#nova deca

[depressedonwednesday]

I want the flute guys to fight it out

[borisbubbles]

Eurovision 2010s: 155 - 150

155. Milan Stankovic - “Ovo je Balkan” Serbia 2010

Fun fact: one of my (straight female) friends has a MASSIVE crush on Milan Stankovic. Yes, THIS thing:

We stan questionable straight women’s taste <3 

As for “Ovo je Balkan” The Song, it is one of those entries that are deliberately made as annoying as possible but I am mostly amused? Christmas elf-looking creature who prances around in a hideous, half-bedazzled dinner jacket. <3 The score is a banquet of honking noises, schlager beats and obnoxious autotune fillers <3 "Ovo je Balkan” just feels so quintessentially Eurotrash and for that I’ll always cherish it.

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154. Ivi Adamou - “La La love” Cyprus 2012

“NAFINK TUFERR ... WILE U ARNERRRR.”

I know that “La La love” has a lot of fans, and it isn’t hard to see why: The song is pretty good: Three minutes of unbridled fun descended from Eurotrash heaven. <3 The choreography is darling, as is Ivi Adamou’s lovable diction <3 Standing on top a giant table made from books <3 Another tragic victim of Crystal Arena acoustics.  😭

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153. Eleftheria Eleftheriou - “Aphrodisiac” Greece 2013

In a reserve of “La la love”, the selling point here is actually Eleftheria’s live and not the song. “Aphrodisiac” is servicable, but inferior to “La la love”. However, I think Eleftheria has a more engaging live performance charm than Ivi does, so I like her slightly more.🤗  Like Venus birthed from the clam, so did Eleftheria emerge as a wonderful throwback to the mini-skirted, hairflipping Eastern European slutpop DIVA.

Mind, like most contestants in 2012, Eleftheria was REALLY bad on the night, but in such a legendary fashion that I now refer to the common Greek practice of “burying bad lead vocals under backings” as “Eleftheria’ing”. The voiceover work is so meticulously done it sounds like a doppler-shifted fire alarm <3 RIP my sweet discount Foureira.

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152. Balkanika - “Nova deca” Serbia 2018

 [2018 review here]

GO GO BALKAN RANGERS

Bless Serbia for that one time they shirked their Joksimovic traditions for a megamix of millenium-old music <3

Bear with me for a sec. “Nova deca” is NOT a song that I hold very dear in my heart. It features several Balkan musical tropes and coalesces them into a giant bloated mess. I like the historical aspect of it all, but I never connected with the song. Still haven’t, in fact.

However, I love what Balkanika have done with it. What an endearing bunch of weirdo’s <3

Gallavanting around the stage in black shawls and cloaks, making yoga poses, performing their hackneyed choreography with so much gusto <3 

THE BEST ONE, and this cannot be stressed enough, IS THE RASFLUTIN-LOOKING FLUTE PLAYER. He isn’t show at a gif-worthy angle but pay attention to him and be rewarded with endless laffos <3 We love you Ljubomir <3

Balkanika have so much earnest commitment to the Fertility Cult concept of their staging that it also rubs off on me. I may not love the entry itself, but I do appreciate the collective effort delivered here. They 1) believed in it and 2) just rolled with it, and that’s how you Eurovision a song. 🤗

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151. Filipa Azevedo - “Há dias assim” Portugal 2010

Remember when Portugal had a three-year qualification streak? It is SO painful that Portugal, one of my favourite Eurovision countries, has only TWO qualifiers in this decade and one of them is S******r. 😣

Which is why we must all cherish the other Portuguese qualifier because I think "Há dias assim” is kind of really underrated. It’s the same deal as Tamara Todevska for me: Filipa just generally outsold her lowtempo song by injecting her heart into it. It transforms “Há dias assim” into a lovely song with an undercurrent of fierceness and saudade. 

I personally find Filipa even better than Tamara though, because there is an evolution here: Filipa is visibly nervous at the start and overcomes them midway the performance, proving to the world that she’s both human and confident. If I don’t care about the song, the least I can be given is a personal connection with the performer so I can root for their success and that’s precisely what has happened here ^_^

Whoa we’re already at 150? Lol. Only 30-60 days worth of updates left to go. 😬

[pandarth-omega]

i figured out why this year’s eurovision has such good songs

[arabela25]

Eurovision Song Contest 2018 countdown: 11 days left!

Nova Deca - Sanja Ilić & Balkanika, Serbia        [x]

[eurovisionder]

Sanja Ilić & Balkanika

Balkanika is a Serbian group formed by Sanja Ilić in 1998. The mission of the group is, as affirmed by Ilić, to preserve, revitalize and modernize Serbian medieval and byzantine music traditions.

Aleksandar "Sanja" Ilić and his group Balkanika will represent Serbia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 with the song "Nova deca".

[anotherescsite]

Serbia - Rehearsal 1

[nonsense000]

The guy from Serbia looks like Tenzin from The Legend of Korra. So air nomads live in Serbia?

[magicmalcolm]

Serbia: Wow, this is actually kind of refreshing?  Like in the modern Eurovision world of pomp and circumstance, I almost want to label this a retro Eurovision entry.  There’s certainly no doubt that this is an ethnic Serbian entry, with everything you’d expect from that description.

As always, bonus points from me for singing in their native language, but who knows how the modern Eurovision fan will take to it.  Definitely one made more for the juries, methinks.