Serbia Eurovision 2024 Reactionalysis - Music Teacher Analyses Ramonda by Teya Dora (Reaction) 

12p from croatia goes to serbia🏆🥇

Thank God that the song is interpreted by someone who understands music, harmony, the set of instruments.....Thank you for your honest listening and opinion about the song!

The rock on which the singer is lying at the beginning of the video represents the island of Corfu in Greece, where Serbian soldiers recovered in the First World War, after retreating across Albania. We call the sea around the island of Krv the Blue Tomb, because many soldiers who died are buried there. In Serbia, the Ramonda flower is a symbol of rebirth and rising from the ashes.Also Ramonda is called phoenix flower. The people have gone through and are going through many misfortunes and sufferings, but they always hope that everything will be fine. This song is dedicated to all those who sacrificed themselves for the benefit of new generations.

Ramonda serbica - the phoenix flower, an endemic, relict plant of southeastern Serbia, is a symbol of the Serbian victory in WWI and the enormous sacrifice that the Serbian people made for their freedom and the freedom of neighboring nations. A third of the total population lost their lives, but the Serbian nation rose from the ashes like a phoenix. The song is about the pain of loss and the hope of resurrection!

Serbia numero uno !!!complimenti

My winner! She is amazing!

In the First World War, Serbia lost about 30% of its population, 60% of its male population. The figure is around 1,200,000 inhabitants who lost their lives. This is perhaps the highest percentage that a country lost in that war. Ramonda is an endemic species and has 3 subspecies. One grows on the Iberian peninsula and in Serbia there is Ramonda Serbica and Natalija's ramonda, which was named after the Serbian queen. Both species are endangered and are protected by law. Natalija's ramonda is also known as the phoenix because it can to dry completely and to revive again when the conditions are favorable. In the First World War, Natalija's ramonda was taken as a symbol of Armistice Day and as a symbol of Serbian suffering in that war, as a new beginning, as a phoenix. The song follows these two stories. It tells where the purple Ramonde disappeared, as a metaphor for the suffering that Serbia suffered. During the performance, purple luminous dots appear on the LED screens that rise and rise. They represent the souls of Serbian soldiers who died defending their country and which go to heaven. At the end of the words, a purple ramonda rises from the ashes. That verse represents the aspiration for a better tomorrow, for the end of war, for the end of suffering, for peace.. Blue tomb. In one part of the song, he says, everything is quiet under the sea. When the Serbian army retreated through Albania to the Greek island of Vido, many soldiers died of disease and hunger. It is estimated that around 5,000 people died then and were thrown into the Ionian Sea for eternal rest. Since then, that place has been called the blue tomb.

Hayatım boyunca dinleyeceğim bir sanat eseri yaptığın için teşekkür ederim Teya Dora❤ love from Türkiye❤

Love Teya from Belarus

She finished Berkeley university of Music in US, she is very talented singer and song writer, music writer .

Stručnjak je rekao svoje pametnom dovoljno hvala❤

Hvala , ljubav iz Srbije 🇷🇸❤️💜🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸

My favourite eurovision song breakdowns on youtube. Thank you for this video :)

Beautiful song, extrordinary vocals and performance, this girl is amazing! Wish her best!

Dark horse of the year 💜

A lovely gentle song. You looked genuinely moved while watching the clip, and your appreciation is infectious. I’m not certain it will connect widely, but Serbia does always manage to break through with something unusual. Thanks again for a great review 😊

💜THE BEST SONG!TEYA IS SIMPLY MAGICAL!💜

Masterpiece,so unique and beautiful 💗🇷🇸 Serbia 💗🇷🇸 Ramonda Tnx for the very good reaction and analysis 💗🇷🇸

❤ Serbia in top ❤

Great analysis as always, it makes me value the song more. Thank you!!

Absolute Gänsehaut 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻🇷🇸

The message in the lyrics is very important also. After burning down Serbia in the ww1, the com back like a phenix or a "lila srbica ramonda" 💜💜💜🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸☦️☦️☦️

By far the best song this year at Eurovision. If this was Sweden, France or Ukraine it would win the whole thing easily, but because it's Serbia it will be anywhere from 10th to 15th place.

