As an American who's been watching Eurovision for years, I feel like this is a cheap Melodifestivalen type show rather than Eurovision.

@DomnulDarius

3 ай бұрын

Exactly

@dirofreak

3 ай бұрын

really showed the catastrophe of Bjorkman's vision (even the fact they're allowing him to make the ESC running order less and less random over the years is just...UH (that and backing vocals allowed to not be live (i still think there should be live vocals for everyone, maybe allowing a 50% "sound volume" for pre-recorded stuff but still)). As well as not enough qualifiers per show in the first phase , making the show lose songs such as The Crystal Method "Watch Me Now" for example (but i guess they really wanted 4 qualifiers per show again as a way to make the first phase very Melodifestivalen (it was basically Melodifestivalen but with 2 semis instead of a Second chance show) But they made it like a reality show , i actually didn't watch the contest the intended way but instead selected a few songs to actually watch (i forgot exactly how i selected them but it was partially based on their jury results during the show and quickly listening to a few seconds of each song to determine if i was interested in hearing more or not) and then watched all of their performances in a row with some unrelated videos in between each artist to give me a break lol (and if a song qualified to the final, i would watch their 3 different performances in a row (with some interesting staging changes sometimes)... and to be honest it was enjoyable that way (basically made myself a 20 or so final show (though with more than 20 performances obv because some songs had several performances lol))

@Satellite88

3 ай бұрын

Fr

@meduzsazsa8490

3 ай бұрын

Melodifestivalen is richer than Eurovision, what are you talking about?

@wilyriley_

3 ай бұрын

@@meduzsazsa8490in terms of money maybe, but absolutely not in terms of songs

Thats just bigger melodiefestivalen with more country songs 💀💀

They really should’ve had this be more similar to Eurovision, even simple things like the 6-person on-stage limit would have made this more similar

meanwhile Europe: we reslly dont know about drugs

@meropale

3 ай бұрын

*these* drugs

They really didn't market this well. Nor did they adapt it/explain it to an American audience. So disappointing.

@Flying_Ninja

7 сағат бұрын

fr 😭🙏 as an american who loves eurovision i wish we could have this and it sucks that they didn’t market it well

Fun fact: Enisa was going to represent Montengero in 2023 before they withdrew due to financial issues.

@escupdates

3 ай бұрын

WHAT BRO MONTENEGRO WTF WHY WOULD U WITHDRAW WHEN U WOULD HAVE MOTHER ENISA 😭😭😭

@IndonesischeBapao

3 ай бұрын

Enisa has released the song and it was pretty good. They would have reached the final probably

@ESCOscar

3 ай бұрын

@@escupdatesMontenegro hasn’t be doing well and they can’t afford Eurovision it’s getting very expensive :(

@NinjaAptxParaElPueblo

3 ай бұрын

@@IndonesischeBapaoWhat is the name of the song??

@IndonesischeBapao

3 ай бұрын

@@NinjaAptxParaElPueblothe song is called Olé

As an American, California, New York and Oklahoma had absolutely insane songs. They’re all in my playlist and I listen to them to this day. 😍

@ftbl.bburnrovers0

3 ай бұрын

insane isn’t the word I’d use but whatever ig

Some of the songs were good, they just needed to organize it better

Unpopular opinion : I think AleXa should've been sent to compete in ESC 2022 as USA's one-off participation in Eurovision. Would be interesting to see how the voting in ESC 2022 would've turned out if AleXa was included considering the Kpop fandom would've voted for her like crazy.

@Tintelinus

3 ай бұрын

Honestly im a little suprised Kpop-inspired songs arent more common in Eurovision. On paper it seems like a decent fit, highly coreoraphed flashy performances are common with both after all.

