BELGIUM

The Belgian Final was held on February 12th at the Palais des Congrès in Liège. After a very complicated selection process involving money raising, internet voting and a hastily rushed semi final, the winning song was “With Love Baby” sung by the group Witloof Bay.

The performers are actually an acapella vocal group, something only seen once before in Eurovision. You can tell that through groups are obviously very well practised and understand their craft and so in terms of vocal performance it is very good May main criticism I have of their singing ability is that a couple of the singers have quite thick French accents which can feel a little odd. Also at times the singers sing over themselves and it can be hard making out what everybody is saying.

As a positive the band seem to be able to interact with each other, the audience the cameras and be able to walk around the stage with confidence as well as being able to do all of these whilst singing at the same time! The key change is done with style and expertise. What I would suggest is that the band gets a bit of a make over before the contest. I didn’t like the outfits and they certainly didn’t look like a group. Either they need to wear the same thing or they wear very different thing to emphasise the different roles they have in the making of the song.

The main downside is that the song itself is weak whether it is acapella or backing track. More of the beat boxing n the middle would be appreciated. It isn’t singable and there isn’t much of a hook.

Talented? Definitely! Will it get out of the semi? I’m not sure….


SINGER – Witloof Bay
SONG – With Love Baby
MUSIC – RoxorLoops, Benoît Giaux
WORDS - RoxorLoops, Benoît Giaux