Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

John Lundvik may have placed only 3rd in Melodifestivalen , but he hit #1 in the charts and considering Austria's success with a similar gospely song and somewhat similar singer ... with Sanna Nielsen's lighting and Celine Dion's jacket, who knows? Did we miss Sweden's 7th win? For sure Cesar Sampson is grateful John wasn't in Lisbon!

Martina Barta's got a morning message to you, it's her turn. 

What to say? Sadly this is so toilet break song. Nothing happens but she stands up and walks to the stage. That suit of hers is ugly, no going around that. The song doesn't go anywhere.  She's a good singer but that won't save this from the last place propably. Unless the juries throw her some points. Televoters have went to toilet, fridge or simply fallen asleep....

  The common comment for this seems to be yawn . Martina is in gold foil suit, and starts off sitting in the edge of the stage while the backdrop later features the humans from her video and colors changing from gold to purple to blue.  Then she gets up and walks the golden path to the centre stage and then nothing much else seems to happen. Static. Vocally she's on top, but it indeed is a long three minutes.... and that dress is just so wrong. Hopefully it isn't the One....

Pictured is Czech Republic's national flower rose Martina Bàrta was internally chosen to represent Czech Republic this year. An open call was launched for the song and they received over 300 songs. Luckily they didn't pick up the most obvious, clichè Eurovision song but a song that suits her and is of the genre she usually performs. Respect for that! Martina (28) is Czech jazz vocalist, musician and she plays French horn. She has studied both music and medicine, until music took her away. She's done musical and been part of a German Jazz trio and today she's active in duo Scotch and Soda based in Berlin, where she graduated from the Jazz Institute. She also performs regularly with a big band as well as Prague Film Orchestra. Her sister Kristina is also a singer and so is her brother Václav. She certainly hopes to top his 13th place in the semifinal in 2015. Like I said earlier I give a high respect for Czechs for doing their own thing and not powing to s...

Czech Republic's internally chosen Martina Bárta has released her entry My turn for the Eurovision as well today. Not sure if I managed to keep my attention level very high for very long when listening to it.... Shame.