🇷🇴 Roxen "Amnesia" REACTION | Romania | Eurovision 2021
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- čas přidán 9. 06. 2024
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I react to "Amnesia", Roxen's song which will represent Romania in Eurovision 2021.
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:22 Romania in eurovision
2:17 Music Video Reaction
5:22 1st Thoughts
7:27 2nd Listen and thoughts
11:28 Will this qualify?
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It’s my winner so far, she’s really telling us a story , I hope she can do the same staging.
She's not a star.
She's an entire spiral galaxy of cosmic vibes and deep space echoes
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Romania are quickly becoming one of my favourite Eurovision counties this has a chance at winning I'm telling you now we will get a new winner this year
yea id really love that. It was like that last year as well - Lithuania, Iceland, Bulgaria, Romania.
@@ESCTom wouldn't mind a 6th win for a certain country tho 😏 we are coming for you Ireland 😂
@@alexhodder4129 which?
This year Romania brings really fantastic song with deep meaning
ROMANIA WINNER😍🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
This song is the winner
She was in my top 3 last year and already she's in my Top 5 and probably going to rise up... The song like you say has no defining moment but is highly consistent all the way through. Good job Roxen and Romania
very much looking forward to her album after Eurovision is done
One of my favorite this year amazing
Omg.....he's done it again Tom.........
Goosebumps....🇨🇭🇨🇭🇨🇭🇨🇭
It's GORGEOUS!! Oh my Switzerland!
@@leendertjanw7540 fantastic song👏👏
such an amazing song honestly. Roxen is seriously one of my favourite artists in esc (i jammed to Wonderland way too much at this point) and Amnesia still proves that she is talented af. so far, its been a really strong year tbh even if you dont count San Marinos sudden but good bop.
im guessing you will react to Belarus soon but tbh i expect the worst of the worst from you here. so far, every reaction channel has been negative to Belarus and with good reason too.
Romania winner 12
Incredibile number 1 ROMANIA
So far, this is my favorite song this year
It was my number 1, but it was just unseated last night
@@ESCTom Haha I was just thinking the same!
The best romanian artist ROXEN.. Nice voice, nice lirics,
AMAZING ROXEN!!!
I hope u win EUROVISION!!!! 🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴
Well this is my biggest grower so far my number 2 at the moment.
I feel that song and the video tell us a story as whole. It needs to work on the same level on stage and preformed live and if it does I think we have a winner.
The song itself is strong enough for me, but i agree that the staging needs to be as good as the visuals in the music video for this to be competitive
Thank you for this reaction !
This song is very deep visual one and lyrics too !
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I really didn’t enjoy last years entry but this is one of my favourites so far! The odds do surprise me a bit, but I think the odds of most songs are a bit off this year for some reason. As for Belarus’s song being out.... I think it’s best to ignore, for musical and moral reasons.
I was wondering when will you react to Romania's entry :D. Loved your reaction!!!! I am not sure if she's gonna bring us the winning points, but the message of the song is worth spreading after this past year's events. Fingers crossed for Roxen from Romania!!!!
Yea she mightnt win, but even top 5/10 nowadays is enough to get a lot of attention and give her career a big boost
This is kind of song that is better at each new hearing
1st time you hear it you think - oo yup this is good
2nd time you hear it -- this is really good
3rd time you hear it - you download it and burn to hear every day in car on the way to job ;)
For me this is by far best song of ESC 2021
I'm happy that you are just as impressed as I am. Indeed, at first you think that there's no real standout moment, but this song just really gets under my skin. I love her voice and her charisma, and I think this song suits her better than Alcohol you (which I also really liked). And visually it's really awesome.
I also love the lyric "self love amnesia". Its really cute and sounds authentic to her.
I find it amazing how you literally showcased all my thoughts about this ESC Roxen experience from last year to now.
This is a song that you want to listen again.
There are are many songs that catch your attention but can't keep listening it again.
Winner
I totally get that there was a comparison between Roxen and Victoria last year. What this 12 months has shown me in growth between these two is immeasurable. Victoria feels like a one-trick pony to me, a whimsical darkness, while Roxen seems to have developed into a really mature artist, mature beyond her years. I have to ask myself, who would I watch in concert? Seriously, Viktoria would send me to sleep after an hour... Roxen, I would just be waiting to see what comes next. Amnesia gets the vote for me this year.
gosh yea i got those 1 trick pony vibes when i was watching viktoria, but i kinda love her so didnt have the heart to say it outright.
i still wanna watch her concert though, cos i think shes quite good live
it is the underdog and I love that song!
