Recipe to win Eurovision
What should be done to win the Eurovision, which will be held in Basel this week in Basel, north of Switzerland near the Swiss-French-German Trome, is also a matter of serious research. Forensic musicologist as his official scientific title Joe Bennett From the Faculty of Music Berklee in Bostom, the US, the largest independent musical educational institution in the world, he analyzed hundreds of Eurovision songs to get to the recipe for winning this competition. Indeed, for this year’s victory, his recipes are already too late, but perhaps inspiring musicians will be able to make their way to wins in the future.
According to his extensive research, most of the songs in the final appearances are one of the two categories. The first are energetic songs with rhythm above 120 strokes per minute and great use of artificial, synthesized music. Others are ballads with a rhythm of about 70 strokes per minute. There is also cliché that the content of the winning songs speaks primarily or just about love and peace, and Bennett says that it is not just a prejudice. According to his lyrics, so to speak, all Eurovision songs are taken in one of the six wider bands: love, unity, confidence, partying, history and creating music. The music forensic added that they are particularly well ranked with a theme of self -esteem.
Although this is difficult to notice in the flood of stage kitsch at Eurovision, the Danish songwriter Thomas Stengaardco -author of their winning songs from 2013 Only Teardropshe claims that it is good that the stage layout is simple. Thus, viewers – and therefore also voters – make it easier to remember. “If you told the child to draw this stage layout, it could. There were barefoot singer on stage, two types played on drums and one on the flute. Very simple, but it worked, « says Stengaard.
Singing teacher and leader of the British jury in 2014 also agrees Carrie Grant. She said that nothing worse than an expensive stage and appearance that does not justify the money input: « In this case, the performance only looks worse. » In her opinion, the Austrian singer had the best performance Thomas Neuwrthwhich is like Conchita wurst – dressed in a woman, but with a beard – won in 2014. His performance was the first win after 1970, with no accompanying vocalists or vocalists or dancers on stage.
Obviously, tonality is also very important. In the last two decades, they have only won two songs in the duro, all of them in Mol. And perhaps the last pebble in the Eurovision Mosaic: it is good that there is a surprise in the performance. This can be music or stage, but the best is that they are both in the performance.
