The Estonian Final was held on March 5th at the Saku Suurhall in Tallinn, hosted by Ott Sepp & Märt Avandi. Before the final there were 2 semi-finals with 5 songs qualifying from each.. In the first round of voting, a top 3 was be chosen through a50/50 combination of televoting and jury. The second round was telvoting only. The winning artist was Jüri Pootsmann and song is called “Play”.
The song starts as a piano driven slow ballad but soon turns up a gear as the piano backing goes into double time almost. The flow between the verses and choruses work well as you are lead by the beat of the piano. Juri seems quite confident in his delivery of the song and the song certainly seems within him. Juri is mainly lit just on once side which makes him quite menacing but not quite sure this fits in with the song. The same can be said about the odd video screen behind him, although I loved the flashing balls! The semi-final staging was much more eye catching.
Jüri Pootsmann won the 2015 series of “Eesti otsib superstaari” this also having spawned other Eurovision artists such as Ott Lepland, Birgit Õigemeel and Getter Jani. Jüri was famed for his interpretations of old school soul classics. His Eurovision song was co-written my half of last year’s Estonian performers, Stig Rästa.
Firstly the performance needs a revamp. They need to tell more of the story through the staging as it is not obvious as it is. The song’s lyrics don’t seem menacing but the show as is certainly seems sinister. It is a tune led song so the lyrics and story needs help to get through. This is most evident as the title “Play” is not prominent enough in the song. This is a very stylised song sung in a very particular way. The good side about this is that is sounds very individual and will be easily remembered in the line up. The down side is that unless this is you preferred style or genre of music I don’t see who would vote for this. I think this should just scrape a qualification space -,on the basis that is has a few neighbourly countries and I think this will be a song the jury will love. That sad I would guess a very middling 15th-ish result in the final.
ARTIST – Jüri Pootsmann
SONG – Play
MUSIC – Fred Krieger, Stig Rästa, Vallo Kikas
LYRICS – Fred Krieger, Stig Rästa, Vallo Kikas
The song starts as a piano driven slow ballad but soon turns up a gear as the piano backing goes into double time almost. The flow between the verses and choruses work well as you are lead by the beat of the piano. Juri seems quite confident in his delivery of the song and the song certainly seems within him. Juri is mainly lit just on once side which makes him quite menacing but not quite sure this fits in with the song. The same can be said about the odd video screen behind him, although I loved the flashing balls! The semi-final staging was much more eye catching.
Jüri Pootsmann won the 2015 series of “Eesti otsib superstaari” this also having spawned other Eurovision artists such as Ott Lepland, Birgit Õigemeel and Getter Jani. Jüri was famed for his interpretations of old school soul classics. His Eurovision song was co-written my half of last year’s Estonian performers, Stig Rästa.
Firstly the performance needs a revamp. They need to tell more of the story through the staging as it is not obvious as it is. The song’s lyrics don’t seem menacing but the show as is certainly seems sinister. It is a tune led song so the lyrics and story needs help to get through. This is most evident as the title “Play” is not prominent enough in the song. This is a very stylised song sung in a very particular way. The good side about this is that is sounds very individual and will be easily remembered in the line up. The down side is that unless this is you preferred style or genre of music I don’t see who would vote for this. I think this should just scrape a qualification space -,on the basis that is has a few neighbourly countries and I think this will be a song the jury will love. That sad I would guess a very middling 15th-ish result in the final.
ARTIST – Jüri Pootsmann
SONG – Play
MUSIC – Fred Krieger, Stig Rästa, Vallo Kikas
LYRICS – Fred Krieger, Stig Rästa, Vallo Kikas
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