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It’s all got rather busy in the last week with Eurovision news. From rule changes and deadlines, to shifting dates for National Finals and performers being announced there’s a lot to get through since the last Insight podcast.
And yes, it’s picked up enough that the Insight podcast switches over to being a weekly show. We’ll have a week of coverage from Junior Eurovision starting on Tuesday 27th, then we have a bundle of National Finals in December. Going to be busy right up until the end of the year.
Eurovision Insight Podcast: No Statistical Impact
More thoughts on the new running order rules, more confirmed performers for the National Finals, JESC interval acts. Hosted by Ewan Spence, with music from LA The Voices.
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Proposal for a topic of discussion: When is it better to just send a ridiculous novelty song and hope for a Babushki/Serduchka result rather than try to go with the best of a bad bunch?
Case in point, Belarus’ 2013 line up.
The problem is not the ‘novelty’ of a UK song but how well the PR machine promotes the song around countries that are not the UK. The Babushki were the PR story of choice, and had huge crowds around Baku. Unlike the Trackshittaz. Serduchka again had an easily accessible story and was promoted very very well. Contrast that with the amount of PR that Humperdinck did leading up to and during the Contest… he continued to play in Atlantic City, and then did an interview with SBS TV for Australia. Can you spot the fail there?
I could argue that Humperdinck himself was a ‘novelty’, we’ve tried that route, so let’s send Rachel Sermanni instead.