Rise Like a Phoenix
| Rise Like a Phoenix | |
|---|---|
| Conchita Wurst | |
| publication | March 18, 2014 |
| length | 3:01 |
| Genre (s) | Pop , soul |
| text | Charley Mason |
| music | Julian Maas , Charlie Mason , Joey Patulka , Alexander Zuckowski |
| Label | ORF-Enterprise |
| album | Conchita |
Rise Like a Phoenix is a song by the writing team Julian Maas , Charlie Mason , Joey Patulka and Alexander “Ali” Zuckowski in English . The song title refers to the motif of the " phoenix from the ashes " known from mythology . In the interpretation of Conchita Wurst , Austria won the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 with the piece .
history
The song was written by the team of authors four years earlier for another project and offered to the Austrian ESC committee upon request. The music was played by the Hungarian Philharmonic Budapest . All of Austria's major record labels refused to publish the song, so the ORF put the song on itself on March 18, 2014. The piece was then selected by ORF-Enterprise as the Austrian contribution to the Eurovision Song Contest in Copenhagen without a preliminary decision show .
The accompanying music video premiered on YouTube on the same day . Shortly thereafter, the first live appearance on the show Dancing Stars followed . Conchita Wurst won the Eurovision Song Contest on May 10, 2014 with 290 points, the sixth-best result in the history of the competition.
Lyrics
Tom Neuwirth describes his youth as a homosexual in the country as difficult. Alexander Zuckowski: “At that time we saw [the song] as an invitation to get up again and not give up when there was a headwind. But of course we think it's great that the text has now got a completely different dimension through Conchita's special story ”.
When performing after the award ceremony, Conchita Wurst changed the last verse and the last refrain from “I” to “We”: “We rise up to the sky / You threw '[u] s down but / We gonna fly […] Once we are transformed / Once we are reborn [...] "
reception
“The song has the sound of one of the best James Bond songs. The powerful ballad is glamorous and elegant and is interpreted as convincingly as Shirley Bassey once sang her Goldfinger , ”wrote Thomas Borgmann from Swiss CR magazine. According to the Hamburger Abendblatt , in the interpretation of Conchita Wurst, many viewers perceive the song as a liberation hymn, an open advocacy of tolerance and freedom . Austria's only Eurovision Song Contest winner so far, Udo Jürgens , who was successful with Merci, Chérie in 1966 , praised the song as "a well-composed song with a beautiful musical arc".
In 2020, Rise like a Phoenix was voted 10th of the “100 most important Austrian pop songs” by the pop culture magazine The Gap as part of the AustroTOP ranking.
Awarding of points
| number | Ranking | Points | country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 × | 1 | 12 | Finland (1/1), Greece (2/1), Ireland (1/3), Italy (3/2), Romania (1/2), Switzerland (2/1), United Kingdom (2/3) |
| 6 × | 2 | 10 | Georgia (2 / -), Israel (2/2), Lithuania (1/6), Malta (8/1), Poland (8/1), Slovenia (1/2) |
| 1 × | 3 | 8th | Norway (5/3) |
| 1 × | 4th | 7th | Belarus (9/3) |
| 1 × | 5 | 6th | Macedonia (5 / -) |
| 1 × | 7th | 4th | Germany (13/1) |
| number | Ranking | Points | country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 × | 1 | 12 |
Greece (1/2), Netherlands (1/1), United Kingdom (3/3), Sweden (1/1), Israel (1/2), Portugal (6/1), Ireland (1/3), Finland (1/1), Spain (2/2), Belgium (3/3), Italy (3/2), Switzerland (1/1), Slovenia (1/1) |
| 7 × | 2 | 10 | Malta (9/1), France (4/2), Iceland (2/3), Norway (4/2), Hungary (8/2), Lithuania (1/5), Georgia (- / 2) |
| 3 × | 3 | 8th | Denmark (2/3), Romania (7/2), Ukraine (3/5) |
| 2 × | 4th | 7th | Germany (11/1), Moldova (4/4) |
| 1 × | 5 | 6th | Latvia (10/5) |
| 2 × | 6th | 5 | Albania (6 / -), Russia (11/3) |
| 1 × | 7th | 4th | Estonia (8/8) |
| 1 × | 8th | 3 | Macedonia (14/5) |
| 1 × | 9 | 2 | Montenegro (17/5) |
| 1 × | 10 | 1 | Azerbaijan (24/3) |
| 4 × | 11-25 | 0 | Poland (19/4/11), San Marino (14 / - / 14), Armenia (24/2/14), Belarus (23/4/14) |
Charts and chart placements
Rise Like a Phoenix reached position five in the single charts in Germany . In Austria the single reached position one , in Switzerland position two and in the United Kingdom position 17 in the singles charts.
