Serbia 2018 • Sanja Ilić & Balkanika - "Nova deca"

from probably one of the worse selections of this year, they still managed to select one of the better songs in there, thank god.

eitherways, I had this song as one of my favourites from the very start when I listened to all 17 entries (which was rather painful), and I am very happy that Serbia saw potential in them as well.
just like Greece, "Nova deca" is really ethnic with it's melody and singing, but it also makes it sound kinda modern, even with all the ethnic elements that could age it back.
the intro starts out very beautifully with a folk-ish singing style, before turning into more "pop" feeling with a male singer coming in. the song later turns more beat-y, and still combines the folk-ish singing and the normal singing style, while still remaining the ethnic, melodic, calm and catchy feeling to it. I would say that this actually works, despite some moments sounding messy, as others have mentioned it.
While I can't say many negative stuff about it, we could have easily received something much worse for Serbia, so this is still a great choice, coming from that selection. Well done, Serbia

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While I am at it, I am very happy to actually see Beovizija have a well credited top 5.

"Nova deca" is already self explained
"Pesma za tebe" might have been a bit boring, but her voice really elevated the song during the performance. I was actually predicting this to be a contender between "Nova deca" as well.
"Pod krosnjom bagrema"s style isn't fit for Eurovision, but I still enjoyed it, and Dusan is still a great singer, so him scoring 3rd was well decided.
"Samo nek se okrece" was definitely something new, with Lord combining Serbian elements together with the genre of Electro-swing, which also shows in the performance. Well produced.
and "Svatovi" itself was definitely trying its way in trying to be modern,but still came through with some people, including me, so a 5th place is a decent placing for this in the end.

The rest can bin themselves for all I care, lol

Its nice, but i'm hoping for it to warm to me

It's already growing on me because of part 1:02-1:34, my first listening was like "WTF is this", but it's already on 24 hours after (I listened it like 20 times). I'd say it has winning potential but... Nice melody overall, text is too short, it's mainly repeating the 1:02-1:34 part. Serbian biggest mistake is not to send Dušan Svilar, mainly first time in 2013 with "Spas", that song would win Eurovision for Serbia again 100%, this year he was decent again and maybe he should have won just because of "Nova deca" has too short text. Another decent song was "Ruža sudbine" performed by Danijel Pavlović and that's all decent of Beovizija 2018. I hope they'll make a glamorous stage performance in Lisbon, because the song has potential.
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It probably needs to grow on me but for now it’s not my cup of tea