Armenia has
certainly tried something different with Face the Shadow. Firstly, they got us
wondering week after week who would complete their 6 people team, and once we
knew them they made us wait a little bit longer for the song. The result: too
many artists, too many styles and a song that doesn’t really stick into your
head. I’m not saying that I don’t like it, but I think is too much.
The piano
part at the beginning is really sweet, although it gets a little bit dramatic
when Mary-Jean sings. Then the song grows with the first Don’t Deny (I actually
liked this song name better, I find Face the Shadow somehow creepy), and once
everybody has sung their part they join their voices for the first time. It
works on the studio version, but since they haven’t still performed live and I
doubt they have rehearsed enough together, I am a little concerned of how that
would sound on the stage. The six of them are experienced singers (Inga dazzled
me back in 2009 with Jan Jan), but it could really become a disaster. Going
back to the song, after that chorus the song enters its third music style and
leads us to the tremendous ending, which, I must admit, is really Eurovision
stuff.
I am really
looking forward to hearing the live version, ‘cause I think songs get real once
you see them on the stage and it is really different from the ballad-mania
we’re living this year. Until then, it will just sound in my car (just as
Lonely Planet does), but it won’t make me dream of Yerevan 2016.
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