Tim: Our reader Mario sends us this, partly because we haven’t previously covered any Croatian music and he wanted to see what we made of it, which is a good a reason as any other. Title translates as “Once again”, and seems to be about them we being worried about falling in love, only to have their heart broken later on.
Tom: Blimey, is the video sponsored by the Croatian tourist board? It looks beautiful. Also, slightly convinced that’s Jason Orange’s Croatian cousin on vocal duties there. Anyway. The music.
Tim: Right, I’m going to preface my next comment by saying: I like this, it’s decent, and I’m fairly sure what I’m about to say says more about me than about the song. However, the first time I heard it I thought “hang on, haven’t I heard this at Eurovision?” As it turns out, the answer’s no, but I can’t shake the feeling that this is a textbook eastern European Eurovision entry.
Tom: Huh. You’re not wrong, but given the dreck that was in last year’s, I think this’d score fairly highly. And that’d explain why it looks like the postcard VT to introduce them.
Tim: Ha, true. But it’s a bit of a shame, because Mario says they got praise for originality, and also autotune-free lyrics (though I can’t help feeling that might have been a mistake with the female vocal coming out of the middle eight).
Tom: What a middle eight, though!
Tim: Well indeed, and for all I’ve said: it’s still a good melody, heathy energy in the chorus, and most of the vocals are on point. A nice discovery.