The 36th country to decide for Eurovision was Russia, and in a 3 1/2 hour show they selected their winner out of 16 possible entries. Russia has done extremely well the last few years in Eurovision coming second in 2006 with Dima Bilan's "Never Let You Go", 3rd in 2007 with Serebro's "Song #1" and finally winning the 2008 contest with "Believe", also sung by Dima Bilan. This year Russia selected....
ARTIST: Anastasiya Prihodko
SONG: Mamo
This is a step aside from the modern and contemporary type of songs Russia has competed with in the last 3 years. Perhaps this is the type of music that is popular in Russia but I can't see that this will have a deep impact on the European audience in general, at least not in a good way. The song lies in the pop/rock genre with a strong Russian feel to it. The style is slightly reminiscent of their 2005 entry "Nobody Hurt No One" which didn't fare too well. If that wasn't bad enough the singer starts shouting in the end of the song turning what could have been a mediocre song into a quite bad one. Lucky for Russia they are directly qualified for the final this year.
VERDICT: 3 out of 10
ARTIST: Anastasiya Prihodko
SONG: Mamo
This is a step aside from the modern and contemporary type of songs Russia has competed with in the last 3 years. Perhaps this is the type of music that is popular in Russia but I can't see that this will have a deep impact on the European audience in general, at least not in a good way. The song lies in the pop/rock genre with a strong Russian feel to it. The style is slightly reminiscent of their 2005 entry "Nobody Hurt No One" which didn't fare too well. If that wasn't bad enough the singer starts shouting in the end of the song turning what could have been a mediocre song into a quite bad one. Lucky for Russia they are directly qualified for the final this year.
VERDICT: 3 out of 10
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