The Croatian final known as "Dora" was held on February 19th at the Marino Cvetkovic Sports Hall in Opatija, hosted by Duško Curlic, Franka Batelic & Elizabeta Brodic. The winner was chosen by amalgamating the votes of 10 regional "expert" juries and public televoting. Going to Turin is Mia Dimšić with the song "Guilty Pleasure".
Mia's career started in 2014 when she accompanied the band Džentlmeni on tour through North Americas. Soon after she started a solo career and her debut album "Život nije siv" was released in 2016. The lead single from this album stayed in the Croatian charts for two whole years. This album gained Mia a total of 5 Porin awards (Croatian Phonographic Association) in 2017. Her music is influenced a lot by pop-country artists and uses a lot of acoustic guitar.
The song is a ballad with slight country overtones and starts with her singing along while she plays the guitar. As the song continues there is an undertone of strings and a very subtle beat. The song continues verse-chorus-post chorus twice over with little gap between each roundle and takes us up to the two minute mark. This leads straight into a repetitive bridge followed by the last chorus and post-chorus. The bridge is repeated again but this time as an outro to the end of the song.
This song has a really laid back and subtle groove. Mia's voice is soft and clear and sounds very distinctive over the simplistic backdrop. The rather pared back and intimate set up is also rather eye catching, specially when compared to a lot of the manic and involved staging we have seen up to now. Mia is joined by a male dancer who does some rather acrobatic choreo all around, and involving, Mia. I just wish they would interact together a bit more and tell the story through their movement, especially as when they are together they look really good Maybe having him sitting next to her listening to the song would help the story along. I hope that the setup changes as little as possible - sometimes less is more! I think in the long run this is a rather savvy choice as it is a style not seen at so far this year although it does fit in nicely with some of the countryfied songs on the platter
ARTIST - Mia Dimšić
SONG - Guilty Pleasure
WRITING/PRODUCTION CREDITS - Damir Bačić, Mia Dimšić, Vjekoslav Dimter, Ante Gelo
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