Moldova MOLDOVA 2019 - Anna Odobescu - Stay

[Citelis]

They had several problems since the start. The song may be terrible but they deserved better treatment.

 

[Milos-BC]

I loved the staging despite the fact that it was a total rip off of Mika Newton. Otherwise, the song is bland and forgettable, so I am not surprised with her non-qualification.

 

[tuorem]

So juries wanted this to qualify?? The trolling is real.

 

[Alaska49]

12th place? between this and eduard's 11th, ukraine is just unable to flop too bad even when it's just using moldova's husk as a proxy. UKRAINIAN EXCELLENCE. WE STAN.

 

[Ana Raquel]

a crime seeing this being higher than 2016 and 2014 who are legendary but ok work

 

[GianlucaTomoe]

Considering the hilarious and unexplicable hatred (which hasn't prevailed, lmao do you see what I did here?) that this entry got, it didn't do too bad in the semifinal. 12th is not such a bad place for what was the best song of the year.

 

[blue00eyes]

So juries wanted this to qualify?? The trolling is real.

Wtf moment. This was 8th by juries over Albania? This is beyond.

 

[musicfan]

The performance was very good so that's probably what the juries went by, I wouldn't really say it was a bad song either, I just want a bit more to the chorus.

 

[Gera11]

a crime seeing this being higher than 2016 and 2014 who are legendary but ok work

Xtina & Lidia deserved better

 

[A-lister]

Who told them that making a desperate copy-paste of the Ukrainian 2011 performance would be the right formula to save this already bland clichéd and dreadful ballad?

Please Moldova, bring back some fun in 2020, this ballad that sounded like it could have been one of the worst entries of ESC 2004 was not really a good choice to begin with...

 

[ESC94]

Urgh, this was among my personal flop 5 in 2019!! A boring ballad which came at least ten years too late, with clichéd lyrics which appeared to be written by a third grade student who just started learning English ("stay-way", this is just as cheap as "forever-together" and "heart-apart") and a singer who could hit the notes but didn´t have a pleasant voice and where you couldn´t understand most things because of her heavy accent!!

The Moldovan delegation already seemed to know that they wouldn´t stand a chance by the song alone and thought about a solution. And what did they do in their desperation?? They basically recycled the whole performance from 2011, which brought the musically similarly boring "Angel" to a fourth place. Well, in 2011 this was something new that many people saw for the first time, but in 2019 this was just as uninteresting and outdated as "Stay". The fact that the jurys actually wanted this piece of nothing in the final still surprises me, at least the viewers got it right somehow.

Anyway, I gave this song a deserved , there was really nothing I liked about it!!

 

[MiraWarninyi]

Moldova came from being a legendary country to barely participating. That's what you get from not sending LUME