Review: Miki - La Venda - Spain

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With an upbeat, anthemic track that wouldn't feel out of place at a football match, Spain present Miki singing La Venda as their Eurovision 2019 entry.

Despite early excitement, last year's entry "Tu Cancion" proved to be a major disappointment in the final, a poor vocal performance and running order position meant the hype never materialised to votes. Spain have once again received early hype this year, but this time the song requires much less finesse.

The comparison to a football chant has been made by many pundits and it's a great angle to take to Eurovision. Football chants are the antithesis of cerebral listening, they're designed to create an atmosphere and to be simple for even a first-time listener to immediately pick up and sing along to. In a continent with diverse languages, "La Venda" seems to tick all the boxes.

As a song, it's clear that everything is building up to the chorus sections where the real action happens, the lyrics of the verses are insightful but obviously meaningless to the majority of Europe. The excited, repeated chorus is the payoff for the anticipation, the trumpets making it all the better.

Spain, as one of the Big 5, don't need to worry about semi-finals. Miki has produced solid recreations of song and seems to know how to put on a decent performance. If the staging of the grand final is anything like the national final, Spain stand a good chance of a potential Top 10 placing.

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