REACTION: Ireland's EuroSong 2024,
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- čas přidán 13. 01. 2024
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ALL PARTICIPANTS OF EUROSONG 2024:
Ailsha - Go Tobann
Bambie Thug - Doomsday Blues
Erica-Cody - Love Me like I Do
Isabella Kearney - Let Me Be the Fire
JyellowL - Judas
Next In Line - Love Like Us
Alesia Michelle is a Eurovision blogger, based in the United States and has been covering the Eurovision Song Contest on CZcams since 2015. Check out her reaction now!
The 68th Eurovision Song Contest will be hosted in Malmö, Sweden. Semifinals and finals will be held May 7th, 9th and 11th in Malmö Arena.
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If Ireland picks Erica or the boy band over Ailsha or Bambie then I guess they'd rather have a star than the moon...
Exactly
Agreed
Ailsha or Bambie Thug will definitely get it!
Ailsha or Bambie thug age our best options but I wouldn’t be mad at Isabella as it’s very catchy
Who are you gonna vote for?
Isabella won’t qualify- lovely song but it is not enough
I am so glad your fave is Bambie thug! It is an amazing song, we just need an impactful performance and it can go high.
I feel like I'm not even considering Doomsday Blues or Go Tobann to be risks because at this point with our qualification record, choosing Love like us or Love me like I do looks like we'd have a certain non qualifier. At least with Ailsha and Bambie Thug, both songs sonically are memorable and lend themselves to creative staging which if I will say one thing weve done alright in all of our non qualifications is that our staging has been mostly alright.
So to me its either, pick a song we know won't qualify or pick a song that has a chance and for once pick the bolder choice.
I'm already dreading our televote and Irish jury because their mind set time and time again in our selections is choose the "thats nice, thats grand" option so I think it might play out that way again I'm just hoping Ailsha and Bambie Thug dont end up near the bottom of the leaderboard for those votes and an international jury can support them.
Also while the boyband might pose a threat, Erica is essentially the Wild Youth of this years selection so I wouldn't be surprised if the public like her song and vote for it.
I feel like Love Me Like I Do, Let Me Be The Fire, Judas and Love Like Us are not risks because there's no "risk" of them qualifying. I'd say Go Tobann and Doomsday Blue are the safe options.
@@dizzard5297 100%. The plus side perhaps of going with Doomsday Blues or Go Tobann is that they have staging potential, whereas I can't imagine the others to be terribly exciting with staging.
I think most Irish Eurofans are feeling Ailsha or Bambie Thug (very split down the middle for which one leads) but public vote-wise, they may be seen as too out there by the wider public (I hope not). Arguably Ailsha might be that little bit more accessible though. So the international jury will be important for us to make this happen and send one of those!
Just to give you some help with the pronunciations, Go Tobann is pronounced guh-tub-ben!
Also Ailsha is Ale-sha! ☺️
I really hope Ireland sends Ailsha, but I feel given it’s on the Late Late shows, the viewers will not connect with it😭
I do want to se Ailsha for sure, as it's not only an amazing entry from IRELAND, but also the Risk factor here is insane. You just cannot tell where it would end up even if it will qualify. And in the worst case if it doesn't, people will be very happy for the choice itself at least
It's trashy tho 😂
Bambie Thug all the way.
Take the show to the 3Arena!!!
Ireland definitely has to do more. Probably because of a lack of neighbours but there have definitely been many semis where worse songs have gone through and Irelands song somehow ends up 13th or anywhere besides 11th and not even close to qualifying. 2014 and 2015 spring to mind.
Molly Sterling (2015) definitely deserved to qualify.
I would go with Bambie Thug. Ailsha's song is funny, but I'm not sure if people would get it and the music is far too loud and I can't hear the vocals. Of those safer songs I would pick Isabella cause it sounds current and it reminds of a song from Eesti Laul last year, So Good At What You Do.
