Ukraine 2024 • Alyona Alyona & Jerry Heil - "Teresa & Maria"

My top 11 of Vidbir 2024:

1. Melovin - Dreamer
This is an interesting pop song with some oomph.

2. Nahaba - Glass
Honestly the first time she started singing, it was almost a jumpscare.
Back to the song: It's a modern song vocalised by two singers using the White voice. To me that sounds a bit too shrill in this song. Also I findb the song quite creepy lol.

3. Alyona Alyona & Jerry Heil - Teresa & Maria
A song using both traditional elements as well modern urban elements. It does its thing quite good. The girls voices go together well.
After the previous hype of their participation I'm a bit underwhelmed here though.

4. Nazva - Slavic English
A hilarious and very catchy song. It's obviously not meant to be just streamed on Spotify so I'm really looking forward to how it'll be done live.

5. Ziferblat - Place I call home
I'm not too fond of the singers voice. Leaving that aside it's a solid and modern song.

6. Ingret - Keeper
It'd a beautiful ballad and this girl really can sing. That's particularly getting showcased in the traditional part. The thing is: I'm gathering that the song is really emotional, but due to her pronunciation I understand almost nothing although it's supposed to be English.

7. Anka - Palala
A happy and catchy song with some summer vibes going on. What really bothers me are those repeated uh uh moments in the background ...

8. Skylerr - Time is running out
It's an uptempo pop ballad sung in both English and Ukrainian. She also has a beautiful voice, but it's the instrumental I don't like.

9. Yaktak - Lalala
Although it's a fun dance track (albeit a surprisingly slow one), it takes time for me to really get into it.  In fact I needed a second listening ... That may also be because vocally it doesn't really fit. He's holding back too much and that's hindering the song to fully open up (ptinablh the wrong expression, but guess you know what I mean. The amount of Lalala could've been lowered too imho.

10. Drevo - Endless Chain
This entry is rather on the rockish side - wgivh I like just for the variety.
I really don't like the singing style however. It feels like he tries too much and I don't understand him at all.


11. Yagodi - Tsunami
There's too much going on in this song. If it were different is like the song, but right now it's just messy.

I'm overall happy with the NS so far. There are lots if songs in Ukrainian and it includes a good amount (maybe even too much) of traditional sounds.