I can't explain it. Maybe it's something in the water. But nobody can work their entries quite like the Ukrainians.
Mika Newton - Angel (Ukraine 2011)
I wasn't keen on this one when it was elected to represent Ukraine, but then it has kept growing and growing and growing. Mika Newton is another one of these highly talented performers that Ukraine keeps sending to the ESC, and she makes it look easy to lift this ballad even further up the scale.
As for the gimmick of using the sand painting artist, it could have resulted in an embarrassing attempt of stuffing something visual into a performance where it doesn't belong (hello, Cyprus!) but the art and the song embrace each other and make the whole thing even better.
Still quite some way from the magic and wonder of Verka Serduchka, Ani Lorak or even Tina Karol, I still regard Ukraine as the best and most reliable country in Eurovision at the moment.
Whatever they send in, they also make sure it works before the final. Very well done.
My grade: 3 / 5
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