Wow! Such a complete set of comms. Thanks ! Fingers crossed to Roxen
I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one who thinks Ester was robbed in 2019 😭💔 Sure, it wasn't a winner, but it deserved better!
She was my number 2 most played in that whole season!
Victor Bouroșu (Viky Red) also wrote and produced "Alcohol You"
aaaaaa that makes sense! so strange that he was listed as Viky Red on their 2020 page, but victor on the 2021 one. Also I presumed Viky Red was a girl as Viky is a girl's name in anglophone countries.
Victor Red Ox :))
I really like this, atm this is in my top 3, the staging I think could be replicated, just with less people. Very strong, love the video, love the song. I just think it sounds like а proper song this year, I liked alcohol you but parts of that song felt awkward to me and a incomplete. I think and hope it will do well.
yea i wasnt actually as big a fan of Alcohol You as a final entry. As part of an EP it was awesome, but it wasnt a lead single to me. This sounds like a lead single
The quality of the visuals in this gives me a lot of hope for her live performance
Best reaction ever ever Romania 🇷🇴
My favorite this year!Nr 1❤❤❤Love from Greece!
Yeah, I agree with everything you said, I just love the dancers in the video and dancing routine, their commitment to the performance - especially that part where they act like a single body - it gives me the goosebumps!
yea it SO easily could have fallen flat, but they kept the commitment necessary to hold the performance up
Baftă Roxen!
That voice man ....give me awesome vibes.
Roxen has a lot of superb songs.
Video is natural and i hope she win.
Listen to her other songs to see that she deserve to win.
It's fabulous.
Much LOVE for Roxen.
Nice video man. GJ + Big like
Last year as you know I couldn't stand her at all, hated all her songs, alcohol you I found downright disturbing, and her attitude but this year I'm really liking this.
She's absolutely beautiful in this, love the faerie/anime look, navy blue characters have always been my favourites (did you notice she had navy blue lenses), love her styling too, the song is coherent, her voice is fantastic, the video is AMAZING, best video this year.
I agree that it doesn't have anything standout but it draws you in. And yes she has grown up.
Amazingly enough I still have it in 7th place and it's really not my style or generation.
I can see why the odds are high, they are winning odds, not placing odds, and it's too niche to win (it might have won in 2010 but the standard is now much much higher) but she deserves to qualify.
Ps: I LOVED Ester Peony, my god she was robbed
yep agree that this is the best video so far this year that ive seen.
Yea good point about the odds. Will be interesting to see the top 10 odds that usually come out a month before the show, she'll definitely have better odds in those.
I loved Ester too, that song was my number 2 most played in the whole season. (Cue John coming in to tell us that its awful😂)
I love this video, it's thought provoking and abstract but you still connect with it. It is the opposite of Voilà, where I didn't understand the video, and the video felt very snobby... Like it knew I wasn't smart enough to get it ahahahaha. I will say this video, and Roxen's star quality reminds me A LOT of Loreen ❤️❤️❤️ maybe we'll get staging like Euphoria? ☺️
i think she might be a little too young to pull off as something as difficult as Euphoria, but she definitely has some stand out moments in this. as i said above, i LOVE her taunting the crowd of people, that visual is just fabulous. she cant definitely pull something like that off.
12p Roxen♥️
Hey Tom, Can't wait to your reaction to this year's Switzerland's song! 😆🇨🇭♥️ Another Masterpiece from Gjon! You reaction to last year's one was the best! Oh, and this powerful beautifull song of Romania is my third! 🇷🇴😆
just uploading now😊
Romania ftw♥️
Wonderful song 👌❤️
WINNER
Victor Bourosu is actually Viky Red the composer and producer of last year song.
It's better than last year's entry. Less depressing. I also prefer her styling. But I don't like "modern" being used as a positive. It needs to be good above all else.
Europe, stop voting for geopolitical sympathy, vote for the real value of a song, of a performer.Please, vote for her, ROXEN - Amnesia, a perfect voice, a perfect melody!
Can't wait to see you reacting to Switzerland😆
uploading now :)
@@ESCTom I am so ready🥳
Loved her last year, love her even more this year. The only tiny tiny problem I have is that I can barely understand her. Is it just me ? But apart from that wow. Not sure how people can prefer all the generic pop and high school rock over this but oh well.
nah its not just you, i picked up on very very few of the lyrics on first listen. i get more of them now, but ive listened to it like 20 times.
