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Adi025
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I hope my country will try something different than ballads even after the flop of "Fulenn"
Why not a song like this ? It's a risk but it's so fun with a lot of potential with the live performance
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Why not a song like this ? It's a risk but it's so fun with a lot of potential with the live performance
Téo Lavabo ⢠La danse de la brioche (Clip Officiel)
Retrouvez Téo Lavabo sur ses réseaux sociaux officiels : https://linktr.ee/teolavaboContact/Booking : teolavabo@gmail.com AG GROUP, en licence chez PolydorLa...
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SpiritofKeiino
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Great result for Slimane. Hopefully another well known french name is encouraged by this to participate.
Flamenkax
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On a personal side : oh god, please no, there are so many much more interesting things here in France (but maybe they are too niche, i get it)...
Personal bias aside : she would be still a good representative, and she's very big (even tho her only real hit was her first one 20 years ago, come on frenchies, change my mind), last year i was like "no way" but now with how it turned well with Slimane, it wouldn't be totally impossible... ?
From what we heard, they still don't know if they're going internal or NF, so they are still opened to all kind of things. I know Anne Sila applied two years ago. I barely know her but from what i know she's professional and a really good singer, that's a good start. Anyway what matters is the song. (that's where the plot thickens : french variety music is particularly bland, beige and badly produced, so...)
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Two years ago France had an incredible Pauline Chagne with her harp. A pity she finished second in the NF. She would have been in the top 3, I am sure.
Otherwise, Anne Sila. That would be a pure voice mastery.
Or the young Alphonse from the new season of the Voice. It would be something along Barbara Pravi's lines, so it would work perfectly for ESC.
Otherwise, Anne Sila. That would be a pure voice mastery.
Or the young Alphonse from the new season of the Voice. It would be something along Barbara Pravi's lines, so it would work perfectly for ESC.
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I'd like Lou Doillon, but she'd never agree to do it.
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I know she's rumored every year and that it's a dream for so many people but Indila is rumored to prepare an album coming later this year. It's been years she didn't prepared an album. She would be such a perfect entrant for us, especially following Slimane. She said few years ago she was not interested but maybe it changed.
If it's not Indila, Santa would be great, alone as a single artist or with Hyphen Hyphen, the band. We can also try with Zaho de Sagazan. She's the new prodigy of the french music industry, won already awards at her young age. Some of her songs are quite "elitist" and "experimental" so it wouldn't work at Eurovision but a song like "La Symphonie des Eclairs" would have competed for the win this year. If she has the right song to enter Eurovision, she could be the one bringing the trophy home.
But i don't want us to be stuck on ballads only. The success of french ballads mainly rely mostly on the charisma and live interpretation of the song. You need a special artist to do well with french ballads and standout from a strong ESC line-up. 2024 was a very strong year and Slimane managed to do it thanks to his experience but it won't happen everytime if you don't pick the right artist. Also this wont help Eurovision to grow in France. The contest already has a negative image enough here.
I think Santa and Zaho de Sagazan are on the list of FTV but there are many singers that would do very well at the contest. They are special artists. I don't want Pierre Garnier for example. He's talented but it's too early for him. We need to take some risks a bit but a calculated risk. This is what i believe we miss now in order to win. Zaho de Sagazan would be a risk but a worth one if the song is appealing and not too experimental.
If it's not Indila, Santa would be great, alone as a single artist or with Hyphen Hyphen, the band. We can also try with Zaho de Sagazan. She's the new prodigy of the french music industry, won already awards at her young age. Some of her songs are quite "elitist" and "experimental" so it wouldn't work at Eurovision but a song like "La Symphonie des Eclairs" would have competed for the win this year. If she has the right song to enter Eurovision, she could be the one bringing the trophy home.
But i don't want us to be stuck on ballads only. The success of french ballads mainly rely mostly on the charisma and live interpretation of the song. You need a special artist to do well with french ballads and standout from a strong ESC line-up. 2024 was a very strong year and Slimane managed to do it thanks to his experience but it won't happen everytime if you don't pick the right artist. Also this wont help Eurovision to grow in France. The contest already has a negative image enough here.
I think Santa and Zaho de Sagazan are on the list of FTV but there are many singers that would do very well at the contest. They are special artists. I don't want Pierre Garnier for example. He's talented but it's too early for him. We need to take some risks a bit but a calculated risk. This is what i believe we miss now in order to win. Zaho de Sagazan would be a risk but a worth one if the song is appealing and not too experimental.