I don't want you to worry about the stage performance...what you saw will be much, much higher in Sweden...and listen to the acoustic version...and you will see what is the beauty....except for the melody.... she emits pure emotion and that's the magic... we love you from Serbia💜💜💜💜

I love her deep voice!

GREAT ANALYSIS OF THE SONG. MOST OF THE PEOPLE WHO ARE COMMENTING ON EUROVISION SONGS ARE MUSIC AMATEURS. THERE ARE FEW THAT ARE MUSICALLY EDUCATED. THANK YOU FOR YOUR EXPERTISE AND GOOD COMMENTS.

#1 Serbia ❤

She's stunning 🔥 Too bad shitty songs are in hype

The best song this year But we all know some stupid non-music shit is going to win ESC 2024😢

Brilliant reaction with so much musical knowledge and insight.....and she is just alike a singing fairy.

Love Tey!!!!❤🎉😊

Tea-text, music, arrangement Contra alt 🎵🎹🎶 Music academy Berkly, USA Jimy Page/Led Zeppelin give her diploma 🎓

Bravissima!!!! Che emozione ❤❤❤.stupenda

💜ANALYSIS by a SERBIAN NATIVE SPEAKER (please read until the end): The song ‘Ramonda’ has a universal symbolism, which means it can be applied to a variety of situations in life. Even though it is originally written as a deeply personal song, a personal struggle that anyone can relate to, it can be perceived both as a patriotic song with a fragment of painful Serbian history and a song whose lyrics portray the great suffering of all the people around the world whose countries are devastated by wars and disasters. It is also infused with weltschmerz (= world pain), which is defined as a sense of deep sadness at the evils or perils of the world caused by comparing the actual state of the world with an idealised longing for things to be different. The reason I am bringing weltschmerz up is because not only are people from war-stricken countries suffering but also people from other countries witnessing it and not being able to do anything to stop it. They are also hopeless and probably anxious about the same thing possibly happening to them in the future because this world has become a dangerous place. No one feels safe. Therefore, the lyrics can be interpreted as the internal monologue of both ‘the wounded’ and those who are not wounded yet but are depressed by constant exposure to human suffering through media. MAIN POINTS OF THE ANALYSIS: 1) Zvezda Danica, pronounced as /danitsa/, is a feminine name personifying the morning star / Venus in Slavic mythology; it can often be found in Serbian lyric poetry. I transliterated it to Danitsa so that non-native speakers wouldn't pronounce it as /danika/. Danitsa has the word 'day' in its root, so it can be literally translated as ‘day star’. They also call it ‘zornjača’ which translates as ‘dawn star’. The North Star is a wrong translation even though it can be used as an alternative with similar symbolism. 2) In the phrase ‘lilac ramonda’, ‘lilac’ is an adjective meaning ‘pale purple colour’, not a noun meaning ‘a type of flower’. So, ramonda is a flower, and lilac is its colour. When it comes to the English translation of the lyrics, you can find my translation on my RU-vid channel. I used some archaic and poetic words since the original lyrics of the song are quite poetic as well. 3) The island and the surrounding sea at the beginning of the official video could be a reference to the Greek island of Vido and the Ionian sea in which over 5,000 Serbian soldiers were buried during World War I. A Serbian poet Milutin Bojić dedicated his poem 'Plava grobnica' (The Blue Tomb) to these soldiers. In this poem, Bojić expressed the tragic fate of the Serbian army that had passed through the snow-covered mountains of Montenegro and Albania to get to the Greek island of Corfu, where they found refuge and shelter. Corfu was their salvation. Vido was regarded as the island of death since those transported from Corfu to Vido were believed to be terminally ill and could not be saved. The line ‘ko pod vodom tiho je sve’ (= everything is quiet like under the water) could be an allusion to the deathly silence of the ‘blue tomb’, the sea around Vido which was the last resting place of the brave Serbian soldiers. The reason why they were thrown into the sea is because there was not enough space on Vido and Corfu. Their corpses were weighted with rocks to prevent them from floating. 4) The title of this song references a flower called ‘Ramonda serbica’ in Latin, a species endemic to Serbia. The mountain called Rtanj is the home to this flower which was discovered in 1874 by a famous Serbian botanist Josif Pančić. Being a living fossil from the Tertiary period, it is capable of surviving extremely harsh conditions. Even if it is completely withered, just a few drops of water can revive it. Natalie's ramonda (natalijina ramonda), the flower of the same genus, is very similar to ‘Ramonda serbica’. It was named after Queen of Serbia Natalija Obrenović, and it is worn as an emblem on Armistice Day in Serbia. This flower, also known as the ‘phoenix flower’, symbolises the unprecedented suffering of the Serbian Army (during the Great Retreat) that managed to rise victoriously like a phoenix from the ashes that World War I, in which Serbia lost one third of its population, had left behind. I am also fascinated by the fact that Ramonda also grows on Kaymakchalan. The Battle of Kaymakchalan was fought between Serbian and Bulgarian troops on the Salonika Front in 1916. This was the first and most significant victory of the Serbian army since they started to retreat from Serbia the year before. Like Ramonda, the Serbian army survived the agonies of the Great Retreat (better known as the Albanian Golgotha among the Serbian people), and even though they were, so to speak, an army of the dead given their very bad health, they eventually got their ‘drop of water’ on Corfu (also known as ‘the island of salvation’) and resurrected, highly motivated to return to their fatherland. Kaymakchalan was that ‘gate of freedom’ for them, ‘the peak of hope’. 