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! Each one of you can represent an European country and get to send a song and then vote in a fake Eurovision! Discover the songs this Friday night, 8PM 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 sorts 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 five years. Four 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 12 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; the 7th edition was held in July 2017 and was won again by France; the 8th edition was held in August 2017, and it was the first one that went “blind”, meaning people did not know who sent what. It crowned Greece. In 2018, German-speaking countries got their revenge as Switzerland won ETSC 9 and Germany won ETSC 10! Last year, Sweden and Italy, two historically big countries of Eurovision, finally won their first ETSC. For more information, you can discover our new page dedicated to the contest, with its history, all songs participating and the rankings here. A specific article for Top 10 stats was also open 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 13 – July 2020” will be officially held in Torino after French-speaking song “Toukassé” won.
After a first round open for people to sign up with a country and send a song, we got 45 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.
There are some ETSC returnee… If I’m not mistaken, songs are (or at least partially) in English (20), Russian (3), Arabic (2), Romanian (2), Albanian, Armenian, Bosnian, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, Greek, Hebrew, Macedonian, Polish, Slovakian, Slovenian, Spanish, Tamasheq, Turkish and Yakut!
Tonight’s show will be hosted by Mariano di Vaio (actor), Miguel Gobbo Diaz (actor) and Vanessa Hessler (model) at the Teatro Regio in Torino!
Before the show starts, we get the live reprise of the winning song:
Tut-Tut! Here’s a surprise on stage! The fiat that will bring the flags for all participating countries:
And here are our entries! Enjoy the songs:
RUSSIA
Uraan feat. Kyunney
Noir
CZECH REPUBLIC
Lenny
Hell.o
SPAIN
Veintiuno
Anhelo
ICELAND
Áslaug
In My Head
AUSTRIA
Cari Cari
Summer Sun
NORTH 
MACEDONIA
Toni Zen
Sum
LATVIA
Ezeri
Fine Line
SLOVAKIA
Sima Martausová
Zachovám Si Svoju Tvár
IRELAND
Ships
Where We Are
POLAND
Marcin Maciejczak
Deszcz I Bez
ITALY
Swingrowers feat. Davide Shorty
Healing Dance
BELARUS
Vladislav Kurasov
Voodoo
FINLAND
Uusikuu
Joko Uuvuit Sä Uneen
MOROCCO
Faouzia
You Don’t Even Know Me
ESTONIA
Luisa Värk
Suudlus
GERMANY
Purple Disco Machine, Sophie and The Giants
Hypnotized
ARMENIA
Ladaniva
Vay Aman
LUXEMBOURG
Chaild
Artificial
DENMARK
Bisse
Levemanden
BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA
Božo Vrećo
Krila
FRANCE
Scratch Massive feat. Grindi Manberg
Fantôme X
UNITED-KINGDOM
Rak-Su
Thunder
TUNISIA
Chirine Lajmi
3lech Nloum
ROMANIA
Vama
Prăbușire
MOLDOVA
Irina Rimes
Visele
EGYPT
Ehab Tawfik
Kol Youm Yehlaw
ALBANIA
Anso feat. 6entiana
Me Ty
ISRAEL
Elai Botner feat. Aviv Alush
Hachi Karov Elaeich
SWITZERLAND
Ekat Bork
Shamania
TURKEY
Lara Di Lara
Sıradan Dediğin
LITHUANIA
Beissoul & Einius
Lose The Light
CYPRUS
Vehement Animosity
Xenovirus
ALGERIA
Imarhan
Imarhan
UKRAINE
Kazaky feat. Gaspar
Push
BELGIUM
Apashe feat. Instasamka
Uebok
CROATIA
Lollobrigida Girls
Tvoja
NORWAY
Farao
Lula Loves You
NETHERLANDS
Roosbeef
Rodeo
GREECE
Rena Morfi
Otan Sou Horevo
SWEDEN
Winona Oak
Break My Broken Heart
SLOVENIA
Isaac Palma
Obljubi
AZERBAIJAN
Jony
Ty Besposhchadna
AUSTRALIA
Sahara Beck
Here We Go Again
HUNGARY
Volkova Sisters
Bianco
PORTUGAL
Best Youth
Midnight Rain
Rules: the voting will open tomorrow at noon (time of Paris)! You can vote until Wednesday 22nd at midnight! Results will be revealed in the following weekend! In order to do promotion, you need to email me all materials you want to post (including lyrics translation). 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!
