#song blood and glitter by lord of the lost

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sweet and bitter

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käärijä and lord of the lost being besties: a thrilling saga

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me, bloated, about to start my period:

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Lord of the Lost - Blood & Glitter | Germany 🇩🇪 | Grand Final | Eurovision 2023

Hey Europe... we need to talk.

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my two personal winners

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Eurovision Song Contest + Costumes

Chris Harms of Lord of the Lost’s red, green & golden outfit when performing Blood & Glitter for Germany in the 2023 contest.  

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Love of the Lost

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Lord Of The Lost - "Blood & Glitter" | Unser Lied für Liverpool | Eurovision Song Contest | NDR

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❤💚

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ESC x Trigun 'cause why not? (FINLAND WAS ROBBED AND POLAND FAILED EVERYONE NOT BRINGING JANN)

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Eurovision 2023: #23

23. GERMANY Lord of the Lost - "Blood and glitter" 26th place

Decade ranking: 66/116 [Above Hurricane, below Fyr og Flamme]

Well, we've arrived in the zone of Mild Like, also known as the "I like them, buuuuut". There's eleven of these motherfuckers in this vaguely positive purgatory, so let's do some but-kicking for Goodness.

As you know, I didn't like the 2023 contest much, so a lot of these entries are either mixed with slightly more good than evil, or kinda bad but i enjoyed them anyways. Bringing up the rear of that crop is Lord of the Lost, who are kind of both?

Honestly, kind of a similar deal to Latvia. It seemed Germany would finally be getting televote points courtesy of a non-embarrassing entry that wasn't also dead on arrival, and it also looked like the televote score would be a sufficient enough amount to avoid dead last for a year... but then they only scored 15 televotes and finished last anyway.

The problem is two-fold. The first one is that Voyager exist, jesus talk about an outclass. "Promise" is several magnitudes better than "Blood and glitter" both as a song and an act, the literal centrepiece of the Grand Final's ironclad Estonia-Moldova streak. (expect several of songs from that streak to rank ABSURDLY high). By the time Germany were up, only a short while after Australia, you instinctively compare the two and realize LotL doesn't pack the same impact (issue #2)

Why though? Well, I hypothesize "Blood and glitter" doesn't quite know what to do with itself. The start is great, though. I love the first minute or so of "Blood and Glitter", a camp unapologetic fiesta of body horror (in part because Chris forgot to un-untuck himself oop), grindhouse metal and LGBT allyness. We ALL like a bit of "Blood and glitter, Sweden bitter".

At least, i hope you did, because you're going to hear that line all the time during the remaining two minutes.

See, once "Blood and Glitter" hits that second minute mark, it succumbs to its own inane repetitions and rapidly turns into a non-event. THIS IS AN UNACCEPTABLE RECOURSE FOR A GLAM ROCK SONG. NO amount of Danny Voyager absense can amend that. Is it that difficult to just... provide different words for the bridge and final chorus? More aggro camera cuts? A wider colour pallette near the end? (yeah i know Blood, but WHERE IS THE GLITTER?!) A dress change? Some form of growth, some form of evo? When even the folks that know no English pick up on the persistent rehashing because the bag of tricks has been EMPTIED by the halfway mark.

So like Latvia, I don't think Germany deserved another bad result, but once it happened, yeah of course it did. Would not skip on the playlist though. And hey, nobody can take away from them that they are King Charles's favourites. 😊 (lol i'm like 85% sure Charles had no idea who they were and walked into them by chance but who am i to shatter dreams?)

THE RANKING

also for the first time since I started blogging, a mid-ranking placement REVISION!

Nature is healing. 😇

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Your honor I'm in love with these silly metal Eurovision men.

Lord of the Lost + Voyager @ The Cavern Club Liverpool

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I need everyone to know that Germany's eurovision candidate Lord of the Lost covered Finlands Käärijä Cha Cha Cha and it's amazing

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Man I really feel for Germany. They turned down the chance to have Electric Callboy represent them in 2022 for some shitty Twenty One Pilots rip off that deserved to flop as bad as it did. Determined to not make the same mistake again they went for the queer Metal band only for that to flop too. There were so many great entries this year that didn't get enough votes but Germany being last hurt the most.