Suus
December 29, 2011
- 5th place at Euro Vision Song Contest 2012
Suu (Latin for personal) is a song by Kosovar singer Rona Nishliu. On 29 December 2011, it was chosen as part of the Albanian preliminary decision at the 50th Festivali i Këngës as Albanian contribution to the Euro Vision Song Contest 2012, held in Baku in May. The lyrics are written in Albanian.
Background and development
When Suu is a " particularly in the chorus plaintive ballad", a dirge. Nishliu explained that the song was based on personal experiences. It handle of difficult times and that there is always a way out of problems that you have to find.
Preparations for the ESC
The presented during Festivali i Këngës version has a length of nearly four and a half minutes. For the Euro Vision Song Contest, it had to be shortened to three minutes. In contrast to 26 of the 42 participants Rona Nishliu sang the song in the competition is not in English, as the original language is most effective in their view. They also produced a jazz version of the song with English text.
At the Eurovision Song Contest in Baku
In the first semifinal on May 22, at the occurred 18 countries, Albania reached 146 points, second place and qualified for the finals so with Suu May 26, 2012 The song was controversial among observers of the festival. Many acknowledged the vocal and musical qualities of the lecture, the others had trouble with the mournful, high-pitched vocals.
" The morning will not get anything as hopeless hope and madness ', she sang and screamed so shrilly that many Song Contest - seer nor the next day told that they had so much Nice of many nations heard, but these Albanian was really too bad been ... "
In the finale on May 26, Rona Nishliu got 146 points and thus finished fifth out of 26 seats. So you achieved the best result for Albania, since the country had its first representative Anjeza Shahini sent in 2004 with The Image of You. Shahini occupied at the time the 7th Place.
Others
RTSH dropped the official version of the song in studios in Los Angeles to record. It also a music video was produced.