THE Eurovision Knockout 2015 – The votes have been counted in Duel 7 of The Eurovision Knockout 2015! The seventh Duel of the season saw Lithuania and Belgium going head to head to try and win a place in the quarter finals! Check the result now…
The result of Duel 7:
Lithuania 34%
Belgium 66%
Well done to Belgium’s Loïc Nottet singing ‘Rhythm Inside‘ who progresses to the quarter finals.
The Eurovision Times 
TEAM LOIC!!!!!
Expected. But I will speak after I watch a live performance!
Loic will be perfoming at the Voice of Belgium final on 5th May
http://www.rtbf.be/tv/emission/detail_the-voice-belgique/les-news/article_des-invites-de-marque-pour-la-finale?id=8963164&emissionId=3873
I would have liked to send both songs to the next round. :)
Good.
For an unexplicable reason Armenia has grown on me these last couple of days and now it’s in my top-10 of the first semi.After watching a clip of their rehearsals they sound good and will most likely qualify,imo.
The rehearsal video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JayprLPD8hU
Mary Jane replaces Anush for Inga with honor :) And I love Tamar’s jocks with her African friend :))
I have always liked the composition :-)
Thanks for making me go back to my post and notice my inexplicable mistake.lol
You didn’t mean Armenia or?
Of course i meant Armenia.I just made an un/inexplicalble error. :P
Ah, I see. It can happen to everyone :-)
*inexplicable
The chorus is still weak but they were never going to miss the Final imo!
I wouldn’t be sad with any outcome here!
Off topic. Sirusho released new single !!!
It’s very nice but it wouldn’t be eligible to take part in esc.lol But, with this song you would do very well in ETSC or FDLC.
Armenia should go back to this kind of tunes asap!
Last year we saw that Armenia may afford diversity with quality aswell if participant doesn’t have steriotipical approach to ESC (Aram was ESC fan by far before his year)! I wan’t diversity!
As for ETSC and FDLC, I’d love to submit this folky video but it is a cover of an old folk song :( Rules must reviewed (new covers of old songs should be alowded aswell)!
Covers after 2006 are allowed in FdlC ;)
Guy Sebastian on German television: http://www.daserste.de/information/politik-weltgeschehen/morgenmagazin/videos/livemusik/livemusik-guy-sebastian-mit-tonight-again-australiens-beitrag-zum-esc-100.html
The accoustic version sound pretty lame imo. :(
I’m BACK! I’ve listened to all the songs… again, and I’ve made my top 40. I’m still working on a post about it, but in the mean time, here’s a video I made. It’s unavailable in Germany at the moment, but I’m working on that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7zH3GwKTls
On-Topic: Congrats Loïc, but both songs were worthy of advancing from this duel, imo. :)
Germany … :(
What is it with Germany and YouTube? Special copyright rules or so?
GEMA defends copyright issues here in Germany and YT hates them because they try to protect singers/composers from songs being available without the artists getting any money. Therfore YT randomly blocks clips … like (one of my favourite ESC entries …) Cyprus 1994 f. e. which wasn’t even released in Germany. LOL I HATE YT!
It makes sense.
YT clips come and go, that’s why I have most of the contests on dvd.
I know. :(
Germany-friendly link:
Regarding ET jury ranking: Should I add your votes for both semis according to this video or wait for an official announcement? :P
You can just use this. :)
Great ! Only Patrick and Alex NYC left!
I would actually have thought Lithuania would do better. Many people here have been positive about it, and it is straight forward and happy-go-lucky.
A bit too happy-go-lucky for my taste, I must say.
But still 7/12. Absolutely above average :-)
Belgium is 9/12 at the moment. I’m not sure if it is going to stay there. It could turn into a pros and cons entry.
Offtopics, but I’ve yet again updated my top 40, i think this really is my final one until rehearsals and ultimately the esc lives…
my top 4 are the songs id listen to outside esc
my top 12 are songs that in this edition are likable and have at least one good quality
then my top 19 are songs inside the realm of esc are acceptable
the rest is poop but there’s ok poop, guilty pleasuer poop, awful poop…
01 Belgium
02 Estonia
03 Latvia
04 Slovenia
05 Austria
06 Sweden
07 Azerbaijan
08 Georgia
09 Germany
10 Norway
11 France
12 Lithuania
13 Ireland
14 Montenegro
15 Malta
16 Denmark
17 Belarus
18 Finland
19 Australia
20 Serbia
21 Albania
22 Czech Republic
23 Romania
24 Switzerland
25 Netherlands
26 Israel
27 FYR Macedonia
28 Cyprus
29 Hungary
30 Portugal
31 Iceland
32 Armenia
33 Spain
34 Italy
35 Russia
36 Moldova
37 San Marino
38 United-Kingdom
39 Greece
40 Poland
Am I counting this for ET jury vote?
I guess so?
thanks! Could there be any possibility to e mail you the results of both semis and create a thread with an ET final?
you can email ET’s email so that lynn or jade do it if they’re around before I am
Ok thanks ! But I will wait for Alex (NYC) and Patrick to cast their votes first. I decided not to inlude people who haven’t commented here before the procedure, as it seemed like an effort to manipulate the voting to me.
Glad we just got into your top 19! I like your Top 10 list.
songwise yes, but i cant stand guy at all
I more or less agree with your top 10 (but in different order and Cyprus and Romania replacing Georgia and Germany, who sit just outside of my top 10). Going further down the list, we disagree a lot. Belarus in 17th place??? It is among the worst and most annoying ESC songs ever imo (excluding joke entries …).
I don’t see that. But then Marc P has Montenegro and Denmark in his bottom 10 and Finland 4th so… it all exists on ET, common sense prevails for something around 6-8 songs and that’s what matters
Italy that low? ._.
Well, good songs in your top. Your top 4 has 3 songs of my top 10 (Estonia isn’t there, but it is a good song)
and it’s the highest I ever had it: I never could stand it, it’s an overrated pompous train wreck: the live is even worse, they’re all so punchable… and the lyrics, goddamn!
damn XD
I disagree, I’ve followed them for a while and I think it’s well constructed for what it is and plays to strengths (opera equals big and histrionic almost all the time), and I bet they won’t fall live as bad as Amaury (or so I hope)
Other than Austria at 5th and Malta at 15th (both way too high imo), I can understand the rest (You still recognize Poland as the pomposity queen and sympathy bonus and Greece obivous and boring copycat of the winner, so we good :P)
I have just returned from the supermarket where I was very surprised to hear the Georgian “Warrior”. If a Stuttgart supermarket airs the Georgian ESC entry before the contest, there is still hope for our continent … :)