The Czech song was revealed on March 7th with the song being released on streaming platforms and official video premiere later that same afternoon. December 2024, ČT (the Czech broadcaster) announced their singer but that the song would be revealed in March. However, an acoustic version of the song was presented during the first semi of the Maltese Eurovision Song Contest show. Going to Basel is Adonxs with the song "Kiss Kiss Goodbye".
Adam Pavlovčin, the real name of Adonxs (pronounced Adonis) was raised in Senica, Slovakia. He took up dancing and singing at an early age; joining a junior dance crew, taking singing lessons and learning to play the piano. However he stopped singing in his teens and concentrating on dancing, wining the Slovak street dance championships five times in junior and adult categories. He studied at BIMM in London where he gained a degree in Songwriting and Creative Musicianship. His big breakthrough was in 2021 after winning "SuperStar" ,the joint Czech-Slovak version of Idols and became the first openly queer winner of the show. His music style shifts from pop, rock, folk, alternative and synth although his lyrics often focus on love, heartache and loneliness.
The video has Adonxs as bit of a human guinea pig, with scientists attempting to make him time travel. We see him in press conferences, undergoing physical tests and having therapy sessions all while being hooked up to various machines and drips. The colour palette is very muted and not at all colourful possibly alluding that the narrative is serious, sombre and a little bleak. The song starts with the first verse which has quite a slow beat but the lyrics can come quick and fast. The pre-chorus is a brief pause before the anthemic chorus comes in. This procedure is followed up again albeit with a shorter chorus. Then, surprisingly, comes a rather up-tempo dance break when he and some of the laboratory staff do a co-ordinated dance routine which lasts less than twenty seconds before reverting to the pre-chorus and then the title repeats over again before one final chorus to the end.
As a moody Viennese waltz ballad this is not bad. The backing track has gospel tones as well as a muted feel in the instrumentation. Adonxs vocal is high in the mix: breathy and intimate in the verses and more expressive in the chorus. The visuals, although well made, has a confusing narrative. It's certainly not the videol one was expecting and neither do I anticipate the video to be incorporated in the stage show. After the song's release, most of the discourse was about that dance break. Adonxs is an accomplished dancer and his performance in the video is polished however that instrumental and that chorography does not belong in that song. The dance break could've implemented the start of a faster tempoed section to finish but this was not the case. At the Maltese NF his acoustic version - just him at the piano - did not feel much different to this in retrospect. The future of this song may well hinge on the stage show and presentation because its identity right now is too mixed to judge.
ARTIST - Adonxs
SONG - Kiss Kiss Goodbye
WRITING/PRODUCTION CREDITS - L Calvo, M Charvátová, I Coulon, R Janeček, A Lopes da Silva, G Masters-Clark, A Pavlovčin
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