What did you expect? Cutting almost 1/3 of the song was going to be extremely difficult, the fan-made ones on youtube didn't feel organic so I actually think Albania did a great job with the revamp. I still love the song and will vote for it.
Gotta disagree. While the fanmade versions were of course kinda amateurish, they had one thing the revamped version is short of, and it's the power. It was obvious that a huge part of the song will have to be cut off, but they did not have to get rid of the heavy sound which was the absolute highlight here. Even the lyrics do not fit the revamp as well as the original imho. If they maintained that heavy instrumentation instead of turning the whole thing into light-sounding pretty song, it still would be beautiful. Now it's just decent.
I see what they were trying to do here - they wanted to put more emphasis on Eugent's voice, fine. But I think that he sounded more convincing in the previous version. No more emphasis was needed, because the raw emotion in his voice and the way he sings were not in any way enshadowed by the instruments. On the contrary they were complimenting each other and the outcome was just perfect. Now Eugent's voice is theoretically heard better, but so what if the melody does not fit his singing anymore? I do not think it's a carwreck, but it makes me really bitter because this song spoke to me on so many levels, and they made it sound light enough for it to lose half of it's appeal. Still hoping for it to sail through tho, albeit it's going to be really hard and that's a shame because it's a very valuable entry.