🇱🇹 The Roop "Discoteque" REACTION | Lithuania | Eurovision 2021
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- čas přidán 14. 06. 2024
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I react to the music video of "Discoteque", sung by the Roop, which is in Lithuania's National Final, and could represent Lithuania at Eurovision 2021.
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:26 1st Listen
5:33 1st Thoughts
7:17 2nd Listen and thoughts
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Thank you so much for a cool reaction! Good effort trying to pronounce "Pabandom iš naujo" 😂🖖
lol thank you 😂. Good luck in the final this weekend! ❤️❤️❤️
Respect from Lithuania 🇱🇹 ✊🏻
I didn't think they could top "on fire" but omg it feels even more professional for some reason but still have all the epic craziness which I love
Yep I totally agree. On Fire was professional, but this feels even that one level higher.
It's a covid 19 self isolation anthem being performed in Twin Peaks. Modern sound touched with loads of 80' 90'. What a genius.
yea i like the way its COVID inspired but without being in a cringy way
Respect, I was thinking the same of this being their take on COVID - that virus became kinda significant lately, not least - for THE ROOP. So why not do it one better?
This just has sooo much charisma, it's really magnetic. Love it.
I am so glad the Roop is back with a great tune!
yep, well deserved
Greetings from Lithuania 💛💚❤️
This is soooo much better than on fire. Dark pop with an amazing hook. Love the variety of beats that build throughout the track and I love the drop that's really emphasises the finale. Absolutely brilliant. Love it❤️
Live they are even better than in this studio-video - THE ROOP SLAYS AGAIN ! 💃 🕺
🇱🇹Lithuania ❤️ 🇱🇹 Lithuania ❤️
great reaction man thanks and The Roop all the way
I mostly agree with you. It's extremely iconic and fresh, super fun and catchy! They could add something extra to the second chorus so it doesn't all sound the same, but it will do very well and they deserve it.
@@achnix3167 Okay. I don’t care :)
yea id like a teeny tiny revamp to this, but the foundation product that they have is an excellent start
Finaly somebody mention Twin Peaks,😇
They made the Lithuainian vote and is going to the competition!
The Roop 💛💚❤️ Eurovision 2021 again 💛💚❤️ COOL LITHUANIA
Thank you for reacting our new popular song in Lithuania respect!✊🏼♥️🇱🇹
Uhhhh strong and very fancy. Thank you
Greetings from Lithuania🖖🏼🇱🇹
Labas! :)
I love how nervous you were to watch the video! I was the same! I had to watch it two days after it was released because you just want the best for them. The song is such an earworm, and I know that I might get some heat for this buuuut I like it better than On Fire.
Hi , I’m a Lithuanian and live in South France, and this song stuck in my head. The Roop singer have big advantage, he is a actor and musician and have lots of interesting ideas.
The Genius from Lithuania - The Roop!
okay but he’s also wearing heels while dancing.. he’s just awesome :D
❤️❤️❤️ The Best ... performance, song everything is excellent
They more than deserve it! Just listen to them.... mmmm they've won last year, and they will win this year. Jūs nuostabūs 👏👏👏🙏🇱🇹
Tom, I didn’t like this when I heard it at first but I love it now. It’s out there but still accessible. This should do well
yes thats a good point. this is out there but still stay successfully accessible. its a good combination
@@ESCTom And it's a grower. I can attest! ;p
Ačiū!!!!!!! 🖖🏻🇱🇹
Sometimes you just can't explain how genious they are .. The Roop have that "something", the x factor, so much fun and quality at the same time
I dont know why but it gives me Scissor Sister vibes. I could imagine them producing something like this.
As for a personal perspective, I dont mind it at all. Its got scope for great staging with amazing pyrotechnics to really lift the song. There are some great layers and riffs that work well with one another, but at this moment, im going to give it room to breathe because im not crazy about it. I think with a few more listens, it'll be a grower. Im just glad they came back with something strong that commands attention.
Glad you liked it!
lol yes absolutely, I can totally see those Scissor Sister vibes youre getting!
I think i'm mostly in the same space as you. I really appreciate this and Im extremely happy for them, as I think it's a really entertaining and fun song. However, I haven't rushed to download it, but I didn't with On Fire either. Having said that, I would eagerly sit through a performance of this
I think all people from Europe need peeps for respect each other then we will won! ❤️🙏
Geras
Žiūrėt užsieniečius kalbančius apie mūsų eurovizine daina, nėra daugiau nieko įdomiau.
@@kimjong-un5203 Geras.Sveika ironija.
