The bets for the Eurovision 2020 were not overly admired by the song Feker Libi, who represented Israel in the Eurovision, and predicted a final but a final finish at the end of the second tenth.

• Too much engineered world music. Eden Elena performed by Feker Libi

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  Eran Levy

Let's start from the end: The song Feker Libi performed by Eden Elena probably won't bring Eurovision to Israel. The projections are currently predicting that Eden will be able to qualify for the final, but will settle at the end of the second decade. On the other hand, yesterday it was announced that a European Broadcasting Union employee had been diagnosed as a Corona patient and had been banned from flying in the near future. In the world of Corona's hysteria, who knows if the Eurovision in the Netherlands will take place in general or how many countries will retire from it.

The people behind Feker Libi are Doron Medley and Idan Reichel. Medley is undoubtedly the man who has managed to crack the competition genome over the past decade. All three of the songs he has sent to Eurovision to date - have come to very respectable places. Reichel has been in the playlist committee for two decades on all the radio stations. Eden Elena is an amazing vocalist who has won real-life format formats: "Ex Factor" and "The Next Star for Eurovision."

But despite the impressive resume behind this song, it is currently in a very lukewarm position in gambling. What happened here seems to be the opposite of synergy: the whole in this case is far less than the total of its parts. Feker Libi is a favorite song at most. It sounds like a perfect song for Disney Princess Amharic, a kind of Elsa Madis Ababa who goes in search of her beloved in the fields. But the song is quite disconnected from what is happening in the music world today, and the well-known Eurovisionary trick of combining multiple languages ​​does not add any points to it and does not make it the next "Soldie".

The feeling is that the combination of Reichel, Medley, and Elena didn't get the best of either. Medley couldn't make it to the end. What about glossy and double meaning text like in "Toy" for example. Why settle for Reichlich text with lines like
say all the people coming / coming my way / love is my way.

Neither did Reichel to be Reichel until the end. The world music, which he does so well, sounds too synthetic and engineered this time to excite. Elena, for her part, fails to express in her song her vocal ability, the one that strokes every octave from the right side. This song is a little smaller on it.

However the song got good reactions on the net. On the Toi & Goyi YouTube channel analyzing all Eurovision songs, they liked the song's fast rhythm and noted that the Amharic sounds wonderful to European ears. They also noted that the song is very unique and different from other songs that will compete this year. Auden's accent was voiced in English, which in their opinion impaired the quality of the work. The responses to the escort dancers, dressed in metallic lycra clothing, ranged from disgust to distilled hatred.

Incidentally, at the top of the Eurovision betting tables are currently two countries: Lithuania and Iceland. These are two countries that have never won the competition. Could it be that only countries that do not yet understand what a headache it is to host Eurovision send a song that can also win Eurovision?