Anita: This year, Armenia had a somewhat unconventional process for choosing their act. They decided to take an Armenian representative from each continent, with the most notable being former representative Inga (one half of Armenia’s 2009 representatives, Inga and Anush). The group will be singing the song Face the Shadow, or as it was formerly…
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As I was walking from class to class at my university, I heard the familiar sounds of Conchita’s winning Eurovision entry from 2014, ‘Rise like a Phoenix.’ At first I was like, ‘Hey, that’s Eurovision!’ but then I questioned why a Eurovision song would be playing on the loud speakers. This led me to think…
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Last night, the EBU in partner with Austria’s national broadcaster released the running order for the two semi-finals to be held on the 19th and the 21st of May. Since 2013, it has been up to the production team to determine the running order of the semi-finals, in order to create a more balanced show,…
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Anita: This week, Seth and I didn’t have to look too far into the history books for our national final throwback. We’ve chosen to have a deeper look at Christabelle’s song from the 2015 Malta Eurovision Song Contest. The song ‘Rush’ was composed by Elton Zarb and Muxu, who are not new to the Eurovision…
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Over the last 10 years, Portugal have sent a mixed bag of Eurovision songs – some achieving respectable results, while others failing to reach the final. Only once in the past decade has the nation missed Eurovision, back in 2013, citing financial difficulties as the reason for their short departure. Let’s take a look at the…
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Every Eurovision national final season, there are songs that we would love to forget, the songs that fly under the radar, or the songs that we love to hate. And then these songs get chosen. We think ‘this will come last, for sure’, but by the time May comes around, things change – the song changes,…
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Now that all the artists are confirmed, and the songs submitted, we can start looking at how the show will come together. Whilst the votes are counted, there will be an interval act, and it has now been confirmed that the interval for the grand final will be world renowned percussionist Martin Grubinger. His performance…
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On Sunday night, the Austrian national final took place, where six acts competed in order to win the right to represent Austria on home ground. The six acts were as follows: Folkshilfe – Who You Are – 14 points Zoe – Quel Filou – 18 points DAWA – Feel Alive – 18 points Celina Ann…
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Only days ago, the Albanian representative Elhaida Dani released her Eurovision song. The song, ‘I’m Alive’, was not the original song chosen for the Eurovision stage. Back in December, the Albanian public chose ‘Diell’ as the winning song, but due to unforeseen circumstances with the author of the song ‘Diell’, who revoked the right to…
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Last week, it was confirmed that Polina Gagarina would fly the Russian flag at this year’s anniversary edition of Eurovision. She is a Russian singer, composer and actress and the winner of a Russian TV show, Star Academy. Now, her next challenge is Eurovision, where she will take to the stage with her song A…
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