Re: GERMANY 2019
Germany are way too earnest for their own good, they vote for 'classiness' in their NFs and wrongfully assume the rest of Europe shares the same values.
Wrong, last year VoxxClub got 10 points from the Televoting, because people wanted to "bring a party" to the ESC. Saying that Germans still don't know, how the ESC works isn't true. If you just don't have much to work with, you're choosing what you're expecting to work the best.
Internal selections for other countries have resulted in so many great songs over the past years (Rise like a phoenix, City Lights, Fuego, Sound of Silence, J'ai cherché, If Love was a Crime, LoveWave, etc)
They
can work, but it's not much of a sure thing, as well. Looking at The Netherlands, our neighbors weren't that happy about sending country songs year after year. I'm looking at Austria 2017, which was rather disliked by the public or Belgium 2018 which was a
beautiful mess...
German Public selections have resulted in three consequetive bottom 2 spots in the past four years.
Sorry, but those spots weren't the voters fault. After the shows, a lot of people were protesting/hating on those awful stages and what our delegation thought when putting them together. Looking back, those last places were a good thing. Schreiber and the the rest of our delegation learnt a lesson and now we're getting a NF with better stagings than some of our entries....
Last, but not least, I'm expecting nothing more than Lilly or Aly to win this NF (and I have been feeling this way, since I learnt about them). If the Fangirls go crazy and send 12 Points to Linus. We still have 2 more Juries who will choose the right person. And I'm very confident, we're going to send the right lady!
As soon as someone else wins, you're free to criticize our NF, because than I'm done with the (German) ESC anyway
