The Moldovan Final was held on March 11th at the TRM TV Studios in Chisinau. Previous to the final there was an online semi-final –where one song joined the already picked finals. The winner was chosen by televoting (50%) and an "expert" jury (50%) and this was announced to be Pasha Parfeny with “Lautar” meaning fiddler or musician.
The song is quite cabaret in its feel which a slight jokiness to it. It almost reminds me of something out of a silent movie, especially with the plinky-plonky piano. All in all the song is not that bad in its construction although the words to not always seem to make sense – especially when he goes “this trumpet makes you my girl”
The one thing I can say about this is that is does have a very memorable performance. Firstly, Pasha is wearing the most appalling suit ever seen and is flanked by some even more strangely dressed dancer/singers. They do some quite complex choreography including lots of kind of silent comedy-esque pointing and posing and injects some humour into the show. This suits the style of the music
In a strange kind of way I like the song and feel that although it is a jokey kind of entry it is played out well. That said, I don’t think this will go down well with either the general public or the juries and will more than likely stay in the semi final. On the plus side it will forever be used in “isn’t Eurovision hilarious” clip montages forever and ever.
SONG – Lăutar (musician)
ARTIST – Pasha Parfeny
COMPOSERS – Pavel Parfeny, Alex Brașoveanu
LANGUAGE – English (but Romanian title)
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