🇦🇺 Voyager "Promise" Reaction | Australia | Eurovision 2023
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I react to the internal selection song "Promise" by Voyager, which will represent Australia in Semi Final 2 of Eurovision 2023 in Liverpool, UK in May 2023.
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0:25 Australia in Eurovision
3:14 Reaction to Music Video
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You did an amazing job bruv! 🫶🏼
Absolutely stunning video, voices, song structure … this is going to annihilate the M&S Arena. Can’t wait! ❤
THAT WAS YOU??? OMG THE CUTS ARE SO CLEAN BRO. AMAZING JOB.
Danny (the lead singer) is a lifelong eurovision fan, so i'm very happy for them, especially with how they won the televote in aus decides last year. If this is the way we bow out of Eurovision (if we aren't renewed), I'm happy it's people who truly love the contest and will give it their all 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
Australia will be renewed, its like when Israel in 2017 said that they wont participate
well i would be massively shocked if EBU dont offer. with russia out, they need the money badly, so i definitely think the decision will come down to SBS deciding to accept or not
@@ESCTom Eurovision ratings last year were pretty good in Australia, were definitely way up on 2021, (Montaigne NQ definitely didn't help on this.) But Aus decides rated much lower in 2022 than in 2019 & 2020 (I assume this is why it was cancelled). I feel like if this qualifies and can push left side of the scoreboard then SBS surely would accept. They just need to really push Voyager like they used to do more of with the other internal selections
It actually makes me kinda sad to hear Australians preparing to "bow out"! I've always felt a bit weird about Australia being in Eurovision, as if someone who isn't really supposed to be in your group is playing along. Also, kind of afraid that having opened the door to Australia, this would give the EBU the opportunity to invite others as well, in their hunger to make Eurovision a world-wide brand. However, I really like Australia's approach and enthusiasm for Eurovision (both the public and the broadcaster) and the Aussie entries have usually been really good quality. So I will actually miss them if they go! Besides, I think that no other country outside of Europe will be as enthusiastic as Australia for a song contest on another continent and thus as eager to take part.
So, funny thing if you didn't know, but in his alter ego of Daniel Estrin, he's also a partner at a successful and highly respected law firm, specialising in immigration.
By day, he and his firm fight the government to protect refugees and migrants, and by night he's a rock star. Like a Saturday morning cartoon. Guy's a fucking legend!
The lead singer is a leading immigration attorney in Australia. He's been on TV several times but as an immigration law expert (usually about refugees).
I love how excited they are to finally be going to Eurovision. They'll put everything into their performance in May
yea i agree, theyll go all in. love to see someone go who really wants it
They did, and they were Outstandin the final. They are a fully professional band and extremely talented and competent musicians. If only we have bands like this more often in Eurovision.
The other thing about Voyager is that they have been touring in Europe a lot over their career so probably one of the few artists allegedly in the running that has a name over there outside of ESC, which MIGHT help them get more televotes. I'm very happy they were chosen this year, though, because I have a soft spot for artists that are fans of the contest and really want to go. Live your dream, guys!
I really like the song, I wish it could be longer. haha. Has a great energy to it and I can just FEEL that this will be insane live. Or I hope it will.
It probably is that short because it's for the ESC. The breakdown and solo parts would clearly be longer on a normal record. Because progressive music tracks are usually more than 5 minutes long. :) Just check their other songs. 🫶🏼
ps: They're an amazing live band. Saw them at Euroblast in Cologne 2019. Bloody brilliant.
Also, the fact that now anyone around the world has an opportunity to vote is going to elevate their points. They are also well known by Americans.
This is my favorite entry so far but I saw a lot of hate on this in Twitter, i don't get it. I hope they do very well !!
lol yea take Twitter with a pinch of salt
It's just... the beginning is so repetitive and bad, and it's the exact same style as Dreamer, except a worse iteration on thr same formula. Imo.
Don't listen to twitter twinks, they hate any diversity
@@sebastiaoalmeida7796totally wrong
@Sebastião Almeida 🤣🤣🤣🤣 you're funny. This will be in top 10 in grand final, I'd say even top 5.
The lead singer's an award-winning lawyer by day and musician by night :) Every member of the band is super talented and genius at their craft so together they're highly impactful... a powerhouse. Thanks for your thoughtful review and I agree with your comments. Voyager are going to blow the roof off. The song and overall presentation is epic on every level. It's so great, I now can't sit through any of the other ESC songs for obvious reasons. This has grabbed my full attention.
Been a fan for years! They are actually a progressive metal band, toned down a bit to fit Eurovision. Best of luck, we'll vote for it.
