Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

Internally chosen Roxen will perform all five entries in Selecția Națională 2020 on March 1, 2020 and there will be 50-50 televote -jury to determinate the winner and Romania's entry in Rotterdam Eurovision. Five songs written in some fashoionable writing camp and you can hear it. Rather anonymous stuff without real soul, compromises. All written to suit her and therefor all quite similar. The one that stands out a bit is Cherry red but even that maybe needs a revamp and stellar staging and performance and if a far cry from originality. And indeed it has a different writing team (Theea Miculescu, Sebastian Barac, Marcel Botezan, Costel Dominteanu) while the other songs are written in various combos by Ionuț Armas, Viky Red, Breyan Isaac, Alex Cotoi, Julie Frost, and Minelli.  Colors ** Alcohol you ** Cherry red *** Beautiful disaster * Storm *

And today the final individual rehearsals as the Big5+host have their second 20 minutes rehearsal before tonight's Blue carpet and Welcome Party. As of tomorrow the full show dress rehearsals start. PORTUGAL - CLÁUDIA PASCOAL - O JARDIM Agora que não estás Rego eu o teu jardim Vocals **** Staging *** Song **** Overall **** Right side of the scoreboard *Portugal sing at number 8 in the final UNITED KINGDOM - SURIE - STORM I still have faith I still believe in chasing rainbows Vocals *** Staging *** Song *** Overall *** Right side of the scoreboard SPAIN - AMAIA Y ALFRED - TU CANCIÓN Todo es perfecto si estás A mi lado creando una nueva ciudad Vocals **** Staging **** Song ***** Overall ***** Left side of the scoreboard

While 24/37 semi-finalist have already rehearsed twice (30 minutes technical and 20 minutes fine tuning) today it's time have the Big5+host on stage for the first rehearsal . Their second rehearsal will take place on Sunday before the Blue Carpet and the Welcome Party. Portugal - Cláudia Pascoal feat. Isaura - O jardim It seems Isaura is no longer in shadows but wants her spotlight in the Eurovision stage, too, and Cláudia lets her have it, even if not sharing her podium. For once not the same staging as in the national final but a bit new one. Cláudia alone on rather dark lit stage at first, the light comes with Isaura and the beat for a moment. Cláudia seems to be avoiding direct camera contact that makes the performance a bit unusual. She's in a close up most of the song in her pink nightgown and pink hair while Isaura, for now, goes all lesbian chic in Nirvana t-shirt. "Simple", "Emotional", "Stunning", "Intimate", ...

Eurovision and remixes. Every year there are a few more or less interesting official ones, and many, many unofficial ones. Here you have some official ones out so far. And something else.... Ieva Zasimauskaité's When we're old has got a Jovani Remix. One of the most underrated entries this year if you ask this blogger works nicely even as a sort of dance mix,  Just like the Lithuanian language version Kol myliu it adds another dimension to this little pearl. The video itself follows her journey through the neverending selection process until her victory. Nice job! The favorite extraordinaire this year has got a remix, too, Sagi Kariv's remix of Netta's Toy doesn't bring much to the mix, just more and longer beats to make this work even better at the dance floor. For more adventurous remixes Youtube is full of unofficial ones.... SuRie's got Storm remixed by 7th Heaven making it sound like... err... any 7th Heaven remix since years but hey, if it...

  Today it's United Kingdom's SuRie's turn to reveal the final mix of the entry. Her Storm has gotten stronger and catchier.... Enjoy!

  United Kingdom has chosen its entry tonight and it's a surprise: SuRie with her Storm . Or rather a surprise for those certain fans. It was my number two anyways :-)  And here the others: