2023-05-14 00:05:00
FM4 brought Jan Böhmermann and Olli Schulz on board for the Eurovision Song Contest 2023. An entertaining, if unsurprising, evening.
With Jan Böhmermann and Olli Schulz, FM4 has backed a pretty safe horse once more. After the Austrian luminaries Armin Wolf and Peter Filzmaier (podcast “The Professor and the Wolf”), the Germans are now being brought on board. Namely, to comment on the 67th Eurovision Song Contest (ESC). This is clever because they are two men with a very wide reach. Their podcast “Fest & Flauschig” has over a million listeners per week, most of them between 18 and 34 years old. The average FM4 listener today is 38 years old.
Anyone who feels at home with “Fest & Fluffy” has certainly enjoyed Saturday evening with FM4. Audiblely stimulated, people joked and smacked their lips (pom bears and chocolate hearts), sang along and ranted. The music was more of a side issue. In any case, she might only be heard if she agreed with Böhmermann and Schulz – or displeased her to the point of speechlessness. In total, that was five numbers. It was better to be entertained anyway, a total of five hours.
Austria got off comparatively well – as you know, you don’t bite the hand that feeds you – Teya and Salena are “the only hope that Austria still has”, following it has always been in the shadow of the Czech Republic and Hungary. Although you can already ski well there. They distanced themselves from the ORF right at the beginning of the stream, so that this time the radio didn’t have to do it followingwards (you may remember Böhmermann in “Kulturmontag”): “Everything that happens right away has nothing to do with the ORF, that is everything we.”
There was a lot of music that you had to “listen to” first, 26 different feelings hit you, many of the performers were probably in pain. Unfortunately, there were no limits to creativity, according to Böhmermann one or the other performance was a bit “wyld with Y”. All sorts of background information was also obtained. At the last minute, the ESC decided on the motto “United by Music” instead of “Fuck Russia”, the stage decoration was by Nanu-Nana, a 50-strong band was sitting under the stage, Kylie Minogue and Ariana Grande had performed.
The otherwise so welded duo first had to approach the commentary booth. Around 10 p.m. it sounded like a well-rehearsed team of radio presenters, including the usual smack. As a spectator you had already gotten used to the overlapping hubbub of voices. Herbert Kickl was blamed for intermittent sound problems, and towards the end both the commentators and the audience were tormented by tiredness, which was probably more due to the event itself. Loreen’s second victory (for Sweden) was no longer able to activate the two, “I don’t feel it,” Böhmermann repeated once more and once more.
Unfortunately, the podcast duo was not able to collect all kinds of audience votes for Austria, but (largely) even those for whom the ESC is a circus were able to entertain them.
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