The Latvian Final was held on February 18th at the Juras Varti Theatre House in Ventspils, hosted by Kristine Virsnite, Jolanta Strikaite & Valters Fridenbergs. Previous to the final there were two semi-finals.
The winner was the Eurovision-themed song ”Beautiful Song” sung by Anmary. The song makes references to winning the contest as well as other famous singers and songs. Her voice is not too bad and her diction is quite clear, which makes a nice change !
The performances of this have been a little bit odd. Not only does Anmary do a good job at eyeballing the camera so hard she frightens me she also walks very weirdly across the stage. In one version she starts off by singing from a ‘Eurovision book’ whilst sitting on what seems to be a chair made of hay. Then her 3 backing singers reveal French, Italian and Russian flags as part of their dresses. In another she is backed by Frizzle Sizzle from 1986 and do a very bad line dance during the chorus whilst wearing a very bad outfit. It’s all a bit too knowing. It’s like a joke entry trying too hard to be good and serious. It just doesn’t work. That said the chorus is actually quite catchy and memorable.
I think this song will not be troubling the upper echelons of the scoreboard, especially if between now and then they come up with more ‘tricks’ to get noticed. But if she just sang it, it might not do too bad.
SONG - Beautiful song
ARTIST – Anmary
COMPOSERS – Ivars Makstnieks, Rolans Ūdris
LANGUAGE – English
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