Sunday 10 March 2019

AUSTRIA

The Austrian song was released on March 8th with its premier play on Hitradio Ö3 and the video being available to listen and watch on youtube. Back in February it was announced that female singer Paenda would be singing the song. Her song is called “Limits”

The video is rather sparse, a bit like the song, and gives us very little clues about how the song might be performed. Panda is in front of a green screen over which various images and videos are superimposed behind her. Paenda herself is wearing a simple black strapless top and sports here trademark short turquoise hair.

The song is a sparsely instrumented ballad sung mostly in Paendas upper register. This makes the whole thing sounds quite intimate as well as showing great vulnerability. The verse and pre-chorus has barely any instrumentation apart from some piano chords and some ethereal noises. When the chorus starts the music gathers momentum and really helps to power the emotion of the song, It then goes back to a quieter verse before reverting back to the choruses with some added parts in between.

The whole song lasts a bit more than the three minute cut off point but I suggest that if they start the song just before she starts to sing and truncate the ending notes it should come within time. On the negative side this song is really not instant. Many people listening might be waiting for a bigger kick to come in sooner or to build into something much bigger but it doesn’t and this could prove a little confusing. However this girl has so much emotion in her voice and reminds me a bit of a Kate Bush meets Robyn kind of vibe. Although the video is as cheap as chips her connection through the camera is staggering and I could almost imagine a version of this video being her staging and it actually working. As for personnel she will need some extra backing singers to emphasise the chorus.
Even though this is not a stereotypical Eurovision ballad I think treated well this song has legs. Even though it could be lumped into the ‘arty’ pile of songs this one transmits so much pure emotion I would hope this is enough to get it saved. I think the song writing quality is enough to more than please the juries and if the televoters get this it could be a real dark horse.

ARTIST –  Paenda
SONG – Limits
MUSIC -  Gabriela Horn
LYRICS - Gabriela Horn


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