For Conchita Wurst this is the third chart success in Austria, in Germany, Switzerland and the United Kingdom it is the first. It is the first top 10 and number one hit in Austria.
For Alexander Zuckowski as a composer, Rise Like a Phoenix is already the 14th single that has made it into the German single charts, as well as the eighth in Austria and Switzerland and the second in Great Britain. In Germany it is the fourth top 10 success, in Austria and Switzerland the second each. In Austria it is the first number one hit . For the fifth time, a composition by Zuckowski was placed in all DA-CH countries. To date, no single has been able to place higher in the charts in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Great Britain.
- Chart placements
| Charts | Top position |
Weeks |
|---|---|---|
 Belgium ( Flanders )
|
8th | 4th |
|
Belgium ( Wallonia )
|
19th | 2 |
 Denmark
|
6th | 2 |
 Germany
|
5 | 4th |
 France
|
39 | 3 |
 Ireland
|
10 | ... |
 Netherlands
|
3 | 2 |
 Austria
|
1 | 16 |
 Sweden
|
27 | 2 |
 Switzerland
|
2 | 4th |
 Spain
|
8th | 3 |
 United Kingdom
|
17th | 2 |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry at GEMA → Type in 'Rise Like a Phoenix' for the title and 'Conchita Wurst' for the artist
- ↑ Contribution to the final at the ESC
- ↑ a b "Rise Like A Phoenix": A four year old hit. May 15, 2014, accessed May 15, 2014 .
- ↑ stern : Record labels rejected "Rise Like A Phoenix" , May 13, 2014
- ↑ Europe votes for drag queen . Retrieved May 27, 2015.
- ↑ Lists: Conchita Wurst will rise like a phoenix in Copenhagen .
- ↑ Conchita Wurst wows with live performance of 'Rise like a Phoenix' .
- ↑ Conchita Wurst wins the ESC . Retrieved June 29, 2014.
- ↑ Sideline : Conchita Wurst talks about her difficult youth ( Memento of the original from May 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , July 24, 2013
- ↑ Repetition after the award ceremony at ESC , Youtube
- ↑ David Bronner , one of the three producers, first noticed it in Im Zentrum , May 11, 2014, ORF 2, 10:00 p.m.
- ↑ It's about the sausage ( Memento of the original from May 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Queer Online News, May 6, 2014
- ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt : Ali Zuckowski on Conchita Wurst: "Suspected that great things are looming" , May 12, 2014
- ↑ Jens Maier: Record companies rejected "Rise Like A Phoenix" , stern , May 13, 2014
- ↑ AustroTOP - The 100 most important Austrian pop songs - page 21 from April 28th, 14th 2020, accessed on April 23rd, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Scoreboards in 2014 - Detailed voting result - Second Semi-Final
- ^ Website of the Eurovision Song Contest , accessed on May 13, 2014.
- ↑ Scoreboards in 2014 - Detailed voting result
- ^ Conchita Wurst - Rise Like a Phoenix .
Web links
- Rise Like a Phoenix - Original Lyrics , eurovision.tv
- Veit Schmidt: More retaliation than revenge. To Conchita Wurst's "Rise Like A Phoenix". , Löwenherz bookstore , May 11, 2014
- Contribution to the final at the ESC
| predecessor | position | successor |
|---|---|---|
|
Only Teardrops ( Emmelie de Forest ) |
Winner song of the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 |
Heroes ( Måns Zelmerlöw ) |
|
Shine ( Natália Kelly ) |
 Austria at the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 |
I Am Yours ( The Makemakes ) |