Tuesday, 27 February 2018

HUNGARY

The Hungarian Final was held on February 24th at the MTVA Studios in Budapest, hosted by Krisztina Rátonyi & Gábor Alfréd Fehérvári. Before the final there were 3 heats and 2 semi finals. The winner was chosen in two rounds of voting. In the first round the jury chose their top 4 and in the second round the winner was chosen by televoting. The winning act is AWS singing “Viszlát nyár” (Goodbye summer)

The band is spread out across the stage. All of them are static apart from the lead singer who is very active! The main colour of the set is yellow with yellow lights and beams and shapes surrounding them although there are some red and orangey tones too. The whole thing is brought together by the occasional flickers of fire on the video wall behind them. Although there is little moving around the stage there is a lot of action going on the camera angles emphasise this. The guys are all dressed very casually with rather normal haircuts, rather than the stereotypical long haired leather clad images one might have.

This is a very full on rock number with plenty of head banging and screaming/singing. The song is in Hungarian and normally this would make understanding the song quite hard but not in this instance. You get the feeling this is quite an angry, almost redemptive song. The song starts off really in your face with 4 bars of full on guitars, drums and headbanging. The verses are slightly more sedate than the choruses but are still in the rock vein. After 2 renditions of the verse and chorus the singer starts with the rock screamy/shouting whilst the whole band joins in with some group headbanging. This then leads into another chorus with a key change!

Once again we have another style of song through to Eurovision which can be no bad thing. However it must be said that this genre is not to everybody’s ear and has already polarised a lot of the fan community. The fact that this style has never really done well at Eurovision AND that is it in Hungarian is not doing much for their chances of qualifying, however I like the fact they have chosen something really different and showcasing a type of music that is obviously enjoyed there. Good luck to them I say !


ARTIST –  AWS
SONG – Viszlát nyár (Goodbye summer)
MUSIC - Dániel Kökényes, Bence Brucker, Áron Veress, Soma Schiszler
LYRICS - Örs Siklósi


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