Re: GREECE 2018 - Gianna Terzi - Oneiro Mou
A lovely choice by Greece! Well, if you can call it a choice, that is
This combines a lot recent songs I'm fond of: it's like a mixture of Hungary's Origo from last year, as well as Armenia's two most recent entries Love Wave and Fly With Me. All of those were sort of atmospheric, ethnic and got high points from me, and Oneiro Mou seems set for something similar.
I'm kind of struggling to find my own thoughts on this right now: I'm enjoying it, but I feel that I should like it a lot more than I currently do on early listens, as it's a well-executed example of a genre I love. It's good no matter how I cut it, and for now I'm going to give it
8 points, but I think it's got decent potential to rise to a 10 with time (or even 12 live with great staging).
As-is, it's fighting for my top spot out of the 11 songs chosen (things are rather close between this, Denmark, Czech Republic, Italy... oh, and possibly Spain too. I'm having trouble with my rankings this year
). My main issue with the song at the moment, and what's stopping it from taking the top spot clearly, is that it feels a little static from start to end. Though that, perhaps, could change as I listen to the song some more and catch some of the more minor changes that happen throughout it.
Regardless, I'm happy to see that such a mess of a selection process has ended with Greece sending their best song since 2013, and I look forward to seeing how it turns out live!