ParadiseES
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This song wasone of my faves, but I knew it was going to flop. This place is too low, though...
GERMANY 2013 - Cascada - Glorious
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PeterLPZ
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18 points at the end are ridiculous. This was one of the best songs yesterday. There are so many singers which sang bad yesterday and get much more points. Cascada did a great job. I was really surprised that she got no points from the UK, from the scandinavian countries, from France, the Netherlands.... So thanks to Austria, Israel, Spain, Switzerland and Albania for giving points to Cascada.
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After a few hours of shock and disbelief, I have finally let it all sink in and now I've started to accept the fact that Cascada only came 21st with just 18 points. I have realized that Cascada's music isn't for Eurovision. They only participated because their label approached them since their fans have been asking for Cascada to appear on the Eurovision stage for a while now. And you know what? Cascada gave a great energetic performance. Yes, Emmelie may have won, but Germany was the highlight of the final... it was Cascada's personal concert! The top 10 absolutely don't mean squat. It's just certain performances like Germany's that will always be memorable. And despite the fact that they were in the bottom five, Cascada will always and forever be glorious! 
Terry
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Quite surprised this didn't do well, even the UK finished higher than Germany. I was expecting a top 10 finish at least.
GWTW1939
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There was such a major contrast really when you think about it. Pretty much every other contestant was performing like they had weights on their shoulders, they wanted to win and they were trying to appeal to voters. I never got that feeling from Cascada, yeah there may have been nerves and she started singing too early but Natalie really looked like she was doing nothing having a blast. Everyone else was like "vote for me, vote for me" but Cascada was more like "lets paaaaaaaarty!!!!" I just didn't get the same desperation from them and maybe in a contest setting it backfired but in a performance setting it was a success.
After all the shock and disappointment I guess I feel easier about it now cause really Cascada never really gave you the impression that it was going to be devastating if things went bad. So I'm just glad we got a fun song and performance out of it.
After all the shock and disappointment I guess I feel easier about it now cause really Cascada never really gave you the impression that it was going to be devastating if things went bad. So I'm just glad we got a fun song and performance out of it.
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Well said, buddy!
ESCfan
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I can't believe the final place...No offense to other songs,but this must be at least in the top-ten.
Things I didn't like last night,the changes in the beginning of the song, and I think she must had a better choreography, it seems that she was stuck, this song needed more powerful choreography...
The only thing I know is that I hear this song every day,pushing the replay button on youtube at least 10 times per day
She was glorious!The most underrated song this year (with the french one too)
Things I didn't like last night,the changes in the beginning of the song, and I think she must had a better choreography, it seems that she was stuck, this song needed more powerful choreography...
The only thing I know is that I hear this song every day,pushing the replay button on youtube at least 10 times per day
She was glorious!The most underrated song this year (with the french one too)
LakZaNokte
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i gave this song 1 pt after 1st listening and i never changed my mind.
this is waaay to much of a copycat do have a better result
(u can rolleyes as much as u want but it's true - the song is literally an echo of the winner last year)
it was obvious it will flop cause u know the rule:
NEVER send the exact same style as current winners'
with all that said, i'm sad germany sent this cause in last decade u had some excellent (and definitely more original :roll stuff and u r one of my fav countries in this esc century (+best winner in same period)
next year i'm expecting something better
this is waaay to much of a copycat do have a better result
(u can rolleyes as much as u want but it's true - the song is literally an echo of the winner last year)it was obvious it will flop cause u know the rule:
NEVER send the exact same style as current winners'
with all that said, i'm sad germany sent this cause in last decade u had some excellent (and definitely more original :roll
stuff and u r one of my fav countries in this esc century (+best winner in same period) next year i'm expecting something better
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i gave this song 1 pt after 1st listening and i never changed my mind.
this is waaay to much of a copycat do have a better result
it was obvious it will flop cause u know the rule:
NEVER send the exact same style as current winners'
with all that said, i'm sad germany sent this cause in last decade u had some excellent (and definitely more original :roll
next year i'm expecting something better
I'm sick to death of the accusations against Cascada. Are people forgetting that they've been producing dance music for almost a decade? If people haven't noticed, "Euphoria" was actually inspired by one of Cascada's songs. And last year, it was accused for plagiarising David Guetta and Rihanna. There are no similarities between "Glorious" and "Euphoria" whatsoever, except for both being dance songs. Yes, both of the main titles are stretched when sung, but aren't they all? Are people forgetting the winning song "Molitva" from 2007? The main singer stretched the main title of the song when she sung. We might as well begin accusing previous songs that sounded similar.
theditz83
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And just letting everyone know, Cascada didn't make a mistake by singing ahead of the song... that's how the version at Echo was performed! So she wasn't off key
No, she definitely did mate. She was way ahead of the backing track in the first half of the chorus before the beat dropped again. I don't know whether it was sound issues or just too much nervous energy that did it. Such a shame - she recovered admirably though as I knew she would, but a lot of casual viewers had probably been put off by then.
