Selectia Nationala 2017 Semifinal LIVE coverage
And we are ON….here are the live thought as the songs are being delivered…
1.Elize & No stress
Nice song in romanian language , very good attitude…but the song lacks power. It’s pretty plain, but we love the singer and the band. They deliver the right ampount of adrenaline.
2. Cristina Vasiu
Cristina delivered very nice the song…a bit emotional and shaky..it lacked a bit of power. Overall nice song.
3. Tudor Turcu
Tudor does the job well…if it’s rock the jury is after then he will go through. Personaly i don’t like this song. It sounds pretty boring…repetititve and empty. Only a high note in the middle…and that’s about it.
4. Ramona Nerra
Ramona is not herselef vocally tonight…The show doesn’t help at all …I expected a bit more… Maybe if she didn’t dance..who knows..
5. Instinct
Perfect delived …this song is one of the best this year. The lyrics in romanian are very beautiful…if only they sang one chorus in english. Beautiful and for sure a qualifier. Good job!
6. Eduard Santha
Out of tune…..very busy song…I understand the artistic aim…but ..not my kind of cup. Is a very avanguardistic song…as one of the jury members said… We’ll see.
7. Tavi Colen & Emma
Tavi and Emma have a very nice song… They sang it ok ..but just ok. It has a bit of an old school eurovision sound a bit predictable…but overall nice one.
8. Zanga
Zanga has a very interesting staging…the most coherent so far..with a proper theme and embracing the song perfectly. The song lacks chorus from my opinion. The rest was good.
9. Ilinca and Alex
Perfect and they should WIN ! Amazing song.
10. Alexandra Craescu
Perfect ballad for Eurovision. Alexandra sings perfect…and the whole staging is so beautiful. Personaly I would never send this cause it is sooo overrated. Too old style composition…But congratz cause it was a perfect moment.
11. Maxim feat Nicolae Voiculet
Maxim decided to pretend to sing at the guitars. The romanian sound fornm the instrument called “NAI”is very authentic and embraces the song very nice. Unfortunately is such a boring beat, and the voices have no power.
12. D-lema
D-lema has a very cute song…very liniar composition…but this is the whole charm to this song…Life is an adventure…and they embrace it. The singer has a very nice diction. The high moment of the song lacks totally.
13. MIHAI
Mihai was almost perfect tonight. Good job!
14. Ana Maria Mirica
Ana switched the song to english…and it sounds better. Knock-out voice but a bit shaky on the pronounciation in wnglish. That needs to be improved. Nice one!
15 Xandra
Xandra has an amazing voice. Didn’t like the dress…It needed something more dramatic…cause it is a very heavy song. The ballas is eurovision perfect. Good job Xandra!
Ovidiu Anton takes the stage now, probably as a tribute for his non-participating last year. Nice gesture from TVR , cause Ovidiu really had no blame for what happened in Eurovision 2016. His new project is called ANTON. Very rock-ish sound as expected. Good job Ovidiu!
And the qualifiers for the final on 5 March are:
Ilinca feat. Alex – Yodel it – 60p.
Xandra – Walk on by – 46p.
Mihai – “I won’t surrender”- 44p.
Cristina Vasiu – “Set the skies on fire”- 32p.
Instinct – “Petale”- 24p.
Ramona Nerra – “Save Me “-19p.
Eduard Santha – “Wild Child “- 19p.
Maxim – “Adu-ti aminte”- 8p.
Tavi Colen feat. Emma – “We own the night”- 8p.
Ana Maria Mirica – “Spune-mi”- 7p.
Good night and Good Luck!
escromania.com team
