William: It appears that Bojana Stamenov was electrocuted prior to her first rehearsal at Eurovision 2015. Her hair was enormous — and I absolutely love it. She’s given this anthem about tolerance major discotheque staging, which reflects the love-of-life Bojana has found after accepting herself. Her four backing vocalists wear all white — including Venetian masks — until Bojana cranks it up with that high-note halfway through. At that point they strip off their overcoats to reveal slinky club clothes. Spotlights, strobe lights and LED accents are used to great effect, which adds to the club feel. Her dancers carry and wave white flags, but trust us: She is not about to surrender. Bojana’s vocals were juiced-up, supercharged, and generally fabulous. But that’s not exactly a surprise. This just keeps growing in my estimation and I’m not alone. It was greeted by loud applause in the press centre after each take.
Serbia’s first rehearsal at Eurovision 2015
Padraig: OMG! What did we just see? Bojana’s been hit by lightning, and she’s electrified the competition. Her hair looks a mess, but the rest is fab. The vocals are stunning, and her dress is uber glam. The backing dancer costume change from high-priests to disco dancers is a stroke of camp genius. It’s a pity the LED screens were underused, failing to capture the on-stage madness. But it seems that’s still a work in progress, as they kept tweaking it in between takes.
Chris: Bojana has a stunning voice, but it looked like she’d been hit with a stun gun before going on stage. Her dancers also looked like they’d got a fright halfway through the song with some truly bizarre dancing that reminded me of Israel 2000. Still, I really enjoyed Bojana at least and that’s probably the important part. I don’t think this will struggle to qualify thanks to the message, and the signing really works well too. I’m not underwhelmed, but I’m just questioning some of the choices.
Bojana Stamenov: Reviews and Reactions
Serbia’s Press Meet and Greet
Image: Courtesy of Andreas Putting (EBU)
Unfortunately, this is reminding me of Switzerland 2008. Era Stupendo was a brilliant song of a style similar to this, but they had a hyper-camp stage presentation with wierd costumes that were probably responsible for the non-qualification.
Awful.
Beauty’s embodied? More like bad taste’s embodied…
But I like her wearing that hat-like thing on her head. Can we have that again?
To quote her beautiful #AskEurovision video, fly your freak flag girl! Love you Bojana! <3
True Queen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7jX3p3rdm4
Why do people actually give a sh*t of what they are wearing
They managed to make Moldova look classy with this performance ….. Too kitschy and tacky, hate the white flags and the lights are hectic ………. It is basically a middle school talent show gone wrong …….. Not even her vocals can save this, PLEASE SERBIA bring BACK JELENA TOMASEVIC and then we can talk.
Trashy = good. Y’all have no taste. You are on a Eurovision blog plz.
the most horrible thing I’ve ever seen
Well well, and they say the Netherlands is a disaster, this is what i call a true disaster, look at that dress, this deserves the Barbara Dex Award,
at least they dropped the half-naked dancers (sorry Mario)
I wanna see more of this. *takes out the popcorn*
So the press corps were going wild about this? Seriously? This kitchfest is going absolutely nowhere, least of all to the final. So amateurish and definetely not recommended for the epileptic.
I would love anything Bojana wears TBH, her beauty never lies <3
With all my respect they have tried their best !
But sometimes it is as simple like that …
IT JUST DOES NOT WORK.
Big compliments for trying to bring us this ENTERTAINMENT
My douze points but only for the try.
I find this dress 10 times uglier then trijntjes dress.. And you guys are calling this dress glam? Like really? At least trijntjes dress is edgy and future forward…
@Zac GOOD QUESTIONS <3
@Steven GMTA <3
OMG IKR OTNA I HAD SAME THOUGHT!
Who did it better, Bojana or Betty? Real questions right there.
Both are really mray though ^_^
IKR STEVEN, I WANT TO TOUCH HER HAIR IT LOOKS SO GLAM <3
IKR OTNA ! THIS JUST SCREAMS FLOORFILLER <3
HER HAIR IS SO MRAY I WILL VOTE 10 TIMES FOR HER!
IT IS MRAUMALICIOUS INDEED! <3
BOJANA SO HOT <3
THAT WAS SO MRAUMALICIOUS I WANT SCREAM
Top 20 maybe
I am speechless…. and NOT in a positive way..
Are you guys all serious?
One of those entries that give the ESC a bad name. The show looks just as trashy as the song.
Not qualifying. The white-suited flag bearers made me think Ku Klux Klan
This screams GAY!
nvm, THIS is the barbara dex award winner
No doubt her vocals make up for a lot but this is just an embarrassment. Cheezy doesn’t even begin to describe it.
First thought I had is that she looks like that crazy old witch Madam Mim in “The Sword in the Stone”: http://static.tumblr.com/ce045df4442028f859084904b99be2ad/cwpi8ra/R4Vmxi115/tumblr_static_mim.jpg
It looks fun! <3
Bojana sounds FLAWLESS!
Love it! She just needs to fix the hair and it’ll be a for sure qualifier
Cheesy and camp. They will struggle to go through with that perfomance. I dont think juries will like it….
SO GLAM!Not a fan of this style.
So so so powerful! So glamorous, so campy, so diva-like! Wow!
Not a fan of this rehearsal, looked cheesy
Sounds SO GLAM, I love Bojana <3
Omg! Wanna see, wanna see!!!!!!!!