Saturday Flashback: Dina Garipova – What If

I THOUGHT I WOULD DIE OF HAPPINESS.

Tim: This, Jenny Red, is how you do a proper key change.

Tim: When those wristbands turned out throughout the arena, I THOUGHT I WOULD DIE OF HAPPINESS.

Tom: Ah, what more can I say? It’s textbook Eurovision heavy ballad. It actually did better than I thought it would: fifth is pretty damn respectful.

Tim: This was originally my fourth favourite of this year’s Eurovision, though with repeated listenings it’s actually crept up to joint first, with Iceland’s Ég á Lif (currently my favourite ‘shout out loud in the shower’ song).

Tom: I feel a little bit sorry for your neighbours.

Tim: It’s a great track – it’s joyous, it’s uplifting, it’s remarkably different from what’s actually going on in Russia at the moment, and it’s just wonderful.

Tom: And that outro. That is an old-school, glorious outro.

Tim: This key change just makes it that much better.