The Greatest Eurovision Songs That Never Were
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For me it has to be Kate Ryan 'Je T'adore', how she never got through to the final I don't know.
This song should have represented Ireland in 2009, It's gorgeous and much better than the dirge Et Cetera that won Eurosong that year.
Still forever pressed both Karin Park and Jenny Langlo lost out to Mørland & Debrah Scarlett's nonsense at Norway's 2015 Melodi Grand Prix
And that this mess went on to the gold final, doing better than both those songs:
And that this mess went on to the gold final, doing better than both those songs:
I think the staging let both of these down a little. What the hell was Karin wearing? Dominatrix outfit toppled with a white bed sheet? The song called for something much more classier than that, I think. It was too distracting. All I saw on Twitter during her performance was a lot of "oh this reminds me I need to change my bed sheets", not how beautiful the song is. The epileptic-inducing lights were too much too, I think.
Jenny's styling was a choice as well, and the staging and lights didn't really lift that massive chorus higher, it just made it appear empty, almost. I think there were too many electropop-y songs that year for both of them to really stand out, which put Mørland & Scarlett in a better position. But Norway ended up finishing 8th in the grand final, so it could have been a lot worse.
How I wish that Loreen Da Queen did MF 2011 with Euphoria and then win ESC 2012 with this one
Sure, Filipa Azevedo ended up doing ok, but this would have done even better for Portugal in 2010
Sure, Filipa Azevedo ended up doing ok, but this would have done even better for Portugal in 2010
2015 was the year of missed opportunities, both the below were FAR super than the songs that ended up in Vienna. Proof? Both failed to qualify *insert evil laugh here*
Finland
Ireland
Finland
Ireland
The Finnish 2006 National Finals had such great tunes that you could be forgiven for thinking that choosing Lordi was a reckless gamble.
I'm still bitter this didn't even make the Swedish finale:
Lost gem from Finland (2012).
So with the 2017 contest drawing near, do y'all have any songs from this year's national selections that you feel you'll be bopping to long after they announce that we're off to Tallinn in 2018?
For me a couple that stand out both made the finals of the Lithuanian competition:
Greta Zazza's Like I Love You
and Aistė Pilvelytė's I'm Like A Wolf
Amazing.
Now if only the studio version of Aistė's could make its way to iTunes.
For me a couple that stand out both made the finals of the Lithuanian competition:
Greta Zazza's Like I Love You
and Aistė Pilvelytė's I'm Like A Wolf
Amazing.
Now if only the studio version of Aistė's could make its way to iTunes.
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I've been enjoying one of the songs VANQUISHED by VERONA
Also love this Polish also-ran penned by Kempe
And every once in a while I like to listen to a song with male vocals just for that hit of testosterone, so here's a Danish finalist
Finally you know I live for basic bops so this song that lost to YODEL IT is my Romanian winner
(And I opted for studio versions because the live clips make it perfectly clear why they didn't win......)
Also love this Polish also-ran penned by Kempe
And every once in a while I like to listen to a song with male vocals just for that hit of testosterone, so here's a Danish finalist
Finally you know I live for basic bops so this song that lost to YODEL IT is my Romanian winner
(And I opted for studio versions because the live clips make it perfectly clear why they didn't win......)
Albania be like "Why send bops like that when we can sed yet another screaming diva?"
Kerli was robbed.
A1 were robbed with Don't Wanna Lose You Again for Norway.