BVC | 27th World Hit Festival | Kyvivre, Britonisea

[Britonisea]

12
Anollasia

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Rigas: Anollasia has given their 5 points to...

Rigas: Arioslavia!!!!

[Britonisea]

13
Diarcesia

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Rigas: Right, the five points from Diarcesia...

Rigas: It goes to Arioslavia! We are now going to announce the final points from...from...Britonisea! *Red carpet cheers*

[Britonisea]

14
Britonisea

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Rigas: Okay. It's been great fun. We are going to look up at the screen and when the final nation has been announced, the red carpet will announce who will get the five! *In the meantime, as the camera twirls around to the screen on the red carpet, Rigas gets scurried to the arena to meet mini*

Crowd: 5...4...3...2...1...IZMEDU!

[Britonisea]

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*Camera pans round to Mini and Rigas who is on stage. The stage behind them is dark - the song starts*

Mini: It's time to see where the nations have placed.
Rigas: Who has won the 27th World Hit Festival?

*Light turns on revealing the 14 artists, the scoreboard - blank - is behind them*

Mini: We will release nations 14 to 5 first. Here we go...

*0.24s*

Rigas: 14th place, with two points, Darkmania.

*0.32s*

Mini: 13th place, with six points, Kalosia!

*0.38s*

Rigas: 12th place, with seven points, West Phoenicia.

*0.44*

Mini: 11th place, with 8 points - Todlichebujoku!

*0.51*

Rigas: 10th place, with 12 points is Cheongji.

*58s*

Mini: 9th place, with 14 points is Britonisea...

*Hisses in the crowd* *1.02s*

Rigas: 8th place with 15 points is Ethane!

*1.11s*

Mini: 7th place, with 16 points is Anollasia...

*1.17*

Rigas: 6th place, with 18 points after tiebreak, Normandy and Picardy.

[Britonisea]

Mini: We are now down to our final 5. Who has won the World Hit Festival? I can reveal now...
Rigas: That there has been a 3 way tie for 2nd to 4th place.

*1.46s*

Mini: In 5th place, with 18 points after tiebreak, it's Estogium!

*1.55s*

Rigas: In 4th place, with 21 points, with 6 nations voting, it's Diarcesia!

*2.02s*

Mini: In 3rd place, with 21 points, with 7 nations voting, 1 five and 1 four - it's Mercedini!

*2.14*

Rigas: Who has won the 27th World Hit Festival? It's between Izmedu and Arioslavia. One nation received 21 points, while the other...31 points. Etela, it could be you. The Raven, it could be you.

*On the screen behind, the points for 1st and 2nd were up.

Mini: The winner of the 27th World Hit Festival is...

*2.40*

Both:

ARIOSLAVIA!

[Britonisea]

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*The crowd cheers loudly throwing their Arioslavian flags in to the air. The feel in the arena was ecstatic. The feeling that a neighbouring country had won the contest was something of regional pride. The large Arioslavian contingency in the arena looked very happy too. The camera quickly pictured them. They were crying - with happiness of course. In the time of the song, the colours of Arioslavia were displayed around the arena - and The Raven's greenroom guests also paraded through the arena holding the Arioslavian flag. The camera, after looking at the crying fans, then looked at the Ravens who were handshaking the people on the front row.*

Mini: That is it, folks. You have picked your winner - and you have decided that it will be Arioslavia!
Rigas: Arioslavia received nine votes, meaning it was the most voted song in the competition, it received 2 five points, and 2 four points also.
Mini: And also, before we leave, we would like to say that Izmedu received one more 4 points than Mercedini, making them edge ahead a bit.
Rigas: It's expected that our winners will perform again, so we will remove ourselves from the stage. Thanks very much for watching the 27th World Hit Festival with us. Will we see you in Arioslavia? Only time will tell...!

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The Raven is a punk/Celtic rock band estabilished in 2011. Its members are: Igor Denikin, Amira Ismailova, Viktor Savyelev and Nikita Kruglov. The band represents a genre which is not very common in Arioslavia, as punk rock for many years was perceived by authorities as "too Western and anti-patriotic". This has changed in last 20 years, but Celtic motives are still rare in Arioslavian music. The band, however, was elected to represent the Socialist Federation of Arioslavia in 45th WorldVision Song Contest in Lavington, The Sarian, where their song was placed second, losing only to the hosts. Now, the song returns, this time as an Arioslavian proposal at the 27th WHF in Britonisea.

