Czech Republic CZECH REPUBLIC 2016 - Gabriela Gunčíková - I Stand

[Ritararita]

So, I watched "Dobré ráno". It was quite bizarre experience. It´s one of those screamy morning shows hosted by man and woman, pretending the studio is their living room, despite the presence of anchorman, weatherwoman and some eccentric woman painting flower pictures on water. They were constantly smiling, forcedly joking and from time to time even slightly moving their hips to the cheerful rhytm of George Michael´s "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go", which was surreally contrasting with two main topics of the day - skin cancer and 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. Luckilly, the third topic was Eurovision.

Gabriela Gunčíková tolerated all the hosts´ stupid questions and comments (like "Don´t worry, Slovakia will surely vote for you") with remarkable patience. Head of Czech Delegation Jan Bors confirmed the old truth that some guys should just shut up and be handsome, and the Head of Press guy seemed to be almost autistically shy man, which kind of explained a lot. Whenever the psychoduo went to giggle over cancer, Chernobyl or the water-painter, Gabriela answered viewers´ questions from online chat. So, despite all the struggle, we actually have some new informations:

- she will use backing vocalists in Stockholm.
- the staging will evoke the music video by use of colors (specifically "purple, pink, light blue and green, all warm and pleasant shades")
- she considered use of pseudonym Gabriela Gun to make foreign journalists´work easier, but eventually decided "to torture them little bit" instead.
- she plans to perform also some rock songs in Stockholm, if she will have the opportunity.
- she believes that placing between the Russian and Cypriot uptempo songs could actually be an advantage.

 

[nofuxCZ]

She didn't answer my question but I asked about the staging and back-up vocalists anyway, so all is good

 

[honzak11]

She also said in that morning show Dobre Rano that she wasn't going to sing in tonight's Eurovision party in Zlin 1.
So next live performance is really the first rehearsal on 3rd May, right?
Cannot wait at all!!!

 

[Ritararita]

She also said in that morning show Dobre Rano that she wasn't going to sing in tonight's Eurovision party in Zlin 1.
So next live performance is really the first rehearsal on 3rd May, right?
Cannot wait at all....

I think she meant she will not going to sing in "Dobré ráno". She previously said it´s too early for her. I would be extremely surprised if she wouldn´t sing at the Party.

 

[John1]

Gabriela seems to be such a nice person.
She puts all her heart on those little things which make us happier than before:
-answer to our questions, which isn't quite common in the ESC's sphere...
-taking the time to sing some rock songs in Stockholm, at ESC, despite the schedule being quite overloaded...

 

[honzak11]

I think she meant she will not going to sing in "Dobré ráno". She previously said it´s too early for her. I would be extremely surprised if she wouldn´t sing at the Party.

http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/ivysilani/10435049455-dobre-rano/416236100071041/obsah/467487-hoste-gabriela-guncikova-martin-broz-a-jan-bors-vyhodnoceni-souteze
Move to 3:00 min

 

[Ritararita]

http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/ivysilani/10435049455-dobre-rano/416236100071041/obsah/467487-hoste-gabriela-guncikova-martin-broz-a-jan-bors-vyhodnoceni-souteze
Move to 3:00 min

OMG, really. What´s the point of the party then? Gabriela will not sing, Amir will not come at all and TWiiNS are total no-names here, so I don´t think the guests of the party will be satisified with the program. Especially when all the (very poor) promo of the event was based on the information that it will be the one and only opportunity to hear Gabriela singing I Stand live in the Czech Republic. WTF?

 

[nofuxCZ]

OMG, really. What´s the point of the party then? Gabriela will not sing, Amir will not come at all and TWiiNS are total no-names here, so I don´t think the guests of the party will be satisified with the program. Especially when all the (very poor) promo of the event was based on the information that it will be the one and only opportunity to hear Gabriela singing I Stand live in the Czech Republic. WTF?

The organizers said on Facebook they talked to Gabriela and she will sing after all apparently - I guess we will have to wait and see

 

[Ritararita]

 

[tuorem]

- she considered use of pseudonym Gabriela Gun to make foreign journalists´work easier, but eventually decided "to torture them little bit" instead.

Fortunately, she kept her real last name: firstly, "Gun" would have sounded really cheap, and secondly, "Gunčíková" isn't that hard to pronounce - provided reporters care about pronouncing it properly (since they very often put very little effort in doing so).

 

[nikolay_BG]

Gabriela is such a sweet heart

 

[Ritararita]

"Gunčíková" isn't that hard to pronounce - provided reporters care about pronouncing it properly (since they very often put very little effort in doing so).

