Spain SPAIN 2020 - Blas Cantó - Universo

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[HayashiM]

New youtube trend: watching people reacting to their own yet unreleased songs

 

[HayashiM]

 

[hijirio]

I don't wanna be a prejudiced bicth but Blas comes across as a bit pretentious and unlikable to me. Hope my impression will change after the interviews.

 

[BorisBubbles]

Well what a bland, uninspired, pre-heated bore that was. Did Spain really think this would be a hit? It sucks and so do they.

 

[HayashiM]

First raw impression: this feels like contemporary Heroes inspired kinda pop that will probably get out of the bottom 5 because casual voters like this radio stuff. Definitely not my kinda pop. Miki felt a lot more fun and genuine.

 

[hijirio]

I like the song, but I'm not a fan. It's catchy, decent and likable at first listen. And above all, he's good looking, which is a big factor to do well at Eurovision when aligned with a decent song. I think he could turn around Spain's ill fate at ESC, with a good staging.

 

[marty]

this is a bit disappointing. i dont like the song.

 

[PeteLouisThe2nd]

It's okay, but that's it tbh...

 

[Loindici]

Okay, from the first listen, it's solid, modern, professional. It's shifting from the usual guitar-heavy, acoustic-driven tune that Blas is into, but kept his normally emotional high register to good use. It's a good banger that explores his vocal ability very well. The arrangement doesn't really come off amateurish and not overproduced. Normally, this will have huge potential to be alive on stage, but only if they can calculate the right effort to present it -- that also includes the right backdrop feeling (which I can feel Spain should nail easily by seeing their work with Marte), and keeping Blas healthy, throat and out, because all of that wailing and especially that high note in the end is an easy spot to mess up.

Personally? I don't really love it, I just like it. Universo made Shaj become something more interesting in comparison.

 

[EscUKFan]

It’s all a bit by the numbers but it should be enough to drag Spain out the bottom 5. (And it’s still better than Albania).

 

[BorisBubbles]

Who wiould vote for it though? Who is going to actually pick up their phone and SPEND MONEY on something this bland?

This is easily bottom five in the Grand Final. Easily.

 

[Miloutchi]

Yeah... I try to like it, but I just don't. I doubt this will do much better than previous entries. I am sure that within this genre there will be better entries that people will vote for and then just forget this. Last year was better, but I didn't understand the low ranking back then, so maybe I won't understand a higher ranking for this one either.

The beginning was still promising, but then it just starts to go downhill from there. It also doesn't help that Uni-universo is repeated like 20 times. Yes, I get it. Uni-universo. And I wonder why people sometimes seem to think that high notes equals good song or feelings or whatever. It doesn't.

 

[LontraCanadensis]

It's fine, just fine (which I guess means that it exceeded my nonexistent expectations). I can't imagine feeling strongly one way or another about this song. I think I prefer this to "Shaj" though, I'm just glad we finally have a new entry

 

[Zonne147]

I don't think this song will be hyped as much as "La Venda" or "Tu Cancion", it's Imo a decent effort from Spain, I still need a few more listens but my first impressions were actually good.

However, this will get lost Imo. The beginning was really promising but as the song goes on, it loses its interest. They need to do sth impressive on stage, and I feel this is a song with potential live. I'm not just saying it - but I see juries enjoying more than televoters. It's a professional song, no doubt about that, but it is not that appealing. Don't know if it's enough to get Spain out of bottom 5.

Fine effort from Spain, like it more than "Tu Cancion" and less than "La Venda", but that can easily change.

Shaj is still on my top spot. But that can change!

 

[HayashiM]

Who wiould vote for it though? Who is going to actually pick up their phone and SPEND MONEY on something this bland?

This is easily bottom five in the Grand Final. Easily.

1. He's good looking, I can always see some teenagers picking up their phones.
2. The juries. Lowest kinda denominator thing.

 

[MalagaToledo]

All in all, it's not too bad. It's not like el no soy yo. Entonces soy un poco underwhelmed. Me gusta el spot. Perdoname y uni verso don't bother me too much for repetitivenes. There are some parts that I don't like, some parts OK. No creo que el puede en top 10 acabar. I like that he separates letters like uni verso. He did separate letters of the same word in his el no soy yo.

 

[MalagaToledo]

Who wiould vote for it though? Who is going to actually pick up their phone and SPEND MONEY on something this bland?

This is easily bottom five in the Grand Final. Easily.

Mi querido. Who would vote for any song in eec anymore. Cases like Poland, Norway 2019, Italy 2015 will repeat again. I would just boycott esc as long as Swedish ppl are chiefs of it. I would rather be passive viewer. Something needed to be changed, not to put another swede as supervisor.

 

[Yazy]

Its an alright song, but to me it sounds too basic, safe, generic and overall doesn´t leave an impact.

I like the verses more than the chorus.

3 pts for now.

 

[Kaz]

I'm glad Spain is sending something which sounds a bit more expensive than anything we've seen since probably Amanecer. On the flip side, I also understand the criticisms that this song is a tad uninspired and safely in the box. It does lend itself nicely to receive some great staging though. I can actually see Universo doing better with the juries than with the public. 7 points from me!

 

[Edweis]

I didn't have any high expectation after I heard his other songs. I knew I wouldn't dislike it, but I also knew it would have few chances to get me on board. And that's exactly what happened, I can listen to it 2 or 3 times but I get tired easily. His voice and the arrangement are nice and all but there's nothing remarkable in my book, I fail to feel the emotions this song tried to convey.