Cyprus – Today the three songs that Ivi Adamou will present in the Cyprus’ song selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 were revealed. You can listen to them on the official website of the Cypriot broadcaster. As we previously announced, the winning song will be chosen via a combination of televoting and a jury deliberation in the national final on January 25. Ivi Adamou, the 18 year old singer who was picked internally by the Cyprus Broadcasting Company, initially found fame through the Cyprus X-Factor competition, where she finished in 6th place.
Here are the songs:
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POLL: Which song should Ivi Adamou sing in Baku?
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http://www.cybc.com.cy/eurovision/
Songs are here
Please choose You Don’t Belong Here, I like how Call The Police breaks down, but the lyrics…and with La La Love the syllables La La are carrying the music instead of the other way around.
Thanks again Luis!!!
Call the police… mmmm
You don’t belong here… nice
Up next: La La Love
oh boy…. nooo please… Sounds like the music in kiddy club in tourist clubs
On second listen Call the Police sounds like a chart hit… and I like it more now…
This reminds me a bit of Emmy last year and in the end they chose the horrible lalala song… I fear the same in Cyprus…
If only they changed the lyrics of Call The Police (starting with the title) it would be my number one and probably bring them the most success
1. Call The Police
2. You Don’t Belong Here
3. La La Love
1 or 2 would be fine… And I think Cyprus can qualify this year!
Cyprus is one of my favourite ESC countries but I do not expect them to end up high on my list this year, in particular if they choose the silly and generic ‘La la Love’, which might well happen because it is extremely catchy, but not in a good way. Out of this mediocre mini-bunch, I like ‘Call the Police’ best … but I agree with Luis on the lyrics issue. Plus, I agree with one of the nice and reasonable members of that other site too: I first thought she’s singing “Call the police, you’re disturbing my pees…”
Just in: The very beginning of the song sounds exactly like Miss Gaga…
I don’t like La Gaga either. She is little more than a musical void covered up by excentric garments. But perhaps I am only too old to get her art … after all, my dad said similar things about Madonna 20 years ago …
^^ I don’t agree with you… I agree with your dad..
I agree with both you and your dad.
Both are musical voids covered with eccentric garments and loud presentations that hide the music. Between the two of them, I only like one song.
Which song is that? I really love some of Madonna’s stuff but not primarily for musical reasons. I really loved her back then because she broke every single taboo without ever being ideological about it. To my generation she seemed to be little less than the Goddess of Liberation … LOL Some of her early songs are still pretty central to femininst and other gender debates here in Germany. Lady Gaga’s problem is that there aren’t any real taboos available anymore … at least not in Western societies (if we forget about places like Nebraska, the Bavarian Forest etc. for the moment), and thus her provocations are little more than colourful histrionics going nowhere. Due to the different social and cultural framework Madonna and Lady Gaga act in, it is so much harder for Lady Gaga to be more than a spectacle because in the 21st century, everything in pop art comes down to artistic quality for a very simple reason. It has finally become mainstream and the dominant culture and does not provoke anyone anymore. Perhaps historians of culture will remember Lady Gaga precisely for that reason in 200 years, as a symptom of the increasing void Western culture had become in the early 21st century. Btw, I am really worried who is going to fill this void in the future …
which is probably why Lady Gaga has entered many political debates, mainly for her fan base: she has pushed a lot of gay issues in the american political agenda… that’s one way to put her fame into something else than “musical reasons” for people to like her
anyway, i wont debate much more as i hate both madonna and lady gaga
I was talkking about their music and not about what they do besides music. But this topic is on Cyprus. What do you think of those 3 songs?
“I really love some of Madonna’s stuff but not primarily for musical reasons.” that is not about music now is it? both are doing spectacle and both pretend to move the sociological and ideological lines… it’s really the same over imo and if we talk about their music, I dislike both of them as well…
It is about lyrics, video clips, posing etc. But I rest my case …
same goes for Gaga: it’s about her lyrics, video clips, live performances… I mean I do understand you like one over the above, and I don’t mind, but you can’t just ignore the fact that both Madonna and Gaga play in the same category when it comes to lyrics, video clips, live performances… then we can go back to music, and both are well, extremely popular so something must be working right there! “catchy” comes to my mind, but what do I know?
