Now a monk is reporting to Lord of the Lost!

The Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) 2023 is receiving a heavy rating. In view of the renewed placement flop of the German contribution, the spectrum of opinions in this country ranges from amusement to the suggestion of an immediate “time out” at the ESC.

Now Benedikt Müller from Königsmünster Abbey in Meschede, Sauerland, is also speaking up. The Benedictine monk is considered a proven ESC expert. For the performance of Lord of The Lost in Liverpool he submitted his placet, which he would do differently in the future

Müller has been an ESC fan since childhood. He has only missed the song contest twice so far, he says in an interview catholic.de, which sees itself as an online forum for the Catholic Church in Germany. As a “news and explanatory portal”, the editorial office based in the former federal capital Bonn officially cooperates with the 27 German dioceses and other church institutions. The general non-profit program company (APG) is the operator.

“I usually watch the ESC with the other monks on television. This year was different. I wasn’t in such a good mood so I watched it alone on my phone. But I felt connected to the many ESC friends,” Müller reported to the Christian platform.

The former ESC jury member found the performance of Lords of the Lost (LotL) “very good and successful” overall, but such a song is always a matter of taste. According to his reading, the title “Blood and Glitter” is “spiritually charged”.

Müller diagnoses: “This also includes Good Friday and Easter Sunday. We’ll fall and get up, soar to the sky. I heard that. The song had so many mystical elements and spiritual messages. The song is also about saints and sinners. Of course, I looked closely at the text. But this rock band could have scored better simply because of their extraordinary vocal performance.”

As a connoisseur of the matter, he is certain that LotL would probably have been better received a few years ago. Above all, he sees “a jury problem”. “There are people sitting there who all come from the music scene. In other words, they tend to tend in the same direction in their assessment. In the past, the jury members were even more diverse and the result was different. This year you could also see that the audience voted differently than the jury. I think the jury can’t stay the same and has to get bigger and more diverse. It must not only consist of experts, but of jurors from different social classes.” Because only those who were in the TOP 10 on the jury’s ranking could ultimately collect points.