France FRANCE 2020 - Tom Leeb - The Best in Me

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[ory26]

May I just remind France that Barei also thought singing in english was the winning formula...

May i just remind you how many country where english is not an official language have won (or just made a top 5) since the languages rule have been removed

By the way this belgian website give some news about the song:

- song will be released in february
- and partialy song in french (i would have prefered all in english...)
- France 2 is planning a promotion campaign of the song all over Europe
- During the selection, they had one imperative: a song which can please audiences from Lisbon to Baku

Le chanteur Tom Leeb représentera la France à l'Eurovision

C’est officiel : le chanteur Tom Leeb, fils de l'humoriste Michel Leeb, représentera la France à l'Eurovision, a annoncé mardi France Télévisions qui a choisi cette année de faire appel à un comité interne pour choisir qui elle enverra au concours européen de chanson.

www.telepro.be

Wait and see

 

[HayashiM]

May i just remind you how many country where english is not an official language have won (or just made a top 5) since the languages rule have been removed

By the way this belgian website give some news about the song:

- song will be released in february
- and partialy song in french (i would have prefered all in english...)
- France 2 is planning a promotion campaign of the song all over Europe
- During the selection, they had one imperative: a song which can please audiences from Lisbon to Baku

Le chanteur Tom Leeb représentera la France à l'Eurovision

C’est officiel : le chanteur Tom Leeb, fils de l'humoriste Michel Leeb, représentera la France à l'Eurovision, a annoncé mardi France Télévisions qui a choisi cette année de faire appel à un comité interne pour choisir qui elle enverra au concours européen de chanson.

www.telepro.be

Wait and see

Whew, at least some relief for those of us who think English doesn't need to dominate absolutely everything. I would prefer having it entirely in French, of course, but I should take this as a good omen.

 

[Gera11]

France has a great indie/alternative music industry with songs entirely in French, but I won't be too disappointed if it's in English tbh. I enjoy music for what it is, regardless of the language. And French language isn't this underrated language in the world, like Albanian is for example.

"A song which can please audiences from Lisbon to Baku "...ok, that's not overly optimistic at all, France. How on earth can you achieve that

 

[Sammy]

May i just remind you how many country where english is not an official language have won (or just made a top 5) since the languages rule have been removed

Well I could now say that since the fall of the language rule there are far more countries where the official language is not english have been participating which increases the statistical possibility of them doing well, I could point out that during the language rule the most successful language in terms of winners was in fact french and not english, I could try to persuade you that those songs you mentioned could have won in their mother tongue as well (sth we'll never know) or I could list countless examples of (coughalbaniancogh) songs that had potential which was lost by translating them.
Or I could just say: I WANT MY BELOVED FRANCE TO SING AT LEAST PARTLY IN FRENCH PLEASE!!!!

(PS: I know this post is heavily biased by my devotion to language diversity in Eurovision and is not a serious attempt to discuss this matter profoundly )

 

[John1]

We knew it since friday.

Erm, no?

 

[FRFanESC]

Erm, no?

Actually yes : "Le titre trouvé, restait donc à dénicher un interprète en totale adéquation pour défendre au mieux les chances de la France. C'est fait !"

Eurovision : Tom Leeb, le fils de Michel, représentera la France

Selon nos informations, France Télévisions a choisi le fils de Michel Leeb pour participer au prochain concours Eurovision de la chanson.

www.leparisien.fr

 

[ESC94]

I don´t know why, but I´m kinda looking forward to this year, great that the song will be at least partially in French.

 

[Mrm]

I don´t know why, but I´m kinda looking forward to this year, great that the song will be at least partially in French.

It really sounds like smth Germany will opt..it sounds lke smth German televoting can vote for too..

 

[Citelis]

It would be better to be in French completely. I don't see any benefit from adding parts in English.

 

[FRFanESC]

It would be better to be in French completely. I don't see any benefit from adding parts in English.

Actually, the original song is probably in englsih so the question should rather be "I don't see any benefit from adding parts in French", lol.

 

[FRFanESC]

Actually, the original song is probably in englsih so the question should rather be "I don't see any benefit from adding parts in French", lol.

Does someone know how to cancel a post please ? I wanted to edit the previous one but instead I posted another one, lol.

 

[Citelis]

Actually, the original song is probably in englsih so the question should rather be "I don't see any benefit from adding parts in French".

Then yes if the song is in english then they should keep it in english. Does it that necessary to have parts in French?

 

[FRFanESC]

Then yes if the song is in english then they should keep it in english. Does it that necessary to have parts in French?

For french people and politics, it will. We already had a small controvercy with Amir's song. I can't even imagine if we had a song without almost lyrics in french. But we had the confirmation today that the song will have some french lyrics. The "problem" for now is that we don't know if the song was composed by french authors with french lyrics or by foreigners authors with english lyrics.

 

[Citelis]

For french people and politics, it will. We already had a small controvercy with Amir's song. I can't even imagine if we had a song without almost lyrics in french. But we had the confirmation today that the song will have some french lyrics. The "problem" for now is that we don't know if the song was composed by french authors with french lyrics or by foreigners authors with english lyrics.

Yeah i understand that people in a big country with so many talented people and so big music industry want to see people from their country to write and work on the song.

 

[Citelis]

However sending the song in english shouldn't be a problem. I mean if you send a song in english doesn't mean that you accept english as a better language.

 

[FRFanESC]

Yeah i understand that people in a big country with so many talented people and so big music industry want to see people from their country to write and work on the song.

Exactly. Among french eurofans, it must be around 50/50 from what I saw, some fans are not against a full english lyrics song, and another small part still want some lyrics in french (like me).

 

[FRFanESC]

However sending the song in english shouldn't be a problem. I mean if you send a song in english doesn't mean that you accept english as a better language.

Personally, one of the reasons why I don't want a song without any french lyrics is that in France, Eurovision isn't ultra popular (still wayyyy better than 5 years ago, though) and some media and haters still repeat that singing in english is necessary to win the contest (and we better stop participate, etc). And if we win this year (not very likely, not gonna lie) by singing with a full-english song, they'll have it right, and I really don't to see that. But it's the only reason, I can't see a 100% english song becoming a hit-chart in France but that's the goal. I don't see any french artist singing in english being popular currently, except Marina Kaye in 2015 and Hyphen Hyphen (a bit). There's also smaller reasons like radio quota, etcs.

 

[Citelis]

Personally, one of the reasons why I don't want a song without any french lyrics is that in France, Eurovision isn't ultra popular (still wayyyy better than 5 years ago, though) and some media and haters still repeat that singing in english is necessary to win the contest (and we better stop participate, etc). And if we win this year (not very likely, not gonna lie) by singing with a full-english song, they'll have it right, and I really don't to see that. But it's the only reason, I can't see a 100% english song becoming a hit-chart in France but that's the goal. I don't see any french artist singing in english being popular currently, except Marina Kaye in 2015 and Hyphen Hyphen (a bit). There's also smaller reasons like radio quota, etcs.

Well from 2009 to 2010 (that we have both juries and t/v) only 2 winners were not in english. So sending an entry that is not in english makes the victory very difficult but not impossible!

 

[Sammy]

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[Citelis]

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Well you right on that.

But then why more countries don't try to send in their own language? Doesn't english look somehow a safer choice?