Welp, this alberm is definitely not another My Everything-sized slayage but it's not surprising that the producers stopped giving her their best when she's so over.
omfg @ the Eurovision song being the 2nd most acclaimed song of the year so far
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We’re all going to talk about that bridge and final chorus, right? The part where this turns from an cold and huddled lament into some sort of psychic channeling of the abraded, raw spirit of every displaced people? “I couldn’t spend my youth there,” they wail, “because you took away our peace.” Jamala’s out-of-nowhere perfect whistle register is a cry out of time.
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Mugham singing — a cultural staple of the peoples of the Eurasian steppe — is the crux of this track’s colossal resonance. According to tradition, mugham is both mournful prayer and lullaby, as it’s transmitted from mother to baby. It serves as a perfect expression of honor to Nazylkhan, Jamala’s ancestor, and it carries her message. She was a Crimean Tatar who lost a child while being deported to Central Asia by Stalin’s USSR in 1944. Jamala’s devastating take on this subject, accompanied by duduk and a beat that feels close to Burial’s Untrue record, or William Orbit’s Ray of Light ethno-explorations, is a breath of fresh air in Eurovision history; a beam of light in a contest so obscured by both understated hostility and aggressive neutrality. This is not politics, it’s a History lesson. It’s the sound of pain, personal and collective, but also of hope. A message to all displaced peoples, that they’ll too be home soon. And now that Crimea is, once again, an occupied territory, “1944” feels twice as powerful.
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Will you guys stop using The Singles Jukebox? Literally anybody can write a review for them. Ezra is probably already registering for the upcoming KP4 era
All of my faves are dead people at this point. Either stan-dead (Gaga, Gwen, Madead) or dead-dead (Prince, Bowie)
