The Serbian song was released on March 4th, via the Eurovision youtube channel. The group Hurricane who won Beovizija last year was invited to represent the nation in 2021 Unlike last year this year's entry was internally selected. The song they are singing is called "Loco Loco" (Crazy , Crazy)
The video has three main settings - singing in the bath, singing sola and singing altogether in a stereotypical might club. The video has an 80s tinge to it and the night club scenes even have a filter on them to look slightly blurry like old archive footage. They also have very full on make up and masses of curly hair, shoulder pads, leopard print, feathers, shiny fabrics, large earrings and sunglasses. When in the bath they are wearing little but this is obscured by the disco balls in the tub with them. All these different sections are cut rather finely, changing plenty and often, possibly to emphasise the change of person singing and the craziness in the title.
The song starts will a synthesised brass bassline with the name of the song and band in the intro followed by an extended instrumental in the same vein. The first verse is a little less frantic and the backing track is less beat driven which helps create build up for the next parts. The short pre-chorus is more staccato and monotone, almost a bit shouty, and helps the beat build up in response. The chorus has that dancehall bassline while the girls sing repetitive monosyllables which sound a little bit silly to an English ear - but makes total sense in Serbian. The backing track business continues as the instrumental and flows back into another verse, then pre-chorus and chorus. Then flows in a different style of instrumental which is rather minimal but keeping the dancehall syncopation - I can imagine this being a rather pivotal dance break section - which leads into a key change and a final chorus. After some big notes and showy-off vocal gymnastics the name of the song 'Loco Loco' is once again repeated.
Hurricane the band has been together since 2017. Ivana is a successful dancer having won multiple national dance championships as well as duetting with Eurovision participants Jala Brat. Ksenia, is Knez's daughter and was one of his Eurovision backing singers in 2015. Sanja was a member of the pan-genre band ZAA for five years prior to Hurricane and she also represented Serbia as a soloist back in 2016. Needless to say they already have quite the following amongst fans and have a lot of performing experience between them.
The song is in a very similar vein to their song from last year, but this one lacks any of the of the power of "Hasta La Vista" Yes, it is really great that the girls are singing in Serbian but to get any purchase for a non-Serbian speaker you need good rhythm, repetitive tunes and some charisma from the girls. but this song is overly complicated and you need multiple listens to even think about what is going on. To me, the girls look a bit aloof and sometimes smarmy, like a too-cool-for-school 6th form clique who've 'made a pop video'. Something about this is also missing for me in basic terms of not sticking in my head. Maybe a conducive dance routine might help emphasise the repeated parts of the song but I am kind of clutching at straws here. I am also hoping their staging is less busy than the video and helps the girls (and the audience) focus on their vocals although I suspect the pre-recorded vocals may well be high up in the mix.
ARTIST - Hurricane
SONG - Loco Loco (Crazy Crazy
WRITING CREDITS - Nemanja Antonić, Sanja Vučić
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