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esc-is-holding-me-hostage · 1 year

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some NF opinions

Decided that I want to post about NFs without reviewing each song like I did with Vidbir. Here's the first batch: Festivali i Këngës had several songs that I kiiiinda liked. Duje was not one of them. Në çdo hap, Vështirë, Kozmosi i dashurisë were the ones I liked, but not in a "I'd listen to it outside of ESC context" and more in "I would not completely hate it if they went to ESC" My favorite artist was definitely that one lady who did everyone's backing vocals. Special shoutout to 2 Farm for looking like evil Circus Mircus. Belgian Eurosong was probably the biggest disappointment so far. Not because the songs are THAT bad, but because Belgium is one of my favorite countries in ESC and their selection this year is just meh. We've got everything ranging from "Billboard hot 100 minor hits from 2013" (Hunter Falls) to "ESC 2011 non-qualifier" (Loredana). My pick would be Ça m’ennuie pas. Either of Gala's song and Oceanside are also ok I guess. Eesti Laul is mid as usual. Okay, maybe slightly better than last year. Tuju is the one I liked the most but it probably has less to do with the song and more with their awkward shtick in the MV. Tokimeki is cute but I'll listen to anything as long as it's in Japanese so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Venom seems to be one of the fan favorites and I tend to pick rock songs as my favorites in situations where there is nothing better, but not this time, sorry. It sounds like a lovechild of Three Days Grace and Nickelback and it is not even charmingly over-the-top edgy like Dark Side was in 2021. Benidorm Fest is alright. There is nothing outrageously bad, I'd give them that, but the selection does not feel as diverse as it was last year. Arcadia is 100% my favorite. The "might add to my Spotify playlist" kind of favorite, which is the highest praise I can give to a song. I have no hopes of it winning though. MESC and Selecția Națională are... dreadful. The songs are mediocre to very, very bad, and the production value, man... Romanian broadcaster did not even bother to release the songs so we have to make do with videos contestants filmed on their smartphones. Which still might be better than those awkward MESC videos. Like, at this point, when you have no remarkable songs and no money to make an entertaining show then why bother? Why just not go internal? MGP is, well about what you'd expect from MGP. Jowst's song is the worst excuse for a past contestant's return since Alexandr Rybak in 2018. She, Queen of the Kings runs to the hills, oh wait. I might like Elsie's and Eline's songs but I have to wait till the full songs are released to give my full judgment. Freya is fine, I won't be mad if it wins. Supernova is leagues, miles better than it was last year, but that's a very low bar to clear. Thank gods they've ditched the joke songs. Sway is my winner, no competition here. Inspo were my favorites last year and Sway feels like an improvement over Happy Place. Patrisha's song is also pretty good and I'm happy that the fandom seems to like both of them so maybe there's a chance that one of them wins. Weird trends I've noticed so far: neo-swing (Prohibition, Puppet, Guess What), drag queens (Skrellex, Sharonne, Greta Tude), Japanese... stuff. Artists, band names, song names, Slovenia's Joker Out has a very J-rock sound. Who knows, maybe we will see another Junko Enoshima cosplay this year.

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keehaag · 7 years

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womenofesc · 7 years

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#esc estonia #birgit #liis lemsalu #esc 2013 #eesti laul #national finals #birgit õigemeel

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borisbubbles · 5 years

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Eurovision 2010: 80 - 76

80. Birgit - “Et uus saaks alguse” Estonia 2013

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It is easy to write Birgit’s superhigh ranking off as my pro-Estonia bias, but I actually did NOT like “Et uus saaks alguse” until the semifinal aired. 🤭 You see, 2013 was the first year I followed preselections and i was SMITTEN by the quirky Lõhmus song Birgit beat in EL. You may have heard of “Päästke Noored Hinged”, and if you haven’t educate yourself now and return here once you’re finished. Ready? Okay, let’s continue~

Anyway, Birgit is just... so adorable? So charismatic? Such a soothing, likable presence? Her magical voice and hypnotic swaying was the exact medicine to treat my Paia ptsd. Before I knew it, I was humming the chorus without thinking about it twice, singing a self-made Dutch translation in the shower on a daily basis. In the end, Birgit won me over, which I think you’ll agree, is a stronger phrasing of words than “I fell in love”. A true example of an underrated gem who deserves more love and attention.

After the contest, Birgit gave birth to a healthy son, continued to live a happy life with her family, occasionally cropping up in Eesti Laul as a juror or in a hilarious collab with Tanja. This ending to her arc pleases me almost as much as “Et uus saaks alguse” did, because if there’s any europerson (besides Valentina Monetta and Ieva Zasimauskaite) that I wish all the happiness in the world, it is Birgit Õigemeel.

