10+ years from now Netta will be remembered as: "Oh yeah, that fat woman who did chicken noises/chicken dance".
Just like Conchita will be remembered as: "Woman with a beard".
I mean, we remember them. As I remember Herreys with their funny dance but I couldn't give you the winner just before and after. So I remember their dance and that makes me remember the song. I didn't like Jamala so I didn't listen to the song a lot and I have to say that I remember Diggiloo DiggiLey better than 1944. The worst is being forgotten in today's life cause everything is happening so fast, so maybe you'll remember Toy for negative reasons, but you'll remember it and as people remember, it's still living.
Its not called Eurovision Song Festival, but Eurovision Song Contest ... which to me means contest of songs. And it does not surprise anyone in the world anymore that so much else goes into that than just singing and I accept it to some degree, but if everything else (stage, dancing, gimmicks etc.) becomes much more important than the song itself and the singing part, that`s the point I get annoyed. Why? Because I feel I am being fooled to like an entry that hides the poor/average quality of the song behind everything else. And I don`t like to be fooled.
Actually I don't feel the song is poor. Why ? cause I have some music knowledge and trust me or not, the song is composed in a tricky way that makes it interesting in a technical side of things. When everything is mixed you just hear the whole result, but I you pull apart stuff, it's quite busy and intricate which makes it richer for me. Amar Pelos Dois is very simple in its construction, that's very poor and not really interesting technically, but that doesn't mean the song is worse than Toy, it's just a different way of making stuff. What's The Pressure for Belgium 2016 is also quite poor but still enjoyable, different genre.
And last point, We already discussed that many times here, but you're not dumb, you know that Eurovision is a TV show, you're still not dumb and you know we're in 2018 and everything is visual. It's almost impossible to have a single without its music video today. Cause it comes together in 2018 (unless you're too poor to afford something else than a lyric video, but..still a video). It's been like that since the beginning of time, we see people in concert cause we need the visual AND the "real" sound. That can't be a "song contest" when Salvador wins with a VISUAL intimate staging, with lights in the audience, with precise camera shots that have been thoughts before and it couldn't be a song contest when a girl is dancing in front of a camera ? Since people can watch Eurovision it always have been a contest of a song + visual presentation, How France Gall could have won without her facial expressions and her so-trendy hairstyle of that era ? We all know here what Eurovision is all about. If you discovered it on Saturday, well... you knew it, you're not dumb.
