Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

Finally also available the full performances for The Big5 countries Italy and Germany and the Netherlands who voted and performed in the semi-final one rehearsals as well. Italy does come across very powerful indeed!

And the songs keep on coming. The host nation also sticks to its internally chosen Jeangu Macrooy also in 2021 for Eurovision and he has released his new entry: Birth of a new age. You are my broccoli! Oh wait, what?

The Netherlands - Jeangu Macrooy - Grow The host country often has the pressure off and can send something more demanding, like the Dutch this time. Certainly not an easy, catchy song but full of emotion with a good arrangement and a fine vocalist who does what he always does without trying to fit into the ESC model. Except for the lenght and I feel this song just gets going when it reaches the 3 minutes and therefor only.... 7/10 Denmark - Ben & Tan - Yes I get what they are after here, but this really isn't my cup of tea. It's shouty and noisy. Certainly would have worked wonders in an arena full of people, it's catchy and all that but ... No, I find this a bit irritating. Certainly not in my playlist.  4/10 Ireland - Lesley Roy - Story of my life Maybe I'm wrong with my ranking, but I haven't really gotten onboard with this one. I like her and she's proven to be a fantastic Eurovision ambassador in this pre-contest period so I really ...

Let's continue the series and kill some time having a look at the last decade and see who were the Top-10 best scoring countries in the Eurovision song contest in the past ten years. The ways to calculate are many and here I have used the simple average placement method (and it's not all so serious). Next up is the Netherlands, that has some very mixed results before getting their act togethers. Honestly, I didn't even remember 3JS at all..... and Joan Franka's headpiece hasn't aged so well either. The Netherlands lands at 9th plave despite those flops thanks to a gold and a silver medal and three 9-11th places. 2011 3JS - Never alone - NQ (19th in semi-final) * 2012 Joan Franka - You and me - NQ (15th in semi-final) * 2013 Anouk - Birds - 9th *** 2014 The Common Linnets - Calm after the storm - 2nd ***** 2015 Trijntje Oosterhuis - Walk along - NQ (14th in semi-final) ** 2016 Douwe Bob - Slow down - 11th ***** 2017 O'G3NE - Lights ...

Jeangu Macrooy (26), born in Suriname, will be flying the host country's flag in Rotterdam 2020 Eurovision. This singer-songwriter has been living in the Netherlands since 2014 and has made already a name as a modern soul singer-songwriter. In his native Suriname he formed a band Between Towers that released one album before he moved to Enschede to study songwriting and music. Soon he was playing in clubs, being a support act for many concerts and his songs made it to HBO advert and as theme song of a Dutch movie, and he's been a regular musical guest in a talk show. In Easter 2018 he played Judas in the tv-production of The Passion with 3,5 million viewers. Last year he released his second album and Grow is already his 12th single. 

It's been a busy week in the Eurovision world and bresides various national finals - the last ones being tomorrow in Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Portugal - the previously announced artists have finally revealed their entries.....