Does anyone know why they used the terrible Echo Awards edit instead of the supposed ESC edit from the official CD?
LakZaNokte
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all this is completely irrelevant in esc.
it won't be so soon when some invents completely new music style in esc, cause let's face it, music industry nowdays has hit the wall in that sense - it's all just more or less recycling.
anyways, all that matters in esc is who made it first with more defined styles (so ballads and regular pop r excluded):
-sweden brought this electro/dance/whatever thing in high production and won - everything after that is just a copy. yes, euphoria isn't the first song of it's kind in the world but if u send the EXACT same thing next year, u will be a copycat and u will flop
-finland didn't invent monster rock with lordi either but if some1 sends that next year (yes, even 8 yrs later), what would u say, honestly? and what would u have said if some1 sent something like that in 2007? honestly
theditz83
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I kind of get your point of view Lak (despite the flaws in the argument). The problem that I have is that this is supposed to be a song contest. Therefore, if you're going to even attempt to justify a clain of plagiarism, you will need to ensure that you are approaching it from a completely informed and technical stance - not just a "hey, this has a similar beat and synth to last year's winner, so it's clearly a copy".
Accusations like this do nothing but maliciously damage a song's reputation, and especially when they are unfounded you have essentially skewed the viewing audiences opinion before hearing a note, putting the song at an unfair disadvantage. If I had the desire, I'm pretty sure I could've searched far and wide to find a song from the past that was a carbon copy of Only Teardrops or any other song in the contest. Please think twice and get all of your facts right before joining in with the hate campaign in the future.
Accusations like this do nothing but maliciously damage a song's reputation, and especially when they are unfounded you have essentially skewed the viewing audiences opinion before hearing a note, putting the song at an unfair disadvantage. If I had the desire, I'm pretty sure I could've searched far and wide to find a song from the past that was a carbon copy of Only Teardrops or any other song in the contest. Please think twice and get all of your facts right before joining in with the hate campaign in the future.
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Well said!
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Not a suprise result for someone made USA advertising in EUROvision.
By the way song grew up me after the show. Not a LENA but it was nice.
alca
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I knew this would end like this since the 1st rehearsal... The butchered verses and that staging were bad. They could have done miracles in the staging with such a song but they decided to go all NF. Wrong move.
LakZaNokte
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so, it's the terms that bother u, otherwise u know i'm right?
also, once again, i am not talking about copiing in general, i'm talking about esc.
ONLY ESC, and what i consider to be copiing in that sense.
if u sent monster rock in 2007, it would be a copy. again, IN ESC.
same here
theditz83
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so, it's the terms that bother u, otherwise u know i'm right?
also, once again, i am not talking about copiing in general, i'm talking about esc.
ONLY ESC, and what i consider to be copiing in that sense.
if u sent monster rock in 2007, it would be a copy. again, IN ESC.
same here
No, because what you are now essentially saying is that no country can send a song from the same genre if it has appeared the year before. You are talking in generalisations, but the result is very specifically negative to the song involved. As a fan of music, lazy arguments like that make me despair. xdoh
LakZaNokte
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u can send it but don't be surprised if it fails
especially when it comes to those not-so-big styles. i mean it was clear as day that this year another electro/dance won't do anything, we had that last year
(hint: germany and ireland)look, i'm not making the rules, i'm just saying how it is, based on winners and trends in last 15 yrs or so.
tbh, i really don't understand what's the problem here, i thought this was like common knowledge for any1 who pays any attention to esc
btw, stop reading my posts like a fan of this song, try to be objective
So sorry Germany! My heart breaks, fantastic performance from Cascada, couldnt have done any more!!!
Indeed. Whilst it was not among my top favourites, she has done a great job of it yesterday and I didn't find it particularly off-key, badly-staged or badly-performed to deserve such a low finish! I don't know