Erna Hrönn - Myrkrið Hljótt Regina Ósk - Aldrei Of Seint Stefanía Svavarsdóttir - Augnablik Friðrik Dór - Í Síðasta Skipti Haukur Heiðar Hauksson - Milljón Augnablik María Ólafsdóttir - Lítil Skref CADEM - Fyrir Alla Björn og félagar - Piltur Og Stúlka Elín Sif Halldórsdóttir - Í Kvöld HINEMOA - Þú Leitar Líka Að Mér Sunday - Fjaðrir Bjarni Lárus Hall - Brotið Gler So far my favourite national final. I like my top 5. Nothing really terrible either. Some people might not like the number of ballads though.
Stay home Cyprus. Save the money... All 6 songs are dreadful. Maybe "Without your love" has some potential for reworking, but I foresee no winners here.
Eurovision Song Project Final Hovig - Stone In A River Panagiotis Koufogiannis - Without Your Love Charis Savva & Nearchos Evangelou - Deila Den Agapo Giannis Karagiannis - One Thing I Should Have Done Minus One - Shine Doody - Magic I like Stone In A River the best, but Without Your Love has most potential for Eurovision. I'm afraid Magic will be chosen though.
Dansk Melodi Grand Prix Tina & René - Mi Amore Cecilie Alexandra - Hotel A Anne Gadegaard - Suitcase Julie Bjerre - Tæt På Mine Drømme World of Girls - Summer Without You Babou - Manjana Sara Sukurani - Love Me Love Me Marcel & Soulman Group - Når Veje Krydses Anti Social Media - The Way You Are Andy Roda - Love Is Love In A Moment Like This 2.0 on #1. It's schlager, it's epic, it's everything I shouldn't love, but it's too damn catchy. I want that in Vienna.
A Dal 2015 Vera Tóth - Gyémánt Bogi - World Of Violence Gabi Szűcs - Úgysem Felejtesz El MDC - Maniac Timi Antal - Woke Up This Way Gergő Szakács - Ősz Utca Balázs Farkas-Jenser - Liar Passed - Mesmerize Karmapolis - The Time Is Now Bori Magyar - Lead Me To Heaven I'll update this post every week as we hear more live versions.
A Dal 2015 Kati Wolf - Ne Engedj El! Bogi - World Of Violence Vera Tóth - Gyémánt New Level Empire - Homelights Other Planet - Untold Story Boggie - Wars For Nothing Szabó Ádám - Give Me Your Love Balázs Farkas-Jenser - Liar Gergő Szakács - Ősz Utca Ildikó Keresztes - Hazád Hazám Lehet Karmapolis - The Time Is Now Spoon - Keep Marching On Passed - Mesmerize Barbara Péter - Listen to the Universe Chances - The Night Mujahid Zoltán - Beside You ÍV - Fire Fool Moon - Back 2 Right Timi Antal - Woke Up This Way Gájer Balint - That's How It Goes Dér Heni - Ébresztő Szécsi Saci & Böbe - Our Time Oláh Gergő - A tükör előtt Proof Of Life - Hol A Határ Pankastic! - Kicsi a világ, de nagy világ MDC - Maniac Gabi Szűcs - Úgysem Felejtesz El Leander Rising - Lőjetek fel Éliás Gyula Jr. feat. Fourtissimo - Run to You Bori Magyar - Lead Me To Heaven
Right, here we go with one of my favourites countries: - Maybe not for their entries, but just for the country in general. Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 1. Julie Bjerre – Tæt på mine drømme 2. Cecilie Alexandra - Hotel A 3. World of Girls - Summer Without You 4. Babou - Manjana 5. Tina & René - Mi Amore 6. Anne Gadegaard - Suitcase 7. Andy Roda - Love is Love 8. Anti Social Media - The Way You Are 9. Sara Sukurani - Love Me, Love Me 10. Marcel & Soulman Group – Når veje krydses Not bad but rather disappointing in comparison to last year - a Danish song as my number one? What a shock. Songs can be found here: http://esctips.com/2015/01/24/denmark-full-list-of-artists-song-published/#
Dansk Melodi Grand Prix Oh dear. At least they're trying to cover all the bases: yet another Scandinavian country coming up with yet another Eric Saade wannabe, girl groups, two solo singers put together to do a duet, talent show entrants, former backing singer makes it to the front ... whoopsidoo.