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79. IVAN - “Help you fly” Belarus - 2016

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If I can fly, then you can flyyyyYYYyyyYYYoyoyoohoyojojkoghkooo

With 330+ of read updates under your belt, it should hardly be a surprise to you that I LOVED “Help you fly” the second I heard it, because is there anything as timeless, as ethereal, as enjoyably dated as 80s electronic ska? NO I DON’T THINK SO. TAAAAAAAAKE OOOOOOOOOOON MEEEEEEEEEEEE However, I don’t think anybody expected IVAN to reveal his true Crazy Person Colours in the months after his selection. 😍 The first inkling came when IVAN insisted “Help you fly”s uplifting message would only be done justice if he did it starkers AND flanked by REAL WOLVES. When the EBU was like “um no wtf you crazy man”, being, you know, the sane boring people we know them to be, IVAN resorted to high-tech CGI to get his ~artistic vision across~

Lol I often joke about the insanity found at Eurovision but IVAN might be insane for real, which... is really damn’ fucking awesome because it turned “Help you fly” in one of the best acid trips of all time, while also remaining a good song on top of that, and also ironic because “leave all the madness behind” is one of the few audible lines. 😂 So let us bask in the glory of this:

and this:

and this

It is often said that the line between genius and insanity is fairly blurred and IVAN is masterfully... avoiding that line by going all in. "Help you fly” is absolutely BONKERS and frankly, I can’t help being impressed. Of course, it is exactly like “Telemóveis” in that whatever underlying message it had has completely flown over the heads of the gobsmacked audience, and arguably IVAN himself <3 Every time an entry dismantles our expectations with mind-blowing awesomeness, it’s a blessing. Thank you IVAN for blessing us <3

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78. The Shin & Mariko - “Three minutes to Earth” Georgia 2014

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MORE BONKERS ENTRIES <3 God, I remember EVERYONE losing their damn’ marbles when “Three minutes to Earth” was announced. NOBODY could make any sense of it whatsoever <3 It’s like... a bizarre amalgamation of different world music traditions without any discernible melody <3 A jam session not from this fucking planet. Of course, this made the vast bulk of the fandom HATE it, However... I was always intrigued and soon fell in love with its disarming avant garde hopelessness <3

Appreciation which bloomed into genuine deep affection once I realized “Three minutes to Earth” is a song about... ALIEN ABDUCTION <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

TOLD FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE ALIENS!!!!!!!!!

Which is... really fucking CLEVER, wtf?

Like, if we assume, hypothetically, that a friendly alien race were find the Voyager and decipher how to use the golden records, a song such as “Three minutes to Earth” could very well be their interpretation of our music, abducting and indoctrinating a few random Georgians to share their message of peace and cooperation, with millions of people worldwide. That.. is conceptually the most ridiculous sentence I’ve ever written on this blog, and worse, I believe every word of it. PISS AND LIGHT EVERYWHEEEEEERE.

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77. Hera Björk - “Je ne sais quoi” Iceland 2010

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When in doubt, always bring the agressive euroschlager, and man, Hera Björk is such a force of camp nature. She provided more fire and buzz than the fucking volcano whose name nobody can pronounce (from memory, the name is “Eyjafjallajökull” ^_^) The Eyjafjallajökull mught have held all of the European airports into a chokehold, but in Eurovision it was HERA who ruled (for a brief moment).

also take a moment to ponder on the fact she looks like Lady Tremaine’s cat.

I mean, “Je ne sais quoi” has ~that special something, something just can’t explain~ just kidding, I can and I shall: "Je ne sais quoi” is shamelessly camp, with a cheesy francophone hook, pinging its status as homo-friendly eurotrash to all the gay people EUROVISION FANS that love shameless campy schlager.

What I like the most however are the explicit references to aggressive love-making. “WHEN I SEE YOU FACE I WANNA FOLLOW MY EMOTIONS” Is this song about Hera getting the d this song is about Hera getting the d isn’t it. (“d” being dick or dildo, you pick the option that wets ur humourwhistle the most.) Well, I am happy! Obese people deserve all the happiness in life. Then again, I am saying this as a man big enough to have a cleavage, so maybe that opinion is a bit bias- OKAY MOVING ON.

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76. Maraaya - “Here for you” Slovenia 2015

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Okay, I will be first to admit that “Here for you” slapped SO MUCH MORE in studio version. Arguably the best song Slovenia have ever sent to Eurovision? Definitely the best between Sebi and Cvet z Juga. And the yes, the live didn’t *entirely* live up to the hype... However, a slightly less good “Here for you” is still fucking awesome? LEGIT CHARTABLE SONG THAT ISN’T BORING <3 AIR VIOLIN REALNESS <3

However, you all know that I LIVE for the small moments of incompetence and weirdness, and Marjetka provides two big ones BY HERSELF: There’s of course the hilarity of the headphones & lace dress, but what I’m getting at is the chronic headbobbing: seriously, is this a tic:

This reminds me of 1968 BorisBubbles fave Claes-Göran Hederström and his incessant lip-licking.

