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The Netherlands, *now* I understand it.
Perhaps I needed to see S10 sing this live because at the start of this whole thing I really, REALLY didn’t understand the hype about this song.
I do now, though. I have, through the medium of a dark stage and a backlit performance, seen the light… as it were. This is beautifully shot from the start, something which some of the other songs today have not been. S10 literally stands and sings the song at me and it is strangely engaging.
It drew me in from the first second I saw it live and I could not take my eyes and ears off the song. According to the cuepilot camera directing thingummy in the first 2:30 there are only 25 camera shots and the lack of cutting away really helps you to focus the mind on what S10 is singing but it doesn’t matter that its in Dutch, in the same way that Barbara Pravi was in French last year. It has a *something* – call it television magic if you will, but the trick of keeping her in the forefront of the shot at all times is a powerful televisual story that will make people have a connection with her and that is vitally important.
The road to Damascus definitely went through Hilversum for me.
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