More details regarding the Serbian entry “Heartbeat” for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2020 have been revealed.
RTS has revealed additional information regarding the Serbian entry for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2020. The song which is titled “Hearbeat” in English or “Otkucaj” in Serbian has been written by Leontina Vukomanović and Petar Aničić, while the arrangement is by Vladimir Graić and Nemanja Filipović.
This will be the sixth Eurovision or Junior Eurovision entry that Vladimir Graic has been involved with. He is best known for having written and composed “Molitva” which won the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 for Serbia. The full list of songs he has been involved with is:
- 2007 – Serbia – Molitiva – Marija Serifovic – 1st – 268 points
- 2012 – Slovenia – Verjamen – Eva Boto – 17th (Semi Final) – 31 points
- 2015 – Montenegro – Oluja – Jana Mirković – 13th – 36 points (Junior Eurovision)
- 2015 – Serbia – Beauty Never Lies – Bojana Stamenov – 10th – 53 points
- 2016 – Serbia – U la la la – Dunja Jeličić – 17th – 14 points (Junior Eurovision)
Leontina Vukomanović wrote the lyrics for “Lane Moje” which finished 2nd at the Eurovision Song Contest 2004. She has been involved with Eurovision entries from Serbia, North Macedonia and Slovenia and was involved with the nations Junior Eurovision entries in 2016 and 2019.
The lyrics for the Serbian entry have also been revealed, you can checkout the Serbian and English lyrics below:
Heartbeat – English Lyrics
Do you also think of the same thing
When we meet?
How the sky bathes in the sunlight
And the Earth stops spinning in a beat.
Time stands still,
Clocks stop ticking, too,
The wind is left without sound.
I can only hear a heartbeat,
Silent, as the world is spinning around…
It’s clear that the two of us
Are one piece of the same restless world.
How do I get closer to you,
Just to tell you that
It’s clear that the two of us –
Are one piece of the same universe?
You and I are the stars
Of this silent musical of ours.
Tell me, tell me: when we meet,
Is the wind left without sound…?
I can only hear a heartbeat,
Silent, as the world is spinning around.
And it’s clear that the two of us
Are one piece of the same restless world.
How do I get closer to you,
Just to tell you that
It’s clear that the two of us –
Are one piece of the same universe?
You and I are the stars
Of this silent musical of ours.
As if they were angry, sour,
Steps fall silent
In this magical hour.
I can only hear a heartbeat.
It’s my heart, and yours, that’s beating.
And it’s clear that the two of us
Are one piece of the same restless world.
How do I get closer to you,
Just to tell you that
It’s clear that the two of us –
Are one piece of the same universe?
You and I are the stars
Of this silent musical of ours.
Otkucaj – Serbian Lyrics
Da li, da li, da li kad se sretnemo
Pomisliš što i ja
Kako se na nebu Sunce raširi,
Zemlja zaustavlja.
Zastane vreme,
Stane i sat,
Prekine vetar let,
Samo se čuje otkucaj tek,
Tiho dok se vrti svet…
I jasno da smo ti i ja,
Jedan deo istog nemira.
Kako da ti pridđem,
Da zadržim dah,
I jasno da smo ti i ja –
jedan deo istog svemira,
Mi smo samo zvezde,
Našeg tihog mjuzikla…
Da li, da li, da li kad se sretnemo
Prekine vetar let…
Samo se čuje otkucaj tek,
Tiho, dok se vrti svet.
I jasno da smo ti i ja
jedan deo istog nemira.
Kako da ti priđem,
Da zadržim dah,
jasno da smo ti i ja –
Jedan deo istog svemira,
Mi smo samo zvezde,
Našeg tihog mjuzikla…
Kao da se ljute,
Koraci zaćute,
Trena ovog čarobnog.
Otkucaj se čuje,
Srca mog i srca tvog…
I jasno da smo ti i ja
jedan deo istog nemira.
Kako da ti priđem,
Da zadržim dah,
jasno da smo ti i ja-
jedan deo istog svemira,
Mi smo samo zvezde,
Našeg mjuzikla…
Petar Aničić will represent the nation at the 2020 Junior Eurovision Song Contest. The fourteen-year-old will sing “Heartbeat”, which will be revealed at a later date. Since their return to the contest in 2014, all Serbian participants have been internally selected except in 2017.
Image source: RTS / Source: RTS
Serbia made their debut in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest as an independent country in 2006. They were represented by Neustrašivi učitelji stranih jezika on their debut with the song “Učimo strane jezike”, finishing 5th with 81 points. Serbia went on to compete annually until 2010, after which point RTS withdrew from the contest due to financial difficulties. Serbia returned to the contest in 2014 and has gone on to compete in the contest annually.