(Most lubricated lips in the herstory of Eurovision 😍)

Of course, Marjetka’s persistent headbobbing also had a hilarious impact on her voice, giving her a stuttering vibrato, as she were cycling over a cobblestone road while singing this song. 😍

After doing Eurovision and showcasing their talent to everyone in Europe, Maraaya went back to Slovenia, becoming their Sven Lõhmus and loyally delivering a slew of trashy semi-chartable shitsongs into EMA every year since, winning with none of them. 😍

#Eurovision #Eurovision Song Contest #Slovenia #Iceland #Georgia #Belarus #Estonia #Birgit Õigemeel #IVAN #Aleksandar Ivanov #Help you fly #Et uus saaks alguse #The Shin #Mariko #Three minutes to Earth #Hera Björk #Je ne sais quoi #Maraaya #Here for you

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mexicaneurolover · 5 years

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Eurovision 2019 my top 41 before the shows

So hey!!! After many many months of NF’s, internal selections and lots of eurodrama, finally I’m able to write about my first impressions about the 41 (SHOULD’VE BEEN 42) participating entries in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. I’ll write short opinions of the entries and the full tea will be here after the live shows, so let’s begin:

1st Place: THE NETHERLANDS/Duncan Laurence-Arcade: Hands down, this is one of the most beautiful songs I’ve ever heard in my life, the music is pretty, the lyrics are amazing and I cry while listening to this, which is a good sign. Praying for Amsterdam 2020.

2nd Place: SWITZERLAND/Luca Hänni-She got me: Switzerland... another pleasant surprise, and with one of my fave artists, this song is fire and C’MON EUROPE, PLS DON’T IGNORE SWITZERLAND.

3rd Place: AZERBAIJAN/Chingiz-Truth: Azerbaijan... you really surprised me this year, the music is stunning, he’s so charming and it’s one of the best songs IMO, and I’m expecting this to be a dark horse.

4th Place: ITALY/Mahmood-Soldi: Even if he wasn’t my fave to win Sanremo, the final night changed my mind with this one and it’s such a bop, and I’d like this to be in the top 3 in the final.

5th Place: ALBANIA/Jonida Maliqi-Ktheju tokës: This entry has a very powerful message and Jonida’s voice is simply a delight, the music is so good and this has a lot of potential to do well, with the right staging.

6th Place: ICELAND/Hatari-Hatrid mun sigra: If my 2013 self watched this, he’d die, but yeah... WHAT A SONG!!! This usually isn’t my cup of coffee but I don’t know why I like this, must be the music and the chorus, yeah.

7th Place: POLAND/Tulia-Pali się (Fire of love): Folk rock? In my top 10? YES!!! This has everything I like, a powerful melody, nice voices and it’s so catchy, my fave Polish entry in the 2010′s.

8th Place: MALTA/Michela-Chameleon: Usually I put Malta in my lower spots, but this... is... an IMPROVEMENT, this is the best song they’ve sent in years and I hope this to be big in Tel Aviv.

9th Place: NORWAY/KEiiNO-Spirit in the sky: What a good song!!! This is a very schlagery song with ethnic elements, this song is pure perfection and it warms my heart.

10th Place: RUSSIA/Sergey Lazarev-Scream: King Sergey is back!!! And with a nice ballad, which he delivers so good, this might not be You Are the Only One but this has it’s charm, and I’m expecting this to do well in May.

11th Place: SPAIN/Miki-La Venda: OH POR DIOS!! Spain this year has a very amazing song, and it was the one who stood out the most at Operación Triunfo, he has a lot of charisma and power, and i hope they’ll finish outside the bottom.

12th Place: CYPRUS/Tamta-Replay: Another queen with a bop, even if this reminds me a lot of Fuego, this has a lot of charm, the music is good and if she delivers it good on stage, this will be a contender.

13th Place: ARMENIA/Srbuk-Walking out: Srbuk is not half a goddess, she’s a full goddess, and this entry is perfect, nice music, the beat is powerful, and I hope she does well.

14th Place: GREECE/Katerine Duska-Better love: This entry is very amazing, and with every listen it gets better and better, the music is cool, her voice is so special and it has potential to win the contest.

15th Place: SWEDEN/John Lundvik-Too late for love: Me having Sweden outside the top 10 before ESC is something new for me, but still I like this song, his voice is amazing and the music is good, certainly it will do well.

