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Possibly the least exciting semifinal of the two semis – depending on where your allegiance lies – but with a fairly high ceiling considering that two winner contenders are here and both seem to have delivered excellent staging packages. And yes, I’m predicting a couple of upsets because I love mess.
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As per usual, these are my pre-rehearsal musings based on absolutely nothing (although last year I did pretty decently on these, so there’s that). The overall vibe, in a year that has fans rather divided in terms of overall strength/quality, is that this is the stronger of the two semis, and…
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More songs! I promise I’m almost all caught up!!!!
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The most national finals since 2011! We’re drowning in songs!!!!! Since I’ve reviewed most of these and I have approximately 4826648329 other national finals to get to, I’ll try to focus more on each entry’s execution and ESC prospects.
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I love it when there are literally 4 finals + a bunch of semis all happening at once and I need 15 TVs and 8 sets of eyes. ESC season keeps me supple and young. Here are this past weekend’s winners!
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It’s raining songs!!! ESC season is ramping up with more and more countries releasing their entries and holding national finals, and because YES…I make a point to listen to every single song from from each and every selection, I figured it would be a bit more time efficient for me to…
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I’ve written extensively about what went down at UMK last year and I really do feel like I’ve said my peace – the voting system hasn’t changed, so I’m still a bit wary of what might happen once it’s time for people at home to pick up the phone and choose.…
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I don’t even remember the last time Greece held a national final to select their ESC entry. I have to be honest – while I was not particularly impressed with this selection of songs, I still found it to be an overall pleasant line-up, with several entries featuring traditional sounds and…
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I’ll be honest: I tried to go into this post-Baby Lasagna new edition of Dora keeping a level head, much like a did last year with UMK in Finland, hoping lightning would strike twice while keeping my expectations in check. I’ll open with the good first: I definitely appreciated the musical…
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It’s all happening this week! 24 tracks for Dora dropped today, Finland has started releasing their tracks, the Greek line-up is getting revealed tomorrow, and Lithuania will soon follow. My backlog keeps expanding, but I did take the time to listen to all the MESC entries and I have to say…Malta…
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I’m going to keep it short and sweet because I have 24 (!!!) MESC songs to listen to and review: with a format revamp that cut down the number of entries to 16 resulting in a much more competitive lin-up (as it’s usually the case), Eesti Laul put together a banging…
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Was I a bit harsh in reviewing FiK? Perhaps. It’s not so much that I thought all the songs were bad, but more that none of them stood out as competitive for Eurovision with the exception of Karnaval, which instead sounded like it was engineered specifically for Eurovision. Maybe that’s exactly…
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I am not going to lie: I left last year’s LSC national final with mixed feelings. Lots of money was thrown at the show itself, which was incredibly well produced especially for a new contest, but the selection of songs itself lacked a real point of view or any distinctive identity…
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Benidorm Fest is so established at this point, the tracks’ release feels almost like the official beginning of Eurovision season. Since Spain started taking ESC seriously again three years ago, Benidorm almost managed to single-handedly bring back the contest to Valencia back in 2022, and every Spanish entry since then has…
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I already hinted at the fact that, while I’m absolutely overjoyed to have Montenegro back in the mix at ESC after a 2-year hiatus, I couldn’t quite get into any of the entries in Montesong – the newly established Montenegrin national final – and, beyond my own personal taste, I struggled…
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I don’t mean to sound harsh – I do really respect and cherish Festivali i Këngës, which is one of those festivals that would exist regardless of Eurovision itself, and it is a great window into Albania’s culture and musical roots and, as such, indispensable. That said, I have historically had…
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It’s that time of the year again!!! I held off on writing up a Montesong review because A) None of the songs sounded competitive to me B) We don’t know who’s going to ESC because as of Wednesday, winners NeonoeN have withdrawn after a video surfaced of their entry being performed…
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The Malmö Public Prosecutor’s Office has officially closed the investigation on Joost Klein and the accident that led to his disqualification before the ESC final on May 11. The investigation was dropped and no charges were pressed due to lack of…uh…anything of note actually having happened? A statement released by Fredrik…
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What was that? You need to hear how Cesco and Anthony felt about each and every song that competed in the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö? You’re in luck! The boys are sliding in to your podcast feed with a deep dive into every entrant to wrap up their coverage…
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