After all the drama for the last few days it was nice to sit down and have our traditional quiet chill out to all the Portuguese songs. One by one they lilted by like the gentlest Spring breeze, until… OH MY BLOODY DAYS! THIS HAPPENED!
In a move almost exactly nobody saw coming, RTP have elected to chuck some of the heaviest guitar-shaped things we've ever seen at this contest smack back in the middle of proceedings to wake up all the Nans in the shires. And flipping heck does this chug along nicely.
Taking the current vague trend for loud-quiet-very-loud song patterns at the moment, Henka here has made the very loud exceedingly loud, although she does give us the occasional metalcore cop out of clean vocals as something of a palate cleanser every now and again. And looking into her history she seems the real deal too, rather than some bandwagon jumper trying their luck.
Of course, there will be all the usual dullards listing a load of the more noisy songs of late from Ireland, Croatia and Finland and trying to say this is some kind of copy of them. But as usual they're quite quite wrong. This is its whole own thing, and we've absolutely no idea where it's going to come come FdC night - it could come absolutely anywhere from bottom to top!
In a move almost exactly nobody saw coming, RTP have elected to chuck some of the heaviest guitar-shaped things we've ever seen at this contest smack back in the middle of proceedings to wake up all the Nans in the shires. And flipping heck does this chug along nicely.
Taking the current vague trend for loud-quiet-very-loud song patterns at the moment, Henka here has made the very loud exceedingly loud, although she does give us the occasional metalcore cop out of clean vocals as something of a palate cleanser every now and again. And looking into her history she seems the real deal too, rather than some bandwagon jumper trying their luck.
Of course, there will be all the usual dullards listing a load of the more noisy songs of late from Ireland, Croatia and Finland and trying to say this is some kind of copy of them. But as usual they're quite quite wrong. This is its whole own thing, and we've absolutely no idea where it's going to come come FdC night - it could come absolutely anywhere from bottom to top!
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