After a change of song from the public’s choice of Chameleon, we now have the internally selected song Walk on Water as the song Ira Losco will take to Eurovision this year. With previous Eurovision experience, Ira has an advantage knowing the pressure of the competition. This certainly didn’t get to her last time, as…
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This year, Israel chose to use the format of Rising Star to choose their act, and the winner of that competition was Hovi Star. The song is called Made of Stars, and has recently undergone a revamp. Suddenly, the song has received a lot more attention from fans – but for the right reasons? The…
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As in previous years, Finland elected to choose their song via national final, and this year, another very diverse bunch of artists and songs fought it out to earn the right to bring Finland back to the final. The song the Finnish public decided on was Sing It Away, by Sandhja. The song begins all…
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After a few failed attempts at the final, the Irish broadcaster decided to internally select Nicky Byrne (former Westlife member, just if you were wondering) with the song Sunlight. The song is an upbeat pop song, and very radio friendly, but will it succeed at Eurovision? Hmm. I think that this song is lucky to…
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First of all, welcome back Bosnia and Herzegovina! I’m sure most people are happy to see them back, because, well, the more the merrier! This year, the nation has returned with a bunch of artists – Deen and Dalal, featuring Ana Rucner and Jala. The song they will be taking to the contest is called…
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In recent years, it’s safe to say that France has been on struggle street, but undeservingly so, in my opinion. I think France has picked great songs, it’s just that they’ve been lost in the middle of other great songs. This year I think they’ve picked an absolutely perfect song for Eurovision. Amir is the…
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Armenia went completely internal this year to choose their act and song, and out of that process came Iveta Mukuchyan and the song LoveWave. The song begins with a small monologue, before transitioning into what I don’t know – a verse or an intro. I actually don’t feel the song truly starts until after the…
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We waited months and months between the announcement that Douwe Bob would represent the Netherlands, and the actual song reveal, which was all time to create the perfect Eurovision song to follow on from some of the recent successes of the Netherlands revival. Post Anouk, I think the nation realised that simple, well written songs…
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I think you all know where this review is going – and I haven’t even started yet. What a mess this whole situation is, am I right? So, Serhat was chosen as the singer for San Marino, despite not being from San Marino. There’s no rules to say he has to be from San Marino,…
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Albania, in recent history, has more often than not, translated their beautiful native language songs into English. In a few cases, this has been successful enough to allow them to qualify to the final, other times, not so successful. This year, Eneda Tarifa was chosen to represent the nation with a song titled Përrallë, however…
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