I think it would be unfair to bring it back. English songs are just what people are used to internationally and sound familiar and good because of the language. That would give GB, Ireland and Australia an unfair advantage. Also, counties like Switzerland that have more than one language as their national language would have an advantage as well. But it would be kind of cool to do it every 10 years as a special edition 😊
Ironically, the song from 1974 is probably the most important song in the Portuguese History... It was played on the radio as a secret signal to start the 1974 revolution.
If a song is in last place and has 0 points, for example, that just means that the song was never voted into the TOP 10 in any country. But it can have reached the number 11 everywhere. This applies both in the semifinals and in the final. The widespread disappointment after that I find totally stupid. This also hurts the participants for no reason. And all those who voted for them. This spoils the character of the event, which is actually about mutual appreciation. Countries do not have to win the ESC, each country just shares its own song with the others. The points are there to be able to show at least some countries the appreciation for their song. More does not fit in the airtime.
1974: Portugal last place with "E depois do adeus" (after goodbye) 1997: Portugal last place with "Antes do adeus" (before goodbye) Conclusion: Never say goodbye
The worst part is someone from each country had to approve each song. Imagine hearing Cry Baby for the first time and thinking 'Oh yeah, that's a winner'
Only if you assume every country actually *cares* enough about the contest in the first place or has *any* intention of winning it. Listen, hosting the contest is incredibly expensive and since most of the artists and songs are never heard of ever again many countries simply don't bother and just send somebody to "represent" them or let televoters tell who will represent them (like in the UK where it's a little tv show mostly teens decide who should represent them). Here's what has been revealed now that over 40 years have passed. Sweden won the ESC with legendary ABBA in 1974 and hosted to contest in 1975. It turns out that was seriously expensive. So much so that Sweden chose not to compete in 1976 at all since they could ill-afford to win it again. Sweden didn't want to win it either in 1977 so what did they do? It was revealed that the "jury groups" in the Swedish contest were urged to vote for "the distinctly average song". It's clear Sweden made sure they couldn't possibly win in 1977. As it turned out they finished dead last in 1977. The plan worked. Now, do you honestly think the other countries didn't have similar plans to avoid winning it - especially if they have already won the contest sometimes before? Have you ever noticed how low the winning countries tend to place the year after? Well, it goes without saying the COST of hosting the ESC is often too high - and especially so considering most countries have their own rich music scene in which they couldn't care less whether they win or don't win the ESC. Seriously, if you honestly believe that all countries always send songs they like or want to win with you can't be too bright. And with all the obvious joke songs being entered - some even intentionally mocking the whole contest - it's clear as day not everybody send entries to win.
The statistics: 1. Norway: 11 times 2: Finland: 9 times 3. Belgium: 8 times Austria 4: Germany: 7 times 5. Switzerland: 6 times 6. Spain: 5 times 7. Netherlands: 4 times Portugal 8. Malta: 3 times Turkey Luwemborg United Kingdom 9. Monaco: 2 times Ireland Sweden Iceland 10. Denmark: 1 time Cyprus France Lithuania Yugoeslavia Italy
Last at Eurovision doesn't mean it sounds bad. The last position is often given to : - musical styles which popularity started to fade away the very year, - mainstream songs in the shadow of similar other competitors whose performance was clearly more glittering, - too obvious plagiarism of previous winners or notorious artists, - and of course, vocal acting failures on 'serious' songs.
You forget a couple of things: - Something truly original and unusual which won't appeal to the broad public. - Musical styles which are not quite common enough for the average Eurovision viewer - Musical styles which actually are AHEAD of time and too modern sounding (happened in the 70's and 80's) - A "funny sounding" language. - Funny songs in which the joke is lost on the public who don't understand the language - or the joke. - Songs mocking the competition which never were meant as serious entries anyway.
@@EVO6- Don't go around calling people ignorant just because you feel like it. I've only heard I think up until 1963, and I genuinely thought that. They were really good singers even though they lost.
It’s a big rip off from Stromae’s song « Papaoutai ». Since he’s so popular in Europe I think people caught on and didn’t want to vote for « Moustache ».
Wow... Austria 2015 was incredible. How did they come last? Damn! Germany in 2016 was one of my favourite songs of the year. Another shocker for me. Spain in 2017 though... gotta admit, that voice crack gets me every time.
OMG so glad to see your comment here. Spain was so terrible, no one in Spain wants this song for Eurovision. For me Germany 2016 was my favourite, same as Portugal 2018.
In Spain, when he was elected, we asked ourselves why and we keep asking ourselves still now. We even wanted it to be the last position to show spanish delegation how bad a choice it was.
