Spain SPAIN 2023 - Blanca Paloma - Eaea

[ESC United Mod Team]

 

[AndroZeus]

If you don't know spanish, how would you understand Eaea? What is it about? What in the performance gives clear clues what's going on? Blanca is good at projecting confidence and power. Is it about that? Not sure. Am I supposed to feel angry? Empowered? I don't know. It leaves me wondering what all that was really about and when I'm watching the show I won't open up google to check, cause there's another song already coming up.

Compare that to songs like "De Diepte" or "Amar pelos dois" or "Cha Cha Cha". I don't speak dutch or portuguese or finnish. But I immediately understood what those songs were about and the emotions I'm supposed to feel and I feel it. That's what it means to be accessible. I know what's going on just by listening. No further interpretation or explanation needed.

And I don't dislike songs that aren't immediately accessible, they can still be great songs and a cool experience. Eaea just hasn't been that for me and we will have to wait and see if that's not a more common sentiment.

Do you think the average viewer got that In corpore sano was about artists dying because they can't get health insurance? Do you think the average viewer greatly connected with Trenelețul's message of Romanian-Moldovan unification? I don't think just because you don't know what to feel that means it's "inaccessible".

No ramps at the library is an accessibility problem. You not understanding a song is a matter of taste.

 

[Storm]

Accessibility: in my eyes it's something musical, melodical. When the song is stuck in your head the minute you've heard it and you can hum along immediately (or at least at some point). I don't know how many listens I needed until Eaea 'stuck'. All that said, I don't think a song HAS to be accessible? Neither is accessibility always a sign of quality, there are a lot of songs that are easy to get into but also feel very generic because of that. 'Eaea' will probably fly over the heads of many not overly-invested people (I can see my partents checking out immediately lmao), but those are the kind of people who aren't that likely to vote for anything in the first place.

 

[mddr]

A good song makes you think "what is this about?" and that's what EAEA truly does. In a way it's easier to dismiss a song that's "more accessible" than a song that doesn't open at the first go. It's all about the sweet spot of conveying enough - and well enough - to raise the interest, but not being too obvious. That's art. Blanca has it.

 

[Ezio]

An Eaea is a lullaby.

Btw. Congrats to 11th place in Austrian Ogae Poll

 

[Juliette]

This is a wonderful song! But I'm afraid the song may sink among other, more generic ones.

 

[JenJen94]

Nice to see this moving slowly up in the OGAE poll-currently at 10th now

 

[empo21]

Two months later and I'm still just as obsessed. Power of eaeaeaeaeaeaeaeaeaeaeaeaeaeaeaea

 

[PollyWantsACracker]

I would like to know what "accessible" means. If this song wasn't accessible it wouldn't have so many fans (yes, people give a lot of 0, but have you seen the amount of 12's?) Or, in the other hand, it wouldn't been climbing the way it is in the betting odds (from 12th to 4th in a period of 2 months, not bad). If it wasn't accessible people wouldn't bet for it, and clearly we are many that think the song will do well. And for those who hate the song, it's alright, as long as it's done with a bit of respect and not the way the people in the video above reacted. Then Germans will give points to Spain in the televote and the casual viewers will find it offensive for their universal taste of music.

Rosalia, is she "accessible"?

 

[ayzelto]

Rosalia, is she "accessible"?

She's for me (and I don't even understand the lyrics of her songs sometimes )

 

[AndroZeus]

At this point I low-key wanna make the word "accessible" illegal to use about music unless you're talking specifically about music created to suit the needs of people with disabilities.

 

[PollyWantsACracker]

At this point I low-key wanna make the word "accessible" illegal to use about music unless you're talking specifically about music created to suit the needs of people with disabilities.

I don't mean to speak as a Trump voter, but "accessibility of music" is a scientific term that relates to ability of an average consumer to hear music, which is disproportionate to complexity of musical composition or choice of irregular composing techniques.

A concept very important for understanding human psychology, consumer behaviour, vastly used within music corporate sector and producing sector when deciding on the simpliest things such as "Whether we will allow an artist to use these chords in this song", "Should this song get on the album", "Which song should be 1st on the album" or "Which song should be selected for presentation of the artist or a video shoot".

E.g. Cambridge research on the topic of "Accessibilty of Music". https://www.cambridge.org/core/book...cessibility/17DD920F3B9F29302F51D5F81671492A#

It has nothing to do with people with disabilities or political (in)correctness and let's now leave that here.

@ayzelto to me Rosalia is inaccessible. Vocal technique is inaudible, rythm is irregular, visuals are not pleasing. Yet she has got her massive audience. There's a market for everybody. So I have no worries for Blanca.

My only complaint re: Blanca is the video, which is quite unimpressive, artisticly lazy and cheap all over. EaEa video, had it been shot at least in some interesting location, and Andaluzia is full of such locations from Sevilla to Alhambra to Cadiz to wherever there, would have given completely different impression.

 

[gingerale]

It's not the song I listen to very often but still it is the song I'm most excited to see in the grand final. Ready to be spellbound.

 

[Iker]

At this point I low-key wanna make the word "accessible" illegal to use about music unless you're talking specifically about music created to suit the needs of people with disabilities.

I can get it but I sometimes use this word and it has its place. But I agree that it is overused.

 

[njdevils94]

Acoustic version of Eaea. Quite the hat Blanca is wearing.

 

[MAD20]

After all the preparties stuff, she's been touring Spain for some RTVE-organised events. Alright, I prefer this new RTVE caring about Eurovision instead of just letting the artist sink in misery, but they should at least leave Blanca resting for a while until the rehearsals start...

Anyway, hats off to Blanca Paloma for her impecable vocals every single time she performs, she's truly an artist either if you like the song or not

 

[JenJen94]

Acoustic version of Eaea. Quite the hat Blanca is wearing.

This is absolutely stunning....those vocals!!

 

[njdevils94]

This is absolutely stunning....those vocals!!

Yeah, she's been very impressive in all her performances I've seen.

Sidenote: Oh wow the two fuegos I got from that post also have 94 in their username. Are well all 1994 born?

 

[JenJen94]

Yeah, she's been very impressive in all her performances I've seen.

Sidenote: Oh wow the two fuegos I got from that post also have 94 in their username. Are well all 1994 born?

Totally agree! Not put a foot wrong

And yeah, I am a 94 baby indeed

 

[njdevils94]

 

[GermanBango]

I still don't know what to make of this ... sometimes I like it but sometimes it annoys me to hell and back.