Suus

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Suus
Rona Nishliu
publication December 29, 2011
length Original: 4:15,
official version: 3:11
Genre (s) Lament , jazz
text Rona Nishliu
music Florent Boshnjaku
Award (s) * 1st prize at the 50th Festivali i Këngës

Suus ( Latin for personal ) is a song by the Kosovar singer Rona Nishliu . On December 29, 2011, it was chosen as part of the Albanian preliminary decision at the 50th Festivali i Këngës as the Albanian contribution to the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 , which took place in Baku in May . The lyrics are in Albanian .

Background and origin

When Suu is a "particularly in the chorus plaintive ballad," a dirge . Nishliu explained that the song was based on personal experiences. It is about difficult times and that there is always a way out of problems that has to be found.

Preparations for the Eurovision Song Contest

The version presented at the Festivali i Këngës is just under four and a half minutes in length. For the Eurovision Song Contest it had to be shortened to three minutes. In contrast to 26 of the 42 participants, Rona Nishliu did not sing the song in English in the competition because the original language was the most effective in her opinion. She also produced a jazz version of the song with English lyrics.

Eurovision Song Contest in Baku

Rona Nishliu on stage at the semifinals of the Eurovision Song Contest 2012

In the first semi-final on May 22nd, in which 18 countries performed, Albania reached second place with 146 points and qualified with Suus for the final on May 26th 2012. The song was controversial among the festival's observers: many paid tribute to it singing and musical qualities of the performance, the others had trouble with the sad, shrill singing.

“'Tomorrow will bring nothing but hopeless hope and madness,' she sang and shouted, so loud that many song contest viewers said the next day that they had heard a lot of nice things from many nations, but this Albanian was too bad been …"

- Thomas Kramer : in Die Presse (May 23, 2012)

At the final on May 26th, Rona Nishliu got 146 points and thus finished 5th out of a total of 26 places. It achieved the best result for Albania since the country sent its first representative Anjeza Shahini with The Image of You in 2004. Shahini took 7th place at the time.

Others

RTSH had the official version of the song recorded in Los Angeles studios  . A music video was also produced.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rinor Nuhiu: Albania: Rona Nishliu to Baku! In: escdaily.com. December 29, 2011, accessed February 5, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Oliver Lepold: Albania chooses a lamentation ballade from brisk, folklore and fetish: Rona Nishliu goes to Baku. December 29, 2011, accessed December 30, 2011 .
  3. ↑ a b A ballad for Albania. In: Eurovision.de. December 30, 2011, accessed December 30, 2011 .
  4. ↑ a b Interview with Rona Nishliu from Albania on YouTube
  5. ↑ Rona Nishliu: “Suus” - official preview video. In: Windmaschinchen. March 18, 2012, accessed March 23, 2012 .
  6. ↑ Rona Nishliu - Suus (Jazz German version) on YouTube
  7. ↑ a b Thomas Kramer: Song contest semifinals: A lonely cry from Albania. In: The press . May 23, 2012. Retrieved May 25, 2012 .
  8. ↑ a b All results of the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku. (No longer available online.) In: Songcontest.ch. Formerly in the original ; Retrieved May 27, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / songcontest.ch  
  9. ^ Rona Nishliu (Albania). In: esckaz. Retrieved May 25, 2012 .
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