The opening lines are cringeingly bad.
#I was born in a distant 1980
The year the Irish Johnny Logan won#
Congratulations, you're 32.
#Now he's old, you know, still kind of famous#
In a way, I suspect, that you never will be.
I've already said that comedy entries have passed their peak. This is a semi-comedy entry, I suppose. It's a song about wanting to be a Eurovision winner, and being famous from it. Kudos for a lack of Abba references, but Mick Jagger references are sooooooo last year!
Songs actually about winning the Eurovision never do well. Comedy entries are notable for being really over-the-top and ridiculous. This one, perhaps sensing the shifting tide, is a bit modestly silly. It starts with her as some sort of of naive country girl outfit and then !!!!!OBVIOUS COSTUME CHANGE ALERT!!!! changing into a long black skirt. It doesn't work. To me, the overall affect is, whatever! If you're singing a song about how you're going to win the Eurovision and you're going to be really famouse you need to do it in a really extravagant, brash and cocky manner. You need to be Silvia Night, Dustin, LT United. Anmary looks like someone who doesn't want to seem completely ridiculous. Look at her sexy-girl styling in the semi-final. It defeats the purpose, somewhat.
I kinda nicked your "congratulations for being 32" line about Latvia for my video, hope you don't mind...
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You're more than welcome to check out/plug the rest of my ESC 2012 review :)