In this series, we look at songs from different countries, and songs from the national finals to discuss what would have happened if another song had actually won. We can all think of a time where a song coming 2nd or 3rd, or even last would have done better than the actual winner, and here…
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Before the Netherlands had their Eurovision renaissance in 2013, the nation sent some interesting songs to Eurovision, including the song we are looking at today for our Eurovision Throwback. We’re taking it back to 2006, where the Dutch were represented by the girl group Treble and the song Amambanda. The interesting thing to point out…
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Today’s National Final throwback takes us back to 2014, in Sweden for Melodifestivalen. The winner of the Swedish national final in that year was Sanna Nielsen with the classy ballad Undo, but today we’re looking at one of Sanna’s fellow finalists – YOHIO. If you haven’t yet seen YOHIO or his performance of the song…
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This week’s National Final throwback is taking us to 2014, off to Eesti Laul, the national final of Estonia. The eventual winner of Eesti laul 2014 was Tanja, with the song Amazing, however today we’re looking at Nimmerschmidt with the charming song called Sandra. The alternative Estonian group present an interesting, simple and charming song.…
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Ukraine in Eurovision seem to have two extremes: powerful, emotion evoking songs, and on the other end of the scale is the punchy, in your face pop anthems which are very much OTT. I could give you one guess as to where Gaitana’s 2012 Eurovision entry fits in that scale. Yep, you guessed right, this…
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Upon request, this week’s Eurovision Throwback takes us back to 2004 – back to an era which could confidently be labelled the dark ages. I think this song personifies what I mean by the dark ages. Reaching 7th place in the final is a great achievement, and this along with the positive comments on the…
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If you think back to the 2009 contest, it’s probably not likely you’ll remember Latvia’s entry, and if you do, it’s probably likely that you remember it for the wrong reasons. Intars Busulis was the representative for Latvia that year, and took the song Probka with him to the Eurovision stage. The eccentricity came out…
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Here’s our first winning song of this series, and we’ve picked our most recent completely non-English winner, that being Molitva by Marija Å erifović. The language was Serbian, and proved to be a fresh change from the long run of English winners. Let’s get straight into the review! This song is a ballad of sorts, but…
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With NF season now upon us, we decided to kickstart our throwback series once again to look at some of the songs which didn’t quite make it to Eurovision. Some of these songs are fabulous, some, not so, but we’ll chat about that along the way! This week we’re taking a look at the Danish…
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Anita: Taking it back to the 90’s, we’re having a look at Sebnem Paker’s ethnic pop song ‘Dinle.’ Picking this song was always going to be interesting, because I know for a fact that Seth absolutely adores the song, and I can almost guarantee he will give it a 10/10. For me, I do enjoy…
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