On 14 May 2016, Ukraine won the 2016 Eurovision with Jamala and her melancholic natured song, 1944 this means they.The historical melancholic song sung in Crimean Tatar and English had banked 534 points creating the landslide of 23 points with the first runner up, Australia. Jamala dedicates this song to her great grandmother, who could be considered as a victim of the horrendous incident in 1944.
The 1944 incident in Ukraine, was ordered by Stalin and through this song, the pain and suffering, the anguish, all boiled down to a few sententious minutes of song. Besides the fleeting screams from the latter, which had reached out to myriads, together with the meaningful few esoteric lyrics which could be seen from the part "Where is your mind?/ Humanity cries. / You think you are gods. / But everyone dies. /Don't swallow my soul. /Our souls" .
However, despite giving Ukra, her quote at the press conference, "If you sing about the truth,it can really touch people", really showed the reason for her victory. Albeit the song had had gathered ample of controversies, many claiming it 'political', she really spoke about the truth through the Crimean Tatar parts "Yaşlığıma toyalmadım /Men bu yerde yaşalmadım " which means "I couldn't spend my youth here/Because you took away my peace" as the incident might had happened during great grandmother's youth.
Nevertheless, history is history and this historical song talks about the humanity and how did humanity cry during Stalin's rule. Maybe the reason for this to win, was because of the truth that it speaks, the truth about the lack of humanity during Stalin's rule. Albeit the performance was simple, Jamala's vocals were totally on point yet expressive and the song had succeed in touching the heart of millions. Overall, Sweden did a great job in hosting the show and we hope that Ukraine, will also do a great job in hosting the show next year and lets hope that peace would be found in every corners of this world.
Written By:Ansh
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