London is calling and so is Albania’s Ronela Hajati.
The Eurovision 2022 artist, who will perform in the first half of the first semi-final, has been in the British capital for the past few days working on the revamp of her song “Sekret”.
In between studio sessions and at least one trip to the hair salon, Miss Hajati took the time to tease fans with this snippet of the revamp.
Ronela Hajati shares snippet of “Sekret” revamp
First and last snippet… bye ! pic.twitter.com/RIbcQGDq6S
— Ronela Hajati (@RonelaHajati) January 26, 2022
We understand that the revamp process is ongoing and far from finished. That means Ronela is actively reading and listening to your comments about the snippet. So do shout out with your thoughts in the comments section below.
You’ll have noticed already that Ronela is paying attention.
In the comments thread of the above tweet, she’s responded directly to many of her fans.
When one user wrote, “don’t make too many changes” because “everyone fell in love with the original,” Ronela replied, “How wonderful it is to fall in love over and over again?”
What do you think of the snippet? Do you like this less ethnic sound or do you want this to stay closer to the original? Let us know down below!
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It’s a bit.. bad, it has lost some of it’s original sound that made it a FiK winner.
Sounds a bit dated tbh, maybe this is not the final version?
I’m already loving the instrumentation under the chorus and I’ve only heard one note! Can’t wait to hear it in full.
Stop complaining ya all, you have listened nothing. Let this girl doing her things on HER song, she is very clever, she knows what she is doing, the firsts to complain here will be the first to be blown away in May.
I’m really curious now. It’s giving me solid dancehall vibes, which I don’t think we’ve had at Eurovision before.
I’m kinda concerned now
Why can’t artists just leave a song as it is ? I remember falling in love with ‘Ding Dong’ by Dana International and on the night it was awful, barely recognisable and rightly did not qualify. Short of abridging a song to the correct 3 minutes surely any other changes detract from what attributes led it to qualify in the first place.
ronela NQ ??
in your dreams
A 10 second snippet isn’t enough to determine whether this will be a good or bad revamp. Let’s just wait until the new version is out in full.
Off topic but kinda not because it has to do with a new version of another nf song – Aminata released I’m Letting You Go. It’s beautiful and a clear winner but it could have been so much better. It’s neither dark and haunting nor explosive enough to obliterate everyone in Turin like she would be capable of. I’m sure it’s not gonna get nowhere near the success Love Injected had and that’s a shame. She’s one of those previous acts I could see coming back and winning it all.
I hear no change lol
Yeah, it’s too subtle. I was expecting a much bigger change… Your comment got me second guessing my ears so I went and compared the lyric video version to the one on Supernova’s site and it’s definitely not the same. The first instance where it’s easily distinguishable is during the second chorus. Where they previously cut her voice off now she continues singing and there’s more instrumentation.
I also just realized that the new version is way too long so there’s still hope she’s cooking up an incredible revamp for the ESC… *crosses fingers*
Meh before, meh now.
It sounds great, but the verses weren’t the parts in particular needing a revamp. The main focus should be on cutting and adjusting the beginning because it’s too long, it takes far too much time for the song to start. Secondly, she should work on the chorus to make it more modern and powerful.
It was already reported (elsewhere) that the intro got shortened. There’s also gonna be more English in the new version.
By making it more ‘modern’ she could destroy the soul of the song by the way
I’m really in love with that snippet. Especially that begin of the chorus comes in with a bit more oomph which I like. I think we all should wait until the end product before we start throwing garbage. She has a good producer+ the last few albanian revamps were great with fall from the sky etc.
Also why do people think all ethnic elements are gone? Only thing missing in this tiny snippet are the drums
She already said that the traditional instrumentation is still there.
You can disagree with me but I don’t feel like I’m hearing Sekret anymore when I heard the snippet. The original version is much better in my opinion. It has that identity that fans were craving for, somehow I feel like it’s fading. I wish they ditch that modern mainstream sound.
lmao overreacting over 10 seconds snippet.
The song was already perfect, all she needed to do was make it 3 min and focus on the staging. So far not sure if this is better, but it does sound like a different song which is concerning.
Um it had to be cut down and it wasn’t fully cohesive. I really liked the song when it won fik but it was clear that it needed a few changes just to make it sound more cohesive. I don’t think it sounds drastically different and hopefully they will have a brilliant revamp for Turin :).
That sounds sooo good! Love it! And I saw that somewhere said the lyrics are like “xhamadani vija vija…” NOT ENGLISH (at least not this part). Oh gosh I love Albanian lyrics!!
It sounds catchy, but it seems to me they made it more mainstream and sound less ethnic and traditional like it was which is what I was worried for. The same was done to La Venda in 2019. I’m not sure what they did with the beginning, but I loved that choir. They probably removed that part. 🙁
Once again, the ESC fandom overreacting over a 10 seconds snippet as per. It’s been confirmed that the important ethnic elements of the song will be kept as well as the choir at the beginning. Many people said the song needs a revamp as it apparently was too messy, now you all complain because it’s too mainstream? chill out
It seems like the first verse (?) has been changed, I truly hope that’s only the later bit of the verse ’cause it sounds like that on repeat would be really annoying. Sounds really good though