SLOVAKIA

The Slovakian entrant and song was internally selected and made known a couple of weeks ago. The act named is a relatively unknown band called TWiiNs and it was then made known that the name of their song would be “I’m Still Alive”. Unlike most of the previous unveilings and selections, their song was revealed on March 4th on their MySpace and Facebook pages.

There is no real ‘official’ video yet, as you will discover from the video below, just an audio. Although we can judge the merits of the song and to a point the act, seeing them actually perform a on a stage and/singing it live would be a much better barometer. Something tells me that the song has been revealed in this way for a reason…

The song is a ballad with a slight r’n’b edge. Unusually the song starts with the chorus. The chorus is quite simple with the same couple of line repeated twice before moving on. The chorus is repeated quite a lot during the song, which does reinforce it into your brain. Although you might not like it, you pick parts of it up through repetition.

Right from the start, you realise that there is a lot and I mean I LOT of backing vocal, almost like a dependency on them. At times you do start to wonder who exactly is doing most of the singing on this song! As the girls are obviously twins, their voices sound identical, so you cannot always tell if they are sharing vocals or one is doing the majority, or if one is joining I with the backing vocals. Their voices don’t sound too bad you can never know how much production has been used and if they can replicate this vocal performance live.

What else can be guess? Well they are pretty girls and will wearing something ‘memorable’ shall we say! Also as a ballad I guess there will not be an energetic dance routine. There will need to be backing singers at least 2-4. I can almost see something similar to the set up of Safura last year, with a dancer or dancers interacting between them all.

So, this review is a little muted but not a bad song, but reserve judgment on the singing ability


SINGER – TWiiNs
SONG – I'm Still Aive
MUSIC – Bryan Todd, Sandra Nordstrom, Brano Janich
WORDS – Bryan Todd, Sandra Nordstrom, Brano Janich