“Meiecundimees üks Korsakov läks eile Lätti”
It should have been Winny Puhh… was it too much to ask for one hard-punk song in a Contest that has seen over 1,600 entries? Apparently so. Still, we’ll wear our T-Shirts in Malmo with pride.
This Week’s Results
Eesti Laul didn’t choose Winny Puhh to sing for Estonia – they went for the returning singer Birgit Oigemeel with ‘Et Uus Saaks Alguse‘
Hungary finisihed A Dal with the victory going to ByeAlex. We also hear the song will remain in Hungarian so the emotional performance will continue to resonate with out a clunky translation getting in the way.
Serbia’s Beosong has handed us ‘Ljubav Je Svuda’ by Moje 3 as their Song for Europe.
Through from Andra Chansen to the Friends Arena are Robin Stjernberg and Anton Ewald. Sweden will open the Melodifestivalen with Ulrik Munther, and close with Yohio. Make of that what you will.
Israel worked through two semi-finals and an Andra Chansen round to find their ten songs for the final this week.
Bulgaria’s song selection has seen the public choose ‘Kismet’ for Elitsa Todorova & Stoyan Yankoulov to take to Malmo
Coming Up This Week
Just three this week, after the rush of last week:
- Israel bring to a close their larger than usual National Selection with the final of Kdam on Thursday.
- Romania’s National Final takes place on Saturday.
- Sweden’s Melodifestivalen also comes to a close on Saturday in Stockholm and the Friends Arena. Who get’s home advantage in Malmo? The last time Sweden sent a Eurovision Song to their third city, it was a certain Christer Bjorkman… they’ll want a better result this year!
Ewan,
The great thing about Eurovision, apart from the actual musical entertainment, is how we all relate in wonderfully eurovisionsyncratic ways, e.g. a Scotsman discussing the Israeli contest and using the Swedish term “Andra Chansen”!
Is there any other way to describe it so succinctly?
Shattered about Winny Puhh. On the other hand, Bye Alex winning is good news.