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Romania ROMANIA 2020 - Roxen - Alcohol You
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RainyWoods
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Alcohol You The composition is lovely but I'm kind of running against the tide with it cause I've got problems. That accent and the lyrics (fake news *shudders*). Overall it has some lovely ideas but it just has my heart aching for Monique. I think I..... do like it though. I've just got issues.
Storm Again, big pronounciation problems here. I think her style of singing makes it much worse as she's swirling a lot of words around in her mouth before they are released. The "Hi, I am Storm" sounds ridiculous but it's also infectious. I get it, her name is Storm in the song but coupled with the strong accent it just sounds like bad English every time I hear it.
Colors As this started I feared it was going to be the song I'd actively dislike here but it's alright. It's treads dangerously close to areas I don't like but overall it's quite sweet and I actually like the breakdown.
Cherry Red Predictable structure but very well done. Hear that, listen............. AHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhh.. ahhhheeerruuhhhhh.................. The distant cries of the remains of Me Tana. Here's everyone's fun bop for 2020.
Beautiful Disaster This is the song where her strong accent doesn't put up a barrier but actually sort of works, enhances even the experience. It's a moody and mysterious song. It also has absolutely zilch build to it. It's going to be all about the staging.
I don't think I have a strong preference one way or the other. Alcohol You is the best composition but I'd say you should probably go with Cherry Red. Composition wise, the standard is very high with all of them. Remove her voice and tell me that they are actual Billie Eilish songs and you probably could have me fooled.
Storm Again, big pronounciation problems here. I think her style of singing makes it much worse as she's swirling a lot of words around in her mouth before they are released. The "Hi, I am Storm" sounds ridiculous but it's also infectious. I get it, her name is Storm in the song but coupled with the strong accent it just sounds like bad English every time I hear it.
Colors As this started I feared it was going to be the song I'd actively dislike here but it's alright. It's treads dangerously close to areas I don't like but overall it's quite sweet and I actually like the breakdown.
Cherry Red Predictable structure but very well done. Hear that, listen............. AHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhh.. ahhhheeerruuhhhhh.................. The distant cries of the remains of Me Tana. Here's everyone's fun bop for 2020.
Beautiful Disaster This is the song where her strong accent doesn't put up a barrier but actually sort of works, enhances even the experience. It's a moody and mysterious song. It also has absolutely zilch build to it. It's going to be all about the staging.
I don't think I have a strong preference one way or the other. Alcohol You is the best composition but I'd say you should probably go with Cherry Red. Composition wise, the standard is very high with all of them. Remove her voice and tell me that they are actual Billie Eilish songs and you probably could have me fooled.
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Kaz
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Am I listening to the same set of songs as everyone else? I’m quite disappointed by this selection. The lyrics in all five songs are abysmal at best, which makes it a lot more difficult for me to enjoy the actual songs without cringing (“fake news”, “hi, i am storm” “alcohol you”).
I have to support Cherry Red because generally in songs of this genre, lyrics don’t matter as much. Nobody questioned Tamta when she proudly sung “I’m sh***ing my body tonight” on the Tel Aviv stage!
I have to support Cherry Red because generally in songs of this genre, lyrics don’t matter as much. Nobody questioned Tamta when she proudly sung “I’m sh***ing my body tonight” on the Tel Aviv stage!
RainyWoods
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This is Lo-fi, her favorite song in this moment:
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Uto
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We all have issues. Everything here is basically fine with me but the 'fake news' indeed has to go. It just won't do to have such a pretty emotional song and then suddenly that orange blob flashes before you. "They warned me but I have to keep my own truth" or something similar would fit and fix this problem.
Uto
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Yes. I had the same and have spoken two others that had the same independently.
Alaska49
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i am sorry, are we seriously caring about the lyrics of a romanian selection? it's romania. "hi i am storm" is probably in their top half for the last 10 years of lyrics.
anyway, these are all good compositions that, while not challenging for a super high high placement, will definitely get romania in the final again. they should be proud.
RANKING WITH POINTS
1. beautiful disaster (8 points)
2. cherry red (7 points)
3. alcoholyou (7 points)
4. storm (7 points)
5. colors (6 points)
it's all very close and all of them can grow to more points with time maybe? but the first three seem the most eurovision ready, with cherry red the most confortable for romania's history.
anyway, these are all good compositions that, while not challenging for a super high high placement, will definitely get romania in the final again. they should be proud.
RANKING WITH POINTS
1. beautiful disaster (8 points)
2. cherry red (7 points)
3. alcoholyou (7 points)
4. storm (7 points)
5. colors (6 points)
it's all very close and all of them can grow to more points with time maybe? but the first three seem the most eurovision ready, with cherry red the most confortable for romania's history.
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this is tvr promo for romania national final... loreen is invited as guest performance
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Finala Eurovision România 2020, în direct la TVR1
Duminică, 1 Martie, în direct la #TVR1, Elena Gheorghe şi Connect-R vor prezenta Finala Eurovision România 2020, eveniment la care va fi invitată şi Loreen, ...
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Kaz
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Why shouldn’t we care about lyrics? Songs with bad English or cringe lyrics only perpetuate the stereotype that Eurovision is for crappy trashy Eastern European songs. At the very least, if you can’t write good lyrics in English, why not stick to Romanian? The argument is that the song might “lose its international appeal” but IMO a song with crap English is even more unlikely to have appeal outside of Europe.
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I don´t want to be the party crasher, but for some reason I don´t share the enthusiasm for the songs. 
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That's fine, we're all different, but it would be best for your own sanity to accept that to most people this is a highly impressive selection of songs. Cherry Red is an extremely competitive bop and Alcohol You is exactly the type of highly developed emotional pop ballad that is popular nowadays. Romania is right on the money at catching current trends here.I don´t want to be the party crasher, but for some reason I don´t share the enthusiasm for the songs.
