🇸🇪 Marcus & Martinus - "Unforgettable" REACTION | Sweden Eurovision 2024
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- Опубликовано: 28 июл 2024
- Norwegian twins Marcus & Martinus have won Melodifestivalen - Sweden's Eurovision 2024 selection - with the song "Unforgettable". We watch their live performance and react. We discuss whether they can win Eurovision and share our readers' comments.
00:00 Introduction
00:36 Reaction
03:44 Analysis
08:04 Readers' comments
Featuring:
William - / williamleeadams
Cinan - / cinansdl
Video Editor:
William - / willyleeadams
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Guys hating on us sending pop is like hating on Finland sending Rock/metal or the Netherlands sending EDM, it's what we like, it's what we do better than anyone and it's why music is one of our biggest national exports. Seeing how we always place high and how everyone seems to care about our nf I think we are doing something right
Very true but it is always the same sound. Wrt Netherlands this is the first time that they are sending something different. Finland is more diverse entry wise.
How is it the same sound? Just cause they are pop its the same sound?😂😂😂🤦 they are all different and very good songs! @@esc1074
You killed it tonight as a commentator (I watched the English commentary afterwards)! I hope you had a good time and that SVT took good care of you and that you’ll be back next year!
@@esc1074, how is Unforgettable the same as Tattoo, for example? Just because both are pop? So you perceive everything "poppish" the same? Lol...
True🤝🏻
Sweden is sending songs to ESC which the Swedish population likes listening to. Others might find it generic or whatever, but this is what we love hearing on the radio, Spotify, etc. I actually find this performance a lot more unique than other acts we've sent the last couple of years. The staging is amazing, dancers on point and two charismatic good singers. Considering that M&M have been relevant in the Nordic countries for the last 10 years, it makes sense they won both the public and jury votes :)
You’re absolutely right. And I love to see it 💛💙🇸🇪
@@Wiwibloggs 💙💛
Need to shout out that William was great doing the English commentary for the show!! 😄
Thank you so much for watching!
I could not get it, but maybe because I watched the stream 48 hrs later :(
I find it so odd when people describe 5th or 7th places (like Frans, Robin Bengtsson, John Lundvik, or Benjamin Ingrosso) as _flop_ entries. I don't even think 14th as Tusse and Robin Stjernberg is such flops as some people tend to pretend it is, of course it's not great, but it's in the top half. That Sweden has been doing as great as it has, even in the televote, in spite being the Eurovision fandom's punching bag for a decade, is quite remarkable. You have a lot of those in your comment sections. I feel like some people want Sweden to do bad, more than they want their own country to do well.
I agree. It makes me sad to see so many “Sweden hate” comments. At the end of the day, Eurovision is better with Sweden and its amazing music and stage shows in it. So keep glowing and keep slaying! 💙💙💛💛🇸🇪🏆
@@Wiwibloggsif you got haters your doing it right😂😂and Sweden usually does
And You by Robin Stjernberg was a banger and underrated / undervoted.
i love the M&M performance and song! my number one right now! 12 points from Germany!
Whoo-hoo! It’s great to have a favourite ❤️
Same. Very good production.
Bin deiner Meinung 😅
William and Cinan being considerate of their hotel neighbors by lowering their volume while making this vid for us is just so 🥰
hahaha, it was a STRUGGLE!
@@Wiwibloggs The 'Let's do this!' as a whisper hahaha
I can't get this song out of my head, so it has to do something right!
Marcus and Martinus slayed this performance 🔥🎉
They loved every minute and it showed!
I honestly see this being a potential winner this year, people are hating on it but I'm LOVING it 🔥🇬🇧
It’s not even making top 10😂
Yes. JEALOUSY all around from second rate entry countries.😮
@@EclipseHighroller It has a very good chance of top 10. Sure, it's very cookie cutter, but the stage show and overall slick package does stand out. There's a lot of mediocrity this year which helps.
@@BDog54 Oh its a STRONG year. And cookie cutter and slick isn't gonna cut it. The song is SO unoriginal. They're such a BOY band. Ugh. And NOT perfect - no originality at all. So disappointing. It was a weak Melo year, but this is NOT the best they could have picked.
