ETSC – Every year, the summer is the calm after the storm so it’s the perfect time to resume the highly anticipated the Eurovision Times Song Contest! 43 of you entered for the August 2017 edition and a random draw was made! Discover the songs live tonight at 9 PM CET!
Each summer, a good number of regular readers stay around for different reasons (they don’t get breaks from work or don’t go on holidays…) but there aren’t much news to keep us going. So the last few years we introduced all sort of games. The Eurovision Times Awards (Fridas) and the Douze Points Trivia Quiz kept us going in 2013 and Fridas have made come-backs the past four years. Three years ago, a lot of you asked for a fake Eurovision where each one of us would send songs and get to vote. And that was it: the Eurovision Times Song Contest, from then on known as ETSC.
We’ve therefore had 7 editions of ETSC, two in 2014: July 2014 and August 2014, both won by France; the third edition was held in July 2015 and won by the United-Kingdom; the fourth edition was held in Augusut 2015 and was won by Austria; the fifth edition was held in July 2016 and was won by Israel; the sixth edition was held in August 2016 and won by Denmark. Last month, the 7th edition took place and crowned France’s Juliette Armanet with “L’Amour En Solitaire“. For more information, you can discover our new page dedicated to the contest, with its history, all songs participating and the rankings here. You can also find it by clicking on the “Specials” section of the site, in the top menu in the red box, just under the site’s name. “ETSC 8 – August 2017” will be officially held in Paris and as for venue, it’ll be the Palais des Sports!
After a first round open for people to sign up with a country and send a song, we got 43 people in. In the meantime, to keep us busy, I made a random draw. I also made personal postcards for each entry which will be revealed along with the songs. Everyone can request to see their own postcards for now. Someone did not send a song in time, so we move to 42 official entries in this edition!
Here are a few facts about the 42 entries:
- This is a rather well spread out contest: 22 female vocals / 17 male vocals, plus 3 duets, an almost equal result for once!
- Well just like in the Eurovision Song Contest, English has won us over… and the blind edition may have pushed us a tiny bit more than usual in that department… as we moved from 15 songs in English in ETSC 7 to 19 in ETSC 8! But we’re still below Summer 2016 with ETSC5’s record of 28 songs in English and 21 in ETSC6! Ok besides that, we keep the now tradition of 1 song in French in the edition and the rest is as follows: 3 songs in arabic, 3 songs in serbo-croat, 3 in Russian, 2 in Albanian, 1 in Czech, 1 in Finnish, 1 in German, 1 in Greek, 1 in Hungarian, 1 in Italian, 1 in Latvian, 1 in Maltese, 1 in Slovakian, 1 in Spanish and 1 in Swedish
- We only have 2 ETSC returnees!
Before the show starts, we get the live reprise of the winning song:
Can we beat last years’ editions in comments? ETSC 7 reached an all time record of 2,704 by the end of the voting! You can also use the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UsYbProrac&list=PLgCuJvprQh4wh3e3vEWNgaHtALywqE2qY
Rules: the voting will open at midnight Sunday 13th CET! You can vote until Wednesday 23rd at midnight CET! Results will probably be revealed Friday 25th at 9PM CET! In the meantime, you cannot do promo for your entry in the comment section here (because this is a blind edition). So in order to do so, email me what you want me to post! Once you’ve voted, you can not change your votes, so wait until you’re sure. Also, you have to send me your 11th and 12th in case something goes wrong and we sadly have a DQ. Moreover, you need to send me a city, a hall venue and a host for the next edition if you win!
Good luck everyone!
Denmark: melikes…
Mew? Really? I have seen them even live three times years ago. I loved them back then. Let’s see how they come back 😃
You mean you’re not Denmark?Hmm…*taking notes.
Maybe there was just some smoke and mirrors in that message? 😃
Yet another edition I most probably be unable to make a top10 :(
Mew: First band I knew in advance.
kss, you dane :p
And that’s it, right? 43 good songs to judge as homework for the next week!
42 actually. :)
Someone is out?
Romania.I suppose Jerry was Hoding it.
A shame :(
41 :P
lol
You’re right
Denmark concludes the show! Now I’ll see you all in PRIVATE to send infos, lyrics, also of course votes. Don’t forget your hosting info. And we shall all meet again by the end of the month for another night of glory :)
Thanks for the great show!
Thank you for the wonderful evening :-)
Great night, this is a strong edition!
Thank you Morgan for your time and effort. I’ll take a listen to the ones I missed tomorrow…….but very promising so far.
Thank you Morgan for wonderful hosting. Will send you a nice selection of blond twinks 😃
I like ’em slutty, dont give me those virgin excited/frightened kiddos!
Of course not! Virgins are bore!
Agreed. A lot of guys who like twinks like me like virgins though. I don’t. I love boys who know what they like and how hard they like it :o
Yeah, I know about this “virgin” cult. I only do sexy and sexy for me means that you are sexually confident and you like sex. And for me you need to be beefy as well, athletic towards beefy is minimum requirement with younger guys 😃
Nice closing with Denmark. :)
First known song at the moment.
I officially knew one song beforehand.
And I am quite sure none will be able to predict my entry :)
Oh,you’re Lebanon,
I suspect you are Cyprus. Gregor could be Cyprus as well.
I was kidding about Lebanon,actually.
You never know. Seriously which song could I be?
I can’t tell you,atm.I have 3 countries in mind.
The Danish are fans of those kind of lights, it seems
Now off to checking the other songs. I have quite a long way to go.
Enjoy! :)
That was quick.My first impression is that it’s a much better edition than ETSC#7.