@Barbara Petr Liens vers les deux versions: The Makemakes - We Are The Zeroes ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QAgcqZNwgb0.html Ann Sophie - We Are The Zeroes ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JTpZPwmu9P8.html
its ironic that the portguese entry of 1974 is the least voted of that year since its problely the most historicly important song ever sung on the eurovision as it was used in the carnaction revultion as a counter-code. and honestly it an amazing song the lyrics are amazing theres a line that says "the samrt man says that the songs are over " as a direct critic to cencership at the time the story of that song is amazing
Little did they know that "E depois do amor" by Paulo de Carvalho was used as a code song for the 25th of April of 1974 in Portugal, which ended a dictatorship of 41 years :)
@@astrangermagi well, we don't need it anymore. Portugal' revolution was one of the few that didn't need deaths to make a point. And that song is a simbol of that, and it seems enough ❤️ moreover, when we finally won the Eurovison, we made the most points EVER in Eurovison History 😏
From Ireland here, and am a professional traditional musician. The band ‘Dervish’ who came last in 2007 are a highly respected group in the Irish traditional scene and have had a 30 year career selling out venues across the world and making influential albums. Eurovision results aren’t everything.
I'm from Sweden. I like Irish folk music! I play the banjo and mandolin. I would've voted for that group! And thank you for the info! I will look them up!
But their particular performance in this show was crap... And that is what people see. How shall a person from Azerbeidjan know how well known your band is? And also why should it matter?
I mean, artists with good records can fail in Eurovision, just look at what happened to Madonna in 2019 and she didn't even participate, or another example, the period fr the uk during 2011-2013 where they sent washed up artist that didn't do particularly well
9:04 FUN FACT!! After the Eurovision song festival they became an extreme sensation in Belgium, being last in the competition but being first in our hearts💖
A lot of these aren’t technically last, they qualified from the semis in to the final so the actual last places are the ones who came last in the semis.
And then there's the question whether they were better or worse than those big countries (UK, France, Germany, Spain and the host) who qualify automatically to finals and usually one of them ends up dead last...
@@mikkoolavijarvinen3653 It Depends On France Sometimes. Italy Is Overrated 45% Of The Time. Italy's Overrated Years: 2011 2013 ( Even Though I Liked It ) 2015 ( Same ) 2017 ( Same ) 2018 ( Same ) 2019 ( I Can See It Already )
The music at 9:13 is one of the best songs in Portugal history, when this song was played on the morning of 25th of April 1974 the carnation revolution had started, so yeah, this song marks the end of the Portuguese dictatorship.
1983 = sweden 3rd 1984 = sweden 1st 2011 = sweden 3rd 2012 = sweden 1st 2014 = sweden 3rd 2015 = sweden 1st If sweden is 3rd place means sweden is going to win the next year . 😂😂🤣😂😅
K Russell we have amazing singers in the U.K., abundantly, but they’re always kinda meh to even shitty singers that represent us, that’s why I think a lot of people from the U.K. don’t take it seriously lol
Watching this video we have to keep in mind that in the ”early days” everyone had to sing with their own language. So countries with a unique language didnt have a high change of winning. So, songs that were in french (France, Luxemburg) would do better. French was much more common than english in Europe before the 70’s.
She came last because jurors hate her. Maybe she would have done better in the 100% televote era because not many people bias towards and against certain singers, unlike *coughs* *coughs* the jurors.
1963 - NORWAY - Anita Thallaug - Solhverv 1969 - NORWAY - Kristi Spareboe - Oj, Oj, Oj, Så glad, Jeg skal bli 1974 - NORWAY - Anne-Karine Ström and The Bendik Singers - The First Day Of Love 1976 - NORWAY - Anne-Karine Ström - Mata Hari (Did we not learn from 1974???) 1978 - NORWAY - Jahn Teigen - Mil etter Mil (Everyone in Norway know this song, even today. #roadtripsong) 1981 - NORWAY - Finn Kalvik - Aldri i livet 1990 - NORWAY - Ketil Stokken - Brandebuger Tor 1997 - NORWAY - Tor Endresen - San Francisco 2001 - NORWAY - Haldor Lægreid - On My Own 2004 - NORWAY - Knut Anders Sørum - High 2012 - NORWAY - Tooji - Stay GG
Because they weren't actually last places, the actual last places are semi-final songs. With the change of the format, there are much better songs in the final night nowadays (well, the big five can produce some crap, being that they go directly to the finals).
Eurovision 2017 was full of memorable moments. From Spain's cracked high note, to Romania's awkward kiss, to Australia's broken high note, to Macedonia's proposal sounding like a tropical bird. It was all so much fun.