5) This song can be interpreted in different ways due to the universal symbolism of ramonda as the beacon of hope for people going through tough times (wars, natural disasters, disease, psychological problems, heartbreaks, etc.). The repetition of the line ‘where have they evanesced, those lilac ramondas?’ (rhetorical question) at the end of each pre-chorus represents the feeling of powerlessness, hopelessness and despair. However, the outro of the song reminds us that hope springs eternal. Despite all the atrocities occurring in the world, it is in human nature to never lose hope. Disappearing lilac ramondas can also imply the people who are currently being wiped off the face of the earth and who are actually disappearing with no possibility of resurrection, unlike ramondas. However, you can never get rid of them all. There'll always remain that one ramonda to ‘tell the tale’. From a patriotic point of view, ramondas could be the Serbian soldiers who died in WWI. 6) Also, there's something magical and unexplainable about the melody of this song. It embodies the national spirit of the Serbian people from the 19th and the 20th century, the spirit that Stevan Stojanović Mokranjac, the most important composer of Serbian romanticism, wove into his music. This particular atmosphere of the melody can be sensed strongly only by listening to a piano cover. 7) Danitsa, the bright morning star, is the ONLY thing left for the lyrical subject (= anyone who identifies with the lyrics, not necessarily the author) to guide him through sadness and hopelessness. In other words, the only thing left for people going through great suffering is to wait for Danitsa to appear in the morning sky because only then will they know they survived to see another day. I perceive the song as a cry of people who are currently going through wars and great suffering. If we look at the text from that perspective, the first and the second verse describe their psychological state in the form of an internal monologue. They cannot sleep; they feel restless; they are traumatised; they are scared; every night seems like an eternity; they are lonely because it looks to them as if no one is coming to their rescue, and even if they scream, no one will hear them, as if they were underwater. Their cry is muffled. They know that normal life (= white glow) is still happening outside the borders of their countries, and that depresses them because it seems to them as if their suffering is never going to end while somewhere in the distance everything is teeming with life. 8) In the second pre-chorus, a kind of descending gradation can be noticed. In the first pre-chorus, the lyrical subject's glimmer of hope is the morning star while in the second pre-chorus not even that because now all the stars have fallen asleep, which indicates that the lyrical subject is losing hope throughout the song, but since we know that the night is darkest just before the dawn (which can be felt in the musical atmosphere of the silent break before the last chorus), what happens in the outro of the song is peripeteia, i.e. the plot twist when a single lilac ramonda eventually rises from the ashes and the tone of the song changes from depressive to optimistic. Ramonda is that light at the end of the tunnel. By the way, the lyrical subject summons Ramonda in every chorus by repeating its name, as if in the form of a mantra, hoping that it will resurrect, and it eventually does come to life. 9) The official video features the archetype of light vs darkness or good vs evil, which is suggested at the very beginning by quoting a verse from the Gospel of John. I assume that the light sphere from the video actually represents the morning star and is significantly smaller compared to the amount of darkness that surrounds it. It is what leads Teya Dora through the darkness (= hopelessness) until the break of dawn, the sunrise and the resurrection of ramonda (= hope) that we see at the end. Incidentally, the morning star is visible until sunrise, which is probably why they made it disappear into the rock just before the sun appears in the video, to illustrate the behaviour of this celestial body in a more imaginative way. Interestingly, the morning star / Venus is the brightest planet in the sky, so it's clear why it is depicted as the guiding star in the video. It may also represent Teya Dora's late father since she devoted this song to him too. In her national final performance, the moment Teya sings the phrase ‘zvezde Danice’, she moves her body to the left, and the light behind her back flashes like a star. In the video, Danitsa and Ramonda are actually two interconnected motifs because they both represent light, hope, birth, new beginnings. Ramonda is born from the light of Danitsa.