I also think it’s more diversed, and stronger! which is an interesting twist, as we usually have stronger July editions (the song people kept all year long)
I disagree but I haven’t finished yet. Could shape up to be the worse IMO….
Booooo!
see my recent post Dimi.
:o
Yes. Some very unfortunate song choices….
How many did you listen so far ?
I can’t say for obvious reasons :p
Or shall I? Given you don’t know what country I am :p
I didn’t even try to figure out who is who yet. :p
I am half way through…and I am sure I will not listen to half of the songs again…
oh, so you have many still to listen to.
I hope it improves….i lost interest…
it’s also only the first listening, sometimes it can change a lot after more listenings, who knows.
I had a pint and a glass of a strong wine having watched Dunkirk earlier. Who knows. :p
Oh nice! Did you like it ?
Yes. Intense and unique.
I agree. Some scenes were very intense!
look at my recent post, bitch.
Indeed, it’s a stronger one, but I liked a lot ETSC 7 too. :)
Listening again. On first impression I want to vote for 18 songs!
I was at 14!
Thanks for the show Morgan. Loved everything so far !
Last time my top 3 was locked after Reveal. Lots of very good songs, just lacked the total wow moment this time. I know, it can’t happen every time 😃
I’ve had a couple of instant wows: but even though it IS a more homogenous etsc as a whole, I DO have a favorite song of them all :o
Yours? :-)
I meant besides mine ;)
Well, there is one artist I had lined up for participation in FDLC, so it was kind of an advanced wow 😃
Glad to hear that you had instant wows. Such a great feeling 😃.
I think I have the same feeling. But it’s too early.
True, but there can’t be love in the first sight after first sight! I just love the rush 😃
I’ll tell you tomorrow my first impressions.
Surely my song wow’ed?
Songs that are blessed by Pope are beyond Wow. Wow is for mortals! I go with Vatican. There was lots of sleaze even today around here.
While the reveal was going on I was skyping his holiness Pope Francis (I call him Franny). I told him some of the comments and he said he was shocked at the perverted filth. I got a screenshot of our Skype for you:
🎵 It’ll take a little time to get over this… 🎵
Fanny?
He is Fanny when he goes out clubbing, but Franny the rest of the time.
Franny and his alter-ego clubmate.
Poor Franny! I hope there won’t be an excommunication for Morgan or all of us, excluding Andy, of course who have been strongly against this sleaze.
Well all those partially naked men were making this a site to rival pornhub . I thought posting pictures of the pope would be a good erection repellent.
It was of course, until those pics of Jarman’s Mounting Athos surged and it made Poor Frann part of it all!
You do know that in Wiwi and ESC Daily they they refer ET as Porn Times with slogan: When the Music Dies.
Yes, it was Jarman’s lost film Mounting Athos that tipped poor Fran over the edge and he decided that he must take action and become more involved. I am not surprised that those bastions of purity at Wiwi and ESC Daily have rejected ET. One only has to read a few of the comments on ET to get a taste of the level of depravity here. And then of course there are the endless travesties in the ETSC voting which represent the soullessness of the participants. Do you remember when I organised a beautiful tribute to a pious artiste who had sadly passed over to the other side and is now safe in the arms of Jesus? No one voted for his song! I should have known then that these people had not morality!
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Tomas dAsK (2 April 1985 – 27 September 2010).
I do remember. And I know I didn’t vote back then as it was just before my rebirth!
I love a good rebirth!
Things are less clear than last edition for me as well!
It’s trending 😃
Haha, indeed. :p
😃
I could name 3 to 4 songs I see as front runners for the win…
But I won’t :P
Good night, everyone!
Good night Oxi, see you around.
Bonne nuit !
Ok, I’m leaving too. Have a very pernickety night, everyone!
Aww, but it’s Saturday night :o
That’s why! I’m having a very pernickety night and I’m wishing you all the same :-)
Lol……that’s your favourite word now 😂
I managed to video Dino during the song reveal:
lol
Bitch!
Second known song so far :) (Huge delay)
Known because you were planning on using them? Or just because you knew them?
The first one was in my list of “potential entries”, I knew the other song for a different reason :)
Gutted i lost one beloved artist that was so me. :(
But you can give him/her/them points :)
Of course.It’s not my favorite song of the artist,though and it’s not the same as introducing them to others.
:( In that case it’s a bit sad.
I lost 2 songs, but they were not in my top priorities, I’m curious to see how they’ll do now.
Just came home…Now I am looking at the bigger postcards and I recognize not 4 but 8 artists excluded mine…Size does matter😂
I will go through songs tomorrow,any guesses on what country mermaid is?😊
Good night!❤
Of course size does matter.
I think one specific song shouts it’s mermy.lol
While there are less songs I am fawning over compared to ETSC7, this is still a pretty solid edition, and I LOVE how the overall tempo of them all changed to something with a bit more oomph. More balanced vocals, with a lot of quality to boot.
(wtf is this a reply, lol)
I’d say Albania or Israel
Third known song :)
Going through the songs, I have no idea who sent what, except for a couple of examples.
Greece: I don’t hear the bassoon in non-classical music otherwise. Kudos for having it in :)
(I missed: not very often. I can only recall someone playing the bassoon at musicology, she managed to make it fit in to the examination arrangements)
Fourth known song so far, my record was 5 (without counting mine) in ETSC7
While there are less songs I am fawning over compared to ETSC7, this is still a pretty solid edition, and I LOVE how the overall tempo of them all changed to something with a bit more oomph. More balanced vocals, with a lot of quality to boot.