16/02/12 GERMANY

The German Final was held on February 16th at the Brainpool Studios in Cologne, hosted by Sandra Rieß & Steven Steven Gätjen. Before the final there were 7 shows whittling down the initial 20 candidates to a final 2.

Roman Lob was vote the winner of “Unser Star fuer Baku”with the song “Standing Still” The song sounds very contemporary with the guitar/piano rock feel to it. It certainly sounds like the type of song that western Europe would really like as well be something that would appeal to the juries. The song does sound very familiar and sound like anything that could ahe been published by The Fray, Script or OneRebublic. It was revealed early on I the process that the song had been written by Jamie Cullum hose style of music is very popular as well as being a bit name to publisise then touring the song.

Roman is a good singer and has a strong voice which the song really complements. He has a good level of performance and can cope really well on the stage himself. I just hope they don’t spoil his charisma by adding dancers or funny backing singers. I also hope they do not try and stifle his personality by dressing him up in a suit. Leave him with the baseball cap and lumberjack shirts!

The Germans have once again come up with a song that is strong and will appeal. Will do well but possibly not good enough to make another trip to Germany in 2013.

SONG  - Standing Still

ARTIST – Roman Lob

COMPOSERS – Jamie Cullum, Steve Robson, Wayne Hector

LANGUAGE – English