Number of votes in: 44/45 (1 day to go)
The Eurovision Times 
The phrase I use most
Not for me. LOL
ROFL, I knew you’d say that :)
I wouldn’t eat seafood when I was a kid but now I can’t think living without it😋
That happened to me with tomatos, cheese and olives. :)
These three are literally my siblings❤️❤️❤️
Mine too these days. :)
One of the three thirds in the line-up is way stronger than the other two methinks ;)
I think that within the next 60′ we will break the 2,000 comments barrier :)
You;ve been trying your very best recently :P
;)
So, for the first time in my life I will never set foot in the sea for the whole calendar. I guess I need to change my approach to beach holidays to that of 60s Britain to enjoy Summer this year.
Go to Bournemouth.. :D
I don’t like urban beaches at least not in the UK. I am thinking of Botany Bay for day trip next week.
I will do Cotswolds as well but it isn’t near the beach but still really beautiful are to go to.
*not **calendar year.
Go to Cornwall and learn to surf!
Train and hotel cost a fortune though.
But you save on airfares 😀
ROFL. It is cheaper to fly from London to most of Europe than taking the train to anywhere in UK.
ROFL. It is cheaper to fly from London to most of Europe than taking the train to anywhere in UK.
Sue has a house in Penzance…hmmm.
She must be the.infamous pirate of Penzance!
It is better to take night train up to Rovaniemi!! <3
Rovaniemi is sort of ok but really not sure about the train 😀
Unless you are ready to fund my.
:D Oh, those Green Finnish trains, especially double ones!! <3
Glad to hear that they are famous in the Balkans! 😀
:D :D I want to take ride all the way from Tikkurila to Joensuu! :P
I see they sell stick ice cream on Finnish trains! :D
Yes, and you can get meatballs and cinamon buns too!
I really don’t understand why anyone would like to travel to Joensuu, maybe enjoy the ride? 😀
Both, Moldova and Natalia Gordienco are confirmed for Rotterdam in 2021…
I wonder if the same team is confirmed too.. :P
Fingers crossed, not :P
Are you feeling any better?
I bet it’s the same team.
Oh God, please not… or at least they should bring s.th. original this time…
I have credited 14 HoDs behind a song so far :P
I have 24 but in some cases they overlap.
Group submissions?
Yes, a submissive group.
Swedes for sure. They’re always flooding Europe with songs… :P
I hate that YouTube always automatically plays another video after you have listened to one unless you do something active to prevent it. I wish autoplay was something you had to switch on if you want it, rather than something you have to switch off if you don’t want it.
YT is awful in so many ways…
Indeed.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-53403474
Really ? That doesn’t happen to me. I only switched autoplay off once (quite some time ago) and didn’t have to do it again since.
I think it only happens when you log off each time.
hmm, maybe, I very rarely log off.
What browser are you using?
Chrome.
Same!
1,999th comment.
2000!,,
Did the thread just blow up because of the millennium bug?
It did, pre-emptively!
Morgan is a very happy camper now!
Where can I collect my price for 2000th comment? 😀
Do you want 2,000 points in this edition?
Deal!
I am re-doing the whole lineup whilst finalising my prediction and noticed that the UK with that type of song coming after BIH and FRA sounds like the epitome of change of pace/direction.
Why only UK? Slovakia too f.e
But Slovakia isn’t near that group of songs.
I mean the draw enhances many other songs, not only UK
But that trio is quite obvious? Two ballads with very dark video clips followed by a straightforward summer hit. I guess the contrast is very sharp there. Slovakia is in a good position as well.
Seriously what a horrible year this is. Now the situation in the occupied territories are very tense after another provocation. A civilian got killed in his own house and now the pro-war protesters are urging the government to take actions. I don’t even know what’s going to happen next. :/
Sorry for being off topic!
We are living in terrifying times indeed. All we can do, is keep a cold head and argue for what is just and decent.
