LITHUANIA

The Lithuanian Final was held on December 20th at the LRT TV Studios in Vilnius, hosted by Andrius Rožickas. Previous to this there had been a slightly complicated system of heats and semis before getting to the 8-act final. The winner was jointly decided between jury and televoting. The winner of the ticket to Malmo was Andrius Pojavis with his self-penned song "Something".

The Lithuanian 'tradition' of sending slightly barmy/strange/wholly unsuitable entries to Eurovision has once again been continued into 2013.OK, I am being a little harsh here but there is a lot about this performance I do not get. On the plus side, I really like the song. Within a couple of listens I had the chorus firmly stuck in my head. It is certainly a contemporary song, in a kind of Killers/Editors style with a  bit of electro-pop thrown in for good measure. In these respects it is almost a bit of an 'anti-eurovision' song as nothing quite of this ilk has been sent before.

On the other side we have the actual performance. His voice is ok, quite memorable in places. As he also wrote the song it is fair to say this plays to his vocal strengths. However the visual performance is more akin to something you would find in Junior Eurovision. He is dressed in top hat and tails, which doesn't suit the song and more over does not suit him. During the final he was also joined by a couple of masked mime artists and a ballet dancer holding a red ball. Confused much.

I really like this song and although the lyrics are a little trite it does get in your head. But something drastic is going to have to be done about the performance of this song to make it truly memorable enough to get out of the semi-final.

Artist - Andrius Pojavis
Song - Something
Music - Andrius Pojavis
Lyrics - Andrius Pojavis