Belgium BELGIUM 2018 - Sennek - A Matter of Time

[Smudy]

Ireland in and Belgium out? Am I having a really bad nightmare?

Belgium has meh singing and bad staging.

Ireland had fantastic staging and good singing.

Take your pick.

 

[EscGeek]

i love this song, but she wasn't the best, so i'm not that schocked

 

[blue00eyes]

Great song killed by Sennek. One of the worst performance, she was creepy

 

[Kaz]

Devastated. I thought she really pulled it together - her vocals were the best so far of all her performances.

 

[SirPeterGriffin]

Ireland in and Belgium out? Am I having a really bad nightmare?

Sad day for the contest...really sad.

 

[Iker]

i love this song, but she wasn't the best, so i'm not that schocked

What was up with that terrible sound mix. I could barely hear her in that too loud backing track :/ The same was for like 80% today but in her case it was even worse. With Azerbaijan I could not even tell apart words in that loud echo. Aysel sung her lungs out in the chorus like Sennek but it was like if she was speechless and I knew after that she won't be the only with similar issues. Don't get me wrong ... Sennek was not spot-on / brilliant vocally but she was not bad either.

There was something distractingly off for many, maybe bar Ireland, Estonia and Lithuania.

 

[GlamSIMorous]

So happy she didnt pass to be honest. She is a lovely girl, but she came across so creepy, just like Estonia 2016. It didnt come together. Its deserved. Never understood the hype surrounding her.

 

[Citelis]

Horrible staaging ruined a good song!

 

[Sammy]

Great song - mediocre performance. This is one of the bookies biggest error...

 

[Storm]

Sad for Belgium after all these successful years. This year's song was also really nice but it didn't work at all today

 

[RainyWoods]

Lots of negative opinions of the performance leading up to tonight, but Sennek was actually overall my favourite of the night. She made me fall in love again with the song which had been fading a bit with me over the weeks. The performance was so mysterious and I just loved her stage presence. I did unfortunately get a feeling though after watching it that she could likely miss, as when I love something for being so peculiar and out of the ordinary in terms of presentation, it's not usually a good sign for the popularity of the piece. I dig her style, but unfortunately Europe didn't. That performance though was smouldering hot for me. I feel sad for Belgium tonight. Considering they made the final last year with someone who could barely even open their mouth to let out a note and then this beautiful song fails tonight.... It's kind of frustrating.

 

[Musicosity]

A good song is unfortunately not enough. I really liked how they started the performance with this mysterious intro. If they had kept that level of suspense Belgium may have qualified. The rest was not even boring to watch but weirdly disconnected from the song. Too bad, better luck next year.

 

[Brandt]

Best performance of the night. Robbed.

 

[grazy2266]

I did wonder if Belgium would be in trouble after the performance, however, generally, I like the song.

 

[mauve]

A top 10 song from me, but I can live with her not qualifying because the performance was weak, not strong enough. Staging wasn't good, neither was her Dress, plus her voice didn't always hit the note.

 

[Alaska49]

i believed and believed in her in rehearsals and then her performance came and i was like "oh. ....... oh." girl, your song did not fit the anouk staging strategy.

i still held a BIT of hope when the second half midcarders all underwhelmed (EXCEPT SAARA ) but when albania advanced i knew sennek was dead. rip. back to the drawing board for VRT.

 

[0scar]

Ooohh Vlaanderen.. wat zonde. Als goede buur had ik jullie meer gegund!

But her performance was very underwhelming, and the moment Czech Republic started, it was clear that Sennek was forgotten. Not really surprised after today's performance that she didn't qualify.

 

[musicfan]

What was up with that terrible sound mix. I could barely hear her in that too loud backing track :/ The same was for like 80% today but in her case it was even worse. With Azerbaijan I could not even tell apart words in that loud echo. Aysel sung her lungs out in the chorus like Sennek but it was like if she was speechless and I knew after that she won't be the only with similar issues. Don't get me wrong ... Sennek was not spot-on / brilliant vocally but she was not bad either.

There was something distractingly off for many, maybe bar Ireland, Estonia and Lithuania.

Azerbaijan probably suffered by that, an opening song people expect to boom out at them.

 

[wtf]

I know iTunes is nothing to rely on yet, but it's already doing very well there.. so it makes me wonder if the juries killed it. :?

 

[Mii11]

This song used to be in my Top 5 but after watching the rehearsals and the performance she moved straight to the second-to-last place in the semi. I'm sorry but it was a bit of a disaster.