Do Belgium send bad songs to Eurovision? They don’t. For a small country, they have great taste. They’ve continued the trend this year with Before the Party’s Over by Mustii, who some of you may know from acting, and who many of us know as a judge on Drag Race Belgium.
The criticism I have of Before the Party’s Over is that it’s actually too short. As someone who actively seeks out 2m30s slutbops, I was surprised when this ended and I found myself wanting more. It takes 45 seconds of a subdued intro (not a complaint) before the song roars to life in the chorus with some swirly, ooo-ooo vocals and a more produced second verse. It’s almost at the 2 minute mark when a set of horns signal our move into a powerful bridge that lets Mustii shift the emotion into high gear. And then the song ends! Just like that! In a normal world, in a normal song, it’s ripe for another verse or chorus, but in Eurovision land we hit the three minute mark, so ADIEU!
I guess Mustii the showman knows what he’s doing – leaving us wanting more.
And while the song is good, the visuals are impeccable
Only Mustii could make me believe he’d hold a press conference inside a club to announce to the assembled attendees that he was, indeed, going to make moves tonight, and here is what those moves might be and whom they might be on.
In the fandom, there’s been a lot of angst over the past week about whether or not Mustii is going to qualify, but at the core of his staging is the fact that he can sing the hell out of his song:
So in a year when there are so few male balladeers, I think something like this, which straddles the line between glam and glum, is really going to stand out – especially when Mustii is all wound up and belting “BEFORE THE PARTY IS OVER” at us.
dudepoints.fun 