Monday, 13 February 2017

Estonia 2017 – Janno Reim & Kosmos – Valan Pisaraid


There are some songs that you know are just doomed to failure, but you can't but help wishing that they made it through to the latter stages of their respective contests, just to mess with the more conservative fankind heads. And boy was this one of those.

You may remember Janno here as a member of the Super Hot Cosmos Blues band, who somehow managed to get beaten to the ticket to international fame despite in 2014 having gained maximum marks from both the juries and the home voters - ah the joys of the superfinal, eh! Well this year he went (a bit) solo, and somewhat off piste. Where his fated Maybe-Maybe was an instant dirty blues grind, this little number kicked off like an obscure spot of early 90s alt rocking, soared for a bit, then went delightfully off the rails to the point that you suspected that even Janno didn't know where it was going to finish up - despite the fact that it was being sung along to a backing track.

A quite splendid piece of obtuse and chuggy nonsense in an otherwise disappointingly bland and fun free semi-final. It was never going to go anywhere, but you really, really wish it had.

Are the the people from the Laul really saving all their joys for Kerli, do you think?

2 comments:

  1. I was trying to work out what this sounded like, then it hit me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgiCechWNCo

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  2. This was my favourite from Eesti Laul, and I'm pleased that the live performance was no worse than the studio version. Not a Eurovision song, but it's just nice when Estonia throws in tracks like this.

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