The first time I heard Koit Toome's entry in this year's Eurolaul, Estonia's national final for Eurovision, I liked it, but I would never have guessed it's one of the this year's Eurovision-related songs that still gets a decent number of plays from me. I don't know that much about him except for the fact that he represented Estonia at Eurovision in 1998 and that his performance at Eurolaul was more rocker-styled than the song itself would lead you to expect (look at the band setup, those flashing lights, that black leather jacket, the way he handles the microphone! It's actually a really sweet contrast). Sadly, the song took tenth place out of ten in the final of Eurolaul.Veidi veel--a slightly boppy mid-tempo pop song that also has a sweet edge--well, "edge" is hardly the right word for this song; any edges are more smoothed out into rounded corners. That kind of works as an analogy--imagine if someone had made a kind of rock song and then taken away any sort of "edge" to it to make it a pop song through-and-through, but every now and then, whether it's in the instrumentation or what, you kind of get the sense of that former state peeking through. As is, though, it's thoroughly poppy, as well as catchy.
You can buy Koit Toome's latest album, Allikas, which has this song, here (physical).
Next up: maybe something Canadian.