@@aekelly It was either them or Maria Sur, there was no other real option
The most amazing thing about this entry was M&M’s reaction to winning…so heartfelt and endearing…definitely felt for them since they had a deserved victory snatched from them last year…so totally understand the tears this year.
Eurovision has been missing a clear contender to win the jury vote and can still appeal to a televote, but now we have one. What jury is not going to respond positively to this? Cool, mainstream pop song, slick staging, the boys can sing, they can dance, they look cool, they have charisma, it's the whole package. Definitely a contender to win the jury vote and I'd say it will get a solid televote score as well. It's getting top marks in Norway, it's getting very high marks in Finland and Denmark too, and I think Iceland, Ireland and UK will respond well to this too. Is it a Eurovision winner, though? I don't know. It's an open race this year.
Personally, I couldn't care less about those juries. I consider the entry with the most votes to be the actual winner, while the total score just settles which country to host the following year
really starting to get pissed off with the obvious biases and inconsistencies of these juries. In fact, similar to last year with Belgium we could see some people award M&M 12 in the juries and then others lower. of course I'd be happy to be proven wrong
QUALITY!!🇸🇪🤩
If Sweden wins again, it is not a big surprise. Very good production. The staging, again.. it's something on the next level.
They came back and won and I wish them all the very best in May.
YES! And this stage show is even stronger, so the timing feels right.
Air slightly edges this in terms of performance worthy and as a track, but this is also very impressive
I'm happy for Marcus and Martinus
Love love love this song and the performance, and the twins are so kind, funny and charmig 😍.
As a Norwegian I love that M&M are getting the love they deserve (M&M are Norwegian and i’ve been listening to them for years)
”I feel like I’m in a calculator” 😂 love it. Great reaction guys 👏
This song is giving me some great flashback vibes to the techno genre from the 90’s. 🫶🏽🤙🏾
Here for the double Norwegian artist representation 🙂 Good luck to Sweden and Marcus & Martinus in May!
Now you have two chances to win! 🏆
@@Wiwibloggswill they give it to us in Oslo or Trondheim in 2025 🤔😅
I agree with the ending. They need to make it more epic. Excited to see this one on the big stage.
Really looking forward to it !
I am sure there Will be some changes.
Well...I think the stage is actually bigger in Friends Arena...but the stage is going to be diffrent, so the number will probably be a bit diffrent..
Like your react. I hope Sweden wins ❤ from Finland
Loved this performance! 👏🏻
It's very slick!
It's giving Benjamin's "Dance You Off" in lighting and Robin's "I Cant Go On" in vibes and choreography!
OOOOO, nice comparisons. I see it :)
Thank you for the support, didn't expect that. ❤
There is a lot to like for this year's entry. That staging is fresh x
Absolutely love how they take us to their own world 🌍
M&M’s set design reminds me of 2018 Benjamin Ingrosso’s absolutely amazing set prop for Dance You Off. Gave me chills!
Great song!! I don't get the negativity, the song and staging are spectacular, I agree with William, this can definetly win. Well done Sweden and thanks for this banger and give Eurovision a lot more flavor. First Greece and now Sweden, the best songs are coming the last weeks before the deadline.
It looks better than it sounds
love this song so much its and banger and so catchy sure top 5 matriaal in the final 12 points from the netherlands to sweden
Strange fact M&M won (J=85, P=92) with the same points as Loreen (J=92, P=85) last year, 177…with the Jury and Public votes essentially flipped.
Yes but Loreen didn’t win the televote. Didn’t M&M’s Air win that. Or I’m I remembering that wrong 🤔
Unforgettable - sounds in the instrumental chorus like the 1996 hit song by Faithless : Salva mea, in the single version... so after Loreens - Tattoo... Jimmy Joker Thörnfeldt did it again... 🙄 they should give credit to Faithless
I love it!! Summer club vibe! 🎉
I Love you guys!❤
This is a gritty mood.❤❤❤
I think M&M are very talented and sweet guys. I dont mind them being norwegian. They are our brothers! But, I would have preferred to send Medina or Cazzi. I wanted to send something joyful and colorful! Something happy! Medina would've been the perfect party starter in Malmö! That's why I voted for them.
