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fancybelieverdinosaur · 2 years ago

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Haha yeah we got a longer national selection process than the actual Eurovision. Like 5 weeks longer. But in a way when Melfest starts it's a sign spring is coming. Like first heat the sun sets around 1-2 pm and when it's time for the final the days are longer and the sun sets around 5-6 pm. Helps us get through the last part of a loooong cold dark winter.

Looks like the final will be a strong one this with the allegedly best songs from every heat and the ones that were decently strong made it to the semi. I think there are a few clear favourites to win but after Loreen's epic stage performance the others have a very tough task to outperform her. She's on a level of her own. Any of the strongest songs would've probably done well in Eurovision if they hadn't competed the same year.

Nothing is a done deal yet though and Sweden could decide to send someone else. If she won't win I'd like to see this rock band make it. We don't often send rock songs in comparison to Finland 😂 and this is the first time since 2013 a rock band has gone directly to the Melfest final. What do you as a rocker think about them?

Wow, I didnt know Smash Into Pieces was trying for Eurovisions🙌 I really like them. Rise up from them is a really good song. Their song is good. Visually amazing performance 🙌🤯 I really liked the style.

Of course I enjoy rock songs, but in a way my favorite songs in Eurovision are the ones that are really different from what you can listen to on the radio. Like Verka Serducka in 2007. It needs to be bit "crazy" if you know what I mean.

Also I love a good ballad. Molitva also from 2007 is one of my favorite entries in Eurovision history. I really liked Finland's entry in 2011 Paradise Oskar with Da Da Dam.

Actually I will list some of my favorites here:

Me and My Guitar - Tom Dice

Always - Aysel & Arash

We Could Be The Same - maNga

Hold Me - Farid Mammadov

Running - Kallay Saunders

Grande Amore - Il Volo

Dont Come Easy - Isaiah Firebrace

Dying to Try - Brendan Murray

Tout l' univers - Gjon's Tears

Breathlessly - Claudia Faniello

Oops... 🙌😅 So many more good songs, but these are just some of my favorites.

Also still mad that Blackbird by Norma John didnt reach to the finals.

Also fun thing about Eurovision Final is that its around my birthday😅 This year its on 13th of May and my birthday is 14th.

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borisbubbles · 5 years ago

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Eurovision 2010s: 310 - 306

310. Claudia Faniello - “Breathlessly” Malta 2017

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[2017 review here] (Shared with Tako & Martina)

Lol did I forget to rank Claudia, after ranking her much lower before? Well, no, I just have no opinions on her whatsoever. No positive ones, no negative ones, none. So, I have to pick a spot to park Claudia in and I’ve chosen this one, dwi!!!

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309. Ethno-Jazz band Iriao - “For you’ Georgia 2018

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[2018 review here]

As is wont to happen when blowaway winners strike, many Eurovision entrants in the consequative year will try to channel the previous winner’s gimmicks. Iriao’s plan to emulate Salvador through a stripped-down native-language traditional music number backfired massively though: the song & act are two giant duds. I can give them a few props for trying something different, as Georgian eurovision entries always do, but I won’t because borink. :)

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308. Nina Badric - “Nebo” Croatia 2012

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Lolnina. ’Nebo’ is probably the most forgettable song ever in Eurovision. When I first compiled the list, my initial tally came out at 407 songs and I instantly assumed I had forgotten one of the boring 2012 ballads, of which “Nebo” stands out as the most anyonymous (because it doesn’t stand out at all 😏)

(in reality the song i forgot was “Straight into love” lmfao but that one won’t show up soon <3) And I mean, what even happens during these three minutes in which this nondescript song takes place? Everyone is so poorly dressed (not on the least Nina herself), that I’m half-expecting an EPIC dress reveal during the middle eight, but instead we get a blank Rambo banner and a coupious amount of by wideshot. Bore on, ms. Badric.

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307. Evelina Sašenko - “C’est ma vie” Lithuania 2011

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An uninspired Disney ballad without any base charm. She has a great voice, I guess? The sign language tho....🤮 ________________________________________________________________

306. Sennek - “A matter of time”. Belgium 2018

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[2018 review here]

BEFORE IT ALL ECHOES-ECHOES AND FLOPS.

Honestly guys, just read my 2018 review because it’s one of the best write-ups I’ve ever written on this blog and it details the flaws in “A matter of time” better than any rehash could. I’ve written enough rants, both here and on ESCUnited to last me a lifetime. 😊

However, I will recognize that I’m very harsh on Sennek: “A matter of time” is a very good song still and there is even *some* ironic amusement to be found in the song becoming its own self-fulfilling prophecy and I love how ”countries throwing away easy qualification due to laziness and arrogance” can now be equated to ‘pulling a Sennek’. So while ‘A matter of time’ IS an embarrassment in the eyes of this Belgian, I can’t bring myself to rank it any lower than this.

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