Maria Sur - When I'm Gone (1 Viewer)

[Penelope]

I've thought about this a lot over the last few days, but I think I'm just about ready now to declare this BETTER THAN LIDIA ISAC - FALLING STARS

 

[Velvet Skies]

BETTER THAN LIDIA ISAC - FALLING STARS

Fine, but only because Lidia's staging budget only allowed for a fake astronaut who forgot to remove his accreditation badge before showing up on stage!

 

[Sheena]

I LOVE IT! I'd be VERY happy with a surprise win for this on Saturday.

 

[ButterTart]

I'm just about ready now to declare this BETTER THAN LIDIA ISAC - FALLING STARS

Look, we’ve been friends for almost forty years but I will have you arrested if you come for Falling Stars like that ever again.

 

[D5K]

This song is fantastic and the thread title is unnecessary.

 

[FetchFugly]

Such a grower. I have been raving on my own to this all week.

 

[Pingu]

What in god’s name is this thread title? Sort it out.

 

[Kratz]

It’s a really great song. The biggest grower of the year for me.

 

[Alla]

Well I love her. And there is no need for such a sexist title, dear Pene

 

[ZenGiraffe]

I'll just do a little bit of cleaning, I'm sure no one will mind

 

[Raining on Me]

I can't get on board with it at all. The song takes too long to get going - for a 3 minute track, you have to get a third of the way in for much to happen which is too long. It also feels like it's got one bridge too many and when the chorus finally comes, it's a damp squib. The ending picks up a bit, but too little too late for me.

I'm sure after a few I'd tap the odd toe to it though

 

[HalamaK]

I believe "I Will Rave" is a more fitting title considering its history.

After Kiana rejected 'We Will Rave' for 2023, I've heard Sur did the same for 2024. Even though it's essentially the same theme and group of songwriters for both entries, Sur opted for the inferior one where she was physically present in the room during the camp writing process.

 

[Lucille]

Omg at the alternate reality where Maria Sur is doing ‘We Will Rave’.

 

[Suomi]

I can't get on board with it at all. The song takes too long to get going - for a 3 minute track, you have to get a third of the way in for much to happen which is too long. It also feels like it's got one bridge too many and when the chorus finally comes, it's a damp squib. The ending picks up a bit, but too little too late for me.

I'm sure after a few I'd tap the odd toe to it though

It’s a mood piece. Think Britney Spears - Before the Goodbye

 

[ZenGiraffe]

Omg at the alternate reality where Maria Sur is doing ‘We Will Rave’.

Could the Swedes be trusted with it? It would be MURDERED by the 60-74s for not being WE WILL CHARLESTON

 

[Sheena]

It’s a mood piece. Think Britney Spears - Before the Goodbye

As ridiculous a comment as this is, it's KIND OF TRUE.

It builds and builds- almost as if it's designed to be performed live...if only others did the same!"

 

[HalamaK]

As ridiculous a comment as this is, it's KIND OF TRUE.

It builds and builds- almost as if it's designed to be performed live...if only others did the same!"

It possesses all the essential components, yet there's a lingering sense of incompleteness to it.

 

[Raining on Me]

Before The Goodbye has a surprising emotional edge, better (for 2001) production and crucially, truly POPS OFF with a proper pay off. It's euphoric even before it kicks in. The audacity to compare it to THIS!

 

[Raining on Me]

Cut to me in Malmö in two months when When I'm Gone plays in a bar:

 

[Sheena]

I love that this year in Eurovision land generally, we're SO flooded with ABSOLUTE BANGERS that we can't see one when it's STARING US IN THE FACE!

 

[Kratz]

I love that this year in Eurovision land generally, we're SO flooded with ABSOLUTE BANGERS that we can't see one when it's STARING US IN THE FACE!

We’ll love them WHEN THEY’RE GONE!

 

[Dark Carnival]

I just played this only to check the fuss being made about it here. And honestly, I’m bopping!

 

[Ill Advised]

I’m changing my vote to a 12

BOP!

 

[D5K]

The staging elevates this one for me. I love the song but I can't think of it without picturing the lasers flying everywhere.

 

[Madison]

Am I hearing the same thing? She sounds like she’s out of tune throughout.

 

[Dark Carnival]

Am I hearing the same thing? She sounds like she’s out of tune throughout.

Oh she definitely struggles to find a note or several.

 

[D5K]

I absolutely love this song but when you play the first minute of it back to back with 'Air' you realise that it's pretty much identical:

• Short moody instrumental intro, artist starts in darkness
• "You're just like the ocean" vs. "You're just like a river"
• Reach towards the camera in the fourth line
• The beat starts to kick in after the first four lines, plus blue swirly laser-ish effects
• After four more lines the beat drops out again, for the atmospheric "chorus" that builds and builds
• ALL THE LASERS

I'm not complaining at all but you can almost play them on top of each other.

 

[HalamaK]

I absolutely love this song but when you play the first minute of it back to back with 'Air' you realise that it's pretty much identical:

• Short moody instrumental intro, artist starts in darkness
• "You're just like the ocean" vs. "You're just like a river"
• Reach towards the camera in the fourth line
• The beat starts to kick in after the first four lines, plus blue swirly laser-ish effects
• After four more lines the beat drops out again, for the atmospheric "chorus" that builds and builds

Jimmy Joker knows how to structure a song!

 

[D5K]

Jimmy Joker knows how to structure a song!

Couldn't he have come up with a new first line though?

 

[HalamaK]

Couldn't he have come up with a new first line though?

He changed one word and came up with a new line, just like in "We/I will rave"

 

[HalamaK]

While the audience remains largely unaware, backstage is abuzz with songwriter drama this Melfest

 

[Pingu]

Jimmy Joker knows how to structure a song!

So does ChatGPT, what’s your point?

 

[Suomi]

While the audience remains largely unaware, backstage is abuzz with songwriter drama this Melfest

Go on …

 

[GALA]

Split me open with devotion, I'm belatedly being de-wigged, skull-crushed and put through a mincer - all to stifle my actual screams for this. That's 2 keepers out of 2 I've now got from festival of the melody.