I feel I really need to post about my favorite TV show in my musician blog, because it has been a very crazy and awesome week. First I gotta explain about my probably stupid tradition, but at least I have 1; every year I make covers of my favorite Eurovision songs no matter in which language the song has been composed, for those friends who are not in Europe, Eurovision is maybe the biggest music festival I have seen, because every country in Europe sends a song to a big LIVE performance festival, the contest itself is a very professional event, that looks great on TV and it takes part on spring, every year. Like I said, every year I make covers for my favorites in show of support from so far, and this year I had quite a lot of favorites, it was a good year in my opinion, so I wanted to do something special. There was a song that was driving me crazy, I wanted to sing it so much, that much that I learned it on guitar, but the original singer's voice was so intimidating to me,that I tried to resist my "impulse of stupidity" I felt I couldn't deal with the song, you gotta hear that song! Then, the Saturday before the Eurovision grand final, I just had a horrible day at school, believe me it was terrible, I came home frustrated, and then I was recording some songs at home just to distract myself from that frustration and yeah, my impulse of stupidity just became stronger and because of the feelings of that particular song, combined with my mood, I started recording it at home. I was not sure if it was good enough to publish it, I was so nervous so I kept the cover to myself, but then a friend from the Balkans who already heard another cover I made the day before heard my supposedly called attempt of cover and he really liked it that much that he told me to put it on YT or somewhere. He is also from that region of Europe, he said it was good enough to try, that same moment we were talking, the other cover I recorded was posted on the original singer's Facebook page, published by Nina Badric herself! Big thank you Nina, love you! I was so happy, my gloomy mood was changing a bit, so I decided to listen to my friend and uploaded a quick video for the other song I was so nervous about, just a picture of both, Kaliopi and me with the audio track on YouTube. Then it happened, comments were arriving per minute, and I thought it was just for friends to have a laugh at my attempt, oh no, the video became my most watched video ever on YouTube, didn't sleep that night, it reached 25000 views in only 1 day. It was showed in many websites in Macedonia, couldn't believe all the feedback, it was that special to me that I made a second video, just to tell them a huge thank you for everything, and as I also knew the song on guitar and I read that somebody was looking for a LIVE performance of it, then I played acoustic on the second video, and again the press caught me. I didn't sleep for 2 days in a row, days before the Grand Final, I answered for 2 interviews for different websites and newspapers, and I think I also got a message from Kaliopi herself, I am still not sure if it was her 'cause she was very busy, but it was her official account on YT, so I don't know, but I was so happy, if it was her, then it was a very beautiful thing. Macedonians have been very kind to me and they also jumped to listen to my own music, this really means to me, so once again big, huge thank you to all of you, Croatians, Italians, Macedonians, Serbians, French, Hungarians, Finnish, Estonians and all of you who have noticed about my yearly tradition, don't know what to say I really appreciate this. And here are the covers!! again, it was a crazy and awesome week, thank you people, you're the best!
And what about the show itself? Oh! I watched semi finals on internet, thanks to friends who gave me good links with no delay, watched with my grandmother, I wish I have recorded us on video, we were dancing along with Russian grannies and Moldova's performances, well I was singing with almost every song. And I didn't like the winner but it was all predictable since before the contest started so I don't really care about who won. The event itself was very cool this year, had a great time at home watching it. Love. Tara. |
AuthorTara Wills, singer-songwriter from Panama city, Panama, first EP titled "Challenge". Archives
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