That´s true. I think this is actually a good indicator of the interviewer´s efforts to do some research before the interview... or lack of it. Most of the Eurovision participants are not new in the business and to find some youtube video where their names are pronounced seems to be the easiest thing to do. And yet, you can still hear them saying names like "Sandhja Vakik" or "Michael Spack" or "Mrda Dzhendouwah" last year.

On the other hand, I must admit that we - Czechs - do something similarly terrible with foreign names. If the person in question is female, we add "ová" to the end of her surname. Surnames ending with a vowel are usually spared from such treatment, since "Marilyn Monroeová" or "Agatha Christieová" look and sound too unnatural even to us. But sometimes, we resolve this delicate problem by removing the vowel and replacing it with the good old "ová" as well.

 

[nikolay_BG]

We (Bulgarians) also put -ova at the name of a person to indicate of her being female but we would never do that to a foreigner. It's kinda strange for me tbh.

 

[94ayd]

That´s true. I think this is actually a good indicator of the interviewer´s efforts to do some research before the interview... or lack of it. Most of the Eurovision participants are not new in the business and to find some youtube video where their names are pronounced seems to be the easiest thing to do. And yet, you can still hear them saying names like "Sandhja Vakik" or "Michael Spack" or "Mrda Dzhendouwah" last year.

On the other hand, I must admit that we - Czechs - do something similarly terrible with foreign names. If the person in question is female, we add "ová" to the end of her surname. Surnames ending with a vowel are usually spared from such treatment, since "Marilyn Monroeová" or "Agatha Christieová" look and sound too unnatural even to us. But sometimes, we resolve this delicate problem by removing the vowel and replacing it with the good old "ová" as well.

3 As if the new video wasn't funny enough.

 

[nofuxCZ]

That´s true. I think this is actually a good indicator of the interviewer´s efforts to do some research before the interview... or lack of it. Most of the Eurovision participants are not new in the business and to find some youtube video where their names are pronounced seems to be the easiest thing to do. And yet, you can still hear them saying names like "Sandhja Vakik" or "Michael Spack" or "Mrda Dzhendouwah" last year.

On the other hand, I must admit that we - Czechs - do something similarly terrible with foreign names. If the person in question is female, we add "ová" to the end of her surname. Surnames ending with a vowel are usually spared from such treatment, since "Marilyn Monroeová" or "Agatha Christieová" look and sound too unnatural even to us. But sometimes, we resolve this delicate problem by removing the vowel and replacing it with the good old "ová" as well.

It's most ridiculous for foreign females who already have slavic surname ending with -ova. Our language purists are so ridiculous that they add ANOTHER -ová at the end of the surname. So Maria Sharapova is actually Maria Sharapovová in Czech https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Šarapovová

 

[DanielLuis]

It's most ridiculous for foreign females who already have slavic surname ending with -ova. Our language purists are so ridiculous that they add ANOTHER -ová at the end of the surname. So Maria Sharapova is actually Maria Sharapovová in Czech https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Šarapovová

That is hilarious

 

[nofuxCZ]

Gabriela will have 4 backing vocalists who won't be visible on stage

 

[nikolay_BG]

It's most ridiculous for foreign females who already have slavic surname ending with -ova. Our language purists are so ridiculous that they add ANOTHER -ová at the end of the surname. So Maria Sharapova is actually Maria Sharapovová in Czech https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Šarapovová

I have a friend who is half Czech (mother CZ, father BG) and her surname is Christovová. It's hilarious.
I was in CZ this year on Erasmus and all my Bulgarian female colleagues were with "Czech surnames" ending, on -ovová. It was so funny.

Czech people butchered my surname all the time, but I didn't really care tbh. I am a Slav which means that eventually at some point you get used your surname to be mispronounced by other people.

 

[mariagold]

We (Bulgarians) also put -ova at the name of a person to indicate of her being female but we would never do that to a foreigner. It's kinda strange for me tbh.

But in Cekia and Slovakia put the word ova to the bulgarian and russian name born in Cekia and Slovakia

 

[nikolay_BG]

But in Cekia and Slovakia put the word ova to the bulgarian and russian name born in Cekia and Slovakia

Yes, Czechia and Slovakia are kinda different than Bulgaria and Russia in that department.

We (Bulgarians and Russians) put -ova or -eva when the name of the girls husband or father ends on -ov or -ev. It's the female version of the ending (here we talk only about Slavic people). For example in Czechia and Slovakia male surnames rarely end on -ov or -ev. They rarely have any ending suffix like in other Slavic countries like the Polish/Macedonian -ski/-ska or the Serbian/Croatian -ič (which is for both male and female surnames).

In Czechia and Slovakia male surnames don't have suffixes. The Czech president's surname is Zeman, not Zemanov while the current Russian representative's surname is Lazarev, not Lazar. If Sergey Lazarev was Czech, his name would be Sergey Lazar.

It's kinda hard for me to explain, I hope you understood.