Wiwi was horrified to read accusations in Britain’s Daily Mail that Elena was lip-synching during the final. The paper speculates that the extraneous woman standing stage left was actually providing lead vocals. It’s true that there was a lady standing near the LCD screen. But Wiwi thinks the claim is absolutely ridiculous. We’ve all heard Elena’s voice and it would have been really obvious if she hadn’t sung her part. A non-dancing back-up singer was necessary given how much moving Elena and her fellow Balkan Girls did. Wiwi assumes that this mystery woman provides the low voice that comes on during the song’s break before the final refrain. And having a non-dancing singer is perfectly within the rules.
Here’s what the Daily Mail says:
As the scantily-clad women performed, a lone figure was seen in the shadows, but Romania insisted she was simply a backing singer.
This speculation was fuelled by Norton who revealed competition rules state all performers must be present on stage, but that the rules said nothing about whether others could mime.
However Romania’s performance sparked speculation that the foxy lead singer could have been lip-syncing.
Elena has already rejected the accusation. “The allegations are ridiculous,” she told Romania’s Gandel. And Dan Manoliu, the chief of the Romanian Eurovision delegation, turned the insult into a compliment. He joked that Elena must have sung really well to convince people she was lip-synching.Â
[Thanks to Ramona for pointing this drama out to Wiwi, and to "usrboss" for informing Wiwi that Elena had responded].
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ELENA AND HER DANCERS WAS THE BEST.BRAVO YOU DID A GREAT JOB.THE BALKAN GIRLS WAS A VERY WONDERFUL SONG AND THEIR DANCE WAS ROCK. WE LOVE AND SEND YOU MANY KISSES.
When someone is so good like Elena was you have to criticing her somehow! That’s what happened with Elena too!!! She is our pride, because on stage she was absolutely brilliant! British people should know better than anyone that you are not allowed with playback in Eurovision! And Graham Norton should apologise for everything what he said!
in the rehearsals we can see better how she really sings…
poor Elena…but there is a good thing-> she sang so good that “Norton” believed that is was play-back,and this isn’t allowed at esc.Not Lucia Dumitrescu was singing,only a part of the song..this confirm that he isn’t a professionist. I am agree with you.
The Good face is that can be considerated as… publicity, a gartuite one! Elena must profite from the moment to lunch the song in UK.
that’s malicious and utterly disgusting…the backing vocal’s name is Lucia Dumitrescu a gifted nd talented young women who’s voice is more like complementary and not identical with Elena’s voice, thing oh so obvious for those who have ears..Elena has a great voice of her own and she is used to dancing SALSA while singing it too in hours-long concerts..this is partially why she could dance like that and her voice was still so fresh..another part of it is the hard work she puts in and her passion for music..some private television in Romania invited lucia who sang a capella for everyone to her how her voice looks like….i’d call it envy..lame…
yeah alexiedu, it’s quite unprofessional but as far as i know, daily mail is a tabloid … focused on scandal… so i understand how comes. but not the Daily Mail is to blame, but BBc, unfortunately.
Unbelievable what Daily Mail Uk wrote !!!
Hi Wiwi. The russians officials confirmed that was no playback during the routine. The Romanian officials confirmed that the lady from behind is a backing vocal. Elena annouced this evening on TV that the newspaper will accused, and the lawyer will decide was are the charges from the romanain point of view. Ooops!
That’s really unpleasant how they attacked Romania while 60% of the live performances were “spiced” with backing vocals that weren’t shoot on TV (Russia, for example, used 5 backing vocal… have you seen any on the live show?).
PS: there’s no mystery on the “back-up” singer. I’m glad that Elena will prosecute BBC.