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Despite the excitement of the Sages, the Eurovision provided a rather dull and far-fetched evening overall. As if after a year without live performances and crowds, everyone just wants to pass the event in peace without the earth opening up and a new catastrophe coming out. The broadcast from Israel was not particularly exciting.


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More chanson and more passon: the lesson that Israel needs to learn from Eurovision 2021

Despite the excitement of the Sages, the Eurovision provided a rather dull and far-fetched evening overall. As if after a year without live performances and crowds, everyone just wants to pass the event in peace without the earth opening up and a new catastrophe coming out. The broadcast from Israel was not particularly exciting.

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Nadav Menuhin

Sunday, 23 May 2021, 08:15 Updated: 08:32

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Eden Elena in the Eurovision 2021 final in the Netherlands (European Broadcasting Union, Israeli Broadcasting Corporation here)

One of the favorite songs this year in the Eurovision final was "Disco" by the Lithuanian band "De Rup". First of all thanks to the singer's energies, the absurd choreography and the horribly yellow costumes, but also because of the theme - the insistence on dancing at home because it's at least safe. The background is clear: the destruction of the nightlife by the corona virus, which also eliminated Eurovision 2020. Only now, two years after that week in Tel Aviv with Kobi Marimi and Madonna, and when Europe is in the very early stages of coming back to life, can we dance together again: the competition Rotterdam.



There was something exciting about it.

Even if the Israelis already live in a world where the global epidemic has never been, the majority of the globe is still sinking under the load.

An Eurovision-scale event - pyrotechnic pop performances, thousands of people in a hall and artists from all over the world - seems to most humanity until recently to be a distant nostalgic memory that will be impossible to recreate in the foreseeable future.

Thus, whether it produced historical hits or not, the 2021 Eurovision was in any case a huge victory of the world of culture and of Europe at the end of a formidable struggle.

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Should remember the words of Dafna Dekel from 30 years ago.

Eden Elena in the Eurovision 2021 final (Photo: AP)

In the same breath, one must say (and sorry for the blasphemy): It was a pretty boring and yawning evening overall. Few songs that are bizarre, few really good songs, all around pretty standard as well. As if after a year without live performances and an audience, everyone just wants to move the event in peace without the earth opening up and a new disaster coming out of it. The broadcast from Israel broadcast by Assaf Lieberman and Akiva Novik was also not particularly exciting, and sometimes even sloppy. As witty as the two may be, it is a pity that at least one of the broadcasting corporation's cultural and music figures, pop experts and people who live the competition are not cast alongside them. Repression is not everything, and in such a monumental cultural event - although sometimes nonsensical - one person is asked to cast on the team that it is merciful to take advantage of his field.



And if we go back for a moment to the show itself: it is no coincidence that the songs that starred this year in the competition were not necessarily performed in English. After a year of closed skies, the musicians also brewed in their national juice even more than before - and so we got from France a number that was all chanson and croissant, while Italy managed to win with a local (but not really original and even tedious, sorry Europe) version of too many rock bands from previous decades. Perhaps this is a hint to Israeli writers that it is possible to succeed in this competition even with songs with a more present Israeli identity and a little more Hebrew than "Khalas with the Madness" and "Come on Messages".



Still, Eden Elena deserves mostly compliments for her long journey, which included a tireless reality show, two Eurovisions, a global epidemic, a round of fighting and many surprises along the way.

She turned an overall endearing song into as sweeping a pop number as possible (even if one could have given up the puzzling gimmick of "The Highest Character in Eurovision History" or Waterbury).

Although this did not necessarily convince Europe, it did its part and proved that it has what it takes to become a star in Israel.

She has nothing to be ashamed of.

Whether in the previous song or in another year the result could have been perhaps higher, now Elena has to get up from the disappointment, collect good songs and storm, and especially remember what Sarah Daphne Dekel sang on the same stage about 30 years ago: it's just a sport.

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