Russia RUSSIA 2018 - Yulia Samoylova - I Won't Break

[Yoozek]

only if she just lip sings to the what the backing vocalists do.

Actually she had 2 this time. Add the other 3 so it might become listenable.

*Unless they count her double as she's riding multi-track vehicle. Then bring just another 2

 

[John1]

To be honest, I consider her performance as being messy and dreadful while she's singing the chorus with the backing vocalists. The rest of it is quite... fine, I assume?

I personally don't like any vocals of 4 representatives in Moscow this evening, microphone is really strange and their hearing, some echo producing.. :?

Hence this cringeworthy performance during the chorus?

 

[John1]

Wow, what a performance... :? Her make-up was horrible to begin with, and her vocals were simply off. They'll probably have the maximum amount of backing vocalists for the chorus in Lisbon for the sake of making them sound powerful, but what about the rest? The verses and second parts of the chorus are vocally doable for her, she just has to apply herself more. And singing in English wasn't a good idea, I'm sure she focuses on that more than anything else.

Nice outfit though!

The same goes for the verses and the brige part. As of her vocals, I think she won't struggle that much singing her entry a bit well apart from the chorus, she just needs to train her vocals, work hard on her English skills. OH, and for God's sake, can force her to switch from English to Russian? It'd be less painful and harmful to listen to this performance. I'm so disappointed by Julia, I really thought that she was going to take everyone down by astonishingly achieving the feat of being "on point" in regards to her vocals. I truly hope that she won't give up solely based on her poor vocal performance and the mixed reactions from the people in the audience or from the eurofans.

 

[Citelis]

That's sad!

 

[ChrisOL]

Wow, the chorus is so extremely bad. Worse than I expected it tbh... Did she even hit a single note?

Literally the worst performance of a Eurovision song I've heard since Ruslana's rape of Euphoria in our German preselection last year... Sorry.

 

[Alaska49]

there is no way she is qualifying. no juror outside the alliance will give this points. AND it's first half. despite russia being russia i will be shocked if this goes to the final after all.

 

[hijirio]

Shocked at the number of dislikes in the video!

I recommend she lip-sync in the sf, the back vocals do a good job!

 

[lavieenrose]

Hearing the comments on the vocal performance, I kind of thought/hoped before listening that she'd bring something naff but raw, unique, and charming to the vocal. NOPE. Shocking. Dire. Shockingly dire.

 

[Realest]

Hopefully she only gets 27 +72 Jury and Televotes or something like that, then theres a Chance she doesnt qualify.

 

[John1]

there is no way she is qualifying. no juror outside the alliance will give this points. AND it's first half. despite russia being russia i will be shocked if this goes to the final after all.

Don't you forget the backing singers?

 

[Alaska49]

Don't you forget the backing singers?

it won't change a thing. her performance is just bad. overpoweringly bad. like maria olafs, who had five backing singers including mellifluous goddess hera björk and she still ruined it all by herself. yulia is maybe even worse.

 

[carl1]

Russia is incredibly lucky they are in the 2nd Semi, so they probably will find a way to sneak in

 

[John1]

it won't change a thing. her performance is just bad. overpoweringly bad. like maria olafs, who had fice backing singers including mellifluous goddess hera björk and she still ruined it all by herself. yulia is maybe even worse.

Maria ruined her performance up because of the whole staging. We didn't see her performing in Lisbon yet.

 

[tuorem]

The same goes for the verses and the brige part. As of her vocals, I think she won't struggle that much singing her entry a bit well apart from the chorus, she just needs to train her vocals, work hard on her English skills. OH, and for God's sake, can force her to switch from English to Russian? It'd be less painful and harmful to listen to this performance. I'm so disappointed by Julia, I really thought that she was going to take everyone down by astonishingly achieving the feat of being "on point" in regards to her vocals. I truly hope that she won't give up solely based on her poor vocal performance and the mixed reactions from the people in the audience or from the eurofans.

Indeed, and I want to wait for other performances before making a proper opinion. I'm not looking for excuses or anything, but she seemed stressed (pressure of the first live?) and sh*t happens sometimes. The sound system wasn't the best either. She certainly is able to improve her vocals, if she can sing "Molitva", she shouldn't struggle that much with "I Won't Break". Only the chorus seems to be way out of reach.

If she doesn't improve though, I do wonder how the Russian delegation will handle this. She could still pull a Samra and magically hit every note on the night that counts.

Anyway, she usually sings better than that, I'm confused.

 

[znajta]

there is no way she is qualifying. no juror outside the alliance will give this points. AND it's first half. despite russia being russia i will be shocked if this goes to the final after all.

Also not even the Russian diaspora can't save her. The comments from the Russians about her perfomance are negative. If her performance on Lisbon will be bad as in the Russian pre-party then Russia will struggle to qualify.

 

[John1]

Indeed, and I want to wait for other performances before making a proper opinion. I'm not looking for excuses or anything, but she seemed stressed (pressure of the first live?) and sh*t happens sometimes. The sound system wasn't the best either. She certainly is able to improve her vocals, if she can sing "Molitva", she shouldn't struggle that much with "I Won't Break". Only the chorus seems to be way out of reach.

If she doesn't improve though, I do wonder how the Russian delegation will handle this. She could still pull a Samra and magically hit every note on the night that counts.

Anyway, she usually sings better than that, I'm confused.

THIIIIIIIS! I don't know what did happen to her.

 

[DanielLuis]

Ok, no one can rationally say she sings well now, can they? This was a complete disaster. If it sounds like this in May Russia will have absolutely no chance of qualifying. The only salvation they have is if they let only the backing singers sing the chorus, as Julia doesn't sound as bad in the verses (Still terrible, but easier to cover up with the backing vocalists than the chorus)

 

[Sammy]

Indeed, and I want to wait for other performances before making a proper opinion. I'm not looking for excuses or anything, but she seemed stressed (pressure of the first live?) and sh*t happens sometimes. The sound system wasn't the best either. She certainly is able to improve her vocals, if she can sing "Molitva", she shouldn't struggle that much with "I Won't Break". Only the chorus seems to be way out of reach.

If she doesn't improve though, I do wonder how the Russian delegation will handle this. She could still pull a Samra and magically hit every note on the night that counts.

Anyway, she usually sings better than that, I'm confused.

May I just ask: Did you hear her sing at an occasion where you could have been absolutely sure that there was no playback/autotune or other technical issues involved? Plus - her illness is a disintegrating one, what she may have been able to do half a year, or even a couple of months ago might be much more than her disease allows her to do now. She also looks even more thinner in this video than in the official one.

 

[tuorem]

May I just ask: Did you hear her sing at an occasion where you could have been absolutely sure that there was no playback/autotune or other technical issues involved? Plus - her illness is a disintegrating one, what she may have been able to do half a year, or even a couple of months ago might be much more than her disease allows her to do now. She also looks even more thinner in this video than in the official one.

If you ask me if she did an a cappella concert in my living-room: then the answer is "no"

I've watched some videos of her concerts and, among the obvious lip-synched songs, she did some acoustic performances (guitar and voice) which seemed to sound live to me due to her heavy breathing and vocal flaws here and there. But nothing like this mess of a performance. So either her concerts are 100% playback but not totally polished/autotuned, or she messed up "I Won't Break" for whatever reason today.

I'm aware of her condition and agree with you she looks even thinner now.

 

[Realest]