18/02/12 UKRAINE

The Ukrainian Final was held on February 18th, hosted by Timur Miroshnichenko & Tatiana Terekhova. The winner was chosen by a mixture of SMS voting (50%) and an "expert" jury (50%).

The ticket to Baku was scooped by the song “Be my guest” sung and written by Gaitana. The song has touches of Ruslana and Ani Lorak about it. Her voice is quite strong and does sound very modern and suits this style of music. The four dancing /horn players are a little bit of a distraction and the faux horn playing gets quite tedious by the end of it. Saying that, she herself is dressed a bit too much like a drag queen… bit this is Eurovision so she can probably get away with it.

The song as a whole piece is not well constructed. First of all the chorus is far too repetitive and to be honest the horn tune in the background is far more interesting! Secondly the verse, especially the second one, does not really have a tune or at least a tune that is easily repeatable. What would help the song is to have some kind of dance routine for the chorus which can be used as a bit of an eye worm rather than the weak earworm. Also having a larger stage may well help matters.

So the song will qualify and will possibly do well but to me not a winner…

SONG  - Be my guest

ARTIST – Gaitana

COMPOSER – Gaitana

LANGUAGE – English