Russia RUSSIA 2019 - Sergey Lazarev - Scream

[EscGeek]

Cool staging, somewhat typical from the self proclaimed "dream team" though... I don't mind

I'd love to see him win this year. One of the reasons why is because the stage in Moscow looked spectacular and it's still the best looking stage to date imo.
Imagine how it would look like with today's technology

 

[midnightsun]

At first I was like „wait, where‘s the fairytale thing“ but having seen the other contestants before with their water, moon, wings, lights stuff I was kinda relieved he didn’t go for the „perfect music video staging“ they criticized him for in 2016.

 

[Pawhlen]

The fact that has their odds shorten really well is very bad news for Sergey

 

[Sammy]

such a nice guy!

Interesting aspect: he talks for quite a while about his son Nikita, in in all the time he never says "our" child (like most parents would do) and never ever mentions the mother as if there even wasn't one. (not even when they asked him about how he manages all being an artist, father and so on)

 

[Grinch]

Am I the only one who LOVES the staging?

Never like the song that much but the rehearsal snippet was epiiiiiiiic! The whole thing will look incredible on screen

 

[Ianp16]

Don’t like it. He’s so plastic.

 

[Mrm]

Incredible rehearsal snippet!
This is BRILLIANT!
If juries dont vote for this with these vocals, Russia should withdraw and I will give up!

 

[A-lister]

Incredible rehearsal snippet!
This is BRILLIANT!
If juries dont vote for this with these vocals, Russia should withdraw and I will give up!

So you mean Russia should withdraw just like Turkey did and be a sore looser if the juries won't vote for this dated, boring and overly theatrical stuff?

Maybe sending a good song and not only rely on stage effects could be a good start?

 

[mauve]

Maybe sending a good song and not only rely on stage effects could be a good start?

Funny ... for me it's vice versa. I love the song and have problems with the staging.

 

[midnightsun]

So you mean Russia should withdraw just like Turkey did and be a sore looser if the juries won't vote for this dated, boring and overly theatrical stuff? Maybe sending a good song and not only rely on stage effects could be a good start?

To be fair, Sweden's song is something I would consider dated and "boring" too (don't get me wrong, I really like Sweden this year, the song is in my top 10). Let's say [instead of boring] both songs are rather unexciting but in a good way. Sweden is the happy, Russia the sad one. But a sad song is usually more able to evoke stronger and deeper feelings. I have a soft spot for melancholic ballads. [Having said that, This is my life by Anna Bergendahl is my favourite Swedish entry ever! ;-)]

I agree stage effects must be limited and not overloaded and I once wrote I could understand why juries let Sergey down in 2016 when it comes to the visuals (but then again, they would have had to downgrade Sweden last year too because it was almost musicvideo-like) but the song was GREAT! And it hasn't been rewarded.

This year he did not use more staging effects than others.

 

[hijirio]

I admit that the staging is nothing like I had expected. I was hoping for a storytelling kinda thing, but I'm also happy with that we got. It looks really slick and expensive.
If they get the right camera angles, this performance could exude many goosebumps moments. I still don't count Russia out as the winner of the whole thing. They could really get this depending on how juries will respond.

 

[vavera4ka]

It's interesting to read that Russia is over-staging this year, when the overall consensus is that it's not as theatrical and elaborate as people were expecting
for once dream team is actually holding back and giving us something clean and tasteful, while still visually striking.
truly, you can't please everyone.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't...

Also... it's funny to read people drawing conclusion from 10 seconds snippets... of the very first rehearsal... and not even a tv picture.

 

[Grinch]

So much effort

 

[Fierro]

This staging is atrocious. Kirkorov ruined song for me, and this was one of few compositions to care about this year.

 

[Dessi]

12 points!

 

[Grinch]

 

[Gordon_Shumway]

[So much effort

No one is trying to buy a top 5 placement! Not completely certain about that...

 

[opinionsigotem]

How appropriate that he's in a glass closet...x

 

[GermanBango]

You can put glitter on shit, sure.... but in the end it`s still ... ya know, shit. This time the glitter seems a little less sparkly than last time.
Obvs gonna do well in the televoting BUT not as well as he did in 2016. Guess we are heading to either Sweden or the Netherlands next year then.

 

[Brandt]

I feel like the performance will overshadow the song, and the latter is better.