Belarus – Live snippets of the 15 songs that will compete in the semi-final of the Belarussian national selection, Eurofest, which will be held on December 21, have appeared on YouTube. Five of the competitors will be chosen to proceed to the final through 50% televoting and 50% jury votes. Among the competitors are Gunesh Abasova and the band Litesound who have participated in numerous national finals already. Furthermore Anastasiya Vinnikova, who represented her country this year in Düsseldorf is among the participants again.
Here you can listen to snippets of the songs:
Get a taste of what Belarus could send to Baku. 
All songs are in English and we see some ballads, pop, and rock.
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Here is the full list of participants:
- Thriller – Message to the world
- Gunesh Abasova – And morning will come
- Litesound – We are the heroes
- The Champions – It’s your time
- Uzari – The winner
- Nuteki – Superheroes
- Aleksandra Gaiduk & Nataliya Baldina – Loveless
- German – Keep fight
- Anastasia Vinnikova – Shining in twilight
- Ekivoki – Number one
- Yan Zhenchak & Outerplain - A point of no return
- Victoria Aleshko – Dream
- Alena Lanskaya – All my life
- Aura – Hands up
- Anna Blagova – You
Source/Image : BNRT
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Thank you Luis!!
I just wrote the last two sentences and added the video because I was in a hurry
, eurovisiontimes should get the credit for making the article more complete with all the extra information. :*
Judging on past Belarussion entries, I think I need some time to brace myself for this …
Well, I am still working anyway and will listen when I am finished.
Any first impressions of those who have already dared listening to those snippets?
I will listen to them once I’m finished learning… I want at least ONE good song ^^ Anyway, in the end they will probably change everything 20 times… and in the end we have a song and an artist we never heard of ^^
they’re not in running order so it was hard to match them all… once more Litesound are the most promising to me, but I’m not thrilled yet by any
Quite weak lineup…
Gunesh surprised me, she is the best for now :O OMG… because in this video we can’t see all snippets from the list..
@ Morgan
if you don’t understand cyrilic ask me who is who!
can you make the list of the 15 singers and entries in the running order of the video instead? but dont trouble yourself if you dont have the time it’s ok, thanks for proposing the help
No problem at all…but I’m not sure maybe for somebody here it is problem, i’m never sure when i make problems.. it’s forbiden for me to write some words
1. Gunesh
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2. Litesound
3. Nuteki
4. The Champions (hahah guy from Jamaica has even worse accent than Belarussian singer..
5. Uzari
6. Aleksandra Gaiduk & Nataliya Baldina
7. Alena Lanskaya
8. Anna Blagova
9. Victoria Aleshko
10. German
11. Annastasiya Vinnikova (GOSH she is the worst definitely NO COMMENT :S)
thanks, wow Gunesh first? that looked quite amateurish imo… my favorite will most likely be, as usual, Litesound
Swear words are forbidden for everyone not just for you!
Is crap forbidden as well? From now on I will use word crap for horrors like Sertab Erener, though I think its too soft for it! LOL
Grrrrrr Marko, how dare you to say this word for my Sertab !!!!!!
You should learn to read cyrillic ^^ it’s fun!
I cannot speak a word but know the alphabet. I was a georgraphy junky from a very young age (in fact, I learnt reading at the age of 5 because my parents had got tired of reading the atlas to me …) and insisted on putting the cities and town in national alphabet on my lists.
Btw, from a purely ornamental point fo view I prefer the cyrillic alphabet to the latin one.
There’s another geek like me!
Victoria Aleshko – “Dream” could be good as well!
@ eurovisiontimes
if you have learn Bulgarian alphabet you would know that it’s not Uzari, but Yuzari, because letter Ю is not /U/, but /Yu/!
So I suggest you next time dont learn alphabet just for fun!
I’m just gonna see this as a friendly indication of a possible mistake and will pass by your attempt to provoke me yet again…
I know that Ю is pronounced /ju/ (the y actually is not phonologically correct here)
I may have to point out the fact that a word initial u is very often realized as /ju/ in English
for example: use [ju:z], Ural [jʊərəl], Ukraine [ju:ˈkreɪn]
on the other hand the letters ju are often realized as a dschu sound as in : july [ʤʊˈlaɪ], Julia e.t.c
that’s why many native speakers of English transcribe Ю especially in word initial position as U
that is by the way how every fansite and wikipedia transcribed the name as well, and probably the transciption they use themselves…
There is no right way to transcribe anyway: Here is the German, English and French transcription of the last Sowjet leader’s name: Michail Gorbatschow Mikhail Gorbachev Mikhaïl Gorbatchev
Last but not least: I didn’t learn it for fun… I learned it to (basically) survive….
