Hungary have had a mixed run at Eurovision, with some results hitting the Top 10, and others falling behind. Today we’ll be discussing the 2011 entry performed by Kati Wolf, titled What About My Dreams, which at the time was being labelled one of the contenders for the win. Although there were high hopes for…
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Iceland holds one of the most interesting national finals, and out of these national finals comes out Eurovision successes, well, for the most part. Recently though, Iceland has been going through a bit of a slump. Since 2015, Iceland have failed to qualify to the final, despite sending songs we’ve loved, or at least found…
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We put our hand in the figurative hat today to pick a song to focus in on, and we thought we’d pick a song that might be less memorable – just for nostalgia’s sake. Well, perhaps this song is memorable, but likely for the wrong reasons. Today we’re going back to 2010 to discuss the…
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For today’s National Final Throwback, we’re heading back to 2013, where Belgium had internally selected the young star Roberto Bellarosa to represent the nation. Roberto had featured on the Voice of Belgium and actually won the competition, making him a prime candidate to perform on the Eurovision stage. We know that Love Kills was the…
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Upon request, today’s National Final Throwback takes us back to a time more recent, 2016 to be exact. It’s a song that received an incredible amount of hype, yet I’ll admit that I really haven’t heard this song much. The song I’m talking about is Afterglow, performed by Laila Samuels. To write this post, I’m…
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Today we’re throwing back to the 2013 edition of Eurovision, and the band in question is the Double Denim Dorians – well, just the Dorians – but we’ll get to their fashion choices later on! The song that we’ll be discussing today is called Lonely Planet, and it was somewhat a step away from what…
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Some label it as Romania’s best Eurovision entry in history, and to their defence, historically, this is Romania’s best result in Eurovision, on par with their 2005 results. With that said, what do I actually think of the song? Today’s Eurovision throwback is Playing with Fire which was performed by Paula and Ovi, and it’s…
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Kállay Saunders produced one of Hungary’s best Eurovision results in 2014 with the song Running, which I enjoyed that year, and in 2016, he returned the national final as part of his newly formed band called Kállay Saunders Band. The song we’re looking at today as our National Final throwback is indeed Who We Are,…
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Today’s throwback takes us back to 2007, where the contest featured a record 42 nations, including 4 debuting countries. One of those was Georgia, which will be the subject of our scrutiny in today’s throwback. Georgia internally selected Sopho Khalvashi, and a national final was held to decide which song would be sung at their…
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Today’s throwback takes us back to Copenhagen, where Eurovision 2014 took place. We’re going to take a closer look at the entry from FYR Macedonia, which was the song To The Sky performed by Tijana. In 2014, we had a lot of favourites, but was this song one of them? When this song was first…
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