GEORGIA

The Georgian song was presented on March 27th during the show "Our Morning". The song and performers had been internally selected by Georgian broadcasters GBP. Back in December, the duet of Sophie & Nodi was selected to sing a song co-written by last year's Eurovision winning songwriter Thomas G:son. The song is called "Waterfall".

The song was presented in on quite a large stage but was very bare, had basic lighting and no studio audience was present. It must also be added that both were miming. This was very much a presentation of the song and not about the singers' abilities or how it might be staged on the night. I think they wanted to really show that fact that they had chosen a songwriter with previous.

The song is a building ballad performed in English. It has a 'musical' quality, almost like it is the theme song to a film. The duo's voices go well together and it is quite clever how they sing separately and when whey sing together, they sing in harmony. During the last third of the song it does feel like a bit of a fight. Too many voices, too many tunes and too many people vying for you attention, it just gets muddled.

The song has a very strong structure and has lots of 'moments' but I have found it extremely hard to remember or recall. After 3 listens I still can't remember any of the lyrics or sing any off it off hand.  One also needs to wonder if they can sing this live. If it feels muddles and noisy as a recorded version, it will probably feel worse live.

I think this is very much a 'Eurovision by numbers' song and performance. It is almost so Eurovision, it doesn't work. Parallels will be made towards Ell & Nikki's performance in 2011 and Pastora Soler's song last year, which also was written by G:son. This song is not new, not inventive nor exciting. It will do well but this would be a very poor winner if it were to succeed.

Artist - Sophie & Nodi

Song -Waterfall
Music - Thomas G:son, Erik Bernholm
Lyrics - Thomas G:son, Erik Bernholm