@randomkid4783

3 ай бұрын

@@Tintelinus there was Yan Girls in Junior Eurovision 2023, representing Armenia. They got 3rd so I think there is a market, and I think they're the first so they'd literally be the base performance on what to build off of

@kpossibles

3 ай бұрын

​@Tintelinus a lot of kpop songs have Swedish producers so AleXa's song was also by a Swedish producer so kpop songs are essentially Swedish-sourced but modified to fit a Korean audience

@andersonnguyen7801

3 ай бұрын

Have y’all seen Sweden’s latest entry in 2024? It seems very comparable to kpop concepts

@randomkid4783

3 ай бұрын

@@andersonnguyen7801 maybe if it was a solo artist, but kpop rarely has duos or trios so honestly. I don’t see it

I watched the whole competition when it aired but it feels like such a fever dream now

If the US were to join Eurovision this would be a really interesting national selection where they get 1 song from each territory and then send out the winner. I would honestly not be mad to see the US join Eurovision since they could bring A LOT of money meaning we would see the return of multiple other countries. Additionally they would probably become a part of the big 5 meaning that they won’t take a spot from someone else in the semi and it would probably make it more enticing for established artists

@jeffjeffson9587

3 ай бұрын

I think it would still be a bad idea for them to join. Some things aren’t meant for America. Like Eurovision.

@keitaro-kun2373

3 ай бұрын

I agree, It would have been a great debut if Alexa, who won ASC, It would have been USA's Eurovision debut

@keitaro-kun2373

3 ай бұрын

​@@jeffjeffson9587you do not know anything, Latin America would at least definitely do great in Eurovision, because here there are many more strange and bizarre things than any troll entry that Eurovision has ever had 😉

@Esccc_moon

3 ай бұрын

If they were to join Eurovision they would need an AMAZING song otherwise it’ll be Germany 2.0 ngl

@logi-a

3 ай бұрын

@@Esccc_moon true but I just see them as a big piggy bank lol, they would be so beneficial in the long run. Also I would say that the winner of ASC would’ve done really well in ESC 2022

I had never seen the American take on this before, and I agree with your list, your top 10 also feels the most Euro-esque from the whole list

Kind of sad how they didn’t do this every year. They will never beat Eurovision!

Except for Wonderland, DIY and Mr. Independent, I forgot all the other songs 😂

@adude20

7 күн бұрын

And New Boot Goofing, just because it was such a crazy Eurovision-style fun song, the only one really.

I really want the ASC back so bad. It’s giving small artists chances to shine! And all of their music was so fun to listen too!

I’m still listening to many of these songs and many of the new songs the artists have released since then. And being from Oklahoma I did go to her homecoming concert which was amazing as she got to talk with fans, some of her former classmates and friends got to come and see her, and she even brought her parents up on stage, and she shared a lot about her story. I missed her concert earlier this year in Tulsa (it was just poor timing as it conflicted with a family thing otherwise I would’ve gone). Grant Knoche has released several songs that have ended up being in my Apple Music replay or KZread Rewind lists. While I generally enjoyed the show, it really wasn’t marketed well a lot of friends, coworkers, etc didn’t know anything about it until I mentioned it and then since it got delayed and started later than originally planned it was competing with American Idol. I kinda think it would have done better if it had just been like Eurovision and been a week long show and there had been hype on local tv, local radio, local newspapers/magazines, and small pre-parties in big cities in each state with various artists performing their songs as part of the marketing prior to the start of the show. A LOT of people I know who watched it didn’t watch it live, but watched American Idol live first and then watched ASC after. As one friend put it: “I don’t feel like it’s a show I have to watch live so I’ll watch it later.” That’s where I think it being marketed as a special annual event similar to Oscars, Grammys, Emmys, CMAs, Superbowl, etc would have probably gotten more people to tune in instead of marketing it as just another competition tv show. ON THE PLUS SIDE a lot of friends and family who hadn’t taken much interest in Eurovision suddenly were asking me questions about it (since they know I love Eurovision) and since ASC ended the Monday right before Eurovision’s first semifinal in Tuesday, I had a lot more folks watching with me that year on Tuesday and many of them have continued to be interested in Eurovision (though still not at the same level I am). So between the Eurovision movie on Netflix in 2020 and ASC the two have helped me get more of my fellow Americans into Eurovision and so I do have a lot appreciate for the show for that! I do worry that now that many of them have seen Eurovision that if there’s another American Song Contest that whomever produces that is going to have to step up their game on production value, but I do still have some friends who haven’t gotten into Eurovision (they at least let me gibberjabber about it, though, so that’s a start) so I’d probably just try and get them to watch the next ASC if there was one in hopes of repeating the process that it might get them into wanting to watch Eurovision. 😊 Thanks for making and sharing this video! It was fun to see clips of the live performances again! Kinda wish Peacock hadn’t removed all the shows. I enjoyed rewatching them, but they remove each year’s Eurovision ones, too, to make room for the newest year as it approaches so at the time they removed the ASC episodes I thought it was a positive sign, but it’s been two years and I think that it might be a dead project. Unless Disney decides to revive it like it did American Idol (though then that means they’d find a way to squeeze Disney-something into the contest since that’s what they do with their other shows; examples: Dancing With The Stars and American Idol both have Disney themed episodes where the participants sing/dance Disney songs).

