France – After France 2, the national broadcaster behind the French Eurovision delegation, designated Tom Leeb as the internally selected artist to represent the country in Rotterdam, the song “The Best In Me” was revealed tonight.
The official credits give us more info: the song is composed by Thomas G:son andPeter Boström, who cowrote many esc entries over the years and over Europe, all the way to winning for their home country in 2012 when Loreen performed “Euphoria” in Baku. Adding France as a new country is a surprise, as the country used to be quite nationalist in its approach, as seen in the polemics in 2008 when for the first time the French entry was supposedly entirely in English, after mocking “frenglish” in the 2007 lyrics. After the polemics hit the National Assembly, it was decided to calm everyone down to add two lines in French, purposedly saying “Pour moi l’amour chante en Français” (to me Love sings in French). An international team? A Swedish one at that? More proof that France 2 wants “to play the game” to do well: hot guy, who cares if he sings well, Swedish product (probably a MF reject). They can be happy they did well without winning (the motto on French news each time the contest is mentioned is “we don’t want to win it’s expensive to host”).
The “international” (read “English”) lyrics are by John Lundvik (Sweden 2019), Amir Haddad (France 2016), Tom Leeb and Léa Ivanne but it’s no surprise they have some French elements again… More “inside the esc bubble” material. Amir is the new face of Eurovision in France after his 6th place and more importantly that his song was an actual hit here, when Lisa Angell or Virginie Pouchain are nobodies. His song “J’ai cherché” could even be heard in Xavier Dolan’s latest film selected in Cannes, Matthias et moi. So it’s no wonder he’s the one France goes to (he was also part of the jury in Destination Eurovision as Christer Bjrörkman was part of the international jury).
The reveal took place at 20:50 CET from a short clip shot at the Eiffel Tower and that can be watched online. What do you think of this entry? What are its chances in Rotterdam?
The Eurovision Times 
My reaction similar to Selena’s:
She was so fat the sofa cushion fell and she fell too and was more upset she was woken up that she was fat :p
Good luck!
#theverybottomofmylistsofar :(
It’s inoffensive swedish material… I hate Armenia way more but that’s me, I don’t connect to the Armenian style at all and find “whory” attitudes annoying
I don’t know if it’s “inoffensive Swedish material”, Morgan. All I know is that I find really “offensive” that fact that this song does, by no means, represent the French music scene, and that’s what pisses me off :(
Regarding Armenia 2020, I am so surprised to see myself not disliking it as much as I thought, tbh! :o
I find it rather weird in a globalized world that lefties still think on a national level! However, the problem to me is not that they’re Swedish it’s that they’re esc bubble material! ;)
I still think it’s inoffensive, and having it last “for what it represents or doesn’t” and not on song merit is weird! I simply can’t listen to the Armenian song til the end unless forced, and can’t watch it without rolling my eyes, that’s why it’s my last! But I get that it’s popular with some and that’s fine by me!
“the problem to me is not that they’re Swedish”
Of course, not to me either!
For now, and with just one go of the French song, who hasn’t had a live yet. We know list changes over the weeks with more material in and that it’s a lot shifted around once we get the Eurovision lives. But I have something around this:
GREAT
Lithuania
GOOD
Norway
AVERAGE
Italy
Albania
Australia
POOR
Spain
France
Latvia
Czech Republic
Armenia
AWFUL
–
A great year! Wait we have all the internal selections ahead
well we do have 31 songs to go
But your “poor”category is long enough already
To be completely fair, most of them (from Spain to Czech Rep) could be average with lives / better lives etc. Also, Armenia could be “awful” as well. It’s all compact for now because we only have ten. Anyway, every year I only get around 5 “great” songs and around 8 “good songs”… most songs are in average/poor and every year we say the same things about the first few songs!
A Disney concostion from a pair of swedish songwriters, adopting the full swedish approach of finding a hot guy to sing it… France goes from disappointment to disappointment.
So they did not send Maëlle for this? :'(
Not a single French singer who is trying to have a career or have one would ever think of the contest. When approached (and a few years ago they approached “some” artists, all the way to the bigger names they asked, Air and Patricia Kaas), they always get declined. Amir was an old talent show reject who was trying to curve his career back and Alma had the same producer than Amir and he was way too happy with the turn of events to decline Alma.
