The Croatian Eurovision song, the work of a Serbian female author, is the most serious thing that has appeared at that fair of kitsch and tra-la-la sound in the last mashallah years… Period.
So the real question actually reads: Did the famous girls from Lelek and singer-songwriter Zorja choose the right place to present “Andromeda”?
In fact, they didn’t.
Because when the votes of the audience and the jury were added up in the end, it turned out that they threw pearls before swine for nothing, to whom musical swill is sweeter and easier to digest.
What else can a person say after the victory of the Bulgarian “Chungalunga” (or whatever the name was?) or the fact that the main favorite until the finals was that Finnish headache of a song in which the only impression, by appearance, was made by the blonde violinist.
As, after all, in the Bulgarian case, where that young girl smiled and danced nicely, props to her, but Eurovision is not a competition of either charm or dance. Actually, it shouldn’t be, but essentially it is. Of everything except music, it seems.
The Serbian jury fit into that perfectly, chilling the Croatian girls (zero points), and giving the most votes by far to the most idiotic song in the finals, the Greek one.
In that jury, Jelena Tomasevic publicly separated her opinion, obviously embarrassed by the voting of the others.
Let’s assume there are two possible reasons for the chilling of the Croatian girls by the rest of the jury.
One is politics, because the jury was led by the tzatziki Aleksandra Kovac, and sitting in it were pure anonymities without authority and integrity (along with the relatively well-known Mari Mari, whose already weak career ended 20 years ago) who possibly received instructions to skip the Croatian girls in the voting.
The second reason is a lack of an ear for music and good taste, which the Serbian jury obviously lacked, at least its majority.
Honestly, I think it was a combination of both mentioned reasons, although I doubt that someone like Dragoslav Bokan ordered them to cut the hated Croats. It is more likely that autosuggestion and self-censorship dominated there, a psychological complex so frequently expressed in Vucic’s subservient Stradija.
Unlike them, the Serbian people experienced “Andromeda” as their own, which should not be surprising since its lyrics sound like passages from Serbian history, and by structure, theme, and lyricism remind of the decasyllable meter from the post-Kosovo cycle, mostly, say, of the folk poem “The Death of the Mother of the Jugovici”.
But enough of bread and Eurovision games…
STUDENTS ARE WINNING! ✊❤️
P.S. If by some chance I had been in the jury… My 12 points would have gone to Croatia for the song, and a special 12 points were deserved by Slovenia for – the boycott!
Author: Antonije Kovačević Photo: Eurovision