I actually loved it and there were some good songs I still listen to. They should continue and grow into their own concept. Eventually expand with other countries.

As an American, I can tell you right now that none of these artists really made it big after the show. Nobody got to experience fame as Eurovision artists do. Michael Bolton from Conneticut doesn't count since he was already a well known musician entering into the contest. Not even Alexis from Oklahoma was heard of after the show, and she won the contest. It was also filled with commercials, like, more than what is usual in American TV. So you'd lose interest pretty quickly, if the music selections weren't already doing that. I guess the best thing about the contest for me were the hosts, Kelly Clarkson and Snoop Dog, and my state's entry, Arizona. Not a winning song, but it represents our state quite well

@antonytsai6611

3 ай бұрын

alexa kinda did but that was in korea and internationally not in the us i don't think

@keitaro-kun2373

3 ай бұрын

Alexa was actually made a huge success in korea, because she was a K-Pop singer

@mijime_

3 ай бұрын

@@keitaro-kun2373 yeah, but I mean in the US itself

@keitaro-kun2373

3 ай бұрын

@@mijime_ Yeah, i understand ^^

@ChronoBio

3 ай бұрын

Some of the artists were pretty big in the late 90s: Sisqo, Macy Gray, Jewel, but it didn’t bring them back in the spotlight, because I didn’t know they participated.

I miss this so much🥲🥲🥲

I think it’s really hard to replicate Eurovision within the states, and this gives off national qualifier mixed with the voice. I really wouldn’t mind if they brought this back just to send the winner to Eurovision bc the winner wouldn’t even have too hard of an edge considering who it’s up against

I can see Robin Bengtsson performing Shameless (6:01) and Alvaro Estrella performing Loco (7:41) in Melodifestivalen.

The best song was by far « A Bit Of Both » like it was seriously the only song that was interresting

To be fair, some of the songs are better than I remembered. It’s a shame this tanked so badly.

Coming from an American who voted heavily in this, this was trash and so were most of the songs. The show had no idea what to do at the beginning and by the time the show figured it out a couple of episodes in the viewers dropped off so much it lost it's chance to be a success. 2 years later there are only 22 songs I wouldn't mind if it came up on Spotify radio and 8 songs I actually like and hold up really well for me still. No one needed to be reminded of this. I could have lived the rest of my life not thinking about this show and had no effect on my life positivly or neagtivly. What I find interesting is Eurovision fans in other countries cared a lot more then people in the US did for this show. I could have seen a scenario where the show could have worked if the first episode hadn't been a terrible mess and had some better songs especially in the heats 3-5. The first episode had the best songs but the worst exuction of the sound mixing for the songs. Once they managed to get that all in check 2 episodes later the songs got so bad that the viewers didn't want to return. I played my sister some of the songs when she got home from collage after all the songs were out and she couldn't stand them. There should have been at least one hit with the winner Wonderland. It just shipped out to radio as the winner and it had a ton of buzz being a K-Pop song in the contest.

