Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

Here we go again! Once again Blogilkar's home jury has sat through the songs and videos and voted from 1 to 10. This year the jury consisted of pre-teens, 20somethings, 30somethngs, 40somethings and 50somethings. Even a dog participated and went nuts for Romania but was not allowed to vote. Most of the jury members had not heard any of the songs beforehand, some not even the Finnish one.And yes, this jury didn't care for betting odds, fan favorites or wanks but only their own taste and first impression! I will be counting down from bottom to the top and  here are places 9-12.  Check out also places 13-16 here .  9. FINLAND - THE RASMUS - JEZEBEL (Average score 6,43) Dated, not going anywhere. The Rasmus as their best like when I liked them back in the days, says one. I hated them back then and don't like this one either, saýs another. This is very Finnish, said one right at the intro who didn't know this was Finland's own entry! Reminds someone of Alice Cooper whil...

  Austria is next to reveal their song. LUM!X and Pia Maria are offering us 90's Eurodance with Halo . It's short, it's not going anywhere, it just is and .... well, hard to believe this would go anywhere in the scoreboard either but maybe this could become a minor radio hit. But at least it's different and therefor a welcome addition to the line up!

Half Italian DJ LUM!X aka Luca Miichlmayer (29) returns to his ex-hometown Turin as Austria's Eurovision 2022 entrant. He has over 700 million streams for his songs, the biggest being done with Italian legend  Gabry Ponte, Monsters . His other hits include The Passanger (LaLaLa) and Thunder that have charted also in Germany, Switzerland, Italy, France. Poland and Denmark. He will be joined o stage for vocals by Pia Maria (18). Their joint effort Halo will be released next month.  The Austrian selection happened internally and behind closed doors but some information has been revealed, like that DJ LUM!X was the last one remaining with electronic duo Anger. The other ones who submitted entries and were considered were apparently Benny König, Candlelight Ficus, Christl, DelaDap, Der traurige Gärtner, Diego Federico, Fred Owusu, Freude, Gary Lux, Matthias Nebel, Max the Sax, Miblu, Popmaché, Poxrucker Sisters, Rian, Rydell, Selina Maria (Sålina), Serenity, Sladek, Slomo, ...