Croatia 1999

Let’s proceed with something not so simple – Croatia 1999! From my point of view, it’s insane to have 24 songs in one contest – far too long, and this was not even such a good final. A lot of boring ballads. But still, Croatia is one of my favourite countries, both national and international. A lot of the artists compete in several finals, and I’m lucky to have quite a few of them in my mp3-collection. They were a bit of a disappointment in 2007, so I hope they will return to their usual standards this year. My points to the left. Note that we have broken the golden ESC-rules by giving also 9 and 11 points, and even added up to 5 minus-points to the songs we dislike the most!

1 Miris ljubavi/ Teens 8p, 7p
(1990 called, they would like to get their shirts back)
2 Da zora zna /Kristina -4p (mine)
(boring ballad)
3 Samo ti / Alen Nizetic -3p, -4p
(boring man-ballad)
4 Samo neba zna / Andy -2p (mine)
(boring duet-ballad)
5 Kad prestane kisa / En Face 11p (my partner’s)
(boring rock)
6 Dobro mi dosla ljubavi / Giuliano 5p, 12p
(OK dance)
7 San / Josip Katalenic 9p (mine)
(A lesbian man???)
8 Kraljica noci / Nikita 11p, 8p
(Opera-rock-r’n’b?? Nice, but bad singing)
9 Kasno je / Magazin -5p (mine)
(Strange hair. Ugly ballad)
10 Jos jednom / Sanja Lukanovic -5p (my partner’s)
(Boooooring ballad!)
11 Cijeli svijet je izmedu nas / Turbo X 1p, 3p
(A little nicer ballad)
12 Nisam te vrijedan / Goran Karan 1p (my partner’s)
(Kind of blues-ballad)
13 Uzalud / Joy 6p, 2p
(Funky rock, OK, but a bit out of tune)
14 Lako je reci zbogom / Mandi -2p (my partner’s)
(Boring ballad)
15 Ja sam tvoja zena / Marina Tomasevic
(black glitter-costume. Cool, very ESC!)
16 Jos jedno jutro budi se / Dani Stipanicev
(Boring man-ballad)
17 Dajte ljubavi / Branka Bliznac 7p, 6p(sounds like a theme from a TV-show for children)
18 Jednom u zivotu / Zrinka -3p (my partner’s)
(Boring woman-ballad)
19 Nije te briga / Zorana Siljeg 10p, 10p
(folk-music kind of rock, nice)
20 I kako sada ici dalje / Renata Sabljak 4p, -1p(Good ballad????)
21 Marija Magdalena / Doris 12p, 9p(Good)
22 Mama Marija / Mladen Grdovic 2p (mine)(Old-fashioned, bombastic singing)
23 U ponoc pozvoni / Minea 3p, 5p
(Cute. Minea has better songs, though)
24 Ljubav jedne zene / Petar Graso -1p, 4p
(Boring man!)