Which entries would also work in native language?

[JamieBrown]

Since there are only a few entries in own language I tried to look, which countries better send their entries in mother tongue, so this is my result

Own Language
- This topic has to be sung in armenian, at least Inga's parts should, if the others cannot speak.
- I'm so interested what this song would hear like if he sings in french. I'm pretty sure it will still work, because it's more about the melody and the vocals.
- English language makes this entry even more worse. Greek would've been the better option
& - These two could be put together, because it makes absolutely no sense to change the language of the winner of NF. Would the people still vote for this if it's english? Also the lyrics now are so flat. Don't know if there were deep before, but now the whole Europe understands
At least they should've tried. Russian is not a beauty to me, but I set no hopes in this entry, so...
I know they changed their entry, because the composer of the winning entry didn't want to let them change his song to english, but I think the actual song would be really good in native language plus the guitar and vocals playing some folky tunes between the chorus and the verses.
Whole entry in romanian that's it. The background story will be told often enough by commentators, etc.
Maybe lithuanian would've given the right solution for these awful loops in the chorus.
Flat song, flat lyrics. Italian sounds always magical at least, so some people would start to like this song if it's in italian
Native language would make this song really mystical and wicked.
Dramatic ballad in azerbaijani. Oh, this would be awesome, especially in the heights I imagine. Unfortunately they think, their language is not cool enough for Eurovison
Why not? Won't change anything I bet
But only in french
The song is really cute, but the lyrics are so cheesy. Greek language always solves the problem
Boring song and boring language so give this song some colour

Multilanguage (English/Own)
Even if. Some songs this year need english language, so do this. But would've been at least interesting if she starts in hungarian and turns to english at the end
Same like Hungary. I don't really know if czech language works to this melody, so maybe only the verses
Absolutely right song for hebrew verses.

The other entries wouldn't work in native language imo.

 

[tuorem]

What about all of them? To me a good song remains a good song (and vice versa) whatever the language that's used. There is no bad language for singing a song, one is just not accustomed to the sound of all these languages because one never hears them in everyday life. For that matter, Eurovision is the perfect occasion to enjoy the linguistic variety and charm of Europe imo, but that's not the case anymore unfortunately.

 

[JamieBrown]

What about all of them? To me a good song remains a good song (and vice versa) whatever the language that's used. There is no bad language for singing a song, one is just not accustomed to the sound of all these languages because one never hears them in everyday life. For that matter, Eurovision is the perfect occasion to enjoy the linguistic variety and charm of Europe imo, but that's not the case anymore unfortunately.

Definitely not. Every spoken language has it's own melody and not every song fits to it. We can see it with FYROM and Serbia they first had native language and now they're seeming so flat and plastic, while on the other hand to be honest: German and russian entry wouldn't work in native language because their languages have a very hard pronunciation and would destroy the melodies. I think it's okay to let the countries decide, whether to sing in native language or not, since imo Ireland and UK were so successful in the mid-year because of this among other things. But they should've know when it's time to sing in native language and since the introduction of 50/50-system most forgot the right moment and wanted to sing in english

 

[tuorem]

Definitely not. Every spoken language has it's own melody and not every song fits to it. We can see it with FYROM and Serbia they first had native language and now they're seeming so flat and plastic, while on the other hand to be honest: German and russian entry wouldn't work in native language because their languages have a very hard pronunciation and would destroy the melodies. I think it's okay to let the countries decide, whether to sing in native language or not, since imo Ireland and UK were so successful in the mid-year because of this among other things. But they should've know when it's time to sing in native language and since the introduction of 50/50-system most forgot the right moment and wanted to sing in english

So you think there should be a hierarchy among languages? Balkan ones would be ok but Germanic ones wouldn't. I don't share your opinion about it: English is neither better nor worse than Maltese, German, Latvian, Czech or French. You defend the lost musicality of the Macedonian and Serbian entries, yet you couldn't imagine it in other languages, that's your choice. Going for English at all costs is a cheap move imo, no matter the "excuse". How can people get used to other languages if all that is available right now is English? That's just sad to me that we all end up blending together regarding language when we have so much to offer.

 

[JamieBrown]

So you think there should be a hierarchy among languages? Balkan ones would be ok but Germanic ones wouldn't. I don't share your opinion about it: English is neither better nor worse than Maltese, German, Latvian, Czech or French. You defend the lost musicality of the Macedonian and Serbian entries, yet you couldn't imagine it in other languages, that's your choice. Going for English at all costs is a cheap move imo, no matter the "excuse".

I don't say german is a bad language for songs, neither russian or any other, I love our music scene (Germany) and the native languaged song. But there's no song that could work in every language, so 'A Million Voices' and 'Black Smoke' are hardly imagineable in their own languages to me. And I also understood some language changes from Iceland, Albania and somewhere else in Eurovision, but this year I don't understand them, that's it.

 

[tuorem]

I don't say german is a bad language for songs, neither russian or any other, I love our music scene (Germany) and the native languaged song. But there's no song that could work in every language, so 'A Million Voices' and 'Black Smoke' are hardly imagineable in their own languages to me. And I also understood some language changes from Iceland, Albania and somewhere else in Eurovision, but this year I don't understand them, that's it.

You say that because those versions do not exist Had Black Smoke and A Million Voice been in their respective languages, I doubt one would find anything to criticize them for that matter. Just because we discovered them in English does not mean they wouldn't have been effective in German and Russian. But that's just my opinion. As for Iceland and Albania, "Ég á líf" and "Suus" proved that these languages aren't an actual barrier in the contest either.

 

[Kaz]

Each country releases their song in their native language as well as English, then we vote on which one we like more. Boom, problem solved.

 

[pinkchiffon]

Going for English at all costs is a cheap move imo, no matter the "excuse". How can people get used to other languages if all that is available right now is English? That's just sad to me that we all end up blending together regarding language when we have so much to offer.

I agree, and I don't buy the argument that English is the better language for any genre of music, either. It's just the most normalized and it's what people are accustomed to hearing in international music above all else. I've heard enjoyable pop music in almost every language named in this thread.

Also, the pronunciation of Russian isn't "harder" than that of any other Slavic language that you expressed preference for. If you think a ballad in Polish is okay, then one in Russian is too (which both are, in my opinion.)

 

[Dante]

- I'm so interested what this song would hear like if he sings in french. I'm pretty sure it will still work, because it's more about the melody and the vocals.

I find the lyrics interesting and refreshing,especially in this contest,since we seem to have the same songs sung differently year after year. It would be a shame for some to not understand them, even though in French it might be even better for melody itself.

I am opened to hear all sorts of languages, but some really didn't work for me, such as Albanian: I couldn't feel a thing this year after seeing their NF, I couldn't connect and same goes for Macedonian language. I think there are some tricky ones that work better with some genres. I like hearing German in metal and rock and I would rather have it to English,but when it comes to dance, pop, I'm not so keen on it.