AZERBAIJAN

After a long delay the song for Azerbaijan was revealed on the 13th March. Ironically, ITV had had a mammoth selection process to select the participants to represent Azerbaijan, to which the professional jury surpusingly chose 2 winners - Nigar Camal & Eldar Qasimov , mow known as Ell & Nikki (Ell being the male and Nikki the female.) The song internally chosen for them to sing is called “Running Scared”.

The song is a very contemporary sounding ballad with so rock influences. The verses are quite short and lines are shared between the couple whilst the choruses are sung together. The chorus is very well structured. Usually these kinds of octave moving change can bee very jerky, but this one makes it really stand out. As the song progresses the beat in the background gets stronger but the finish is very weak as the song just kind of stops. Ironically the song is about 12 seconds under so a more memorable finish could be made. As the song progresses you realise that most of the song is sung by Ell. His voice is much more reliable and stronger than hers.

The video is very simple and I suspect that the setting of the ESC performance will be simple too. There will need to be at least 2 backing singers and possibly some dancers to ‘act out’ the story of the song. In addition to this the video tries to make them work together as a couple (considering she is about 10 years his senior… or thereabouts :oP ) There are no other duets in the contest to I feel it will definitely stand out visually.

A much better song than last year. A definite finalist.

SINGER – Ell and Nikki
SONG – Running Scared
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