The Lithuanian Final was held on March 12th at the LRT TV Studios in Vilnius, hosted by Andrius Rožickas & Geruta Griniute. Before the final there were 9 shows which brought all of the selected songs and singers down to a final of 6 acts singing a different song each. The winner, chosen by 50-50 split of televoting and jury was Donny Montell singing “I’ve been waiting for this night”.
This is a mid-tempo number that walks the line between ballad and pop song. He starts the song underneath a projected rain cloud. I’m not quite sure what this is supposed to represent but it looks awful. He also has some smoke jets during the chorus. Near the end he does a somersault over a prop of some kind – again I don’t know why. Donny is dressed very casually, a bit too casually. His performance style is a bit over the top and looks more like a raucous rap show than slow ballad. The whole thing takes too long to get going. The verses are not terribly memorable and the chorus has no proper structure to it. Overall this feels like a lot of mismatched things thrown together.
Donny Montell won his first singing competition when he was just 6! His first taste of Eurovision came in 2008 when he entered the Lithuanian national final with two songs – one a solo number, one a duet. The latter did not get to the final but his solo attempt got to second place. His entry in 2009 was disqualified and his two songs in 2010 placed 10th and 5th. In 2012 his entry “Love is blind” won the national final and got a respectable 14th place in the final. He also has over 10 singles to his names and released 2 albums.
Overall this feels like a lot of mismatched things thrown together – it is totally confused. He looks like he is trying to be 18 when he is actually 28. He would do much better if he just stood there with a mic stand and sang the song. As he wrote the song and there is (currently) only him on stage I don’t see anything about this changing. There are so many distracting you, you start to forget there is a song involved. The song itself is a little boring and is every piss poor boy band song from the 1990s and 2000s rolled into one. There is nothing new to hear or see here. When it comes to qualifying, it is in a very friendly semi with lots of neighbours and plenty of chances for some diaspora votes. I suspect this will qualify, although it is very much a car crash of a show.
ARTIST – Donny Montell
SONG – I’ve been waiting for this night
MUSIC – Christian Schneider, Sara Biglert, Aidan O'Connor
LYRICS – Christian Schneider, Sara Biglert, Aidan O'Connor
This is a mid-tempo number that walks the line between ballad and pop song. He starts the song underneath a projected rain cloud. I’m not quite sure what this is supposed to represent but it looks awful. He also has some smoke jets during the chorus. Near the end he does a somersault over a prop of some kind – again I don’t know why. Donny is dressed very casually, a bit too casually. His performance style is a bit over the top and looks more like a raucous rap show than slow ballad. The whole thing takes too long to get going. The verses are not terribly memorable and the chorus has no proper structure to it. Overall this feels like a lot of mismatched things thrown together.
Donny Montell won his first singing competition when he was just 6! His first taste of Eurovision came in 2008 when he entered the Lithuanian national final with two songs – one a solo number, one a duet. The latter did not get to the final but his solo attempt got to second place. His entry in 2009 was disqualified and his two songs in 2010 placed 10th and 5th. In 2012 his entry “Love is blind” won the national final and got a respectable 14th place in the final. He also has over 10 singles to his names and released 2 albums.
Overall this feels like a lot of mismatched things thrown together – it is totally confused. He looks like he is trying to be 18 when he is actually 28. He would do much better if he just stood there with a mic stand and sang the song. As he wrote the song and there is (currently) only him on stage I don’t see anything about this changing. There are so many distracting you, you start to forget there is a song involved. The song itself is a little boring and is every piss poor boy band song from the 1990s and 2000s rolled into one. There is nothing new to hear or see here. When it comes to qualifying, it is in a very friendly semi with lots of neighbours and plenty of chances for some diaspora votes. I suspect this will qualify, although it is very much a car crash of a show.
ARTIST – Donny Montell
SONG – I’ve been waiting for this night
MUSIC – Christian Schneider, Sara Biglert, Aidan O'Connor
LYRICS – Christian Schneider, Sara Biglert, Aidan O'Connor
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