This is the 33rd of 37 videos in a series in which I'll react to the songs of the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest. Sundays-Thursdays from March 17th through May 6th. #music #reaction #reactionvideo #eurovision #eurovision2024
Fado May not be your cup of tea but it certainly isn’t boring…. It is raw emotion, Portuguese soul thru and thru, saying it’s boring without understanding it, is an insult to an entire nation!! And this most certainly is not fado… she may have been inspired by it but fado is completely different. I wish people would learn more about it and try to understand where it comes from before giving opinion!!!! By the way, we have many more musical genres besides fado… some very innovative, others more experimental, like Conan a few years back!!! Proud of our artists for always showcasing our roots and being true to ourselves, and singing mostly in Portuguese… we don’t play to win we play with substance , and celebrate our originality and our difference
Totalmente acuerdo com tudo o que disse!!. Que falta de respeito á cultura musical Portuguesa . Pode gostar mais o menos mas há que sentir e entender. Desde logo no entende nada .
Portugal won eurovision in 2017with the highest score ever with Salvador Sobral. Many people think Portugal is only fado but fado is not to everybody .
You're absolutely right, Fado isn't just music or word, nor the combination of both; it is about essence, emotion and soul. In fact, not at everyone's understanding.
So true. But sometimes it is... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hcFj678HafE.html (The background piece is literally called "Fireworks", by Sound Adventures)
Sorry, we respect your opinion but you don't know nothing about Fado to say this is Fado! Also Portugal never send any Fado Song, only some inspired in fado litlle parts in some few songs sent to the Eurovision. So I think your opinion it's a giant comom place that every bad informed fan of the eurovision say's. Thanks for apreciating the song but, not thanks, for the "emptiness of your comment.
Yes, this is gold. Thanks for your surprising reaction. ❤️❤️❤️ Senhora do Mar is a reference to Iolanda, and GRITO has to be in the final. It’s a masterpiece 👌
I am sorry first that you do not know what fado is and second for not understanding that we do not need to win. We take to Eurovision what we are and what we like, I believe that is the point of this contest. Maybe sometime we can ask a computer to make a commercial song so we can sound like everyone else and win the contest........
I'm Portuguese. A country that lives through music and poetry. Our roots are embedded in music. We had a revolution - on 24th April 1974 -, which brought us out from a dictatorship, and the signal for the beginning of said revolution was two songs playing on the radio, one of which had actually been a Eurovision participant. It initiated the military against the regime. And yet it was all so poetic... a florist in the midst of Lisbon distributed carnations amongst the people, and many of these flowers were placed in the military's gun barrels. It was a peaceful yet effective revolution: poetic. And we ended the dictorship. So we thrive on the pouring of our souls into the world, not worried about being accepted... but instead, pledging to be heard. Our eurovision songs are pure and pure poetry. Impactful, memorable and rarely not of an irreparable elegance. Very proud of Ioland. Such a beautiful song! Such a heartfelt performance! Such a mindblowing voice. And even if biased, I believe it was the most beautiful song this year and that it may end up on the soundtrack of some epic movie. Yes, you do give in to the song! It makes one's blood flow. :-)
Thank you for taking the time and writing this very well-thought, honest and candid reply. I concur with as much of it as I know (which is to say I'm not very familiar with Portuguese history, besides the story of "E Depois Do Adeus" being used to mobilize the revolution).
Yes. This song is pure quality. Wonderful voice, lyrics. She's singing about letting go what hurt her. Dancers symbolize those thoughts/inner demons, therefore they are depersonalized with masks. She neutralizes them with her scream (Grito). Fado is good, modern or classic. Those who don't feel it are at loss. I'm not Portuguese. My country is Ramonda :). Both songs are something special, the lyrics as well as melodies, voices.
Tako je.Samo što se na ESC nažalost više vrednuju komercijalne pesme nego umetničke. PLUS malo političke zavrzlamice(sastavni dekor već godinama😮)No nema veze....ko ima imalo sluha slušaće Srbiju i Portugal..tu je i Slovenija i još nekoliko zaista fascinantnih vokala.Meni se dopada i Norveška.Tu je i Marko...zaista bih volela da pobedi .Teya🌸💜🌸🇷🇸Top 10.
I love both songs you do :D But I don't dislike Fado - I just think Portugal has sent it too many times in the last 20 years, and most of them weren't even GOOD Fado - just average or below.
@@yairmohr I know you do :) But I like Greece too 😂. Marina Satti is out of this world, check some other songs, she sings old Greek songs, opera, Björk covers - I love everything from her. Her album Yenna and what she sang at Colours
The faces covered means her feelings, emotions an and demons which she tries to overcome. Because of a iner fire that still burns (ainda arde) ,still burns. GRITO means SCREAM
It's not Fado, obviously. People tend to classify most music from Portugal as Fado, but Fado is only a very, very small portion of the portuguese music. The covered faces are to not distract from the main character, the singer. They represent her demons. The scream is when she frees herself from them. Salvador Sobral's win (with the most points ever in the Eurovision) was the proof that not always the gimmicks are needed to win the Eurovision. But Iolanda will never win, of course. The eurovision is not only about the music, unfortunetly, it's mostly about friendly neighboars voting on each other, politics (I bet Israel will have a disastrous result, for example...), etc
We don't mind being boring... We take always something different, with our culture and many times with our language. Eurovision would be much more interesting with our aproach (my opinion).
