🇨🇿 Vesna "My Sister's Crown" REACTION | Czechia | Eurovision 2023

[@donalokeeffe7504]

This is a potential winner if they get the live performance and staging right.

[@Dikdik11]

I don't understand how some people see a pro Russian message in there. It's clearly in support of Ukraine and It's beautifully done. I hope they'll win.

[@ESCTom]

yea i totally agree. ive had several people try to explain it to me and it still seems very clearly pro ukraine to me 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@olgas7178]

We live in times when white is called black and vise versa, any missinformation goes viral...this fake "pro russian" messege was in someones interest

[@nomercy-my7rf]

Here is the explanation! 1) Chorus is a dedication to russia, as crown of course signifies empire and even in video when they sing it the first time they show russian sister, not Ukrainian. Ukraine has never had such symbol like crown. But russia has this symbol on their national emblem. 2) Evoking sisterhood among all slavs at this moment in history feels like a spit on Ukrainian suffering caused by their "sister". 3) russia has 300 years long history of destroying ukrainians, their culture and their land. In this context the abstraction of the russian sister as been mislead by some shadowy powers just feels criminally naiive and tone deaf 4) russians actively use the language of brotherhood to subjugate Ukrainians. Calling them "little brothers" etc. 5) Panslavism is also part of russian fascism narrative - all slavs must unite and ruled by russia. 6) There is a russian girl in the band. History has shown that there are no good russians. And there should be a collective responsibility

[@nomercy-my7rf]

So, if you know nothing about symbols and relationships between Ukraine and russia - don't say that this song is support. Really hope this song will be disqualified!!!

[@NeawsThe]

@@nomercy-my7rf Buddy, you are so wrong it's both laughable and embarrassing. 1) Just a few honorable mentions: "Spectacular flower crowns rule in Ukraine" National Geographic "Female dancers in Ukrainian folk dances wear floral crowns, whereas their Russian counterparts generally do not." Vogue "Ukrainian flower crown: symbolism of flowers and ribbons" 2) Russia had crown on national emblem? Guess what, Sherlock, so did half of Europe. It's literally the main symbol of monarchy. A very important symbol in Britain, while in Russia it's a random tiny part of emblem no one cares about. Check the list of Russian symbols, top 10 and crown nowhere. And the one they have has been insignificant since 1917. 3) You are indeed right in one thing, but still completely missing the point. Yes, panslavism was a weapon of Russian narrative, but what this song is doing, is taking it from Russia and using it against them. That's a very clever way of destroying Russian ideology and giving it new meaning -> Slavs are indeed uniting, but Russia is not even part of it now.. and that unity is against them.

[@Shellydaliie]

Honestly, when I first watched this, I felt like it was special. It feels like this could do extremely well and it has so much staging potential. I love how they have traditional elements but yet they're done in a very interesting way and I also love the mixup between languages and the rap with the singing. I immediately wanted to download it after listening to it because its just excellent.

[@ESCTom]

yep im totally with you Michelle, i also downloaded this almost immediately cos i wanted to hear all the sounds again

@@ESCTom Myself I feel the potential but for now it is yet to be chiselled to perfection. I will wait a bit. :-)

[@nataliiavoloshyn1149]

Hallo from Ukraine, the land of Danylo’s Crown, Kindom of Galicia-Volhynia in historical period when Ukraine was closely united with European family, just like today. I’m sorry some critics just forgot about this fact. Lots of love to Czech sisters ❤

[@feministfascist]

děkuju moc, sestro krasiva

[@markhere631]

The studio version is great, all they need is the right production and staging and they’re golden for ESC

[@robinoswald]

Thank you so much from the Czech Republic! 😍❤I was waiting all those years for my country to FINALLY send something more traditional, ethnic, folklore, with (also) Czech language, connected to our culture... and now we have a HUGE chance! 😭🥰 And the mix of multiple Slavic languages (Czech, Ukrainian, Bulgarian), the deep lyrics and the overall message... can't think of a better representative of my country ❤

[@spiritofthewinds9089]

I couldnt have found better words. Exactly what i think💜 this has the potential to win the whole thing!

[@NeoScopeLeo]

This song is my top one so far, i almost replays this music video few times per day.

[@heylinsworld6673]

Omg same! I went into first listen after it blew up on twitter, so I was a bit like "alright, let's check out this song everyone things is SO great" and I was very blown away by the song and video. It's such a special song with a powerful message, I will be very disappointed if it doesn't go to Eurovision. It has a lot of interesting elements and huge potential for an impactful performance on the Eurovision stage.

