Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

Ucraine selected their entry already back in December 2013. Unlike usually their entry Tick-tock didn't quite impress anyone abroad and most of us were pretty certain it would be replaced with something else. But it didn't happen (a lot of other things happened in Ucraine instead) but the song has gone through a major facelift since. Marya (21), second time lucky (5th last year) has gone through several musical competitions and festivals already, from Ucrainian Voice to New Wave. She wants to be the musical incarnation of Monica Bellucci...  Robert: At first, I did not care one bit about Mariya's winning song Tick-Tock but after the song was revamped to what it is now, I started to notice it and I must say that it's really a pleasant modern pop song now. With this improvement and most probably some sympathy votes for the Ukraine, it should not be too difficult for them to reach the final. I'm ok with Mariya representing Ukraine, however, my heart goes out to ...

Ukraine had it's nationale final for Eurovision and the winner is 20-year-old Maria Yaremchuk, who has made her way through the Voice and Jurmala to Copenhagen 2014. Her song, at least for now, is Tick-tock . This blogger isn't very impressed, but I rarely am with the Ukrainian choices and then watch them climb the scoreboard in the final.... That's life. She seems to be like a petite version of Hanna Pakarinen in Helsinki 2007 what comes to styling having a group of hunky male dancers and enough skin to distract from the song that's rather bland. With all that the performance as it is now gathers up all the Eurovision cliches in staging, but be sure by May she will enter the stage riding an elephant and have dwarves flying around her..... Despite that both the jury and the televoters put her on the first place so she scored 24 points. Viktoria Petryk with Love is Lord came 2nd (17) and Volodymyr Tkachenko came third with Buty Tam De Ty (16) along with Viktor Rom...