REACTION • Iolanda - Grito (Eurovision 2024 🇵🇹 Portugal)

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We continue with our Eurovision 2024 reaction series. Merve will react to the countries who are participating at this years Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö. We are continue our reaction series with Iolanda who will represent Portugal with "Grito" at this years contest.
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[@nunosilva1826]

In Portugal we don't choose between a ballad or an uptempo song... We choose quality. And we will never sell our soul to some trash pop song just to get a good result in a contest that, unfortunately, is more like a circus than a song competition.

[@helenapereira9662]

Appreciating a song only by the rhythm and visuals of the participants denotes a lack of sensitivity to the arts and a lack of musical training. For me, "Grito" is more an Eletrónic POP song mixed with some acordds of Fado. It´s an introspective music and liric about strength and courage to move forward. For this reason, Iolanda said in her interviews "forgive one another, make peace not war" free yourself from the bonds, be reborn.... Appreciating a song only by the rhythm and visuals of the participants denotes a lack of sensitivity to the arts and a lack of musical training.

[@marklopez747]

Plato once said that the problem of a democracy is giving unqualified people an equal voice in matters they little understand. I believe he said that after watching this.

[@carlamanuel9750]

😅😅😅 brilliant comment

[@CarlosalbertoLx]

It seems to me, that you understand as much about music as I do about gardens...🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@paulolopes3258]

if I want animation, I'll hire a seal

[@manuelfernandes8405]

😂🤣😂 Exactly ...

[@paulolopes3258]

Portugal doesn't worry about sending songs to win, it sends what it likes. If your concern is not with quality but with winning, then not winning must be more painful, right? When they talk about upbeat songs, do they mean items for immediate consumption? Chewing gum, chew it, throw it away?

[@LynxLuso]

Hi, thanks for the reaction and I am glad you spoke in Turkish with subtitles (I like to hear the sound of different languages). I am Portuguese, I respect your opinion but disagree with it. What would the point of having a festival with just up-tempo songs? It would saturate most people's ears very quickly. Also, personally, I would love that each country would send a song always in their language (or in one of their official language in the case they have more than one) and something that clearly represents the country/the culture. There was a period where most countries where sending up-tempo pop songs in English void of context. What is the point of that?!

[@Rodrigo23scp]

We don't care about the result darling, and neither pleasing your basic taste of music

[@martingoncalves8214]

Here In Portugal we are known for the "Fado" Music Genre Is a traditional Portuguese music genre characterized by its melancholic and soulful melodies, often expressing the themes of longing, love and the struggles of daily life. I hope I've explained why we send these types of songs so often Is our tradition and identity Tessekur Ederim

[@idevaldomartins9521]

Mediterraneam cultural heritage is not just the imaginary of Latino party. As Portugal has fado, Spain as flamenco, Greece has rebetiko or Turkey has dervish music. In all of them you find deep emotions and not just uptempo fiesta...

[@СтасКолесников-з2с]

Eurovision is a stage for songs, not specificaly uptempo songs. Especialy when they are all in English and seeming alike…. I love Portugal doing their stuff, not specificaly for Eurovision 👌❤️

[@TheArtofFascination]

Viva 🇵🇹❤👏👏👏👏👏

[@miguelcaldeira2414]