Best regards Sweden
G'DAY ! I was so excited to see Voyager finally made it to Eurovision!🙌🙌 They won public vote last year and I was disappointed they didn't get to go then.. it's about damn time!! The scenery is from our beautiful Western Australia... Kalbarri. Simone is amazing on the guitar! 🇦🇺🤘💥
yea, the scenery is gorgeous, unfortunately ive only been to eastern Oz and not the west 😭
@@ESCTom ohh Tom. West is best 😉😁 haha truthfully speaking.. I haven't been to Kalbarri yet either and I live in Perth! It's a fairly long drive. There's many amazing places if you ever visit us here.. Broome, Rottnest island, Wave Rock, Margaret river wineries and Esperance to name a few...
Many people just go to the eastern states and they're missing out.
When people were spreading rumours about them in the live chat of the video I got my hopes up. Others were extremely negative for some reason. Ever since I saw them last year, i've been hoping they'd come back and I have to say, this internal selection WAS THE BEST way to do it! Australian fans will be losing their minds rn because they won the televote last year and they just represent Australia SO well. Here in the UK, we will LOVE them when they go on stage. Danny has great stage presence in connecting with the audience!
oh yea, even without the connection, i think this is a 12 from the UK.
theres some eurofans who want instant gratification with every song, or just have an extremely thin band of what they actually like and anything outside it is dismissed.
televote winner 🏆🇦🇨
Europe loves good rock music 🖖 and they are fantastic live performers.
I dont see jury rating them well 😒 hopefully they make it to the TOP 10 in the finals.
Juries doesnt matter this year, juries will have many not jury friendly songs in the final, they wont rate all of them low
If juries are composed of professional musicians, they will definitely vote for this.
Ukraine will win the televote.
@@neilwaldock6272 I dont think so...maybe top 10 with televote but bottom 10 with jurry. Last year was Ukraine much stronger
@@ambicicek I agree, Ukraine was better last year, but they'll score extremely high in the televote because of support for the people of Ukraine fighting in the war. Voyager's song is very strong and I hope they win the televote, but I think Ukraine will get more votes from the people at home than what Australia will. I hope I'm wrong though, as I'm Australian and would love to see Voyager win. The guitar and keytar solos are amazing. This is going to go off on stage in front of an arena!
Great song! I love Voyager so much! Simone getting a solo was a great choice. That'll go down well on the night. And by night I mean Saturday.
Energetic, Excellent, and Entertaining. This is going to do really well. Thinking about it, Moldova finished second with the tele-vote last year. People like to be entertained, and they especially appreciate music that comes alive on stage.
Yeah, this is great. I mean, I'm not a huge metalhead and the song is by no means perfect, but you can see how much energy, experience and fun they're gonna bring to the stage. I have the feeling this will be totally explosive live.
OMG I love your reaction so much. I am thrilled for Voyager, they deserve to represent us, and the song is my (personal) fave entry that we have ever sent.
Hey Tom. Danny Estrin os a mad Eurovision fan. He is a immigration lawyer who has been interviewed in this role on BBC news. Danny always comes to Euroclub Perth live ESC viewings at the Backlot Cinema in West Perth. Thankyou for the great vibes. Craig from Perth Australia
I am happy for the band as they absolutely love Eurovision. Whilst the song is not my cup of tea (which judging by the obvious influences in the track) I should love it!
Will give it a few more listens, who knows I may end up loving it!
On another note - I really, REALLY hope Australia gets to stay in Eurovision. We do love it over here. And for the expats like me, it’s so great that we still get to be a part of it
I really hope they go through. They're getting sooooo much hate on Twitter since the leak from pop stans...
This has been stuck in my head since it got announced. So catchy !!
This easily moved at the top of my spotify playlist as soon as I heard it. I was expecting massive from Australia and, omg, did it deliver!!! This entry is 👌, absolutely amazing. This is going to look sensational on stage.
My absolute favourite. My favourite song we've sent so far(if we keep getting invited back). So happy voyager gets to go this is their 3rd time submitting a song.
i dont think itll be an issue of being invited back, EBU desperately needs the money, i think itll be more about is SBS still wanna pay
@@ESCTom we did have a change of government who tend to be more keen to spend money on public broadcasting so fingers crossed
So glad you like this Tom!
I love that Trancey opening to the song. It completely pulled me in, then it slowly punched me in the face when the heavy guitars came in for the chorus!
The little elements and textures with the flourishing sounds and tweaks in the breakdown are beautiful. That huge punch in the gonads when the death metal 'roar' kicks in honestly sent me in a spin....and then to take the song in to its final phase where it started to exude a retro rock feel....I absolutely love this! Absolutely my favourite so far, and I genuinely was waiting for something like this.
