Germany 2023 • Lord of the Lost - "Blood & Glitter"

[Anesović]

All discussion regarding Germany in the 2023 contest should be posted here!

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Lord of the Lost - "Blood & Glitter"

m/l: Anthony J. Brown, Chris Harms, Pi Stoffers, Rupert Keplinger

[fabbi]

Germany has announced today, they'll publish the selection process on Wednesday 9th November as next week.

[fabbi]

This week the German broadcaster has opened the submission window for its national selection that's scheduled to be held in March and will be called "Unser Song für Liverpool". It'll stay open until 28 November. Just like this year various radio stations will also have some influence, but unlike in 2023 applications are also possible via Tiktok.

In 2022 the officials were looking for radio friendly songs - which is also what we were given, I guess - but this time they're planning to have a show with more variety. The final format and number of participants will be revealed at a later time.


This part was stolen from myskin on Discord )
Also the rules for applications on TikTok are:
1. All submissions are assessed by our experts in a multi-stage evaluation process.

2. The most promising acts are then contacted by direct message via TikTok and asked to upload their complete three-minute song via the application platform and to agree to the conditions of participation stored there.

3. Voting on the full final songs will take place on TikTok in January 2023.

4. The song that receives the most votes in the voting makes it into the preliminary round.


esctoday.com/188421/germany-ndr-opens-submission-window-for-eurovision-2023/

[littleblackhouse10]

[LATE]
We have our artists:
wiwibloggs.com/2022/11/29/germany-a-closer-look-at-tiktok-applications-as-submission-period-ended-yesterday/274015/

[fabbi]

News from Germany:

Unser Lied für Liverpool will be held on 3 March on 22:20 h (oof!) in Cologne. The host will - once again - be Barbara Schöneberger.

If I understood it correctly, we still have no information regarding the participants, such as how many acts will be there.


eurovision.tv/story/germany-unser-lied-fur-liverpool-set-friday-3-march?fbclid=IwAR3E5N-5ExR-WwV75xoskQvmMWzTSU5bVv-dyskEKu_0p3m5mj1HJZ4riNQ

[fabbi]

My top 9 for Unser Lied für Liverpool

1. Lord of the Lost - Blood & Glitter

Omg, this is such an epic song! I like this a lot.

2. Lonely Spring - Misfit

A pop-punk song that could also easily have been released in the early 2000s. Idr whether I understood everything going on here, but from what I remember it's quite a humorous and somewhat epic.

3. Trong - Dare to be different
It's a modern dance-pop song, that I personally find to be quite fun, but sadly also very 08/15. It has a good message, but imo he'd have deserved something much better than this.

4. Patty Gurdy - Melodies of Hope

Patty has a beautiful voice and I enjoy the song's medieval touch. On the downside it's a bit forgettable and unremarkable.

But the artist gets a plus from me for the inclusion (both acoustically and visibly) of a very unusual instrument.

5. René Miller - Concrete Heart

Rene's got a good voice. However in this song it's leaning towards the annoying side. The song itself is to me quite unremarkable and lengthy.

6. Will Church - Hold on

What I wrote above, can also be considered here: Will has a good voice, but an unremarkable song.

7. Anica Russo - Once upon a dream

Here, I find espeically the first half quite boring ... In the second part it becomes more powerful, but that doesn't help the song getting that much better, I fear.

8. Frida Gold - Alle Frauen in mir sind müde

This entry has a good message, but it's boring.

9. Ikke Hüftgold -  Lied mit gutem Text

As it was expected, this is a party schlager coming straight from Mallorca. Leaving aside, that's absolutely not my music taste, I find this song just plainly flat and boring af.

Tbh. this is quite the good selection, and it specially is for what we had from Germany the last few years.

[fabbi]

I've never listened again ever since I was writing the above comment, yet it somehow managed to become a bit flat. Therefore, it's only a for Germany.

Nonetheless it clearly aas the best option in this show and is the best German entry in so many years.

[Tufkai]

Metal is a difficult genre to nail, and this was pretty amateurish

[littleblackhouse10]

I'd give it a . Not quite good, was expecting Patty (fucking LAST??? WTF), but honestly if this is what it takes to get out of last place, I'll take it.