Thank you for your sincere react.. I think you didn't see this coming.. you were surprised. Grito is Scream in English, and Grito not appear in the lyrics.. Grito is the scream in the climax of the song, when she liberates from the demons represented by the dancers. It is not commercial. A masterpiece. No one in the Eurovision compares to this.🇵🇹 "Ainda arde".. means "still burns", the flame that she still has inside of her. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7m2DhDhJ4-8.htmlsi=a8WRXKPz9TPV3QiO
I don't know if I was suprised per se - but I was certainly relieved that Portugal has sent one of its best songs ever (and I'm REALLY trying not to compare it to that 2008 song again... LOL).
Portugal won Eurovision Contest in 2017 with Salvador Sobral performing "Amar pelos dois"....was that a boring song?! I loved it and...many others also loved it!
Is that really a question? Sobral had the most boring song I've ever heard in Eurovision. Portugal had at least 10 songs 1000x more worthy of winning than that since 2002 (the year I started watching ESC).
Some points here... In Portugal not only exist one kind of Fado, we have a lot of variations of it; Fado Cantado, Fado Vadio, Fado Corrido, and others..., so saying that all Portuguese songs are Fado, well, let's see the last years, Mimicat, not fado, Maro not fado, Black Mamba with a all english song not fado, conan osíris not fado, even Salvador Sobral was not fado, more like it a disney song ...we have many examples of not fado songs in eurovision. For example, to me, for a song at least be a fado song, must have the portuguese guitarr in fado mode, many songs have the portuguese guitarr but not in fado mode, last year for example mostly people thinking Mimicat use a portuguese guitarr in her song, and after all was a normal guitarr with modifications. Sra do Mar finish 13th, Maro with Saudade Saudade finish 9th in 2022 inside top 10, Black Mamba was near in 2021 with 12th place.
OK, it's hard for someone who doesn't know all the intricate details of Portugueze culture to know what "a guitar in Fado mode" is. And all of the Portugueze songs that ranked high except for "Senhora" were actually EXTREMELY bad. The beautiful ones usually don't even qualify (think of 2003, 2005, 2012, 2015). Two exceptions were 2009-2010. And I did say Mimicat was very surprising with its different style.
@@yairmohr the EXTREMELY BAD one (in recent years), for me was "O Jardim", that song not even was to be winning our internal contest, Diogo Piçarra was the favourite with a very beautiful song, but by bad luck, they found after the semi final that he won, his song was very close with a church song that he never heard it about, but to avoid troubles he decided to resign and "O Jardim" won mostly because people known Claudia from those cheap music shows "Idols", "the voice" , "X-factor", one of them, not recall now, and the last place was well deserve for the song, that was a really boring song, the others i just disagree, but everyone have a opinion, you needed to be portuguese to understand the portuguese feelings in ours songs, we not send songs to win Eurovision, we send songs we like. i keep mine, you keep yours.
@@yairmohrif you don’t understand the intricate details of Portuguese music and culture then why are you commenting on it? The fact of the matter is that Portugal sends what it likes in an authentic manner through a range of styles. If that means not always finishing in the top 10 then who cares! I would rather that than sending the usual pop rubbish just to win a contest!
You started Not very good...but ended very well! iolanda is amazing! And Senhora do Mar was iolanda's favourite portugals act at eurovision!😂 Should mean some thing to you! Mine too by the way... This Grito its an healing thing...an captivating and almost hipnotic music...made with skills and Art! TELEVOTE for Portugal at 1st semifinal please!!! 🇵🇹🤘🏼🫂🇵🇹🇵🇹😊
This person shouldn't talk so disrespectfully about Fado. He doesn't even know what is the meaning of it, because if he did, surely would show more respect for such an important Portuguese Icon.
@@marcelinolebre1143 yes but lets forgive that and hope he Will check out more fado - the classical and the last fusions - and then he Will regret and make a Pardon reaction to iolanda! 🤣🤗🇵🇹
Fado os boring?! Last year flamenco?! You dont even know what you are Talking about! Not even Senhora do Mar is Fado! And this year is not Fado! I dont era you Talking about greece always Bring that ethnic sound! This is ART man!
