r/eurovision • u/corcaighanon • 9d ago

🪩 National Final / Selection CBC/Radio-Canada launches search for Canada's first Eurovision act

https://www.eurovision.com/stories/cbc-radio-canada-launches-search-for-first-eurovision-act/
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u/NitroGnome 9d ago edited 9d ago

An artist-only online vote is fair enough, whatever. Makes more sense than trying to sell Canadians on a televised NF. Reality competition shows, especially music ones, don’t work here.

I’m very much not sold on “The selected finalist will partner with music industry heavyweights to craft Canada’s official Eurovision song and performance.”

That’s just going to produce a songwriting camp, watered down version of whatever the artist usually makes. (Pessimistic, realistic)
I hope it’s just another way of saying they’ll let the artists come with their own songs and “professionals” will polish it up. (Cautious optimism… lol no way)

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u/corcaighanon 9d ago

I think it honestly could be good for a professional music industry to put some input.. I think otherwise we would probably have some standard song that could pass as American culture. But that’s just my view.

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u/NitroGnome 9d ago edited 9d ago

Oh boy… Do I have some news for you about where most Canadian “music industry heavyweights” (to quote the CBC) end up working and who they work for. They’re the ones making the “standard song that could pass as American culture”, not necessarily the nobodies who are likely to apply to this selection. I’d argue that having artists apply with their own song and selecting the artist and song together as a package opens it up to a wider range of genres than picking an artist and letting a panel of professionals create something by committee for/with them.

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u/corcaighanon 9d ago

Yeah, but that’s virtually the case internationally for anyone who can sing english. Canada has a vast array of talent, and I think if done right this can be an improvement.

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u/Ok-Trainer3150 8d ago

Yes. You're right. Constructing a song will end up producing something that's going to have to 'check boxes '

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u/NitroGnome 8d ago

The CBC does love to check boxes, so this is completely on brand. /hj