Should you’ve spent the previous few weeks complaining about jury voting, singing Cha Cha Cha, or churning butter in a milkmaid’s outfit, then the Eurovision Hits Music Pack is made for you. Bolstering the Let’s Sing 2023 DLC roster with 5 songs, it’s a should for anybody who’s in denial that Eurovision is over.
The 5 songs within the Let’s Sing 2023 – Eurovision Hits Music Pack are a smattering of winners from the previous fifteen years. For £3.99 you get Duncan Laurence’s 2019 winner ‘Arcade’, Lena’s 2010 winner ‘Satellite tv for pc’, Conchita Wurst’s 2014 winner ‘Rise Like a Phoenix’, Loreen’s champion of 2012 ‘Euphoria’ and – the odd one out within the group – Eleni Foureira’s 2018 runner-up, ‘Fuego’. A runner up: for disgrace, Let’s Sing.
It ought to be famous that, as a lot as you may want a Conchita outfit on your avatar, that is purely a music pack. There’s nothing else right here to get you into the spirit of Eurovision. In a way, that’s a disappointment, as we really feel like there’s an viewers for a full-blown ‘Beatles Rock Band’-style takeover of a serious rhythm motion sport that’s devoted to Eurovision (with voting part, in fact). Nevertheless it’s additionally anticipated. Let’s Sing have tended to solely launch music packs, and even their devoted video games like Let’s Sing Queen are simply large-scale, glorified DLC.
When it comes to music choice, it will get a coronary heart B+ from us. To a music, these are all memorable bangers from Eurovision trendy historical past. Nearly each nook of pop will get lined, from the glacial synth pop of ‘Arcade’, to the Lily Allen-esque ‘Satellite tv for pc’ and – in fact – the arch Bond theme of ‘Rise Like a Phoenix’. We hadn’t encountered ‘Fuego’ earlier than, nevertheless it’s a latin pop hit that Shakira most likely fired her agent for not securing. It ended up being our favorite of the bunch.
Credit score goes to Let’s Sing for looking for songs that work out the vocal pipes in a different way. Rise Like a Phoenix has you belting it out like Shirley Bassey; Satellite tv for pc has a quick, half-rap cadence that takes some getting used to, whereas Euphoria has you strutting about like a pop queen. There’s been a deliberate try and make the precise singing really feel assorted.
However saying all that, there may be nonetheless a way of ‘what might need been’. Let’s Sing 2023 – Eurovision Hits Music Pack intentionally dodges the zeitgeist and doesn’t contact Eurovision 2023 in any respect, which seems like the simple method out. Anticipating or together with the winner would have taken some work, however it could have made the pack really feel brisker. The identical goes for Sam Ryder’s ‘Area Man’. Wouldn’t it have been so tough to incorporate the de facto reigning music from 2022? It actually would have been a belter to sing.
Video-wise, the pack is okay however uninspiring. Eurovision winners of the previous fifteen years have been by no means going to have lavish Beyoncé-beaters by way of music movies. Arcade is usually Duncan Laurence moping about below the ocean, Conchita swans about on a pink divan, Lena dances about in a room – you get the thought. There’s barely a backing dancer or particular impact in sight. However home-made attraction is form of the purpose. We don’t need our Eurovision hits to appear to be cash has truly been spent on them.
We’d have taken higher high quality upscaling although. On multiple event, the movies have been blocky and artefacted – Loreen’s ‘Euphoria’ was significantly affected – as if we have been streaming the video over a nasty connection on Netflix. We’re undecided why it’s the case. Absolutely there was a 4K model of the movies sitting in a vault someplace?
Nonetheless, the Let’s Sing 2023 – Eurovision Hits Music Pack does what it meant to do. It provides us 5 of one of the best Eurovision hits of the previous couple of a long time, and lets us caterwaul over them. The shortage of songs, and the slight security by way of their alternative signifies that Let’s Sing 2023 – Eurovision Hits Music Pack doesn’t fairly get douze factors, nevertheless it did have us wishing that we had a backless sequin costume and a revolving stage.
