This year Moldova heads off to the competition in Malmo with O Mie ("One Million"), sung in Romanian by Aliona Moon. Moon is no stranger to the Contest, and participated in Baku last year as a back up singer during the performance of Lautar, Moldova's entry written and sung by Pasha Parfeny, who composed this year's song O Mie. Looking beyond the distracting wrought-iron like neck and piece Aliona is supposed to don during her performance (as she did in the Moldovan national election finals), the Moldovan/Romanian version of the song is pretty spectacular (let's hope it stays that way...the English version is, well, not so great). That said, I would venture and go as far as suggesting that this is Moldova's best entry so far in the Contest, and could end up nabbing the coveted douze points from several countries (aside from the almost-certain top score from Romania). I mark this one as another underdog with the potential to place in the Top Ten...see for yourselves (live street performance of the Moldovan/Romanian):
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Moldova
Making its debut in Kiev in 2005 (along with Bulgaria), and placing sixth that year with local band Zdob si Zdub's Bunika Bate Toba (sung in Moldovan, a sub-dialect of Romanian), Moldova has kept the Eurovision audience entertained with its wild mix of experimental and eclectic entries at the Contest. The country has only missed the Final once since it began participating in the Eurovision Song Contest (failing to qualify from the Semi Final stage in Belgrade in 2008), and has fared decently otherwise. It has also quickly become Romania's dumping ground for high marks, particularly douze points (a feat Moldova often reciprocates with its closest neighbor), the first of which was in 2005. Emboldened by their great finish in 2005, Zdob si Zdub returned to the Contest in Dusseldorf in 2011, this time performing in (what some have suggested was indeed) English with So Lucky. I saw the return of the band live on stage and went from being concerned for the safety of the unicycle rider in the gnome hat, to wishing for her to wipe out, so that I could find some humor in the performance. The song somehow managed to get points (again a big fat twelve from Romania in both the Semi Final and the Final), and placed 12th overall. But, I mean, really:
This year Moldova heads off to the competition in Malmo with O Mie ("One Million"), sung in Romanian by Aliona Moon. Moon is no stranger to the Contest, and participated in Baku last year as a back up singer during the performance of Lautar, Moldova's entry written and sung by Pasha Parfeny, who composed this year's song O Mie. Looking beyond the distracting wrought-iron like neck and piece Aliona is supposed to don during her performance (as she did in the Moldovan national election finals), the Moldovan/Romanian version of the song is pretty spectacular (let's hope it stays that way...the English version is, well, not so great). That said, I would venture and go as far as suggesting that this is Moldova's best entry so far in the Contest, and could end up nabbing the coveted douze points from several countries (aside from the almost-certain top score from Romania). I mark this one as another underdog with the potential to place in the Top Ten...see for yourselves (live street performance of the Moldovan/Romanian):
This year Moldova heads off to the competition in Malmo with O Mie ("One Million"), sung in Romanian by Aliona Moon. Moon is no stranger to the Contest, and participated in Baku last year as a back up singer during the performance of Lautar, Moldova's entry written and sung by Pasha Parfeny, who composed this year's song O Mie. Looking beyond the distracting wrought-iron like neck and piece Aliona is supposed to don during her performance (as she did in the Moldovan national election finals), the Moldovan/Romanian version of the song is pretty spectacular (let's hope it stays that way...the English version is, well, not so great). That said, I would venture and go as far as suggesting that this is Moldova's best entry so far in the Contest, and could end up nabbing the coveted douze points from several countries (aside from the almost-certain top score from Romania). I mark this one as another underdog with the potential to place in the Top Ten...see for yourselves (live street performance of the Moldovan/Romanian):
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