The song itself is a personal story of Denikin and Ismailova, who married in 2012. Ismailova was born in Shershenia (one of Arioslavia's autonomous republics) in a traditional muslim family, who opposed to her choice to become a professional violinist as "sinful". After she met Denikin, they opposed to their relationship (one of her brothers was arrested for threating her with death).
Denikin and Ismailova decided to write a song about their oppressed love. The song uses a motive of an old Arioslavian legend from sixteenth century. The legend says that Tsar Ivan IV the Cruel ordered his best knight - Grigori - to marry a noble woman. The knight, however, met Alina, an ordinary peasant girl and fell in love with her. During one of their secret night meetings they were seen by a traitorous Orthodox monk, who happened to be Grigori's friend. He reported everything to Tsar, who had the lovers arrested, tortured and hanged near the southern walls of Telgrad Kremlin. When they were dragged off for execution, the lovers were cursed by their own parents. However, next year the disease came and the Tsar, the monk and the lover's parents were all dead. It's said that ghosts of Grigory and Alina still can be seen at Kremlin's southern walls, united in love after death.
And that is what's the song about - a true love winning with obstacles of traditional society.

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The stage is dark, only Ismailova is visible, wearing a long, white dress, which is contrasting with her dark, long hair. She is playing a violin part. The snoop of light reveals Denikin standing near her. The backscreens display a beautiful day view of a green forest and with beautiful castle visible in the horizon. Denikin starts singing:

It was dark summer night
When a girl and her knight
Pledged their love to each other.
No one thought it could even be truth,
As the knight was promised to another.
Then, next day, they were taken away
By the thugs brought by a traitor.
Their love was destroyed and by tyrant's decree
Next morning they hung on gallows.

During the intro the day view of the forest full of live slowly turned into a night view of a withered forest and the castle turned dark and sad. Suddenly, as the music gets quick and more aggressive, light green lights are lighted and the rest of band is revealed. The view of the forest is replaced by a view of sky full of stars, creating an atmosphere of incredibility. The stage is dominated by green and blue colours. Denikin sings the first stanza:

Many years have gone away, but their cries still are heard,
They remind of the cruel slaughter.
Of the moments of horror when the tyrant sealed their fate
And when father cursed her own beloved daughter.
But the loving heart never forgets the pain,
As the pain of love is immortal.
The death couldn't win and the revenge soon came,
And the revenge of the cursed soul is eternal.

The stars in the backround start whirling quickly. The snoops of light concentrate on Denikin:

Remember, hate never wins,
Hate never wins, hate never wins.
The love is so much stronger and
It wins forever.

The flames burst from the stage, as the refrain starts:

They rise up in the midnight to show the world their love again,
Now they are shadows, born by suffering and pain.
Nothing can stop them, gone is their sorrow,
Their feeling is endless, as now they are shadows.

The lights get light blue, as second stanza begins:

The years passed by, but the story still repeats,
Hundreds are sent to the gallows,
Martyrs of love, of a forbidden love,
Another suffering souls and dark shadows.
Their story is sad, no one remembers them,
They have no grave, they just vanished.
They see no light and hear no cry,
Have no feelings as their innocence is punished.

The snoops of light concentrate on Denikin again:

Remember, hate never wins,
Hate never wins, hate never wins.
The love is so much stronger and
It wins forever.

The flames burst again:

They rise up in the midnight to show the world their love again,
Now they are shadows, born by suffering and pain.
Nothing can stop them, gone is their sorrow,
Their feeling is endless, as now they are shadows.

The light gets less intensive and concentrates on Ismailova. The stars are slowly whirling as she plays the violin part. Denikin approaches her and kneels before her for a moment. The instrumental part is getting more intensive, emphasized by lights and bursting flames. Everything stops as Denikin sings the refrain again:

They rise up in the midnight to show the world their love again,
Now they are shadows, born by suffering and pain.
Nothing can stop them, gone is their sorrow,
Their feeling is endless, as now they are shadows.

The symphony of green and blue lights erupts as the refrain is repeated for the last time:

They rise up in the midnight to show the world their love again,
Now they are shadows, born by suffering and pain.
Nothing can stop them, gone is their sorrow,
Their feeling is endless, as now they are shadows.

The beautiful green forest is displayed on screens again. All the lights concentrate on group members and the flames burst and the last line is repeated:

Now they are shadows!

As the song ends, Denikin kisses Ismailova while the audience is applausing.