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 13-16.   Check out the places 17-20 here . 13. IRELAND - BROOKE - THAT'S RICH (Average score 6,28) Her 80's and Blondie influences are out and loud. With a touch of Erika Jayne. Fun entry. A bit bad mixing sound but maybe that's intentional? Hit hard with the pre-teens of the jury of all people! 14. CYPRUS - ANDROMACHE - ELA  (Average score 6,14) Great local music, this sounds like everything you her...

Last Friday North Macedonia had its Za Evrosong 2022 to choose their entry for Turin Eurovision song contest. Andrea Koevska (21) won with Circles .  Andrea comes from an academic family and fell in love with music as a kid when they lived for awhile in Harlem, New York and discovered gospel, jazz, soul and r'n'b. Fast forward to the 2020's when she started posting cover versions on Instagram, was spotted by producer Alexander Masevski and the rest is history. Her debut single I know late 2020 that gained international radio play and millions of Tiktoks. I don't know your name and Talk to me followed before her bid at Za Evrosong. Check out Za Evrosong songs and results here

The North Macedonian national final Za Evrosong 2022 has passed pretty much unnoticed but it's happening tonight. Six songs were chosen from the 47 submissions. Sadly all chosen ones are in English. The songs have been online and people have been able to vote for them for a week. Tonight a combination of those votes and jury (50/50) will choose the winner.  The winner is Andrea. She tied with Viktor but jury gave her max points so she won over: 1. Andrea (jury 12 +online vote 8) 20 2. Viktor (8 + 12) 20 3. Kaly (6 + 10) 16 4. Lara (10 + 5) 15 5. Jon Idy (7 + 7) 14 6. Ris Flower (5 + 6) 11 Let's hear them. Andrea - Circles Kaly - Love and light Lara Ivanova - Flower of sorrow Ris Flower - Flying to Berlin Viktor Apostolovski - Superman Yon Idy - Dreams