The weary sighs Milova emits during the pre-chorus suggest even she’s aware it’s a lost cause.ģ2. “Bridges” is the kind of meandering piano ballad you instantly forget about the moment its final overwrought note has played out. Unfortunately, despite the recruitment of Eurovision-winning songwriter Wouter Hardy (Duncan Laurence’s “Arcade”), she doesn’t have the song.
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“Watergun,” Remo Forrer (Switzerland)įor the third year running, Switzerland has sent a sad-boy ballad with this one sitting somewhere in between the compelling theatrics of Gijon’s Tears’ near-winner “Tout l’univers” and the dreary wailings of Marius Bear’s flop “Boys Do Cry.” Remo Forrer auditioned for his victorious third season of Switzerland’s The Voice with a rendition of Lewis Capaldi’s “Someone You Loved.” And that appears to have set the blueprint for his Eurovision entry, although “Watergun” isn’t actually another lovelorn plea but a call-to-arms about “powerlessness in the face of conflicts in this world.” Without a semi-final jury vote to fall back on, this may be powerless to avoid an early exit.Ī veteran of the TV talent-show circuit who has appeared on The Voice Baltic and the Estonian part of the Idol franchise, Alika Milova certainly has the pedigree to represent her country on the world stage.
At least their poor neighbors are getting a few weeks’ respite from all the caterwauling.ģ4. The truly real struggle, though, is making it through all their histrionics. Yes, that’s her brother, two sisters, mother, and father providing various degrees of stage presence and vocal quality on an Über-dramatic track about the hardships of keeping a united family. Unlike her fellow talent-show graduates, however, she’s brought her nearest and dearest along for the ride. Like so many of this year’s entrants, Albina Kelmendi found fame on The Voice, winning Albania’s fourth season in 2014. “Duje,” Albina and Familja Kelmendi (Albania) But the pair then attempt to challenge Jack Harlow’s recent second-best-white-rapper claims and fail miserably.ģ5. Performed by identical twin brothers Tural and Turan Bağmanov, “Tell Me More” begins promisingly enough with an intriguing answerphone message narrative device and a jangly acoustic riff which may evoke Rachael Leigh Cook’s staircase reveal in She’s All That. Once guaranteed to serve up a bona fide banger, Azerbaijan has this year decided to send a couple of Ed Sheeran wannabes with about as much charisma as a Eurovision-branded tea towel. It’s hard to imagine anyone spinning their chair round for this.ģ6. (Off and On)” is sleaze rock with the emphasis on the sleaze (“I’m begging you, I’m on my knees / Take your clothes off / Step on me”) performed by an out-of-his-depth teen who succumbs to every cliché in the front man handbook. Well, the 18-year-old has certainly achieved that - just probably not the way he intended. Theodor Andrei, formerly a member of Romania’s answer to The Voice Kids, claims he wanted to compete with the type of song his homeland had never entered before.
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