Eden is wearing a white ensemble including boots trousers and a loose fitting jacket. She has 2 backing singers dressed in white and yellow and there male backing dancers also in yellow. There colours work well with the summery feeling the song gives you. Her hair is also in her signature braids which cascars over the top of her white jacket. Her styling makes her look relatable snd approachable and just like a normal girl on a normal street. I could see lots of girls finding her and this song engaging and a slew of votes going her way.
The backdrop of this is really unique and quite stunning. For the most part there is a kaleidoscope of different patterns, flowers, symbols and other afrocentric ideograms that rotate and flash on the screen. They are also drawn very carefully like they are slightly translucent and you can see light behind them.These are then also found on the video floor which makes above shots really interesting. During one part of the song the words are put up in words behind her in the different language that makes up the song. Eden does some dancing herself but her male dancers partake in some commercial moves intertwined with some hip hop and African moves. The last part of the song is particularly eye catching as Edena and her dancers do an ensemble dance routine with great energy and enthusiasm.
The song begins with an mbira which can be found in the hands of one of her backing singers. Eden then starts singing a short intro which will be repeated later as the song outro. We then have verse 1 which then followed but eh chrus sequence. There is a short pre-chorus, before the chorus proper and then there is a multilingual ost chorus which transitions us from the modern chorus to the more afrobeat verse. We then had another, if not truncated, second verse where we have the chorus sequence again. Then we have some instrumental with Eden and her backing singers taking it in turns to replicate the introduction but this time to the end.
This is such a sunny fun and interesting track to bring to Eurovision. Although we are not averse to the odd African influence at Eurovision this is the debut of the Amharic language from Ethiopia - which is where her parents were born. During the verses and bridge part sthis does a great job of balancing all the different rhythms and languages. For me the downfall, however slight, is the chorus. I wish it kept a little more African-ness or had a more driving beat. Listening to the chorus out of context you might be misled into thinking what style of song this comes from. Hopefully this will be revamped in some way or at least we can hope that the delegation don't use the chorus on their voting recap. Eden is an amazing singer and performer and elevated every single song in the national final which bodes well for the shows in May. I cannot wait to see what she can bring to the contest and I hope that her stage show changes little too.
Eden herself will appeal to lots of voters for many reasons and I think they may we corner some support from the youth vote. This should qualify easily and I think with the right amount of luck this is going to go big at Eurovision and possibly be a hit in may places around the world.. As we know sometimes the biggest success stories of singing contest shows are not the winners!
Artist - Eden Alene
Song - Feker Libi (My love)
Composer - Doron Medalie, Idan Raichel
Lyricists - Doron Medalie, Idan Raichel
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