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Luki

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Really? :eek: Well, if they can add some oomph and better production to the song, I don't mind... but if that's true, it's also them admitting that the music demo was given to two different sources, I mean if the Romanian rap thing was the plagiarism, then I don't see why the Croat team would bother with a new version since they didn't do anything wrong?

No. :)
 

QwaarJet

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Crazy will get a new version y'all it's announced!

Not sure how that is allowed after the deadline. EBU really have no spine.
 

DanielLuis

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Not sure how that is allowed after the deadline. EBU really have no spine.

What do you mean have no spine though? They couldn't disqualify the song, as this is not a case of plagiarism. The composer sold the song to that Romanian band after he gave it to Franka.
 

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The same instrumental was used in the Montenegrin NF and Maltese NF with different lyrics and vocals... The only thing I can see going wrong for Franka is if somehow the Romanians had a copywrite for the instrumental and they took it up legally but without full transparency of the information it is impossible to work out what is happening
 

ag89

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I started to like this... But it needs something, I don't know what. It's a good song, one of the few I have listened more than 2-3 times so far.
 

SaladBreak

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Franka singing Fairytale, Euphoria, Molitva, Hard Rock Hallelujah :lol: and Rock Me Baby in a ''Eurovision Challenge'' :D
 

John1

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It seems to be an entry, which is being criminally underrated at the moment. However, I'm still deeply convinced that it'll stand out, when the rehearsals will kick off, mark my words. This is so gonna qualify over some countries in the SF1, even though it mainly depends on the staging of this song.
 

John1

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Am I still the only one, who thinks that Franka may actually be able to make it through unexpectedly in the end?
 

SaladBreak

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I don't think it's chanceless, it needs a killer staging and she needs to hit all the notes and more.
 

Citelis

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A good staging needed for sure since this is not among the favourit songs this year!
 

VikingTiger

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Am I still the only one, who thinks that Franka may actually be able to make it through unexpectedly in the end?

Nope... you are definitely not! Franka will make it. I am expecting a very tasteful but highly sensual and sexy performance on stage! This is one of my favourites this year, and I am so curious to see how this will be on stage - I have high expectations.
xheat
 

Kevan1994

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There are a lot of great elements but I just can't connect with this song sadly :(. It might be too slow of a tempo or maybe the chorus is too simple. There just doesn't seem to be enough to grab my attention and keep it throughout the 3 minutes.
 

Yazy

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I´m going to be honest right now: If we get eliminated, I won´t be upset, because this song just does not do anything for me. National pride alone is not enough for me to root for it.

This is a really strange case, because I don´t think the song itself is bad. The production quality is good and the R&B instrumental sounds good.
But the song just feels........I dunno....empty, sterile, emotionless, no soul, no substance etc.

I have seen so many reactions and reviews for our song. 5% people think its amazing, 5% think its trash and 90% think its good or okay, nothing more, nothing less.

Maybe the live stage show will change my impressions, you never know.
But otherwise, I´m really not feeling our song this year. Whatsoever.

As for Franka, I actually would feel bad for her.
The plagiarism allegations did a lot of damage to her. She was really passionate about going to ESC, but someone recently said that both her and her team are being very pessimistic and are saying that their whole project went downhill. They said that they have already prepared for the worst outcome.

Sigh, it really sucks when something that you were passionate for invokes nothing but bad emotions now. I hope Franka recovers and just makes the most out of her time there, not really caring about the result.
 

4815162342

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I don't think this song is as bad as people make it to be. It has a lot of good elements, on the first listen the chorus is a big let down - it feels like it does not even have one. One more thing fans absolutely hate are the spoken words.
Yesterday in the german review show it was more of a "95% think its trash". They were acting like this is absolutely unlistenable. Probably noone would be that harsh if the exact same song came from Australia.
It's very laid back and not a sing/dance along song. Not in my personal top, but I would not skip it when it came on the radio. Does it get airplay in Croatia?
 

Citelis

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It's really good i think but to increase chances for qualification needs something amazing on the stage otherwise it won't make it! SF1 is too difficult for thiis one. :(
 
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