Posted November 25, 20168 yr http://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/z369/RC741/Eurovision%20Logos/Flag%20Logos/Croatia_zpsef8cbaaf.png Croatia Jacques Houdek - My Friend Q06z-EaBvjE
November 25, 20168 yr Author Biggest rumour coming out of Croatian media is that Nina Kraljic's The Voice coach Jacques Houdek - a 6 time Dora national finalist himself - is going to be internally selected: https://escxtra.com/2016/11/15/croatia-star...e-heading-kyiv/ His most recent attempt ended up with him having to perform a version of "Lahor" which turned into "Celebrate" in Dusseldorf that year... 7Xct9wcd-GY
January 31, 20178 yr According to tabloid story.hr HRT has internally select Damir Kedzo & Zsa Zsa, and "a well-known UK lyricist (who'd done lyrics for previous Icelandic entries) is responsible for the English lyrics. An official announcement will be made next week." _oAEGS8T5J0 Edited January 31, 20178 yr by Hector
February 14, 20178 yr Appropos of nothing, the music video of that song above has just been released. QcIyhxHqYAg
February 28, 20178 yr So, I gotta admit this is a new one on me as promo tactics go but we now have an instrumental version of the Croatian song. 7DHDh8EFiOU They say he's got a Pavarotti-esque style (which I'm assuming they're not just saying because he's fat but idk) and you can totally hear the operatic/symphonic style in that. I'm ~intrigued~ to hear what the final version of this sounds like.
March 2, 20178 yr What on earth? :lol: Well it certainly stands out, and impressive that he can sing that by himself and switch the singing styles constantly.
March 2, 20178 yr I don't mind the bits in English, but the rest isn't really my sort of thing. Think I'll be going back to it a few times though just because of how 'interesting' it is :lol:
March 2, 20178 yr Winner. Or total mess on the stage, depends how they frame it, but either way this will be an incredible spectacle. I love it, Eurovision's confounded my expectations once again.
March 2, 20178 yr Author I'm another one who's fine with the English parts, and sounds like it could be quite a nice song as I love his "pop" voice. The opera parts completely ruin it, especially with the decision to make it a "duet" and do it every other line. Lends itself to memorable staging but aside from that it's not for me.
March 2, 20178 yr Author I'm another one who's fine with the English parts, and sounds like it could be quite a nice song as I love his "pop" voice. The opera parts completely ruin it, especially with the decision to make it a "duet" and do it every other line. Lends itself to memorable staging but aside from that it's not for me.
March 2, 20178 yr I don't like this very much. In terms of eurovision on the night, I do think it could go one way or the other though because of the two different styles. Edited March 2, 20178 yr by Alex!
March 2, 20178 yr Author It's not so jarring on a second listen, but I really do love the English parts and the instrumentation - the opera just brings it down for me. I'd say this is a more likely qualifier than a non-qualifier though, I can really imagine it coming across live quite amazingly.
March 4, 20178 yr I'm actually quite sad about this! Coz his pop voice is actually really nice and turns the song into a Disney-type song. Then he goes and ruins it with his operatic voice (which seems quite weak when comparing to other Operatic voices). It's a bizarre one due to it being a one-man duet! :lol:
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