It's My Life (Cezar Song)
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"It's My Life" is a song recorded by Romanian singer Cezar, released as part of a
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in 2013 through the
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(TVR). It was solely written and produced by Cristian Faur. Musically, the track has been described as an
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and
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song, with the latter genre being predominantly present in the track's
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. A love song, its instrumentation consists of
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beats, while Cezar prominently uses his "feminine"
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register. Reviewers likened his vocal delivery to the works of Scottish singer
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and Australian musician
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. "It's My Life" represented Romania in the
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in
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, Sweden after winning the pre-selection show ''
Selecția Națională Romania has been represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 23 times since its debut in , and has placed in the top ten six times. Its best results were achieved with "Let Me Try" by Luminița Anghel and Sistem in , and "Playing with Fire (Paul ...
''. The country reached 13th place in a field of 26, scoring a total of 65 points. Cezar's show featured him dressed in a black
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cloak standing between
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tubes, while dancers who emerged from a red material placed under him performed
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. The performance was met with mixed reactions and often featured in publications' lists of Eurovision's most outstanding and peculiar performances. The track itself received similar reviews, with critics arguing over its catchiness, originality, composition and dance nature, as well as over Cezar's vocals. In order to promote and support "It's My Life", Cezar embarked on a tour in Belgium, Netherlands and the United Kingdom in 2013. An accompanying music video was filmed by Faur in several Romanian locations including the
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resort, Cliceni aerodrome and
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, and was uploaded to the singer's official
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channel on 1 May 2013. TVR also broadcast the visual for the first time on the same date. It portrays Cezar
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, driving a Mercedes car and
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, as well as residing with model Sarah Ioana Mircea. The track was covered by Macedonian singer
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and Romanian recording artist Florin Ristei during the
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and
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versions of interactive
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'' respectively.


Background and composition

"It's My Life" was solely written and produced by Cristian Faur. It was released as a
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through the
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(TVR) in 2013, containing a karaoke version alongside the original track. The accompanying cover artwork was photographed by Paula Buciuta, while the package was designed by Bristena de Satmaari. Musically, "It's My Life" has been described as an
operatic pop Operatic pop, pop-opera or popera is a subgenre of pop music that is performed in an operatic singing style or a song, theme or motif from classical music stylized as pop. The subgenre is often performed by classical crossover singers and acts, ...
and
dubstep Dubstep is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in South London in the early 2000s. The style emerged as a UK garage offshoot that blended 2-step rhythms and sparse dub production, as well as incorporating elements of broken ...
song, with the latter genre being pronounced during the track's
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which uses a
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bought from service Vengeance Audio. Faur referred to the song as an "
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opera" number, while Eduard Fernández from '' El Mundo'' regarded its genre as "unclassifiable". "It's My Life" is a love song and its instrumentation consists of "angy"
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beats taken from a "working men's club", as noted by ''
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''. An editor of the aforementioned publication compared Cezar's prominent use of his
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register during the song to Scottish singer
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and Australian musician
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; another critic thought he sounded "feminine".


Critical reception

Upon its release, "It's My Life" was met with mixed reactions from music critics. An editor of '' Tribune Business News'' wrote that the song had one of the best refrains among Romania's Eurovision entries, while '' The Daily Edge'' ranked it fourth in their list of "14 best Eurovision songs in recent years". Fans of the recording include Welsh singer
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. Reviewers from
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had both positive and negative opinions of "It's My Life", praising Cezar's vocal delivery, as well as the song's catchiness, originality and dance nature, but criticizing its "generic" lyrics, genre crossover, and naming it "excruciating to listen to". Overall, the reviewers on the website gave the song 5.71 out of 10 points. In a 2016 Wiwibloggs poll called "What is your favourite Eurovision song from Romania?", "It's My Life" finished in eighth place with over 300 votes. In a more negative review, Adam Postans of ''
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'' satirically called it a "potential
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advert anthem". Ryan Barrell of ''
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'' criticized the track's use of dubstep elements as "utterly ridiculous".


