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Ireland IRELAND 2021 - Lesley Roy - Maps
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sorry but i think it was a really bad idea to do this staging (the live vocals were weak but thats another story): it's the first time u can connect to a live audience in over a year, and they decide to to a let her perform in a tiny setting with tiny paper cuts (which yes looked very sloppy and i did not get the story at all) instead of thriving in the energy of a crowd? sorry but just no
ESC94
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For me the whole performance looked a bit like a stage play at school, not very professional.
Juliette
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Something was missing. I have forgotten everything about the entry almost before it was over. 
CypriotGirl
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This was a cute song, it actually was somewhere between #8-#10 places in my ranking of SF1, but so out of place and somehow indifferent. NQ didn't come as a surprise.
I had a better impression after the rehearsals. The impact was lost after I saw the whole thing. Overall, I still like the song but I have to admit that it didn't work out well on stage. A non-qualification is, sadly, deserved.
94ayd
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I actually enjoyed the staging and expected her vocals to sound worse. Woulda preferred to on Saturday.
to on Saturday.
Franzilein
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She looked stressed and her vocals sounded pretty strained. Not sure why, maybe she was too concentrated on her moves. Could also explain the highly edited studio version however. Quite sad, because I love her as a person and composer and thought the song & staging were really heartwarming.
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I think she is quite a weak vocalist tbh... I have yet to see a live performance of her that would convince me..
A mess. That's what the staging was.
Too much focus on the looks and too little on the vocals. It's like the delegation tried to divert the attention from the vocals...by making Lesley walk and swing her arms around and constantly move, which made her vocals even worse.
Stagings like these don't work too well. Heroes was good, but it knew the balance between stage show/performance. Maps falls into the Hear Them Calling territory...
The props were confusing and distracting (what even was on the flipping papers!?!?) and the "escape" from the scenery was handled terribly. It felt like a "Are we supposed to see that?" instead of "Oh look she's jumping out of the box, how poetic".
A case of when the staging is simply too much for the song/artist. Pity, because Ireland showed great ambition.
Too much focus on the looks and too little on the vocals. It's like the delegation tried to divert the attention from the vocals...by making Lesley walk and swing her arms around and constantly move, which made her vocals even worse.
Stagings like these don't work too well. Heroes was good, but it knew the balance between stage show/performance. Maps falls into the Hear Them Calling territory...
The props were confusing and distracting (what even was on the flipping papers!?!?) and the "escape" from the scenery was handled terribly. It felt like a "Are we supposed to see that?" instead of "Oh look she's jumping out of the box, how poetic".
A case of when the staging is simply too much for the song/artist. Pity, because Ireland showed great ambition.
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The song was produced fine. A little too Western-Europe, but fine. You could sell it to a Disney film or some teen Netflix movie.
I don't get how they didn't just throw the props away and gave her a band after rehearsals. Lesley was never a technical good vocalist in her career, she needed a happy-go-lucky Zooey Deschanel type of dress in light pastel colour, colour the paper in a contrast, and slow the treadmill. (and don't show it, like wth)
Sad, because I actually liked the studio version. :-(
I don't get how they didn't just throw the props away and gave her a band after rehearsals. Lesley was never a technical good vocalist in her career, she needed a happy-go-lucky Zooey Deschanel type of dress in light pastel colour, colour the paper in a contrast, and slow the treadmill. (and don't show it, like wth)
Sad, because I actually liked the studio version. :-(
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I feel sad for Lesley but that staging was a mess and I completely disagree with the folks saying it was "original" and "elaborated", well I guess that was the attempt, but it looked clumsy and childish and it's really sad because the song will remain one of my favs from this year's edition and deserved a better treatment than it did.
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For me the combination between the staging concept and the song simply didn't work at all. Both nice efforts but why this dark staging for this rather uplifting, uptempo song? A gimmick doesn't work wonders in every case, it needs to suit the song!
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She's not great but she is not bad when she is not forced to move too much like what happened in her SF performance.