Both Madame Monsieur and Bilal were 100% French, with the known results, seen as disappointments by FrTV. Seeing an empty product like “Proud” doing first with juries and Sweden topping their list every year, they probably thought “hey we could do something like that, how expensive is G:son really?”
But Maëlle is just an upstart from a talent show and there were rumours swirling around her for months. The fans wanted her like crazy. But I guess there are issues, since the Voice is on a competing channel.
exactly, she’s just out of a talent show, not like Amir who was in one ten years before he participated in Eurovision… you need your career to slope down before considering Eurovision in France! Maëlle just got a song by Zazie a big figure here!
Didn’t Louane say she’d be interested in Eurovision if it fit with her schedule a couple years ago? I remember that happening and getting excited only to be disappointed lol.
I don’t remember that
Found it, wayyy back in 2015.
https://wiwibloggs.com/2015/06/03/louane-eurovision-france/
oh wow, no that’s too long ago now lol
The best in me sounds like a potential porn title with Tom hooking up with a bunch of guys. Would undoubtedly be more exciting than this song.
But exciting news from Germany: There will be another undoubtedly again brilliant teaser video tomorrow!
I knew the title would have you aroused!
Pure instinct – he’s hot!
With that title, I bet the porn version would be boring as well. Unless they added another word between “the best” and “in me”:-P
The minute I heard the french song, the first thought on my mind was “so after so much spanish and french brilliance, I simply can’t wait for Germany” :-D
Cum oooon, who needs the extra word, use your !mag!nation.
Germany never disappoints, I’m sure we will get sth. up to the familiar standard /s.
Just like Spain and France, they act like they have stumbled upon a winner. Ireland makes similar noises as well.
I’m not sure what they’re thinking; it seems to me they are very caught up in the idea that they have some incredibly clever and innovative viral teaser campaign?!
I bet it is going to be coronaviral :-P
Unlikely; then it would have to spread more rapidly ;-).
But will be deadly on arrival.
The album cover is flawless 😍
The song is not terrible but nothing interesting either…
yeah it’s MOR, won’t hurt anyone! I find it weird (and a bit harsh) to have it last? it’s not interesting at all, and I get it’s annoying as f*ck it’s a Swedish material, but that should hurt me as a Frenchman more than anythong else ahah
Am I the only one who finds this even worse than “Roi”? :(
“Roi” was on par musically imo (but it was written by a French team so maybe that’s why you like it more?)
No. Not at all. I find it slightly better musically.
It ended up around #27 on my 2019 list from what I can recall.
Also, Bilal was both annoying as hell and still touching in how young he was and how it was a dream to him! We haven’t seen Tom talking about the contest a tall, but the fact he’s so handsome makes him annoying on first instinct and that counts as well in our way to “concieve” the entries I think. Bilal got so many homophobic and racist insults online I wanted to protect him by the end of the season. Tom looks annoying as hell and I guess that’s why I’m less eager to support him for sure. Plus however weak “Roi” could be seen, it was still something meaningful to Bilal. No way G:son’s music means anything to Tom! So that’s loss in honesty would also explain why we’re harsher to France 2020. However, I think the live can be really good (not vocally, but everything else) and he’ll get a better result than Bilal overall (thanks to the juries).
You are right about the live performance. Let’s wait and see. The song still is what it is though.
I do prefer Roi as well. But thats subjective
I’m with you on that. “Roi” at least felt very connected to its performer, with its main flaw being a bit boring.
This, on the other hand, jarringly goes from chorus to a soft bridge to a huge blast out of nowhere for the final chorus, with dramatic elements that are disconnected from the rest of the song. And I say that as someone who LOVES dramatic finishes and fast strings in the final chorus. To top it all off, there’s nothing French about it, and France has a fantastic music scene…
I find it rather shallow as I said in another comment. As if it has been penned in no more than 48 hours.
On the second listening, it sounded much less cohesive to me, as if the songwriters said “We need a big moment. Let’s put it here!” without giving much thought of how the song flows as a whole.
