Solovey (Go_A song)
"Solovey" (Ukrainian: Соловей, transl. "Nightingale") is a 2020 song by Ukrainian folktronica group Go_A. The song had to represent Ukraine in Eurovision Song Contest 2020, but the competition was stopped by the COVID-19 pandemic.[1]
| "Solovey" | ||||
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| Language | Ukrainian | |||
| English title | "Nightingale" | |||
| Released | 4 February 2020 | |||
| Genre | Folktronica | |||
| Length | 2:55 | |||
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| Lyricist(s) | Kateryna Pavlenko | |||
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| Finals performance | ||||
| Semi-final result | Contest cancelled | |||
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| '◄ "Siren Song" (2019) | ||||
| "Shum" (2021) ► | ||||
Background
The musical genre of the song is folktronica, a mix between electronic dance music and folk.[2][3]
The song lyrics are about a girl, Katrusia (nickname for "Kateryna"), that lives in the Ukrainian countryside. She falls in love with a boy, Vaniusha (nickname for "Ivan"), but the mother does not approve it. The girl meets him at night and she asks a nightingale not to sing early, because the bird may wake up other people. Katrusia knows that their love is not possible and tries to forget him.[2][3]
The story is based on the singer Kateryna Pavlenko's personal story.[2][3]
The lyrics, all in the Ukrainian language, are in an iambic pentameter verse, the main metre in Slavic folk poetry and drama.[2]
Eurovision Song Contest
On 22 February 2020, "Solovey" won Vidbir 2020 with 12 points, the highest number of points in Vidbir.[4]. The winner song of that competition becomes the representative Ukrainian song for Eurovision Song Contest. However, on 18 March 2020, Eurovision was stopped before it started because of the COVID-19 pandemic.[1] Go_A then went to Eurovision Song Contest 2021 with "Shum".[5]
"Solovey" is the first song in the history of the Eurovision Song Contest to be fully in the Ukrainian language.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Eurovision 2020 in Rotterdam is cancelled". Eurovision.tv. 18 March 2020. Retrieved 19 March 2024.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Ten Veen, Renske (15 April 2020). "Go_A's "Solovey" lyrics describe a love story in the Ukrainian countryside". Wiwibloggs. Retrieved 19 March 2024.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "2020 participants: Go_A". Eurovision.tv. Retrieved 19 March 2024.
- ↑ "Go_A will represent Ukraine in Rotterdam". Eurovision.tv. 22 February 2020. Retrieved 19 March 2024.
- ↑ "2021 participants: Go_A". Eurovision.tv. Retrieved 19 March 2024.