The video is set in what seems to be a dark and murky park bench where Victoria stays and sings the song. She is sat with her hair down, wearing a dark shirt and trousers. There are a number of tricks used to engage the watcher such as 360 rotations, odd camera angles, smoke, light orbs and flashes. Although Victoria keeps quite static there is enough going on in small doses to keep your attention. I am not quite sure if this should be her overall staging but it very easily could be. It certainly isn't the kind of entry that wants to be too boombastic.
After a short intro which gives the impression of being played backwards only a piano is left playing. Victoria sings a very short verse 1 and goes straight into a shortened chorus which contains heavy backing singer presence in the place of more instrumentation. Verse 2 is followed by a pre chorus before leading into a longer version of the chorus. Here we have another pre chorus but with slightly altered lyrics. There is very little variation on the backing track at all from the start up to this point which is where the orchestration comes in - not hard but just enough to notice it is now there. This is followed by a rather timid outro and some ooohing by the backing singers.
The song itself is mostly quite tender and softly sung. Her voice is clear but I hope her microphone is turned up a little bit because I think she could get washed out when live. But for me, the awful into and outro needs to be binned right away - it sounds cheap and tacky and negates any message in the song. I get the feeling they were trying to soften the edges, Disneyfy it and keep the song positive but it really doesn't work. My other concern is that the harmonies with the backing singers are so tight and precise, not only in pitch but also in tone, and this could lead her to be far too deep in the mix and not be able to hear her at all OR it could make her sound badly out of tune.
This is another song that really isn't my style but this one at least has a definite structure and flow and has a lid on its vocal sentimentality. That said, I think it is almost too monotone and flat throughout and could have done with more peaks and troughs to keep the listener involved, but maybe this can be easily adjusted once live. You could listen to any part of this song and not really know where about in the song's journey it belongs. I also tend to think many of these similarly styled ballads are in danger of cancelling each other out. It's is my preferred choice of the younger female ballads this year, so I am not particularly fussed either way if this qualifies or not but I guess if the young female demographic votes for this it could go big.
Artist - Victoria
Song - Tears getting sober
Composers - Victoria Georgieva, Lukas Oscar Janisch, Borislav Milanov, Cornelia Wiebols
Lyricists - Victoria Georgieva, Lukas Oscar Janisch, Borislav Milanov, Cornelia Wiebols
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