Today, we shall take a look at the Hungarian entry at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. Hungary is sending ByeAlex to sing the song
ByeAlex is going to represent Hungary in Sweden.
“Kedvesem” in twelfth position in the second semi-final on the 16th of May, following Armenia and preceding Norway.
Hungary decided this year to stick with the “A Dal” national final system, presenting the top thirty songs on the 10th of January. The winning song was to be chosen by a 50/50 combination of both the public and a five member jury that included the lead singer of Compacrt Disco, the band that represented the country in Baku the year before. These songs were allocated into heats, where six would qualify from each heat to two semi-finals. There, four songs from each semi-final qualified for the final. The final produced the most unlikely winner; ByeAlex, who wasn’t the fans’ favourite, that was left to Gigi Radics. Anyway, ByeAlex will represent Hungary in Eurovision on the 16th of May.
Reaction to “Kedvesem” has been positive.
“Kedvesem”, which means “My Darling” in English, is a pop/indie song in Hungarian. The lyrics of the song is describing all the perfect things about his partner. According to Alex, his darling “was raised by wolves and dances with dandelions” and “embraces the seven continents; plunges into seas and dances up among the clouds”, and as the chorus begins, Alex says that she’s the only one for him and he knows that she’ll never get lost, she’ll always return to him. As the second verse goes on, Alex talks more of the perfect things his darling does and the final chorus is played until the song is over. Here are fans opinions:
It grew on me, but still not my qualifier, 6/10 – Seth from the Netherlands
If you searched “hipster” in the dictionary, this song should come up, but it’s rather cute 7/10 – Rigmo from Estonia
Oh my god, it’s just….. wow! 10/10 – Sami from Azerbaijan
I like the song, it’s very nice. 9/10 – Jacek from Poland
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