Occupied? By whom? By people living in those lands near the graves of their parents and grandfathers, making 80% of the lands and who 99% democratically for independence and faced the military agression by usurpators who recieved those lands by the decision of a bloody dictator named Stalin? People who don’t want another their church for ex. Gandzasar church to become a museum or mosque?
Better don’t bring that political stuff here. And yes people should calm down . War is awful thing , war during pandemia is double tragedy.
But why are you always so angry? I didn’t mean to offend you in any way. I just wanted to share my concerns regarding the whole situation on where I live (once again I apologize for being off topic) and out of nowhere you write me about mosques and churches. I mean it’s not like I made something up. It is internationally recognized as the occupied territory of Azerbaijan. Like how may I have possibly guessed what they teach you about it all in your place. :s
I’m not angry I reply to inappropriate terms used in the concerns and now do my best not to reply further and write about my concerns. Goodnight (peaceful night!)!
Good night! :)
Are you rooting for Kim or Kanye?
Both could replace Trump. But since that’s Kayne who runs for president- I support him.
Beautiful pictures of comet Neowise/C2020 over greek landmarks like the rocks of Meteora, courtesy of the Athens National Observatory:
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3168033553240272&id=912928672084116
And seriously nerdy astronomers should go back to use poetic rather than bureaucratese language to name celestial bodies…
I twist my mind on who could be behind which song and man, it’s so difficult. I have a feeling that I’m completely way off most of the time :-)… of course, I’m only on board since a year, but with so many people how’s it going to become easier?:-)
Votes sent ! 2020 comments felt just like the right time to do it :D
3/4/3 and one threesome !!!
I thought we weren’t supposed to be obvious in our votes, but you’re here just saying that you voted for Latvia.
Haha! Nice try. But not exactly. Threesome as 3 songs in the row :P
The third must be above the obvious duo.
There’s nothing obvious with my votes ;)
There are two back-to-back songs that should be in your top10.
Lollobrigida, Frau Casio and MAiKA. Croatian lady Ida Prester likes to use many aliases which makes her seem very suspicious! I think this is something for the FBI:
Let’s call Mulder and Scully!
https://64.media.tumblr.com/e91f93ed0f3439b0cc49cec8b0c64362/e98b90b628d707dd-93/s500x750/757fb4c1d1ae142ba0cf2b5678d2f75642778e7a.gifv
Maika? Hey the band that debuted Montenegro in VFOS!
She’s Croatian, but band says to be pretty pan-Balkan.
Yup! Ida is Croatian, but married to a Serb and lives in Belgrade. Before Maika happened I was actually thinking bout debuting Montenegro with her:
The song’s a collaboration with a Montenegrin DJ.
Hey, she also did this song with Maika in a more gypsy brass twist
Votes submitted. Be prepared for a minor shock…
I’m intrigued!
And then there were 10 + 2. Most likely to vote on Sunday.
I am free tonight at short notice. 10 songs in on 2nd listening.
I took a long Robert-appropriate nap this afternonn and dreamed of Donnie, The Anders and one more ET user i forgot. A colleague of mine had a small garden with pomegranates that looked so red and fresh but when i touched them they were rotten. However, at the side of the tree there was a branch with delicious cherries. I cut them and offered one to her and then i started offering them to other garden owners. One of them was The Anders but he didn’t want it and then i turned to Donnie and the other member i can’t remember now. Then Donnie asked The Anders if he wanted a lift to work the next morning and Anders accepted asking Donnie to pick him up between 7 and 8 am. However, he doubted Donnie would be able to wake up because he had a late dinner. Donnie was baffled by what The Anders told him. The end. lol
Basically it means Donnie is an abusive monster. Sorry he is now even intruding on your dreams ;-).
You no nothing about my dreams and the ET users involved. There is much more controversy.
*know
Can you Dropbox me the manuscript? It can’t be more than 10 GB.
As you can imagine his dreams with other members are x-rated.
That’s why I want the files ;-).
Both but in the first episode is Michos who does the job. He called sick 😷 afterwards if you remember. I wonder 🤔 whether it was covid he contracted.
