A Busy Weekend (again)...
There’s been plenty going on this weekend! I best fill you in…
In a relatively quiet national final from FYR MACEDONIA, the unanimous winner – in that she scored all the points possible – was Karolina Goceva, FYROM’s 2002 entrant. She returns five years on with “Mojet Svet”, a good song with lots of typical Eastern rhythms. It’s a nice listen, not overly memorable but I think it was amongst the better songs picked over the weekend. Annoyingly it’s in the 7/4 time signature that Tose Proseki used on “Life” is 2004 so it makes listening to it a bit awkward. Otherwise though not a bad effort. And as FYROM have qualified from every semi-final so far, I’d expect this one to go through to the final!
SPAIN’s very long and rather confusing selection process took place on Saturday with 25 performances! 5 singers, 5 songs, all possible combinations performed! What a marathon! At the end of it all, it was decided that the Boyband hunks, Nash, will go to Helsinki singing “I Love You Mi Vida”, typical boy band fodder. But, hey, they’re a decent boy band and they pull it off. It’s got a memorable hook to it this song AND it’s written by that pesky Swede Thomas G:Son, who has also written the Norwegian entry. He gets everywhere. But he knows how to write a good Eurovision song obviously. Not ground breaking stuff from Spain, but the boyband appeal may get them a few more marks than they have done of late.
Well, the Cypriot entry’s in French so why not have the LATVIAN entry in Italian?! They’re sending a group of male tenors and basses going by the name of bonoparti.lv and they’ll be singing the rather operatic “Questa Notte”. Sadly it’s a bit of a wet weekend in Wales. 2 years ago, the UK final had a great Il-Divo-esque song called “Brand New Day” in it, and it was MUCH better than “Questa Notte”. It’s such a great idea for an act, but the song just doesn’t cut it. It might qualify from the semi merely because the mums love a tenor, but the song is really not all that memorable. Bit of a letdown really. It’s nice but… it’s only nice.
So we like all the songs here. But still... will a standout song be chosen this year? Is there one on the horizon? Hopes still on Georgia... :-)
In a relatively quiet national final from FYR MACEDONIA, the unanimous winner – in that she scored all the points possible – was Karolina Goceva, FYROM’s 2002 entrant. She returns five years on with “Mojet Svet”, a good song with lots of typical Eastern rhythms. It’s a nice listen, not overly memorable but I think it was amongst the better songs picked over the weekend. Annoyingly it’s in the 7/4 time signature that Tose Proseki used on “Life” is 2004 so it makes listening to it a bit awkward. Otherwise though not a bad effort. And as FYROM have qualified from every semi-final so far, I’d expect this one to go through to the final!
SPAIN’s very long and rather confusing selection process took place on Saturday with 25 performances! 5 singers, 5 songs, all possible combinations performed! What a marathon! At the end of it all, it was decided that the Boyband hunks, Nash, will go to Helsinki singing “I Love You Mi Vida”, typical boy band fodder. But, hey, they’re a decent boy band and they pull it off. It’s got a memorable hook to it this song AND it’s written by that pesky Swede Thomas G:Son, who has also written the Norwegian entry. He gets everywhere. But he knows how to write a good Eurovision song obviously. Not ground breaking stuff from Spain, but the boyband appeal may get them a few more marks than they have done of late.
Well, the Cypriot entry’s in French so why not have the LATVIAN entry in Italian?! They’re sending a group of male tenors and basses going by the name of bonoparti.lv and they’ll be singing the rather operatic “Questa Notte”. Sadly it’s a bit of a wet weekend in Wales. 2 years ago, the UK final had a great Il-Divo-esque song called “Brand New Day” in it, and it was MUCH better than “Questa Notte”. It’s such a great idea for an act, but the song just doesn’t cut it. It might qualify from the semi merely because the mums love a tenor, but the song is really not all that memorable. Bit of a letdown really. It’s nice but… it’s only nice.
So we like all the songs here. But still... will a standout song be chosen this year? Is there one on the horizon? Hopes still on Georgia... :-)
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