ESTONIA

The Estonian Final was hed on February 26th at the Nokia Concert Hall in Tallinn. Previous to the final there were 2 semi-finals. The eventual winner was chosen by a 50-50 mix of jury and televote and was Getter Jaani singing “Rockerfeller Street”

This song is very interesting entry. It is a real performance number with a lot visually going on. The stage has lots of architectural boxes with the singers and dancers use to good effect, as well as some props. There is lots of marching around lots of dancing and gesturing. Not a moment seems to go by when they are just standing still doing very little. Getter is wearing the strangest dress. It seeps to be a dress made up of left over multicoloured hankies. Although it does contrast well to the dark dressed dancers it really doesn’t say very much about the song and she could do with something a bit more classic.

The song itself is a song of two halves. The verses and bridge parts are much more interesting to listen to than the chorus. The backing track during the verses is very unusual- sounding almost like something Bjork might have made when messing about with micro beats. This is then a very good contracts when entering the bridge phase as it them builds up and uses some excellent use of drum beats to accent the words she is singing. When the song goes into the chorus it feels a little bit cheesy and a little bit predicatable, which is a bit of a shame.

I can see what they are trying to do with this song but it is not quite there yet. Unfortunately I don't see this one getting very far.

SINGER – Getter Jaani
SONG – Rockerfeller Street
MUSIC – Sven Lõhmus
WORDS – Sven Lõhmus