Germany GERMANY 2015 - Ann Sophie – Black Smoke

[GermanBango]

There is an official video made...we saw a clip of it before her performance in the NF. It seems to be just her singing while walking down a street but better than nothing
Not sure why they are so slow to release it though.

yeah that's what I meant

 

[GermanBango]

Ann Sophie posted this on Facebook: "On my way back to Hamburg. Next week you'll see what I did in Cologne today"
Soo either they shot a new video or maybe the Eurovision-postcard?!

 

[Franco]

Ann Sophie posted this on Facebook: "On my way back to Hamburg. Next week you'll see what I did in Cologne today"
Soo either they shot a new video or maybe the Eurovision-postcard?!

Since she says "next week", it's probably the former. I don't suppose we are going to see the postcard so soon.
BTW, great picture! I didn't realize before how beautiful her eyes are.

 

[Chorizo]

Why would she get a middle seat?

 

[Leydan]

Why would she get a middle seat?

When I went abroad last I never got to pick my seat, they did it for me. If she got a last minute ticket then it might have been the only seats available.

 

[Chorizo]

When I went abroad last I never got to pick my seat, they did it for me. If she got a last minute ticket then it might have been the only seats available.

Poor Ann Sophie. What does that say about her status as a celebrity?

 

[Leydan]

Poor Ann Sophie. What does that say about her status as a celebrity?

She should have thrown down her "A-list celebrity ID" down on the desk and demand an upgrade to a private jet.

 

[Franco]

She should have thrown down her "A-list celebrity ID" down on the desk and demand an upgrade to a private jet.

Hopefully, she'll get that on the way back from Vienna. xcrossed

 

[Franco]

Some kind of game/introduction with Ann Sophie, before the clubkonzert.

 

[Krahl]

it's not the winning performance

Ahh lol Well i guess one can hope for a performance upgrade for the eurovision, seems to me in the past atleast Germany usually comes through with some improvements in the end

 

[GermanBango]

Tbh, I never experienced that a German Eurovision entry got as little national attention as Ann Sophie gets atm .... "Black Smoke" has entered the charts on #29 I feel very sorry for her - nobody deserves such a treatment! I hope she does well in may and then I'd like to see those stupid faces

 

[Sammy]

Tbh, I never experienced that a German Eurovision entry got as little national attention as Ann Sophie gets atm .... "Black Smoke" has entered the charts on #29 I feel very sorry for her - nobody deserves such a treatment! I hope she does well in may and then I'd like to see those stupid faces

Well, does Stefan Raab promote it?
That's the answer. Because musically spoken, it is as good as the songs by Max or Roman.

All the best for our neighbors

 

[Franco]

They probably keep the grudge against anything eurovision because of the way their votes were wasted in the NF.
Ann Sophie will win them over, eventually.

 

[GermanBango]

They probably keep the grudge against anything eurovision because of the way their votes were wasted in the NF.
Ann Sophie will win them over, eventually.

Actually, I read almost as much insults towards her as to Kümmert -.-
We Germans can be relatively bull-headed. If we once hate something, it's pretty hard to change our opinion

 

[Mlyn]

I think this could be a dark horse. It hasn't really grown on me yet, but it still could. And if she gives us some attitude, she could end up on the left side of the scoreboard.

 

[Staewi]

I'd really like to write something positive about Ann Sophie's participation, but I can't. Judging now, her performances at USFÖ were really weak (out of tempo, she is a little bit to theatralical etc but also the overall concept with the show being random black smokes on the screen and three fingers at the "three words" part), she shouldn't have been second after Kümmert. Black Smoke is a great song of course, but it got and will get presented wrongly.

Also she had an interview with Eurovision.de today:
- Ann Sophie does not rehearse her performance in Vienna now, but she has "some ideas"
- It will be a performance in the "German tradition" (everything focused on voice, not show)
- She wants to make the song more acoustic :|
-> If they have her standing on the stage with some random band and random black smoke in the background ... xjason

I want to believe in our entry and maybe it will end like 2009: No one has any expectations, but then they pull out something which is more or less ok. If they do, I think we should get a place in the top ten. If not ...

Oh, and some fancy ideas for bringing Black Smoke to the stage:

There is white (or red symbolizing love) smoke on the stage in the beginning. Ann Sophie begins to sing and comes out of the smoke to be seen, also the backing singers (her friends) become viewable. In this "Choir vs. Ann Sophie" after the second refrain part, the choir joins Ann Sophie and when Ann Sophie has her little acapella part, they begin to burn a voodoo doll of her ex partner that subsequently produces black smoke. The other smoke already began to change to black and in the end with choir and Ann Sophie stand close together in a block and sing the rest of the song. In the last verses every smoke disappears and maybe something very kitschy happens ... like the burning voodoo doll explodes and suddenly throws out big red hearts or so

 

[Franco]

- It will be a performance in the "German tradition" (everything focused on voice, not show)
- She wants to make the song more acoustic :|

Both seem great to me.

 

[realist]

I like it more and more

 

[Rusch]

I think this is the first year ever, in which the German audience has less faith in their participant than the rest of Europe.

 

[GermanBango]

I think this is the first year ever, in which the German audience has less faith in their participant than the rest of Europe.

No not really - it's the same over and over again, every year.