16th Place: PORTUGAL/Conan Osiris-Telemóveis: This entry is magical for me, the music is very avant garde and he has an amazing voice, and if this doesn’t qualify I’ll be so sad.

17th Place: SLOVENIA/Zala Kralj & Gašper Šantl-Sebi: When this won EMA I hated it because it beat Raiven, but time made this grew on me and it’s so cool and... wow.

18th Place: NORTH MACEDONIA/Tamara Todevska-Proud: A big big ballad, but it’s very good, I love how this builds up and I want to see this live.

19th Place: DENMARK/Leonora-Love is forever: A cute entry, this is sweet, nice, her voice is good and I loved the chair in DMGP, nice indeed.

20th Place: SAN MARINO/Serhat-Say na na na: WHAT A COMEBACK FOR A KING, this is very funny as well and I’d die if this qualifies, and i’m bopping so hard to this.

21st Place: BELGIUM/Eliot-Wake up: This guy has a nice voice and this song is in the line of City Lights which was my 2nd in 2017, so i’m so eager to see the staging and appreciate it’s beauty.

22nd Place: LATVIA/Carousel-That night: This one when it won Supernova was one of my faves, then it slipped out and now it’s recovering places, a very moody song and it’s very cool.

23rd Place: CZECH REPUBLIC/Lake Malawi-Friend of a friend: Awwww one of the biggest growers in me, this song is fun, catchy and it makes me dance, I want this to qualify so badly

24th Place: HUNGARY/Joci Pápai-Az én apám: This is a very lovely entry, and I know how is his voice so I’m expecting a lot of this one.

25th Place: BELARUS/ZENA-Like it: It’s nice for me because it reminds me of the late 90′s-early 00′s songs, and it’s catchy, I like this.

26th Place: SERBIA/Nevena Bozović-Kruna: Woooow stunning voice, she has a lot of stage presence and it’s a pleasant song, a very good one indeed.

27th Place: ROMANIA/Ester Peony-On a Sunday: He is where my “top 10″ starts, this is a very very great song, I like the melody and the performance at Selectia Nationala was so good.

28th Place: ISRAEL/Kobi Marimi-Home: He certainly has the voice, but this song is a bit flat and it bores me after a while, it promises a big deliver but nothing comes, but not a bad song.

29th Place: IRELAND/Sarah McTernan-22: This is one of the songs that I need to be in certain mood to enjoy, not a bad choice but yeah, a bit off putting

30th Place: FINLAND/Darude ft. Sebastian Rejman-Look away: Again, another song that at first I was crazy about but then I realized this was a bit flat, not what I was expecting.

31st Place: MOLDOVA/Anna Odobescu-Stay: Not a bad ballad but IMO it’s just there... still I enjoy it more than the songs below.

32nd Place: LITHUANIA/Jurijus-Run with the lions: As with Estonia, I had a soft spot for this one, but it’s not longer one of the songs I listen the most from this year, let’s see how this entry delivers on the big stage.

33rd Place: UNITED KINGDOM/Michael Rice-Bigger than us: Not a bad song, it’s just middle of the road for me after all the songs were released, nice voice but it’s missing something.

34th Place: FRANCE/Bilal Hassani-Roi: Okay, having in mind what France has sent in the last 3 years, this is a big letdown, it’s a nice song, I don’t hate it as I did back in January but still, I can’t enjoy this at all.

35th Place: ESTONIA/Victor Crone-Storm: This when it won Eesti Laul was a nice choice for me, but then it slipped out and now I don’t find it special or good, it may qualify but it’s not a nice option.

36th Place: AUSTRALIA/Kate Miller-Heideke-Zero Gravity: Well I have mixed feelings with this one because there are parts that I like and parts I don’t like, but she has a nice voice so let’s see how this will do.

37th Place: AUSTRIA/PÆNDA-Limits: Hmmm... I was expecting something else from her, but this doesn’t go anywhere sadly.

38th Place: MONTENEGRO/D-Mol-Heaven: Also this one is very very very dull, the only thing I want to say is that the videoclip is stunning.

39th Place: GERMANY/S!sters-Sister: Nope, this is also a big no for me, with the first notes I knew this was going to be a snoozefest, so let’s see how will this do on Tel Aviv.

40th Place: CROATIA/Roko-The Dream: Ehhhh... nope, just no, you missed a chance here with me, he sings nice but no.