Dansk Melodi Grand Prix Cecilie Alexandra - Hotel A Julie Bjerre - Tæt På Mine Drømme Babou - Manjana World of Girls - Summer Without You Tina & René - Mi Amore Anne Gadegaard - Suitcase Anti Social Media - The Way You Are Andy Roda - Love Is Love Sara Sukurani - Love Me Love Me Marcel & Soulman Group - Når Veje Krydses Hint hint Denmark, 2 songs in my top 3 are Danish. A recap:
Right then, I have listened to and come up with this: Andy McSean - Hey Now Tiziana - Only Human Timebelle - Singing About Love Melanie René - Time To Shine Deborah - Take me Back to 23 Licia Cherry - Fly and (what there is so far) and I think I've come up with this. The first few are probably right and the last couple but, to be honest, they are all so forgettable I couldn't remember what had gone before to know where to place the one I was listening to: Electro Folk - Dieva Deli The Stones - Free Your Mind (bit worthy though) Markus Riva - Take me Down Framest - Ziema Gunars Gaumigs - Life Lines Dima Milenin & Kamilla - Colours of Love Antra Stafecka - It's the Night Katrina Bindere - Run To You Linda Kakule - Save Our Love Katrina Cirule - Bass (I Love It) Ornella - Angel Atis Levins - Catfiss Minta - Nefelibata Aminata Savadogo - Love Injected
Unser Song für Österreich Nice to see a good amount of German for once - I'm counting on Nick to help us find the rest of the songs. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind which is the best song released so far - I can only tolerate my top 3. (And if they pick Frozen Silence, it'll be difficult to beat in my ranking.) 1. Fahrenhaidt - Frozen Silence 2. Alexa Feser - Das Gold von morgen 3. Alexa Feser - Glück 4. Noize Generation - A Song For You 5. Laing - Wechselt die Beleuchtung 6. Faun - Hörst Du Die Trommeln 7. Mrs. Greenbird - Take My Hand 8. Faun - Abscheid 9. Mrs. Greenbird - Shine, Shine, Shine 10. Laing - Zeig deine muskeln
Unser Song für Österreich Fahrenhaidt - Frozen Silence Fahrenhaidt - Mother Earth Alexa Feser - Glück Alexa Feser - Das Gold von Morgen Faun - Hörst Du Die Trommeln Noize Generation - A Song For You Andreas Kümmert - Heart Of Stone Andreas Kümmert - Home Is In My Hands Laing - Wechselt Die Beleuchtung Noize Generation - Crazy Now Mrs. Greenbird - Shine Shine Shine Faun - Abschied Mrs. Greenbird - Take My Hand Laing - Zeig Deine Muskeln No "Mehr als ein Lied" for Alexa, and no Emmelie for Fahrenheidt (not that I care, Frozen Silence is EXC - I added a preview for their 2nd song). Noize Generation is better than expected, and Laing is worse than expected (but Wechselt die Beleuchtung isn't too bad). Faun has one decent and one meh song. I'm not keen on Mrs. Greenbird. Andreas Kümmert is just okay. Recap:
Time to rank all of these then... Unser Song für Österreich Faun - Hörst Du Die Trommeln Alexa Feser - Das Gold von Morgen Fahrenhaidt - Mother Earth Fahrenhaidt - Frozen Silence Faun - Abschied Alexa Feser - Glück Andreas Kümmert - Heart of Stone Andreas Kümmert - Home Is In My Hands Laing - Wechselt Die Beleuchtung Mrs. Greenbird - Take My Hand Noize Generation - A Song For You Noize Generation - Crazy Now Mrs. Greenbird - Shine, Shine, Shine Laing - Zeig Deine Muskeln
Melodifestivalen - Deltävling 1 - Snippets Elize Ryd & Rickard Söderberg - One By One Jessica Andersson - Can't Hurt Me Now Molly Pettersson Hammar - I'll Be Fine Dolly Style - Hello Hi Eric Saade - Sting Daniel Gildenlöw - Pappa Behrang Miri ft. Victor Crone - Det Rår Vi Inte För