[MENTION=10206]lacrymea[/MENTION], [MENTION=6762]DanielLuis[/MENTION]: Wiwiblog's jury review of Portugal has finally arrived:
http://wiwibloggs.com/2017/04/22/wiwi-jury-portugal-salvador-sobral-amar-pelos-dois/180143/
Keeping in mind that it is an
informal jury, I still am very happy to see the praise Amar Pelos Dois is receiving. It is almost like an aphrodisiac to see and read the positivity that surrounds what you like, especially what you usually like is so different from the mainstream trends of things.
When I listened to a
radio podcast that played each song and gave commentary of each song in the first half of semi-final 1, it made me think. (Here is the Link to the podcast from Joy 94.9FM.
http://media.rawvoice.com/joy_archi...ds/sites/73/2017/04/2017-04-15-JOYESC-128.mp3 .
Go to the near very end).
As an audience member who is listening to a radio podcast dedicated to Eurovision for the first time, I imagined what it would be like for a typical listener who is listening to the song for the first time.
Each song is announced with some pre-hints from the previous song, then the song begins to play as they announce the song. And, unfortunately for Amar Pelos Dois, being exposed like that, the song really is disadvantaged by the radio bops beforehand and the announcer's voice.
Having it played on the radio podcast with hosts that e
bit the Australian cultural schema of informality, reinforces a reconceptualisation of the cultural concept of 'purpose' as is applied in Eurovision. Instead of listening to the songs with the schema of picking out an identifiable quality about the country the song is representing, it is reconceptualised into showing modern tracks that are radio-friendly that so happens to be from a different country, but supports the increasing globalisation, in the form of domination of American English, technology, power and popular culture. It is almost as if the concepts of 'globalisation' and 'success' have become intertwined in the song contest as well. In th case of this Australian radio show, it isn't perceived to fit in with being informal and the perceived entertainment of Eurovision.
Lined up in a row, after barely digesting from the more modern entries, without the visual break or mood break, if there isn't some silence dividing the song to let the adrenaline rush calm down, people won't get the song, and why would a song like this be on a radio channel, shucked between modern entries. I guess you can call it conditioning by the radio.
In total:
I began to understand where the low-rates are coming from. The environment of exposure is critical. I'm curious to hear from some of the other forum members here who are not so enthusiastic about where and how they first heard this song. Unfortunately, I still don't know many people here, and knowing that people don't tend to visit the threads that they don't like, i'm not sure if I'll ever find out. :
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EDIT: found someone ^^ [MENTION=15228]LoveStormGuy[/MENTION]