Iolanda's song is an incredible, briliant, pure modern composition which has nothing to do with FADO, traditional, medieval or classical music at all. For classical portuguese music, listen to : Marcos PORTUGAL who has composed about 40 operas, Francisco Antonio DE ALMEIDA, Domingos BOMTEMPO, Luis DE FREITAS BRANCO, José VIANA DA MOTA, Rui COELHO (cf. 'A PRINCESA DOS SAPATOS DE FERRO ' and others), Carlos SEIXAS, Antonio TEIXEIRA, Francisco DE LACERDA, Joao Lourenço REBELO, BRAGA SANTOS, LEAL MOREIRA, Antonio CARNEIRO, ... ❤
Hi, as a portuguese, i recomend you to learn a bit more about the origins of the Fado song, and the amazing diversity of styles that are part of the musical universe of Portugal. You are mistaken about what you call boring. And i think you slhould, for instants, research styles like Corridinho Algarvio, Cante Alentejano. After i can give you a free tour of the eighties: Vida Num Só Dia - Rádio Macau; Amor - Heróis do Mar; Cairo - Taxi; Jafumega. This are examples, only from the eighties, what means that you have much more to research before you can talk about what you assume as boring Fado. Have a nice day.
This is not fado lol. And most portuguese music is melancholic yes, because that is the portuguese default soul, tragic fate, longing... you won't get it unless you're, well, portuguese.
No bubble gum poppy stuff ! 💪🏼 We can fail... But fail in style and with head up high. Music is art and culture BUT lot's of contestants songs, year after year are crappy disposable bubble gum music. 🔥🇵🇹
Portugal doesn’t care to fit in the “Eurovision box”. They send truly talented artists with well written music. They care about the art of music and don’t send a circus act to entertain the clueless!
@@yairmohr the point she's making is that you don't even know what fado is by what you said in the video. And Secondly saying fado is boring obviously your opinion, but how can you say something is boring if you don't really know what it is? That's where you're being a slight hypocrit. Also reacting to the comment the way you did... and so you know I watched the video in its totality. From your unknowingly incorrect comments ( because you obviously didn't fact check the definition of fado or listened to any fado at all) and because of the rudeness you demonstrate towards people who are just commenting on your videos (ultimately boosting your channel), I'm clicking the do not recomend channel button
Even though I'm not a festival fanatic, it was good and gave a signal that many didn't understand, but those who voted understood - No to wars! Free and Independent Palestine! People are intelligent, but we also know that there are hypocrites
I've seen only three of your reaction videos, and guess what, me too, I also felt that I've heard the same criticism over and over again. Why do I feel that your react videos are always a bit disrespectful? Portugal is a great place to die? Really? Slow and boring like Fado? So disrespectfull! You have the right to your own opinion, but please, respect other's language and tradition. Fado has it's own identity, surely not everyone can understand the beauty within... I guess it's easy to find English songs, anywhere, anytime, even a little bit to much at ESC.
I clarified that I'd love to die in Portugal not as a bad thing, but because it looks like probably the most calm country in Europe, culturally. And I don't disrespect Fado. I just think slow songs are less preferable for competitions like ESC (even simple ballads - I've criticized my own country like 1000 times for sending ballads over and over again in the 2000s, since I thought it was a bad idea even if they were good ballads).
@@yairmohr I understood exactly what you meant, don't you worry, it's your opinion, that's all. In fact, Portugal is a good country to live in; indifferent to die elsewhere. I just think your approach was inadequate and disrespectful, because slow isn't boring for everyone, Fado isn't always slow or sad. You can always criticise being respectful, talking about your own preferences, but never judging other's essence in negative ways as you did: slow songs are boring, ESC spectators don't like them that much because they prefer upbeat songs? Maybe it's easier to reach audiences, for people to vote, but who cares? I don't 😉 ESC is not meant to be an English song contest. The purpose should be that each country would have the chance to show in Europe and to the world their own identity, language and culture, not doing the same as others in English, just to get more votes. There is no need for ESC to those spectators: it's easier to just turn on the radio or search that content in the internet.
Peço desculpa mas devia de se informar antes de comentar... não existe nada pior do que a ignorância....Fado é uma das grandes heranças de Portugal...haja nais respeito por nós.
You have feel all in the end... yes iolanda we scream... it s timevto scream about this world... it s beautil thanks try tonlisten the acoustic version in the chnnel eurovision it was in lisbon in a very special place and soul.. ❤❤❤❤
@@LiberatoSalg tecnicamente nao e fado bom, mas e fado ahah. A propria artista dizia na altura que era fado, portanto... mas nao me lembro de mandarmos fado em condicoes desde os anos 70/80.
Nacional Cançonotismo ou Música Ligeira pode ser o rótulo para várias das prestações de Portugal na Eurovisão, mas o fado nunca esteve presente. Fado é outra coisa!
That problem has nothing to do with Portuguese music - it's a lingual problem. Luckily, when it's done as well as here, you can feel the meaning even without understanding a word. I think I could guess both this song's and the Serbian song's messages right after listening to them, before I went and read their translations and background details.
Slow and boring like fado??? What?! Fado is anything but boring, it's the essence of our beings, its our soul. We feel every note with our body. Maybe try to learn portuguese so you can understand the meaning behind the song. 😋😘
