Lisbon Calling...

sexta-feira, abril 14, 2006

Belgium: Je t'adore

Belgium is one of the hot favourites to win in Athens.
Famous singer Kate Ryan defeated 27 other singers, including the popular Belle Perez and former Eurovision participants Barbara Dex and Vanessa Chinitor and won Eurosong 2006 with the Swedish style pop song Je t’adore.
The composers of the song are Kate Ryan herself together with the Swedish musicians Niklas Bergwall, Niclas Kings and Lisa Greene.
In spite of the early draw, 7th in the semi-final, I think Kate is an almost certain finalist and if the stage act is good maybe a top5 in the final. However since 2004 there is a sort of "Xandee trauma" so anything can happen and this song can end up flopping big time. The performance in the national final was rather uninspired.
The video was probably shot in Greece, I don’t imagine Belgium having all that sunny beaches, but after the first seconds, when Kate sings by a stonewall, the video becomes rather silly and doesn’t really helps to promote the song. I saw Belle’s video for El mundo bailando and it was superb, giving the song and extra fiesta felling.
Well videos are also not that important, most of the viewers doesn’t even watch them so this is just me trying to say something bad about this song that is actually a very eurovisionesque tune with every change to give Flemish broadcaster VRT their first Eurovision victory and Kate Ryan another European summer hit.
Points for the song: 12 (from 1-8, 10 and 12)
And for the video: 2 (from 1 to 5)

Belgium calling… I really like the beginning of Je t’adore. It gets going directly.
This song as very catchy chorus, very Eurovision, witch might be a risk.
Its an easy and simple song. Happy tune, makes you wanna dance to it.
Je t’adore has the power appeal to many viewers, it is a song that could do well with most western and northern countries, but I'm not sure about the eastern countries and the south of Europe.
I like it! It was my favourite in our preselection. In Athens all will depend on the performance and act.
Maybe a bit too polished.
I give this song 17 points out of 20.

Welcoming this song to the contest is Charlotte Nilson with the 1999 winning song Take me to you Heaven.