Hello everyone!

Thank you again so much for giving the excellent Reba McEntire a 6th place with a (for Empelia) record of points: 121 points!
Special thanks go to Black Daisystan and Moofistan for giving Empelia a 12. Also a big thanks to San Minino for a 12 in the semifinal!'
Congrats to Inspireland for winning the contest for a second time! Also congrats to Nawrocka, Sheepmark, Moofistan and Il Regno D'Italofilia for completing the Top 5!

A massive Thank You goes to JW for continuing to work on the contest site. That is truly amazing.

Now for Edition 27, we wanted to send Greek (regarding my choice of study some of you might have heard about that before), and we kind of do...
It's a Greek artist, but it's not in Greek. She is singing in English.
It is an up-tempo (maybe dance?) song, about breaking up. Maybe not the happiest subject you can sing about, but the music sure is good, if you ask me. It has a great beat.
Do make sure you last the first minute and don't skip it after that, because it starts to be truly amazing after that!

See you in Inspireland!

Viel Glück!

sounds like a great song ! good luck

Thanks Marcio and Berk!

Betting odds in Jamoukovia:

1.00001/1 : Helena Paparizou
2/1: Kalomira
5022/1: Another greek artist

HELENA PAPARIZOU TO RABANASTRE (INSPIRELAND)

We all saw it tonight, the big reveal of the songs for Edition 27 in Rabanastre, Inspireland. A great recap showed us 30 entries with a great variety. Reactions went from EW to YAY, haha.
Empelia decided to send one of the bigger Eurovision Stars of the past few years. The Greek-Swedish Helena Paparizou will represent us in the final with her song Baby It's Over.
I assume all of us here know Helena from winning Eurovision 2005 with the excellent song My Number One. This song is from 2010.

Let me just give a big congratulations to James, who was pretty sure that we sent Helena, and damn it, he was right! Well done!

The lyrics for whoever is interested:

You have stolen my heart
And that 's why it hurts whenever we are far apart
I got lost in your eyes
And that's why you almost had me fooled, it 's not goodbye
Goodbye
You say: you're coming back
But I've heard that phrase before and I can't believe in that
I know it won't be the same
'Cause I need you next to me, not a million miles away
Away

If you go then it's already too late
I can't take it please don't make me wait
It's over
Baby it's over
I move on, I am trying to forget
I'll erase it, everything we had
It's over
Baby it's over

I'll do good on my own
But I can't be with someone and still feel all alone
In time, I guess it will heal
And I know our love by then is ancient history
To me

If you go then it 's already too late
I can't take it please don't make me wait
It's over
Baby it's over
I move on, I am trying to forget
I'll erase everything we had
It's over
Baby it's over

You're following a dream
The sacrifice is me
I know you'll be fine
You just won't be mine

If you go
If you go then it's already too late
I can't take it please don't make me wait
It's over
Baby it's over

Who do you think that you are?

I move on, I am trying to forget
I'll erase everything we had
It's over
Baby it's over