This year, Georgia returned to using a national final again after two years of internal selection. Erovnuli Shesarcevi konkursi happened already a while ago, and memories of the daytime show are very vague, but I remember we didn’t get to see any full live performances of the entries.

Nina Sublatti, actually Nina Sulaberidze, is a Georgian singer and songwriter who won Georgian Idol 2013, but it doesn’t end there. No, she’s also a calligrapher and model, as Wikipedia tells us. 

Warrior, the better Warrior, is one of the most powerful songs in this year’s line-up. You can’t really sort it into any box (which is quite untypical for a G:son song), while it’s still captivating and instant for a broader audience. All of which is good. If anything, the general feel and the strong siren-like vocals remind me a bit of Georgia’s debut (Visionary Dream), which again.. is good.

She tells us she’s our warrior in a very hypnotizing, insisting, mantra-like chorus, which at the same time is one of the few uptempo examples of this year that you can actually dance and sing along to in Euroclub, or at home, or at other venues. The composition plays with the use of off-beat rhythms in the vocal line, which again reinforces the hypnotic effect.

But what on Earth does she mean if she says she’s “oximated”, in the first verse!? I’m no native English speaker, but even my escgo colleague Martin hasn’t ever heard of that word before… Still, will anyone really mind that that word is there? No. Which… you name it.. is good. It’s actually rather funny that the word is there. If anything, it reminds us a bit of the non-existing German word “Zapfter”, which appeared in a German entry of Home Composed Song Contest 2003 – while no one had any idea what it meant (probably not even the author himself). Warrior however is much better (arguable, I know) than the aforementioned HCSC song. So what can go wrong with it?

My verdict says: Not a lot. However, this is another example of how much we need to wait for the rehearsals to finally give an appropriate judgement and verdict. But at this point, it all sounds very promising for the Caucasian country with the great wine. Qualification should be a no-brainer, and a top 10 result very likely. But then, that’s it!

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