Esc fans are crazy, they want good professional entries and when someone like sweden does it EVERY year they are hating...sry but the results every year show that sweden serves 100% quality and only because its "generic" doesnt mean its bad I prefer much more generic good songs that trash like Croatia who call themselves "different"
I agree!
Att vara svensk i eurovision är att alltid få negativitet för allt oavsett vad. Efter Loreens vinst kände vi många enorm ledsen känsla. Hoppas att vi i Sverige visar oss större än de som trycker ner allt som har med Sverige att göra när andra länder når framgång. För vi vet hur det känns. Att vara lyrisk och stolt, sedan precis som William bara se negativitet.
melwilliam! you look sleep deprived! thanks for the melfest commentary - watched from New Zealand
I am! 😆 I have had a pretty terrible cold for about a week. But thankfully Mello has been the best medicine 💊
honestly its just really cool that only Australia, but NZ care about Eurovision. love that
I bet Deban hates it! :D
Comments on the wiwibloggs comments are wild, I feel like it's the same people with the same opinion
I expect a 5th - 15th place for Sweden. Juries will have this very high but the public won´t give them a lot of points
Agree, as part of the public, I preffer Medina. They suit Sweden as the host country this year so much!!!! Sweden could give us real party with Medina🎉
I think they will get 100~150 from the public
The public went actually crazy in Mello so I think test of Europe Will like it too 😂
@@laimazalgiryte6887 Medina would have flopped at ESC
Parts of this song gives me Weeknd vibes. 😎
I absolutely don't understand this "this sounds so similar to that and that, so boring" like, it's edm. Then all edm sounds the same🤷🏼♀️ they use same effects etc. But like you said this one is dark, you do not hear this very often. Perfect production, really catchy, reminds me more of Swedish house mafia and that's a huge compliment, fell in love with after just the first seconds. Love from🇫🇮
Rubbish. It steals the exact hook and instrumentation from Faithless. Without that the song is nothing
You have to react to Björnzone, the mid act from Melfest! No one has I think, and it’s so fun and good in a nostalgic way! 😅
🎉🎉🎉
I like it but I feel like it ends to abruptly. It needs a bit more beats at the end
That’s interesting. They mentioned to me backstage that to them it’s like a movie - it ends quickly and leaves you wanting more.
yes i agree. they have 10 seconds left of the song before the 3 minute mark to add a longer ending! I hope they give us that :)
@@olemagnus9510 yes every second counts
ok, it won't win ESC but top 10 is most likely. I love the vibe and the visuals are stunning.
It really is a vibe as you say 🖤
You two crack me up LOL
W: "I feel like I'm in a calculator" XD
7:48 phenomen-phenomen-phenomenal
12 points from Europe
Personally I was rooting for LIAMOO, but this song and performance is growing on me.
"Unforgettable" is a good choice. I also really liked the performance of Maria Sur, a pretty Ukrainian girl.
M&M show mimicked Loreen's show. Both shows are between giant screens, walls of light, but in Loreen's song the walls were horizontal, this one had vertical walls. In both shows, the level gap was narrow at first, then it widened.
Really happy! This is a party song for me, not Austrias
Correct William they are good Nordic cool and they could win it's so good congrats guys ☮️❤️
This is a totally different lvl then dance you off… i HATED that song… i think people Will be suprised How much this Will get from the televote Because this year alot of songs Will take votes from eachother. A ”normal” song can pick a little bit everywhere and in the end win. I think Sweden could be That choice. Good luck from Switzerland.