1. Alexa 2. Grant Knoche the other ones I don't remember😂

Great No.1, I also loved that song!!

I thought the contest was great. I added several songs to my playlist. I really believe Allen Stone's Bit Of Both (Washington) and Hueston's Held On Too Long (Rhode Island) can do really well in Eurovision.

Wow, your #1!

Very happy to see Riker in the top 3. This was very fun! :D

1) Alexa 2) Grant knoche 3) Enisa These were the only good ones in this whole selection and with a potential to do good at the actual Eurovision, others were all meh and forgettable

Enisa should’ve won the whole thing 😭😭😭 my home state represented by an insane smash hit. ROBBED QUEEN ENISA.

I wanted this to do well but NBC or whoever ruined it just by format. one song, ad break, lots of talking, If they just did it like mellofest or eurovision with 3 semis (18 songs each) and 8 advancing it would've slayed but maybe next time. i also think Americans just saw it as another American Idol/ 'Find me a new favourite song " instead of a contest

Northern Mariana Islands was one of my favourites! I also liked Guam!

@saucysalmon55

3 ай бұрын

And Washington and North Dakota are really low! We definitely have very different tastes!

@JakobBTSV

3 ай бұрын

Taste

As a geography nerd/eurovision lover, I find this to be so cool!

My hot take is that I loved various aspects of the ASC, but if I ever come back to it it's straight up to the performances because the show itself was dreadful to sit through the first (and only) time. Also, the constant change in the voting rules were just really odd...

Texas and New Jersey ❤ Idc about the rest

oregon is still such a bop 2 years later

This is a tragedy. I LOVED the ASC. It seemed like a chance to really let our native music shine (bluegrass) Minnesota and Oklahoma remain my favs. It was a blast in 2022. Please bring this back!!!

@VioletBeyondTheStars

3 ай бұрын

(Also new boot goofin my beloved)

Loko is the only song I still listen to...

Oh yeah! 'Murica Baby!!!

Alexa was amazing, definitely deserved to win

Those songs were better than I remember

I think, the concept of the contest should be more like an actual American Song contest (The whole American continents)

God this was a thing the first year I followed national selections and… it’s certainly a contest alright

Hey, Tennessee deserver better than 40 my friend, it was my favourite 🥲

@chris_1103

3 ай бұрын

Finally someone who agrees with me, I still listen to this song a lot. Tennessee and Rhode Island were miles ahead of everyone else imo

@CJPee

3 ай бұрын

@@chris_1103 Yes :) My two favs were Tennessee and Connecticut

Kansas, Georgia and Rhode Island really deserved to be in the final...

The only one that i listen a lot of time is Watch me now by the crystal method. It's a bop.

Luca Hänni, is that you in the thumbnail?

I still listen to mr. Independent😂 the only good song

their problem is that there arent enough cultural differences between the states, so its just like any other show without that clear of a distinction between each competitor :(

i'm still waiting for the 2024 edition

Can we have eurovision at home? Eurovision at home:

As an American I would like to confirm that no one here cared about this show at all. I've been following Eurovision more or less consistently since 2018 and didn't even find out it existed until a year after it happened. No advertising whatsoever, which is strange since I've seen advertisements for Eurovision here since NBC, the same broadcaster as the American song contest, started streaming it on Peacock. It also doesn't help that the vast majority of the songs were meh at most, I have to agree with your top 2, they were the extremely obvious winners with them being wayyyyyy better than all of the others. Them along with Nevada, New York, and Washington (Who were all extremely robbed) are the only songs I consider listening to again if I'm bored.