1. I dont provoke
2. You suggest others to learn it for fun
3. I know about ju and yu, but from experience I know that foreigners who never learned cyrillic better understand with yu than with ju.
1. ah ok
2. I said “It’s fun” …. not that I learned it for fun…
3. From my experience it doesn’t really matter… They are not going to Baku anyway
I just didnt say anything bad to you so Im calm and innocent!
compared to other evenings you are actually ^^
Sorry but that is completely wrong…..since a big argument with you after I have sent you that short mail..I was totally OK..except I wrote s..e word few times..which is not big thing at all..
Litesound or Gunesh and to a lesser extent Victoria Aleshko in my opinion…
Aura – Hands up will probably be the best..but we cant hear it now!
Well, hard to tell because the sound quality is so bad. I expect most of them to sound much better live. The good thing is that I will probably like most of them better than any entry Belarus has sent to ESC so far. There are only two acts that I won’t like even with a perfect live: The Champions and Annastasiya Vinnikova … and I find it pretty hard to imagine liking German and Gunseh either, but we will see. For now, I am rooting for Litesound. Their song might not be better than some others here but it comes closest to what I generally like. Aleksandra Gaiduk & Nataliya Baldina, Anna Blagova and Victoria Aleshko seem to be the best choices if we think about results. All of them seem to be quite good ballads that might get a lot of support from the juries.
Finally, for the first time ever I am sort of looking forward to the Belarussian NF. Hope that they won’t change the entry again once it has been chosen.
Plus there are still 4 songs to listen to..because in this video, there is only 11!
Yes, let’s hope that there is even better stuff there. I soooo want to add a Belarussian ESC song to my list of favourites. So far Irina Yarina’s song from the 2007 NF is first on my list. I know that it is rather cheap (I could have said catchy too … LOL) but I sort of like it nevertheless.
Btw, does anyone know what it was like live? I didn’t watch that NF and couldn’t find a YT clip.
yes I have all videos from 2005-2011 NF on some hard disk so I could show you…
There is no hurry. In case you stumble across it sometime in the future, just let me know.
Apart from the bad sound (but it’s a youtube video), I was well pleased with the overall look. It looked like an actual selection done, with different styles, actual singers (some of them are promising) and yes very generic songs, but no horrors as it used to be. True, things seem to lack a magic special something, but it’s by far not as bad as it used to be a few years ago and I also am curious to how it’ll turn out live. I also support Litesound. They’ve been my #1 each year they took part in so I trust them live. And hope to find them in Baku.
“I expect most of them to sound much better live.”
I meant with a better live production of course.
its not easy to select what is what is in the videos.. btw there are some good some between, I am always ready to put them on my favorite list.. good luck Belarus
Hi RoseliN!
KISS!
You can see my comment in this article where I have written order in the video!
Thank you my dear. I will check it now
Roselil is this from Denmark?
I guess yes, its say that is maid by Remee, which is a composer here…and the all comments are in Danish..I have never heard of this one.. great! so rihanna-ish btw
Thanks Roselil!!
Id like that Ramee to submit for Dansk MGP!
RoselinN.. hahaha.. I didnt notice at first am a bit drunk. my Godness!!
Yeah, it’s not complete, but don’t worry guys, I’m on the hunt for the missing ones!
I am trying to go through the snippets atm.
Janela ESC has posted an article on this subject citing ET as the source.
I managed to listen to the availabke snippets and it’s fairly obvious that Litesound seem to be the best choice atm. There is still a long way to go.
P.S.: you’re right, Marko, Vinnikova is just unbelievably bad.
there are too many ballads.. I guess I will root for Uzari, not the best song but it sounds good to my ears so far.. Better to wait for the whole song I may change my mind
They all seem just a little above average… Except Litesound, which is a little better…
And Anastasia, she is quite bad, although I can see her representing Belarus again (and failing once again to get to the final ^^)
Most of them sing so terrible in those clips, the sound is bad, the accents are bad and the songs are not good either. Litesound is easily the best here. I hope Aura can deliver the goods, she has minor potential to be one of the best at least. I do think Litesound will end up being my favourite anyhow, it’s only 4 songs left to be heard.
Overall impression: disappointed. Like many have said, I wonder why they sing in english with this accent. Some songs have potential, but the accent totally ruins them.
My favorites are Litesound and Uzari.
Gunesh reminds me of 3+2 – “Butterflies” actually!
I like it, also reminds me of Mika Newton “Angel”… I like it!
Based on the snippets my favourites are Litesound, Alena Lanskaya and Victoria Aleshko.