The Slovene Final was held on February 27th at the RTVSLO TV Studios in Ljubljana. There were two rounds of voting - firstly an "expert" jury selected the top 2 songs and then the public televoted for their favorite. The eventual winner was Maja Keuc with “Vanilija”.
Maja is on stage with 2 female backing singers and 2 male dancers. Maja is wearing a very draped black dress which is cut very high on one leg, which when the fans start, show her knee high boots and shapely legs! As the song progresses the 2 dancers get more and more annoying. Their dancing does not seem to fully fit the dramatics of the song. They are also dancing in back suits, which also looks strange.
The song sounds like it going to be a very piano-based melodic ballad but soon turns much more powerful and dramatic, getting much more rocky. This type of songs really shows of Maja’s range and power. You can also see in the audience that they are also getting into the song quite a lot. I do feel that although the song works as it is, it would get a lot stronger and reach more people if performed in English and I would be interested to hear such a version.
This is possibly the best Slovenian song for quite awhile but has still some issues to sort out. I think with some decent staging and possibly some fiddling about with languages, they might just get out of the semi-final.
SINGER – Maja Keuc
SONG – Vanilija (Vanilla)
MUSIC – Matjaž Vlašič
WORDS – Urša Vlašič , Boštjan Grabnar
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