MALTA

The Maltese song was unveiled on March 8^th as the video and song were released online. The act representing Malta was chose though the country’s X Factor show which finished on January 26^th, with the winner going to Eurovision. Michela Pace was the winner of the first series and she will be singing “Chameleon”.

In accordance to the name of the song, the video is highly colourised and uses a number of different settings, garments, props and copious amounts of models and dancers to create the feel of the song. There's lots of posing and colour matching/eye trickery going on to fit in with the title. I am a little worried that the setting of the video uses so much movement and use of extra people to make this feel exciting and memorable. The words of the song also appear on the video which is a little distracting.

This is a modern electronic pop number with a latin/reggae type feel to it and is very much a radio-friendly commercial song. The beat of the song kind of comes and goes throughout which means that it keeps your attention between bits but also loses the flow of the whole thing. Her voice is also very clear which suggests it has been highly processed to make it really clear. The first verse only has a bass and drum in the background and during the pre-chorus the click track in the background goes to almost double speed but with very little around it. The chorus of the track is basically ‘I’m a chameleon’ sung over again which is a little uninspiring. This order is repeated again before a rather large bridge part which is lyrically weak and doesn’t actually add anything to the song apart from filling up the time. This then followed by a final pre-chorus which is interspersed with lines from the previous bridge, which actually works better, finishing with a final chameleon line with a ‘la la la’ to finish.

It must be said that this is really not my type of music and not what I would choose to listen to. I found some of the instrumentation far too odd and in places actually laughable. The lyrics of this are really corny and I am starting to feel worried how this might sound and look on the night. Michela doesn’t do a lot in the video and she’s going to need to do a lot of work to sell this down the camera. This is not a song where she can depend n people moving around her, she is going to have to do some of the moving herself.

I’m not fond of this at all and I’ve ended up having a lot of questions and fear about how this is going to come across on stage. In some ways this is modern and current but in a year of experimental numbers this might just be a little too ordinary and only something younger viewers might vote for.

ARTIST –  Michela Pace

SONG –  Chameleon

MUSIC -  Joacim Persson, Paula Winger, Borislav Milanov, Johan Alkaenas

LYRICS - Joacim Persson, Paula Winger, Borislav Milanov, Johan Alkaenas