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They will for next year. "The Eye Cue award for worst staging"
North Macedonia FYR MACEDONIA 2018 - Eye Cue - Lost and Found
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They will for next year. "The Eye Cue award for worst staging"
PeterLPZ
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Aweful staging and also the quality of singing was bad. Sorry for that.
Juliette
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What kind of outfits were these, omg. Loved the song, honestly, but I have ended up worried about their looks more than about the song. 
DutchESC
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This was the disaster of the night in my opinion (together with Bulgaria), it was just horrible.
musicfan
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It sounded a much better song than the Bulgarian one to me, yet that hardly gets criticism because of all the hype it got.
RainyWoods
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Bless this mess. I found the whole thing actually kind of charming to watch. That bald guy was a cutie with all his actions on stage. The little finger pointing bit and his big smile throughout. I couldn't take my eyes off him cause he stuck out so much. A lesson perhaps in how not to stage stuff but it was kind of weirdly endearing. I hope Macedonia don't get last here, but I fear it's coming.
Why? Don't you love yourself gurl?
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To me, the song itself, is still in my top. 10 and I still find it better than some of the qualifiers. Although, I didn't expect it to qualify so I wasn't surprised, however I would have wished for it to do. Yeah, the staging wasn't very good (looked a bit cheap, like cheaper performances from ESC 2005 or something), but I think she did it vocally good enough and yeah, the song is still what counts the most for me in the end, but they should have done the staging completely differently though to present it in a better light.
elegance is passé (hvala ne!) 
Seeing Marija's 2nd dress was one of my highlights of the evening.. i still think about how beautiful and sexy she looked.
For comparison: Franka's costume was "just there" for me...Not impressionable at all
Seeing Marija's 2nd dress was one of my highlights of the evening.. i still think about how beautiful and sexy she looked.
For comparison: Franka's costume was "just there" for me...Not impressionable at all
GermanBango
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I honestly thought her boobs were out when she took that jacket off 
(because of the weird print on the dress)
(because of the weird print on the dress)
Sadly that was a disaster. Probably the worst comparison between studio and live version of the semi1. Terrible shakey vocals, messy staging, no serious concept, screams and weird vocal choices of the backing vocalists. Such a let down, I voted it a lot in the eurovision top we had here on escunited, but last night I found myself singing on top of the song, to avoid listening to these vocals.
Kevan1994
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Obviously the staging and camerawork could've been better but it wasn't as horrible of a performance as these comments make it out to be. I'm more disappointed that the snippet they used in the voting review didn't really focus in on the singers, which could have definitely helped people remember and connect with the song before voting. I have a weird feeling this scored a lot higher in the televote than people would think.
Ezio
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How to ruin a song
by making it inaccessible at first sight....
With this staging Macedonia pressed the reset button and made the song inaccessible again for those who already were in love with it after the song grew on them.
But the strange thing is, the performance gets better the more I watch it. But it's too late.
by making it inaccessible at first sight....
With this staging Macedonia pressed the reset button and made the song inaccessible again for those who already were in love with it after the song grew on them.
But the strange thing is, the performance gets better the more I watch it. But it's too late.
Franzilein
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Macedonia and horrible stagings, name a more iconic duo Whoever is responsible for Macedonia's staging should be replaced, they always send sweet songs (especially 2015 and 2017), but fail to deliver on stage. It's getting ridiculous. Her dancing seemed a bit stiff as well, felt awkward to watch.
Whoever is responsible for Macedonia's staging should be replaced, they always send sweet songs (especially 2015 and 2017), but fail to deliver on stage. It's getting ridiculous. Her dancing seemed a bit stiff as well, felt awkward to watch.
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Macedonia and horrible stagings, name a more iconic duo
This! I think Macedonia is sending some pretty decent entries, this is among my top. 10 this year, but each year they are so off with the staging is tragic, the outfits, the choreography, the focus etc.
The staging was absolutely horrendous but I think the song was also weak. I was surprised when I saw that so many people like it. It's a shame really, had several outstanding entries over the last couple of years but this one wasn't good definitely. And the staging was just an icing on the cake.
Hopefully next year will be better.
had several outstanding entries over the last couple of years but this one wasn't good definitely. And the staging was just an icing on the cake.Hopefully next year will be better.
