May 23, 2021, 8:11 am
Radiant winners of the 65th Eurovision Song Contest in Rotterdam: The Italians Måneskin rocked the store and secured victory. Bild: © 2021 Getty Images/Dean Mouhtaropoulos
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At the “Eurovision Song Contest” (ARD) the motto “Same procedere as last year” prevailed from a German point of view: Jendrik landed second to last for Germany with three points. Italy became the shining winner. But one thing gives the ESC fans hope.
Song with x – that was probably nothing. Germany got 3 points at the 65th Eurovision Song Contest in Rotterdam. In words: three. With a total of 39 participating countries, i.e. a maximum of 4,332 points to be awarded. You have to do that first. And not all of them even managed to top it. Great Britain, something like the motherland of rock and pop, was punished even more clearly: The British got zero points. After the political and economic now also the musical Brexit. Before Germany – in 24th place – another “Big Five” country landed with Spain (six points).
Not all Big Five countries did as badly as Germany
As the biggest donors, these “big five” of the ESC do not have to torment themselves through the semi-finals, but rather embarrass themselves in the final. Italy and France have shown that the name “Big Five” can be honored in other ways. The furious rocking band Måneskin from Rome secured victory with 524 points ahead of the French Barbara Pravi (499) and the Swiss falsetto genius Gjion’s Tears (432).
ESC star Jendrik with the song “IDon’t Feel Hate” for Germany
Jendrik, the likeable starter for Germany, kept his composure despite the crash landing with his lively song “I Don’t Feel Hate”. “No shit, I lived the Eurovision vibe, and that was great. It was a great feeling of community.” With his own performance he was “happy, I felt good.” He showed greatness in defeat, he only had posture problems because of the alcohol level in the “Green Room”: “I babble a little because I’m drunk.” It’s a shame that the good-humored guy and his important and correct message against hateful messages were obviously not understood by the juries and fans in Europe.
ESC realization: it’s still worse for Germany!
With the disastrous result, the German underperformance from the previous year was even undercut. S! Sters also came in 25th, but still got 24 points. It’s just getting worse. Not for the British, though. They were the last to defend their rank of the previous year, but poor James Newman should go down in history: zero points – wow, that rarely works.
The German total points bankruptcy prevented the juries from neighboring Austria (2) and Romania (1) – otherwise there were neither points from juries nor from fans voting by telephone in the other 38 participating countries. Even the TV commentator Peter Urban, who is experienced in ESC, was almost speechless. “Oh,” he cleared his throat, startled, “that cemented the 25th place.”
ESC in Rotterdam also has positives
But now enough moaning! Because the Rotterdam ESC brought a lot of positive things – especially the audience at last in the hall again! 3,500 tested fans were allowed to celebrate in the Ahoy Arena and did so loudly. Their applause was also pepped up via an applause app, which, depending on the votes of the fans during the performances, suggested additional enthusiasm. “It is an ESC of hope,” said Urban rightly, albeit with the caveat “if it goes well”. That remains to be seen, depending on how the corona numbers develop after the event.
Europe’s fans are into hard rock: 364 points for Italy’s Måneskin
The Dutch makers also put on a fantastic show. From the spectacular opening with the marching in of the 26 singing gladiators, to the dancing voting countdown or the live performance of several ESC winners from the rooftops of Rotterdam, a wealth of ideas, creativity and absolute joy dominated. Just seeing the winners of 1975 (teach-in) or the hard rock monsters of Lordi (winners 2006) was a gigantic flash of inspiration. Not only for this reason: This show was really great!
Which doesn’t make Jendrik’s performance any better. The debacle loomed early. With the eleventh jury vote there was Austria’s counter, Romania’s little point came in 29th voting position. And that’s it. After the jury voting, the Swiss was still in the lead with 267 points, just ahead of the French (248), Malta (208) and Italy (206). The public voting then turned everything upside down.
Måneskin, who had already won this year’s Sanremo Festival with their refrain-free crossover song “” Zitti et buoni “, received 364 fan points for Italy, an average of eight from each country, and passed them inexorably The Ukrainian folktronic troupe Go A got screaming singer (that’s not an insult, but a singing style) Kateryna and pushed themselves to fifth place, right behind the nerdy Icelanders who had to watch from the hotel room because of two corona cases.
At the end of the flagpole with the fans: In addition to the British and the Germans, the Spaniards and hosts, the Netherlands, did not receive a single point.
Schlager, Euro-Dance and shallow pop are out!
While after the victory a very cool Måneskin singer Damiano David “Rock and Roll never dies!” and “Thank you Europe” shouted and celebrated the third Italian victory after 1964 and 1990, Peter Urban reflected on the “spectacular result”: “Two French-language songs and two hard rock bands in the top six”, he stated and pondered “We have tastes change! Euro-dance, Schlager or shallow pop are no longer popular. ” His realization, pardauz and thank God: “We need completely different qualities.”
Of course, as a look at the ESC’s Instagram account showed, you can’t please everyone. But at least it is nice to see that the excessive pushing of points between neighboring countries (apart from a few exceptions such as Greece and Cyprus) is a thing of the past. And: The ESC is and will remain a lucky bag.
In view of the fact that the bookmakers were pretty good with their forecasts (Italy was the top favorite, ahead of France, Malta, Ukraine and Switzerland), that sounds almost absurd, but the musical diversity speaks for itself. Rock wins in front of an almost classic good old chanson (“Voilà”), a head vocal drama that creates goosebumps (“Tout l’univers”) and a wacky electro-ethno number (“Shum”) as well as the poppy will-o’-lantern of a troupe, which looks like a caricature on the many styled ESC beauties – which of course also existed.
Again the question: How will ESC Germany continue?
Not only Peter Urban was pleased that the beauties with long hair and little textile (from Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Israel or Serbia) with either brutalized dancers or barbusted dancers were not the only ones pleased (“That clumsily fell into the ESC cliché trap.” ).
The variety makes the ESC unique, an experience this time too. You could look forward to that. But it doesn’t change the fact that Germany has been sunk musically once more and you can continue to think about how you could change that again. Anyone who saw the pre-celebration from Hamburg could, for example, sigh: “Oh, Zoe Wees would have stood for us.” But – would have, would have had a bicycle chain – would it have been different? Michael Schulte, surprise fourth in Lisbon four years ago: “Nobody knows what will come out of the ESC in the end.”
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