Re: UNITED KINGDOM 2011
In marketing language, a gimmick is a unique or quirky special feature that makes something "stand out" from its contemporaries.
I can't call Russia 2010 success o___0
it's a mediocre result, the song which appealed to ex-USSR older generation.
BiH 2008 - same story with Russia 2010 - can't call it success. For me the top 5 is success, maybe 6th - 7th places... but not 10th or 11th.
Western gimmick songs looked poor... I couldn't understand Dustin because of his horrible accent and diction, the show on stage was as far from harmony & taste as possible, it hurt my eyes; Germany 2009 - I can't call it gimmick, rather typical ESC disaster, something which started as a decent dance tune and ended as a nightmare. Spain 2008 ... it was creepy and his charisma rather disgusted than attracted people + maybe he would had more chances in a different year, not after Verka
Verka was popular all over the Europe and it charted on the West, South, North and East
in 2008 NFs people wanted to repeat that success ... lol, wrong thing because everyone compared all 2008 gimmick entries to Verka, I remember that time very well
Greece 2010 - not gimmick. More ordinary than outstanding, imo.
Bulgaria 2007 - gimmick mainly because of vocals. I had a really lite association with Ruslana. But this trend stayed in the past and it totally differed from all Western entries you mentioned above, Adam
Send not something that looks like an excerpt from a bad comedy show but something good, really unusual, something which doesn't appeal to 1 or 2 geographical areas - Verka would be a perfect example (yes, we benefited from sending THE most popular performer which sold 15 mil. copies of 2 albums in Ukraine and Russia
but United Kingdom gave us 8... the country with one of the lowest Ukrainian diasporas in Europe, btw). Conquer our markets with your ESC entries, please. Be more open to us
We voted for Jade, we voted for Patricia, we voted for Lena... I talk about televoters.
I'll draw an analogy with our fave show
X-Factor... you've been sending something like Wagner and you received what you deserved. Send something like Cher and you'll approach Ani Lorak's result. Send something unique and you'll approach Verka's result. Send something which can influence people and make a revolution in the world. Australia chose Ani Lorak in 2008, Verka influenced French fashion designers and Jean Paul Gaultier, the song charted in the Britrish chart ... I mean Ukrainian song in the British chart, it's like music from Vietnam charting in Japanese charts
Do something impossible, prepare for the main ESC performance.
Comapring good and bad Western entries for me is like comapring X-Factor stage and concert place in Zimbabwe. Jade, Patricia Kaas, Tom Dice... Dustin, Rodolfo )))
As I've said not all "our" gimmick entries worked... look at Loboda, for instance. We do the same mistakes too.
So ... like Victor said, Western countries should take the hint. The BBC too. I hope their 2010 approach won't come back in 2011.
