The second ‘Warrior’ song of the year comes from Georgia. After finishing last in last years semi, Georgia went for a national final this year, with a safer selection of songs. There were no real horrible songs, just really a bunch of generic decently performed songs.
Edvar Meison provided the cheesy dance-esuqe specifically tailored for Eurovision song, Eter Beriashvili had a boring ballad (kinda sounds like Russia’s 2013 ‘What If‘) in a language that can barely be called English, Misha Sulukhia provided a male version of the ballad type and Niutone performed a typical Georgia rock-pop song. None of these were horrendous as last years entry, the latter 2 would also be possible qualifiers to the final, but Georgia went for a different choice, as they usually like to.
I have no idea if Nina Sublatti is actually famous in her homeland, but she won both the televote and the international jury vote in the national final to be declared the clear winner. Titled the same as the Maltese song for this year, this ‘Warrior’ also has a dark atmosphere to it, with a production that makes the song sounds a bit cold and mysterious. However, the song still sounds like a demo, and a new version is definitely needed to buff it up a little, rumor is it’s gonna be re-worked by Sweden’s Thomas G:son, if it does it’s probably just become more generic sounding like all his other works.
Nina herself is also not the best singer, she only sings the chorus of the song really well, while the verses are really underperformed, but then again that’s the interesting part of the song. Hopefully by May she can improve her performance skills and have a better version of the song, otherwise it’s another risky choice for Georgia that will probably not go down so well in the contest.
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