Denmark usually tends to send bland radio friendly songs to the contest, however this year they totally outdid themselves creating one the worst national finals they ever had, and one of the blandest selections this year.
So before we get to the winner let’s start with a quick recap of Dansk Melodi Grand Prix
- Sara Sukarani – performed horribly a cheesy dated ethnic song co-written by Arash. (Result: 10th).
- Tina & René – performed a horrible G:son penned song, which sounds like a 3rd rate ‘In A Moment Like This’ (which is awful to begin with). Not a surprise as both song were written on the same day, and the former was rejected from Sweden’s Melodifestivalen and DMGP for several years. (Result: 7th).
- Marcel & Soulman Group – performed a dated retro soul-esque song. The definition of bland. (Result: 8th).
- Cecilie Alexandra – probably had the most decent song, however her performance was boring and non-appealing. (Result: 4th).
- Andy Roda – was over-breathing his in his mic throughout his performance of another bland pop-dance song. (Result: 9th).
- Julie Bjerre – got confused and thought that this is Junior Eurovision, with a cheesy bland pop song, but a consistent performance. (Result: 3rd).
- Anti Social Media were the winners, so i’ll discuss them in the end.
- Anne Gadegaard – is actually a fromer JESC participant. She had a small decent pop song, but she kinda butchered it live. She still managed to win the televote, but lost due to the jury vote. (Result: 2nd).
- Babou – another former child star, his vocals weren’t really good and the song was a mess, mixing English with Danish. (Result: 5th).
- World of Girls – provided an amateurish performance, staging and vocal-wise, to a quite bad pop song. oh well. (Result: 6th).
This leaves us with the winning song, ‘The Way You Are’ by Anti Social Media. Boys with guitars singing a happy radio song. So innovating from Denmark isn’t it? it’s basically a bit of 2005 mixed with 2008 and 2011. So we can probably expect another mid-table result for Denmark again.
The song was actually performed well, and the staging was OK too. I guess out of the bland mixed with bad performances this selection had to offer it will perform the best in Vienna. The song is also co-written by Remee who is one of Denmark’s top producers.
I have nothing really to add actually, retro-pop-guitar-radio friendly again for Denmark.
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