I know it’s not a beauty contest but the first thing that struck me about Kobi was his face. It looks very mesmeric, but in a weird car crash kind of way, you can’t turn away from it.
Sadly though, his song seems to be a bit of a car crash too. I’m not sure the writers knew what to do when he won the seemingly inordinately long search for Israel’s artist, and I have a suspicion that “Home” would have been the title of any song.
It has a whiff of “You raise me up” at the start, but veers away from that at the last minute … although the hook of that song remains, as Kobi warbles his way in no particular direction.
The lyrics seem to be a personal justification of being and that’s all very well, but it’s not strong enough in the way “Rise like a Phoenix” was for me to buy into the song.
It’s very earnest, but it’s also a very long three minutes, and I do wish he’d pack up after two. The tune does nothing exceptional and it all feels very contrite and contrived.
Phil’s score 2 points
