Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

As usual these awards were handed out just before the final show and we have three winners. The Marcel Bezençon Award, named after the founder of the Eurovision Song Contest, was first handed out in 2002. The Awards are divided into three categories – the Composer Award, the Press Award and the Artistic Award. Composer Award : Rewarded for the best composition with special consideration given to originality and national identity in music and lyrics: Bulgaria 's EQUINOX with Bones . Press Award: Given to the best song according to the collective vote of the accredited press: France 's Madame Monsieur with Mercy . Artistic Award: Presented to the best artistic performance and voted by the commentators from all countres: Eleni Foureira from Cyprus with Fuego . I totlaly agree with the two of them, but Composer award and "national identity" to Bulgaria that is pure America? really?

GERMANY - MICHAEL SCHULTE - YOU LET ME WALK ALONE I was born From one love of two hearts Vocals **** Staging **** Song **** Overall **** Left side of the scoreboard ITALY - ERMAL META & FABRIZIO MORO -  NON MI AVETE FATTO NIENTE Perché la nostra vita non è un punto di vista E non esiste bomba pacifista Vocals **** Staging **** Song ***** Overall ***** Left side of the scoreboard FRANCE - MADAME MONSIEUR - MERCY Je suis née ce matin Je m’appelle Mercy Vocals ***** Staging **** Song ***** Overall ***** Left side of the scoreboard

The Big5 first rehearsals continue with top-3 favorite France and very much underrated Italy.... Germany - Michael Schulte - You let me walk alone Germany seems to have scored well with it's improved staging; a lot of close ups of Michael, screen graphics and powerful delivery. Seems they are the second country with home brought LED wall for the projections in black and white and red, the photos were submitted by his fans earlier this spring apparently.  The duplicate image of Michael spreading his hands gets kinda psychedelic and disturbing but for the rest it looks pretty nice. At least they make the stage look very different from anyone else. Oh yes, you can't quite see it behind the LED wall, that's why... Casually dressed (for now?) and vocally strong. Did we witness some teary eyes, too? Some are putting Germany up there among winning candidates but let's not get over enthuastic here, maybe top-10 at best, right? And of course some opposite reactions: l...

Luckily Serbia, Spain, France and Hungary will be all singing in their native languages in Lisbon 2018 but meanwhile they have released also English versions of their songs. While Spain, France and Hungary just adapt the song, Serbia goes a bit further with their rework....

  The French entry's video has been out there for already some time but now they have presented the three minutes Eurovision version and it works wonders. This song was one of the first selected but it has resisted against the competition nicely....

The official music video has been released for the French entry for Eurovision song contest 2018 in Lisbon. Here's Madame Monsieur's Mercy. ....