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Eurovision 2022

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Bulgaria 🇧🇬
Intelligent Music Project
"Intention"

Rocking out won in 2021, so Bulgaria thought they'd try a bit of it. Except they've chosen the drab denim rock of the worst of the 80s by accident.


 
Albania 🇦🇱
Ronela Hajati
"Sekret"

We're promised a complete overhaul of this song in the coming weeks, which might be necessary because it currently sounds like the good folk of Albania need sitting down with a therapist. Traditional meets hyperactive.


 
Israel 🇮🇱
Michael Ben David
"I.M."

We're promised a complete overhaul of this song, because currently it sits somewhere between Drag Race main challenge and CBeebies. Fierce gay energy has won for Eurovision before but let's not delude ourselves here.



 
North Macedonia 🇲🇰
Andrea
"Circles"

A point of order. This song finished tied for first place with a novelty song called "Superman" which I suspect would have brought down the entire structure of the known universe, it was that corny. Anyway, here's a woman serving commercial radio angst. A passable number.



 
Estonia 🇪🇪
Stefan
"Hope"

The traditional Old West stylings of...er.....post-Soviet republics. A rather plodding, occasionally charming, take on the format, though it must surely be desperate for a remix. Yee-haw.


 
Lithuania 🇱🇹
Monika Liu
"Sentimentai"

The only Baltic republic yet to win the Contest tries again (and they've been trying since 1994). This is in Lithuanian, a rare thing indeed, and adds a certain delicate, sophisticated edge.


 
Spain 🇪🇸
Chanel
"SloMo"

If you're going to bottle the very essence of Eurovision then go for every ingredient you can grab. A full-on camp floor show with infectious, breathless dancing, this is Spain finally entering a song that looks and sounds Spanish.


 
Italy 🇮🇹
Mahmood and Blanco
"Brividi"

Two men singing about the push and pull of love, about the poison and pleasure at the heart of difficult relationships. It's a change of pace after last year's winner, and on home soil will go big in the hall. It's also about 40 seconds too long for Eurovision so god knows where they'll make the edits.



 
No, up. Don't know what to - I'm really bad at translating what I can hear into its name. But up, for some tacky melodrama.

Or was I missing a joke? :hmm:
it was a poor attempt at a joke - the explanation!:

eurovision chord changes always go up one or two keys at the end - thats the rule - thats the effect
B flat minor is a classic "sad" key, often used in the blues etc
i havent listened to the irish tune (i dont like to spoil the fun till the night itself), but im presuming its a standard eurovision track and a painful one at that
instead of it being in ayway helpfed by a euphoric key change at the end as is the eurovisoin way my 'joke' was to finish by dropping down to a sad, minor key.
oh how we laughed
 
it was a poor attempt at a joke - the explanation!:

eurovision chord changes always go up one or two keys at the end - thats the rule - thats the effect
B flat minor is a classic "sad" key, often used in the blues etc
i havent listened to the irish tune (i dont like to spoil the fun till the night itself), but im presuming its a standard eurovision track and a painful one at that
instead of it being in ayway helpfed by a euphoric key change at the end as is the eurovisoin way my 'joke' was to finish by dropping down to a sad, minor key.
oh how we laughed
Yeah, you're gonna have to put your hand up next time, so I know a joke is imminent :p :D

(I might have got it had I known you hadn't heard the tune!)
 
Norway 🇳🇴
Subwoolfer
"Give That Wolf A Banana"

Just in case you thought that the Contest was taking itself seriously the year. Here's a slice of "lost Eurovisions", a full on slice of novelty pop that seems to exist purely to challenge the idea that Europe's premier song competition is all about song writing. What would the fox say, wink wink.


 
Slovenia 🇸🇮
LPS
"Disko"

Mainstream watered down pop-funk chosen tonight. The term "inoffensive" leaps out the screen. If last year's winners were supposed to inject rock star glamour into this year, nobody told this lot.

 
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