Re: Eurovision Song Contest, 2023
Posted: 03 May 2023 21:14
So over the past few days there's been very low quality rehearsal footage on TikTok, however now they've done an official rehearsal look on YouTube with high quality footage. The TikTok one was basically impossible to figure out how decent the vocals were, but the YouTube one fixes this.
This rehearsal video covers Semi-Final 1.
So first off, the best from this rehearsal is as I was anticipating, with Finland, Norway & Sweden smashing it.
It looks like they may have scaled down Loreens set a little, it certainly doesn't look as big as I was expecting, but I guess each act has a set budget and to make sure they don't use any out of anyone else's £, they're being sensible there. It's also possible the original Loreen act on Melodifestivalen was using clever camera tricks to make it look absolutely huge compared to what they're doing for rehearsals, although I get the feeling that the camera is also acting as close to final as possible for these rehearsals too at times.
I'm glad to see Finland is sticking to the same style theme & staging as their local national competition was.
Serbia & Latvia sound like they need to get a little more comfortable with everything, their vocals seemed a little off to me, but this is still early rehearsal footage, rather than anything near final rehearsal I guess. I was even pleasantly surprised with the vocals by Let 3. No one is expecting them to win or even sound angelic, but I'm pleased to see they appear to be taking it all pretty seriously.
Overall, I'm getting pretty hyped up, the staging looks pretty good for everyone in Semi-Final 1, and they seem to have knocked together a pretty decent & large stage for it all in the Liverpudlian Arena.
This rehearsal video covers Semi-Final 1.
So first off, the best from this rehearsal is as I was anticipating, with Finland, Norway & Sweden smashing it.
It looks like they may have scaled down Loreens set a little, it certainly doesn't look as big as I was expecting, but I guess each act has a set budget and to make sure they don't use any out of anyone else's £, they're being sensible there. It's also possible the original Loreen act on Melodifestivalen was using clever camera tricks to make it look absolutely huge compared to what they're doing for rehearsals, although I get the feeling that the camera is also acting as close to final as possible for these rehearsals too at times.
I'm glad to see Finland is sticking to the same style theme & staging as their local national competition was.
Serbia & Latvia sound like they need to get a little more comfortable with everything, their vocals seemed a little off to me, but this is still early rehearsal footage, rather than anything near final rehearsal I guess. I was even pleasantly surprised with the vocals by Let 3. No one is expecting them to win or even sound angelic, but I'm pleased to see they appear to be taking it all pretty seriously.
Overall, I'm getting pretty hyped up, the staging looks pretty good for everyone in Semi-Final 1, and they seem to have knocked together a pretty decent & large stage for it all in the Liverpudlian Arena.