Love Tey❤❤❤❤

Love it win Teya❤

you should watch her acoustic version , she released it last week , its great

Teya Dora fantastic vokals!

thanks 💜💟🤍

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT ON THIS PHENOMENAL SONG.. IT'S HARD TO WIN, WE KNOW WHY😔😔

She' s the author of the song !

If you want to win at eurovision, you send a popular song, catchy, that you remember and sing in the shower. Unfortunally Eurovision is not interested in music to analyze, or the meaning of words, but something immediate that sells well, commercial for consumption.

Thank you so much for such a wonderful, beautiful review of this incredibly beautiful song. Greetings from the Serbian people.❤❤❤

RAMONDA the song certainly sounds victorious putting it in a cliché has no logic because it stands out from all the compositions by itself. listen to it in the acoustic version so it is clear

Maybe fun fact for you - all back vocals in sang is sang by herself....

Bravo for Serbia!!❤

Hvala na podrsci 🇷🇸

the best ramonda review in the known universe :) thank you

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Thabk god there are people who understand music and are not blinded by uo beat generic boring pop songs

❤ for song end video

Listen to Acoustic version :)

Bravo LILA RAMONDA FOREVER

Great song and story behind it. Thank You for great listening and opinion.

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BerkeleyBerkli u punom sjaju! Ova devojka zna šta radi!

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srecno Teya Dora danas!!! ❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉

She sings lilke Billie Eilish.

I agree about your comment about Hurricane, it has a nice rithm to shake your booty but Teya Dora hits your heart string.😊

Amazing amazing song Ramonda by amazing amazing amazing singer composer songwriter and pianist TEYA DORA ❤️ WINNER of Evrovision 24. ❤ vote 12 points for Serbia🎉 Thanks for very very nice reaction 🙏

I love that she sings on serbian, i love it❤

Pure emotion❤

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Numero uno !!!!

Song name - Ramonda, Lila Ramonda or Purple Ramonda is a very rare flower somewhere in Serbia,and its very beautiful,the magic thing about it is,only one drop water is enough to get to life when the flower die out. The message behind this song is very powerfull,TeyaDora personaly said its a message from Serbia after WW1 when we lost 70 or 80 percent of male population,but we won and Serbia did the reborn after war. She also said that this song can be a motivation for curent depressed people or people who going trough dark times....there is always little bit of hope,only one drop water or light is enough. Cheers from Serbia

Wow. Like her and croatia.❤

So amazing,so arthistic💜🪻💜🪻💜🪻💜🪻💜🪻

Love the reaction! ❤

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Great analysis man..Pure art.... Europe Contests is not just party...we have always some similar songs..tralala tralala...

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Thanks again 👍

Well explained, thank you for sharing from a professional point of view, I think also what’s powerful is the message and the meaning behind Ramonda flower not only for Serbia post war but the whole EU. Greetings from Texas 🙌

Great reaction❤️ Maybe you could do next Slovenian esc song, Veronika by Raiven.