Then again, I’ve never liked Lundvik’s songs…
Lundvik’s songs are the worst of the kind I agree! but he’s the one buzzing (3rd and 1st in MF) sadly
And last in ESC 2019 and last in MF 2014 (He was the sole songwriter of Anton Ewald’s “Natural”, which no one remembers, lol)
I remember Daniel Koivunen, my husband
I was refering to no one remembering that Lundvik wrote the song, but whatever floats your boat :)
I know what you meant, and I know what I care about. And it wasn’t Anton, even if he was a hot lil slut too!
Anton Ewald, what happened to him? Somehow I expected him to come back to MF the following years.
too many gangbangs? you do know what those are, right? :p
No idea. He wrote this song from two years ago that I never want to hear again:
I guess some research is in store if one wants to know more
I did a search in Spotify. As “Anton Ewald” he is only a user. His singer name is “Anton”.
This is his latest release, a collab:
The song didn’t make it to your comment.
I did a quick Google search. He apparently got married in 2017 and was caught doing cocain in 2015. He was also without a record deal in 2017, but there was no more recent news I could find on him.
I now get why we haven’t heard from him since. I’ll pretend I never heard the snippet of audio that played
Forgot link:
As soon as I saw this was a John Lundvik/Thomas G:son collab I knew I wouldn’t like it. The lyrics made me feel legitimately nauseous and after listening I feel like “You are you are you are the best in me” is the only thing he said for all 3 minutes. The worst part is I don’t think this will come bottom five…
LOVE:
1) 🇳🇴Norway – Ulrikke Brandstorp – “Attention”
LIKE:
2) 🇦🇱Albania – Arilena Ara – “Shaj”
3) 🇱🇹Lithuania – The Roop – “On Fire”
4) 🇦🇲Armenia – Athena Manoukian – “Chains on You”
EH:
5) 🇮🇹Italy – Diodato – “Fai rumore”
6) 🇱🇻Latvia – Samanta Tīna – “Still Breathing”
DISLIKE:
7) 🇨🇿Czech Republic – Benny Cristo – “Kemama”
8) 🇪🇸Spain – Blas Cantó – “Universo”
9) 🇫🇷France – Tom Leeb – “The Best In Me”
10) 🇦🇺Australia – Montaigne – “Don’t Break Me”
I’m going to do Moldova right now.
Good luck with that and may the force be with you! :P :D
to me the worst NF! way below Armenia for now (but Armenian lives, ugh), not a single good song or act, and a lot of cringe moments in the auditions!
I’m watching auditions
there’s nothing else for now anyway: the problem is a lot of them made me feel bad about them, I wanted to go “aww” but the songs, the singing, etc.
Since we have 10 songs already, here is my top10 right now:
1.Lithuania
2. Italy
3. Armenia
4. Latvia
5. Albania
6. Norway
7. Australia
8. France
9. Czech Rep.
10. Spain
It’s funny, there are some fans of Czech Rep and some fans of Armenia, but no one who likes both. I dislike both!
Same top 2 :)
How do you guys manage to rank all the songs; so many are just bland nothingness to me?
1. Armenia
2. Lithuania
3. Italy
Everything else into the dustbin.
1 Italy
2 Lithuania
3 the rest
LOL I’m glad I’m not the only one for whom most of this is a blur… when I do my points in the final the first 5-6 are easy, the rest is just the least annoying ones, cool show or similar.
Yes, I never understand my fellow commenters who rate songs with two digits behind the comma on a ranking between zero and twelve. For me a song is a two, a three, a four, etc. And I stop at ten.
For me it’s either great good average poor or awful. I could rank 5, 4, 3, 2 or 1 too but voilà
How France will sneak in your top 12 thanks to looks :p
You know me too well!
I somehow managed to force myself to listen to all the songs one after the other, compile a list, and do a relisten in that order. Don’t ask me how….
I can already predict I’ll likely get some snacks or drinks when Latvia comes on in its semi.
I’ll be watching Latvia. One of my favorite :)
Armenia may make me mute the volume, however. Potentially my least favorite ESC entry in the past five years, if not more
LOL so we can take turns getting the snacks.
