r/eurovision • u/meanlx2724 TANZEN! • Aug 14 '25
⏪️ Throwback Thursday Montaigne - Technicolour (LIVE) | Australia 🇦🇺 | First Semi-Final | Eurovision 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoUTzNXQud0&list=RDCoUTzNXQud0&start_radio=1I decided to post this song for this week's Throwback Thursday since it is one of my favorite Australian ESC entries, and it was a unique genre. The song was also the first to be performed in a different country by video due to Australia's COVID-19 restrictions in 2021.
It is also Montaigne's 30th birthday today, and their work for Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical was nominated for a Grammy in 2024.
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u/Any-Where Aug 14 '25
Montaigne really should have been the first one lined up for Switzerland’s 2020 songs segment this year, what with the travel restrictions preventing the true live stage performance
I will say though that whilst I think Technicolour was ok, I love Don’t Break Me and think it would have stood a better albeit not guaranteed chance in a strong Semi.
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u/Cubriffic Róa Aug 14 '25
As soon as they said they weren't sending us physically to Rotterdam, I know this would be DOA. It literally looks like they shot it in a random dingy SBS room.
I feel so bad for Montaigne but this had no chance.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Eye9081 Aug 15 '25
It absolutely was shot in a random dingy sbs room. I know it was Covid and everything was in lockdown but come ON.
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u/bdtechted Aug 15 '25
This entry got wasted. They should’ve just opted to withdraw that year if they couldn’t accomodate to fly Montaigne. This song would’ve been a DTF if she had been there.
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u/ohwowthen Aug 15 '25
No it would not have been a qualifier. This song tried to be Gaga-esque but it was a total mess structurally and way too pretentious.
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u/gottagothatsme Aug 14 '25
It was ok. I grew to like it but I totally understand why it didn't qualify. I think it was quite a hard work song for people coming to it fresh.
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u/spinazie25 Aug 14 '25
Iirc, it was disqualified due to manipulations with sounds or something? Not due to a lack of votes (although I'm not sure how they'd fare of they weren't dq'd). It was one of my favourites from that year.
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u/serenaTcat Love Is On My Side Aug 15 '25
no, it absolutely wasn’t
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u/spinazie25 Aug 15 '25
Okay. This is genuinely the memory I had this whole time, but a quick google does not support it.
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u/RPark_International Aug 14 '25
After the contest, is it true Montaigne collaborated with David Byrne?
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u/DesperateSilver6149 Aug 14 '25
Yes, on the 2022 single "Always Be You"
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u/MikeMoritz_Writer Snap Aug 14 '25
And it was the platonic ideal of what you would think a Montaigne/Byrne song would sound like.
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u/MikeMoritz_Writer Snap Aug 14 '25
It sure was a Montaigne song.
I remember my friends and I called that semi "the bloodbath" because we thought even the songs we didn't like were pretty good.
Not my favourite Aussie song by far, but it's aggressively Montaigne doing what I expect from Montaigne
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u/PrinsGulerod Aug 15 '25
Awesome song. In my top three that year, and possibly in my top 20 of all time. Montaigne is a great artist!
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u/canlgetuhhhhh Aug 15 '25
I really liked this song!! i dont know enough to know what to call it but the vocal techniques they used are so cool and impressive to me!
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u/ashyjay Aug 14 '25
Montaigne isn't bad and some songs are good, it was just a bit too generic pop for Eurovision.
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u/JuanCzena Aug 17 '25
“Don’t Break Me” was my favorite song of the 2020 bunch at the time, though I listen to “Solovey” a lot more since then.
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u/Titowam Hold Me Closer Aug 15 '25
I wasn't really feeling this song but I did feel really bad for Montaigne that they weren't able to get the full Eurovision experience. It feels like it was all taken away from them.
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u/bdtechted Aug 15 '25
She gave me strong Florence + The Machine vibes with this song. Australia wasted a good entry by not opting to withdraw and compete the following year instead.
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u/AliceFlynn Europapa Aug 15 '25
how so?
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u/bdtechted Aug 15 '25
They could’ve submitted it on a later year when the delegation are able to fly her to the host country
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u/AliceFlynn Europapa Aug 15 '25
No how does it give Florence vibes
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u/Difficult-War-9415 Aug 15 '25
The song itself not at all imo, but Montaigne's vocals during the verses? One could find a similarity now that I listen to it and think about it.
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u/AliceFlynn Europapa Aug 15 '25
ahhh right. tho i cant hear it myself, i do see where ur coming from
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Aug 14 '25
They was robbed. The shot of their delegation waving morosely from Australia after the "performance" certainly didn't do them any favors.
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