Liar (Silia Kapsis song)

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"Liar"
The cover artwork for "Liar". The cover features Silia Kapsis in a black bra and a gold-colored shirt, with her right hand displaying a "L" sign.
Single by Silia Kapsis
Released29 February 2024 (2024-02-29)
GenreDance-pop
Length2:59
LabelK2ID
Songwriter(s)
Silia Kapsis singles chronology
"Night Out"
(2023) 		"Liar"
(2024)
Music video
"Liar" on YouTube
Eurovision Song Contest 2024 entry
Country
Artist(s)
Language
English
Composer(s)
Lyricist(s)
Elke Tiel
Finals performance
Semi-final result
6th
Semi-final points
67
Final result
15th
Final points
78
Entry chronology
◄ "Break a Broken Heart" (2023)
Official performance video
"Liar" (First Semi-Final) on YouTube
"Liar" (Grand Final) on YouTube

"Liar" is a song by Australian singer Silia Kapsis, released on 29 February 2024 by K2ID Productions. Self-described as a song that derides "people who live in a fake world with a fake script", it was written by Dimitris Kontopoulos and Elke Tiel. The song represented Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024, where it finished 15th overall.

Background and composition[edit]

"Liar" was written and composed by Dimitris Kontopoulos and Elke Tiel.[1] In press statements given before the song's release, Kapsis hinted that the song would be a dance-pop song.[2] She also later stated that her song was directed towards for people who live "fake" lives, criticizing them for pushing "body shaming [and] sexualliti [sic]".[3] Kapsis, who has further stated that the song focuses about the effect social media has on young women, proclaimed that the song was made to convince people to leave a "façade of fakeness".[4]

Originally, the song was to be submitted to Russia for its national final in 2022, but the country was kicked out by the EBU after the invasion of Ukraine.[5] In 2023, it was recorded as a demo by the Greek artist Melissa Mantzoukis, with whom she participated in the closed national selection of Greece for the 2023 competition. The song qualified for the second phase of the selection, where it got the first place by the audience committee with 693 points, but only third from the artistic committee with 440 points, managing to take second place overall with 1,133 points, behind Victor Vernicos' song "What They Say".[6]

Rumours of Kapsis being picked by Cyprus' broadcaster for the Eurovision Song Contest, the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation (CyBC), were spread as early as mid-August 2023 by OGAE's Greek branch.[7] Kapsis was officially announced as Cyprus' representative for the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 on 25 September.[8] On 22 February 2024, Kapsis released a snippet as a sneak-peek to promote the song.[9]

Music video and promotion[edit]

Along with the song's release, an accompanying music video was released on the same day.[1] The music video was shot in the Cypriot city of Limassol,[10] and was directed by Kostas Karydas.[1] The music video features Kapsis wearing gold-colored attire.[11]

To further promote the song, Kapsis participated in Eurovision pre-parties, including Eurovision in Concert.[12] She also gave away two tickets to the Eurovision grand final via a competition that featured the song prominently.[13]

Critical reception[edit]

In a Wiwibloggs review containing several statements from several critics, the song was rated 6.53 out of 10 points,[14] earning 19th out of the 37 competing songs on the site's annual ranking.[15] Another review conducted by ESC Bubble that contained reviews from a combination of readers and juries rated the song 11th out of the 15 songs in the Eurovision semi-final "Liar" was in.[16] ESC Beat's Doron Lahav ranked the song 17th overall; Lahav admitted that although he thought it had high staging potential, the song itself did not have anything "innovative".[17] In another ranking, Vulture Jon O'Brien ranked the song 24th overall, with O'Brien deeming the song a "watered-down version of the ethnopop banger that reversed its Eurovision fortunes".[18]

Eurovision Song Contest[edit]

Main article: Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024

Internal selection[edit]

Cyprus' broadcaster for the Eurovision Song Contest, the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation (CyBC), announced its intent to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 on 19 May 2023. Originally, CyBC planned to organize a national final to select its entrant;[19] however, the show that was going to be used, Fame Story, was a Greek television show. Due to this, the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT), the Greek public broadcaster, threatened to withdraw from the European Broadcasting Union if no action was taken.[20] As a result, CyBC changed to an internal selection.[21] Kapsis was later announced as the representative on 25 September.[8]

At Eurovision[edit]

The Eurovision Song Contest 2024 took place at the Malmö Arena in Malmö, Sweden, and consisted of two semi-finals held on the respective dates of 7 and 9 May and the final on 11 May 2024. During the allocation draw on 30 January 2024, Cyprus was drawn to compete in the first semi-final, performing in the first half of the show.[22] Kapsis was later drawn to perform to open the semi-final, behind Serbia's Teya Dora.[23]

The Eurovision performance was choreographed by Kelly Sweeney and Guy Amir,[24] along with Dan Shipton being appointed as creative director for the performance.[25] Kapsis performed with four other dancers, including Theo B. Koefoed, Thomas Hegnet, Sebastian Laurentius Nielsen, and Martin Daugaard.[26] The Eurovision performance featured Kapsis wearing a white-coloured crop top and trousers, with a mixture of red and green LEDs serving as the background.[27][28] A background displaying swirls of water circles was also shown.[29] "Liar" finished in sixth, scoring 67 points and securing a position in the grand final.[30][31]

Kapsis performing "Liar" at a dress rehearsal before the Eurovision 2024 grand final.

Kapsis performed a repeat of her performance in the grand final on 11 May. The song was performed 20th in the grand final, ahead of Armenia's Ladaniva and before Switzerland's Nemo Mettler.[32] After the results were announced, Kapsis finished in 15th with 78 points, with a split score of 34 points from juries and 44 points from televoting.[33] Regarding the former, the song did not receive any set of the maximum 12 points; the highest any country gave it was 10 points, with it coming from Greece. One set of 12 points was awarded to the song from televoting; the set also came from Greece.[34]

Release history[edit]

Release history and formats for "Liar"
Country Date Format(s) Label Ref.
Various 29 February 2024
K2ID Productions [35]

References[edit]

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  2. ^ Bijuvignesh, Darshan (3 November 2023). "🇨🇾 Cyprus: Details From Silia Kapsis' First Eurovision Interview". Eurovoix. Archived from the original on 1 March 2024. Retrieved 29 February 2024.
  3. ^ Granger, Anthony (11 February 2024). "🇨🇾 Cyprus: Silia Kapsis Discusses "Liar" & Releases First Images of Her Music Video". Eurovoix. Archived from the original on 29 February 2024. Retrieved 29 February 2024.
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  5. ^ "Eurovision 2024: Με…γνώριμο τραγούδι η συμμετοχή της Κύπρου". dailypost.gr. 8 January 2024. Archived from the original on 6 April 2024. Retrieved 6 April 2024.
  6. ^ Ioannou, Dimitris (6 February 2023). "Melissa Mantzoukis protests Greek selection results". ESCXtra. Archived from the original on 25 February 2023. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
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  8. ^ a b Adams, William Lee (25 September 2023). "Silia Kapsis: Cyprus confirms its Eurovision 2024 singer". Wiwibloggs. Archived from the original on 15 November 2023. Retrieved 29 February 2024.
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