CYPRUS

The 28th of February saw the Cypriot entry revealed on CyBC. However this was previewed in the form of a music video rather than a live or on stage performance. All the way back in September, the Cypriot entrant was named as Christos Mylordos. He won the TV talent show “Performance” whose prize included the ticket to represent Cyprus in Düsseldorf. The song was internally selected and the name of the song "San angelos s'agapisa " was made public at the start of January.

The song is very dramatic Grecian sounding ballad with more than a whiff of balalaikas. As the song progresses it turns rockier nad more guitar ad drma based, but still has a Greek feel. The start of the song sounds very melancholy and a lot of backing singer vocals throughout the track. There are also many instrumental periods which seem to go on too long. The tune is very static and is in such a key that makes it virtually impossible to remember the song or hum along with. The fact that the song is in Greek will not gain it many votes (apart from Greece!) and it actually doesn’t sound very nice.

Obviously the fact that this is a music video not shot in a studio makes it difficult judge when it comes to performance on a Eurovision stage but we can guess a few things. As I touched on earlier there is a lot of backing vocals - quite loud and prominent too. There was a lot of fuss after he won the right to represent Cyprus that he would not have the relevant experience or the best singing and performing capabilities to succeed at Eurovision. I feel that this choice of song tries to disguise this by making it more like an ensemble performance. We can safely say there will be several backing singers on the stage. There may also be some dancers, possibly to try and get the emotions of the story as portrayed into the video into the stage.

Very hard to tell the performance quality from the music video but this is a non-qualifier, no doubt.


SINGER – Christos Mylordos
SONG – San angelos s'agapisa (I loved you like an angel)
MUSIC – Andreas Anastasiou
WORDS – Michalis Antoniou