Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

  Serbia has decided. Luke Black travels to Liverpool's Eurovision song contest 2023 with Samo se mi spava. Pesma za Evrovizija was surely a feast for boys, and for once the pre-contest fan favorite actually did win.  All in all Serbia's selection was clearly one of the better ones in every way: song, graphics, stagings. Well done! The winner is a stunning show, not so much a song so I'm not yet so confident the general televoting public will go crazy for it as much as fandom. We'll see! And the jury did some questionable votings but then what do I know? I'm just wondering what did they hear or see that I didn't? It's also worth noting Luke didn't win either jury nor televote but placed second in both. Jury's 12 went to Nađa (???) and televote's 12 to Princ. Princ (20.398) and Luke (20.070) ruled the televote as 3rd placed Dzipsii got only 11.582, and Filip 8.529. Results (jury + televote): 1. Luke Black - Samo mi se spava (10 + 10) 20 2. Princ -...

After two semi-finals and after some questionable choices (my review SF1 here and SF 2 here ) Serbia is ready to pick up the song for Liverpool's Eurovision song contest 2023. Half the songs made it this far and there will be 50/50 televote/jury vote.  I watched the semi-finals and I have to say they did a great job. By far  the best graphics this year and most every staging was thought after and looked great. Well done! Stefan Shy - Od jastuka do jastuka Boris Subotić - Nedostupan Nadia - Devojka tvog dečka Duo Grand - Viva la vida Nađa - Moj prvi ožiljak na duši Frajle - Neka, neka Hurricane - Zumi zimi zami Chegi & Braća Bluz Band - Svadba ili kavga Dzipsii - Greh Luke Black - Samo se mi spava Filip Baloš -Novi plan drugi san Princ - Svet sa Istoka Filarri - Posle mene Gift - Liberta Empathy Soul Project - Indigo Zejna - Rumba

Serbia, one of my favorite Eurovision country usually what comes to the national selections will have its grand final on March 4 after two semi-finals on March 1 and 2. I'm quite sure I won't have time to do the review in between so I do it beforehand exceptionally in Sanremo style. Serbia is riding high again having dared to take a risk last year with Konstrakta and placing 5th in the final in Turin. That certainly wasn't a safe entry and paid off wonderfully. Biti zdrava, biti-biti-biti-biti zdrava! These 32 semi-final songs were selected among the about 200 submissions, among them Eurovision veteran Tijana Dapčević (North Macedonia 2014) and Hurricane  (Serbia 2021) but that doesn't count as all the members have changed. There will be 50/50 jury/televote. Half the songs will reach the final, the other half is eliminated. Mattia Zanatta & Angela Kassiani - Novi svet  * This has a lot going on from Serbian operatic singing to broken English in Italian accent and th...