GREECE

The Greek song was unveiled on March 1st with a special reveal show on ERT hosted by Michael Marinos. Back in January it was revealed that Greek-Dutch performer, and former Junior Eurovision participant, Stefania Liberakakis had been internally selected. and the song would be revealed at a later date. Her song is called "Superg!rl".

The music video charts Stefania as a secret 'superhuman' doing the normal things a girl of her age would -  going to school, having a dance class and going on a date. However she accidentally uses her superpowers at school and the whole place starts recording the event on their phones. The video ends with Stefania using her superpowers to rescue a cat from a tree. When written like that it doesn't sound very impressive although she does levitate at the end! Although there is little to suggest ideas for the stage show, there are few shots of her dancing.

There is little I can garner from the video regarding how well she can actually sing this song but overall the track is very produced and the blending she has with the backing singers is very noticable. I can't quite figure out how this is going to sound live  or how this might look on the stage. I guess there will be some kind of superpower theme as well as quite a bit of dancing.

The structure of this song is rather straightforward with two lots of verse/pre-chorus/chorus and finishing with a bridge and longer chorus. However what is noticeable about this song is that the pre-chorus is really the parts with the hooks. The verses are done in a lower register and part of me genuinely wonders if she can do this live, especially of there is any dance routine to go along with it. There is also a lot of 'space in the song with eh ethnic bassline in the background which actually sounds quite clunky at times and feels like it is there to give is some 'Greekness'.

Although this is trying to be a modern radio friendly ethno bop it ends up being absolutely none of those things. It's bitty, clunky lacking in ebb and flow. It just feels really flat and it doesn't go anywhere. The title also sounds overly young, almost like it would be more suited to the Junior contest. This is just not my style of music and, let's face it, this song is not geared towards televoters like me. Also I have too many questions about this song going forward to have confidence in its chances.
For me this is a non-qualifier mainly on the basis that this is a very basic pop song with little personality and pizzazz about it. Yes, the Greek diaspora might be able to pull a result out of this but the pull of other songs will be much greater. Looking in its semi final this song ends up looking rather derivative and plain. Maybe the producers will do me a favour and put this in a slot that might be conducive to a toilet/tea break *miaow*

Artist - Stefania Liberakakis
Song - Superg!rl
Composers - Arcade, Dimitris Kontopoulos, Sharon Vaughn
Lyricists - Arcade, Dimitris Kontopoulos, Sharon Vaughn