Moldovan Eurovision representative Lidia Isac has unveiled her new video for “Falling Stars” today. Shot in the centre of the Moldovan capital and on a field nearby, the video gives a stellar date twist to the song.
Lidia is watching the news about a scientific discovery with astronomical implications — gravitational waves — when is then approached by an astronaut. Clad in a glittery blue dress with silver boots, Lidia seems poised to follow him to the end of the Universe, down Cosmonauts Street. The two interact with a star balloon, a drone, as well as colourful smoke in different locations around Chisinau and on a nearby field. At the end of the video, on the top of Cosmos (get it?) hotel in Chisinau, Lidia raises her date’s visor to reveal a galaxy instead of an actual face. The mystery deepens!
Lidia’s previous promotional video for “Falling Stars”, released back in February for O melodie pentru Europa 2016, was a more modest studio affair and saw her in wind machine heaven, with glittering little stars falling all around her.
We’re certainly glad that Lidia has found herself a galactic date in time for Stockholm. We wonder if he’s going to join her on the Eurovision stage!
So what do you think about Lidia Isac’s new video for “Falling Stars”? And what do you think about Moldova’s chances of advancing from the First Semi-final with this song?
Moldova will be in the final. Romanian diaspora will support her. Go Lidia! Such a modest girl.
@Sandro: No; but it might be the guy from Kygo’s video “Stole The Show”! 😛
LOL at the video. The beggining and the end make no sense at all. Seems like they had these astronomic ideas and inserted it as they could.
I’d no music video if I just can come up with this.
The fact is that she is performing in the first semi final and its the stronger semi. She won’t have any chanche to go to the final, not even with a amazing performance. The song sounds cheap, but still i like Lidia Isac and respect her music. Wish her goodluck.
atleast they have a very own music video this year unlike last year they just recycled it. the more I listened the more I love her song
Love it
First of all i really like this song, but this version of it sound so different. It almost sounds like they have mix in a bit of auto tune in her voice, which is a shame because Lidia have a great voice. The previous version of the song is so much better, i hope they stick to that instead.
yikessss
i can tell that they tried but it really doesnt make any sense
Poor girl and poo video, that’s all.
@Nicky91
I am from Croatia. And I feel like people might think I am favoring my country this year just because it’s my country. In 2011. I detested our entry and both in 2012. and 2013. Croatian entry was somewhere in the middle of my list. It’s just that Nina is so fantastic, and I genuinely love her song.
Where are you from Nicky?
Ive seen mega nacho platters with less cheese than that video.
Still leaps and bounds above the first preview.vid. Lidia actually looks like the attractive woman she is here instead of a strung out junkie
@Colin
thank you for also liking Croatia and Czech Republic, these 2 are in my current top 3 along with Malta
and where are you from Colin?
@Nicky91 – My favorite is Estonia, closely followed by Croatia, Czech Republic and Iceland. But I wouldn’t mind Malta winning. The song really is different from the rest and in a good way. Ira is also a very good singer.
At least it’s better than Eduard Romanyuta’s “video” last year when they just recycled one of his old music videos lol.
It was RIGHT! The Moldovan Tv just uploaded a crappy quality version. The official ESC version is much better and it sounds the same as the original song does. 🙂
@Colin
for me that’s Ira’s Walk On Water, she isn’t overscreaming the song, like most of the singers do these days, and finally a entry where not only the singer but also a backing singer can have her moment, Molly with her high note 🙂
and Skorpion dancer of course, a awesome dancer, i’ve seen a video where he was teaching Ira some robotic dance moves just for fun 🙂
@georgekirkas
No problem. Thanks 🙂 About the sound difference, it’s my theory anyone. It sounds bit rushed in the recording IMO. Not entirely sure, though. I hope I’m right. 🙂
@Nicky91
Exactly 🙂 🙂 🙂 None of them are in my bottom 5, but neither in top 10.
Lyrics wise, I actually think Moldova has the best ones.
Vocally speaking, it might even be Denmark, however they lyrics are so cheesy.
In the terms of high quality production, it’s Russia.
Yeah, none of them are bad, but not a winner. The winner needs to be a unique song. Maybe neither song is completely 100% unique these days, but at least special and distinguished among it’s peers from ESC.
