r/eurovision • u/escfan229 • 7d ago

⏪️ Throwback Thursday Stefania - Last Dance - LIVE - Greece 🇬🇷 - Grand Final - Eurovision 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhZhJFp0vVw&list=RDQhZhJFp0vVw&start_radio=1

I decided to post this song for this week's Throwback Thursday since I thought the greenscreen effects were interesting. Stefania is a Greek-Dutch singer who represented the Netherlands at JESC 2016 as part of the girl group Kisses with the song "Kisses and Dancin" (8th place).

In 2020, she was selected by ERT to represent Greece at ESC with the song "Supergirl" (Greece 2020). "Last Dance" was her second song to represent Greece at ESC due to ESC rules requiring new songs for ESC 2021, and she finished in 10th place in the grand final with that song. Ever since then, Stefania has hosted Junior Songfestival (the selection show for Netherlands at JESC).

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u/MickyStam521 Loop 7d ago

Honestly maybe I'm biased but I think this was overhated. No I don't think the green screen was cheesy and lame, I think it was kinda creative and cool, not to mention I really like the song (much better than Superg!rl imo). I'm glad she put us in the top 10 after so long :)

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u/LonelyTreat3725 7d ago

Mmmh, i don't know.. for me it's not even the green screen at all, it's the dance moves, imho they are terrible

What is that thing she is doing with her knees?

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u/Dechri_ 7d ago

I just remember this as the very cute girl singing a song about dancing while ironically having an awful dance choreography. 

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u/TheAlmightyBambi Fai rumore 6d ago

I clocked from the music video that she wasn't a dancer and so I was kind of hoping they'd just let her focus on the vocals, give her an great flowy outfit and a wind machine, and have some crazy good backup dancers. Anyone can look like a good dancer in an outfit that does half of the job for you, plus the big ballad parts of the song would have really leant themselves to a big flowy toga dress and some big hair.

...to say I was disappointed would be an understatement. She did a decent enough job for someone who this clearly doesn't come naturally to, and once I'd got over the initial shock, the idea was fun, but the concept felt like it was designed for her 2020 Supergirl song - not this. The idea would have also worked far better with just the LED screens and dancers in regular outfits. Green screening them out and just having their clothes dance seems like an idea that came out of someone smoking too much weed during lockdown.