The duo are dressed in black on top of a platform. At the
start, the plce is covered in dryice and around them are red spots of light. The
background fluctuates between beams of lights to interchangeable female faces
on the background wall during the chorus. As the song progresses the square
platform rotates so they can move but also looks like they are standing still
from a camera point of view. The girls walk in time with the music as well as
some brief glimpses of interaction between themselves, less so with the camera.
The theme of the song is about females standing up for one
another and being mutually supportive rather than bringing each other down
which mirrors the impassioned performance that follows. The song starts off quietly
with Carlotta singing solo first then Laura singing by herself. The pre-chorus
and chorus are sung together. The backing track fluctuates throughout the song
making mini build ups and drops in the first verse and chorus which makes you
wonder where it is going to go. The second verse is followed by what seems to
be slightly truncating chorus, mainly filled with shouts of “Sister!”, but is actually
a very very very long chorus which lasts over a minute of the song. They end on
a softer shout of ‘Sister’ which kind of works but also feel a bit of an odd
ending. This could sound awful if they push it too much or runout of puff by the end All in all, their
voices are quite strong and they harmonise very well together.
This is most definitely a show of two halves. The two girls
are really good singers and certainly have chemistry with each other and that
was possibly something that the jury and televote connected to. My main issue
with the song is that it is very insular. It’s all about the girls singing to each
other and actually when they sing to the camera or to the audience it just doesn’t
feel right. The staging is simple but it has been done before at Eurovision
(plus do they really want to haul that all the way to Israel?) and to my eyes
if they keep the set up thy need to work full time on the choreography which
will need to be tight. Ideally, they’ll scrap this idea and go for something
more in tune with the message of the song. Moreover the girls need more connection with the camera as they need to get the send the feeling they have to each other down to the people at home to get them to vote.
This is not a bad song, and the girls are not bad singers
but this, in relation to what else they had to choose AND the songs already
chosen, this is very plodding and very boring. Juries will like this better
than the televoters. This won’t be troubling the left hand side of the
scoreboard and probably end up with a position starting with a 2.
ARTIST – S!sters
SONG – Sister
MUSIC - Laurell
Barker, Marine Kaltenbacher, Tom Oehler, Thomas Stengaard
LYRICS - Laurell Barker, Marine Kaltenbacher, Tom Oehler,
Thomas Stengaard
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