@Colin
I tend to do the same, I defend underrated songs and I criticize overrated ones! Also, I agree that the countries you just mentioned have sent “typical Eurovision songs” this year and thank you for the explanation, I was worried that the song is ruined with the “new sound”.
@Colin
the countries you mentioned i think the same about it, typical eurovision songs, not bad of course, but you also want something different 🙂
@georgekirkas I agree. I would actually say several of the song would end-up in ‘typical ESC pop song’: Russia, Moldova, Lithuania, Azerbaijan, Denmark and Ireland. I really don’t get why Moldova gets such a hate. It’s actually Lidia’s personality that makes me like this a bit more than I usually would. Also, I noticed that many times I take a defense on the songs that are underrated, even if they are not my favorites. Also, I tend to criticize the overrated songs, even if they are okay. And yes, the song does sound bit different. Not much, though. I have… Read more »
This song is a deep mystery, and the video reflects that quite well I think. The song itself is very odd because without the dance beat, the music and the lyrics are very very sad. I have heard an acoustic cover of this song on YouTube and I was left almost in tears by it. There are hallmarks of Gabriel Alares’ songwriting here, especially in the chorus – the appoggiaturas and descending phrases for “the sky is tumbling/the wildest fire” are followed by some hallmark repeated motifs and repeated notes. It’s undeniable that this is a beautiful song that has… Read more »
@Niki
The song does sound different and I prefer the old version. The new version sounds like this one:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_oe5DTuWLY
Anyway, I hope that she will perform the original in Stockholm!
@Leaf
I agree with you, but the song matters more than the production value and the team behind the artists, so I don’t see the HUGE difference in the odds.
@georgekirkas
I dislike both, but the production value and the team behind Sergey is so much stronger….. So I kinda get the gap between these 2 in the odds.
I don’t get it, its a pretty amateur video.
For me the best music videos for 2016 are: Russia, Malta, Armenia, Croatia & Czech Republic in that order
Didn’t like this at all, the first video is very simple but much better…
I can’t help but laugh when I see in the odds that Russia is 1st and Moldova is almost last… They are very similar songs, I just can’t understand why people love Russia’s song and hate Moldova’s song! It’s ridiculous, both of them are pop songs that one could call dated and cheap (although I disagree). The only difference is that Russia’s song is performed by a man, while Moldova’s song is performed by a woman.
The song sounds different in the new video, doesn’t it? Actually, I do prefer the previous music video and the previous version of the song.
cheap
Is that one of the guys from Who See (Montenegro 2013) ???
@Nicky91
Thank God, I thought that I was crazy!
@georgekirkas
yeah it does sound different 🙂
@Nicky91
Thank you! I will ask you once again: is it only me or does “Falling Stars” sound a little different in this music video?
@georgekirkas
thank you, and yeah you’ve got good taste in music
@Nicky91
Sorry, my previous comment was for you, not for OR.
The simple video is cooler.
Is it possible for a vocal to sound so bad on a studio version….. It was like a voice recording over the music….. I prefered the simpler video.
@OR
I will vote for Croatia, Iceland, Moldova, Armenia and Malta. Did you hear the difference in the song or is it just me?
Could be border line.
@georgekirkas
hi and who will you be voting for in semi final 1?
@Colin
well i think the crowd-pleasing entries are the songs with the most dance-beat, people want to dance to a beat, i think that was the reason Malta didn’t qualify last year, it lacked a good rhythm, too bad because i liked the story in the song 🙂
I’m actually starting to really like Moldovan entry. It is certainly not one of my top favorites of semi 1, but could be a borderline qualifier. Lidia is so beautiful and the video is interesting. Little confusing, but effective. I certainly prefer seeing Moldova in the final than Greece, Finland, San Marino, Montenegro or Bosnia & Herzegovina. I think it’s quite underrated. A really powerful performance including strong lighting effects (mimicking lightning, thunder, flame and dust) and more focused vocal performance could actually save it for finals.
Is it only me or does the song sound different than before? Anyway, I don’t really like the music video but I still love the song and I think that Moldova is the most underrated country this year! Hopefully they will qualify, although I don’t think so…
@Jan
well i think the songs who will be popular with the public are Malta, Croatia, Czech Republic, Greece, Russia ( okay it’s catchy but dated), Bosnia&Herzegovina, Iceland, Armenia and Azerbaijan and Cyprus or Estonia 🙂
Hopefully no final…