Tuesday, 12 January 2016

Finland 2016 - Cristal Snow - Love Is Blind


Now then, this has totally knocked me for six. Those of you with longish memories for the lower reaches of national final detritus might just remember Cristal Snow. He was the perveyor of that high camp slice of electro clash Can't Save Me Now from way back in 2008. I enjoyed that performance so much that I followed his career for a bit, before he drifted off the radar.

So when I saw his name on the list of revealed UMK songs this morning I was well excited. Another slice of Apocalypse-friendly electro pop madness, I thought. I couldn't wait to hear it. But then something weird happened. Out of nowhere, Love Is Blind has turned out to be a throughly smart and mature mid tempo love song, with a clever, touching lyric, smashing singalong chorus, and a gear change that you just know is going to evoke the biggest firework curtain of the year.

How the bloody hell did he pull this off? I'm stunned. I was up for the jokes, but this is surely one of the best contenders that we've heard so far in what's been a pretty quiet season up to now. The fella's not known for his understatement, so I'm sure he'll pull off a suitably over-the-top performance on the night, but unless prior knowledge of his back catalogue by the UMK voting public is going to hold him back, it's going to be one heck of a song that manages to beat this on the night.

Good work, Cristal. You've done an old cynic proud!
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7 comments:

  1. Tristán White12 January 2016 at 07:42

    "You look like Jesus but you taste like sin". What a fabulous line!

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  2. Roy D Hacksaw12 January 2016 at 08:22

    Isn't it just!

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  3. LMBTO_Eurovision12 January 2016 at 16:34

    Now that is a damn good song! If he can pull that off live AND survive the vagaries of Finnish Eurovision voting, this could give Finland their best chance of success since Lordi...

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  4. Anonymous13 January 2016 at 08:39

    So our household opinion is as follows - I LOVE this song. Nick said it was only "okay", but we don't have to listen to him. This song is just up my musical taste's alley and I agree about the lyrics. It's a really good pop song. And like Tristán mentioned before me - what a fantabulous line! Haven't heard the rest of the UMK songs but this has already gotten my vote.

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  5. Anonymous13 January 2016 at 08:40

    So our household opinion is as follows - I LOVE this song. Nick said it was only "okay", but we don't have to listen to him. This song is just up my musical taste's alley and I agree about the lyrics. It's a really good pop song. And like Tristán mentioned before me - what a fantabulous line! Haven't heard the rest of the UMK songs but this has already gotten my vote.

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  6. Laura15 February 2016 at 04:23

    I totally agree - lyrics are awesome and the video more than stunning. Song has made in good taste and is perfect to eurovision but at the same time I think that song is too good for eurovision and thats why its not the winning song. Cristal did good.job in UMK and goes to finals. I hope he can win the UMK this year but at the same time.I hope that stupid song from another guy wins because everybody from the outside of Finland thinks he is going to win and we should wote hin to the eurovision. That song is out of my music limits but propably because that he is perfect to eurovision. Eather way, Cristal Snow did hia best aong ever!
    Greetings from Finland :)

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  7. Roy D Hacksaw1 March 2016 at 05:34

    Gutted that this didn't make it - and surprised at the song that won. Funny old do, that!

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