You is absolutely gorgeous and more than I was even hoping for. I wasn't expecting that dream poppy verse. Get rid of the percussion and the song wouldn't feel out of place on Weyes Blood's Titanic Rising album. So tender. It's lyrically incredibly simple, perhaps too much so for some but for me it does not detract from the soft, hazy beauty of the composition, and Tornike's delivery is just gorgeous (gosh, I adore his voice). The song's simplicity I find charming and I think will go a good way in helping this torch song to reach people. The bridge made the hairs on my arms stand on end the first time I heard it. How it all soars during that final chorus, urhhhh the buildup is fabulous. The sudden surge of power towards the end. It's such a perfectly structured 3 minutes. I know I'm going to be coming back again and again picking up new things with each listen. Tornike wrote the song himself and you can feel that with it. There's a sincerity here that's often missing from songs we hear at the contest.
I get this feeling of serenity with You that I really needed right now in my life. It's incredibly rare that my music world outside of Eurovision collides with the contest, and this is the closest it's gotten since Young Georgian Lolitaz. Having stuff like this at Eurovision means something to me. I'm so grateful that Georgia continue to play this not by anyone else's rules. I can understand the John Lennon comparisons as well. He's by far the best Beatle in my opinion, and the one whose solo work I have a great interest in. My favourite Lennon song is Love, and like You, its lyrics are incredibly straightforward and yet the emotion of that song hits me like a tonne of bricks whenever I experience it.
points. What a nuanced beauty of a song. I trusted in Tornike and he delivered.
Near enough everyone apart from me counted Midnight Gold out from the get go until the moment Georgia were announced as finalists, so I'm certainly not counting Tornike out. You is a unique offering in a year where most people have upped the speed dial with their entries.