Same on Armenia
Deezer did it for me
That’s basically like Spotify, right? Just a different company
It’s French. Like the minitel or dailymotion it came before its american competitor but thanks to a globalised US world it fell off and is only used in France now. But I have had an account for the longest time…
Cool. Except Spotify is a Swedish product :P
And Skype is Estonian! Well Swedish music industry is more powerful than the French one, whose international names are all working in the US (Air, Daft Punk, Phoenix…)
I had not idea Skype was Estonian. You learn new things every day :)
the most connected country in the world! :o
Actually you are right because beneath #5 or #6 I really don’t care enough to make a meaningful distinction.
That’s why I always find it so absurd that jury members (who as we learned often can’t count till 10) are supposed to rank all the songs in the final.
Well they’re supposed to be professional. We’re supposed to pick the phone and vote for one or a few only
“Supposed to be” being the operative words. Seriously though it’s impossible to do that without massive subjective input; it’s not like it makes sense for them to count the number of notes, etc. So factors like how tight is the singer’s shirt become important!
how tight is Tom’s?
I predict black or white shirt, top 3 buttons open. No T under it WTF is that supposed to do in the single cover photo??
to help you working on your imagination!
It’s generally a look I hate:Aat least wear a V-Neck, crew necks under dress shirts look like some guy from Acoounting IMO.
I don’t mind. I hate chest hair so at least I don’t see them :p
no love for Selena? :'(
I think chest hair can be sexy if it’s trimmed; when it’s a mess, merging with the stubble or getting between your teeth it’s terrible. It’s partly genetic; some guys have a nice swirl and the hair stays close to the body, with others it jags crookedly all over the place.
Selena is gorgeous as always! Tiger has been sleeping for 5 hours now; should get hyper soon as it’s around her dinner-time.
Selena gets her food in the morning. She only meows in the morning if we’re not up by when she wants her food
Rubbing against my legs now with her tail up; looking at me. I’ll wait for the first quiet miao and then I’ll feed the tiger. She has about 15 different miao sounds!
Selena’s hugging her daddy. Not me the other “daddy” and trust me she’s the only one calling him “daddy”
You’re calling him “Sir”? Interesting, didn’t expect that ;-).
would you call this sir? :p
I’d call him whatever turns him on ;-)
hey hey hey, he’s mine, and this time for real :p
(I love posting pictures of him make ET a better place for me ahah, not sure h’s approve) :p
Going by the pic he approves ;-) nice!
I get Khayat then. For dialect coaching only of course.
we all know I get Khayat! you’re not even online when Khayat goes live and gets trashed on ET! you prefer eating to the Call of the Boner!
You’re just trying to sabotage Ukraine so France doesn’t get last place!
why worry, when Germany and Uk participate? (looking at recent years, they’re the faves for last place every year now, no?) France only got last once in its entire esc history ;)
Yes but ot’s the first time you send a Melfest reject.
Bookmark tomorrow 9:30 am for your article on the exciting new German teaser video!
I dont have the right to post a lot of flesh :o I have so many nice ones on my phone I dont get to share :'( :p
Fair play, m8, that’s only right!
I never do full rankings. It’s either inor bin. The year so far looks like this:
1. Italy
2. Lithuania
3. Armenia
Reverse order but same ones! Now please let’s add Finland to in, cicciolino!
Countdown to Rotterdam:
*Songs we have (10)
**from internal selection (2): Spain, France
**from a NF (8): Lithuania, Albania, Italy, Norway, Australia, Armenia, Czech Republic, Latvia
*Internal selection to be revealed (16)
**we know the singer (9): Belgium, Austria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Georgia, Greece, North Macedonia, Netherlands, Malta
**we know nothing (7): Ireland, Switzerland, United-Kingdom, Germany, Russia, San Marino, Azerbaijan
*NF still to happen (15)
**already underway (4): Ukraine, Sweden, Iceland, Estonia
**still to be held (11): Portugal, Moldova, Belarus, Poland, Israel, Romania, Slovenia, Finland, Denmark, Croatia, Serbia
Poland is underway I thought? Not that I’ve followed, only saw Albert from Lake Malawi is competing.
he qualified to the final! he’s part of the final and will have a song!
but Poland is not underway as in we didn’t get a single song yet ;)
Ahh gotcha. Loved Lake Malawi so hopefully Albert has a good song.
I absolutely love Lake Malawi in 2019 but it was a full package with the band and the retro song. He isn’t a great vocalist, it worked with the good mood of the song, but with something different? let’s see!
