19/02/12 GEORGIA

The Georgian Final was held on February 19th at the 1TV Studios in Tbilisi, hosted by Temo Kvirkvelia. The winner was chosen by televoting (50%) and an "expert" jury (50%).

The winner, which was the only placing to be announced, was Anri Jokhadze with the song “I’m a Jocker” which I think is supposed to be spelt ‘joker’ – but who knows… or frankly cares.

In fairness his song did stand out at the national final as most of the songs were very rocky, Emo-type songs which are fine but when you hear several in a row, it gets monotonous. Saying that, the song and performance are both just ridiculous. His voice and accent is really awful and he seems to screech and shout his way through the song. No effort seemed to have been made in writing the song and certainly little thought went into the styling or production of the performance. What he needs to do is make it a really OTT performance following the list of type of people included in his song with lots of interaction with the backing singers (which were on the backing track but not in person on the stage)

I really don’t know why they even bothered. DNQ all the way

The video below is a little chopped up but many of the videos available online have been dubbed over by the studio version which is very sneaky but still makes it no better.

SONG  -  I’m a joker

ARTIST – Anri Jokhadze

COMPOSERS – Rusudan Chkhaidze, Bibi Kvachadze
LANGUAGE – English