Waiting for your reaction to Switzerland's entry!
uploading now
@@ESCTom on my way to watch it! 😁
I'm perhaps a BIT lower on this than many others (Still in my top 8) but regardless Romania continues to deliver. Honestly I'm just glad that a bunch of songs I like have come out here at the end because I was getting worried that I was going to end up only liking 5 songs after the disappointment that was the Portuguese, Danish and Estonian selections. I've got 8 now and I'm banking on Iceland, Malta and Azerbaijan to bring it as well.
Side note but I'm sure you've heard about the Byelorussian entry by now. You'll want to look up those lyrics if you react, or at least check them if you have already seen it. They're an important component to the aforementioned public reaction. You might not even want to react given the whole ordeal, but just a heads up.
omg I 100% relate. Every year when I make my top 10, I always scour my brain for what is an automatic qualifier into that top 10, and i only really had 2 - finland and Lithuania.
That weekend with Denmark, POrtugal and Estonia will go down in my history as the weakest selection day in the history of Eurovision - i literally couldnt care less about any of those songs, they are meaningless to me. Im up to 5 now, but i havent heard Belgium, Moldova, Netherlands, Greece, Bulgarias revamp, Iceland, Malta. So im PRAYING this year will have an overloaded amount of top 10 candidates. Last year I only had 6 - as most of them died in the national finals.
Tom you wil give a vote from Romania on the final :?
I cant vote from China, but ill ask my Mum to do it for me😊
I do prefer last year, but this is good.
I felt she was VERY overrated last year. I really didn't like nor get the hype for 'Alcohol You', but I much preferred a few of the others that she put forward like 'Cherry Red'. That said, she's come back this year with a great song and I'm quite enjoying it.
Her vocals at time can be a tad sharp, so I'm hoping that it's just the studio edit and not the way she sings live. I'll have to watch the live performance to see how she sounds, but its looking very promising for Romania!
lol youve been reading my diary. I loved Cherry Red but i thought Alcohol You was too pretentious and they were too in love with that pun. It was my 3rd-4th choice last year.
I prefer this much more. I still stand that of the 6, this is my number 1
@@ESCTom its definitely in my top 10 so far. I love the beat, the gentle lilting melody that has a dark undertone to it. It really does evoke the feeling of helplessness but without it being depressing (Unlike Victoria).
Those small synths and the bumpy beats that are subtle in the background are absolutely perfect and really help the song to flow along and it keeps things interesting.
This year to me seems so much weaker in the material that's being put forward for Eurovision, but that will work in the favour of acts like Roxen. She will finish top 10........actually, im calling top 5!
The fight with her inner demons. Last year she was badly beaten by her ex-boyfriend with a broomstick
Roxen:
"Thank you to everyone who understood me, you were always with me and respected my personal life. Indeed, I went through an unpleasant moment, from which I learned a lot. The important thing is that I am well and I think that's what matters right now. The steps I took when this problem came into my life I took with confidence in what I want to do and I'm not going to give back. I take all my decisions, I have not returned to them and I will not return to them, I have seen all kinds of materials and articles in the press on this subject these days, and many of them have no real basis, on the contrary. also statements that have nothing to do with reality No, I do not want a reconciliation with my ex-boyfriend, I do not want to withdraw my complaint when I was blackmailed, emotionally abused I wouldn't have a reason to do that, even if I were to further filed, and after filing the complaint. I think it is very important that anyone who goes through such an episode to take action, to have the courage to say "stop" and not be overwhelmed by possible blackmail or manipulation. That being said, what happened is strictly my private life and I do not want to continue with this topic. I know very well what happened, why I had to file a complaint and how much evidence there is."
wow thats crazy. didnt realise there was all that dark stuff behind the song
Roxen is a charismatic artist - no doubt about that. The song, however, is not winning material. It's top ten material, yes, but not as strong and as unique as Alcohol you. Again, we have a dark, solid, contemporary composition, but it's not as deep as last year. This song is quite flat, easy to get lost among the extravaganza, the melodrama, the experimental nature of other Eurovision entries. It is a decent effort, but it doesn't have signature character. To the disadvantages, we should also add the similarity to Victoria's style from Bulgaria (and the dangerous similarity of both of them to Billie Eilish - let's be honest). Romania will definitely qualify, but winning?????? I can REASSURE YOU it will not happen. Not this year, not with this song. Last year, she would have had more chances.
yea i totally get what you mean. i think they will get LOADS of 4,5,6,7,8 points from jurors and televote, but i dont think it will get too many 10 and 12. and really you cant win without those. it seems safe to be in the top 10, but unlikely for top 3
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Hmmmmmm!.....there are so many aspects of this i should like......but i don't. Sorry!!