[@annemarie2714]

Thank you from Czech Republic! Absolute winner for me and for all my slavic sisters. Slavic power baby! Girls just amazing I love their music and they are even better live. That message is strong, even smallest word of support counts. My Polish, Ukrainian and Belarusian friends really like the song and I like it a lot! We have to express support in difficult times. In times when you have to run away from your native country, leave your friends, family and in the worst case your husband. I have several friends like that. Sometimes a hug and the words "I'm with you" mean a lot.

[@АлексСин-ж9э]

Thaks🇺🇦Дякуємо

[@nomercy-my7rf]

I'm Ukrainian and this song is trash. It's offensive! They also hype on Ukrainian's blood in hoping to get extra points.

[@MilenaDeaArt]

SUPPORT, RESPECT AND LOVE to all sisters all over the world. Choose yourself, see yourself, be yourself. Live yourself! :) This song touches me more and more. It has a huge potencial not being just a "lala song" :)))...Love from CZ.

[@Brookman59]

On my first listening and watching the video, wow it became one of my favourites and im still listening to it.

[@alipanroosendaal9503]

I was looking forward to your reaction to this, Tom. It has all the right elements. Original sounding, but with references to ESC past. Also has the zeitgeist.

[@ESCTom]

its got a bit of risk and quality in the production as well

[@alko7203]

Amazing beautiful and very brave song. Slavic sisters are strong together and they are not scared to show it. Very well done! Great performance! I’m proud of my home country the Czech Republic.

[@tamaravanhees1749]

I love this song, I hope it does well. Hello from Australia 🇦🇺 😊

[@TroopaDeluxe]

This gives me Sailor moon vibes :D The demons from it... idk why i love it

[@SHROOMISH123]

This is very grand and beautiful and the chorus is just so powerful I can not stop listening to this

[@orihusky7099]

the dresses are inspirated from slavic culture from different regions and times in history, but they are little bit artisticaly changed

[@muckraker1449]

This the way he's calling them 'weird dresses' gives me the eh vibe honestly like you should know what it means as soon as you hear the Ukrainian.

[@quiquiqui]

winner!

[@chaidie7056]

My favourite so far!!

[@czechpanda]

Thank you so much❤ We all appreciate it✨

[@vladimirka2516]

Děkujeme 🙂

[@difcymru]

This is such a earworm 🇨🇿

[@jtb357]

Love this song (from Netherlands)

[@Widdekuu91]

Same here.

[@deborahconnolly7182]

Brilliant , I hope it wins

[@pavellitoff668]

Bulgarian language again on Eurovision. Great!!!

[@ESCTom]

i know! its extra nice since they had to withdraw this year! 🇧🇬

[@johncoster99]

This is the type of weird that can do really well at ESC. Let’s see the staging tho

[@chdimas]

Like you said. Exciting. And with a purpose. My 12 point so far

[@EuroDai]

There are 6 girls in the group, so any purple-suited men will have to be on the LED screens. I hope they use the styling in the video, it has such a big impact. They did not do that in the national final presentation and it lost a little something because of that.

[@ESCTom]

Yea I was misinterpreting that there were 3 songwriters to mean that only 3 of the girls were in the band. My mistake

[@eurotwink9740]

Imagine if they did almost a reinterpreted ‘Heroes’-like staging though with the purple-suited men coming out of the screen/mirror and trying to warp the six girls on stage? Just an idea 👀

[@avnerkam]

Love the video, but their live version in the "final" felt very different to me. I wished you reviewed that performance...

[@ESCTom]

i can check it out later, but i almost never view live performances first cos the majority of TV channels block your video if you use them

[@АлексейЗаботкин-т1х]

It felt different because sound of studio was bad, they did great job

[@sylvain173]

the best song of the czech selection 2023

[@jackiejackie436]

CZ love you :)

[@VioletaVelikova-vy4gm]

The rap part is in Bulgarian

[@thingybob4375]

Completely into the idea of a Slavic sisterhood supporting their sister country Ukraine - that's totally effing special !!! It's ABSOLUTELY the only winner in ESCZ but, just on a downside - lazy, kinda clumsy, English lyrics based predominately on the easiest rhyme sort of lost me in the way "When God Shut The Door" did. With better articulation this would have SUCH credibility as contender. Mind you, in the odds, Czechia has gone from 29th to 5th overnight!

[@АлексейЗаботкин-т1х]

Normal lyrics, i mean when songs like fuego has stupid lyrics, nobodyc arrs

[@hew34]

Any song that low key mocks russia is a winner in my book.

[@radomirprochazka3433]

Zdravím.Velmi zajímavý motiv je motiv s polévkou-borščem-propagandou.Prostudujte.Symboliky mnoho👍

[@markojovanovic5901]

Live preformance looses a bit of power and magic feeling

[@ESCTom]

yes ive heard a lot of people say that. ill try to check it out this week. luckily they have a lot of time to work on it

[@Xenia277]

Just had a listen to the live performance which sounds great as well. This has great potential and I hope they win their NF. I just hope the complaints about one of the girls being Russian dies down before May. Saw screen shots of one of these toxic twitter channels demanding the band to kick out the Russian girl...

