The 60th Song Contest has been a success in Vienna. A few days after the event, I ask myself the question: Which song can I still remember? Which vocal performance impressed me the most? What melody has nested in my ear canals? Has anything settled at all?
Yes, to a melody I can remember it very well. But that's not the winning title. "Heroes" by the Swede man Zelmerlöw had to be seen above all, not heard. Only heard it is a "nice to have song" that (me) doesn't necessarily notice. By the way, this is not only my opinion, but that of some people with whom I have talked about it. What really made the "Heroes" the winner was the extraordinary choreography of the Swedish entry. This was definitely great and required the highest concentration of the singer. He communicated directly with a projected stick figure and other figures, skilfully caught balls of light and was completely "in tune" with regard to his gestures and body language and perfectly coordinated with what was shown behind him. In this kind of staging, every centimetre really counts, only a small move on stage from the intended place "tears apart" the choreography and thus the entire conception of the performance. In this respect, a true super performance and a certainly deserved first place.
BUT, actually it's called the Song Contest. And not a special effects contest. Or? Song like singing. And for singing we need – the voice. Mans sang not badly, not at all, the song also has a quite good rhythm. But what I call the secret seducer's voice did not come into play here. The power of the voice, the melting that voice can have, I heard in another post. The three gentlemen from Italy convinced me with their voices. And that has nothing to do with the fact that they sang about "Un Grande Amore". But that was only enough for third place. Admittedly, they didn't have a big stage show. They relied solely on the Persuasiveness of the voice ... On this evening in Vienna, the gigantic stage show was more pleasing than the voice factor. Show beats voice. But this does not always have to be the case, especially for professional presentations and official speeches, a gigantic "firework" of effects is certainly not enough. I am convinced: The combination of voice, very good content, skilful staging and dramaturgy is THE number one guarantee of success in business as well as in life. Do you already trust the power of your voice?
Yours, Arno Fischbacher
The author:
Arno Fischbacher is a business voice coach and rhetoric expert, speaker and author. He prepares executives and employees of the top companies in Germany and Austria for negotiations, presentations and media appearances. Fischbacher is the author of several books, past president of the German Speakers Association (GSA) Austria, chairman of the European Network of Voice Experts, stimme.at.
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