well-trodden path in funk, soul and pop, and her winning song, In Cor- pore Sano, is a provocative and at- tractive continuation of the origi- nal work of a healthy artist. In the song that will represent our country in Turin, Konstrakta managed to incorporate rumours emanating from the British court, the general obsession with health and the position of musicians, and these are just a few of the endless layers contained in just the three minutes of an infectious song that’s being sung constantly. The artist must be healthy, sings Ana while sitting and washing her hands (of everything?), talking about the nervous system, spleen and hydra- tion, watching without emotion, as if preparing to operate on our un- healthy ‘sano’. “I avoid interpreting the song; the richness of this song is that it is layered, everyone can interpret it in their own way,” says Konstrakta. Immediately prior to compet- ing for inclusion in the Eurovision Song Contest, she presented her im- pressive “Triptych” video with three songs. In Corpore Sano is one of them, and it is understood much better when heard in the full con- text together with the songs Nobl and Mekano, which together form a culturally relevant, provocative, ex- citing and original collective. There’s no doubt that the win-
ning song has already become a kind of phenomenon, as it leaps out of the framework of the es- tablished notion of how a Eurovi- sion song should sound and look, and it seems to have won over the European public upon first hearing. Following the qualifying competi- tion, it ranked number one (Youtube Music Trending) in all countries of the former Yugoslavia, but also in Austria. Testifying to the claim that Konstrakta is more than a region- al phenomenon is the song’s sec- ond place ranking among trending music in Malta and Norway, third in Sweden, fourth in Switzerland and ninth in Germany. The most famous portals linked to the Eu- rovision Song Contest also react- ed to the song that will represent Serbia, and they are wondering – among other things – why it men- tions Meghan Markle, saying that they’ve never been so confused by a Eurovision song and that they trans- lated it with Google and it seems to them that they heard 20 differ- ent compositions in one. The reactions serve to prove that a good song knows no bounda- ries, even one that’s in Serbian and Latin, and we will be wholeheart- edly supporting Konstrakta in Tu- rin this May, in the belief – without false modesty – that few countries will be able to rival her. And what will we do now?
The whole country is grooving about Konstrakta What’s the secret of Ana Đurić’s great song? Serbia will be represented at the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest in Turin by a song that’s already taken the region and Europe by storm, so it isn’t difficult to believe that In Corpore Sano could bring this famous music contest back to Belgrade Although many react- ed as if seeing her for the first time, Ana Đurić, aka Konstrak- ta, didn’t appear on the scene yester- day. Together with Zoe Kida and the band Zemlja Gruva, she performed as a support act at the 2011 Amy Winehouse concert in Belgrade that would, unfortunately, turn out to be her last. Konstrakta has traversed a
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