11/02/12 HUNGARY

The Hungarian Final was held on February 11th at the MTV Studios in Budapest, hosted by Zsóka Kapócs & Gábor Gundel-Takács. Before the final there were 2 semi-finals where 20 songs were reduced to a final of 8.

Compact Disco was the winning act with their song “Sound of our hearts”. The song is a slow electronic ballad which seems to sound a bit like a Hurts song…. But not quite. The song itself is quite straightforward although the chorus is quite strong and memorable. The singer used an old fashioned microphone, probably as juxtaposition from the style of song, during the semi but it whistled a lot during the slower verse part, which did not work. Luckily he changed to a hand held mic in the final which worked much better.

There is not much performance to the song as the band seem to spend most of their time standing around playing their instruments. It is something when the visuals behind them are more interesting than the band themselves. Their dress sense also has much to be desired as they seem to have employed the same stylist as the Greek entry from 2002. They also *all* need a hairbrush and a good shave.

At least the song is different, and possibly on the progressive side but it will not be at all memorable enough to gain enough votes to progress this year.

SONG  - Sound of our hearts

ARTIST – Compact Disco

COMPOSERS – Walkó Csaba, Pál Gábor, Sándor Attila and Benham Lotfi.

LANGUAGE – English