This song arrogantly starts off by the sentence “Here’s your favorite song on the radio”. I can’t really seem to recall that I’ve heard this one on the radio, and if I did I doubt it would be my favorite. Turkey has for some reason become the rock’n’roll nation of the contest, and last year that took them all the way to the bitter second place. Although these Turkish rock bands are by no means Bon Jovi or AC/DC, I believe the reason why these mediocre pop-rock numbers does so well is because they feel refreshing somehow and you actually distinguish them from the rest of the songs.
Unfortunately though, this year’s rock-Turks are very forgettable. Yüsek Sadakat has been around since the late 90’s but they only grew popular about 5-6 years ago. Two studio albums later, they decided to go international and try to gain a place on the European star map by entering the ESC with this yawn of a song. It’s all about living it and how life is beautiful, and I’m sure being a rock star in Turkey is awesome, but I somehow find it hard to buy into what these guys are saying. There is no energy on the stage, the song has no personality and it feels like it’s a bad version of something you’ve a thousand times before.
The whole number just feels very slow, the band looks old and the members are not cool or attractive in any way. I guess looks shouldn’t really matter, but forget about being politically correct because this number would clearly have been much better had it been song by someone young and hip. It still wouldn’t have changed the fact that it’s a boring and outdated song, but a good stage-show could maybe have distracted us from the music itself. Well let’s be honest – that is an often used trick in the ESC. 
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