It isa very disappointing song. Sweden itself would have rejected it…
they still had “My Turn” horror 3rd in 2018
My Lina Hedlund last year DTF! 😋
I don’t remember this one?
it’s Lundvik’s first MF song, the very corny ballad?
Ah, yes that was quite pale.
Throw stones at me now, but I love this entry after 3 listens…
I find this composition really good… It builds so interesting…Each time I listen to it I discover smth New.. The beginning reminds me of Lara Fabian! This can easilly be Celine Dion’s track, or from some movie.
I hope they wont change it..
Reaction is really bad and I dont understand it at all tbh…except maybe angry for Swedish songwriters, generally it is such an exageration that it hurts..
For example result in the poll on esc united foeum is extremely bad, for example Anna Odobescu last year had much better result on that poll!
Was she really that better!? :/
yeah it’s mostly due to Swedish songwriters! it’s inoffensive and not bad at all, but it’s just, imo, not good at all either ;)
Yeah it is dated a bit, and so what?
Cicciolina is not dated, mhhhhhm yeah sure… they all go crazy for Cicciolina..
or it’s not “formula” like… Norway? but then it’s subjective, people aren’t really good at expressing why they like or dislike something but it doesn’t mean they’re wrong in liking or disliking something ;)
I know I don’t like it. But I don’t hate it!
Last year I couldn’t stand France really… That vocal tone gave me nightmares… :D
Cicciolina has character, it’s very charming and in Finnish language. Sure, it’s a schlagger but it’s good for what it is and most importantly, it doesn’t take itself too seriously.
France 20 is so anonymous it hurts… It has to do with the composer I guess as I didn’t like UK last year either. In addition it feels too calculated imo. “Let’s add a bombasting explosion here, let’s do some Sognu there”
Cicciolina is so dated that it’s retro already. Apart from that: It’s fun! :P
I like it too…
It’s fun and doesn’t apologize for it!
Now on next listen I discover some parts are similar to Darin from MF.. :)))
1 Lithuania
2 Italy
3 Spain
4 Albania
5 ……..
The rest dont deserve to be in my list .still waiting for the whooooou Song.maybe tomorrow with Belgium??.
Or that “Human” drom Denmark, maybe it is not dated? It sounds like Elena Paparizou in early 00s..gooosh….
“Human” is my 6th out of 10! but I like it ahah
Ok no problem I can like it too, but I dont like the fact somebody try to show smth as ultra modern while it is not cause he/she likes it, and when dont like it is automatic dated…
Now it’s official. France is sending the most average track this year. I doubt that there will be another song to beat them in this department.
1. Armenia
2. Lithuania
3. Italy
4. Latvia
5. Spain
6. Norway
7. Albania
8. France
9. Australia
10. Czech Republic (after watching it live I would rank it higher)
Disclaimer: That’s my first impression list. I just sort in the new ones and will only fully rework my ranking after all songs are known.
unless Sweden sends Robin lol
I hope for a woman after all this years.
I want Felix. Not to win or anything, I want him :p
I want The Mamas………… To win! :P hahaha
That’s fair. :D
I just found your comments in spam and approved them at last! I love “Clue” and my fave is Mrs. Peacock!
You’re so kind to me! <3
There is also an eurovision song dedicated to her: Someone's got to break the ice… ;)
I couldn't name a favourite. Great ensemble!
yeah and they bounce back together very well! the fact none is wearing their color is also a nice touch!
Same top three! The rest as I said is just anonymous to me – actually I’d probably have Latvia dn Czechia bottom since I find them both annoying personally.
Not a bad effort from France; with 7/10 it is currently in my 4th place.
Song is fairly good music-wise, a bit dated, but still better then most of what we’ve heard so far.
What I don’t like is singing; he sings with fake emotion (as fake as Blas Cantó). I personally can’t stand that talent-show kind of singing.
I’d give the song to someone else, who has more artistic credibility.
Also, I don’t like the language switch. It should be either French or English.
Pity, the song has quality, but it is wrapped in a bad package.
01. ALB – 7/10
02. ESP – 7/10
03. ITA – 7/10
04. FRA – 7/10
05. NOR – 7/10
06. LIT – 6/10
07. ARM – 4/10
08. CZE – 4/10
09. LAT – 3/10
Rofle. What a MERDEicore year.
