France FRANCE 2020 - Tom Leeb - The Best in Me

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[MalagaToledo]

Lol I honestly thought this was one of the most trashy stagings I've ever seen, but everyone's taste is different

You are talking about belarus 2019 or what, because I'm confused.

 

[0scar]

You are talking about belarus 2019 or what, because I'm confused.

That one was trashy as well but that doesn't mean something like France 2019 isn't. The message they wanted to come across was fine, the way they portrayed that was too much, too heavy, too much in your face.. nope not my style and definitely not my definition of 'classy'.

 

[Antho]

That one was trashy as well but that doesn't mean something like France 2019 isn't. The message they wanted to come across was fine, the way they portrayed that was too much, too heavy, too much in your face.. nope not my style and definitely not my definition of 'classy'.

You can say whatever you want about the staging but you can't deny it was - visually - one of the best this year, and a great improvement coming from the French delegation. That's really encouraging for the years incoming.

 

[Ana Raquel]

the only thing i disliked about bilal's staging was the color palette

other than that, i love it. and i actually love the fact that it is too much in your face. we need it.

 

[Loindici]

The graphics of Bilal's staging were stunning. The thing that really bothers me, though, is the inclusion of the dancers.

 

[Antho]

This is so weird she would have done very well at Eurovision

 

[tuorem]

Freakydila needs to calm down a bit.

I doubt she can sing this live properly though: it's fast-paced as heck and it sounds like there are four different voices singing to begin with

With that being said, it's definitely out there and over-the-top: it wouldn't have gone unnoticed in Eurovision, that's for sure.

 

[Edweis]

I liked Bilal's staging's color palette. The words were indeed too much but I think we're on the right path. Maybe we'll finally nail it in 2020.

I was never a fan of Indila to begin with so her return does nothing to me. As for her new song, it's indeed over the top, it's scattered everywhere. However Antho is right in saying she could have done well in Eurovision.

 

[hawadharma]

This is so weird she would have done very well at Eurovision

I mean, girl, why'd you release this song just a month before the Eurovision season starts
This would've been France's ticket to win 2020 !!

So quirky yet so fresh

 

[esc87fan]

I liked Bilal's staging's color palette. The words were indeed too much but I think we're on the right path. Maybe we'll finally nail it in 2020.

I was never a fan of Indila to begin with so her return does nothing to me. As for her new song, it's indeed over the top, it's scattered everywhere. However Antho is right in saying she could have done well in Eurovision.

Except for one problem, Indila has said many times that she doesn't want to do Eurovision

 

[Citelis]

There are so many good singers in France.

 

[HayashiM]

I know it is not very probable, but I would absolutely love to see Zaz competing one day. She might get a good amount of hate in France, but she is very popular abroad and I can see her attracting some new audience to the contest. I also think the Eurovision spirit could be quite close to her own style, even if she might not have much to gain from the participation itself.

 

[shameless]

I know it is not very probable, but I would absolutely love to see Zaz competing one day. She might get a good amount of hate in France, but she is very popular abroad and I can see her attracting some new audience to the contest. I also think the Eurovision spirit could be quite close to her own style, even if she might not have much to gain from the participation itself.

I think that sounds like a typical story of a "once established artist destroying their momentum with a bad placement at ESC" of which we don't have that many but still dozens of even in recent decades. Even la reine Patricia Kaas was just prevented from a disaster by the jury vote.

 

[ESC94]

I think France is on the right way after lots of years in the ESC wilderness, I really liked their entries from 2016-2018, I´m very excited about what they´ll send to Rotterdam next year.

 

[Sean]

Have your say on France's last decade here;

https://escunited.com/eurovision-this-decade-france/

 

[FRFanESC]

Sandy Héribert unofficially confirmed that Destination Eurovision will be back next year. For those wondering, she was the co-host of DE2019 with Garou (main host), she was in th green-room but was also an "inside reporter" (do you understand ? ) for videos from the [MENTION=13007]eurovision[/MENTION]France accounts on social networks. She said :
"With France 2, we are talking about the continuation obviously, of my presence in the next season of Destination Eurovision but also during the Eurovision 2020 which will take place on May 12 and 14 (semifinals) and May 16 (the grand finale)", she explained before adding:" The direction of France 2 wants me to become the face of Eurovision in France"

If she could host the next season of DE instead of Garou, it'd be perfect for me.

 

[esc87fan]

If DE comes back, it will likely air here again on TV5 on a time delay as it has been the last 2 contests

 

[John1]

Utterly upset that FTV didn't decide to revert back to an internal selection process.

 

[FRFanESC]

Utterly upset that FTV didn't decide to revert back to an internal selection process.

A bit disappointed too. The silence since the final more than four months ago made me hope for a return of the internal selection but sadly no. But I want to keep the faith ( ), there are a lot of issues that can be resolved to lead us to a new top 5/10 :
- a single evening show with only 10 contestants.
- revise the voting system and give indirectly less power to the televote. For example, they could keep international juries the same but change televoting by just giving 120pts to the first, then 100pts to the second. So that, the 5th artist with international juries is very unlikely to win the whole thing.

Our head of delegation said two weeks ago that they are happy to receive songs from people that wanted to participate a year ago or two, but they didn't officially launch the submissions process, so it means that they are selecting songs internally for Destination Eurovision, which is a very good point to me. So if they don't open submissions to everyone for the next season of the show, it means that there'll be only artists already signed with records compagnies (=no beginners artists = experienced artists) or beginners artists releasing their first song, which is probably a Eurovision compatible song.

Anyway, I want to be confident but I'll wait for more details about how the show will work this time (if there are any changes, at least).

 

[ory26]

We have some news about Destination Eurovison (in french)

https://www.ozap.com/actu/alexandra-redde-amiel-ftv-avec-nos-nouveaux-divertissements-nous-allons-surprendre/584159

Interview with Alexandra Redde-Amiel, the new director of entertainment of France TV.
In short, DE will comeback next year, but with a new presentator, a new format and maybe a new name.

I can not wait for more news. No more Garou is already a big improvement for me, he was so bad.