Can you also react to their live performance please, live it's even better and catchier
yep definitely will, its on my list
Potential winner
yep, theyre still sitting top of the odds. its still early, but its better than where Albania and Israel are at 40 and 41st
I really love this ... ooooh sooo good and you're very handsome, with a great reaction :-)
thanks Mark🥰
Curious one, this one...My heart, too, was pumping waiting for this one. My initial reaction was that I was, oh, a little disappointed that they'd gone down the 'quirky' route once again (I've grown to love it). I checked out this band last year and wow, they have such a strong, thoughtful and intelligent discography - check out Be Mine, Dream On, Come Back. They are much more mainstream than this. Then I got it - ESC is their window to the world and a couple of viral videos will do them no harm whatsoever. This band has real potential that, at present, is underrated by the quirkiness of their two ESC songs. They deserve so much respect and, given their ESC window, that just might happen...
haha ill definitely check out their back catalogue at some point but need to get on top of all the National finals first. but yea i agree, id love them to get some credit for their talent
@@ESCTom Be Mine actually made me cry the first time I watched it... czcams.com/video/4233oh2g_lY/video.html
Wonderfulllll
I didn’t like “On Fire” but I love this.
yea i think i prefer this over On Fire too
U made my day and ❤😆
Reminds me a bit of" Blurred Lines" by Robin Thicke . Good song
Very good
I haven't decided yet if I like this song, but it's a strong entry anyway, like you said. And that's impressive, because when someone's had a hit that just came out of nowhere, their second song will usually be a bit disappointing.
Yea, I think we should enjoy it while we can because I think there will inevitably be a few returning artists who are going to have worse songs on their return this year
"We all dance alone!" :D
I missed you reaching the 2k+ subs Tom......very well done and richly deserved lad!!👏👏👏👌👌
Hey John, thanks a million, youve been here right from the start!
Tbh though, I dont really measure the success of the channel in subscribers anymore. Its easy to get the sub count up - just say everything is amazing and has a shot to win. For me the main thing im interested in is the comments section. I made this channel to have people to speak about Eurovision with so if there were no comments, Id stop the channel immediately. People like you and the other regulars are the reason I do this❤️
@@ESCTom ah shucks!!🤣
Your authenticity is why we are all here for you Tom!!👌
Yeah. It is cool but i love the another one , on fire, thanks for sharing the video😉👍
The rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrooooooooooooooooooooopppppppppppppppppppp!
So far, I don’t see any serious competition for them in the Lithuanian competition but.... who knows. It is an epic song and does translate well. The question I have is, is it Eurovision enough?
PS. Looking forward to seeing your reaction to the French songs for ‘C’est Vous Qui Decidez’.
Try to listen Gebrasy - Where'd you wanna go?
This song just won 1st semi-final in Lithuania. The song is very different from The Roop, but also it is very catchy, calm in a good way and singer has a wonderful voice.
👍✌️👌
Fab video! And it’s “pabandom ish nauyo” x
haha thank you for the pronunciation advice, i will try to get it right on the next one😊
@@ESCTom no worries mate, you almost got it! Keep up the good work
Gebrasy - Where'd You Wanna Go is a strong entry that would have won any other year. Check it out!
yup, will do lithuania final preview this week for sure. PIN was great last year so looking forward to seeing what they have this year
THE NEW FREDDY !
Hiya Tom - hello post-Eurovision. When you reacted to The Roop I posted a comment saying that, although I liked the entry, I was a little disappointed they had gone down the 'quirky' route once again. After On Fire I'd looked into their back catalogue, and they are a really thoughtful, intelligent rock band, and you might be surprised by their contemporary rock style prior the their ESC entries. I always suspected that entering ESC with a gimmick was an opportunity to bring them to a wider audience and I really hope the repetition of a gimmick won't harm them in terms of their artistic credibility.
First and foremost - Be Mine. What a stunning song and an an amazing video embracing diversity. czcams.com/video/4233oh2g_lY/video.html
If you like that, check out Dream On - czcams.com/video/6G_GsUO8yZ4/video.html or Come Back - czcams.com/video/zUrZmFJYOGE/video.html This is a band worth investigating!
Hope the PED ain't too bad - let's revel in Maneskin going viral and worldwide - this could totally change the contest for years to come....