Last year I was saying it would be a weak year but it turned out just fine🙂
We only have 9 songs and the countries that generally send good stuff have not revealed their entries yet so it is way too early to judge 2020
Now I only love 3 songs Lithuania,Australia and Albania.. The rest are OK, I don’t find any of them terrible
Just did Moldova.
Obvious winner due to “sponsors: is this!
it also gives room for shirtless dancers or prisoners in boxes
wink wink porcelli
HAHAHA great minds think alike thats the first thing I thought when I saw the title and team!
This should be internal choice… I just dont see the point…
Do you like it? I kinda like the pseudo ethnic dramatic touch. Curious on how they will stage it now. They need both folk backing ladies and sexy dancers in order to achieve 100% esc kitsch!
The same as you…
Not gonna be my fave, but would like it, of course will depend on live performance a lot. M
And don’t forget the 12 jury points from Greece :)
This was my thought on Moldova (copy/paste):
*Maria Colac – „Our home”: kill me I don’t hate it
*Viorela Moraru – „Remedy”: irrelevant
*Dima Jelezoglo – „Do it slow”: I’d f*ck him, not slowly though :p
*LANJERON – „Hi five”: not good in a genre i love (the one in red is hot)
*Nicolae Untilă „Call me please”: awwww, no
*Vovian – „10 minuni în Moldova”: god no
*Maxim Zavidia – „Take control”: he’s so gay lol
*Valentin Uzun & Irina Kovalsky – „Moldovița”: she’s very fun, the song’s insane in a good way
*Diana Popa – „Believe me”: ahahah
*Danny Cruise -„My love”: lol
*Olea Roșu – „Alive”: no
*Catarina Sandu – „Die for you”: lol, no
*Ray Barc – „I’m shy”: not the worst one lol
*Tudor Bumbac – „Te-am văzut în vis pe tine”: he missed his queue lol
*Georgeta Burlacu – „Răspunde!”: lol, no
*Sasha Bognibov – „Big brother”: ahahah
*Katerina S – „We are done”: no
*Sasha Letty – „Summer of love”: at least it was fun lol
*Live Beat – „Love me now”: the fact he mouths their lines, lol
*Valeria Pașa – „It’s time”: I kinda like her? not really a song there lol
*Julia Ilienko ft Mishel Dar – „Tears”: none of the guys is str8 lol but hey it’s got a melody
*Natalia Gordienko – „Prison”: I guess it’s the only one that’s like an actual entry?
*Petronela Donciu & Portărescu Andreea – „We will be legend”: oh my
*Carolina Rakoviță – „Dancing in the sunrise”: lol no
*Angel Kiss – „You are my dance”: lol
*Angel Kiss – „My own queen”: lol
*Lavinia Rusu – „Touch”: catchy
*Irina Kit – „Chain reaction”: catchy
*Alexandru Cibotaru – „Cine te-a făcut să plângi”: it had a melody, he wasn’t the worst singer (it helps it was in original), one of my faves by default lol
*Denis Midone – „Like a champion”: his voice is really irritating, he’s kinda cute
*Pasha Parfeni – „My wine”: if I told you he’s already been 11th in Eurovision, would you believe me? the song’s ok
*Lave – „Wildfire”: I’m annoyed that the shirts below the coats don’t match
*Dianna Rotaru – „Dale Dale”: lol
*Pelageya Stefoglo – „Empathy”: no
the life of an Eurovision fan is hard sometimes, this was as bad as usual but some cuties, many funny things, lots of uncomfortable moments, but at the end of days, a lot of people giving their best because Eurovision is still a dream to them, whereas in most Western countries, everyone, small or big, avoid our beloved contest! so cheers to them! “Moldovița” is the only one I watched entirely and it had a few viable options so that Moldova doesn’t end last in the contest (Natalia, Pasha…)
You guys have some free time.. This lineup is longer than my shopping list😛
I did only the 20 finalists because it’s Sunday and had free time. Morgan did all 30+ of them :o
So I can only give you silver 🥈
Fair enough :P
Do you find Natalia as stunning as I do in her clip?