[@АлексейЗаботкин-т1х]

It is toxic minority, nobody should descriminate anyone just for being russian, its like hating all germans just because there was adolph hitler or hating ukranians because of Bandera

[@tarasbondar1919]

@@АлексейЗаботкин-т1х Неверное сравнение, Бандера - герой, а Гитлер - урод, как и Путин

[@Glory_To_Ukraine135]

@@АлексейЗаботкин-т1х срусня - сосатб. Вы там на своєму болоті взагалі не маєте права голосу, тому закрий рота

[@nomercy-my7rf]

@@АлексейЗаботкин-т1х but Germans understood that they committed a crime. russians no. So she has to be kicked out of the band.

[@miraculerlukanette8202]

@@nomercy-my7rf do you even know what informations Russians get ? Almost everything Is censored There So Russia looks like the good side

[@Pidalin]

4:00 Your "back to Czech" was supposed to be English I guess 😀

[@fatih7170]

you're very attractive love from istanbul, turkey

[@Voltain]

Thank you for this video. The meaning of the song is also very well explained here kzbin.info/www/bejne/rWrKpJaAobmhndE

[@АлексСин-ж9э]

Сестро красива, ой, ти сильна, хоробра, єдина корона твоя 🇺🇦

[@nomercy-my7rf]

Нічого, що корона символ росії?

[@АлексСин-ж9э]

@@nomercy-my7rf та не тільки росії. нічого.

[@saikeenra]

@@nomercy-my7rf It’s also a symbol of Bohemia (Czech Republic was the Kingdom of Bohemia for most of its history), Poland, Austria, Sweden, Netherlands and most of Europe in general, not to mention all the other symbolic meanings. Don’t give Russia far more weight and importance than it deserves.

[@nomercy-my7rf]

@@saikeenra exactly! But Ukraine has never had such symbol. For Ukrainians its offensive!!!

[@nataliiavoloshyn1149]

@@nomercy-my7rf ви вражеєте своєю неосвіченістю і бажанням її всюди висловити.. Ukraine had it’s crown! And its Kindom of Galicia-Volynia for more than 150 years! And you can find it on an emblem, на Великому Гербі України!

[@Marios_Gr]

We have the same glasses. 🤓

[@ESCTom]

🤓 🥰

[@אבימועלם-ז9ר]

12 point prom israel..👍🇮🇱

[@rosengeorgiev4714]

English Ukrainian Bulgarian Czech

[@user-qg5tn7bf2p]

Personally in my opinion the lyrics and visuals are too ambiguous Can be interpreted in multiple directions What the band is trying to message and convey is not clear enough in my opinion It's a catchy tune and the of many languages is commendable But a very controversial entry

[@ESCTom]

yea its controversial. usually the official ESC twitter account congratulates new songs, but they havent for this yet. i think there are discussions going on behind close doors

[@nataliiavasylchenko3403]

Здається, символізм фіолетової примари, що виникає із дзеркала - то імперіалістична химера, що спотворює пропагандою справжню Україну. Відзеркалюючись, вона вже не реальна, а спотворена пропагандою, тому показана нам огидною клоунесою з розмазаною по обличчю помадою. Так Росія намагається спаплюжити справжній образ України. Те ж фіолетове чудовисько імперіалізму згодовує російській слухняній матрьошці зіпсований власними інформаційними викривленнями (літерами-макаронами) справжній український борщ. Тобто, російські новини про Україну, але своїми російськими літерами, які є чужорідні для істиної української страви.

[@nomercy-my7rf]

Тим самим вони кажуть що це не росія винна у війні, тільки путін. Бо люди зазомбовані пропагандою.

[@miraculerlukanette8202]

@@nomercy-my7rf but Putin is the one to blame, their regime says it all

[@johnmoynahan874]

Im going to feel mean here. I was sold on this until the "spoken word" part came along in the middle of the song. It just isn't my thing. Musically and lyrically its great but that part killed the vibe for me. Maybe time will lessen the distaste for me. I hope so but for now, its a regretable pass. Sorry 😞

[@kornstar1988]

Did you see the live performance though? … sorry but no.

