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"Do we really need any comments for this one? Amazing. It’s in for the win…let’s see what Sergey brings."
"By second hearing I was absolutely sold. This modern ballad will stand out amongst the competition and is jury gold. I can see a decent measure of televote support too.
It puts me in mind of Beautiful Mess and they need the same type of modern staging that can hopefully capture the dark and melancholic mood of the song.
Top 5 contender."
"Oozes class. Parallels with Beautiful Mess very apposite. Love the instrumental entry and close. It’s a song with many distinct layers in only three minutes. Serious contender."
"This is the only entry so far that has immediately given me winner vibes and its a credit to Duncan and the Netherlands that one of the only other songs I’ve heard all season that’s on that level is the “I miss you” demo. This guy is good.
In my opinion, it takes a good minute to really kick in but once it does it is excellent, solid, interesting lyrics, strong memorable hook, it might not be anything new or original, but it is done to a very high standard. This also looks strong on both sides of jury and televote too, whereas everything else so far has trouble.
It shouldn’t be too hard to stage this, keep it simple and focus on him. Not many songs to go now, Netherlands the one to beat."
"Now you’re talking Gav 🙂 Though I would easily have Televote appeal at 4 nearly 5 stars.
This song is SO FAR ahead of chosen entries thus far it is quite stark.
Multi layered (hi Mark); superb builds, lifts, drops and emotional climax(es).
So beautiful the human heart – broken in all its pieces by that terrible love that we all have to meet and go through at some point.
This is winning both Jury and Tele at mo and we’ll need to see something VERY VERY special to beat it.
Am absolutely gobsmacked at its beauty. With Ilse mentoring him (duettist on NL 2nd Calm After The Storm) staging input and ideas should be excellent and impactful.
Feel somewhat in a daze as until now – near the very end of the selections – that Wow! song was missing. No longer."