No disrespect to anyone going through mental distress in anyway but I'm getting a bit bored with angst-ridden young girls. (Looking at you Montaigne and unless its going to be "Imaginary Friend" and you VICTORIA)........In all years, i need to be cheered up.....
I won't be completely negative. Lyrically, i find this a lot more accessible than "Alcohol You".......that "fake news" lyric was just horrible!
Will this qualify....probably
Will i download this......NO!
Wish Romania well though. At least it isn't MIHAI!!🙈🙈
PS. Switzerland just dropped...so excited to hear this!
omg lol poor Mihai, you just know that hes sitting in the corner of his living room rocking back and forth with a big shaggy beard, WAITING for the next submission opening for Romania's song.
Yea this is way better lyrically, i actually love the "self love amnesia" lyric - its lightyears better than that AWFUL fake news one. I totally get what you mean about sadgirls. I think it probably feels more inflated though because Victoria literally had 6 sad girl songs though. I feel a lot of countries were conscious about not sending something sad this year, given the global situation, as it feels like we have more happy bops that usual this year.
Wow this song does have great production value and choreography, interesting synth sounds. But its a safe song. Not a winner...
I disagree. It is the safest to assume winner from all the songs I've heard so far.
@@playtoyappz heh we all have our own personal preferences. For me if you listen to the song by itself it's alright. It just doesn't have an impact for me. It's like when you're leaving the cinema and they have the music for the credits, this kinda reminds me of that. It doesn't stand out as much as I'd like.
I agree it isn't a winner but it isn't a safe song at all. It's quite risky and artistic actually. Something I'd expect from Romania.
i can see what youre saying Johan, it doesnt have that big moment that eurovision top 5 songs tend to have. But it also might stand out a little for that exact reason as well
This contest has fallen a lot, it can be seen from the proposed pieces that are known to come with an order from the EU, that is, a certain idiology ... a certain imposed musical pattern. The most obvious last moment was that of Laura Bretan who supported a certain cause for her country and was fraudulently deducted by the jury of this contest ... such a thing is not forgotten! I'm sure other countries have suffered similar injustices ... so I don't think it will be a fair vote.
I think I'm in the minority, but I'm not really digging this. Her voice, the lyrics, the production quality and the background bits are great, but the backbone of the song is really weak. No interesting build, not a great melody and no climax to save it.
While I understand why people love it, it lacks memorability in my eyes. You'll remember her, the performance, but not the music.
To me, it's great background music, but not a great song. Much preferred last year's 5 songs.
With some artistic staging it can really do well at Eurovision I would say.
I have to agree with you. It's a song that grows on you after a few listens, and it has actually been stuck in my head for the past hour haha, but it lacks a climax, like you said. It could definitely stick out more with a great performance and great staging, but then again... it's a song contest. I don't know about you, but I'd prefer a great song with minimal staging to win over an OK song with good staging, if you know what I'm saying? I mean this song is great, I just don't think it's great enough in itself to win, or to deserve to win 😅
Iris, i get what you mean. last year it felt like some songs "tricked" me into thinking the song was better than it was with epic visuals - greece, azerbaijan, serbia etc.
But then there are songs like "My lucky day" by Moldova 2019, where the staging made me look at the song in a new light and changed my interpretation of the song, without changing the song itself. I ended up listening to that song 40-50 times after the performance because of that new interpretation. Without their stage show, i wouldnt even have downloaded it.
@@ESCTom Haha yeah, there are a lot of sneaky producers out there who know exactly how to stage a performance to make people like the song better 😅 The songs you mentioned there were actually pretty good though, and I don't think there's any problem with using good staging and great visuals to ENHANCE an already good/great song! Like Fuego 2018. I already loved the song before the show, but after Eleni's performance... WOAH. Climbed right up to my number one! Absolutely fantastic! La Forza 2018 as well! And let's not forget Verka Serduchka 🤣 But when the song is just meh, but they spend their budget on cool visuals to win people over... Well, that's a bit unfair to the artists who put everything into their song. Like Lejla in 2006, that's still one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard in Eurovision, and I'm not trying to discredit Lordi because HRH was a great song too, but... aaahhh, it was a tie for me between those two. Sometimes I feel like Lejla should have won 😭But I am half Bosnian, so I'm a little biased I guess 😂