F.Y.R. Macedonia 2018
"Lost And Found", by Eye Cue. Composition by Bojan Trajkovski, and Darko Dimitrov. Lyrics by Bojan Trajkovski.
This is a fascinating Eurovision case of "why didn't it work?"
'Lost and Found' is the sort of song that is me personal catnip. It's shifting around with rhythym and tempo, it flits between genres, and it builds up to a fascinating energy. You than have an official video that follows those same artistic decisions of constantly shifting, building up, and the whole package is engaging.
When it arrived on the Lisbon stage for the Song Contest, all that was stripped away.
The inventiveness of the lyrics and the visual impact of the video are missing. What we get is a basic camera effect with some awkward 'static burst' transitions. There's an off-camera costume change into an outfit that is… a choice. The same song suddenly lacks energy in the back half of the song.
What could have been a potential diamond in the rough to… rough.
There's a reason I've embedded the studio version.
Semi Final - Points: 24. Placing: 18th. Grand Final - Did not qualify.
