WEBMASTER REVIEW : I have to admit that I generally hate these peace and love anthems with a passion, however they have tended to do well at Eurovision in the past, but only when they are performed with a lot of empathy (like "Love Shine A Light" in 1997). Getting six people from different countries to
sing could be perceived as a cynical move to get as many votes as possible or it could be a be an nice way of emphasising the international element of the song. There is however the danger of the "look at me" element where singers try and grab the attention. The draw has been absolutely awful for this song, and this is not
the right song to start the show. Given that 23 songs come after it, I think that it may struggle to make the Top 10.
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YOUR REVIEWS:
Every time Siegel enters a song in ESC I hope it's his last one, but it seems to me that we are stuck with him on a permanent basis. "If we all give a little" is nothing but a big cliché. It's a dated 'charity'-song (type "We are the world") with an awful lyric. Maestro Siegel has come up with
the brilliant idea of putting six artists together from six different nations to collect some 50-60 'free points'. He might succeed, but nothing would please me more if he didn't. - Tore G (Norway)
You can imagine a bevvy of Miss World contestants singing this. It's a cloying little song but there is no denying its instant appeal. The woman with the black pudding-bowl hairstyle is a bit of a worry and they should perhaps hide her behind a screen. Chances of winning? Higher than I would like to admit! - David
Bridgeman (UK)
Having heard it a few times I cannot help but think this is a Real Madrid of a song, plenty of hype and filled with supposed galacticos, but the whole is somehow much less than the parts. We should all be aware of how little the galacticos have won, and I think something fresher and more original will triumph this
yea r. This whole exercise smacks of a ploy to buy Eurovision success, what a waste of money! - Andy Turner (UK)
The Swiss' calculating and cunning ploy looks likely to pay off with another good placing in Athens. Beautiful, famous people, from different countries, singing a song of peace. All but guaranteed at least 70 points and probably more than that. - Chris (formerly of Barcelona)
This is really dated and the type of thing that would have ran away with it in 1986. In addition, the whole concept of an international group singing about world peace and harmony just seems cheesy at best and manipulative at worst. So, given all that, why is this still one of my favourites? - Colin McKnight (UK)
Six4One, six4 Siegel and Switzerland - totally different than last years Swiss (Estonian) entry, back to the good old ESC days but I am not sure if it works in 2006 and times of televoting. The idea of creating a group out of singer from 5 different ESC participating nations is quite clever though - now I am
waiting for the first " all Balkan " and " all Scandinavian " group ;). - Paul Hutter (Germany)
The mother of nightmare draws. Drawing final five, I could see this song winning with its 5x12 points it apparently is going to get.. but the chance of this song getting remembered after the UK, Germany, Spain, Greece, and probably Poland, Finland and Belgium seems rather low. - Andre Hordern (UK)
This peace anthem is so sugary it's giving me diabetes. Switzerland is trying too hard here, and just like Bosnia and Herzegovina's "Call Me" bombed last year, I think this one will too. - Sean (USA)
I'm not ashamed to say that I really like this Coca-Cola ad of a song, as cheesy and contrived as it is. However it needs a New Seekers, Mocedades or even a Margo, Franck Olivier, Ireen Sheer et al, to pull it off. 6-Ply, or whatever they're called, are still likely to provide us with the biggest dog's dinner of a
performance as has been seen since Israel '93. - Luke Kelly (Ireland)
Most fans hate this, but I think its wonderful. Pure easy-listening, but done so well - there's nothing at all I dislike about it and I think it will be an excellent opening song, given that it has anthemic qualities and six experienced professional singers. - Merseymike (UK)
This could be one of those charity singles from the 1980's. It's very reminiscent of "We are the World" and has about the same quality of lyric. The group image is a little unusual too. Best bit of the song is the break, which is unusual in itself. It all looks very dated though and while it might be a
cute opener to the show, I don't think this will come anywhere. - Dermot Manning - Ireland)
I know it's horrible so why do I find myself liking it? It's truly awful but I can't help it. Bad draw but I don't see it bombing completely - mid-table is probably the best they can hope for though. It would be a travesty of justice for it to score higher than Vanilla Ninja who I still think were robbed of a top
5 position. - Ben (UK)
Annoyingly cheesy. They deserve bottom 5.- Pedro Sa (Portigal)
I'm reminded of that line from "The Third Man", "Switzerland has had seven hundred years of peace and harmony and all they produced was the cuckoo clock." Here you have two experienced songwriters (who should really be booking themselves into a retirement home at this stage) and six supposedly
great singers from all over Europe, but are really second raters who have tried and failed to get to Eurovision under their own steam. The result is a song and performance that is just too OTT and sickly sweet , even for Eurovision. and hat's saying a lot. - Declan Magnier (Ireland)
they are pulling out all the stops this year to try and get the perfect Eurovision formula, but mid table I think. - James Samson (UK)
With Estonians Vanilla Ninja doing so well for Switzerland, I suppose it was only natural that they would try to extend the trend and get as many different people from as many different countries, because at least then someone has to vote for them. I suppose this song does what it says on the box. If you want to
vote politically, or for your country, vote for Switzerland. as for me, there are definitely some other not-so politically correct songs that i would prefer to vote for. - Ben Kaspar (Australia)
For once let's thank those that drew the running order as they killed any chance of this awful contrived nonsense doing well - Ian C (Ireland)
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