[@miraculerlukanette8202]

The studio quality was awful, it's not their fault and also i heard their earphones were not working properly

[@dominikdolejsi1088]

I am czech, but I think it is horrible

[@ДемидФурманов-о1ы]

I hate the visuals, looks really chip. But the song is my favorite 2023

[@АлексейЗаботкин-т1х]

It is one of the prettiest visuals in music video for esc

[@Катерина-о2ц]

Using pro-putins narrative

[@АлексейЗаботкин-т1х]

Это ты делаешь все что путин хочет, поклоняясь его идее рассорить людей, если она родилась в россии ее уничтожить в газовой камере? Ни разу не фашизм

[@mylegsshurt]

What u talking about

[@nomercy-my7rf]

@@АлексейЗаботкин-т1х было бы хорошо сделать это с каждым русским и с тобой. Вы заслужили

[@nomercy-my7rf]

They praise russia in this song and make fun of Ukraine and war. I'm Ukrainian and I'm absolutely disgusted with this song. Especially the fact that there's russian in the band and she sings Ukrainian language. Such a hypocrisy!

[@gumidkova]

You are so wrong, you obviously do not understand to the lyrics or symbolism. They definitely do not praise Russia. I am Czech, so I guess it is lost in translation for you - the whole meaning or even the interviews with Vesna are so against the war and Russia. Don't be offended just because you don't get the message. Btw. Czech republic (sooner Czechoslovakia) was occupied by USSR for so long and we really do not love Russia.

[@nomercy-my7rf]

@@gumidkova I understood everything correctly!!! The only one who doesn't understand anything is you! Stop it!!!! 1) Chorus is a dedication to russia, as crown of course signifies empire and even in video when they sing it the first time they show russian sister, not Ukrainian. Ukraine has never had such symbol like crown. But russia has this symbol on their national emblem. 2) Evoking sisterhood among all slavs at this moment in history feels like a spit on Ukrainian suffering caused by their "sister". 3) russia has 300 years long history of destroying ukrainians, their culture and their land. In this context the abstraction of the russian sister as been mislead by some shadowy powers just feels criminally naiive and tone deaf 4) russians actively use the language of brotherhood to subjugate Ukrainians. Calling them "little brothers" etc. 5) Panslavism is also part of russian fascism narrative - all slavs must unite and ruled by russia. 6) There is a russian girl in the band. History has shown that there are no good russians. And there should be a collective responsibility

[@gumidkova]

@@nomercy-my7rf Calm down. I am Czech - also as the songwriter and she clearly spoke about the meaning, symbolism and so on. Your opinion is based on your feelings from the song and misinterpretation of the lyrics. And I am against the collective responsibility - especially when the member is young girl living in Czech republic for decade. Or do you still blame todays Germans for WWII? I don't think so. You can hate russian politics, maybe some russian people influenced by propaganda, but a twenty somenthing apolitical girl living and studying abroad? That's just stupid.

[@nomercy-my7rf]

@@gumidkova misinterpretation? It's typical russian propaganda in this song and you tell me that I misunderstood smth? I explained to you the meaning of each symbol and you still think it's fine? You think it's OK to hype on Ukrainians blood, suffering and pain? Wow...

[@nomercy-my7rf]

@@gumidkova she is responsible as well! Her parents voted for putin. Her brother is russian army fan. Why she and millions of other russians who are against of War and putin run to Europe but don't go to protest in russia? Why we Ukrainians die for democracy, freedom and generally for life, and russians can do nothing?

[@svitlanaengstrom5028]

Пропаганда росіі!👎🏻

[@zuzananavarova529]

You dont understand those symbols or lyrics. “My sister won't stand in the corner Nor will she listen to you” is that Ukraine wont stand in the corner and nor will listen to Russia (Putin). That song is support for ukraine. That Russian girl in video eating that soup is metaphor for russians being under control of russian propaganda… Words in czech are about how is ukraine strong, beautiful and no one has right to stole ukraine’s Sovereignty. “We are not your dolls” means that slavic countries like czechia, ukraine, slovakia… has a bad experiences with russian occupation. And they stand up for ukraine with these words.

[@vulturevulture1426]

For me it is very controversial. It is beautifully sang in slavic languages, but I disagree with the gender message, because the video shows that the women are individuals and victims, but all the men are the same and abusers. It makes me uncomfortable.

[@Widdekuu91]

The men are the Russian government. Are there many females in the top of the Russian government?

[@littleblackpistol]

They have my votes, in spades. It's beautiful, meaningful, soulful and catchy and definitely references support for Ukraine against the invader as well as other forms of modern oppression.

[@exoticukraine..5457]

То, что там есть русская переворачивает смысл со славянского сестринства, на то, что Украине надо смириться и снова дружить с рашкой. Здесь тупо подсовывают украинцам "хорошую" русскую "сестру"

[@АлексейЗаботкин-т1х]

Ну так это и нормально, хватит быть промытыть и делать то что от тебя хочет Путлер Я как дружил с украинцами, так и дружу лол, потому что неадекватно ненавидеть кого либо только потому что он родился там, где тебе не угодно, это и есть нацизм и фашизс