Sadly you won’t find your favorite Eurovision bloggers reporting live from the press center and from premier VIP seating inside the arena this year. Due to a series of unforeseen circumstances, which we won’t bore you with the details. But we promise to be back on location next year when it’s Italy’s turn to host Eurovision again!
Wow. Just wow. How old did you say this kid was? As much as we love and adore the Eurovision Song Contest, let’s be honest and admit that it’s not exactly a venue for hatching out the biggest and brightest stars of the future. With a few notable exceptions it’s rather a place where has-beens can attempt to revive their fading careers, middle-of-the-road decent artists can flourish for a few months just long enough to keep the public’s interest and where one-hit wonders blast into the center of attention only to disappear into everlasting obscurity the minute the closing credits are done.
So. First semi final is no more than a week away and rehearsals are well on their way. Here are some of the most important facts we have picked up on this far:
The country that terrorized the world during the late 90s with Helmut Lotti goes Classic I, II, III and Final Edition (holy crap, enough already!) decided to treat us to another round, meet Axel Hirsoux!
All righty then! While most of our fellow Norwegians have spent the day suffocating in too tight bunads, stuffing their face with ice cream and hotdogs, we have been in Malmø Arena to catch the first dress rehearsal before the Grand Final. How very exiting. Squeal!
We can promise you a wicked show, the Swedes certainly know their stuff and you can really tell they have been gagging to transfer Melodifestivalen to a pan European format.
We honestly thought it was something wrong with our ears the first time we watched the youtube clip from the Belgian NF where it was decided that handpicked Roberto Bellarosa would bring Love Kills with him to Malmö in May. Swear to God, it sounded truly awful. Continue reading
It’s not a good sign when writing a review feels like just another boring chore that has be done on a dull Sunday night. When we actually consider cleaning the fridge or alphabetizing our spice rack rather then trying to come up with something clever or witty to say about today’s chosen song. This is how we feel about Belgium’s entry this year. Iris’ song “Would you” is so frightfully boring Continue reading
Oh, it’s the worst kind of terror. The one you don’t realize is bad for you until it is way too late and it’s already occupying valuable space in your otherwise well functioning brain:
Pew, after the glittery dust have settled it’s time to take a recap of all the hurly burly that has been going on this weekend. We decided to focus on the Nordic Super Saturday with Norway, Iceland and Finland choosing their songs for Düsseldorf all on the same day, and sadly we did not find the time to look deeper into what went on in Ireland and Azerbaijan on Friday and Malta and Belgium on Saturday.
There’s been a lot of talk about the Second Chance Contest today, so what better than to shed some light on one of the many fallen favorites in this week’s Retro Sunday: