Pesma za Evroviziju 2024 Semifinal 1 Reaction & Analysis! | Eurovision 2024 Serbia 

I also got chills when I watched Hristina live yesterday (I am Dutch, have no idea what the song is about), but it just grabbed me

Hristina vas the best in this first semi, as a package, but I am not convinced she would go through from the place Serbia has in the running order. Still, it was so well done from start to finish. Zorja is a magnificent vocalist and she blew my mind with her singing. Stagging wasn't that great but it can be changed. The song is impactful but her vocals are what would get people to say WOW and to remember her, she is really spectacular. We will see what will happen in the second semi, I am hoping for something even better

Zorja is the only contender for the win from semi 1. Breskvica, putting aside flirting with nationalism, had the worst staging by far. It looked like something from Eurovision 2005, just plain bad. Semi 2 is expected to be much better, so I'm excited for that.

My fav Hristina kicked ass last night :) , totally agree with u about wide shots , however this song is also great live even better then the studio version , im sooo glad

Bedem and Zovi me Lena were my favorites... I actually find the latter more touching knowing its about her mother who passed

Hristina ❤

I can see Zorjas team changing the led animation, but I doubt they will take away the ending. As for Breskvica, the staging is very weak. The GOT idea was fine, but the animation is low quality. I like both songs. I would choose Zorja from those two. We will see what semi 2 will bring us.

Regarding theatrical performances - I think it's b/c of 2 reasons: first, we tend to take competitions of any kind seriously in general, to the point of overdoing it. In order to do so, they hired famous theather director to stage a performance, and that's why they look too theatrical, and have a storytelling that is not very important to the average viewer, as you said and I agree. But, as most smaller countries, I think we do have a bit of an inferiority complex (my countrypeople will now come at me :D) and in order to fight it, we want to express ourselves as cultured, even in an event such is Eurovision - I do hope that we will move to more fun concepts that make enjoyable, not "high art" tv experience. On the other hand, it worked with Molitva and In corpore sano, so why not? Second one is more important IMO - we simply don't have money to do "modern tv" kind of performances. Most of the artists are up and coming, and apart from few not in the genres that are hugely popular and bring them money. So, despite RTS funding I think they simply have no money for huge stage productions. When there is, there are ideas too - I'd suggest you to look up Sara Jo's (runner up from 2022) performance - it's on Melfest level, but I heard it costed 30K euros, which is simply too much money for the most of them. Regarding camera shots - I do agree, they are still a bit dated and sometimes misplaced. But I'm satisfied - festival has modernized in terms of music, which is the most important part, b/c it will attract even better performers in the upcoming years, I hope. So, as RTS changed the direction of the selection, I guess with more experience (and knowing that PZE became commercial succes, with over 1.3 million viewers) will do the same with overall productin: more fresh ideas, fresh new people, more money to make better stagings, to maybe invest in educating the crew (f.e. sending them - directors, cameramen to Sweden to craft their skills). And some things you've said are just mark of your personal preference or lack of information/context - f.e. Breskvica's staging did add the layers to the song (not that I particulary like it, but it did), but as you said, you lost it. And there I'm the opposite of you - that song does nothing for me, but I started to like it more because of the performance. And Lena is definitely not a "local thing" - usually you have good insights, but you completely missed the mark of this one. Her song is literally influenced by universal genres, like jazz, soul, and mostly afro-beat, which is definitely not Serbian - it's literally like something from Cafe del mar compilations :) Even her styling (that head piece was WTF) looks more Turkish than Serbian. Personally I prefer it waaaaaay more than Bedem, which is such an unremarkable song in itself, like 1000 times more ordinary than Zovi me Lena, and for me the textbook jury bait ESC cliche. Other disagreement is I see nothing exotic in No no no, since here they make songs like this on a daily basis - but I do agree it's too local. This is my 2 cents. Anyway, good reaction, as usual.

easy to compare PZE to Melodifestivalen where an average salary in Sweden is 2.5-3k euro, whilst in Serbia it's 400eur. Our graphics and the whole stage design will surely be of lesser quality than Melodifestivalen because the artists can only work with so much budget....most of them go in debt to be able to compete. I still remember to this day that Marija Šerifović's mum sold her apartment so Marija can go and compete...I do agree with you that less is more and that Breskvica's graphics were shi+, but I also don't like our contest being compared to Melodifestivalen. People do the same to Moldova, and it's the poorest country in Europe....of course their performances will look low budget but it doesn't mean the songs are bad... life isn't fair but at least we are able to have awareness.

This is only first semi final and you did bot react to all of them... Such as Filarri ko je ta zena

Filari was good but he didnt pass. Serbia shuld send their biges star jelena karleusa she would have the best performance. her karly b song is literally a movie but Serbia will never send her to Eurovision so sad

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