Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

It's time to kick of the usual reviews. The opinions are all mine and if I don't like some song it's simply just not my cup of tea so to speak. If I like something you dislike or hate, it's fine, too. No stresso, no need to be depresso it's just music and tastes that re diverse and therefor beautiful! I also try to predict their success come May a little bit but as we know once the staging is out everything may change, remember Fuego and Rise like a phoenix for example? For this series I have grouped the songs in fours as usual as the songs may have similarities or something in common. Some fours came out beautifully, the others.... well not so well. Here comes the fourth part! DENMARK - Sissal - Hallucination I see this one's got some devoted fans out there but for me this does nothing much and have this at a borderline qualifier but more as NQ as Q but that's just me. Sissal deserves better song and most of all better staging and styling and if I have unde...

Also in Belgium as scripted when phenomenon of the edition Red Sebastian took a convincing win in Eurosong 2025 with his Strobe lights scoring pretty much half the televotes and almost double the jury votes to runner up.  I must say I don't get it. Never a fan of falsetto singing, and it's more beats than melody. No, it's not an Eurovision winner. If it is it continues in my book for the third year streak of useless winners I never listen to. Just my opinion. This said I'm pretty sure it's not going to happen anyways. With this song at least :-) We had Emmelie De Forest as guest and yes, that's a song that's still a pleasure to listen to. Red Sebastian aka Seppe Herreman (25) made it to the final of Belgium's Got talent at the age of 14 already. He has studie piano sicne he was nine and music in the Royal Academy of Fine arts, taught by Eurovision veteran Gustaph among others. In 2021 he released his debut album and single and Strobe lights is his 10th...

Belgium returns to national final with VRT in charge and eight acts will battle out the ticket to Basel 2025 Eurovision song contest. the artists will present their song in January in two occasion without any staging and belting out also an Eurovision cover of their choice. The artists were chosen by contacting directly the record labels.  Lenn (Len Neefs, 25), grandchild of Louis Neefs (ESC 1967, 1969) Mentissa (Mentissa Aziza, 24), The Voice Kids winner 2014, later took part in The Voice of Holland but it was The Voice of France that made her big name and was nominated to Victoires de la Musique award. Red Sebastian (Seppe Herreman, 25), Eurovision veteran Gustaph's protege and known from Belgium's Got Talent. S tefanie Callebaut (37), ex-singer of indie band SX. La Manou (Manou Maerten, 29) is a singer-songwriter and Dj. Grace (Grace Khuabi, 21) , The Voice of Flanders 2021 winner who later starred in musical Hairspray. Jelle van Dael (34), singer dancer known for vario...