"Old songs now represent 70 percent of the U.S. music market. Even worse: The new-music market is actually shrinking."

  • TrudeauCastroson [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I only really know of modern Eurovision, only watched ones after the orchestra's been gone. Didn't even think to include ABBA because I feel like big groups don't do Eurovision as much as before. I associate Eurovision with weird people singing in English in accents I've never heard before.

    Maybe it's because I'm not in Europe so that's why I never heard of anyone. Although I'll never get over Flo Rida being in Eurovision 2021, I died of laughter from that because it was so unexpected.

    Does Eurovision set any modern trends? Like, are there going to be more nu-nu-finnish-metal because of Eurovision? Is there going to be more Portuguese nasal singer guys? My favourite entry was Ukraine's electro-folk music so I actually hope it did something to expose more of that.

    Iceland went from 2018-some generic cute guy singing, 2019 S&M leather people, to 2021-22 Dadi Freyer which couldn't be more different. Did any of those set long lasting trends or imitators?

    I'm just thinking of old winners that I can't name any other songs of, so to me Eurovision might reflect fads or maybe just a different avenue to get enough exposure to be a global one-hit wonder but still have a decent career more locally.

    Neuro Euro is an all time classic that should've made the final. Jazz-fusion spoken word ranting about the EU