Russia RUSSIA 2016 - Sergey Lazarev - You Are The Only One
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That's the purpose though, they rely heavily on the show part to disguise the cliché song and make the viewers distracted.
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It could be great Las Vegas show. But now it has not been finished yet. Only in the phase of practice.
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Well... songs with lame hooks and unoriginal/mediocre compositions are unfortunately very capable of winning. We've seen it a lot recently (2011, 2013, 2014, 2015) but THIS!..... this song.... not only is it hopelessly outdated, it is also plain bad. There are no redeeming factors, only if people enjoy it as a novelty, which it is clearly not going for. Sergey and his team actually seem dead serious. I have no clue why this has become the favourite. It's like a bad dream.
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Why Lazarev will win? Because it is typical 2nd place contender (a-la Ani Lorak, Farid Mammedov). If Margaret went for Poland the 2nd place would be sticked by Sergey. But as this year overall worse of previous ones it is quite easy for Sergey's song (especially drawn 2nd half) to win televote and likely the whole contest. The only question is jury.
I expect high ranks to
from following countries:
. In average it's about 120-180 points. No matter i don't count new system, it doesn't really influences result. Plus top5-top8 rankings from the rest participants gives the same amount of points. Very pretending for victory. I even suppose it could beat
I expect high ranks to
from following countries: . In average it's about 120-180 points. No matter i don't count new system, it doesn't really influences result. Plus top5-top8 rankings from the rest participants gives the same amount of points. Very pretending for victory. I even suppose it could beat 
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Just wondering, why wasn't the camera zoomed in completely on the LED screen, like in Greta's performance? It looks much better zoomed in than seeing a screen behind him compared to the huge stage. Or was that intentional? :shock:
It's always been my favourite, and while it was good, I was expecting more on the TV.
It's always been my favourite, and while it was good, I was expecting more on the TV.
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You're so right with that thought, I was wondering about that too! In my opinion the camera angles really didn't work together at all!
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Stop with the hate!
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So what?
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nikolay_BG
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Why is the fact that your family liked
i'm just saying that it's not ALL about the visuals. Sergey gave a really good vocal performance (unlike Samra and Greece for example). His show had impact on the crowd (they cheered for him) and he actually told a story. And the song is catchy.
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I can agree on what you want but not this. Iceland had a story, it was literally storytelling. Russia was just graphics one after another. There's no link between wings, thunder, shadows, or climbing.
The story is about a girl he likes/loves, she's the only one. The wings refers to him, the thunder refers to that part of the lyrics but not the overall meaning of the songs, the justdance shadows are for... I don't know. I can just -maybe- explain that he climbs to reach his fiancee.
While everything in Iceland had a meaning, the shadows, being bullied with the hands that are hitting her, the moment when she feels terribly alone and hurted in full shadow.. That is storytelling.
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I beg to disagree. I think that this is his autobiography. He told us the story about his attempt to be better and better, be higher and higher, to be at the top. First, the song starts with a church bell. We see himbeing down, alone in the dark place. Behind him we see a figure of a woman standing on the top. I think this is his "guardian angel". After that we see him getting the idea of the wings and the desire to fly (that's why the wings are his symbol) later the back-vocals come in (symbolizing the start of his music career in the duo "Smash"). Later they disappear because the guys separated and moved into their solo careers. After than we have the different shapes of his body that symbolize his existential crisis in order how to present himself to the crowd, how will he be appreciated. After that we have the climbing that symbolizes his first successes. But apparently he falls into this mind loop after that (or at least that's how I see it) and later gets back on track in his road for the top. Later we have the blood and heart which I still try to figure out what symbolize but it must mean something really close to Sergey (maybe he fell in love or smth, dunno) and later we have the last chorus where we see the sun which shows us where he is now - finally at the Eurovision. The end - well - I still can't figure it out- maybe he reaches his "guardian angel" from the beginning?
Sergey told us his life with many symbols and in a very artistic way imo.
I don't think that "You are the only one" is about a girl in general. I don't think that the song is about romantic love at all. This has some subtle messages about Sergey's character that I find really cool. Actually, I find this song really deep. And everything masked in a kitschy Sakis Rouvas beat because it's a party after all
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I don't think that "You are the only one" is about a girl in general. I don't think that the song is about romantic love at all. This has some subtle messages about Sergey's character that I find really cool. Actually, I find this song really deep. And everything masked in a kitschy Sakis Rouvas beat because it's a party after all
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yep your opinion seemed correct, I mean we can all have different understanding on what we see. I Specially agree with the last past (with the Sakis Rouvas stuff) if only "You Are The Only One" didn't sound so dated, You can sound like "now" but still have a heavy party song (Like Euphoria which I really love)