Song 2: GREECE
(16th in semi final 1 : 44 points)
Artist: Argo
Song: Utopian Land
Music and Lyric: Vladimiros Sofianidis
Song 2: GREECE
(16th in semi final 1 : 44 points)
Artist: Argo
Song: Utopian Land
Music and Lyric: Vladimiros Sofianidis
Greece who has a good record of making it into the final each year.
But for 2016 i found Greece’s entry to be a below average song and stage performance,
Only good thing was semi naked dancer towards end of song,
. Ah Greece. Year after year, always one of my favorites. Except 2016. I give Vladimiros Sofianides cred for writing about something important, but it mostly ends there.
First, I don’t like seeing the artists for the first time AT Eurovision (as in, they should be in the music video). Second, I felt like Argo tried to do too much (as in, insert cliche Greek dance here) in an attempt to liven up their performance. Third, the song is just too repetitious. It has a short shelf life.
I hope to see Greece back in 2017 with something better.
Like Finland, another song that I quite enjoyed when performed elsewhere (in this instance, Eurovision Village) but just didn’t carry across to the arena.
Minor gripe, I couldn’t cope with the lyrics “with the rise of the rising sun”. Stupid repetition of the word “rise” which is hardly a hanging offence, and despite English being my only language I am no expert, but it just didn’t sit right with me.