41st Place: GEORGIA/Oto Nemsadze-Keep on going: This entry is... not very good, and he wasn’t my fave in the National Final so when he won I was surprised, this song isn’t anything special

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sole-cuore-amore-e-droga · 5 years

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Tel Aviv 2019: Straight outta Estonia to Eurovision with a lowkey tribute to Avicii soundwise I guess

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I’m not one of those people to go all their way out to overdefend Eesti Laul as “THE most diverse NF to ever exist songwise”, but even I was disappointed in this sudden rush of radiofriendly pop music that I would rather refuse to describe if I had to endure any of them ever again all at once this year. Remember - Netta won with being CRAZY! Why can’t Estonia be CRAZY even more! Was this secretly a bigger demand from the new producers or so that Estonia would need to out-radiofriendly the Latvians whose goal actually was to find a good radiofriendly song that’s enough for qualification????

Also, I kind of wanted to watch Eesti Laul, but I haven’t really settled with it, as I didn’t have enough patience to watch it one time it wasn’t on Saturday (!!). Even with Eesti Laul usually taking the live tweets from foreign fans into account and displaying some of them on the national Estonian television for good measure. And often showcasing their weirdness through crude animations every so often. But I already saw my Twitter timeline being full of that stuff, and for that I’m happy.

I did have some favourites despite being tired of all this pop stuff, and one of them was the ever-so-gender-ambiguous INGER (I say so cuz I thought it was a guy, turns out it’s a she, yeah), and I kind of wanted to see her win after the lowkey last minute interest towards her? But the televote didn’t seem to want any of it during the final public say, and didn’t even want Kerli (not the Spirit Animal Kerli) through despite of her being “hot” (are we now choosing ESC NF winners based on their looks??? tighten up ffs). Instead the final’s televote thought it’d be a good idea to fuck up the international jury’s expectations by putting through an act that got 2(!!!!!) finalised points from them jurors overall and making it win the superfinal. That televote 12 the act got beforehand was just enough for the guy to last-minute qualify over another act of 14 overall points, and who knows, maybe if it wasn’t for that 12, the winner would’ve been someone else. But it didn’t and we have a last minute qualifier victory because televote superfinal is a thing.

And in the literal sense of the way Estonian minds thought their victor that was unfairly treated by the juries was a Swedish singer Victor Crone and his song “Storm”, which was written by the one and only Stig Rastafarian~ err I mean Rästa. Stig is one mythical human creature that never rests a minute without really wanting to appear in the Estonian delegation somewhere every year - whether as all by himself, with someone else, as a songwriter for someone else, or even as part of a band (remember Traffic, anyone? Now that I think of it, the whole band looks like a puppet-act just for Stig to get to Eurovision and the other band members didn’t even want any of it in the first place). Just exactly what is Stig’s aim here? To "take it back to Tallinn”? To meet new people in Europe because he’s too lazy to travel otherwise? To boast about the many Estonian entries he contributed to? Beats me.

That and Victor Crone being Swedish, therefore a man more suited to Melodifestivalen (where he actually once participated in) and only on Eesti Laul because Stig really wanted to save his voice for this one and tag some randomer along with him just for the sake of yearly input to Eesti Laul. Well, at least Victor is historically joining Sahlene and Sandra Oxenryd as “a Swede represending Estonia for a year because what do we know for the Estonians that weren’t chosen instead”. Let’s check his song out.

First and foremost, as the title obviously states, the song reminds me of the late Avicii’s music style, especially around 2012-2013, when he was just starting to get bigger post-”Levels”-release. Just with a bit more singing surrounding the song because... well, maybe to fill up the song some more in order to not look awkward on stage during an instrumental part of the drop being as long as would be one you hear on the radio.

Then he has this easy-listening generic male radio voice that the audiences can not necessarily reasonate with, but it’s memorable, together with the chorus, whose purpose is to be memorable - you don’t need no message that’s special, you just need a melody to hum in your head for the next few weeks, and that’s basically what Stig was able to achieve with this little ditty. Then there’s the amazingly easy song structure: verse - chorus - verse - (extended) chorus - bridge - chorus (+ song ending). That’s a structure that works on basic songs to make them more user-consumption-friendly and not too overbearingly dragged out. And I enjoy it, just like I did “Light Me Up” last year, which was also sung by a mediocre-live-vocalist-Swede that could have easily ended up 6th in Melodifestivalen edition with such song, sadly. I do acknowledge that it’s basic, but I enjoy it.

The problem the Eurofandom finds with this song is that it’s too basic of a song from Eesti, Victor’s proven himself to be a dull live singer, and the chorus rhymes “like this” with “like this”, and all the self-rhymes are automatically shite. And it’s fine if a song I like has its flaws, but it automatically worries me that its live potential is automatically down the drain because of the singer’s lack of vocal compassion or strenght. That begs the question, why choosing THAT kind of song if it’s totally going to underperform live in Eurovision if the singer wasn’t sick in the NF at the time???