Hi Tom Scrolling back through your 2021 reactions... Found The Roop. This is a tricky one for me as I loved On Fire but also delved back into The Roop's back catalogue. This is a really innovative and thoughtful band but On Fire is just SO untypical of their usual output. I suspected last year that On Fire was a novelty that might bring them attention on an international stage and then maybe draw an audience to their more traditional rock/dance aesthetic
As such, I was a little disappointed that they returned this year with another choreographed novelty (I wonder if that was influenced by the lead singer's appearance on the Lithuanian version of Strictly Come Dancing?). Musically and artistically they are so, so much better than this.
The Roop ABSOLUTELY need to be discovered with tracks like Dream On, Come Back and Be Mine,. All of their videos are incredibly thoughtful and they present a concept of ideas and depth behind their songs. The video for Be Mine actually made me cry. It's quite stunning. Tom, discover The real The Roop czcams.com/video/4233oh2g_lY/video.html
ah ok yea i definitely need to check them out, i didnt realise that they usually went for a different style.
I kinda understanding their reasoning for copying a lot of elements from last year, as it was clearly a receipe for success, so i cant blame them.
Im way behind on reactions right now, but in the quieter period in april, i can go through some of their back catalogue
@@ESCTom Cool, I'm gonna hold you to that one and have a Roop conversation with you one day. Cheers
🇱🇹🇱🇹🇱🇹Mes laimesim!!!
Hi! How did you avoid copyright claim on the audio&visual?
It should make it to eurovision shouldn’t it ? It’s more “alternative” when compared to “on fire”, a bit darker (not in a bad way) if you want, as “on fire” was more upbeat. Anyway we’ll see. I think they would have been a very very very close second in 2020 (behind Switzerland). Maybe they can go the extra step this year.
It will easily make it IMO. The other entries in the Lithuanian selection are not even half as strong. It will win the televote and the song is also more jury friendly to me than On Fire and if On Fire won the jury vote last year this should too.
Sean Sean Switzerland was trash. It would of been between Russia and Lithuania. Little big is just a wordwide known band but I think Lithuania would of gotten first place. But they will do it now.
I like it. Wrong. I love it. But something is missing... A pick maybe.. The 80s, the devo feel the dance, the yellow all work.. But... Something of a pick damn it
Can you react to UMK (finnish nf)?
yep its coming this week
Let's be honest.... Discoteque is just AMAZING. A theatrical and catchy piece with a light feeling of a modern reading of the 80's along with deep house touches. It has identity, originality uniqueness, depth, and this ultra charismatic performer who in himself becomes part of the song. A daring effort that defies the typical ESC recipe, which I find good. BUT: I am not even sure that they will end up in the stage of Eurovision 2021. Lithuania doesn't seem to want to win the contest, and maybe that's why they subject the Roop once again to the challenge of the national final. Fishy. And even if it is too soon for conclusions, Albania and Israel have already chosen their not strongest candidate songs, in my opinion. That may reflect a general tendency this year. Let's hope not.
hmmmm to be honest, i dont really get the "not wanting to win" argument in anything other than a hosting country. I agree that It's usually quite obvious the host doesnt want to win again, although most of the time they are probably just too busy organising the event to get a decent song. I think winning Eurovision is EXTREMELY difficult. Look at Malta and Cyrpus, who still have never won after all these years. Even someone who puts in 100% with an epic song is really only guaranteed top 10 nowadays, the standard in the final is so high.
@@ESCTom I believe Lithuania does not want to win because:
a) of the common sense. A small country with a not very stable financial situation would not like to put itself in an extremely money consuming adventure. And let's be honest. Especially during the last years, we have seen National finals where the obvious favourites were disregarded and robed, and instead really weak songs were chosen to represent the respective countries in ESC. That's not a coincidence.
b) The fact that Lithuania organises AGAIN a national final where the Roop will have to compete again. Why??????? They were selected last year, they are the unofficial winners of ESC 2020, and all countries with strong contestants last year kept them for this year, too, without extra NF (Bulgaria, Switzerland, Iceland, Malta, Israel).
As for winning the contest, it is NOT that hard. Yes the level is too high, BUT: There is a EUROVISION recipe. Originality in mainstream context. In other words: Fresh, authentic sounds and compositions that do not reach the extreme. And generally minimalist stagings. The Roop do meet these "requirements", and that's why they are dangerous to win. Let's see.
hey konstantinos, i can totally see some of your points. However, One of the reasons I believe they didnt pick The Roop automatically is because they had just revamped their national final into PIN and maybe they didnt want to immediately stop that the year after. If their goal is to continually provide good quality entries every year, they need to have that national competition outlet where they can develop performers. They cant just rely on a single band as that isnt a viable long term strategy.
