Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

Round and round Slovenia goes with Tinkara who beat Muff in the superfinal clearly and represents her country in Copenhagen. And the best choice it is! An honest no thrills song that fits its performer. Likable. Simple. Hopefully it will be also voted by the televoters among all the manufactured, plastic entries..... PS. The show was kinda stolen by Maja Keuc though with Close to you .... Wasn't she interested in returning to Eurovision? What happened?

Slovenia, that luckily decided to take part in Eurovision 2014 after a serious hesitation, has premiered its songs for the final tonight. Was it worth it? Yes. An interesting group of songs and none of them going for the cheesy cheap Eurodisco. Good job. The Slovenian final will take place this Saturday. Enjoy! Omar Naber - I won't give up Nermin Puškar & Samuel Lucas - Masquarade Bilbi - To ni blues Nude - It's gonna be OK! Rudi Bucar & Elevators - Tja Tinkara Kovac - Spet (round and round) Muff - Let me be (myself) It will be propably between Tinkara's Eurovision friendly radiopop that is so catchy I was about to sing along just when she decided to change into Slovenian, and Omar Naber's generic pop rock. Nude isn't bad either and this blogger's personal favorite along with Tinkara is Nermin & Samuel.... but round and round we go again, I guess.

Slovenian TV has today published the list of their finalists picked out of 29 artists and 42 songs submitted. There's no Maja Keuc but several other familiar names. Tinkara took part in 1997 , 1999 and 2001 , Samuel 2009 , Nude various times (1999, 2001, 2005, 2007) and Bilbi co-wrote the funny song Kooninchiwa in 2012. Omar Naber won in 2005 with Stop and has tried his lucky again in 2009 with I still carry on . and in 2011 with Bistvo skrito je očem . Rudi took part in 2009 with Alya and Zadnji dan .  Muff had a number one hit in 2012 with Naj sije v oče and are having a hit right now with  Nov dan . I loved Samuel's entry back then so for now he's a front runner for me. His duet partner Nermin is actually from Bosnia. The Slovenian final EMA 14 will take place on March 8, 2014. Bilbi Tinkara Kovač Omar Naber Rudi Bučar & The Elevators Muff Samuel Lucas feat. Nermin Puškar NUDE (Marco Mosca contributed to this post. Grazie!)