...oh I get it now, you Estonians must have thought Stig deserves another year in the Estonian greenroom. Or you found Victor hot. Or you find it great that a song about a storm actually was originally staged to look like Victor’s in a storm. At least for the televiewers’ eye. Because all that they see in the real arenas is the singers’ backs if they don’t turn around in time.

With visuals like these, why even need a music video! (except that there already is one, look at the beginning of the review)

All in all, all condiments are there: just the sugar, spice and everything nice there’s needed for a song like this to break a fandom like this. You can practically smell the Hesburger grease from this song. I don’t care if that’s a bad thing - if you like the song, that’s fine, just shut up and enjoy... but if you dislike it, welp, there’s no way I can change your mind then.

And a random backing singer. Not that she’s helpful as the one for Ott Lepland or anything, she just strikes like thunder and leaves no lasting impact whatsoever.

Greta Salóme’s imaginary cousin, is that you????

Now excuse me while I contradict and repeat myself some more in the next few paragraphs:

Approval factor: As you might have seen me shading Elina a lot last year, I can safely say that at last I’m spared from her vocal practice entrapped in a porcelain-and-silk dressing!!! I like “Storm” myself so I’ll sheepishly approve the hell out of it, lolol. :-)

Follow-up factor: I would be lying if I didn’t say that after a risky-ish way to get all out opera and then coming back to a safe song after doing well with that opera number weren’t a complete nosedive into an empty pool. Subjectively it flows way better for me, but objectively, and the same could be, once again, said for Eesti Lawl [sic] 2019, it is rather interesting of a letdown? But hey, maybe it was finally time for the Estonians to chillax a bit and cave in to send an Estonian-Swedish pop number after the opera stuff, after the 80s synthpop stuff, after the smooth and slightly orchestrated and a little bluesy number, and heart-grabbing ballads... just so they could keep up their ‘variety’ in case Hungary runs out of ideas and starts sending cop-outs of themselves. They already did it with rehashing one artist and one lyrical idea already this year (the catch is that the father’s alive!), honestly. And oddly enough, they have yet to send something a little more modern/electro-influenced that appeals to the common crowd... (”Running” may not count because not everyone can relate, whereas there are more cases of broken-off love (as if in the other half being a heartbreaker or the first half missing the other half so much that they feel “incomplete” than abusive fathers. Just what I think there is? If I’m wrong I obviously expect to be @’ed in the replies section lol) For this conclusion though I’ll say that my opinion says it’s a ‘’’decent’’’ follow up, but for Eurofans, it’s not very much so of such, idk.

Qualification factor: you may think it’s dead while going to perform in between the more badass entries AND mediocre live vocals, but it won’t at least be the worst Stig entry to ever place - around 14th in the semi at the very worst and maybe in the lower half of top 10 at very best imo. Nothing more, nothing less.

NATIONAL FINAL BONUS

I actually barely even bother with Eesti Laul since they don’t accept my Twitter comments live on their television anyways. Say, were there any Twitter comments live on their television this year? No one on Twitter boasted about it if they saw theirs from what I’ve seen, but what I’ve definitely found from the eager Eesti Laul watchers were some casual and usual Estonian oddities thrown on the broadcast, such as:

• The soft and warm but also random and deranged yearly transitional postcard animations (that were refered to as “crude” earlier in this review), which I commonly know now as “my last two braincells”. Even if the graphical theme itself of this year’s Ee-Lawl were oddly-shaped birds coming out in forms of letters, they didn’t really show up much in the broadcast I suppose, and the best fuckery with my mind this year definitely happened when I saw some of THOSE pop up on my Twitter timeline:

We now return to your regularly scheduled news programm~ wait why are you saying that the scheduled programme should be Eesti Laul

• Even if the most acts themselves weren’t that kooky musically, they were obviously interesting performance-wise. We were greeted with an impulsively quirky crazy cat lady Kaia Tamm who bemoaned the absence of the fluffy creatures in German somehow (you know Germany’s a terrible track-record keeper when the only song in German this year featured on Estonia and the only German in Eurovision this year was gonna be sung by an Ukrainian entrant if she was alowed to), as if a song in full Italian from last year wasn’t enough. Not only did she dress up as Alice in Wonderland with kitty ears, but her costumed dancers were entertaining, the violinist was FIRE and a cute large teddy bear looked cute on stage. Not to mention, someone have rightfully noticed that some costumed felines in the audience looked like as if they were to kill someone:

• Lumevärv too is an interesting thing. Never forgetting Lumevärv. This Inga woman, the fiery orangehead she was, used her 3 minutes on stage the best possible way with dancing with her back turned on at the audience and only looking at the camera, while millions of lights (which is sadly not what the songtitle "Milline päev" means) shone in the audience, creating an amazing mood.

