This year, Romania's entry on Eurovision sounds spectacular. Almost everyone put this amazing song, titled Zaleilah and performed by Mandinga, in the top 5. And I still believe that's the most reasonable thing in the world: this song is perfect. The Romanian artist sings it in Spanish, with a very melodious and rythmic chorus written in English, which includes the word 'Zaleilah', which is, apart from that, the title of this amazing song. I don't know for sure if this song is going to become the winner next May 26th, but for the moment, it has so many posibilities. One of them is that this incredible song makes you dance, and I warn you that it's impossible to stop dancing once the song has started. So listent to it properly, and enjoy, it's magical. If it wins or not, it doesn't mind. We'll have fun in Baku enyway!
2010 was a great year on Eurovision history, no doubt. Countries all around Europe presented as many magical ballads as they could, spreading throughout the Telenor Arena, Oslo, a magic and matchless ambiance. And just included on top five we find this amazing song, 'In A Moment Like This', which was performed on the Norwegian stage by Chanée and N'Evergreen, a successful singers couple raised up in Denmark. The song's chorus is so catchy, sweet and powerful. Maybe because of that, the audience from all over Europe (specially from Nordic countries) voted for this song massively, so much so that they got amazingly the forth position, breaking down all polls from main bet houses, which clearly bet for Azerbaijan, Norway or Israel. During their performance, the stage became something more: a beautiful staging, where they used many amazing technincs, and a very suitable ilumination that made the Fornebu Arena even brighter. Who has ever sung 'In a moment like this, wanna know, wanna know, wanna know what you're looking for' at least for once? I do, and I guess you do too. The song, indeed, became very popular, the most popular on that edition just after 'Satellite'. Here you are, a song to remember.
Along his career, the always great Alexander has composed a quite enough quantity of ballads. Almost all the songs from the Norwegian singer belong to this amazing and lovely genre. But, among all them, we have to remark this one. I guess Alexander was quite in love when composing this beautiful song, which tunes and melodies are warm as the sun, and cold as the frost, both at the same time. I'm not able to remember how many times I have listened to it exactly, but I think I have spent many beautiful minutes of my life listening to this incredible piece. In adding, I have to remark about its beautiful orchestral arrangement, which is so cute, sweet and slow, as if a porcelain white finger was pinching the strings with a delicate beat. On the other hand, it reminds me some kind of march, above all because of its bass, so wonderful and magic, and about a fairytale too, as he did long time ago when winning Eurovision with his amazing Fairytale. There's one thing I know completely for sure: though the wind blows so strong, though the sea floods over us, though the sun is so brightful that we can't see, I will never forget this beautiful tune, forever buried in the deepest place of my mind.
A few years ago, just in 2009, Yohanna got the second position for her country. Though she did her best, it wasn't enough. This year, Iceland hopes to, at least, repeat that position, and if possible, get it better. So much so that Iceland is about to send two quite good singers (one of them is a true violin master) with the amazing and spectacular song 'Never Forget' which is, after Spain and Germany, the song with the best valoration on YouTube. We know perfectly that it doesn't mean almost anything, but, of course, it's a great way to predict that this year Iceland is about to get a good position in the chart. The singer's names are Gréta Salóme, a successful violinistic with a very depurated technic and good skills to play the violin as no one does, and Jónsi, a handsome singer who perfectly adapts his voice to this amazing song, powerful and violent, sweet and tuneful. Baku is fifty days from here, and, for the moment, Iceland is settled ahead. Good luck to Gréta and Jónsi!
Quedan ya casi cincuenta días exactos para que tenga lugar, en el neoconstruido Bakú Crystal Hall, la final del concurso musical televisado más visto y exitotoso del mundo, Eurovisión. Paralelamente a la proximidad de tan señalada fecha, las delegaciones de todos los países que concurrirán al evento ya han publicado, a través del canal oficial de Eurovisión en YouTube, sus music videos oficiales, de los más escuetos a los más artísticos e innovadores. Y para claudicarlo todo, el music video más esperado por todos nosotros: Pastora Soler y su 'Quédate Conmigo`, que lejos de la tónica eurovisiva en España de los últimos años, está dando un vuelco, incluso a las encuestas. Tanto es así que muchos ya la ubican en un hipotético top five, que si se consiguiese, sería desde luego una merecida posición para la española, que va a Bakú a por todas. Este es el music video del que vengo hablando. Una puesta en escena sencilla, algo tenue, con unos pocos de focos en el plano trasero, como si se tratase del backstage de algún programa o evento, en el que Pastora Soler interpreta la canción magistralmente y con una expresividad sobrenatural, acompañada de dos bailarines que danzan y realizan complejas posturas para poner el broche definitivo a la estampa. Sin duda, una gran music video, para una gran canción.
