Belarus BELARUS 2018 - Alekseev - Forever

[FilipFromSweden]

I actually think it's ok. 5 points so far

 

[Mrm]

His vice here reminds me a bit of Eric Saade, it's not pleasent at all.. :?

 

[armenie]

4

Bad live, bad voice...

 

[DirtyFalcon]

The worst song of ESC actually. Albania was last in my top, but Albania remains much better than this. Sorry belarusians its my opinion ^^

 

[i anixi]

The song was wonderful as I knew it, but the live product just sucks. Changes made impoverish the composition and lack former emotion. Plus, all those leds and effects didin't add anything to the song, quite the opposite. The song is a wistful and melancholic love cry, and the performance did nothing but detract from its natural mood. His vocals were terrible too, of course. It was a plain old car crash. How could it win? There were at least two decent songs and performances that I can remember...

 

[henhu]

Radiovolna shoud have won but at least juries gave it 10 points. Forever gets from me.

 

[anto475]

It's very very very ok. It could be a lot lot better but I guess it could be worse. It does make me wonder what culture in Belarus is like where they rely on crazy props year after year after year. Since they first took part in 2004, they've had some kind of prop or weird microphone stand ever year except 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2014. It really says a lot if your song can't stand on its own without some furniture on stage.

 

[Kaz]

4 points. I want to give it more because it is a fairly good song, but I just can’t get past those horrid ‘English’ lyrics.

 

[theCONWEL]

In it's current form, this is absolutely dreadful. It does have potential though but it would need a lot of work (PARTICULARLY those ghastly live vocals!!!)

3pts

 

[VikingTiger]

I didnt hear the song untill just now.
The song actually seems quite interesting! But those vocals.... why on earth did this guy for one second think that he could be a singer??? Ear-breaking....

 

[Sammy]

"No need to worry, rain falling down" - who writes lyrics like these. 2

 

[Miguel]

Very happy! Woohoo! As it stands, I reckon the song may not sound as convincing as it once was live on stage. I am talking about the new arrangement. In the original version, the vocals were more linear and easier to deliver. Now there is a variation around the vocals in an attempt to give the song more soul and identity. It makes the song more dramatic. I understand the intention. Alekseev needs to focus on his vocal delivery from now on because the song is more demanding in its current form.

This is my favourite, so I am being more critical with this entry for its own good. He and his team need to take a look at the feedback. "Forever" has tons of potential, and they have time to get everything right.

 

[ZoboCamel]

Forever was originally my favourite in the Belarusian NF, and I expected I'd give it a 7 or 8 in the poll if it won, but at this point... ugh. The revamp pretty much flattened out every enjoyable part of the melody, leaving the whole thing as a monotonous drone, and then it turns out Alekseev can't even perform that monotonous drone live.

At this point, I'm largely hoping that they replace the song entirely (as Belarus tends to do), and that Alekseev is able to hide behind backing vocalists live like Samra did a couple of years back. Otherwise, I think I'll give this 3 points in current form, just because it still has some vaguely interesting ideas in there.

 

[John1]

OMGGGG!!!!

I can't believe that he messed up that performance as dreadfully as some friends told me. What a mess, what an utterly disappointment of mine. My first goes to.... .

 

[Ezio]

0 points but still better Spain and UK

 

[Nicfedy]

The shaky vocals seem to add to the impact of the song. The light show is great and this will certainly be remembered. A decent entry for Belarus. 7 pts for now. A definite qualifier.

 

[RoSSerb]

A solid song but a very bad vocal interprtation..Guy bad singing live.

What does this Ukrainian man do in BelaRussia?

You will hardly get into the finals, if this guy does not learn to sing until May

His luminous suit is very interspersed, but this trick is already old for esc..

Does he have to change this song?

modest 5 points, for now

good luck

 

[cegs5]

His voice will give me nightmares... and I had to close my eyes at some point as the lighting was damaging them. A bit too much of everything.
1 point because zero is reserved to icons only.

 

[Romeo]

IMO the best song won. It is in my top 5

 

[Realest]

His Offkey-Singing is part of the whole Package. It reminds me a bit of our Lovely Lena and she was by far the best as we all know.