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• Hey everyone, the 10 years challenge is back! This time it’s with the violin virtuousess(???) Sandra Nurmsalu, the lead of Urban Symphony, who deserved much more than a 3rd place. Unfortunately the Estonians did not bring her back to get her desired revenge, which meant that they thought that they woodn’t need no magic tale fairy that’d grant them tree wishes and let her magic wand our out the wondrous [sic] sawdust. I’m already seeing myself out for how terrible this sounded. And it’s a bit saddening about this not doing as well as some hoped, considering she would have brough out the new and the better Jacques Houdek teas:

• Other favourite act of mine from this year, besides the aforementioned “ever-so-gender-ambiguous-looking INGER” with her indie-folk jingle “Coming Home”, was the charming disco-haired Sissi Nylia Benita with a wholesomely radio bop “Strong”, and they both actually looked like they stood a chance in the superfinal vote-up now that the actual Eesti Laul fan favourites, pretty cute pop boys like piano-indie-pop-driven Stefan and electro-pop-and-Kirkorov-driven Uku Suviste, were not receiving enough support by the juries I guess??? I’ll show a video to INGER if anything and link you all to the rest so you could judge these young and beautiful souls to yourselves in a way!

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• Other note-worthy acts include another song about the notorious instrument horsefly in Ee-Lawl’s history that stood even less chance than “Parmupillihullus” but is still fun regardless, and the united forces of Tanja (EE 2014) and Birgit (EE 2013) trying to compose a bigband talk show anthem and dedicating the lyrics for them being ladies with their high heels out on. And honestly, that’s all I’m gonna talk of acts-wise because most other songs were THAT of a radiofriendly-radio-filler that they don’t warrant anything else exciting for me to say.

• No but for real, the voting to the superfinal was completely off-rails. Instead of Victor, juries were there to support that Kerli woman that wasn’t from 2017 (and her soft acoustic song too), as well as Sissi and INGER (but you already know that because I barely read my write-ups before I finish them, hence lots of redundancy). At least that’s all to my knowledge. But everything definitely changed when the televote attacked! And turned the top 3 all male, lol. This voting was rather random simply because the juries didn’t really love Victor, but it definitely took the televote to convince them that “lol Victor is definitely worth of Eurovision!!! screw that he’s non-Estonian!!!” (the difference is that Victor doesn’t have a big social media following unlike Bilal and didn’t win an obnoxiously people-powered talent show unlike USNK from A Dal 2018 - it’s just that he’s more backed by Stig Rästa, and Stig is love, Stig is life.) Honestly, I am all up for unpredictable voting, but if it looks unpleasant to me, then I feel like tuning out.

We’re over with this write-up, thank-fuck-fully, so that you won’t need to hear me lamenting how supposedly cheap “Storm” is ever again. But before that I will have to leave you with some Eurovision 2019 facts coming on: Estonian delegation can be lucky for once - instead of having had to panic for spending an egregious amount of money for a staging detail, this year they don’t have to worry, as the organizers were so shook by Victor’s stormy sky effect, they offered to pay for it themselves!!! Crazy, huh??? (reported for favouritism)

And now I’m done. And we’re moving on to another review and I end up wishing Victor Crone the every best of luck out there. Storm out with a good time well spent! (Whatever that might mean.)

#eurovision 2019 #tel aviv 2019 reviews #estonia 2019 #victor crone #storm #estonia

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Euroviisuesikarsintojen ennakkofiilistelykatsaus

Tänä vuonna aikomuksenani on siis seurailla eri maiden esikarsintoja, painottuen tietysti ihan mielenkiinnon mukaan. Siis national finals, onhan ne suomeksi esikarsinnat? Olkoon. Ruotsin, Norjan ja Viron karsinnat käyn tässä läpi tärppeineen, UMK myös mainittu.

Ruotsi, Melodifestivalen

Eniten luonnollisesti kiinnostaa Ruotsin Melodifestivalen, ekat semit on jo kisailtukin ja siellä on jälleen kerran tarjolla mielenkiintoisia kappaleita ja hyviä esiintyjiä. Ihan lämpimästi voin suositella, katsokaa finaali 9.3. jos yhtään kiinnostaa, siitä tulee hyvä show. Esimerkiksi on ihan jännä nähdä miten Mohombin kaltainen mainstream suuruus istuu Euroviisuihin.

Mitään ehdotonta suosikkia tai voittajaveikkausta nyt vielä ei ole kun semifinaalejakin on jäljellä useampi. Viime lauantain esiintyjistä suoraan finaaliin menneet esitykset Malou Prytzin I Do Me ja Hanna Fermin ja LIAMOOn Hold You vaikuttavat kumpainenkin ihan potentiaalisilta menestyjiltä omassa kisassaan. Kummassakin on aineksia hienoon lavashow:hun ja kappaleet ovat toimivia, taattua ruotsilaatua. I Do Me on tyttöenergiaa täynnä oleva mukavan menevä kappale kun taas Hold You on voimakas duetto jonka vahvuus on ehdottomasti tunteikas lavaesitys jossa esiintyjien välinen kemia pääsee ihan mielettömällä tavalla oikeuksiinsa.

