Unbreakable (Sinplus song)
October 1, 2011
Unbreakable (German Indestructible ) is an English song of the Swiss band Sinplus of their debut album Disinformation.
Euro Vision Song Contest
Unbreakable was registered in September 2011 on the video platform on Swiss television, at the same time it still took part in the French-speaking and Italian-speaking selection to Euro Vision Song Contest 2012. The latter took place on 8 November, and next to the singer Chiara Dubey the song for the Big Show was selected decision. Although prior to Lys Assia ( winner of the first Euro Vision Song Contest in 1956 ) was traded with their contribution C'était ma vie as the favorite to ultimately Unbreakable sat with 17.87 % of the calls through to the 13 competitors. In addition to the regular cast of the musical group Sinplus additionally joined Lisa Panigada on bass. You should increase the band the Euro Vision Song Contest. When Euro Vision Song Contest, which took place in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, Switzerland joined in the first semifinal on May 22, 2012, but failed to qualify for the final. Unbreakable finished in eleventh place with 45 points, seven points behind the tenth place, which would have meant qualification for the finals.
Unbreakable is the 52nd contribution of Switzerland to Euro Vision Song Contest and the eighth English-language song in the country. With Sinplus an artist from the Italian part of Switzerland were for the first time since 2008 is selected, and a total of eleven times. There also are those who post, who was elected as the first for the Euro Vision Song Contest 2012.
Content
The song is about someone who is swimming against the stream and follows his dreams and everything succeeds because it is unbreakable. In Unbreakable is about a person who can do anything they want, no matter how difficult it is. It will do so by a narrator, to swim against the current and to follow their wildest dream. Through the song Sinplus wanted a " strong, direct and simple message that goes to the heart of the people " ( Ivan Broggini ) express. The message of the song is positive and clear and perfect for the occasion.
Criticism
The expert group, consisting of Carlos Leal, Stämpf and Nik Hartmann, as well as the singer and last year's Representative Anna Rossinelli reviewed the song positively, such as "extremely refreshing ." By contrast, the German ESC Blogger Jan Feddersen criticized, Unbreakable was "20 years behind everything that is current ," as well as their appearance, the " nothing really Outstanding, exciting or interesting " anhafte, and predicted the song would not be for the ESC finals qualify.