"Devojko" is a single by the Macedonian male band Bravo Band

Bravo Band

Bravo Band is a Macedonian popular music group. The band consists of 5 members - Aleksandar Tasevski, Zivko Dinev, Dragan Iliev, Dejan Mladenovski and Zoran Kirijakovski. Since 2009 member of the band was Riste Tevdoski too...

. It was their entry for the Macedonian Eurovision Selection or Skopje Fest 2009. It was presented in the second semifinal night and it qualify for the final where it finished on the 10th place.

Production history

The song was specially made for the coming than Skopje Fest 2009. It is sang just by one of the lead singers in the band - Riste

Riste Tevdoski

Riste Tevdoski is a Macedonian singer and was the lead singer of the popular Macedonian band Bravo Band. He started his career in the show hosted by the Macedonian presenter Lila Stojanovska together with Bravo Band. But from 2009 he pursues a solo career....

 as result of the throw operation that the other singer Aleksandar had made. The music of the song is made by the famous Macedonian pianist Simon Trpčeski

Simon Trpceski

Simon Trpcheski , OMM , is a Macedonian classical pianist. In 2002, he received his degree in music from the University of St. Cyril and St. Methodius in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, where he studied with Professor Boris Romanov...

 and the lyrics were written by his older brother Jovan Trpčeski. The arrangement on the song gave Darko Dimitrov

Darko Dimitrov

Darko Dimitrov ) is a Macedonian record producer, songwriter, arranger and record executive. Highly acclaimed for revitalising the Macedonian mainstream pop music scene, which also influenced the surrounding Balkan countries, he also received international recognition for working with many popular...

 and the song was recorded in his music studio M2 too. The fully made song was sang completely in Macedonian

Macedonian language

Macedonian is a South Slavic language spoken as a first language by approximately 2–3 million people principally in the region of Macedonia but also in the Macedonian diaspora...

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Skopje Fest 2009

The song was first presented in the second semifinal of Skopje Fest performed as 11th.. After a lot of thinking how to present this song written by Simon Trpčeski

Simon Trpceski

Simon Trpcheski , OMM , is a Macedonian classical pianist. In 2002, he received his degree in music from the University of St. Cyril and St. Methodius in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, where he studied with Professor Boris Romanov...

 they decided to made classical performance of it - the band is on the stage and Riste

Riste Tevdoski

Riste Tevdoski is a Macedonian singer and was the lead singer of the popular Macedonian band Bravo Band. He started his career in the show hosted by the Macedonian presenter Lila Stojanovska together with Bravo Band. But from 2009 he pursues a solo career....

 is in front singing on a static microphone. In the semifinal they finished 4th with 15 points (7 from the audience and 8 from the jury) and with that they qualified for the final. In the final night of the contest that was carried on the 21st of February they performed as 4th and finished on the 10th place out of 16 with just 3 points from the audience.

Explanation of the lyrics

As the name "Devojko" (Girl) is saying, in the song is singing about a girl. The singer starts the song saying that from far away is listening music with a good rhythm. The girl is coming and it shakes her body. She sent views to him and calls him to go to her and with all that he goes crazy. The chorus comes where he says that his heart and mind are fighting and says to the girl to don't play with a fire. He is feeling that easily she is killing him as the rhythm goes. In the second part of the song he says again that without embarrass she is sending views to him. He again says that is going crazy. The song is continuing with the chorus. The lyrics are made by Jovan Trpčeski.

Music video

The music video was filmed two mounts after presenting the song to the Macedonian audience. It was filmed by Vladimir Mitreski - Gjule and Republica Production. The filming of the video took place in some studio locations around Skopje

Skopje

Skopje is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Macedonia with about a third of the total population. It is the country's political, cultural, economic, and academic centre...

. In the video there is a beautiful girl that trise to flirt with the lead singer Riste

Riste Tevdoski

Riste Tevdoski is a Macedonian singer and was the lead singer of the popular Macedonian band Bravo Band. He started his career in the show hosted by the Macedonian presenter Lila Stojanovska together with Bravo Band. But from 2009 he pursues a solo career....

. The band made a promotion of the video in Coffe Red, Skopje

Skopje

Skopje is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Macedonia with about a third of the total population. It is the country's political, cultural, economic, and academic centre...

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Release history

Country	Date	Language
Macedonia Republic of Macedonia Macedonia , officially the Republic of Macedonia , is a country located in the central Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe. It is one of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, from which it declared independence in 1991...	February, 19	Macedonian Macedonian language Macedonian is a South Slavic language spoken as a first language by approximately 2–3 million people principally in the region of Macedonia but also in the Macedonian diaspora...