Everything (Anna Vissi song)

Infobox Single
Name = Everything


Artist = Anna Vissi
from Album = Nylon Euro Edition
B-side =
Released = April 2006
Format = CD Single
Recorded = 2006 - Bi Kay Studios
Genre = Pop, Rock
Length = 3:00 (Original Version)
Label = Sony BMG Greece
Writer = Nikos Karvelas, Anna Vissi
Producer = Nikos Karvelas
Certification = Gold (Greece)
Last single = "Call Me"
(2005)
This single = "Everything"
(2006)
Next single = TBR
Misc = Audiosample
Upper caption = Audio sample
Name = Everything
Audio file = aveverythingsample.ogg Infobox ESC entry
song = flagicon|Greece "Everything"


caption = Eurovision Promotional Cover
year = 2006
country = Greece
artist = Anna Vissi
as =
with =
language = English
languages =
composer = Nikos Karvelas
lyricist = Anna Vissi
conductor =
place = 9th
points = 128
place_semi =
points_semi =
lyrics =
clip =
prev = My Number One
prev_link = My Number One
next = Yassou Maria
next_link = Yassou Maria

"Everything" was the song chosen by Greece as its entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 in Athens.

At Eurovision

It finished in 9th position with 128 points. The song is an anthemic ballad sung in English by Anna Vissi, who is an established performer in Greece and her home country, Cyprus, and who has represented both countries previously in the Contest. The song was performed sixteenth on the night (following the United Kingdom's Daz Sampson with Teenage Life and preceding Finland's Lordi with Hard Rock Hallelujah). Unusually, particularly in comparison to other Contest entries, it was performed solo by Vissi, without the presence of backing singers or dancers. Lyrically, the song deals with Vissi's conflicted emotions on ending a relationship. She sings that she is "still in love with everything I hate".

After Eurovision

The song has had a successful commercial release in Greece and in Cyprus, becoming a number 1 hit in both countries. It has also achieved success in Sweden, reaching number 26 at top 60 during the week of August 10th, 2006. The video for "Everything" has a 'heartbreak' theme in keeping with the tone of the song and features the artist discovering her partner's infidelity and suffering a series of misfortunes before being reconciled with him.

Track listing

#"Everything" (Original Version)
#"Everything" (Valentino Remix)

Contest position

22 countries voted for Greece:
**Bulgaria 12
**Cyprus 12
**Belgium 10
**Romania 10
**Albania 8
**Armenia 8
**Germany 8
**Malta 8
**Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 7
**United Kingdom 7
**Serbia & Montenegro 6
**France 5
**Netherlands 5
**Switzerland 5
**Sweden 4
**Turkey 4
**Lithuania 3
**Belarus 2
**Andorra 1
**Bosnia and Herzegovina 1
**Finland 1
**Moldova 1

Chart Position

Criticism

Greek politician Georgios Karatzaferis criticised the video clip as "defamatory to Greece" in a speech in the European Parliament. The theme of the video clip is that the protagonist has a night full of troubles while wandering in Athens.

The video clip's protagonist, played by the singer, discovers that her boyfriend is cheating on her. She leaves the hotel, kicks parked cars and leaves. Her purse is stolen out of her convertible by a thief on a motorbike, and she leaves a gas station without paying to chase after him. She is then pursued by the police and arrested, but escapes and hitchhikes a lorry the driver of which feels her leg. Resembling a road movie, the clip was criticized for displaying negativity with regards to Greece.

According to Karatzaferis, the video harmed the country's reputation in the eyes of future tourists, and that was reason enough for the European Parliament to hold an inquiry on the matter. No such inquiry has been planned or undertaken at the time of writing.

ee also

*Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest
*Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006

External links

* [http://www.eurovision.tv/english/521.htm "Everything" Lyrics]
* [http://www.annavissi.net Anna Vissi Official Website]