AleziRadio Festival of Songs 1973

AleziRadio Festival of Songs 1973
Dates
Final	16th of May 1973
Host
Venue	Amtarani Performing Arts Centre, Metropolitan Zafizamarrah, ZF
Presenter(s)	Madina Sawfana
Musical director	Ishaq Dafani
Directed by	Bernard Hawson
Executive supervisor	Dammah Aufar
Executive producer	Ishaq Ghalbiruddin
Host broadcaster	Radio Zafizamarrah
Participants
Number of entries	18
Vote
Voting system	Each region sends two juries and a public vote where each votes 1-5 for the best 5 songs

AleziRadio Festival of Songs 1973 is the sixteenth edition of the annual AleziRadio Festival of Songs. It was held on 16th of May 1973, which was organized by Radio Zafizamarrah. The competition was held in the newly built Amtarani Performing Arts Centre located in the Northern part of Metropolitan Zafizamarrah, which even then was still mostly empty at the time and was still planned for the expansion of the Metropolitan City, and at that time, only 1500 people live in the Northern parts of the city.

This is the seventh time that Zafizamarrah hosted the competition after 1958, 1963, 1966, 1967, 1969 and 1972 after Masfir Hawraz and Ana Ruhamaina won the competition last year on home ground. This also means that this is the first time that a region and Zafizamarrah hosted twice in a row two times after doing so in 1965 and 1966.

The venue which was the Amtarani Performing Acts Centre was the first venue to host the competition twice in a row, and most of the people who worked on the previous year's competition returned to work on this year's competition, which includes Madina Sawfana as presenter for the competition. The previous winners which were Masfir Hawraz and Ana Ruhamaina was supposed to host the competition, however, they declined due to private reasons which why Sawfana had to fill in the position. The duo still returned to fill in the second interval act.

Shiru Dega'on returned after earning third place last year, both Bristolian entrants last year Edith Marie-Tavalierres and Jacquelyn Newman returned represeting Bristol again this year, and Nevenais, Roivendiere, Esleria, and Nathaniel Le-Vais who was in a group and represented Aramna last edition also returned, however this time they're solidified with the name "NEVESLENA"

This year, a record amount of three groups participated in the festival, those are NEVESLENA representing Aramna, Berlin Group representing Daya Island, and Ibu-Ibu Petroleum Alezia representing Basna.

The entry by Ibu-Ibu Petroleum Alezia was deemed as the first "prank" or "funny" entry to be recorded and competed in the AleziRadio Festival of Songs.

Incidents

Same Taste

The return of the competition to the same venue, with the same logo, and mostly the same people resulted in anger from Zafizamarranians and other Alezians due to the worry that this might result in the decrease of quality in the competition. However the competition was still praised for trying to keep the competition fresh with a new stage design, new scoreboard design, and a new group of orchestra. However, the competition was still protested due to the fact that the competition hasn't been broadcasted to AleziRadio Television yet which means that no one can see the stage and scoreboard design except in the newspapers which oftentimes doesn't show those things.

This makes the edition earning the title of "The Competition of the Same Taste", mocking Radio Zafizamarrah for its inability to find other inspirations of art and venue. Radio Zafizamarrah was criticized for the fact that Zafizamarrah, especially the Metropolitan City, owning more venues suitable to host the competition compared to other regions, which means that Radio Zafizamarrah should have no issue finding another venue unlike other Regional Radios. Radio Zafizamarrah was also criticized for being "cheap" and not wanting to be creative.

It was even rumored that the Director of Radio Pyalivostok, Radio Basna Raya, and Royal Radio of Bristol protested to AleziRadio in a secret meeting saying that if Zafizamarrah was not pressured to find new venue and new identity, then Zafizamarrah had to be stripped of its rights of hosting the 1973 competition and give it to another region, presumably Aramna because they're the only "original six" region who haven't hosted yet as of 1973. However all three radios denied the rumor, with Radio Pyalivostok even supporting Radio Zafizamarrah's decision saying that the responsibility of hosting went to Zafizamarrah must include with the right of keeping the competition like last year if their situation forces them to do such things, and saying that Pyalivostok might've done something like that if the situations forced them to.

Director of Radio Zafizamarrah at the time, Muhariffin Hasyran responded the criticism by saying that the decision to keep the competition almost similiarly as last year was in order to keep costs low, but still bring the songs and spirits of the competition alive and well.

Ibu-Ibu Petroleum Alezia

Ibu-Ibu Petroleum Alezia which consisted of Nurahma, Soeratna Perta, Emilia Souslanaivais, Ita Pertiwi, Soetani, and Moeriyah was met with controversy and booing when the other regions knew that the group was selected as one of two representations for Basna in the AleziRadio Festival of Songs 1973. This was due to nobody thinking that they would be selected and due to the song being "lackluster" and "low quality". This caused people outside of Basna thinking that Petroleum Alezia bribed the Radio Basna Raya to select them in order to receive funding. However Radio Basna responded by saying that they have not received any bribes and that the decision was selected properly and for the public to "have patience".

The leader of the group Nurahma responded to the negative press by saying: "We won't be put down. Basna picked us, We'll represent Basna in the National Competition. We can do this." And Basnaharian people supported the selection of the group saying with the leader of the AleziRadio Listeners Team of Basna saying that that "They're the best group to ever grace ARFOS. Do not kick their dreams off the window because we won't let any of them being hurt in any way by anyone."

Participating Regions and Results

No.	Region	Singer	Song	Translation	Language	Place	Points
01	Zafizamarrah	Ma'aridin Hasyima	هل يعرف حبيبك؟	Does Your Lover Know?	Arabic
02	Daya Island	Lovino Davalinen	Hidasta	Slow Down	Aramnan
03	Tel Hadiv	Shiru Dega'on	לִצְחוֹק	Laugh	Hebrew
04	Bristol	Edith Marie-Tavalierres	When You Need Me	-none-	English
05	Bristol	Jacquelyn Newman	Telegram Me	-none-	English
06	Mosin-Nagan	Benny Kaloshli	გაქცეული	Fleeing	Georgian
07	Aramna	NEVESLENA	Ding-Dong	-none-	Aramnan
08	Zafizamarrah	Mizzi Hawafi	لاحقًا ، يا حب	Later, Love	Arabic
09	Pantabang Islands	Airez Na'usla'i Dadon	A'i Ke'iaha'i Ama'u	There's A Reason	Alezian
10	Daya Island	Berlin Group	Kevin	-none-	Finnish
11	Tel Hadiv	Ma'ersh Alshonet	דו משמעות	Ambiguity	Hebrew
12	Pantabang Islands	Na'orched Orchid Salem	Ma'a'i Ina'ana'ina'a'i Ma'i'a'au	Don't Hate Me	Alezian
13	Aramna	Bettie Marouveslavais	Doradais	Golden	Aramnan
14	Basna	Ibu Ibu Petroleum Alezia	Salam Dari Kencana	Greetings From Kencana	Indonesian
15	Mosin-Nagan	Isa and Maria Berionerie	რატომ	Why Do You?	Georgian
16	Basna	Soeratna Poetrisari	Jangan Khianati Aku	Don't Betray Me	Indonesian
17	Pyalivostok	Ida Novolovsky	Никогда не подводить	Never Fail	Russian
18	Pyalivostok	Eno Rovolovich	Кто я?	Who Am I?	Russian