Wanting to be different at Eurovision is a great thing. But different alone is not enough.
Eldrine - One More Day (Georgia 2011)
Georgia goes Linkin Park and sends in a band with attitude aplenty and vocal abilities en masse. Too bad they don't have much of a song to work with.
I always wanted to like this, given it's refusal to be streamlined and adorable, but just found the lack of a proper chorus too frustrating.
In Düsseldorf, however, I felt that this hard-working group managed to pump enough energy and conviction into their performance to make it work for me. At least for three minutes. But then I never feel the need to listen to it again, once it is over.
So, all in all, a medal for bravery and devotion. Minus points for thinking that lacking a song isn't a problem in a song contest.
My grade: 2 / 5
I liked this up until the moment I heard and saw it on the contest. I still think it's a decent song, but there were problems. One of those is screetching like a banchee vs singing like a person. The other is Endrine seemed to have no clue what they were singing and it showed. This is a perfect example of why the open language rule sucks. I would have been okay with it was sung in Georgian - i think everyone else may agree.
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