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8.5.03

06 Bosnia & Herzegovina – Ne Brini (Could It Be?) – Mija Martina
Next year, with the massive expansion of Eurovision into a two day competition, we may see the full complement of the former Yugoslavian countries (Serbia & Montenegro, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia and FYR Macedonia). When that happens, and there’s a half-decent song that all four neighbours give some points to, there’ll be no stopping them. BiH may have peaked too soon with this, a perky little pop song. Is it too early in the running order to make its presence felt? This disco stormer has improved ten-fold in my eyes since seeing the video, which includes gratuitously shirtless hunks, cavorting with Mija. It looks like one of those videos that us ordinary folk can have made in five minutes, where you mime in front of a green screen and they put some whizzy effects behind you. The song itself conforms too, and then spectacularly exceeds, one of EUrovision's unwritten rules. Everyone knows you have to have a key change to win. Two would be excessive, surely? Well, this has three! Mija gets more and more excited, the song gets more (ahem!) orgasmic, and you wonder if she's going to explode (ahem again!) before she reaches the end. Fantastic!

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