Bambie is a no for me
My biggest issue with RTE is that they haven’t got the message that works well on radio does not typically work at Eurovision. Erica, Isabella and to a certain extent Next in Line have good radio tracks, but none would be competitive at Eurovision
But they allowed bambie thug and ailsha into the selection. They are learning I'd argue. To say otherwise is to ignore their songs actually being in the final
@@oliviamacarthur18 True, but I don’t mean literally every song is to fit that purpose. But it’s a common trend for the last three years and will likely continue
@stevieboy666 I don't understand your point, I'm afraid. You said that radio friendly doesn't do well at eurovision. Bambie thug and ailsha are both not radio friendly. Are you arguing that rte have not learned their lesson because some songs are radio friendly and no radio friendly songs should be in eurosong? Because the fact that we have two risky songs that aren't radio friendly show me their learning and we need some radio friendly to keep things diverse
@@oliviamacarthur18 No, I’m saying that it is not praise worthy to have 2 songs that are not radio friendly in the final. This selection still contains 4 non-starters at Eurovision, regardless of the actual quality of the production
@stevieboy666 you and I will have to disagree so. 1/3 of wurosong is radio unfriendly high quality. That's a better ratio than most nfs and is 200% more radio unfriendly than last year. Steps have been taken, lessons have clearly been learned if they even allowed these songs in the final. I find that more than praiseworthy. But you do you.
Both Alisha and Bambie but I feel Bambie's song is that bit more polished production wise.
It has to be Bambie Thug or Ailsha for the win or I despair. Bambie is my 1st choice but I would also be very happy with Ailsha. Agree with everything you said about Erica Cody's song. I actually find it the most generic out of the six songs. Its a definite none qualifier for me and I'm really scared about the amount of people that think it's the best choice. It is generic AF and not her usual type of music she sings! Basically it's Wild Youth 2.0! Just another artist who has an out dated vision of what Eurovision is & obviously hasn't even watched it. Tired of artists like this. Time for us to try something completely different and we have two risky but in my opinion brilliant choices.
Next in line will perform well live im telling you wait till the 26th
Love your comments, as always, Alesia. RTE often doesn't optimise the options that are in front of them. Almost sabotaging their options sometimes.
You're totally correct about the public vote. RTE are so clueless that it doesn't see that the Late Late audience don't know what works at Eurovision. Because it doesn't know what works at Eurovision itself. You're also correct that Ireland has to do more.
When was the last time a boy band did well in the final?
WGAF about the final- Ireland's goal is making it there. That's all they have to do at this point.
The melodic line in the chorus of Go Tobann sounds strangely ethnic to me. I keep envisioning some kind of Irish dancing. Ofc, completely modernized. Could be really cool if executed well.
Edit: I wrote that just before you mentioned traditional touches!
Doomsdays Blues is still my favorite. I don't like the production on Go Tobann, it's too busy and condensed. Maybe she could tweak it a bit...
Im with you on eurosong last year. I loved Adgy and KMuni x ND studio wise and still listen to them but the lives were ehm...
I think we should send Ailsha or bambi regardless of live, tbh. Im not the biggest fan of Erica Codys song but her voice and performing skills are brilliant so Id love to see her get her own NF instead next year like Saara, Eden etc.. i agree the R&B vibe would help.. its Rachel Goode but a bit less retro.
My fave is isabella but not for eurovision
Just fyi for the pronunciation it’s el-sha with the song gu-tu-binn
Ok as a competitive standpoint I think there is only two options and that’s go tobann and doomsday blue ….. while I love Erica and Isabella these songs are like wild youth created where we know it’s a throw away song for Eurovision. Their back catalogues are better than what they are giving
My concern is while go tobann is more likely to qualify than doomsday blue it will get tanked by juries. Plus with the mix of other counties it will get bottom 5 I think if doomsday blue qualifies it will get a higher position. I just worry how will they both be staged like Ireland never really had songs like these so I am worried about stagings for these songs.
While love like us is cute and might have a demographic … is it for the people that will pick up the phone and vote I don’t think so.
While I know Ireland want to qualify I think the risk is needed
Overall the selection is decent no real bad songs or songs I dislike it isn’t one of the best we had in years I think last years was a whole lot stronger than this year
Hi!
I agree with your personal favs! Ailsha and Bambie are mine aswell. Also just fyi Bambie goes by they/them pronouns :)
On who I think will win now: I think its gonna be between the boyband and Erica. Biggest problem with the boyband is, if they end up in the allocation draw in the first half of any semi they get 100% the 02 running order and then they will be toast. Erica on the other hand as of right now she gives me borderline NQ vibes HOWEVER, that being said I feel because the song is so basic they can do a lot with it? Revamp it _a lot_ put a dance break in it we know that Erica can bring the choreo. Let her have backing dancers and let them do a big show and maybe if the semi is not that strong she could sneak right through as a qualifier.
