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Poland POLAND 2023 - Blanka - Solo
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MopManMoss
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We really shouldnt complain about this NF it gave us this which I will always be thankful for
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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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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!
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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!
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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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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".
Probably the daughter of some executive of the broadcaster or something. She looks like she comes from money.
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It's kinda bad that I actually enjoy this more than Blanka. Literally no f***s given from Ahlena.
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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.
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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i guess she was the most realistic selection to make sure something that's too gay-coded won't win.
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TVP should have selected her internally - that national final was shit anyway.
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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
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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Omg, the Booty performance. I'm screaming. Girl knew she was chanceless.
Truskawka
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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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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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