AUSTRIA

The ORF Studios in Vienna hosted the Eurovision pre-selection on the 25th February. After quite an extensive selection process involving web voting and a semi-final involving Radio Ö3, 10 songs made the final. After a first round of voting, three songs progressed to the super final. After extra time for voting the eventual winner of the ticket to Düsseldorf is “The secret is love” sung by Nadine Bieler.

Nadine stands in the stage alone in a spotlight. Visually, she looks not to dissimilar to the Albanian entrant, Aurela Gaçe, and seems to be styled in a very similar way. She also seems to be wearing a wig, which kind of suits her but looks a bit lopsided (let’s just say I hope it is a wig!) Later, revealed behind her are 5 backing singers, who come in during the gospel part of the song. Although the stagingof the song is a little sprace, I feel that this actually suits the song and the meaning of the song.

This song starts of with Nadine singing by her self acapella which in itself is very brave. Slowly the music comes in before the first chorus. The music builds throughout the song and eventually becomes quite a dramatic ballad. The song itself is OK, the gospel/bridge parts are probably the most memorable parts but it is not a song you could sing to yourself very easily. One could also say that the lyrics are a little on the cheesy side but I also think that this song will be a very big hit with the national juries. Saying this she does – by a very long way - have one of the best voices of this years Eurovision up to now.


SINGER – Nadine Beiler
SONG – The Secret Is Love
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