The video has a very strong theme and although I don’t think
it can moved as a whole to the Eurovision stage but in a reduced singing friendly
form it could work. Franka is dressed in beigy/brown tones with nod to Grecian
floaty dresses but with a warrior princess overtones. She is joined by a
plethora of dancers who are dressed in a similar fashion and are used in quite
a few different ways. There are also sand, underwater and glowing ball
motifs too.
The song starts with a very odd horn/flute type noise which
sounds quite folky and ethnic but the beat kicks in and takes it in a different
direction. The song reminds me of Sam Brown’s “Stop” and “INXS’s “Never tear us
apart” The first verse is very long and doesn’t have a lot of lyrics so feels
even longer. The chorus is very short and again mostly has repetitions the
title of the song. This is lone follower by a very annoying ear worm of the
word ‘love’ but pronounce ‘lo-oh-oh-ove’ which is a very wasteful part of the 3
minutes. After the first verse/chorus rendition there is a very odd spoken
word/rap part which sounds totally out of place in the song but also out of
kilter with the style of music she is offering. Things like this never sound
well, especially if their English is below par. After the second rendition
there is then a quieter bridge before going into a final part chorus ending
with another ‘lo-oh-oh-ove’’
The song is a bit wishy-washy for my taste and doesn’t
really have that spark of pizzazz or that verve that makes it memorable. The
parts of the song don’t really fit together and this lets down the main body of
the song. I also think that this will probably sound awful live, in particular
the rap part. It’s also found itself in a semi with only one other ex-Yugoslav
country in it, so will not really benefit from the neighbourly voting. It’s a
nice try but a no.
ARTIST – Franka
Batelić
SONG – Crazy
MUSIC - Branimir Mihaljević
LYRICS - Franka Batelić
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