Regarding Eurovision, I have no idea if it was broadcaster related or actually in the event itself as well, but whoever was doing the sound mixing? Needs to tone it the fuck down. Serbia was the only one who wasn’t fighting to be heard over his own backing track the entire time, and that was largely due to music arrangement.
That said, it’s been itching at me for years. Eurovision is so over-produced the last ten years. You can’t see the stage through the lightshows, you can’t hear the singers over the background music, and that’s without getting into all the filters and virtual reality effects on the broadcast that mean you have no concrete idea how much of what you’re seeing is actually happening. And it annoys me. I want to see the performance. The one on the stage. I want to hear the performance. The one from the actual singers.
I swear I don’t mean to sound like a fussy old person over here. I’m not even that old. It just. It’s been so noticeable the last few years.
The one I really remember where I started feeling this was Australia in 2019 with Zero Gravity:
Because that was some genuinely cool staging, with the swaying rods, and while I understand the space effects happening around it and the immersion of the illusion, I hated it so much, because we didn’t even really get to see the staging, the actual poles and the actual artistry relative to the stage, because of the fucking green screen space effects that obscured everything.
Possibly this was much reduced in the actual arena where you had the constant physical landmark of the stage, but on broadcast she might as well have been on a green screen. You couldn’t see the staging.
Sorry. I’m just sounding pissy now. But what you seem to get with Eurovision lately is a crap tonne of strobe lighting, dodgy sound-mixing, and a bunch of effects that obscure anything the actual acts are doing. They need to tone it the fuck down. Extravagant staging, yes! Eurovision bombast, yes! But let me see and hear the goddamn acts.