Was it overall not good? Yeah. But there were gems. I think you ranked Wyoming too low.

Kind of cheating of Maine to just send Sam Ryder

this contest flopped harder than Eaea with the televote

Many of you have your views on why this was a catastrophe and I agree with many things, but in the end I think the main reason this flopped so hard is that I don’t like or remember any of the songs.

Most of them are good singers, but the contest misses the spark of Eurovision, theres not much diversity with each songs. There's no crazy, silly songs that make Eurovision, plus having a country to sing in their own language and style makes the song stand out. Which the American song contest struggles at.

@keitaro-kun2373

3 ай бұрын

Arizona and Oregon: 😐

@delboy292

3 ай бұрын

​@@keitaro-kun2373 2 songs out of 56 😮

Alexa was literally the only song worthy of the win... BUT what was even the point of the show? She won...then didnt even get the piss weak prize she was supposed to get. The song could have been a hit too if it was given any promo at all. :/

One of the reasons it was so bad was the 100+ backup dancers for each song. Like why sooo many. That and the cultural and the shameless funny elements were just not there. Sadly this was not unexpected lol.

America just needs to stop trying to fit in with us Europeans

@keitaro-kun2373

3 ай бұрын

In my opinion, every continent should have a variation of Eurovision, to showcase their cultures and the different music from each country in the world 🤷‍♂️

As an American, I'm sorry for all the country songs not all our music is this bad

we can all say that alexa was the best

New york robbed af 😭 but yea this is melfest from temu after all

There is it Amercan esc 2023 and 2024, ?

@NarutoUzumakiofficial

2 ай бұрын

nope. nBC dropped the ball and greedy corporations only care for money. They could've made this be a success or at least a selection for eurovision.

This didn't work because national pride is something that is real while state pride is stupid.

@otowndude08

9 күн бұрын

Or because the competition was 8 weeks long. There was over a month between the first qualifier and the semi finals. Along with that, if your state was in qualifier 5 you had to wait 5 weeks just to see your state perform.

It's like the Eurovision, but not good

@lasthmatique

3 ай бұрын

Never heard of this contest before I watched this video, but like nearly no song stood out to me. These are just short extracts so it's hard to tell, but still, it looks repetitive both sonically and visually for the most of it I think, no wonder it flopped. I'm definitely biased though.

@TimeG37

3 ай бұрын

I'd say it's more like "we have Melodifestivalen at home"

Even no. 1 won't qualify in eurovision finals 🤣. Last place in semis at best

Oh so they have American song contest now? Okay…

@TimeG37

3 ай бұрын

They did, it was cancelled after the first season

@leaaon460

3 ай бұрын

​@@TimeG37No wonder. The show seems so lifeless. If they had copied the Europeans, it would have been better.

The greatest bullshit i've ever seen 🤦🙄

All of these songs are so bad.

Very sad that this version was canceled, i love it, but now we just have to wait for the eurovision latin america which is already confirmed 🥲

@mxfg1535

3 ай бұрын

Oh god 💀

@treverthetree

3 ай бұрын

Remember that Eurovision Asia was also confirmed...

@ningowo2306

3 ай бұрын

Honestly think the should have just done all the Americas combined. That way all the songs would have had a chance to stand out and more counties may be able to participate.😊

@mxfg1535

3 ай бұрын

@@ningowo2306 I agree, more diversity as well because more countries

@Randomperson-cv4oo

3 ай бұрын

@treverthetree Remember Eurovision Canada was announced for 2023 on the Eurovision website but never happened

Does somebody still care about this useless show?

The songs are really generic, there's none of the fun or cultural diversity, nor a long history and rulebook. This just doesn't work

@keitaro-kun2373

3 ай бұрын

The arizona song has a great cultural diversity 😐

@dykevader01

3 ай бұрын

@@keitaro-kun2373 one song in nearly 60? The DIY is one great song too but that doesn't change most are very basic and forgetable