The Polish Final was held on March 5th at the TVP TV Studios in Warsaw. The winner, chosen solely by televoting was Michał Szpak singing “Color of your life”.
The song is a typical rock ballad very with a very slight tinge of music theatre. The chorus of the song has a similar tune to the instrumental part of “I will survive” The verses tendto go on a little bit as the tune is a little mumbly. The key change comes too late and is also abit on the ‘will he – won’t he’ side. He looks rather striking with his long curly hair, little moustache and black painted nails. I also quite like the dark suit under the red military style jacket but he needs some better shoes and trousers that don’t show his ankles. He is backed on stage by three electric violinists, cellist and pianist and the background screen was extremely non-descript for the song.
Michał is no stranger to television contests. In 2011, he took part in the first edition of the Polish version of X Factor. Although his preferred genre was hard rock he also performed in different genres and he eventually came second. Later that year he released his first album called XI. This contained songs in Polish and English In 2013 he entered the Russian Song Festival and won.
This was not the song we expected to win the national final, however I think that is because the favourites faltered rather than him performing amazingly. The whole thing is just OK and therein lies the problem. Michał has a really goo voice and a strong one at that but his accent is a little annoying and in particular cannot quite pronounce the 'th' phoneme correctly. The key changes are a little nervy an I wonder if they could drop the key ever so slightly to begin with in order to keep the power. Visually this needs a lot of work. In needs a background theme that will mirror the words of the song or have colour in it. He is too static on the stage and he either needs to 'rock out' a bit more or have some dancers with him. I don't think this will qualify but they have quite a few favourable nations in its semi final, this could offer up a shock.
ARTIST – Michał Szpak
SONG – Color of your life
MUSIC – Andy Palmer
LYRICS – Kamil Varen
The song is a typical rock ballad very with a very slight tinge of music theatre. The chorus of the song has a similar tune to the instrumental part of “I will survive” The verses tendto go on a little bit as the tune is a little mumbly. The key change comes too late and is also abit on the ‘will he – won’t he’ side. He looks rather striking with his long curly hair, little moustache and black painted nails. I also quite like the dark suit under the red military style jacket but he needs some better shoes and trousers that don’t show his ankles. He is backed on stage by three electric violinists, cellist and pianist and the background screen was extremely non-descript for the song.
Michał is no stranger to television contests. In 2011, he took part in the first edition of the Polish version of X Factor. Although his preferred genre was hard rock he also performed in different genres and he eventually came second. Later that year he released his first album called XI. This contained songs in Polish and English In 2013 he entered the Russian Song Festival and won.
This was not the song we expected to win the national final, however I think that is because the favourites faltered rather than him performing amazingly. The whole thing is just OK and therein lies the problem. Michał has a really goo voice and a strong one at that but his accent is a little annoying and in particular cannot quite pronounce the 'th' phoneme correctly. The key changes are a little nervy an I wonder if they could drop the key ever so slightly to begin with in order to keep the power. Visually this needs a lot of work. In needs a background theme that will mirror the words of the song or have colour in it. He is too static on the stage and he either needs to 'rock out' a bit more or have some dancers with him. I don't think this will qualify but they have quite a few favourable nations in its semi final, this could offer up a shock.
ARTIST – Michał Szpak
SONG – Color of your life
MUSIC – Andy Palmer
LYRICS – Kamil Varen
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