Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

  San Marino and 1in360 will have the final tonight as well. Coming live from Bratislava, Slovakia of all places, with singers from Norway, Finland, Malta, Italy, Germany, Israel, Austria and Zimbabwe,with one rapper from San Marino, judges from Austria, UK, Slovakia and for the final US based John Kennedy O'Connor, presented by British Nick Earles and Krisitin Stein. In the end one might wonder not what love's got to do with it but what's San Marino got to do with it all?  The voting rules have changed on daily basis the past week so I have no idea how it works and why, so I have given up on trying to follow that path. Someone will win in the end somehow.  Sara De Bue seems to be a fan favorite and also liked by the judges - and would nicely follow the Eurovision tradition of over produced nonsense with screamy ladies that are fan faves and fail big time in the contest - but the song Stay must be loved by the judges as they picked it three times; and now Basti ...

  And sooner than soon the finalist have been revealed and surprise! Stay is a battle in three as Basti but also Franklin and Judah will sing that same song! I guess I said already in the beginning that Basti and Stay will win.... Hmmm... Next step are the recorded and produced versions of the song to be featured in the final on March 3.  Basti - Stay Camilla North _ Yo no soy tu chica Emma - Diamonds Franklin Calleja - Stay Giovanni Montalbano - Per quello che mi dai Irol feat. Basti - Sorry Jenifer Bening - Until the morning light Jessika feat Irol - Who we are Judah Gavra - Stay Sara De Blue - Out of the twilight Tinashe Makura - Free yourself

  The Sammarinese affair has been rather complicated to follow, but we have reached the stage of the two pre-recorded shows where the chosen artists sing live and acoustic (the final produced versions will bee heard in the final only) the songs they have created together with other writers in songwriting camp. 1in360 writes in their FB:  "In the interest of transparency and because some of you asked, a few words on how the songs were written: We didn't give the candidtes pre-manufactured songs. Instead we conducted a songwriting camp in Vienna, for which we prepared a few chords and melodies. Our songwriters, producers and the candidates themselves then collaborated to turn them into finished songs. As a result, we've got a lot of songs with multiple songwriters (several have five songwriters). Zoe Straub, one of the judges, actively participated in the camp and has credits on all but two of the songs. The same is true of other members of the 1 in 360 creative tea...