A good personality isn't worth much unless you have a song to back it up... wait, didn't I just already write this about Armenia?
Glen Vella - One Life (Malta 2011)
Little Glen put on a big smile, maybe the biggest of them all in Düsseldorf, and was just as happy off as on stage. Wherever you went, wherever you looked, he was there. And he was very happy.
Performers as happy as Glen often fail at Eurovision, as they usually start overperforming, scaring off televoters and juries alike. Glen managed to hold his act together nicely, he sang well and he offered a slick package together with his dancers and backing vocalists.
Glen's big drawback was, again, the song. A dull, charmless, lifeless little tune written by the book, sticking to a very tired pop formula, sprinkled with some drum machines and vain attempts at making it sound modern.
It falls flat on its nose and takes Glen and his friends with it on its way down.
Glen would deserve a much better chorus in the future. The Maltese have been able to hammer out a lot better songs in the past, but it has been a few years now. Time to get back to form.
My grade: 1 / 5
Hate this from the moment i saw it. Glen looked AWFUL on the night - I was afraid that he was a goblin of some sort (eyes, ears, hair - frightening) disguised as a man/boy. Song - dull as dishwater, nothing could have saved it.
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