She is OK.. Your typical eastern European blonde
Morgan cheated his way to gold though, listening 1 minute of most songs :P
Oxi deserves it :P
OK Morgan gets disqualified..Oxi gets the gold 🥇
I did Belarus, Armenia… I did countries no one did! I get a chocolate medal!
OK chocolate medal is yours🍫
YAY!
well trust me, it’s on the same level :p
I can’t believe you did all 30? of them
His comments are basically like LOL hahahaha LOL hahahaha 🤣
Most of the hopefuls are lol worthy
36 qualified but only 35 auditions as one withdrew and I did all 35 with the 1mn rule (after 1mn if I don’t like it, I skim through the end)… which ones did you do? just the favorite?!
All 20 Finalists (the whole 3min of each)
but then you didnt write a single comment for 19 of them :'(
Natalia’s official clip took my breath away it seems. Feels like Kontopoulos needs his Kirkorov to thrive :P
I also liked Moldovița, Dale dale, Love me now, Die for you and Cine te-a făcut să plângi but I can only see potential in Natalia for Rotterdam
it would Q and get 20th? think “Moldovita” has more potential with big televote potential, since nothing’s fun anymore in esc
Actually I was the first to do the long, 30+ list (even before some of the songs got eliminated due to rules breaching) :P
This has to win. Among my most favs of the entire season <3
it seems that they have shot the video in the same place as Pasha did his! :D
Don’t like Pasha’s song but he is still a very charming guy
He is. I prefer his short-hair look though ;)
I am sure shevek went through these songs as well.. He has Moldova fetish😛
I think he did ;)
Sweet, I like it too
<3
My runner up!
;)
Lol, why do I have this nagging feeling this will do better than Stefania? :-P
Arcade might help the situation but teenager empowerment doesn’t sound like my type of song
It’s only Arcade minus Rammos for this song. Simple name-dropping I guess. Filming the video on the Flisvos marina was the hillarious info of the day. I wonder if they will pick the pizzeria, the ice-cream parlour or the playground :-P
The ice-cream parlour is my favourite spot at the Flisvos marina ;) :P
The frozen yoghurt deli might also be a great option for filming :-P
:D
Who wrote supergirl? Kontopoulos?
Yup yup.
I am assuming he saved his best work for his country😛
Yeah why something tells me he didn’t? :-D
You know better!
well wouldn’t he keep his best work for whoever pays the most?
If his country doesn’t pay him well he can always pass, but he keeps coming back!
well it’s his country after all, can always throw in something togethe very quickly! what next, France? :p
Next year perhaps? Only if you pay well :-P
With an pompous staging a la Kirkorov can achieve the best Moldovan result. Still nothing I’d listen to!
Well I would not be that optimistic. Let’s just say it can qualify for now :P
Your avatar is very cute… Keep it forever
Nope. It’s just for one season
I hope you’re not fat-shaming her.
I hope you didn’t think that I would. Her sizes are the best thing in Armenia 2020. Just the concept….
Lol he’s making fun of Armenian representative
Piggy needs a cleavage too 😛
Innocent me is waiting for an official video :P I’ve already noticed Tom doesn’t care at all about ESC.
Tom is nonchalant because he knows he is going to win anyway.
Very French attitude ;-).
Really, he doesnt have luck to be presented live from the Eiffel tower due to bad weather.. :(
This song starts with the best omens.
ROFL
The live(The Eiffel Tower part is prerecorded due to wather conditions tonight):
What a dud… They should have gone to Eurodisney, not the Eiffel Tower.
Not even the Eiffel Tower and the imposing Paris Skyline can’t save it. He’s photogenic but the song is just a generic, mellow ballad. And the constant repeat of “You are,you are, you are” gets on my nerves after a while.
it’s all about convincing for 3mns, at least he’s photogenic, which 2018 and 2019 werent and the song isn’t awful like 2014! now let’s see what they do live in order to save us from bottom 5: I feel like it’ll be 12th-16th with most points coming from the juries.
Thanks Dimi-news!
So I turned on the french channel to see the live presentation of their song and all I see is a report on bed fleas.
check Dimi’s live above?
why do it in a place where the sound is bad and where you’ll be cold by the wind (especially since the Dennis storm is hitting France all day)
It was recorder yesterday