Hi :) First, Hug from Portugal :) for obvious reasons I think you need one :), Secondly, we like to send meaningful songs (Ballads or not), meaning, content, poetic and artistic (and simple algo, beacuse sometimes less is more). In this song, to understand the performance and appreaciate it, you have to do a little effort to understand what is all about, hope you do that. I like honesty, but I think at least your review was a little superficial maybe because the lack of some information to understand the song. Sharing some now, to help you understand and relate more to this universal pain and struglle that "GRITO" talks about. Here is the ANALYSIS and Lyrics, "Grito" (Scream) from Iolanda, Portugal choice: "Grito" (SCREAM), presents a compelling narrative of resilience, transformation, and self-empowerment. The song uses the metaphor of fire to symbolize the undying spirit of the protagonist, emphasizing themes of endurance, healing, and self-realization. Themes like: Vulnerability and Surrender: (sense of awareness and sensitivity, possibly hinting at the anticipation of change or the buildup of emotional energy. Speaks to letting go of control, a leap of faith into the unknown. This surrender isn't about giving up but about embracing the process of transformation). Liberation: "I want to let go of what left me hurt" is a clear desire to release past pains and burdens. This act of letting go is necessary for healing and moving forward. Renewal: for instance in asking the "mother star to make the day rise again" symbolizes a plea for rebirth, a fresh start, and the hope that comes with a new day. Transformation: "I transformed every verse of me" indicates profound personal growth and change. The individual is not the same as before; She has evolved through her experiences. Persistence: The repeated phrase "It still burns" emphasizes ongoing struggle and resilience. Despite challenges, her spirit and determination remain unquenched. Self-assertion: "Today I want to prove myself / That I can be whatever I want" reflects a strong sense of self-belief and ambition. She is determined to define her own identity and future. Forgiveness: "Forgive anyone who wanted to see me suffer" shows maturity and emotional liberation. Forgiveness is presented as a step towards healing and empowerment. Resilience: The imagery of being a "flame that still burns" throughout the song symbolizes resilience in the face of adversity. She continues to shine and endure, regardless of past pains and challenges. Self-empowerment: The journey from vulnerability to strength, from darkness to light, encapsulates the theme of self-empowerment. She actively transforms her pain into power, asserting control over her destiny. Healing and Growth: The song portrays healing as an active and dynamic process. It's about moving through pain, embracing change, and growing stronger in the process. Iolanda's 'Grito' (Scream), is a powerful anthem of perseverance, self-discovery, and empowerment. It encourages listeners to embrace their vulnerabilities, let go of the past, and ignite their inner strength to face the future with courage and hope. LYRICS Iolanda - "Grito" (Scream) [Verse 1] I heard, (I) felt, the body charging We continued like that, one and another, one and another, one and another I'm free falling, I'll let you know when I get there I surrender here, little by little [Pre-Chorus] Long strides, chained in the (race) start I want to let go of what left me hurt I ask the mother star to make the day rise again [Chorus] (It still [Ainda] burns [Arde]) I transformed every verse of me (It still burns) And surrender to the courage that still burns, still burns Hit the light on your chest and opens it I am a flame that still burns, still burns, still burns [Verse 2] Today I want to prove myself That I can be whatever I want (Whatever I want) Bring together those who love me at a table Forgive anyone who wanted to see me suffer They don't fool me (No, no) I'm every size (I am) I still remember when I was little (I was) the one who dreamed first [Pre-Chorus] Long strides, chained in the (race) start I want to let go of what left me hurt And I ask the mother star to make the day rise again [Chorus] (It still burns) I transformed every verse of me (It still burns) And surrender to the courage that still burns, still burns Hit the light on your chest and open it I am a flame that still burns, still burns, still burns I am a flame that still burns, still burns I am a flame that still burns, still burns Burn, burn, burn I transformed every verse of me And surrender to the courage that still burns, still burns Hit the light on your chest and open it I am a flame that still burns, still burns, still burns

[@anabelapombo6241]

some can't understand it, simple...think is their bad, not the song!

[@paulolopes3258]

Eurovision Turkey = Key 3

[@idevaldomartins9521]

Portugal is authentic. It is a country that does not pretend just to send something easy and superficial for a globalized and comercial taste. Portuguese people send to Eurovision what they like and not what it's supposed to be liked by people that prefer imitations of anglosaxonic pop music presented with fireworks. Nothing agains pop music. Everything against narrow minds that think that eurovision should be just limited to one kind of style: uptempo music.

[@1907averroes]

I love your Eurovision songs. Amar Pelos Dois, Saudade saudade, ai curaçao... All of these are wonderful and i aprreciate the sending with your own language. Good luck for the 2024.

[@carlamanuel9750]

Lol thank you, i guess, it was very enlightening your advice. Next time we will be jumping around with some stupid song 😂

[@francisfree2010]

❤

[@gozdeucurum8473]

Everyone is entitled to their opinion ! If you’re from Portugal, please don’t take it personally.

[@carlamanuel9750]

I take it seriously. It's one more person disrespecting songs from other Countries. It ends up being a joke what she is saying, but nevertheless disrespectful.

[@anabelapombo6241]

It's not that!! it's a lacking everything here, sense of art, musical taste and aesthetic...is not the song, is her...

[@ginafragata2947]

You dont anderdend completely this but thank you ❤

[@s2Capacidade2s]

So you think Tattoo was an uptempo song? Euphoria was, Tattoo was a pop ballad, but its not a dance song 😂 there is space for everything, Jamala song was also a sad ballad about war. You might dislike ballads but saying they have no space in Eurovision is just wrong. Also you conveniently forgot we sent an uptempo song in 2023.

[@sergiogoncalves9678]

This is art… just that… art. Not the same that every country send. But you don’t have the artistic sensibility to understand.

[@1907averroes]

love your Eurovision songs. Amar Pelos Dois, Saudade saudade, Ai curaçao... All of these are wonderful and i aprreciate the sending with your own language. Good luck for the 2024

[@biggestbubblenc]

Didn't have to insult her though...

[@carlamanuel9750]

​@biggestbubblenc why not? Didn't she do it herself to our music. We are tired of being looked down upon. People don't like what we offer to eurovision, that's cool, just say you don't like it.