@@konstantinospapaioannou2588 Man, Konstantinos, I would rather not get into it, but the financial situation of Lithuania, Latvia and the likes looks more reliable than that of Greece... and yet, not once did the Greeks think about not staging EUROVISION if they won it. Must be something else. Could be that the Lithuanian jury's ears are not in the right place, or their egos may get the best of them (as the jury is made up principally of other artists)... but that is not exclusive to any country, or jury.
Floor from Twin Peaks and Saboni's movement czcams.com/video/TT-9ItAQ0FQ/video.html. Great show ;)
It's the WINNER Eurovision 2021 Rotterdam.
Only Iceland will beat The Roop if the Song is as good as last Year.
irish accent yo have, ni?
90% viewers are Lithuanians. That would explain your views rising so fast on this video.
yes but whats interesting is how many Lithuania's are coming out in support of this. 2019 was nothing compared to this and 2020
Well, if they are all Lithuanians (can't blame!), the growth of views ought to stop at around 1 million. :)) But hey, I could vouch when Lithuania was promoting cliche, tired or plain sucky songs in the years before, there was no wave incoming. Gotta give props to the song.
@@bigg2988 I don't think there were „sucky“ songs, how you call them. I didn't seen a single lithuanian song sucking on something.
@@kimjong-un5203 Well, Kim, there must have been no "tired" songs as well, if you insist on taking words directly. Because nobody was lying down on stage, right? :] I wasn't trying to sound sophisticated, sorry if that comment was too harsh or something. The point is, after so many... erm... mediocre Lithuanian entries... it is good to have something on another level.
@@bigg2988 Your basiclly saying that Lithuania has to be like Sweden, why not romania, serbia, greece, montenegro, north macedonia, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, belarus, Slovakia, Czheck republic? Every single one of those country's had no good songs. I don't understand your point.
No need to worry here Tom.......if Lithuania fails to select this, they not only should be thrown out of ESC but charged with crimes against humanity!!......dramatic or what????🤣
The " live " is equally as impressive, as we knew it would be.......its what i was saying earlier about the difference between "artists" and " performers"......The Roop are undoubtedly artists. (Don't wish to be too harsh but maybe Eden from Israel is in the other bracket) "Discoteque" is a natural progression from "On Fire", slightly more complex, mature and involved....
"On Fire" was my winner last year and although far too early to say, so early in the season, i can't see this outside of the top 5 in Rotterdam.....
Well done The Roop and i can take a mighty sigh of relief.....fingers crossed for Gjons Tears, Viktoria, Jeangu 🤞🤞🤞
lol i remember when Margaret's "cool me down" came out and it was number 1 and then the total outrage when she came second (in fairness, her performance was atrocious and Michel Spak's was great).
Yea i agree that Discoteque has more complexity to it. I wouldnt mind a tiny little revamp in that 3rd chrous to build a little more progression into it.
Was "on fire" your final number 1 last year?! I was so bad about my 2020 final top 10 video because i had too many ideas about it and ended up procrastinating.
@@ESCTom lord, you bring back such traumatic times😱
Only slight difference is that she can't hold a tune live ( miaow!)......
Tom, i have to point you in the direction of Portugal.......winner alert??????
Back to Lisbon 2022?........wouldn't object to that!
Won't spoil it for you.........bet you don't agree with me..🤣🤣🤣🤣🙊
@@johnmoynahan874 damn i cant keep up with all these national finals! ok well at least I have something to look forward to, I thought last year was atrocious.
@@ESCTom its still VERY Portuguese!!.....however, a couple of entries in English........the saddest song ever...but beautiful!😪😪
On Fire is so much better.
Not that it's super important but what exactly is schizophrenic in this music-video? Being schizophrenic doesnt mean multiple personalities. Having multiple personalities is the dissociative identity disorder.
It's very.... Russian. Ukrainian actually. Like Kazaky PG version? Not sure yet, whether I more than like it, in a Eurovision context.
The live version will improve it because they are exceptional performers, just to see how much.
I HATE this song. On fire was SO MUCH better.... I mean if they choose this Lithuania is my last... Gebrasy for the win 😍
Love it❣️Super vibes.
Not sure what's the goal of this song... it's not Lithuanian type, could be japanese as well. Surely, this country has no idea of what ESC is about. Do I like the song? yes... as I like other urban thousands of musics you can listen to from New York, Tokyo, etc... so what? nothing new...
Reality check: Lithuania brought "Lithuanian type" songs, folk stylized and all, to the ESC several times. The outcome? - Guaranteed bottom finish. It is actually good if more people can memorize AND relate to the tune. Even if there is no 100 per cent recipe for success.