Germany

GERMANY
I have to be honest here and say that this is one song I really didn’t want in the contest, as the song that the public overwhelming chose was so much better. It’s such a shame that the singer didn’t feel up to coming to Vienna to represent his country.
Ann Sophie is dressed in a black figure hugging jump suit with a gold belt and is singing over her shoulder for her opening lines. We don’t however need to see her bottom filling the camera shot especially when her posture suggests some intestinal discomfort. However her rather annoying smugness from the German national final is thankfully gone and she really delivers the song very charmingly. Four backing singers and some old style film lights with the familiar black smoke lighting set off the performance nicely. Vocally it’s fine and this performance is winning me over. There’s a lovely comfortable confidence coming from this performance and while I don’t see it as a challenger for victory, I think it could well be closer to the top than the bottom of the scoreboard next Saturday night.

Ann Sophie is showing us a great camera interaction and this is her strong point in the performance. The song is nothing special, to be honest, you wait for sort of culmination, action on the stage. Against your expectations there is nothing. The background effects are in black and golden colours that make the performance more intimate. But still, I was not very satisfied as to my taste it was bit pain and monotonous.

In comparison to Spain, Germany are taking a much simpler approach in their stage acting. And that's for the best really.

Joined by four backing singers, who are behind four big cinema lights Ann-Sophie is confidently bringing black smoke. For the first verse she's actually doing this with her back to the audience, which is slightly strange. I'm assuming that the camera will either zoom around her, or they are going to do something different.

Ann-Sophie is channeling a little bit of Lena, but she's doing it in a very fitting James Bond kind of setting, which of course features mainly golden and black and of course the smoke.

Visually this is looking very stunning and, Germany is going to do a lot better than people actually think it will.