Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

  After YLE prettycancelled the usual UMK2018 and turned into Saara Aalto show it's been quite queit in that front. The final will take place in Metro Arena in Espoo on March 3, 2018 and Saara will perform her three stage shows and apparently there will be several guest stars. The first one has been now confirmed: Spice Girl Melanie C, Saara's childhood hero. They are set to perform also together and Saara says she feels more nervous for that than her own performances. Bless her.  Saara's three songs will be revealed with respective videos one every week starting on February 9. 

One of the most legendary Motown tracks. The "No hit" Supremes scored their first #1, in August 1964. Their success was such that also the next four singles went to #1 and the trio became the most succesful girl group ever . Diana Ross, Mary Wilson and Florence Ballard apparently weren't so keen on the song first but after string of non succesful singles they didn't really have a say and went on to record it. Mike Valvano stomped his feet at the studio floor and the rest is history, as they say.  Just like with My guy/My girl , also this song got a brotherly version when Four Tops released I can't help myself (Sugar pie honey bunch) , another #1 hit for Motown in 1965.  The melody line is almost identical.  The song has been covered by Eurovision song contest winners Bobbysocks , Sinitta , Spice Girls just to name a few and the song has been sampled and mixed into various versions from Little Mix , Pussycat Dolls , Ace of Base and Soft Cell  a...

While waiting the annual rumors of Sergey Lazarov, one of the Spice Girls, Mihai Traistariu and others emerge again we have a new entry: Dotan for the Netherlands. He was heavily rumoured already last year ( read more here ) and now the Dutch media is again "sure" AVROTROS wants him while either of the parties comments in any way. Maybe this time around he is hungry for Eurovision as one of his most recent singles suggests? Let's wait and see if he will be the very first known act for Stockholm 2016 Eurovision?

The rumours about Geri Halliwell representing the United Kingdom in the coming Eurovisin song contest 2014 in Copenhagen have been all over the internet for weeks if not months already. Certainly she hasn't done anything to stop them, on the contrary. If chosen - or it seems rather if she accepts the job - she kind of continues the BBC trend, The Hump was big in the 70's, Bonnie in the 80's and Geri along with the Spice Girls in the 90's. In a couple of years BBC might give us something from the 2010's if we are lucky.... Anyways, Geri would be just taylor made for Eurovision in many ways. She could have an instant pop song, fabulous over the top staging and a house hold name in the most parts of Europe. And a lot of adoring (gay) fans, likable and funny enough personality to keep the media busy and entertained. The only excuse and fear she might have to face and not to accept the job is the possibility of bombing in Eurovision (too). But as her come back with ...

Now I challenge you all pronounce kertakäyttösydän! Don't let that scare you as this little song about disposable or throwaway heart seems to be rather catchy and real earworm, all but throwaway! She's got the looks, the voice and the image - will the live performance be up to it?  Jasmin Michaela is a new name to big audience but has been dealing with music forever as her mother Kristiina Mäki is also a recording artist. Jasmin is 25 and from Turku and seems to ready to fill the whole in Finnish music scene aiming to become the queen of Latin pop! She says this UMK entry is exactly what kind of music she wants to perform: dance, energetic, happy, latin pop. Her influences include Beyonce, Johanna Kurkela, Spice Girls and Britney Spears. Like her on her Facebook and vote her on my poll on the right side of this page.

Out of nowhere comes Spicy Geri Halliwell 's comeback with Half of me . Would BBC have a half of sense to consider her for Eurovision 2014? Isn't she after all taylor made for it? Hungarian hipster ByeAlex is back with Csóró itt minden han , another brilliant song that won't maybe open up with the first hearing but has some haunting qualities.... French Guéna LG features one of my favorite Danish voices, Bryan Rice in Stay awake . Quite fantastic club anthem with a nice retro vibe and of course, Bryan's vocals. Me likes! Cher is back with a new album and apparently it's filled with uptempo disco numbers but then there's also I hope you find it . A tender ballad, showcasing once again what a great singer she is. I wish she did this kind of stuff more, like the good old days of Dark Lady ....

Forget Spice Girls and John Barrowman. And also Geri Halliwell solo and Will Young, the latest name rumoured is Right said Fred, or RSF these days. Those muscle guys that were too sexy for everything back in 1991. Then asked us to kiss, not to talk before going deeply dippy . Next they asked us to stick it out and get bumbed and so the story goes. I must say I'm stuck in those early 1990's but they have been releasing music ever since and their 8th album Stop the world was released in 2011. Wouldn't it be nice to have these Mr Propers hunting down the Jedwards in Baku?

The usual rumour mill is working also this summer. David Hasselhoff , Sasja Brouwers , System of a Down , Hari Mata Hari , Kate Ryan , Charlotte Perrelli are just some names that have been rumoured to be selected internally or planning to take part in the national selections. Falete has self candidated to represant Spain if selected internally... While Hasselhoff and System of a Down have already denayed any such plans today emerges a new rumour: Spice Girls want to reunite and represant the United Kingdom and do what the Blue boys couldn't: win. Or so thinks Geri Halliwell who accidently has a new album coming out..... When they will start talking about Dima Bilan again? Let the rumours run wild!