top 5 Russia and I wanna vs Historyja majho žyccia
oooooooh nice! thanks for the questions, julija <3
let’s start with the russian entries (i’m sorry if i rank your faves low hh)
honorable mention: scream (it’s really massively growing on me now, but it wasn’t quite what i wanted or expected and i don’t know if that’s why i don’t like it as much as yatoo... i still really need sergey to do well though, and it’s a powerful composition and sergey’s voice :000 is just soo powerful)
5. 2014: tolmachevy sisters - shinei can’t put my finger on why i like this, but i really like the melody and their harmonies, and idk it’s just the melody i like ?? i’m so sad that they got booed, like, i get why people are protesting against russia’s invasion of ukraine and lgbt laws but,,,, there are a million other opportunites to draw awareness to that that aren’t booing two seventeen year old girls who did nothing wrong :(
4. 2015: polina gagarina - a million voicesthis song is just so warm and encouraging, i greatly prefer the russian version though, but it’s just so uplifiting and polina absolutely elevates that!
3. sergey lazarev - you are the only onehe....yeah, he’s my favorite singer who’s represented russia in eurovision, and one of my fave russian artists (if not favorite), but this just isn’t my favorite song by him? it’s super catchy and has that retro eurovision kinda vibe but it doesn’t just only sound dated or cheesy, it’s feelgood, poppy and dramatic all in once (and the performance really is on another level,,,sergey how what is your secret)
2. 1994: youddiph: vechniy strannikthe russian language really adds to this for me, and it’s such a unique and memorable song for me
1. 2009: anastasia prikhodko - mamoit feels, um, interesting to have a song by an artist who doesn’t even perform in russia anymore as my first place, well, but this is the sort of russian music i like? i can’t specify exactly what, it’s the vibe, genre, mood...overall feeling? (and wow my top two songs don’t have any english lyrics, interesting)
just putting some soft sergey here
also question 2: i wanna or historyja majho žyccia
always historyja majho žyccia - i just talked about how it’s my favorite eurovision song ever and just one of my all time favorite songs; i do think i wanna is a really catchy and fun song and definitely the best that year (in my opinion) and i will keep defending it and continue saying it deserved its victory bc it’s a song that cheers me up and i like marie n and her personality and a lot of her other songs a lot but...it’s just not on the same level :DD it sounds so weird but naviband are like completely incomparable with anything else for me, and idkkkkkkkk why but their music is just on another level for me, everything just sounds so...right and while i wanna is fun and a song i really like it doesn’t come close ? i remember when i was obsessed with i wanna, but it never was the same thing? i still really like it though but i don’t knowwwww how to explain ahhhhh sorry if this isn’t very coherent
