Bosnia's river of words

Bosnia-Herzegovina revealed their Eurovision entry on Sunday after Bosnian TV held an internal selection of both artist and song.

The artist's called Marija Šestić and hails from the Serbian Republic in Bosnia. Her Dad's a bit of an esteemed bloke as he wrote the Bosnian national anthem.

Anyway the song's a ballad and it's about rivers! Inexplicably! It's all very deep and meaningful I'm sure, but this ain't anywhere near a patch on Lejla (last year's Bosnian song which came 3rd). To be frank it's more like Za Našu Ljubav from 1996. If anyone's as sad as me to remember that then they'll recall that it came like 22nd out of 23 or summat.

The fate of young Marija is going to be determined by how many of the other ex-Yugoslavs make it through the semi-final this year. If none of 'em do (let's face it... an unlikely prospect) then Marija'll probably do quite respectably and will get high votes from the other countries of the Western Balkans. If however, say 3 of the other ex-Yugoslavs qualify she may find her voting base slips somewhat drastically.

Simply put, where's the hook in this? It's all very charming, but charming ain't gonna do well in Eurovision.

Mapиja Шecтић - Rijeka Bez Imena (River Without A Name)

The mp3 can be found by following the link:- http://www.box.net/public/mb5j1r7g1f