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Flamenkax
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Unpopular opinion : never been on this Indila hype train, never will, and never understood why she's been so hyped even now. I mean, her album was released, something like what, 10 years ago ? I'd say it's time to move on. Her music was not that good at that time and i'd even say it aged poorly tbh.
I'm totally getting into this Zaho de Sagazan train tho. Her album is really something fresh into this french music industry and i'd love to have a track close to her vibes. But she's still an upcoming singer even if she's the new sensation. But for the upcoming years, i'm totally on board.
Nah, if i'd have a big hitter to pick right now it would be Juliette Armanet. The best artist of this whole neo-disco wave here in my opinion and one of the really few ones listenable in french mainstream nowadays. A song like "Le dernier jour du disco" would erase the concurrence.
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Dear France, you can send another stereotypical French ballad and I'll buy it and place it immediately in my top 5. But okay, it would be nice to try something different.
For the love of god no more seasick camera angles
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I think Juliette Armanet is too much "variété française". I mean it's excellent for french standards but i don't think a casual audience would love it as much as we do. We tried 1 decade ago and it didn't worked well. I don't want us to go back on those type of songs.
I mentionned Indila because i think her voice, the style she has, very parisian could fit with people stereotypes about France. Give her a strong uptempo song like she was used to do more recently and the whole Europe will dance. A song like "Ainsi Bas La Vida" would work so well at Eurovision with the right staging. She's also very popular outside France.
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Would love for us to send one of those "unique" entries that make eurovision the contest it is. Something fun that does not take itself too seriously. However, the balance needs to be found so the act has enough charisma. Not kidding myself though, highly unlikely it will go that direction.I hope my country will try something different than ballads even after the flop of "Fulenn"
Why not a song like this ? It's a risk but it's so fun with a lot of potential with the live performance
Téo Lavabo ⢠La danse de la brioche (Clip Officiel)
Retrouvez Téo Lavabo sur ses réseaux sociaux officiels : https://linktr.ee/teolavaboContact/Booking : teolavabo@gmail.com AG GROUP, en licence chez PolydorLa...
I think one of the major reasons Fulenn flopped was not the genre. The live performance was just subpar. And the song itself (even if it had been performed as well as the recorded version) was not that solid.
DirtyFalcon
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I hope my country will try something different than ballads even after the flop of "Fulenn"
Why not a song like this ? It's a risk but it's so fun with a lot of potential with the live performance
Téo Lavabo ⢠La danse de la brioche (Clip Officiel)
Retrouvez Téo Lavabo sur ses réseaux sociaux officiels : https://linktr.ee/teolavaboContact/Booking : teolavabo@gmail.com AG GROUP, en licence chez PolydorLa...
Teo Lavabo is literally the french Jendrik. It seems too risky. We can send something fun, without being something feeling "joke". I personnally love this song from Teo Lavabo. It's excellent but this would be taken as a joke entry i think.
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Celka
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You're right the chance is high it would end up being like Jendrik. It would really depend on the staging. But I have a hard time seeing any of the Téo Lavabo songs as anything but a joke. While it is possible to bring a good performance with a ridiculous song, Téo's musical repertoire lands in the beauf area. I have a hard time seeing any good staging stemming from that.
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Santa would be such a good choice, she has that powerful voice (like La Zarra) that can give emotions (like La Zarra when she sings ballads, and Slimane). But she needs the right song (her album is too much "variété française", apparently). Either solo but with the right ballad, or with Hyphen Hyphen on a pop banger like "Like boys".
She already has some affinities with France 2, she won the "Victoire de la muisque" in 2016 and they were also on "Basique le concert" a few months ago. She is also very popular thanks to her huge hit "Popcorn salé". I think she could definitely be a good choice, and I think France 2 is definitely thinking about her for next year if they're going internal again.
She already has some affinities with France 2, she won the "Victoire de la muisque" in 2016 and they were also on "Basique le concert" a few months ago. She is also very popular thanks to her huge hit "Popcorn salé". I think she could definitely be a good choice, and I think France 2 is definitely thinking about her for next year if they're going internal again.
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Seregil Korit
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Now that we know France can more or less easily get a great result sending a charismatic performer with a ballad in French, I really wish they would risk it and send something more out there. Hell, even French rap would be cool to see. They can always send a ballad again the next year if it doesn't work out. 
I learned recently that she was Hyphen Hyphen's singer and it was quite a shock to me as their registers are vastly different. It's promising because she has bigger opportunities to produce a decent song.
I am more into HH's style than her solo album, so if she is selected for ESC one day I hope she would go for that route, though she would be a good choice either way. She has experience and writes her own songs.