Probka
 "Probka" | |
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| Eurovision Song Contest 2009 entry | |
| Country | |
| Artist(s) | |
| Language | |
| Composer(s) | |
| Lyricist(s) |
Jānis Elsbergs, Sergejs Timofejevs |
| Finals performance | |
| Semi-final result |
19th |
| Semi-final points |
7 |
| Appearance chronology | |
| ◄ "Wolves of the Sea" (2008) | |
| "What For?" (2010) ► | |
"Probka" (Russian Cyrillic: Пробка; English translation: Traffic Jam) is a song by Latvian singer Intars Busulis, and was the Latvian entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow, Russia. The song competed in the second semi-final of the contest on 14 May 2009 but failed to reach the final, having finished last with 7 points. The song is unusually rhythmically complex for a Eurovision song, with the main verse section played in the unusual time signature of 7/4, and constant changes in tempo. Busulis described "Probka" as "a song about a traffic jam in all senses and meanings. We all have experienced in our lives that we just hurry, rush somewhere and at the certain moment there is a stop, jam or probka. That’s it – there is no way out, we are stuck! This is an appropriate moment to think if it was worth it to run and hurry at all."[1]
The song had won the national preliminary round for Latvia in Eurovision 2009 sung by Busulis in Latvian as "Sastrēgums" (Traffic jam),[2] and seemed set to become the second Latvian Eurovision entry sung in Latvian subsequent to "Dziesma par laimi" (by Fomins & Kleins) the 2004 Latvian entry: however the announcement of "Sastrēgums" as the Latvian Eurovision 2009 entry was followed by Busulis' announcement that the number would be performed at Eurovision 2009 rendered in Russian as "Probka", Russian being the language of Eurovision 2009's host nation.[3] Besides "Dziesma par laimi" and "Probka", there has been one additional Latvian Eurovision entry which has not been performed in English: "Questa Notte" performed (by Bonaparti.lv) at Eurovision 2007 becoming the only non-English-language Latvian entry to-date to reach its year's Eurovision final.
References
- ↑ "Intars Busulis speaks to esctoday.com". ESCToday.com. Retrieved 15 June 2015.
- ↑ Schacht, Andreas (2009-02-28). "Intars Busulis: from Riga to Moscow!". EBU. Retrieved 2009-02-28.
- ↑ "Latvia: To Russia(n) with love". ESCToday. Retrieved 15 June 2015.