Açıkçası bu sene M&M'i "Air" ile tercih ederdim ,ama bu şarkıda güzel. Ama sahne performansları gerçekten insanüstü 😍 ayrıca çocuklar sizinle Eurovision öncesi, Eurovision ve Eurovision sonrası her zaman çok daha keyifli ❤️☺️ yıllardır wiwiblogs takipçisi olarak bunu söylüyorum. Özellikle Cinan seni çok seviyoruz❤️😍 Türkiye'den sevgilerle
It’s so funny to me how some people think this might win
im the same age as m&m and growing up in norway i absolutely hated them as i wasn't a very girly girl, found them so cringy (kind of like young justin bieber, times 2) and it is so bizarre to see them grown! in my head they were still 14, but man, i have to admit, they are well good. its a strange experience to see kid stars go from cringy love songs to a banger like this. the staging especially is captivating, and i cant not bop my head during the chorus
🤩🤩🤩🤩
The performance is interesting but the song is really not special, it feels really commercial. Regardless it will place high because you know, it’s Sweden and even if they’d send an old lady doing spoken word they’d still place in the top 10😅
Its not true Sweden was 14th 2021 so stop soreading bull*
As a Swede with Slovenia as favorite I don't want to replace it, but Marcus & Martinus really hit the spot. This is so proffessional, yes even if its predictable for a swedish entry but I totally agree with William. Sweden can win in Sweden this year.. Crazy 🔥
Professional is definitely the word. It's just so slick and well done.
I think Sweden will do just fine again this year. Its a great song and it was AMAZING to watch!!!....But there is missing something to be that winning entry
Show 10 Song 5 Voices 3.
😎👌🏻🇸🇪
you are the best
To bad you didn't do this Video with Deban instead of Sinan
❤🎉👍
For all the hater out there...
Sence some envy from the other countries
They know Sweden makes good music and do it flawless
Sweden rules ESC🇸🇪💪🤎
MUCH better than Loreen!
Faithless are going to sue
Great choice for the win but its sterile and too produced i love more organic moments in Dotters or cazzis songs
William getting futuristic video game vibes is funny since all I hear is the soundtrack to Detroit: Become Human
Staging is amazing but the song is so lackluster for me. This year has so many ethnic interesting songs so this falls down low for me.
The performance is interesting, but the melody is not catchy. The only song at this year's Melodifestivalen that has a catchy melody is Adam Woods - Supernatural.
Wow, a foreign act will represent Sweden. And it is Norway. M&M are great singers, but the song feels to basic. Medina were amazing. You felt the partyfeeling in the arena.
"A foreign act"... some fellow swedes are so negative... Just because the ones performing it are not swedish doesn't change the fact that the songwriters, dancers and the people who created the performance/show itself are swedish
This is indeed not Tattoo. This is better.
Better doesn’t necessarily win. I think Europe are looking for a more genuine, honest and deserving song.
@@eurofreakable for example?
Shame that Marcus & Martinus didn’t win last year with the incredible song, “Air”. It came in 2nd after Loreen with “Tattoo”.
By the way, they are from Norway.
I am sorry i find the song being very forgettable, although the staging is incredible! I guess Sweden always sends such great songs I feel a bit disappointed this year, but wishing best of luck nonetheless!
It felt like last year your reaction of Australia was quite flippant and rude, and this year you just straight out skipped them 🤣🤣🤣 cool cool cool 🤣
Okey let’s address the elephant in the room! The fact that year after year we see the same 6 songwriters competing with almost every song in melfest needs an ending! This needs to stop. One song / songwriter!
Personally I didn’t go in to this years edition of melfest because it wasn’t interesting but your comments have made it! So perhaps Petra Mede isn’t the only reason to watch esc -24!
If I'm being honest, I like this better than Tattoo which I thought was more overdone... though it took like 5 listens to grab the song, at first I forgot it the second after the video was done. Great stageshow, looks great on the screen. Benjamin Ingrosso came across as smug annoying person, these guys seem less so. The song is very 'swedish' but they keep getting rewarded for it, why should they change anything?
Jees jees
Why take a one on one sound of Faithless Salva Mea, i mean tempo, synth, it is a copy. Hope they bought the copyright to give Faithless all credit. But, cute guys, cool voices. Can’t keep them apart 😊
This is why i love eurovision so much ❤😂 everyone has their own opinion ❤ But don't forget that M & M has said in an interview that their most craziest fans is from Greece...And i think they will surprise us all during televotes....👑🎉🎊
Only Winner 2025
I am sorry but most of the comments you read were negative. Actually Sweden will do well, I can see top10 for sure. Also, I don't believe host entries do bad.
Frans got 4th in 2016
Mahmood got 6th in 2022
Ukraine got 6th as well in 2023
M&M can get also 6th at least
They're popular even in Greece
Frans got 5th place in 2016. Sure there are exceptions, but generallt speaking, being the host is a disadvantage. Netherlands got 23rd place in 2021, Israel got 21st place in 2019, Portugal got 26th place in 2018, Ukraine got 24th place in 2017, Austria got 26th in 2015... but I hope that this year will be one of the exceptions when the host nation do well.