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Thank you sir. You know what you are talking about.

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Teya Dora for the win!!

How the hell is this not in top 10?

Here is the text in English, but I will give you also some insight, so that you can understand. The part of feeling and sensation will be lost In translation, but it should work "I don't have, I don't have, I don't have I have no peace, no sleep Night don't let the day to come It is difficult for the one who is alone Everything is quiet like under water I scream but it is not heard Behind the mountains, a white glow I don't see the end in sight This is the way for the wounded And there is no one to guide me Towards the light of Danica star (Northern star) Everything burns, everything burns; Every flower, every flower Where did the Lila Ramondas go? And there is no one to guide me Because the stars are all asleep Not even prayers help Where did the Lila Ramondas go? ...... It rises from the ashes One lilac ramonda" During WWI, the complete Serbian army was forced to retreat from Serbia, via Albania to Greece, in what was one of the most horrific withdraw in known history, where many died from hunger, illnes and attacks ftom the Albanian gangs. Later. From the coast of Albania, allied ships were transported them to Greece. Some ships were attacked by Germans and a lot of Serbian solders died under the watter. In the Greek island Corfu, Serbian army recovered, but still thousands of them died from exhaustion and illnes. When there were no more empty land to bury the dead on Vido island (where was the Serbian army field hospital located) and Corfu, they were buried in the sea close to Vido island, which is known in Greece and Serbia as the Blue tomb When recovered, Serbian army broke Thessaloniki front line, moving very fast thus leaving allied troops far, far behind while destroying Germans and liberating Serbia. In WWI, Serbia lost almost 1/3 of its population, and 60% of male population Ramonda Serbica and Natalia Ramonda are the flower of lilac (purple) color, that can dry out completely when conditions are bad, and it can resurrect again after a long time with just a few drops of a watter. It is also called the Phoenix flower So I hope that I can help you understand how heavy this song is, but still full of hope The terrible situation in which the Serbs were, but even though it seems that the lilac Ramonda have disappeared (for Serbs, that flower is a symbol of faith in liberation), still one rises from the ashes (faith in the beginning of liberation). On Serbia's liberation day, people are wearing the Ramonda symbol on their dresses. In the official music video for this song, at the very beginning there is a message in English: "The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness can never extinguish it" or in the translation "And the light shines in the darkness and the darkness did not overcome it" which is the text from the Gospel according to John 1:5. It further reinforces the message of the song and indicates the artist's attitude.

I have heard that Lila Ramonda is the plant growing from rocks need just a drop of water to exist. This song is a massage for humanity .

A beautiful song. I am proud that she represents our country.🥰 This year was a strong one,there were MANY amazing songs to choose to sendvto Eurovision. If you are interested Konstrakta sent a song too,it is an episode two after In corpore sano. There were some others too like Zorja "Lik u ogledalu" and Breskvica etc. You could react to them if you want.👀🥰🥳🎇💕

Omg 😍💜🌸🦋

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I would really like to see your reaction to her song "Dzanum"

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Pesma napravljena na isti fazon kao dzanum.....

Do you know her world wide hit dzanum? React to that pls

Next reaction - Nick Thurl end up dead 😍

Hurricane was still great though. The song was in Serbian.

Please react to another master piece from Serbian national final "Lik u ogledalu" by Zorja. She was third but would be deserving winner. You will be surprised by quality singers Serbia has.

Fun fact: song is dedicated to WWI victims

You should react to Zorja and her song"Lik u ogledalu" in Serbian national competition which is also a great song and she have an amazing voice!

you could make a winner so easy,,, why would you skip on that ??

I'm a Serbian, so I'm bias. I probably would have liked it if she was an Albanian.

She sings about Ramonda and her country Serbia committed the biggest crimes in Europe, genocide in Srebrenica in Bosnia, war crimes in Kosovo, Albania, Croatia. Still, after all, their people call war crimes heroes.

I would be in love with this song if it wasn't for the repetitive and meaningless refrain. She lost me there.