You may have noticed that I'm not following the chronological order which is announced the choices of each country to the Eurovision, but rather an order that begins with the choices i consider easier to write a review.
Here are my comments for more two countries.
Sweden and Loreen
This is by far the choice that gives me more pleasure to comment. Again the swedish choice was made by the Melodifestivalen, and to me there wasn't a festival with so quality by many years.
One of the highlights of this edition was the return of the winner of Melodifestivalen in 1999 and 2008 and also the winner of the Eurovision in 1999, Charlotte Perrelli. This year brought the song "The Girl". It was evident the effort and investment of the singer in music and performance. Unfortunately it was not enough to have gone even to the "Second Chance," ending up only in 5th place in the 4th semifinal.
After all, the victory of Loreen could not be more just. We are facing a very intense song, both in rhythm and in melody, lyrics, message and particularly interpretation. It's amazing the ability of the singer of Moroccan-Berber descent, 28 years old, have to move much throughout the song and still maintain an almost perfect tuning, to the point of the live version is much better than the studio version. A song and an interpretation so powerful could only earn the victory. In fact, everything was thought to detail, from the choreography, and set of lights at the point of being able to convey a single emotion for those who are watching.
As for competition, in addition to the 2 ranked, Danny Saucedo with the song "Amazing," which for me was not their best performance in Melodifestivalen (the last year was much better), I emphasize the 3rd and 7th ranked.
In third place was the singer Ulrik Munther, with only 18 years old, with the song "Soldiers". It is a very nice song to listen to, and the whole interpretation was also unique .In 7th place was the Hevy Metal band, Dead by April, with the song "Mystery". A different style of others who I have already mentioned, but got a strong presence on stage with a performance obviously more "heavy", but still catchy.
Eurovision is marked by unpleasant choices and surprises throughout its history.
this year commit the musical crime of not putting this music among the finalists, and give it at least 3rd place in the final. Although up to 2nd place would be very little to Loreen "Euphoria".
Russia and Buranovskiye Babushki
I am standing before another choice, that it's very difficult for me to give a comment. Obviously not here concerned the age or the costumes worn by this "ethnic-pop" music group. Rather, it is to praise the courage to participate and to show not only the traditional culture of Russia, but also alert to the fact that Eurovision should not be guided by youth and beauty of the artistswhen it should first give more importance to the vocal qualities of the artists and interpretation.
And unfortunately, the vocal qualities of the group leave much to be desired. Obviously we have to take into account the age and probably the weak musical knowledge of any of the singers.
However, Eurovision is above all a musical competition. And it should always be the differentiating factor of the music in contest.
Admittedly most of the songs in the competition were not great alternatives. Even the runners up, Yulia Volkova and Dima Bilan, the latter brought the second place to Russia in 2006 and victory in 2008. At best, the 3rd place, Timati & Aida Garifullina could provide a good alternative to the winning song.
But the most likely scenario is the passage from Russia to final, as it's happened since exist semifinals, were it not for the fact that the countries of eastern europe and western countries too, where there is some Diaspora, always give points to Russia. In the same semifinal that Russia will be a number of countries that may points to Russia: Latvia, Finland, Romania, Hungary, Moldova and Israel.
This song reminds me of the choice of Russia in 2010 that despite the poor quality, able to pass the final and reached the 11th place. It seems to me that Russia wants to prove every year that they do not need to take a good quality music to pass to final. It becomes an offense to those countries that put more effort in music but can not exercise the political voting power as Russia exercises.
Being a fan of fairplay, I wish good luck to both countries!
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