Lithuania LITHUANIA 2015 - Vaidas & Monika - This Time
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pinkchiffon
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Here is the latest idiotic attempt to defend this show.
Andrius Mamontovas sukritikavo
First, Andrius Mamontovas (most well-known Lithuanian rock musician of the past 30 years, got Lithuania's best ESC result in 2006 by essentially messing around with a few of his friends for 3 minutes) insulted the selection:
Then one of the jury members, music journalist Ramūnas Zilnys, wrote this absolutely unbelievable reply:
Here is the latest idiotic attempt to defend this show.
Andrius Mamontovas sukritikavo
First, Andrius Mamontovas (most well-known Lithuanian rock musician of the past 30 years, got Lithuania's best ESC result in 2006 by essentially messing around with a few of his friends for 3 minutes) insulted the selection:
Then one of the jury members, music journalist Ramūnas Zilnys, wrote this absolutely unbelievable reply:
After defending LRT's decision to keep the format based on ratings success, he says "Under the previous system, three or four strong performers would show up with their songs, and 30 misunderstandings." (As opposed to the current system, in which a few strong performers might show up and be forced to perform songs they didn't choose and that mostly don't suit them. And with the length of the show, that's a whole lot more than 30 misunderstandings.) "The system isn't perfect, but it was actually inspired by famous LT performers' slight desire to participate in the selection, when the system was different" (You know, a few established artists did participate in previous selections, if that's what's important - the ones who bothered to work with songwriters and show up with their own songs, same as the unknowns did.) "It's easy to pose a rhetorical question - what if someone or another would go - but the truth is that in the past few years, before the system change, they just didn't go." (Is he actually telling Mamontovas that he couldn't have gotten into the selection before? I don't think I need to explain how ridiculous that is, but SEE PREVIOUS ANSWER. The format did not need to be made more welcoming toward performers who can't even be trusted with their own songs, just because they're famous or whatever. And he has something seriously backward, because prior to 2014, most of the songs in the selections were written by Lithuanian artists, whereas this year, it was reported that all but 10 of 168 songs submitted came from abroad. TEN. Did I mention that this guy is a music journalist?)
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Otherwise known as Mario Basanov
Why don't Lithuania scrap this selection and just get Ten Walls to compose a song?
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Yeah, this week's show (international hits) sounds insufferable so I'm not trying to watch it.
Yeah, this week's show (international hits) sounds insufferable so I'm not trying to watch it.
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Think of the positives, it's one week closer to the end of it
Think of the positives, it's one week closer to the end of it
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Think of the positives, it's one week closer to the end of it
ida
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Leon Somon wrote song with Monika Lingyte. Here is this song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZuuArQdG00
Leon Somon wrote song with Monika Lingyte. Here is this song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZuuArQdG00
ida
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all the songs you can listen here:
https://soundcloud.com/minrag
all the songs you can listen here:
https://soundcloud.com/minrag
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Probably will be This Time and probably Vaidas because it's his song. Could do well at ESC but it's not really my thing at all so I guess I'm done with Lithuania until the 2016 season, bye*
*just kidding, I could never finish talking sh** about this NF
Probably will be This Time and probably Vaidas because it's his song. Could do well at ESC but it's not really my thing at all so I guess I'm done with Lithuania until the 2016 season, bye*
*just kidding, I could never finish talking sh** about this NF
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I've just listened to the Lithuanian song and I must say the selection is better than last year, when we barely had something decent to pick. These are the ones that stood out after a first listening for me:
"This time". I think this is the best one. A happy pop song, but it's not extremely cheesy like two last Maltese entries or annoying like the Danish song last year. And a little bit more anthemic. This could do well in ESC.
"Take my love". I kinda like its darkness. I think this would go to nowhere, but I think it has some quality.
"Factory hearts". This is a different, well produced song. One of those alternative song that almost everyone can appreciate.
"Feel my love". A typical dance song. Don't know if it would really stand out in Eurovision, but it's more than ok. With a good staging I think it would be more lucky than Tanja last year with a kinda similar song. I think this is a bit more commercial and catchy though.
"Not perfect". This has a weak start, but the song keeps growing until a great ending. IMO this would need to be quite re-worked, but I see much potential.
So, I see Lithuania has the chance to overtake the mediocrity and get a better result than a med-low one. It's very possible with "This time" and "Not perfect" (if it's correctly re-worked). "Feel my love" would lead them to return to the final, but that's all, I don't see this song anywhere higher than the previous Lithuanian entries. The other songs I mentioned are more risky choices, so you never know.
I've just listened to the Lithuanian song and I must say the selection is better than last year, when we barely had something decent to pick. These are the ones that stood out after a first listening for me:
"This time". I think this is the best one. A happy pop song, but it's not extremely cheesy like two last Maltese entries or annoying like the Danish song last year. And a little bit more anthemic. This could do well in ESC.
"Take my love". I kinda like its darkness. I think this would go to nowhere, but I think it has some quality.
"Factory hearts". This is a different, well produced song. One of those alternative song that almost everyone can appreciate.
"Feel my love". A typical dance song. Don't know if it would really stand out in Eurovision, but it's more than ok. With a good staging I think it would be more lucky than Tanja last year with a kinda similar song. I think this is a bit more commercial and catchy though.
"Not perfect". This has a weak start, but the song keeps growing until a great ending. IMO this would need to be quite re-worked, but I see much potential.
So, I see Lithuania has the chance to overtake the mediocrity and get a better result than a med-low one. It's very possible with "This time" and "Not perfect" (if it's correctly re-worked). "Feel my love" would lead them to return to the final, but that's all, I don't see this song anywhere higher than the previous Lithuanian entries. The other songs I mentioned are more risky choices, so you never know.
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I like Skestu, but I doubt it was made to compete in the NF. Its atmosphere and structure don't sound like a Eurovision entry at all, and I wish that wasn't a thing, but realistically, I don't think it will do well.
I like Skestu, but I doubt it was made to compete in the NF. Its atmosphere and structure don't sound like a Eurovision entry at all, and I wish that wasn't a thing, but realistically, I don't think it will do well.