Switzerland Eurovision 2023 - Music Teacher analyses Watergun by Remo Forrer (Reaction) 

As an anti-war song, its symbolism has to be interpreted contextually - it ends abrupty like a life taken in war, the petals representing fallen soldiers.

Maybe for some context…military service is still mandatory here in Switzerland so young men like Remo are technically our soldiers.

He is very young about 21, it is an anti war song, you might think he is too young to sing such a song but many young men are forced to go to war at his age. I like it and I think he has a great voice.

So I love this song. Live vocals of Remo are absolutely incredible - saw him in Amsterdam and Madrid, and especially in Madrid he was one of the few who could deal with in-ear audio issues. I fell completely for the song when I heard it in Madrid. I do see what you mean about the end - and this was problematic in the pre-parties because everyone thought the first 'playing with water guns' was the end of the song and started cheering, and then he had to wait to do the second bit while everyone was cheering. I see that as the only potential problem in the live performance. Aside from that, this skyrocketed up my rankings when I heard it live. Already it was somewhere in the low teens, but live it's with Spain on a par for me now (Spain was much lower before I heard it live) in around 5/6th position. Finally, Remo is such a nice guy as well - I brought a Swiss flag to Amsterdam because there were none in Madrid he could see, and he came out to meet us after the show and came up and gave me a huge hug - 'You deserve such a big hug, thank you'. He saw the flag from the stage and he saw the support, the energy from the crowd - it was special. I want him to do so well. It's not Switzerland '21 quality but I do think it'll do better than last year's entry. And Remo is only 21 or 22! Crazy his vocals for that age. Such maturity. Love this guy and agree with everything pretty much you've said about the song yourself.

best male singer of this season ❤

I love this so so much!!! Such great vocals. A great message. The way I see it, this is about playing with waterguns when we are kids, but then we grow up and things get serious, no waterguns anymore, just the real deal, war is a reality and we do not want to be soldiers, do not want to play with real guns, we do not want to end up in body bags. It is an anti-war anthem I think. I always get goosebumps. The staging looks promising. The music itself is so well produced 👌

This is a Deep Massage .❤ i love this Song . You Must gjon tears See you . This is beautiful

Its beautiful.❤Greetings from Poland

It's beautiful! One of the best songs this year. I love the ending❤

Just found your page today, but I’m already a huge fan of yours. I love that you assess technicalities of the arrangement and keys. It’s terrific!

In Switzerland men are forced to go to the millitary when they are young men. This song is about not wanting to do that anymore, especially when there’s war right know because he’s afraid he’s going to have to go to real war

Amazing song, should have done a lot better than 20th. It’s so emotive. What a voice!❤

Loved this the first time I heard it, does not deserve the initial 200-1 odds. Beautiful song, sentiment & incredible vocals. Dark horse I hope

While i think it is important that there are blind reactions about songs to hear what people think about a song when they hear it for the first time, sometimes it's also important to know some background information. For this song during our current times it's really important to know that thsi was written 1-2 years ago, before the war in Ukraine, just to silence any presumptions about this song being just another moralic sympathy seeking song about the war in Ukraine. Of course it turned out to be very much about that war but it was meant to mean something much more general (in Switzerland, almost every male has to go to the army around Remo's age. While war is not much of a threataning reality for Switzerland, the last year has shown us that we shouldn't be too sure and military training can become much more than just a mandatory routine training really fast) than that. What I'm trying to say is that this is a song where it's very much important to know some background information before making statements about the lyrics.

Loved thise one, any idea when the next non euro vision song will be? 😉

Day 1 of asking for a I didnt mean to haunt you reaction by quadeca. U should also listen to sisyphus by him.

I saw you only to reacted to 3 songs from eurovision 2021. I wish you would check out that year again since it has quite a few bangers!

the Power Ballad of this year in my Opinion is Estonia's Entry Bridges, but this song is amazing I agree with you with the "his face does not match his face" tho haha

It's not supposed to end all neatly and comfortable. The abrupt ending is symbolic of lives being lost to war. You can't just tell a bullet to hang on, let me just sing this chorus one last time first... I understood this song completely the first time I blindly listened to it and had always been my number one choice to win. Unfortunately...

Frankly, I'm missing a satisfying vocal climax

That ending. So like the ending of Blackadder season 4, which cut to the fields of Flanders.

Please do Lithuania next, I feel it's the most underrated song in Eurovision

"Ooooouuuu🥰🥰🥰 Ouuuuu☹"

He's like the reincarnation of Elvis to me lol. The cute baby face with the deep voice. This song hits me right in the feels!

This young artist represented my country better than our government does!

I like the song and the singer. Its just a bit hard to listen to a man from Switzerland singing about not wanting to go to war. But I still, thats just a really small thing and I really like the message, the song and how he sounds

Also, a lot of the songs seemed to finish prematurely this year, I feel like everyone panics and then cut the songs short. It's jarring

You should React too Dimash Kudaibergen if you haven't before

This is about how shitty the war in Ukraine is!!! It is so powerful!

Please don’t say sorry for pausing the video and giving your take on what’s happening in the song. Your understandment of how the song is built and how it’s lead forward is what I’m here for. I learn so much from you! Thank you❤

It should be easy to understand. Playing with water guns is fun. Real war is not, no one wants war, so why do we have war in ukraine.

I hope this channel is being restored to its original owner. There are no videos shown anymore but the playlists are there and looks like the original videos still exist, just unlisted. Still got all the branding for the scammer though.

Do you remember Dimash!

Day 2 of asking for a I didnt mean to haunt you reaction by quadeca. U should also listen to sisyphus by him.

Day 3 of asking for a I didnt mean to haunt you reaction by quadeca. U should also listen to sisyphus by him.