The base is there, she has about 3 months to improve on things and hopefully she'll have good staging in Stockholm. She'll need to promote it well of course, I've heard the organizers of the London Eurovision Party asked her to come and participate immediately after she won
Switzerland SWITZERLAND 2016 - Rykka - The Last of Our Kind
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Dante
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The singer has some charisma, but her entry is so plain, Switzerland really doesn't give up on traidition: they've been sending some really boring songs lately.
lilka
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Interesting, 6 points!
CTV in Vancouver did a story about her last night, have a look
http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/vancouver-native-singing-to-win-at-eurovision-2016-1.2779717
http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/vancouver-native-singing-to-win-at-eurovision-2016-1.2779717
Not going to lie, the live performance was a bit disappointing, but that doesn't mean she can't sing! She has a very unique voice that is quite fragile. Some parts were a bit shaky, but there were also parts that made me feel goosebumps. If she improves her singing (which i'm sure she will) and with a little better staging this could actually the first entry I could see as a contender for the win. Because I believe this song is exceptionally good with the quality of both pleasing judges, music critics, the broad audience and Eurofans alike Go 
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Too many haters in this thread.
So guys let's meet the first underrated entry of this year. Why this?
There's a lot of 12-pointers because they really love the song. Do you really think that this will be last in the second semi? I don't
PS: Switzerland is confirmed for EiC in Amsterdam! Hopefully Rykka will do a couple more pre-parties as well
Kairit
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I actually think the instrumental is the best part of the song for me, not that simple at all. It's utterly interesting and enjoyable to listen to. I adore the part in the pre-chorus as well as the chorus. Over-all I think this is a pretty memorable and original song as a pop song and could actually do well. Not Top 10 good perhaps, but, solidly. And I don't think the performance was bad, it can and should be improved, but I did like it.
cripesdude
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I'm impressed! Sia/MØ vibes!... well done Switzerland! This will need a good performance on the night, but if they get it right, it could do very well... This is surely destined for my top ten!
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This is a rather interesting tune, but it's not perfect and I'm gonna get to it's flaws later.
First off, I have to say I approached this with absolutely zero expectations. And heading from Zöe to Rykka was a natural move, I had to see if there was anyone who could match the Austrian. I must say, although "The Last of Our Kind" was a bit of a surprise to me in terms of quality, "Loin d'ici" is still the superior song. Let me explain why.
My immediate reaction to the song was "Hip Hop beats?". I'm talking about the drums. While they aren't THAT terrible, they are cheap and reminds me of these basic preset drums that people used to toy around with in "Dance eJay" fifteen years ago. This is one of the flaws; The drums are cheesy and doesn't quite fit the melody.
Rykka har an interesting voice, it's full of wild fierceness in it. This is great, she's going full-force, however, this is almost completely ruined by the horrible pitch-correcting/vocoder that absolutely grates on me. Why did the producers decided to ruin her voice with all that bollocks? Because it's "hip"? Not sounding "perfect" enough? Come on. The effect is taking it's worst toll on the most climatic part of the song; "the last of our K-i-i-i-i-i-ind", with the "i-i-i"'s being chopped up by the vocoder. TERRIBLE! However, the slight reverb effect (world collide-ide-ide..) on her voice works well, and the drums seem to get better as the song progresses, even though the occasional "BOOOOMS!" in the background is annoying and unnecessary.
While she has a very interesting "smokey" voice, she isn't the best singer out there, but good enough to stay away from the generic garbage called auto-tuning. Sadly, the producers didn't realized that and had to slap on some "studio magic" on to her beautiful voice. I'm terribly sorry about that. That's why I hope she kills the song in the semi's, just to show the producers who's the boss. Because this deserves a ticket to the bl.. final.
First off, I have to say I approached this with absolutely zero expectations. And heading from Zöe to Rykka was a natural move, I had to see if there was anyone who could match the Austrian. I must say, although "The Last of Our Kind" was a bit of a surprise to me in terms of quality, "Loin d'ici" is still the superior song. Let me explain why.
My immediate reaction to the song was "Hip Hop beats?". I'm talking about the drums. While they aren't THAT terrible, they are cheap and reminds me of these basic preset drums that people used to toy around with in "Dance eJay" fifteen years ago. This is one of the flaws; The drums are cheesy and doesn't quite fit the melody.
Rykka har an interesting voice, it's full of wild fierceness in it. This is great, she's going full-force, however, this is almost completely ruined by the horrible pitch-correcting/vocoder that absolutely grates on me. Why did the producers decided to ruin her voice with all that bollocks? Because it's "hip"? Not sounding "perfect" enough? Come on. The effect is taking it's worst toll on the most climatic part of the song; "the last of our K-i-i-i-i-i-ind", with the "i-i-i"'s being chopped up by the vocoder. TERRIBLE! However, the slight reverb effect (world collide-ide-ide..) on her voice works well, and the drums seem to get better as the song progresses, even though the occasional "BOOOOMS!" in the background is annoying and unnecessary.
While she has a very interesting "smokey" voice, she isn't the best singer out there, but good enough to stay away from the generic garbage called auto-tuning. Sadly, the producers didn't realized that and had to slap on some "studio magic" on to her beautiful voice. I'm terribly sorry about that. That's why I hope she kills the song in the semi's, just to show the producers who's the boss. Because this deserves a ticket to the bl.. final.
