We’ve GOT to stop acting like it’s a crime for a song to be a ballad. If it wasn’t for songs like this, the contest would be nothing but a concert full of commercial disposable pop songs. Ireland, you are my winner this year! A beautiful ethnic ballad with emotion and power! 🇮🇪 🏆
And you can be proud of y’all, Sophie was one of my top faves and seeing her bringing up Ireland to new heights with that ethereal song made my night! Congrats for the top 5 finish!
Honestly I not convinced something like this would do well in the adult contest. I could be wrong as I'd love Ireland to go full ethnic for a change. I feel that they have shyed away from that choice for many years now. Maybe it's worth a shot. Can't do any worse that recent entries.
@@morrybo12 I hope with the jury vote being removed from the semis that rte won't decide to have a song thats like more focused on entertainment value than the quality of the entry (obviously that type of song could do well but I feel like as of the last decade or two we haven't really succeeded too often in having quality entries or more "entertaining" entries). I think especially because the contest is in the UK, I'd like to think the Irish delegation would want to go out of their way to have a quality selection because it'd be embarrassing for us to get a poor result across the pond. Also, fully agree with you and the main reason for us sending weak pop entries is because the Irish hod thinks of Eurovision as a pop contest and seems to have seriously limited knowledge of the contest in the last 20 years aside from Dustin the Turkey, jedward and the acts he was in charge of and from listening to countless interviews that he's done over the years, he seems to be fairly clueless on what we need to send (also pretty much dismisses anything that isn't pop or anything in Irish).
I respect if Deban prefers other entries to this particular song, but yawning not even 10 seconds into the music video leads me to believe that perhaps he was going to have a somewhat negative reaction to the entry regardless of what it was. In terms of this entry, I think its a very unique ballad compared to the rest and it has traditional instrumentation which not many entries have this year (not necessarily a bad thing for those songs but I do think people like hearing traditional elements in jesc and esc entries). I like how this song progresses as it has a softer sound in the beginning and gradually builds as the song progresses which is nice to hear. I'm interested in how this will be staged particularly the bridge leading to the final chorus and the final chorus itself because it feels like visual elements would really make that section in particular come to life but I dont exactly know how it'll be done, I really do hope its staged well. I personally have this song just outside my top 5 but I will say, my top 7 is very strong and they're all nearly as strong as each other in their own ways so even if its half way down my ranks I still think it's a quality entry which I really do hope will get a deserving placing. I really hope juries don't sort of leave us in the dust like they did in 2019. My hope is it'd be great to get the left hand side, idm where exactly. Its nice to see the positive reaction it has gotten online. Also very much agree with some of the comments here, not every song needs to be an uptempo number, it's nice having a variety of sounds and I do feel like a lot of times ballads get a lot of schtick for being boring because they're slower.
What has to be understood is that they are reacting to 16 songs non-stop, one after the other and there is plenty of time to get tired so I'm not coming for Deban considering what i've just said, i gotta say i'm more impressed that William manages to be that energetic, not lose his focus and be able to judge every song as if it was the first one from the 16 hes listening PS: Let's not remember William reacting to eesti laul songs 🤣🤣
This is simply stunning Great vocals, beautiful melody/instrumentation and charismatic singer. If this doesn't do well in Yerevan, there is no justice. Top 3 material for me. Well done Sophie and good choice Ireland 🇮🇪 👏👏👏
I like most of this year junioreurovision entry 's very much , but Ireland is my winner, the song is so beautiful and Sophie is a great singer, good luck in Yerevan, I Will vote for you!!
Definitely think this song is a grower. Listening to it more than once just makes it even better compared to the first listen!! So excited for Ireland this year!! ❤
Once you know the song is about mental health, the music video makes a ton of sense so it's actually really good. Dark horse to win next week for sureeee
you have to admit that this is a fairy-tale song you can hear the culture of Ireland, on the other hand, it's a pity that the Irish language is not promoted during Eurovision you can feel the Celtic atmosphere in this language
Staging is going to be critical as I assume it will just be Sophie on her own on stage. I don't know what the background capabilities of the stage in Yerevan are like but I think it would help to try and recreate the feel of the video here as I think it suits the song. Keeping the visuals interesting for three minutes will be the challenge. Not sure if they could do the dress colour change at the key change though altough it would be spectacular if they could!! 🙂 If I have a criticism of the song structure is that I feel it ends almost too quickly after the key change which is why I think the lift in the song that the key change delivers doesn't have the impact it could have. I do think Ireland is always underrated at JESC. To be honest if Sophie comes anywhere near the top of the leaderboard it will have been a great achievement for her.
We’ve GOT to stop acting like it’s a crime for a song to be a ballad. If it wasn’t for songs like this, the contest would be nothing but a concert full of commercial disposable pop songs.
Ireland, you are my winner this year! A beautiful ethnic ballad with emotion and power! 🇮🇪 🏆
And you can be proud of y’all, Sophie was one of my top faves and seeing her bringing up Ireland to new heights with that ethereal song made my night! Congrats for the top 5 finish!
what a beautiful ballad. why hasn't Ireland sent something like this to the "adult" contest in recent years?
Honestly I not convinced something like this would do well in the adult contest. I could be wrong as I'd love Ireland to go full ethnic for a change. I feel that they have shyed away from that choice for many years now. Maybe it's worth a shot. Can't do any worse that recent entries.
@@morrybo12 I hope with the jury vote being removed from the semis that rte won't decide to have a song thats like more focused on entertainment value than the quality of the entry (obviously that type of song could do well but I feel like as of the last decade or two we haven't really succeeded too often in having quality entries or more "entertaining" entries). I think especially because the contest is in the UK, I'd like to think the Irish delegation would want to go out of their way to have a quality selection because it'd be embarrassing for us to get a poor result across the pond.
