Macedonia will be one of three former Yugoslavian republics represented in Copenhagen this year. Their representative this year is a singer by the name of Tijana Dapcevic (pictured) who will perform "To the Sky."
"To the Sky" starts off with a killer guitar riff. From there, the vocals and flow is just average. It is an average, but okay song. She will perform in the second semifinal on Thursday, the 8th of May. With a tough second semifinal, I really don't think she might qualify for the grand final the following Saturday.
Macedonia came into the ESC in 1996 (I think), with a song by Kaliopi Bukle that failed to qualify from the semifinal. Bukle would later qualify for the grand final at Baku 2012 with "Crno I Belo," one of my favorites in ESC from Macedonia, along with Next Time's "Nesto Sto Kje Ostane" from 2009. Bukle and Esma Redzepova, who collaborated with Vlatko Lozanoski last year on "Pred Za Ne(?) Raznani" are two of my favorite Macedonian singers, however Esma's collaboration with Lozanoski last year was an average song. So is this song here. But I can tell you the Esma/Lozano and Kaliopi songs from 2012 and 2013 are just as good as this, and I can also tell you that there have been hundreds of ESC songs that are worst than the aforementioned. Good luck.
Up next: Firelight "Coming Home."
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