Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

It's time to kick of the usual reviews. The opinions are all mine and if I don't like some song it's simply just not my cup of tea so to speak. If I like something you dislike or hate, it's fine, too. No stresso, no need to be depresso it's just music and tastes that re diverse and therefor beautiful!  I also try to predict their success come May a little bit but as we know once the staging is out everything may change, remember Fuego and Rise like a phoenix for example? For this series I have grouped the songs in fours as usual as the songs may have similarities or something in common. Some fours came out beautifully, the others.... well not so well. Here comes the second part. NETHERLANDS - Claude - C'est la vie I was very happy when Claude was announced, and I do like his song a lot. The mix of languages works very well, at least for someone who speaks both English and French so it all blends together without effort. All this said I am quite surprised this is...

  Ireland had its national final for Eurovision song contest 2025 on Friday night as part of Late Late Show. The show itself was the usual homely, a bit clumsy affair on a stage that really didn't work for best to the acts. Indeed the only one that seemed like a ready package was the winner that performed last and showed how poor the others were. Adgy, as much as I actually like the song, on stage was missing all energy, Bobby was missing voice and seemed a Bambie light, Reylta was just three minutes of "fireeee-eeeeee, fireeee-eeeee", Samantha's song didn't go anywhere even if she brought even the Irish dancing on stage and joined in - those 10 seconds were on top, the rest was not. Niyl's performance was like a school play, including the outfit and look and then finally came Emmy bringing us back in times she wasn't even born; a perfect time capsule to the 1990's with a voice that was there, catchy as hell and who doesn't like the idea of poor La...