I don’t like either of them, but that’s just me, on the other hand it’s not just me who thinks Gaga and Madonna play in the same fields when it comes to outside the music box
I must admit that I do not know every Madonna song, so I am not going to say there is no possibility that I like any of her songs, but the one song I do like is Lady Gaga’s “Paparazzi”. Oddly enough, I began to like the song after a live performance of it, so I have to wonder if it was the loud presentation and packaging around the song that made me like it.
Wow, all 3 songs are great imo. They are likeable from the first listening and any of them should make the final in Baku.
Here’s my ranking :
1. You Don’t Belong Here
2. Call The Police
3. La La Love
The first 2 songs, i like them almost equally. I think “You Don’t Belong Here” is a little stronger, but i’m not sure yet.
“Call The Police” is very catchy and will definitely become a hit imo. 
I like “La La Love” too, it’s also very catchy, but it’s a little weaker then the other 2 songs.
The entry of Cyprus 2012 is “La La Love”. Sure.
Yes I agree: it’s the one I hate most and already a favorite in this poll… definitely going to Baku and moreover, it sounds even worse than “Vodka”… I can’t see Cyprus in the esc final at all to be fair…
I personally hated all three songs, and disliked the least “You Don’t Belong Here” which was the one I think I heard more than a minute of… Horrible bunch of “songs”, very noisy, irritating, stupid, lame… oh god
you should really listen to the entire songs.. Sometimes they get better
in some cases, like here, you might find myself hung on the first tree… anyway, I always DO listen to any esc songs at least once, live, and often twice, when I rewatch to rank, and in some cases that’s all ever (like Estonia 2008) but seriously, do you really like these three songs? at all? honnestly, I don’t know Ivi’s live abilities, but I don’t think Cyprus is aiming at top 10 with these songs as a good singer, so if she’s not good live, I doubt qualification is possible, why am I the only one who thinks so?
You are not the only one who thinks so. I think that Cyprus will struggle to qualify too … unless Ivi is a hell of a live performer.
yeah! the songs are just weak (I just read on esctoday they’re all written by a swedish team… mmh…) and not going to shine at all in esc and Cyprus is not the type of countries that can count on many diaspora votes and you can add that the juries will more or less dislike them… so what do we get? only great performance in the bag for them. So now it’s down to Ivi. Given that she is a great performer and live vocalist, there’s a shot there, but if not, I just don’t see it happening… and if it is with “La la love”… I mean if even Armenia couldn’t secure a spot in the final with a similar entry, why would Cyprus?
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Call the police or La la love…
And i doubt any of songs will make finals – maybe top 10 from televote, but this wont by jury…
i meant buy
I won’t bother to vote for my favourite, because these songs do nothing for me. The la la contraption will most probably win. Good luck, Cyprus. This type of songs (homogeneized and anonymous) represent the worst side of ESC.
All are OK and I’m waiting for performance! I liked last year Cyprus as well because it had REAL traditional elements not fake ones like Greece always send in ESC! But he ruined everything with horrible performance! So I hope she will find good solution for performances and especially for one which wins NF! My favorite for now is “You don’t belong here”!
I love her RnB ballads, I hoped for one in NF, but RnB is very rare in ESC!
1. You don’t belong to here – I think this one is enough strong to make the final.
2. Call the police – It’s waaay better than La la love.
3. La la love – It sounds really cheap, don’t like this one at all. It reminds me of Armenia 11 and Norway 11.
I’m afraid they will choose La la love and if they do then Cyprus will struggle to qualify.
I fear that too… I don’t get how La La love can lead in every poll ;(
I think we can all agree that regardless, Cyprus may actually make it to the final this year. Good job.
All three songs are generic pop that may just scrape their way to the final, but probably not.
It feels like she has tried to use other pop stars sounds. You Don’t Belong Here is very Kelly Clarkson, the pumping beat and dub step bit in Call the Police is what Britney Spears is doing now and La La Love reminds me of Jennifer Lopez.
Out of the three, La La Love is my favourite. It is the best of the 3 lyric wise, and I think this has potential on a big stage.
La La Love will win the ticket for Baku!
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