And this is going to translate beautifully to the Eurovision stage. It'll be a like a Voyager gig at Eurovision!
Thank you Eurovision God's for finally sending something that's made me so excited for Eurovision 2023!
Definite qualification.
YES, exactly, this song has a story to it. its not just standard construction. i had no idea where they were going, so it felt like a trip through their world.
omg i love how much you like this, i think Belgium have been knocked off the top spot 😂
@@ESCTomlol, Belgium were knocked off by France! And now France knocked off by Australia ;)
Just shows how poor I've been finding this years selections.
I like your comment that it's a journey.....it really is. It meanders and goes off on tangents before coming back to a particular focal sound, then going off again.
I know that the Eurofans are going to likely sleep on this, and im actually enjoying the fact that they are, because i feel like Sam Ryder was similar in the sense that a lot of people slept on him. And he did something similar by bringing a rock sound with the guitars, the gentle falsetto moments, the gruff soaring vocals, the anthemic quality of the performance and the fact that Eurovision fans were saying that parts of the song were bearing comparison to other artists and genres. Im seeing something eerily similar happening with Voyager here. I can see them blowing people away with their performance and making people sit up and take notice.
Can't wait to see what else Is in store with the next batch of songs!
Australia has great songs🤩this will be one of my top favourites now😍
To me this song has everything 🤩 great reaction, funny & educational as well.
🎼🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
It definitely reminds me of Dreamer in song layout and production but Promise is more rock than pop. It's less catchy than Dreamer but on repeated listens I think it is a stronger song overall. (I love his hair too)
As an Australian I am so so happy about Voyager representing us.
This is more of a risk as Australia usually loves to impress the jury and use that as strategy.
Good luck! I'm so excited about this! Honestly it made my day ❤
yea, in hindsight this change up to a non pop song was really necessary. i love it
This is great, idc what others say but this stands out amongst everything we have and it'll qualify.
I couldn't agree more! This stands out from everything else, it's probably not gonna win, but they're my winners for now. Eurovision will really disappoint me if they don't qualify.
Yea I’d be pretty disappointed too
When i first heard it yesterday i honestly didn’t really like it, but when i heard it today i loved it. It is a grower, hehee. I love that Australia takes Eurovision so seriously, always we get quality. I was hoping for quality from the UK in years but then we got it last year. It is always so great to look forward to the australian entries. I really think it will quilify. I am one of the people that want Australia to stay, just because they really take it seriously. It makes the conpetition more diverse with different kind of quality music. Good job Australia ❤.
My favorite so far! Sooo good! :D
I'm a massive Eurovision fan, even though the majority of the music is not what I'd listen to the rest of the year. Voyager have been one of my favourite bands since I discovered their last album, so it's the coming together of two of my big loves. It's made me even more devastated that it's not in Glasgow where I might have managed to get to. The band are really genuine and lovely in any of the interactions I've seen or had with them as well, I'm happy it's third time lucky for them and they didn't give up when Runaway (my favourite Voyager song) didn't make the top 10 for the Australia Decides Final in 2020. I've fingers and toes crossed for them.
The riff guitarist is a female - Simone Dow. 😃
i want to see her and Dadi Freyr's wife in the same room at the same time please 😅
It's Great! Top 5 I hope!
You should have said "That was fecin great!" Great review of a great song. Top 5 for me.
Ripper, Rita! Nice reaction, cobber. Respect.
If you would like to hear more from Voyager, my recommendations (for a while now) are 'It's A Wonder' and 'Colours'.
Big-ups from Australia.
A really great choice for a televoting only semi final! Gotta qualify looking at the state of semi final 2. I think I do still prefer dreamer but that would have been in my top 5 of all songs last season! So nice after winning the Aussie Televote last year they are back straight away. I think the main singer is a human rights lawyer ( much cooler than a politician ).
ah yes, that was it - human rights lawyer, and he was helping immigrants or something
Great reaction, I agree with everything you said!
Just recently found your channel hence commenting now. I'm so happy for Australia doing well in 2023, they were obviously surprised 😂
Tom has one of the best Eurovision CZcams channels!- From another Australian who is still coming back to watch this reaction haha
They are my winner❤
Great reaction and lots of good background info in the intro of the review! I agree 100% on your interpretation also, I felt the same way about the production and the arrangement quality being very strong quality.
It's like the Hawai'i song from Eurosong on Redbull + Steroids. I can root for this. It is slightly Eurovisionny lyrics-wise but the fresh-sounding music helps to overcome this.