Also, fully agree with you and the main reason for us sending weak pop entries is because the Irish hod thinks of Eurovision as a pop contest and seems to have seriously limited knowledge of the contest in the last 20 years aside from Dustin the Turkey, jedward and the acts he was in charge of and from listening to countless interviews that he's done over the years, he seems to be fairly clueless on what we need to send (also pretty much dismisses anything that isn't pop or anything in Irish).
We don't send our best because our government don't want to host it. Our government are a bunch of bums 🇮🇪
Literally they need to send more gaelic songs again
Because TG4 runs junior Eurovision for Ireland and TG4 actually care. RTÉ runs Eurovision for the adult contest and they don’t want to win
I love this song. It’s touching, beautiful and I got goosebumps. I hope it comes in the top 10❤
It's currently my winner :)))
I respect if Deban prefers other entries to this particular song, but yawning not even 10 seconds into the music video leads me to believe that perhaps he was going to have a somewhat negative reaction to the entry regardless of what it was.
In terms of this entry, I think its a very unique ballad compared to the rest and it has traditional instrumentation which not many entries have this year (not necessarily a bad thing for those songs but I do think people like hearing traditional elements in jesc and esc entries). I like how this song progresses as it has a softer sound in the beginning and gradually builds as the song progresses which is nice to hear. I'm interested in how this will be staged particularly the bridge leading to the final chorus and the final chorus itself because it feels like visual elements would really make that section in particular come to life but I dont exactly know how it'll be done, I really do hope its staged well. I personally have this song just outside my top 5 but I will say, my top 7 is very strong and they're all nearly as strong as each other in their own ways so even if its half way down my ranks I still think it's a quality entry which I really do hope will get a deserving placing. I really hope juries don't sort of leave us in the dust like they did in 2019. My hope is it'd be great to get the left hand side, idm where exactly. Its nice to see the positive reaction it has gotten online.
Also very much agree with some of the comments here, not every song needs to be an uptempo number, it's nice having a variety of sounds and I do feel like a lot of times ballads get a lot of schtick for being boring because they're slower.
Well said, totally agree.
What has to be understood is that they are reacting to 16 songs non-stop, one after the other and there is plenty of time to get tired so I'm not coming for Deban considering what i've just said, i gotta say i'm more impressed that William manages to be that energetic, not lose his focus and be able to judge every song as if it was the first one from the 16 hes listening
PS: Let's not remember William reacting to eesti laul songs 🤣🤣
Deban was in a mood from the get go, his face says it all before the song even started.
This is simply stunning
Great vocals, beautiful melody/instrumentation and charismatic singer.
If this doesn't do well in Yerevan, there is no justice.
Top 3 material for me.
Well done Sophie and good choice Ireland 🇮🇪
👏👏👏
Deban please this is a masterpiece 😭
I like most of this year junioreurovision entry 's very much , but Ireland is my winner, the song is so beautiful and Sophie is a great singer, good luck in Yerevan, I Will vote for you!!
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I have really lovee this song. I think Ireland will enter top 3 in this year. Good luck Ireland
Definitely think this song is a grower. Listening to it more than once just makes it even better compared to the first listen!! So excited for Ireland this year!! ❤
Yaas serving game of thrones realness: Sansa stark , or Narnia. Cinematic, fairytalish fantasy with an angelic voice and look🙌🥹🌥⚔️🐉
Once you know the song is about mental health, the music video makes a ton of sense so it's actually really good. Dark horse to win next week for sureeee
you have to admit that this is a fairy-tale song you can hear the culture of Ireland, on the other hand, it's a pity that the Irish language is not promoted during Eurovision you can feel the Celtic atmosphere in this language
William in each and every song: 😐😯😦😧😍 Deban:😐😯😦😯😐🥱
This is the kind of song where language isn't very important like in 'De diepte' by S10. This is my favourite.
She’s so good
Solas is pronounced as "suh-las". Really proud of our entry this year and hope we get our best Junior Eurovision result
Goosebumps.
Beautiful song and nice girl 👍 from Armenia 🇦🇲🇪🇺
im really curious about your top16, william & deban :))
The Irish song is about mental health issues in young people
An excellent entry from Ireland - I think it will be like last years Portuguese entry and soak up many jury votes and finish high
Staging is going to be critical as I assume it will just be Sophie on her own on stage. I don't know what the background capabilities of the stage in Yerevan are like but I think it would help to try and recreate the feel of the video here as I think it suits the song. Keeping the visuals interesting for three minutes will be the challenge. Not sure if they could do the dress colour change at the key change though altough it would be spectacular if they could!! 🙂
If I have a criticism of the song structure is that I feel it ends almost too quickly after the key change which is why I think the lift in the song that the key change delivers doesn't have the impact it could have.
I do think Ireland is always underrated at JESC. To be honest if Sophie comes anywhere near the top of the leaderboard it will have been a great achievement for her.
Deban! Wake up! 😄
Go ireland .. a proper song for the age group. It is after all junior eurovision ..
Everytime Deban reacts to Ireland on here, I just can't stand him... sorry but I don't like him very much
As Armenian this is my winner ❤️
Are you going to do reaction videos for the Vidbir and Eesti Laul songs?
LMAOOO DEBAN i love ur reactions i swear
Where is the reaction to Albania? 🙂
Deban, have you change your mind?
deban is a criminal
Love Deban😂
Debhan looks bored with this song. 😂😂
The comments seem bored with Deban.
Ireland's song is plagiarism
So was Loreen tattoo and she won focus on the adults who plagiarize not the kids who have no choice in the song their given
Deban please this is a masterpiece 😭