Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

Malta has revealed its entry for Eurovision 2019 in Tel Aviv by X Factor winner Michela Pace (18) and it's called Chameleon - no, not the Ira Losco song she won with in 2016 before they changed it into some random Walk on water . Michela is good but loses this blogger once the chorus hits in - I have always found that kind of sounds irritating and this is no excption. Maybe I'm just old, I don't know. But the video is rather fab featuring all trends what comes to interior design this season: exotic flowers and parrots, palm trees and other animals. And a lot of flowers everywhere! Spot on in that department, looks like a shoot for some department store's spring/summer catalogue. And I know a thing or two about those!

Eurovision 2015 winner Måns Zelmerlöw releases today his fifth studio album titled Chameleon . The first single off it was Hanging on to nothing (also in French ) and the second one is Glorious .

I was prepaired to badmouth Malta's new song for Eurovision 2016 after all bullsh*t they went through the change it. I was afraid I would have to lie and pretend not liking it once it comes out. But hey, I don't have to. Walk on water is bad. I mean BAD. No melody to talk about, just sound after another in a nonsense arrangement that doesn't go anywhere. This lands easily in my bottom 10 and I don't even have to lie. At least Chameleon was melodic and catchy, not some random Melodifestivalen reject.  Poor Malta. I hope you won't make the final, as you really don't deserve it. Not with this song and this way. 

She's no longer chameleon nor invincible. She'll be walking on water like Edsilia Rombley and someone else back in the day. This is so wrong in so many ways. Ok, there was an option in the Maltese national final that the winner could change the song afterwards, but then why did they bother at all? Why have a national final if it served only to pick up the singer? And if that was the purpose why wasn't it made very clear from the beginning? Why the artists in that case had to sing new unreleased songs, potential Eurovision entries if it was to be changed anyways? Why couldn't they just sing an old hit or a cover to showcase their talents at maximum? Why on earth did Ira Losco have TWO songs? Again, if Maltese broadcaster wanted her so bad why didn't they just have a selection with her and drop the whole national final thing? Why-ay-ay-ay? If I were one of the other 18 competing artists in the Malta Eurovision song contest 2016 I would feel very cheated and m...