Review: Polina Gagarina with A Million Voices

Europe, please welcome the queen of this year’s ballads! Russia has put all its feelings into a great voice and brings us A Million Voices, a powerful ballad made for lip-syncing in front of the mirror. Russia itself may not be welcomed in Europe, but this song surely will be.

It really has everything. It starts with a quiet beginning, leading to the chorus as the music intensifies and finally introducing the drums to make it more dramatic. And then, after the second chorus, the back-up singers get the song ready to the ecstatic “sing it out” ending. Everything comes at its exact moment, and the song grows until the very end, when Polina gives the rest. And this girl really knows how to sing! Her voice is clean, intense and perfect even singing live, where she has proven to be really comfortable with the song. The structure and positive message reminds me of Dina Garipova’s What If, but as I see it this song delivers much more emotion and could fill better Vienna’s stage. The song is so good itself that it doesn’t need any special scenography and definitely no seesaws. It is simple, but a good and powerful simple. I just love it.

For all this, I am pretty sure A Million Voices will sound on Saturday’s Grand Final, and I guess it will be one of the big moments of the night. We won’t go to Moscow for clear reasons next year, but it’s nice to see that great and beautiful songs are possible in one of Europe’s biggest shows.