I love it 💞
12 points. ! This is the winner !
Hard for me to be objective about it but I am delighted to see that Voyager has been chosen. We know they can perform the sh1t out of this. We know SBS know how to put on a good show with the entries they send. This should qualify and if it doesn’t then it does jeopardise the future of Australia at Eurovision. If it qualifies this will appeal to the casual viewer on Saturday and will do well., so fingers and toes crossed.
PS I love the beginning and now you mention the Presets I can see it. Did they produce it? I wonder? If not I so am here for a Presets remix (please, pretty please,love you longtime Julian & Kim)
They do a presets cover of 'this boys in love'
You’ll be amazed how much you like it, after repeated listening. 9th is fine. Obviously more with rock fans. At least they can tour Europe for quite a while now.
when I saw the female in the group last year I though the exact same thing about Daði Freyr's wife 🤣🤣
It was really odd - we heard nothing then announced at 5:30am. Not sure if SBS will go for it being more expansive - I remember Kate Miller-Heidke having to crowd find her staging. Love this year's song though
Wait till Wild Youth revamps We Are One into a metalcore song 😁
omg i would love that 😍
My favourite so far unless Martin & Martinus win in Sweden (still team Loreen though)
Dude - they’re gonna win… you heard it hear first
I'm excited for this song! That said, I miss one thing, and that is a link to the original video in the description. I realize I can search for it, but I'm lazy!
lol i havent done that in years 😂
honestly with all the editing, copyright juggling, timestamps etc, ive got enough on my plate🍽.
you can just copy and paste the title from my video name into the search bar above, i believe in you 😘
It's called proggressive metal
Haha I thought the exact same thing today about the girl looking like Daði Freyr’s wife 😂
Love a beyonce style no build up release
With no competition in second semi it could easily win second semi
Estonia and lithuania will never be higher in televote then Australia
Danny works in immigration law 🤘🏻
It's good, they are more edgy than anything in Eurovision
4:53 you say that and then a generic bland pop singer wins every year. Compared to a lot of the other songs in the contest, Promise kicks the absolute ass out of all of them.
I mean, if we’re talking borders & geography….. Errrm, ISRAEL!? You ROCK, Australia 👍👍👍
I can't see them not qualifying (unless people really are opposed to their participation). I think the EBU will do everything possible to keep Australia in the competition (with the loss of Russia and Belarus). Even if that means bringing back the juries in the semi finals to appease Australia.
If this is to be their swansong, then at least they are not going out with a whimper. Not my genre at all, so for me, it's tempting to suggest he sticks to politics. 😉
We have indie rock from slovenia and latvia
And croatia is punk rock
Some music nerd out there, can you tell me what genre they fit in? They have, at least for me, a very peculiar sound, rock/metal at the core but with some synth elements
Its progressive synth rock
Pop rock in that case
Thanks both.
In terms of the song, I really like it. Liked it more on a second listening and even more on the 3rd.
It feels a bit "compact". A lot going on there. What I hate the most in Eurovision is the 3 minutes limit rule (which I get why is there). It would have been much better with 20-30 seconds more
I’ll be expecting a San Marino reaction to all the songs Tom
😂
ill react to the songs in the final. ive actually been watching some of the semis, its so snappy and quick. like the opposite of Sanremo 😅
For me this has mid table eurovision final all over it I mean the songs good really good but but nothing wow nothing to get it in the top 10 this is going to place somewhere between 14 and 19 in the final but would be good for Australia to get back on track
even that would be a success tho, cos it would be qualifying, and also qualifying with a non pop song
@@ESCTom Yeah so long as we qualify. SBS are more likely to renew if we make the final, cos ratings explode (even at 4:30am IN THE MORNING) if we make the final. Even the repeat at 8pm pulls really strong numbers.
"no hard rock yet, just indy Slovenia" You forgot about Latvia (and Romania has a sort of indy rock vibe as well)
I fear for Australia this year Tom, especially, as you point out, that they suffer in the televote. I found the flow of the song a bit jarring on first listen. It also gave me Intelligent Music Project vibes 😂
Yes, have to say that came to my mind also!
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oh lol really? that song was flat AF, this has so many more peaks and troughs
@ESC Tom afraid so Tom imo that is.
I did leave a review but it seems to have gone.
@@ESCTom chances are there will be 6 worse songs in the semi, so they might just do it 😉
They suffer only when they send boring ballads and generic pop, they didnt suffer in 2019 and they wont suffer with great rock
This is by far my favorite this year. Could do without the guitar solo, though, which I feel is a little bit out there. Overall I feel like the verse is better than the chorus, but it's still really good.