Eniten vielä esiintymättömistä artisteista odotan Jon Henrik Fjällgrenin esitystä, koska tykkäsin hänen aiemmasta kappaleestaan todella paljon. Kisasta jo pudonneissa kappaleissakin on omat hienoutensa, jotenkin kummasti Jan Malmsjön Leva livet jää soimaan takaraivoon ja Arja Saijonmaan Mina fyra årstider, tahallisen tai tahattoman retrohenkinen iskelmäkappale päätyi soittolistallenikin.

Norja, Melodi Grand Prix

Norjan Melodi Grand Prix:ssa on tänä vuonna monta mielenkiintoista tärppiä, kaikenkaikkiaan taso tuntuu olevan aika kova. Ihan muutamalla kuuntelulla tuolta erottuu useampi hyvä kappale. Ensimmäisenä mainittakoon vuonna 2015 Norjaa yhdessä Debrah Scarlettin kanssa edustanut Kjetil Morland, joka yrittää tällä kertaa viisuihin kauniilla norjankielisellä kappaleella En Livredd Mann. Mieleen jääviä ei niin tyypillisiä viisukappaleita ovat myös D’Soundin Mr. Unicorn ja Anna-Lisa Kumojin Holla.

Melodi Grand Prix:n listalta löytyy myös oma henkilökohtainen suosikkini kaikista tähän mennessä kuulemistani euroviisuehdokkaista, norjalais-saamelaisen yhteistyön tuloksena syntynyt KEiiNO-nimisen ryhmän kappale Spirit in the Sky. Ihan oma mielipiteeni mutta Spirit in the Sky räjäyttää pankin, sillä siinä on kaikkea mitä Euroviisulta odotan; nopea, muuta kieltä kuin englantia (tässä toimivana sekoituksena englannin kanssa ilmeisesti jotakin saamen kielistä), eksotiikkaa ja toisaalta universaalia samaistuttavuutta.

Norjan edustaja selviää Melodi Grand Prix finaalissa 2.3. eli samana päivänä UMK:n finaalin kanssa. Daruden kaksi muuta kappaletta saa olla todella paljon parempia kuin Release Me, jotta peittoavat Norjan setin jos lähetykset menevät päällekkäin.

Viro, Eesti Laul

Viron Eesti Laul -kisa puolestaan ratkeaa jo ihan pian, 16.2. eli ensi lauantaina. Semifinaaleja en ole katsonut, mutta kappaleita läpi kuunneltuani voin kertoa että selvä suosikki löytyy ja se perustuu ihan hävyttömästi omaan mutuiluun eikä mihinkään muuhun. Joku ehkä muistaakin yhden ikisuosikkini Moskovan viisuista, Urban Symphonyn Rändajad, jonka lauloi tänä vuonna soolona kilpaileva Sandra Nurmsalu. Tämä on aivan todella subjektiivinen arvio, mutta tämän vuoden kilpailukappale eestinkielinen Soovide Puu on niin kaunis että haluan itkeä. Mitäänhän en voi vielä sanoa kuinka Soovide Puu tulisi toimimaan Euroviisuissa, mutta kappale on kauniin tunnelmallinen ja vie kuulijan matkalle eteerisiin fantasiamaailmoihin. Vähän tyyliin Hobitti meets Titanic. Jotain jännää tässä on.

Muita maininnan arvoisia tärppejä Eesti Laul -finaalista ovat aiemmilta viisuvuosilta tutut Tanja ja Birgit Swingers -yhtyeen kanssa, (Tanja edusti vuonna 2014 kappaleella Amazing, Birgit vuonna 2013 kappaleella Et uus saaks alguse). Hyvistä kappaleista mielenkiintomaininnan tässä vaiheessa ansaitsevat Sissin Strong, Lumevärv ft Ingan Milline Päev ja Viktor Cronen Storm.

Yhteenvetona siis: Mellon finaali 9.3.2019, Norjan finaali JA UMK 2.3.2019 ja Eesti Laul TÄNÄ LAUANTAINA 16.2.2019. Katsotaan kaikki! Muistakaa KEiiNOn Spirit in The Sky ja Sandra Nurmsalun Soovide Puu.

Viisukevät on käynnistelty ja huikeita juttuja on odotettavissa!

#euroviisut #melodifestivalen #melodi grand prix #eesti laul #umk

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