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16: 🇩🇪 Germany – Abor & Tynna with ‘Baller’
Germany have had a completely torrid time at Eurovision in recent times. Isaak’s At all times on the Run in 2024 and Michael Schultee’s You Let Me Stroll Alone in 2018 are the one time they’ve come greater than twenty fifth since 2014. Will Abor & Tynna change that with Baller, the primary German language German entry since 2007? I’m going to say … no. No, they aren’t.
✨✨✨ Somebody presses the button to make hearth seem on stage! ✨✨✨
I do like the top little bit of this, and admire her power, as a result of by this dwell blogger’s calculations, she is lower than a yr youthful than me, and I get drained out simply watching Eurovision, not to mention imagining being on stage competing in it.
15: 🇵🇱 Poland – Justyna Steczkowska with ‘Gaja’
Justyna Steczkowska is taking a break from being one of many judges on Poland’s model of the Voice to have one other crack at Eurovision. She really opened the Grand Last in Dublin in 1995 with a tune referred to as Sana, which completed 18th that yr and he or she is setting a brand new report for the longest hole between Eurovision appearances. That is good sufficient however pretty normal Eurovision fodder of an electropop quantity with some japanese European trills and thrives.
✨✨✨ Man performs three devices in a single tune, however one of many devices is garbage ✨✨✨
Harmonica in the home. Pffffffft, I’m not a harmonica fan.
14: 🇮🇹 Italy – Lucio Corsi with ‘Volevo essere un duro’
How do you comply with that? Anyway, this has mellow 70s smooth rock/glam vibes, plus ridiculously over-sized prop amps and a large piano and big shoulder pads so you’ll be able to’t accuse them of not having tried to supersize the efficiency. If I had a criticism of it, it could be that it sounds prefer it might have been at any Eurovision within the late Seventies and Eighties, and perhaps wouldn’t have been sturdy sufficient to face out at the moment, however it’s a nice quantity as a part of this present.
ABSOLUTE EUROVISION. 10/10. NO NOTES.
✨✨✨ Abrupt style change! ✨✨✨
This tune is one thing like a fever dream. A fever dream the place a girl is angrily demanding you seize her ass whereas asserting that she is coming.
Tough to consider I do know, however within the efficiency on the nationwide closing the place this tune received chosen, she was really sporting much less. My thoughts was boggled.
That is even much less delicate than Milkshake Man was. At one level the interpretation of the lyrics is “I’m Erika, you’re filled with stamina. Hit mе as soon as once more. Seize my ass”. In the event you say so.
13: 🇫🇮 Finland – Erika Vikman with ‘Ich komme’
That is going to be nice. It’s, to be clear, lyrically completely filthy, and a monster of a tune. Additionally it is price trying out after the competition what was a madly excessive collab with Käärijä, whose Cha Cha Cha actually ought to have been the 2023 Eurovision winner. Watch this video later then thank me once more and so on and so on …
Emily Mackay
Emily Mackay is wanting ahead to a darkish showdown between these two acts arising in a minute
For the important Eurovision darkish aspect it’s shaping as much as be a studded techno-goth face-off between Erika Vikman of Finland and Justyna Steczkowska of Poland within the subsequent few songs. Vikman’s Ich Komme is nice strutting, stompy enjoyable, and it’s troublesome, if not foolhardy, to argue together with her flame-spitting microphone steed. But I’ve a smooth spot for Steczkowska’s Gaja: it’s a lot tougher, in any case, to craft a thumping refrain out of ecological despair than out of pure smut. All these slavic stabs of synth, all that PVC, the fireplace: it’s a deliciously stern palate-cleanser. Further factors for the aerial work, too.
I say predictable, however it’s fairly troublesome to foretell which language goes to crop up subsequent. I believed he struggled a bit along with his vocals in the course of the semi-final however it actually appeared to carry the group with him, and actually, this is perhaps a superb outdoors guess. It has grown on me.
12: 🇳🇱 Netherlands – Claude with ‘C’est la vie’
That is one other in a protracted line of Eurovision ballads which might be closely tipped prematurely that I initially couldn’t see what all of the fuss was about. It’s my very own private blindspot. He looks as if a beautiful fella, however I discovered it a bit bland and predictable.
Emily Mackay
Right here is Emily Mackay once more
Arising subsequent is Claude’s C’est la vie for the Netherlands. For me it deftly combines chanson suavity and dancefloor pep. I additionally beloved the psychoanalytic flip the staging takes when Claude begins dancing along with his mirror-self internal baby; drama, however make it stylish.
I genuinely suppose if I had gone into listening to this blind and needed to guess which nation had despatched this in, I might have mentioned it was Ukraine leaning into people historical past once more. I prefer it – it has a little bit of the melody of State of Independence about it? I feel the factor which will depend in opposition to it’s that it is a little more of a “vibe” than a hummable tune. The staging and costumes, regardless of being minimal, I actually appreciated.
Considered one of my kids mentioned “It’s giving axolotl” which can or could not take among the magic away.
11: 🇱🇻 Latvia – Tautumeitas with ‘Bur man laimi’
Leaping out from behind a curtain in a minute are Tautumeitas, who’re six girls with a little bit of a folklore coven feeling to them. The tune interprets to Deliver Me Happiness, and the band, who’ve been collectively since 2015 attempt to make Latvian people sounds accessible to a contemporary viewers.
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