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EUROVISION 2023: BLOGILKAR'S HOME JURY RESULTS: #7 ISRAEL - NOA KIREL - UNICORN

Here it is! The incorruptible, infallible and most reliable Blogilkar's Home Jury made of people in their teens, 20's, 30's, 40's and 50's, mainly Finnish and mainly those who turn into Eurovision only on that one Saturday night, enjoy the show and that's it. Most everyone heard the songs for the first time so this was a true first impression judgement. And thus they had no idea about the fan polls, betting odds and trivial information and expectations. And boy did they turn those pools and odds around mostly, sinking some major favorites and enjoying some real underdogs. I will countdown the full ranking day by day until we have our winner out just before Liverpool is in full swing. This year I publish very few comments or opinions. Just the average score (we voted 1 to 10). In short this year is considered a bit poor by the jurors compared to for example last year and it may show in the somewhat low scores. Anyways: Enjoy! 7. ISRAEL - Noa Kirel - Unicorn  (Avg...

SANNA NIELSEN - 7

Sanna Nielsen has released her new album simple titled 7 . No, it's not her seventh album or even seventh studio album. It marks her seventh attempt to win Melodifestivalen! Obviously it includes her Melodifestivalen winner and Eurovision 3rd placed Undo , that also charted nicely in Sweden (#1), Denmark (#5), Finland (#7), Switzerland (#11), Austria (#12) and entered the Top-40 also in Germany, UK, Ireland, Belgium and the Netherlands. Time will tell if she manages to pull off a follow up from it. meanwhile let's listen a couple of nice bossanova and hard rock covers of Undo by Smoke Ring Sisters and My Remorse . ISA takes a more similar take on the same. As does Ending Sequence . And so does Wendy van Maren .  Utbryggarna go for a soul version. But Sanna herself does it best, no doubt about that with her heartfelt interpretation.  The album includes 8 songs, including also Rainbow , Ready and also an acoustic edit of U ndo . Sadly, none of the rather nice dance re...