RUSSIA

The Russian song was revealed on the 12th March. The Russians decided on an internal selection and chose the song “Get You”. This is sung by Alexey Vorobyov, also known as Alex Sparrow.

Alexey is dressed very casually in black. He is joined of stage by male dancers dressed in white shirt, black trousers and black waistcoats. It all looks a bit formal for the style of song. Alexey also moves around the stage well and does join in with some choreography. He interacts with the crowd well, but saying that the crowd are really enjoying his performance.

The song has been written by prolific Swedish producer RedOne and has a distinct international-pop feel to it. In this respect I feel it will feel and look very familiar to viewers which will gain it more votes, but in the same breath it also feels a bit samey and not new, which may lose it votes.
It has to be said that his voice is not bad. Considering he is singing live and moving around his voice maintains its level throughout the song. If I had one very small criticism I would say that at time (especially the first verse) he has a very strong accent and is not particularly attractive.

Something will have to change for the ESC performance. Firstly, he will need some backing singers, possibly two or three. It would possibly be beneficial for him to find a couple of backing dancers who can also sing as the visual of this song worked really well in this performance. Alexey also had a tendency to focus on the crowd and spent most of the performance with his head down. He will need to learn to focus a little bit more on the cameras and emote a bit more to the voting public.

This is not a bad song for Russia, but also in the current music scene a very up-to-date song. It will get a lot of votes but I am not sure this deserves to be a winner.


SINGER – Alex Sparrow
SONG – Get You
MUSIC – RedOne
WORDS – RedOne