Slovakia

[Gavster]

The Slovakian entry:

YouTube - Kristina - Horehronie (Eurovision 2010 Slovakia) Eurosong 2010 HQ

YouTube - Kristina - Horehronie (Eurovision 2010 Slovakia) Eurosong 2010 HQ

Have not yet qualified for the finals. Last year's song was pretty good too and warranted more support than it received - even from Bloc countries!

This year's song is less ambitious and possibly a little too safe. That said, the song is solid and well performed, yet I still think from that "live" video she seemed to be miming. Why? Well her voice sounded filtered, even when the backing singer wasn't accompanying her.

I'm not impressed, but it's early days. The standard so far is very poor.

[Beanie]

Like it like it like it...lots of potential there. She's miming though so difficult to tell what it might be like on the night.

That aside, I like the song, but she needs to give it more oomph, but plenty to work with there and a touch of the Ruslana about the outfits and heavy background beat.

[Gavster]

I was in a mood when I got back from work last night. I like this now... I also reckon it'll qualify I do want them to turn down the echo on the mic though!



Oh yeah, here's the PROPER live version

[Gavster]

YouTube - BigBB does Kristina - Horehronie - Eurovision 2010 - Slovakia

YouTube - BigBB does Kristina - Horehronie - Eurovision 2010 - Slovakia

You know you've done well when the fan vids start cropping up!

[MickeyPaul]

Easily the best of what I've heard so far although I still feel I have to kick their bollocks a bit as it's such a basic, boring, dull, song. Sit a musical instrument in front of any 5 year old and they'll give you this tune within 20 minutes. They've at least dressed it up a bit with some drums and flute (which wouldn't normally cut it as it's been done to death but it's actually making this stand out from what I've heard so far) but ultimately, there aint a great deal of 'ooomph' here in my opinion. I'm more into the bits n bobs rather than the song.

Saw you mention Ruslana somewhere gav and you know how much I love that woman. Check this pic:



Someone's photoshopped her cock off!

[MickeyPaul]

This has to be a qualifier doesn't it? Amazingly, no one else sounds anything like it this year so it's standing out quite nicely. Slovakia's time has come. I can't wait to see the qualifying odds for this.

[Beanie]

Cant imagine we will get much bang for our buck with this one - 1.40 to qualify at best would be my guess, but you never know, bookies might make a boob.

[MickeyPaul]

1.40 Beanster? Thank you. Thank you for ruining Eurovision for me. I was giggling like a Japanese schoolgirl at the thought of 2.00+

edit: I've taken the eurovision forum off of the new posts as I want to run riot in here on a lot of threads and people will complain if I bog things up.

[Beanie]

Must you use the Japanese schoolgirl thing - you know we've had bad experiences

But yeah this one will be well fancied to qualify I think - there's too much rubbish flying around for the solid entries to have any trouble.

Oh and I just compained that you took them off

[MickeyPaul]

Sorry Beanie. I've got so many to get through and wanted to be able to let loose a bit without ruining the new posts for everyone else.

[Gavster]

You Tube

You Tube

Official video. Rather cheaply made, but still a quality song. One concern... even the studio version highlights a problem with her low note in the opening verse - the computer has struggled to bend it back into pitch.

[MickeyPaul]

Still one of only....... 3 or 4 I actually like. I don't mind her singing voice as it's not really about her singing - it's not like Jade Ewan last year or Portugal this year where everything is depending on perfect vocals. She's kind of secondary to the bits and pieces (drums, flute, nice lighting) which I think gives her a bit more leverage to be imperfect.

[Gavster]

I agree there Mickey. I just hope they have her practising that scale over and over so she can nail it! I have money on this winning the semi final!

[Beanie]

Currently got this song as coming pretty high up both the jury and televote rankings(although that doesnt take account for live singing ability which is the worry.)

She's not as bad as I remember though, and I think Mickey is right in that the backing track is strong enough to allow her to get away with a certain amount.

So money where my mouth is...3 bets...

Small bet on the win at 50 at Betfair...I dont think she is good enough to put in a winning performance, but I think the song is good enough(mainly it has very broad appeal imo) to win if she can.

Slightly bigger punt on winning the first semi final @ 5.50...I dont think this should be longer than Greece(its going to get a decent head start in the jury vote, and to be honest the Greek voting nutters will be out en masse in the final, not sure they can count on such support in the semi. ESC fans will vote this one above imo.) Other than that, not much to beat at all.

And the biggest punt on top 10 @ 2.63 - generous price from Betfred, its a weak year, and being slightly more uptempo I think this should be a fairly safe top 10 song, its solid and ticks a lot of boxes.

[MickeyPaul]

Top 10 I definitely agree with and I'll be on that too. There would have to be some seriously dodgy voting to keep this out in my opinion.