Please guys react to Besa/albania revamp, a i the only one gets Dua Lipa vibe, for me she can winn, well if it was Sweeden def would be top 3 lol
I am too old for this boyish high pitch boy pop with boring lyrics. That is why I don't like it, not because it's from sweden. I often like swedens entry.
I also don’t like that I am too old. But this was what Sweden had to offer. They needed Norwegian import😂
To me there is a much, much better song from Norway called Ulveham.
"Norwegian import" @@th5841more like swedish record label and spending a looot of time in Sweden
Seems its allways a reason to not like Sweden. I dont get it...
But its strange if everyone dislikes this. But loves whats on top of the charts...
For the last 20 years..
And thats basicly from 85% from Swedish songwriters and music producers. Not even talking about all the artist like Robyn, Zara Larsson, Swedish house mafia, Avichi ...etc..
Just thinks its a bit contradict...
I listen only to metal so I dont care anyway but I just cant shut up sometimes haha :)
So you guys mean that wacky is the new normal and the radio song will be the one sticking out?
What are you saying guys? This is modern and contemporary? Where in the world? It's mediocre 2000s boysband pop at best... and yes, people have high expectations of Sweden because of their track record.
Give me songs with a real chorus
I can see them as a next world pop stars after Eurovision
The staging is way better than the song its elves
Sweden 2018 staging
They're great performers and the staging is slick but the song is one-note and superficial - even for ESC.
Cons:
- The song is too similar to Salva Mea - Faithless in many sections.
- The outro at 3:08 sounds like a copypaste of Daft Punk, Tron Legacy.
- While lyrics are allowed to be repetitive for the hook and the sake of recognition, they should have had more lyrical variety. "[S]hes unforgettable" is said too many times and it makes the whole song staler and more bland.
- The song is also overall to repetitive. However this is usually the case for 90% of Eurovision entries.
- I think the background dancers look silly, especially the female ones, as they look cooler than they actually are, meaning they don't look authentic and a bit too young for the mature attitude. For instance, it looks goofy and unprofessional when they're just waving their bodies and arms around without too much choreography in certain sections.
- The direct Matrix-like clothing on the dancers could have been more subtle, as they makes the song less original and also give more the impression that they where bought in a Halloween costume store.
Pros:
- The Matrix is one of my favorite movies, so I don't complain about it becoming "cool"again, rather the burnout from overusage.
- Great staging. I don't care that people think it's too "staged". If every act in ESC felt like a music video, it would be a problem. On the other hand, if every song in Eurovision seemed less polished and had less serious staging, that would perpetuate the assumption many non Eurovision fans have that the show is lame. It doesen't nescessarily matter what these people say, but the spectrum of musical expression matters utmost.
- Great choreography from M&M
- Michael Jackson like clothing
- Darker 90's techno vibes, very nice 👌🏼
Overall I'd give them 6 or 8 points
Good luck from Norway!
Please list up «all» the songs in ESC that are not copycats of something else!
And those songs that are different, are getting a lot of flack from many ESC fans for being screamy or boring.
I didn't disagree with your premise and didn't say "all". I'm not one of those that think these musical similarities are a deal breaker. However, they need to be recognized, because were it not, songs would get more praise than they really deserved and it disencourages originality. And your argument is prone to the saying "if everyone jumped off a bridge, would you do it?". The fact that a majority of Eurovision songs have a Eurovision like cliché to them, is not an entire excuse for sampling a lot or a tiny bit of plagiarism here and there. I also mean that I would give them my 6 or 8 points out of the 9 possible point placements. Not bad at all.
@@MrBoogieman64 I don’t know how to respond to this, since you have rewritten more or less all your initial post.
The new edit isn’t what I commented to.
Yes, I agree that they copy a short phrase from Salva Mea. But Salva Mea may not have been the first, either. Lending ideas and phrases from other songs isn’t the big problem for me If it is done in a way to create something new.
Thank you for pointing me to Faithless. Nice to redescover him.
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