North Macedonia FYR MACEDONIA 2018 - Eye Cue - Lost and Found

[John1]

Prior to the rehearsals, I thought that would easily overshadow with the staging and the whole performance. As of today, I think that the opposite will occur. I'm so sad for Eye Cue.

 

[hijirio]

Belgium can be happy, we have a bigger candidate for Barbara Dex Award.

 

[DaFlo]

Performance seems alright, but after that crazy performances from Israel/Belarus/Estonia/Bulgaria it seems impossible to stand out :/

 

[aletem]

Maybe they will withdraw next year, finally!

 

[Citelis]

Why? They need to keep trying!

 

[VikingTiger]

So.... Macedonia will not qualify. It's now official.
Sad - they deserve to.

 

[EscGeek]

i know i'm notorious for being easy to please so...
short dress - check
legs are showing - check
good song - check

 

[Kashone]

i know i'm notorious for being easy to please so...
short dress - check
legs are showing - check
good song - check

Maybe they are trying to duplicate their golden years (2006 and 2007)

 

[hijirio]

This is the fader of the day for me. I was hopeful that finally this year they'd get staging right.
However, these colours and these dresses were not how I imagined this act on stage.
I'm so sorry for them. I think tax payers should write a petition to hire Sacha Jean Baptiste next year.
I'm tired of Macedonia getting butchered through crappy staging every single year.

 

[Iker]

Don't worry there could be changes in 2nd rehearsal and we will wait and see with the camera work

Hopefully they'll change that dress, it's terrible. I suspect that this is really how she's gonna look on stage, the colour is the same as in the music video. What's up with Macedonia and bad styling?

 

[toinou03]

Well staging doesn't look that bad, but vocals were a let down. Hope it improves later

 

[kamc]

Pros:
It seems really energetic and fun, like all the movement and I'm really intrigued to see how it looks on camera.

Cons:
Outfits are not cute....I hope they will change them. The dancers seem a bit unnecessary and I hope there are only there for the end of the performance.

 

[Gordon_Shumway]

What a drama this year. If "Lost and Found" was placed in the second semifinal, there wouldn't be any doubt that it will qualify for the final.
I wish they would let people vote one more time for the songs placed between 9 to 12 in both semifinals, and the best 4 from this voting would go to the final. I am sure, they would all be from semi1.

 

[Alaska49]

the second rehearsal waa ICONIC i really want them in the final but it sounds impossible

 

[Charly]

The backing vocalist

 

[Kevan1994]

I don't know if I'm just biased because I really love this song but I feel like Macedonia gets unfairly critiqued because the country is known for "bad staging". I've seen so many comments on the Youtube clips about how this is the worst staging and yet many of the people who actually got to see the whole second rehearsal said it was solid. The bigger focus right now is adjusting the lead vs backing vocalist sound mixing.

 

[Citelis]

Another NQ for our neigbours! Song isn't bad but staging is.

 

[0scar]

I LOVE this song but the rehearsal clip is just so underwhelming and.. bad.

 

[aef]

Once again not a convincing staging from what I could see...

 

[aletem]

I don't think it was as bad as Greece, but not convinced. It sounded good from the other streams and videos (those clothes are weird, it feels weird as a whole). I am not seeing it as a qualifier (maybe if they performed last or near the end for a televote boost...).


Perhaps it would be a great idea to follow Turkey's footsteps and leave. I mean people in Macedonia really don't care about the contest anymore and want out of it anyway.