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Mii11
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SaladBreak said:
There were not many problems with her English, actually. Except the translation was so incredibly bad that at first the song was called 'Break a Leg', which they later changed to Celebrate( sounds like SALAD BREAAAAAK). It was terrible all in all.
But that was not Nina's point. I don't know if you are familiar with what happened a few days after Nina announced her song-she was attacked by a few bigoted Croatian composers for not singing in Croatian, for not hiring Croatian composers and so on. Those composers were okay with Daria singing in English and not even being Croatian(she is German).
The head of HRT also didn't give her much support, he said that we should encourage Croatian composers, but now that Nina is already chosen-we support her. That basically means: we support you, but we are not giving you any money. I would be pissed too, tbh.
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Actually Daria is half Croatian and half German
 
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Mrm said:
I don't find outfit bad at all..

the main problem is smth else here, smth else doesn't work well for her, vocal are not that great, she looks stiff, she isn't that comfortable on the stage, and I dunno why! :(
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No surprise with an 18kg dress on your body.
 

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Yeah, she is definitely hurt by the bullying. On her facebook page she posted a parody photo that somebody made of her looking like she's selling sunglasses in that dress. She wrote: ''I don't even wish this to my worst enemy'' .......... :( :mad:
 
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Well if she just took those two "dresses" away and sing in the normal dress and it would be ready for the stage,
 
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OK, now even Nina doesn't like the dress. So why is she wearing it?

If HRT doesn't support her and gave her an ugly dress, come out and make the problem public and make them pay the fine. It's obvious she wont work with them anymore.
 

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Gogerko said:
Well if she just took those two "dresses" away and sing in the normal dress and it would be ready for the stage,
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Define 'normal'. I mean, what year is this?! 1960? She was hoping people would appreciate her artistic expression and not limit her to look like a Stepford Wife. This is supposed to be a PROGRESSIVE show. She was all excited about her dress and what does she get, a bunch of internet trolls sitting in front of their computer laughing at her, posting mean comments and desperately posting parody pictures of her to get likes on social media. I feel really sorry for people like that, there is a special place in hell for people like that. It looks like this has turned into BullyVision, unfortunately.
 
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SaladBreak said:
Yeah, she is definitely hurt by the bullying. On her facebook page she posted a parody photo that somebody made of her looking like she's selling sunglasses in that dress. She wrote: ''I don't even wish this to my worst enemy'' .......... :( :mad:
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It´s really sad to hear that, but "bullying"? Seriously, that is inapproprietly strong word. Please tell her on Facebook that some of us (and I would say MOST of us in this thread) laughing beasts will still loyally vote for her, no matter what. I definitely will. The song is beautiful, Nina´s voice is pure magic and her personality is very likeable as well. One just cannot really deny that the pompous-eurovision-diva style dress doesn´t correspond with Nina´s down-to-earth personality and probably will distract some viewers from the song itself. I think she needs to completely forget what is she wearing at the moment of her performance and to make her singing the dominant aspect of the act. That´s crucial for her success, in my opinion.
 
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SaladBreak said:
Define 'normal'. I mean, what year is this?! 1960? She was hoping people would appreciate her artistic expression and not limit her to look like a Stepford Wife. This is supposed to be a PROGRESSIVE show. She was all excited about her dress and what does she get, a bunch of internet trolls sitting in front of their computer laughing at her, posting mean comments and desperately posting parody pictures of her to get likes on social media. I feel really sorry for people like that, there is a special place in hell for people like that. It looks like this has turned into BullyVision, unfortunately.
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Eurovision stopped being a music show when the crowd started booing at the Tolmachevy sisters and posted the meanest comments at them because of the simple fact that they represent Russia. Since than every year the Russian thread is a big pile of poop because of constant trolls like you who constantly tell us very vocally how much the Russian song sucks and all of those who like it should feel like the devil himself.

That being said, her dress is hideous and we have seen a lot of artists not qualifying because of hideous dresses. The fact that the reaction was mostly on the dress but not on her voice or even her song says a lot of the impact of the dress in her performance and she had to understand that. She had to understand that dresses also impact on the perception of the viewer and that now people don't even talk about her hideous hair-cut but about her hideous dress. It first started with the cape. Didn't she see how people reacted on the cape? I'm sorry but this became from bad to worse and her team is the only one to blame. She is willingly wearing that dress even if she probably understands how bad it is. So why is she doing this? So she can cry now how people are bullying her? Doesn't work for me. Nina Kraljic, HRT and the Croatian team had to understand one simple thing - nobody will be emotionally involved into your performance if you don't make them. You have only 3 minutes to sell the song and make real people spend real money for you. You have to win the crowd. And Nina isn't winning the crowd, No, she is amusing the crowd. She looks like a clown. And what do you do at clowns? You laugh at them.
 
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nikolay_BG said:
Eurovision stopped being a music show when the crowd started booing at the Tolmachevy sisters and posted the meanest comments at them because of the simple fact that they represent Russia. Since then every year the Russian thread is a big pile of poop because of constant trolls like you who tell us very vocally how much the Russian song sucks and all of those who like it should feel like the devil himself.

That being said, her dress is hideous and we have seen a lot of artists not qualifying because of hideous dresses. The fact that the reaction was mostly on the dress but not on her voice or even her song says a lot of the impact of the dress in her performance and she had to understand that. She had to understand that dresses also impact on the perception of the viewer and that now people don't even talk about her hideous hair-cut but about her hideous dress. It first started with the cape. Didn't she see how people reacted on the cape? I'm sorry but this became from bad to worse and her team is the only one to blame. She is willingly wearing that dress even if she probably understands how bad it is. So why is she doing this? So she can cry now how people are bullying her? Doesn't work for me. Nina Kraljic, HRT and the Croatian team had to understand one simple thing - nobody will be emotionally involved into your performance if you don't make them. You have only 3 minutes to sell the song and make real people spend real money for you. You have to win the crowd. And Nina isn't winning the crowd, No, she is amusing the crowd. She looks like a clown. And what do you do at clowns? You laugh at them.
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The master has spoken xheat
 
Gogerko
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nikolay_BG said:
I'm sad as well because I want Croatia to qualify so badly. But I can see the reasons of the possible non-qualification. :(
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I want the same for you bro, for Bulgaria. But I'm sure you guys will qualify. I didn't even notice that Poli's dress was "ugly"...for me it was just a dress because I don't (as 90% of viewers on the night) notice those stuff as much as guys here.
 
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