Re: LATVIA 2018
"Esamība" is a song that would be more appealing to me perhaps if we were back in the 90s when the music being played was live. Salvador got things right last year, and that was by stripping everything away from the performance. No people on stage pretending to play instruments. The problem here is that playing the cello is obviously Madara's schtick, her life even, so taking that away and just making her sing the song in that same way is probably an impossible as well as unfair ask. The unfortunate thing though is that the performance as it is now feels tacky, not at all helped along by her big princess dress and jewel headband. I get what this is trying to bring to Eurovision and I appreciate that. It's just hard for me to get into a mimed performance that's taking itself deadly serious. But hey, will this even matter though to the audience watching? Probably not but I wish it did matter more so that change could happen with the contest.
The song itself is ok. I see it's appeal but i'm nowhere near as crazy for it as some of you are here. My feelings conflict. If it goes to Lisbon which people seem to think it will, then I hope I soften over time. I'm being so stony this year and I don't quite know why.
Maybe she has a chance of winning Supernova after all if she won her semi? It would be a really beautiful addition to the line-up in semi 2, even if she might not qualify it's a quality act with the potential of great staging!
