german blog (about Sebastian from 1 out of 356): It's not "You only see well with your heart, the important things are invisible for your eyes", like the little Prince said, from now on it's "You only hear well with your eyes, the important things in a song, one cannot hear". 3

 

[RainyWoods]

Guuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurl.

It was a joke, don't turn everything into a socio-political essay, we're not here for that.

I like your entry, musically!

Hey, i'm here for that as well as the reveal that you're into Czech porn. I don't know what porn is though. I imagine it's some kind of crustacean. A relative perhaps of the prawn. I must seek out this special porn of which you speak.

 

[lavieenrose]

Hey, i'm here for that as well as the reveal that you're into Czech porn. I don't know what porn is though. I imagine it's some kind of crustacean. A relative perhaps of the prawn. I must seek out this special porn of which you speak.

That sounds a little farfetched. has rivers but is landlocked. It's probably a misprint for pom, a popular brand of pomegranate juice.

EDIT: whoa that image is huge

 

[JamieBrown]

Unlike many pornstars, models and other victims of the omnipresent spirit of male objectification, "this guy" actually has a name, a personality, a song that he wrote, produced and filmed all by himself for his own money (earned mostly by busking and other music-related activities, certainly not porn) with hope that some people will enjoy it. Despite of what we can see few posts above, I am slightly more optimistical than you, believing that even gay Eurovision viewers and listeners are able to base their opinions on more factors than is just physical attractivity of the performer (or lack of it). At least I hope so.

 

[Krishoes]

^ Toto Cutugno is sexier, tbh.

 

[JamieBrown]

^ Toto Cutugno is sexier, tbh.

And he won the juries with his sex appeal. Eff the song! It's pure garbage! Worst in Eurovision history!!1!11!!!

 

[EscGeek]

Hey, i'm here for that as well as the reveal that you're into Czech porn. I don't know what porn is though. I imagine it's some kind of crustacean. A relative perhaps of the prawn. I must seek out this special porn of which you speak.

There are three main types of porn and Mikolas Josef has mentioned them all in his beautiful song "Lie To Me"

The most commonly used type is straight porn described as:
"I know you 'bop-whop-a-lu bop' on his wood"

But some people find the so called gay porn much more appealing. In the song lyrics it says:
"Plenty motherfuc*ers wanna eat my spaghetti"

The third type is very interesting, because it is consumed by people who prefer type 1, and also lesbian female individuals. The line used to decribe it is:
"Set my camel in the mood"

 

[Ritararita]

Guuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurl.

It was a joke, don't turn everything into a socio-political essay, we're not here for that.

I like your entry, musically!

Don't worry, I am not personally offended or anything, I just "do my duty" and defend my favourite as always. Don't we all?

However, try to imagine that everytime someone mentions your country, the immediate association of most people would be, let's say, "Italy=flatulent comedies with Paolo Villaggio". Now, Mr. Villaggio was master of his domain and certainly was part of Italian culture, but as I can imagine, probably not the one most of Italians are particularly proud of. So, don't be surprised if I am not over-excited about this outworn Czech=porn association, especially when it's used in connection to someone about whom I think he has something more to offer than just "pretty face", as they say.

(Warning: a socio-political essay will follow, so don't read further if you are not here for that)

What concerns me more, is how seriously or light-heartedly will be the song performed and then received by the general Eurovision audience. When I first saw and heard Lie To Me, it felt like it's very obviously a tongue-in-cheek pastiche of Robin Thicke/Jason Derulo/Justin Timberlake type of machistic American pop and also (not so obviously for foreigners) a cute allusion to playful Czech pop songs and early music videos made in the 1960s. But then I started to worry when I discovered some surprisingly serious and sometimes almost offended reactions of people who believe that Lie To Me is meant to be some sort of serious "machistic declaration", so to say. I don't think they are right. The meaning of the song - as I understand it - is:

A guy broke-up with his girlfriend after finding out that she cheated on him. Now in the verses, he hides his frustration and disappointment under all those strong, expressive words, basically saying "go wherever you want, it's all your fault, I don't need you anyway" and pretending that he's not hurt at all, while in the refrain he admits that he actually misses her and wants her to come back. ("Lie To Me" in the sense "Yeah, say whatever you want, I don't believe you anymore" and at the same time "Lie to me in bed, we will try once more to work it out").

In the music video and the performance in Ukraine, this ambivalence is indicated by the contrast between the ridiculous wannabe "macho" vocabulary/dance attempts and his appearance as a clueless nerdy boy (Mikolas normally doesn't look like that). In his first performance at the Czech Blog Awards, he used a different strategy - For about 2 minutes, he performed it in "full macho" mode, then the lights went off, a single cone of light appeared on the edge of the stage and Mikolas stood there in "normal" mode, singing the last "Lie To Me" part stripped off of all the fancy arrangement, just with a guitar and his suddenly civil and vulnerable voice, directly facing the audience. Like "now, when I've finally got all the anger off my chest, I can quit the pose and we can talk again like civilized people".

I am starting to think that this version of staging could be possibly more effective at Eurovision stage, if done correctly (the Czech Blog Award Show had some unfortunate camera and sound department issues due to their choice of unusually shaped stage), as it could partly calm down the "offended ones" and help them to "get it". Even though I personally prefer the less melodramatic version.

Version for TL-DR people:

I think that under all that clowning, there's a honest personal song about mixed feelings during a breakup. I like it. 12 points.

 

[Alaska49]

Newton's Third Law, I guess. Well, I do not intend to take part in any verbal arm-wrestling and I will not dare persuade you to change your opinion. Obviously, you don't like the song and that's OK. However, I would appreciate if you could spare few seconds asking yourself whether is it really necessary to put your opinion in such words as "horrible trash" and "shame on you, Czech Republic" and how exactly does it make your life better. Thank you.

expressing my opinions in a carefree (even if not nice) way certainly does me a lot better than chastising a stranger on the internet for taking their post as if it was a personal insult. i obviously don't think less of czech republic as a country because their tv channel is sending a, well, absolutely horrible trash song, so it's at best tonedeaf to treat me as if i did. at least people who want to pick a fight are intelectually honest about it.

with that said i do feel sort of bad fot making fun of how he looks. the best look in the world wouldn't save this song. i apologize, mikolas, if you ever read this. which you won't. you have better things to do.

 

[Krishoes]

I love Eurovision We can write a bible about everything (and about nothing)

 

[Ritararita]

I love Eurovision We can write a bible about everything (and about nothing)

Theoretically we can, but you know...