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Poland POLAND 2023 - Blanka - Solo

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Truskawka said:
i just have to laugh, tvp is probably already working on a new method how to rig the jury votes now that the ebu is going to watch their jury more closely after last year's mess. they'll never learn.
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Which country doesn’t rig their national selection? Sweden just staged 27 fillers against their already internally chosen act who got all the budget.
 
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But why would they push her? Is she mistress of some important person or something? Polish people you need to find out and tell us
 
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What an ironic move:

Take Polands greatest chance to win in the last 10 years, don't select it, wait a couple of years, change the singer, take away the coolness and rip off all the modern elements, smush some melodic elements from the original together, write lyrics about regrets for not being chosen et voilà: Solo... and it gets chosen!

(but I can't help it - I like it! :ROFLMAO:)
 
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Truskawka said:
radio and tvp (letting her perform at nye when nobody knew her nor the song) have been payola'ing tf out of this song.
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Woo. Actually, not surprising though. I can tell she is heavily promoted from the looks of it.

And from what you have said earlier that she is likely rigged to win, I am not surprised if it's true though since TVP is pretty dodgy and I can tell her record label could have pumped in the the money for the televoting to secure this win.

LOL! But I really don't care, even though it is a generic pop girlie track, I still enjoy it very much despite her lack of ability to sing properly. To be fair, she could carry a tune if she is vocally trained with the help of a vocal coach. If Domi from Czechia 2022 can do it, I am sure Blanka can too. Hahaha.
 
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ekzuu said:
But why would they push her? Is she mistress of some important person or something? Polish people you need to find out and tell us
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It was already a (minor) hit - the official music video got more than 10 million views on YouTube (probably her record label wants to push her...) and she performed at different TV shows (hosted by TVP - the Polish broadcaster). + she´s pretty...
Maybe it´s just TVP thinking that "such songs would perform well at Eurovision" - preferrably performed by acts associated with the broadcaster... that´s how we ended up facing Rafal´s "The Ride".
 
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I am quoting a comment that I found on reddit. It sums up what happened nicely.


Soo to point out everything. TVP did everything to send the person it wanted to. They not only changed rules 3 days before to eliminate 2nd round (thanks to that Ochman won year before), but they also gave 12 points to Blanka. Edyta Górniak was a Jury head, her son is related in some way to her, not to mention that Blanka's dances was related to other Jury. They've also 2 weeks ago set rule so in case of tie Juries vote sets winner. And best thing is that the voice was absolutely CRAPPED in every entry! EDIT: Forgot to mention that ofcs Blanka has backing of it's publisher Warner Music, and it was literally promoted everywhere ...


UGH. Everyone else was essentially chanceless when faced with such blatant cronyism. No wonder why Blanka struggled to look amazed let alone surprised by the victory.
 
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Iker said:
I am quoting a comment that I found on reddit. It sums up what happened nicely.


Soo to point out everything. TVP did everything to send the person it wanted to. They not only changed rules 3 days before to eliminate 2nd round (thanks to that Ochman won year before), but they also gave 12 points to Blanka. Edyta Górniak was a Jury head, her son is related in some way to her, not to mention that Blanka's dances was related to other Jury. They've also 2 weeks ago set rule so in case of tie Juries vote sets winner. And best thing is that the voice was absolutely CRAPPED in every entry! EDIT: Forgot to mention that ofcs Blanka has backing of it's publisher Warner Music, and it was literally promoted everywhere ...


UGH
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TVP should have selected her internally - that national final was shit anyway.
 
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Truskawka said:
i guess she was the most realistic selection to make sure something that's too gay-coded won't win.
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I thought that too. Maybe TVP and jury knew she was, maybe, the second in televote and decided to push her without putting Jann last
 
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Apparently I missed something, cause this is really good.
 
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I bims said:
I always said he was too queer to win. But I wonder why they even put him in this line up. There was no way he would represent Poland.
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it's really sad, especially that the televote and public was clearly behind him. sometimes small victories like that count but tvp couldn't allow this to happen, even if it's just for a "silly song contest".
 
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simonPL said:
I am afraid that juries will ruin the result but I hope I am wrong.
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Okay, I was not wrong. Such a mess!

After kinda week performance of Domink with "Be good" and after Jann's performance with "Gladiator" I was like - he's the only option even if I was not a huge supporter before. One man show, great performance, good vocals. Just wow.

The rest was only a background in that competition.

The announcement of the winner was, as always, a big mess. Even hosts had no idea what they are preseting at the moment, because on the screen we saw the final places (jury+televote) and they were talking like this was only televoting result. It looked like they changed the plan in the last moment just to not to show us the televoting, huh? ;)

Booing of jury members was a bright moment of that national final.

I want to see how they vote excatly per person.
And of course the whole results of televoting.

Last year was kinda more fair because there were no eurovison-scale points - just % (0-100 points per televoting and juries have 100 points to be given per contestant, so even if they wanted to send Daria, Ochman has much more % in televoting and he won).

Anway - we should not hate Blanka, even if this looks like it was staged for her...? I mean - the same was in 2016 when Internet wanted Margaret with Cool Me Down and Michał showed everyone that they were wrong about him. But let's face it - Blanka is not even poor version of last year's Chanel, she's more like 1/2 of Margaret's "Cool Me Down" with that song.
 
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