[@biggestbubblenc]

@carlamanuel9750 I don't think she said anything insulting about Portuguese music, she just stated her personal musical taste and opinion (which i don't agree, i got goosebumps after one minute of the lyrics video, but it's still only her own opinion).

[@carlamanuel9750]

@biggestbubblenc ok maybe you're right. Maybe I'm just overreacting

[@melisaka706]

Portekizceyi çok seviyorum bu yüzden midir bilmiyorum ama Portekiz'in gönderdiği şarkıların çoğunu beğeniyorum. İngilizce şarkıları hariç. Şimdiki şarkılarını da dinleye dinleye sevdim.

[@gamermarvin7343]

I want to say something to those who wrote bad comments about the reaction. Music is not an objective thing. Everyone can say whatever they want. I think you all need to show respect.

[@joaobarreira1432]

I think you need studing a little more 😂😂😂 you dont no the ridiculous think you say😂😂😂

[@idevaldomartins9521]

Why just to have entertainment, but not art? Why just to have uptempo music, but not slow one? By the way, a lot of ballads have already won eurovision or had good scores (you would know it if you were more informed about eurovision history or previous scores). And, by the way, the best results of Portugal were with ballads and not with uptempo music. Salvador Sobral even has the record of the higher score in all eurovision history. Don't be so arrogant as to confuse your taste with the absolute truth.

[@cassandramcbride7007]

i guess she didnt considered ballads that are up tempo, like Cornelia song in 2022... I guess she goes more like in fire in your eyes 2008 which was amazing balland and got a 7th place...

[@anacristinaribeiro9592]

Thanks a lot for the good advices. We will send the national circus companie next year. Maybe with an opera singer to make a lots of noise while the monkeys jump all around. I think that would be enough action for your taste, yessss! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@carlamanuel9750]

Lolol😂😂😂

[@patriciolopes92]

So much jealous here. Dont worry darling. Turquey will come back some day. Maybe in a thousand years

[@joebloggs396]

Hopefully very soon.

[@gamermarvin7343]

You may not like the her reaction. As a Portuguese, you might also like your own country's song. But what does this have to do with Turkey not participating in Eurovision?

[@Mafalda_c7]

Portugal is not a ballad, it is a sentimental music that the Portuguese feel in their bodies, with all the respect in the world, I allow you to say that you do not value music from around the world and are a bad and spoiled person

[@VítorVieira-x9e]

iolanda ☆☆☆☆☆grito ❤Portugal.

[@No-Hate-Speech]

Why you should never talk with someone who doesn't respect Music, Poetry, Dance, Art …

[@Janecas]

I also get tired when turkey always sent the belly dancing music…

[@volkankahramanoglu7329]

Merve yorumlarda acımasızca eleştirilmişsin. Müzik evrenseldir. Sözlerini bilmediğimiz ya da anlayamadığımız şarkıları sevebilir ya da sevmeyebiliriz. Portekiz'in gönderdiği bu şarkı bize hitap etmiyor, seninle bu konuda aynı fikirdeyim.

[@anabelapombo6241]

We honestly don't care what you think, sorry!! we are ourselves and that's daring, your opinion is so weak, you seemed so far from understanding the song, the dancers and all of what is big here...

[@SusanaEsteves]

Why do we send ballads? because we like it, because it is part of our culture (fado). In Portugal we consider ourselves an Atlantic country and not a Mediterranean country (the Mediterranean Sea does not touch the country anywhere). We are Latin, but very different from the Spanish, Cypriots, Italians, and happy with that, sending something similar to Chanel is completely stupid. Respect your opinion, but I prefer that my country sends something that represents me and not another version of a Swedish pop song

[@carlamanuel9750]

A parte estúpida da eurovisao é que já enviamos músicas com ritmo e também mais fora da caixa e ainda assim nunca fomos a lado nenhum. Enfim.. eurovisao espetáculo de tudo menos música

[@manuelsilva85]

You don't speck inglis,,,,,, muito menos o Português ❤🎉🎉🎉

[@rallealyt]

the dance matches the emotions and the lyrics, not the rythm of the song

[@biggestbubblenc]

I agree, but doesn't this statement prove the point of the video? Non-Portuguese speakers don't get that the dance matches with the story of the song.

[@rallealyt]

@@biggestbubblenc most do.... most of the non-portuguese speakers reviewing the video realized the point of the dancer and the dance. But it's all good 🙂

[@biggestbubblenc]

@@rallealytmost of the people in the reaction videos research better, that's what this video is lacking. But still, considering the general public who will be voting for the songs, or the juries who do not deep dive into the songs context, it can be easily misjudged.