Well the problem is that the people only call for their favourite song. So a song everybody likes but is nobodys favourite will lose, while a song most people hate but is a few's favourite will get rated higher.
Oh, they absolutely can - as long as it is a new song. It's just not worth it for the big international stars: It's a lot of time and work for modest pay; the reward for winning is mostly fame and sales (which they already have). Besides, there's a genuine risk of doing a bad performance or song (or just getting bad voting results), and that may be worse than just not participating in the first place.
It's maybe because more than half of the population is close to being bilingual and as a result writing English songs is much easier. The Dutch language isn't that ugly anyway, it's just that only native speakers know the language and understand what is said.
@@achilles7116 basically people who have learned Dutch or know it from like family connections. For example I am half Belgian (Flemish) and I can understand Dutch.
"Fun" Fact The music in 9:17 ,Paulo de Carvalho's "E Depois do Adeus" was the first signal for the Portuguese Armed Forces Movement to start their mobilizations thorough the country on the 24 of April that would be later the Carnation Revolution that would end the authoritarian regime and create a democracy on the country.
Finland 2009 - lose control Norway 2012, - Stay France 2014 - Moustache Germany 2015 - Smoke Germany 2016 - Ghost Portugal 2018 - Au Jardin among my favourites 2000-2019
The same for Vesa-Matti Loiri. He is now something like 80 years old and he has been an important figure in Finnish entertainment and cultural life his whole life. He is very loved all around Finland and even Huilumies is appreciated. The same isn't true about all ESC failures though. Some became persona non grata and some just bad jokes.
@@ChekhovBla If you say so. That was our first last place and I hope it won't happen again. Let's hope we'll win soon too because it's been 42 years since our last victory.
@@tetsuo964 2007 Oo worst ever french song to me ... but yeah we are so bad in the 21st* century . But I think our last 3 entries were pretty good with 2003 and 2011 but that's all lol
Languages : English : 19 times last (sung by 11 different countries, 17 last places after 2000, 12 by countries where english isn't a national language) German : 13 times (3 countries, all before 2000) Dutch : 9 times (2 countries) Finnish : 8 times (1 country) French : 8 times (5 countries) Norwegian : 7 times (1 country) Spanish and Portuguese : 4 times (1 country each) Turkish : 3 times (1 country) Maltese : 2 times (1 country) Italian : 2 times (2 countries)
2015-Austria (I am Yours) 2015-Germany (Black Smoke) 2016-Germany (Ghost) 2018 - Portugal ( O Jardim) All should had been higher up!!! Who else agrees ???
The two British songs, "Cry Baby" by Jemini, and "That Sounds Good to Me" were both really bad imho. Jemini's performance was so bad that it canceled their record contract. I feel bad for Josh Dubovie, who actually has a really nice voice. He was just the performer that got stuck with a really bland, boring song.
@Suomi Agree, but I think it's a bit strange that your username is 'suomi' and you still seem to imply Norwegian is a unique isolated language like Finnish is. As you will probably know Norwegian is very much understandable for Danes and Swedes. Also, German, Dutch and even English speakers will perhaps still understand some words here and there because of common Germanic origins but also the big indirect influence of Northern German dialects on Norwegian and to a lesser extent the old Norse vocabulary which entered English during the Middle Ages.
@Cheese Head Oh, that's really interesting! I never knew Scandinavia was that into German lol. I always heard people making fun of German because it supposedly sounds really angry (because they only know German from Hitler speeches). I learned German in school as well, but that's just bc I'm Dutch.
I didn't personally care much for the song anyway but I think it's the staging that killed it. The kawaii look might be her thing but it didn't fit the song at all.
Aesthetic Army it would be inappropriate to broadcast a musical entertainment programme at this time, even if it were reformatted so the artists were isolated. It just wouldn’t work.
@@terrybaker8156 - why? Are you a slave who isn't allowed to watch singers, because germs exist? Do you honestly think a virus is a greater threat than the Cold War and the possibility of global nuclear holocaust? Eurovision was never canceled before. Explain what is different this year.
Germany 2015 and 2016 did NOT deserve to be in last place! Jamie-Lee did NOT deserve to lose! she was a 17 year old girl that got crushed on stage! I also wish Ann Sophie didn't get last place! I LOVE those 2! I almost cried watching them get last place!
I Love these: Nicole and Hugo 1973, Remedios Amaya 1983, Thomas Forstner 1991, Jasmine 1996; Gunvor 1998, Malene 2002 Andy Abraham 2008, Waldo's People 2009 Anna Rossinelli 2011, Twin Twin 2014, Jamie-Lee 2016, Claudia Pascoa 2018.