Music video and promotion

An accompanying music video for "It's My Life" was uploaded to Cezar's official
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channel on 1 May 2013, and was also exclusively premiered on the same date on TVR's ''Telejurnal'' segment. It was filmed by Cristian Faur in Romania at the
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and on the
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. Production was handled by Artside,
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and Radu Hantig, while
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Alexandru Prepeliţă and make-up artist Ruxandra Mihaia Caranfil were also hired. Magdalena Ciubotariu and Vlad Tofan were credited for
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and direction. The clip's "full of adrenaline" plot presents Cezar
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, driving a Mercedes SL350 and
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, as well as showing up with model Sarah Ioana Mircea. Regarding the music video, he explained that it was "designed as a 'statement' video, it implies a clear message: 'It's My Life – it's my life, I live it the way I feel!'" To further promote the song, Cezar embarked on a tour in Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Belgium. In 2017, Macedonian singer
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sang "It's My Life" and impersonated Cezar on '' Tvoje lice zvuči poznato'', the Serbian version of interactive
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franchise series ''
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''. On the Romanian version of the aforementioned series, '' Te cunosc de undeva!'', Romanian recording artist Florin Ristei performed the song in 2014.


At Eurovision


National selection

The
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(TVR) organized the ''
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'' in order to select Romania's entrant for the
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and opened the submission period for artists' and composers' entries between 14 January and 6 February 2013. The event consisted of two semi-finals on 23 and 24 February respectively, and the final on 9 March 2013. Cezar qualified in second place from the first semi-final behind "Unique" by
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, after the votes of an expert jury panel (ten points) and the televoting (eight points) were combined, resulting in 18 points. Subsequently, "It's My Life" was chosen to represent in Romania in the contest by the same voting system, gathering 20 points in the final, which were composed of eight jury and 12 public points.


In Malmö

The Eurovision Song Contest 2013 took place at the
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in
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, Sweden and consisted of two semi-finals on 14 and 16 May, and the final on 18 May 2013. According to the Eurovision rules, all participating countries, except the host country and the " Big Five" (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom), were required to qualify from one semi-final to compete for the final; the top ten countries from the respective semi-final progressed to the final. Cezar sang 17th in the second semi-final following
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, while he performed 14th in the Grand Final following
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and preceding the
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. Cezar's performance begins with him standing between red and blue
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tubes that are lowered to the stage by a
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mechanism. He wears a long black
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cloak and is placed on red material. Behind the singer, the
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screen displays lightning bolts, "emphasising the extreme passion within the song". The color red becomes more pronounced onstage as the show continues, and three semi-naked dancers emerge from the aforementioned material. They perform
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and wave pieces of the material in front of Cezar. Towards the end of the performance, the singer and the lighting tubes rise 15 ft above the stage, with Cezar singing to a female background dancer wrapped in red material that is now at the same height as him.
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are also used, including flames, fireworks and confetti "lighting up the arena in a big finale". The performance was received with mixed reviews from critics. An editor of ''The Times'' thought it was of a "hysterically
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nature" and likened Cezar's appearance to ''
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'' character
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(1934). While comparing Cezar to
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, Geoff Tibballs, in his book ''The Good, the Bad and the Wurst: The 100 Craziest Moments from the Eurovision Song Contest'', labelled the performance as "gloriously over-the-top". Several publications included Cezar's show in their lists of Eurovision's most outstanding and peculiar performances, including ''
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'', ''
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'',
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, and the ''
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''.


Points awarded to Romania

Below is a breakdown of points awarded to Romania in the second semi-final and Grand Final of the contest. On the first occasion, the country finished in fifth place with a total of 83 points, including ten from
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,
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,
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and
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, eight from
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, and seven from
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. In the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest, Romania finished in 13th position, gathering a total of 65 points, including ten awarded by
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and Greece, seven by Malta and six by
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, Iceland and Azerbaijan.


Track listing

*Romanian CD single #"It's My Life" – 3:00 #"It's My Life (Karaoke Version)" – 3:00


Release history


References

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