Erica can't qualify. I simply don't see it: kitchen sink included. If Brooke can't make it Erica will not. #bummer
@@AlesiaMichelle yeah that's fair! Let's just live in a world where it's likely that Ailsha or Bambie will win Eurosong like I am begging Ireland at this point. But I heard from an Irish friend that Bambie is topping the spotify charts in Ireland so I am a bit more confident about their chances!
I’m just very worried about how these will sound at the studios of rte. It’s a talk show not a stage for music like this so I think they won’t sound good at all. Not to mention the audience is leaning on pensioner and the average viewers are old. So I’m rlly not sure how Ailsha and bambie will do, I’m scared the boy band will win lool
the pedestal shade 💀
I waited to listen to go tobann on the official channel to see if it had better quality but for the most part it still feels like noise to me (maybe live it wont be as much of a problem) so I would go with doomsday blues. Having said that, they will probably go for the safe option once again having more extravangt songs that last year in the mix
Not a fan of the messy songs but Ailsha definitely the more fun option imo
Its not the first time ireland has options for a decent result. The problem is they like to play safe
Let go Éireann 😎
While I personally don't like Ailsha or Doomsday Blues, I agree that they should send one of those, since at least those would be not be boring like the entries of previous years, but are we sure that the people that watch Late Late show would actually support this type of music and vote for it? lol
I really want to like Go Tobann. I want it to win. I think it has the most potential for Ireland to turn its fortunes around. But there is too much distortion on it for me to be able to listen to it repeatedly or to really enjoy it unfortunately
Got to react to Luxembourg 🇱🇺 National Selection It’s One of the better Nationals we have so far this year
Brooke's "That's Rich" could have worked has she provided a _way_ better music video as a preview and a different stage performance. From what they presented in 2022 (and 2023), I could have seen a non-qualifier from _Mars!_ 😕
For their next stage performance, they need to go where few have been.
I agree with you Alesia that the boyband is better than last year as they are actually young handsome guys with a decent genre song. Not special but fits the genre. Wild Youth was a bunch of 30 year olds trying to appeal to 17 year olds haha. No "youth" at all.
The problem though, is whilst theres a sterotypical demographic they can tap into (straight teen girls and gay teen boys whod hang their poster on a wall/middle aged moms who think they are adorable and innocent), i fear that demo wouldn't be a large enough chunk of esc audience.
Id say the people who largely vote in esc are 18 to 40 year olds. Primarily 20s and early 30s. Theyd make up probably 2/3 the vote.
Great video again!
Ailsha for me! It’s the best. But I wouldn’t be mad if Bambie won because it’s unique. Id be mad if Next In Line won though lmao. So Ive lowered my expectations
Some people think Go Tobann is the safest option compared to Doomsday Blue, but I kind of disagree, I feel like it lacks layers, dynamism, and people might find it even more off putting. The song starts at a 10, stays at a 10, and ends at a 10, I love it but it’s basically just a bunch of chaotic noises for 3 minutes straight. Doomsday Blue is a bit more experimental with the mashup of different genres but its structure is little more familiar, it has layers and the listening experience is a lot better, feels like a journey rather than just chaos
it has to be go tobann!
If Bambie wins you're gonna have hard time picking between Raiven and them 😂❤
I definitely think Ireland's only chances lie with either Ailsha or Bambie Thug. Everything else is doomed imo.
Its all fixed anyway RTE is broke selling land and talking about moving to a different studio in the city, That boy band is only there because of Walsh who has something to do with the ESC if you remember a fight with linda martin on the late show when Walsh was told he shouldn't have anything to do with it, and that Brendan lad won and he was terrible lol.
Bambie FTW. God save Irish music from another Louis Walsh vehicle. Shame Anne Marie Kelly's 'Follow your instinct' czcams.com/video/348a8lj_IfQ/video.htmlsi=eQClhgTdTjBmFube
Or Cruachán did not make final 6.
Ailsha or bambie no choice
Barbie uses they/them btw!
Next in line have no charisma from what I’ve seen and there is a demographic but that demographic is not really in Eurovision I think
The demographic[s] (more than one) is absolutely watching Eurovision.
Sending good songs doesn’t work for Ireland..so send a demonic trash metal /pop mix in any language, instead.
When did they send a good song tho lmao
@@nateesc7413 That’s Rich Brooke, was a stompin’ tune, and stole the live show in Italy. Regards from Switzerland