[@vitorjoaquimpires]

🇵🇹 Whatever... 😶 Long live 🇹🇷 Hagia Sophia✓

[@bethp2377]

Do you know what respect means? Maybe not! This is quality, and obviously you dont know either, because its only for those who appreciate it! By the way ... Eurovision is a song contest not a firework circus for monkeys!

[@martingoncalves8214]

"We live in a world of disposable music; fast-food music without any content, and I think this could be a victory for music, for people who make music that actually means something... Music is not fireworks, music is feeling. So let's try to change this and bring music back which is really what matters" - Salvador Sobral, 2016 Winner speech ♥

[@joebloggs396]

It's just an opinion on a song.

[@carlamanuel9750]

​@@joebloggs396what we are doing is replying with our opinion to her analysis. Just like our music, we are emotional people😊

[@bethp2377]

@@joebloggs396 and I just gave mine. It's just an opinion about a comment 😏

[@BrunoCarvalho-yo7mw]

Learn about music. Music is not just circus on stage or plastic boddies. Music is feeling. Take care

[@vera5199]

If you where a Professional singer or Writer or Even a Coach singer i could give you some credit, But… What you Say is so absurd that makes me lauph. How ridiculous are you that don’t Understand the context of Cultur, Language, dance and most important originality. Portugal sings what comes in his heart and Not what you and Others want to here! So have some more RESPECT for the other countries and their cultur

[@biggestbubblenc]

I didn't hear any disrespect to Portuguese culture here.

[@carlamanuel9750]

​@@biggestbubblencnot directly. But she was extremely disrespectful

[@joaobarreira1432]

Portugal 10 place ... sorry 😂😂😂

[@JorgeFonseca-o8d]

First you have to speak in english for Europe can understand what you are sayng...and then you must find and understand the lyrics of the "slow song"..! Music is feeling and this is art... not like many countrys send to Eurovision, including Turkuie the some estile of song...

[@martingoncalves8214]

They put subtitles what do you mean ? So Iolanda needs to sing In English also so people can understand what she sang ? Ridiculous comment, mais valia estares calado/da.

[@JorgeFonseca-o8d]

@@martingoncalves8214 em primeiro lugar, se entendes inglês, o meu comentário era para a KZbinrTurca e não para ti, que fez um vídeo reacção sobre a música de Portugal na linguagem turca( sabendo que quase ninguém vai entender o que ela diz), ora, no mínimo, tal como quase todos os países o fazem ou tentam fazer, um vídeo reacção em inglês (língua universal)!! Segundo, ela está a falar mal e a gozar com a música da Iolanda e que Portugal só leva músicas calmas à eurovisao e que dão vontade de dormir. Convivi com colegas de trabalho turcos no estrangeiro, conheço mínima certas frases, palavras e temperamentos...! Fiz-me entender? Acho que quem devia estar aqui calado, eras tu

[@martingoncalves8214]

@@JorgeFonseca-o8d parece que não percebeste o que eu disse mas explico em Português, portanto ela falou em Turco mas adicionou legendas em Inglês no seu vídeo para percebermos portanto repito qual o problema ? “ acho que quem devia estar aqui calado eras tu “ epah abre os olhos ativa as legendas que ela perdeu tempo a meter legendas e está feito, agora alguém é obrigado a falar inglês ? Por amor de deus se não gostas do conteúdo mete à beira do prato ou faz como eu e faz um raio de uma crítica construtiva invés de mandar postas de pescada

[@JorgeFonseca-o8d]

@@martingoncalves8214 mais uma, onde existe a regra que cada país deve cantar na eurovisao em inglês? Cada país tem a sua língua materna e deve ser por decisão de cada país ou do escritor/autor/cantor levar cantar em português ou inglês, depois são as pessoas e juris que votam! Mtos país levam e levaram canções na sua língua, a maioria da Europa gostou e chegaram a ganhar...e se isso aconteceu é pk entenderam na mesma a letra da música!..

[@martingoncalves8214]

@@JorgeFonseca-o8d oh Chico esperto tu é que disseste “ if you want to speak to Europe speak in English so we can understand “ Eu apenas usei o teu argumento para mostrar o quão ridículo é, e só me estás a dar razão obrigado. Espero que ela continue com os vídeos a falar em Turco com legendas em inglês :) E nos que continuemos a mandar músicas em Português capicho? Tu é que estás a fazer aqui um drama incrível.

[@manuelfernandes8405]

Before saying rubbish, you should first know about what the song is about. Of course the song didn't tell you nothing because you have no musical taste. So go learn music, for a change. In turkish: Saçma demeden önce şarkının neyle ilgili olduğunu bilmelisiniz. Elbette şarkı sana hiçbir şey anlatmıyordu çünkü müzik zevkin yok. O halde bir değişiklik olsun, gidip müzik öğrenin.