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by The Democratic Republic of Izmedu. . 19 reads.

Jolana/Arijana/Poslie

As it came time for the guest performers from Izmedu to perform, the entire arena was darkened, lights billowing down slowly to the center as a familiar orchestral tune was beginning its first strains of music. A spotlight revealed Vlatka Pogacic standing on the center of the stage, holding two arms out to the audience, and four figures flanking her with guitars and drums as a familiar melody played. Vlatka and the four next to her were Poslie Postojanje, the new Izmeduan faces of WorldVision, on stage playing the entry that sent the country to 2nd place in WorldVision 43, Link“Reckoning.” The version they played was an abridged one, playing the intro plus the first verse and chorus in full, but cutting straight to the Linksong's bridge, the first reprise of the instrumental outro that was a far more intense version of the soft instrumental intro, the final reprise of the chorus, and the song's dramatic conclusion. Vlatka maintained the energy and pain of her original performance, utilizing camera shots to express her emotions, but had also interacted with the band, especially the most with the guitarists. The acoustics and larger size of the arena made Vlatka's vocals and the instrumentation just boom a little bit more, emphasizing a much more haunting vocal effect as the lights switched from varying rays of dark blue and white. The song ended with Vlatka falling to her knees and receding to herself, but the light remained on her.

A familiar looking guitarist clad in a mask appeared on the stage next to Vlatka, playing one recognizable melody as Vlatka crooned the vocal to a song called Link“Welcome Home,” the song that was utilized when Majda Filipovic and Nedeljka Dodovic performed for the Women's Duet final in Synchronized Swimming. The camera maintained a closeness to Vlatka during the song, which had cut a good amount of the vocal with only the first two verses and the chorus intact. LinkAt the moment the song went soft, Vlatka crooned the vocal intro to the long instrumental outro of the song, hitting a high note as she began to reach her arms out as the instrumentation disappeared, the familiar horns from "Reckoning" taking their place. The arena was now bathed in fading white lights that as the song closed itself out, with Vlatka moving backwards with her arms outreached to the audience, in a sense 'heading home' similar to the soldier in the tale that inspired the song itself. The arena lights darkened as the song closed, with Vlatka disappearing into the darkness...

A familiar spinning of a gear was heard after a few moments of silence, eliciting a sudden cheer from the Izmeduan contingent of the audience louder than what was held for Poslie Postojanje. This would be a slow reveal of “Illusion,” the Izmeduan entry that defined Izmeduan participation in the contest, Izmedu's winning entry all the way from WorldVision 38. There was then a lone spotlight that shined on Arijana Kovac, playing the song by herself for the first verse in a Linksomewhat unfamiliar arrangement of the song. The light arrangement remained a haunting white as Arijana played the first strains of the song, with shadows under her eyes.. After that short intro from Arijana, this was where the duo was reunited once again, with Jolana Perko, now revealed as the mystery guitarist from “Welcome Home,” Linkintroducing her powerful vocals alongside Arijana's violin, and now the song's original arrangement has returned. It was a shortened version, skipping straight to the final chorus after the first, that reintroduced elements from the original WorldVision performance, such as static-filled screens when the dubstep kicked in or a purple light palette, with Jolana and Arijana mimicking their movements from the original performance as much as the stage permitted.

Arijana Kovac would close the Izmeduan segment with an instrumental song titled, Link“Winter Wonderland,” playing an orchestral and abridged version of the song that would cut after the song's first chorus where it would go drum-heavy in place of the usual dubstep that Arijana was fond of having in her pieces. She would go solo for this performance, the lights switching to a baby blue as two trained performance skaters made a lap around the stage and performed around Arijana as she played the violin, prancing around alongside them although she did not have skates on herself, 'collapsing' as the song took an orchestral 'fall' and making jumps around Arijana. Those two figure skaters repeated these during the song, then began to circle Arijana once it closed, kneeling in front of her as Arijana played the last few lines of the song, with the stage darkening as Arijana released the bow from her violin strings after the last note.

The Democratic Republic of Izmedu

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