How to win the Eurovision Song Contest, according to experts

A Eurovision Song Contest Last year, he was observed by about 163 million people – that is, potentially 163 million different opinions about what makes the perfect participant.

Are you going to a penetrating ballad guaranteed to leave Europe with foggy eyes and full love and peace?

Do you choose a brazen extravaganza, complete with spicy costumes that take regional costumes and eye base that will have the entire continent (and Australia) that raves in their living rooms?

According to Bennett, this is a certain authenticity when every Eurovision song gets under six broad lyrical topics: “Love, unity, self -awareness, party, history and song songs.”

He adds that “Songs about self-refinement or lyrical well-being” is evident with the winner of Austria 2014 Ascend as Phoenix (Conchita Wurst).

According to our experts, it may be tempted to go out to the top, but it may not be a way to provide a victory.

Author of songs Thomas Stuttgaard co -author The winner of Denmark in 2013 is only (as well as This year’s UK recording What the hell just remembers Monday). He partially denies his success to his simple production, which he said, made it easy to remember.

“If you asked the child to draw this production, they could. It was a girl who had no shoes, two guys playing the drums and a flute. Very simple, but it worked.”

Vocal coach Kerry Grant which He headed the UK jury in 2014 And the sixth in the Sweet Dreams in 1983 came.

“There is nothing more terrible than having an artist whose stage has a lot of money, but their performance does not guarantee,” she says. “It makes this performance seem worse.”

The 2014 winner (and Kerry’s personal favorite) was Conchita Wurst – the first act that won the competition without supporting singers and dancers on stage since 1970.

What made Conchita stand out was that she was a bearded queen. Kerry believes that Eurovision fans love the wonderful things that “take LGBT -community”.

But she adds that Conchita was not a reception, but instead a “brilliant singer who could deliver what we call the vocal coaching” Money Moneents “.

Songs of minor keys are increasingly dominated by Eurovision.

Bennett disarmed the idea that “the main equal to the happy, insignificant equal”, adding that “minor keys is rather short -Short for emotional depth.”

In 2023, 85% of the finalists were carried out in minor keys, the press service reports. Over the last 20 years have won only two main songs – 2011 Running is frightened (for Azerbaijan) and love 2017 to both.

Professor Elizabeth Helmut Margulis, a researcher on musical knowledge in Princeton, emphasizes the sensitivity of the source – our instinct to associate the sound of the song with its intended context. For example, a few techno -technical bars, and we have a mental image of a dark nightclub and such a -dee that can act there.

This means that some minor keys immediately signal Eurovision for viewers.

Remember that on Monday, what just happened, it was written in the song camp, and several composers who work together in rural retreat to write the perfect song for this year in the UK.

The song was intentionally written by the main key to stand out in the sea of ​​minor songs-like second place in the UK 2022, Spaceman from Sam Ryder (B Major).

It is important to repeat the song in the mind, says Margulis. But the songs should be avoided too recurring. Margulis says that what he especially does the song is “not only when they are heard repeatedly, but also when they throw some surprise.”

Winner of Bax Physo 1981 in the UK, Infuse your mindThis is a classic example. Over the first, the song changes the key, quickly accompanied A memorable change of costume In which women’s skirts were thwarted to detect shorter skirts – a joint visual and musical turn.

Earlier, Eurovision winners often mocked their nonsense as the winner of Sweden 1984 ABut Bennett claims that this emphasizes the strong attention of Eurovision to the tune.

“Eurovision really needs big melodic hooks. You want people across Europe to sing this tune. The need for a very affordable, memorable choir is important.”

Key changes have long become a way of introducing novelty in the Eurocyision song. In the 2000s, several winners follow this formula, including the Olsen brothers Fly on the wings of love for Norway (2000), and Prayer of Serbia In 2007.

But, as Bennett notes, although they are still present in the fifth part of the finalists, no song with the final change key has won since the prayer almost 20 years ago.

Song Stengaard for this year in the UK remember that Monday is definitely full of surprises. The BBC Music Mark Savage correspondent said the song was presented with a “dizzying array of key changes and tempo shifts.”

The song is the author’s answer to the question he asked when he writes about Eurovision: “How do you stand out in a competition where everyone wants to stand out?”