So, YLE decided to go the Belarusian way and just throw out all the selection process ignoring all the over 300 submitted entries stating they "didn't find a suitable entry" even if "the interest was high and standard high" even this year. Instead they chose Saara Aalto and are looking for her three songs for the final on March 3, 2018 in Espoo's Metro Areena, to be judged by televoters and international jury.
The eternal runner up gets her dream job finally. I wonder how much this has to do with her recent change of record label, and the rumors about her being asked by BBC as well to represent the UK. "Now my fans in UK have a chance to vote for me, too" ever chirpy Saara says.
Hmm, if UK votes in the other semifinal it won't be much of a help. And even in final it will be only 12 points (if she can push pass various diasporas that is). 12 points won't take very far..... Being used to finish second the equilevant in Eurovision would be finishing 11th in semifinal. Oh so bitter and frustrating!
YLE is also going strongly against the trend of "less is more and real music wins" saying all three songs will have a huge staging, helped by X Factor UK's Brian Friedman. So, expect 3 minutes of huge show. I hope the acts are such they also give her a musical like character to play as plain ol' Saara has the voice but that's it.
This is the first time YLE goes for the internal choice of the artist ever. There have been several years when all the artists were internally chosen beforehand but like this, one artist, never.
Saara has tried t get to Eurovision since 2004 when she was 16, and she has finished twice second in the national final. Just liike in Talent and The Voice, and X Factor UK. That's five times runner up, people. She says she's gonna give it her all and if she finishes second again, this time it's just fine! She also believes two weeks of Eurovision will be piece of cake compared to four months of X Factor UK.
She's also recording her album but no worries, the album will be out for Eurovision and will include also her three entries.
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