Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

Belarus will select its entry for Kyiv 2017 Eurovision song contest tonight. There will be a jury-televote deciding on the winner. Several familiar names trying once again, from Nuteki to NAPOLI and Navi. These songs were selected from the 67 submitted entries. This blogger has no idea who will win. This is Belarus after all. Anything can happen. July, Lexy, Kattie, Nuteki, Angelica... or why not NAVI? Hopefully one of these. Maybe. 20.00 CET here or here July - Children of the World Lexy Weaver - Be Stronger Vladislav Kurasov - Follow the Play NAVI - Historyja majho žyccia (Story of my life) Isaac Nightingale - On the Red Line Kattie - Wild Wind Nuteki - Take My Heart NAPOLI - Let's Come Together Nikita Hodas - Voices In My Head Angelica Pushnova - We Should Be Together Anastasiya Sheverenko - We'll Be Together Lermont x Julic - Heartbeat PROvokatsiya - #mylove

Not only Sweden but also Belarus revealed their cards today. Or even more so as their songs are already out for all of us to listen and judge (click the titles). A total of 61 artists were invited for live auditions today in Minsk and later tonight the chosen ones were announced - a lucky 13. Some familiar names among the qualifiers from Naviband to Nuteki and NAPOLI.  01. Lexy Weaver (Aleksandra Tkach) – Be stronger 02. Kattie – Wild Wind 03. Vladislav Kurasov – Follow the Play 04. Navi band – Historyja majho žyccia 05. Anastasiya Sheverenko –   We'll be together 06. PROvokatsiya (Группа PROвокация) – #MYLOVE 07. Nuteki – Take My Heart 08. Nikita Hodas – Voice in my Head 09. Isaac Nightingale – Vadim Kapustin – On The Red Line 10. July – Children of the World 11. NAPOLI – Let's come together 12. LERMONT n JULIC – Heartbeat 13. Angelica Pushnova (Анжелика Пушнова) – We Should Be Together

Teo (Yuriy Vashcuk) or the Belarusian Pasha Parfany won the national final tonight with Cheesecake . It's actually a little fun song and it'd be shame if they changed it into something worse like they usually do - like last year, when actually Rhythm of love co-written by Teo was the winner, only to later replaced by horrid Solayo . Interestingly Alyona herself was the winner the year before, only that she was left home and runner ups travelled to Baku instead.... And that's not all! He also co-wrote Far away , the first song 3+2 was supposed to bring to Eurovision 2010, before it changed to Butterflies . Now let's see if Teo and/or Cheesecake gets all the way to Copenhagen. If so, at least they don't have to wonder what to serve the press and everybody in press conferenses and parties: Cheesecake for everyone! I'm in! He came 3rd in the televote after Max Lorens and Nuteki but the jury awarded him the victory after a tie with Max Lorens both ending 3rd an...

Yesterday also Belarus revealed its 15 artists for the selection in early January 2014. It's good to bear in mind that the artist who wins maybe eventually won't go  to Eurovision after all, and if he/she/them do not certainly with the song they won the selection with! Unless Lukashenko likes it. Anyways, among these I recognize at least Alexei Gross , Max Lorens and Nuteki . Also Switter Boys has left its mark on world wide web....Oh, and Artem is one of the 3+2! Matvej Bondarenko Juri Vashchuk Alexey Gross Dariia Zhanet Max Lorens & DiDyuLya Anastasia Malashkevich Artem Mihalenko Alina Moshchenko Napoli Nuteki Nataliya Odintsova Elena Sinyavskaya Switter Boys

Now that we've got Junior Eurovision and OGAE Song contest out of the way we can close the season 2012 and start concentrating on 2013 and it starts already this Friday when Belarus is having its national final. I guess a winner will be picked out but only time and regime will tell if that one is really going to Malmö or will the singer/song/both be changed before mid-March.... However, the songs in theory are online here . All ten of them that made past the jury.  Rhythm of love seems to be the pre-contest favorite and would give Alena a revenge as she sort of won the national final already last year but was later kicked out. The song is a 13 in a dozen kind of pop tune but does have a hook that kinda sticks into your head. Will surely please the fans in Malmö but I doubt televoters or jurors will fall for it. One way love is like a good old boyband song that could have been a Backstreet Boys hit in the 1990's. But I like it. Get out of my way is... I don't kno...