By “job” you mean you had sex? I don’t remember him calling sick.
I slept with Tecku, yes. Michos invited a stranger in his room.
It comes in two episodes. The first is starring Michos and the second Martin. The concept is the same. All players gather at a resort for the results night!
See Dimi, nothing x-rated – shame on you for such filthy thoughts.
PS Why am I excluded from your dreams? I’m hurt.
Because you don’t do VFoS.
Elitist!
lol. It may mean that during voting i may be offering my precious pts(cherries) to others and get rotten pomegranates in return.
But Anders just said there will be a schooler, so maybe he’ll give you and your Kazaky Boys a huge bowls of cherries 😀😀😀
Lol. Both me and the Kazaky boys will thank anyone offering us their precious cherries.
😀
His Kazaky boys? So he’s behind Ukraine? Or did he just mark them in other ways? :D
No, that’s like most undimi entry there is 😃
So I need to find the exact opposite song and I’ve spotted dimi. 😎
Moody and melancholic are the key attributes of him!
I dreamed of Selena but she was a white rat (my first pet was a white rat). How strange our brain works sometimes ;)
I’m sure Selena wouldn’t be happy to know about it.lol
Diagnosis: You spend too much time on ET. :) ;)
Nahhh. I think a Donnie-The Anders chat was the last thing i saw before i dozed off.
You need to face your demons, Dimi. ;)
LOL, I guess I have been here for too long :p
Btw. I am a notorious B human, so I usually don’t make much sense between 7 and 8 AM. I like to sleep till noon if I can.
Tonight YT keeps suggesting Austria to me too …
I’m not a morning person either. The dusk and night hours,on the other hand, are much more for me.
I am a morning person. I love sunrises and chirping or warbling birds. Luckily, I only need 4 to 5 hours of sleep, which means that I can enjoy the night too. :)
I can function in morning too but if i don’t have something specific to do i rather sleep.
Yes. Night and mornings are my two fave moments. I dont like noons or afternoons and I take my nap then. Everyone can see the time on my etsc comments to verify!
How do you do it ? :o I could last maybe 2 days with only 5 hours slept per night, but after a 3rd night, the next day I would be really tired, a zombie really. :p I need 8 hours of sleep per night to be really rested. Even if I would sleep 6-7 hours more nights in a row, I would still feel it after a while.
I don’t know. It has always been like that. If I sleep 7 or 8 hours (which I do once or twice a year), i am half asleep all day.
I see, you’re lucky then, you have more time during the day. But what about when you were a kid or in your teens, even then you slept so little ?
I guess that I slept more when I was a toddler. :)
How can people be morning persons I ll never understand 😕 My most productive hours are midnight till 4-5 am and then sleeping till noon if I can
Let’s see if your dream will come true meaning I will be offered cherry points from you (lol) and if I will be offering Anders my lift :P
Btw cherries do have a sexual reference, I believe. No wonder we use the term “cherry pop” :P
In a psychoanalytic interpratation of dreams maybe. :P
Popping like it’s hot!
Popping cherries is DEFINITELY something in gay porn
I can neither confirm nor deny that I have previous knowledge of the phrase in that context! :O
Put your cherry on my cake
And taste my cherry pie!
Excellent! Are u bringing something similar in ETSC 13? 😎
Maybe, maybe not… As I mentioned earlier I’ve totally forgotten what country I am. ;)
17 songs fighting for 10 sets of points and 2 honorary mentions. And I haven’t found my winner yet …
Here are the ones that were left behind tonight:
12 x 8/12
9 x 7/12
4 x 6/12
2 x 5/12
An edition without a single song I dislike. :) On the other hand, I still have to fall madly in love with a song (except my own contribution of course) but there are 3 or 4 songs that keep growing on me and might well end up with the perfect score. :)
I didnt like 2
I have 2 at 5/12. Bin starts at 4/12 … They just escaped by the skin of their teeth :)
I wonder if my song is one of them!
We’ll know soon. :)
Great news! So I’m not in your bin either. :)
(UN)OFFICIAL PROMOTION OF… UNITED-KINGDOM!
This could be Rob.
Yeah, I thought so too. So he is in, but not with UK.
Unless he wants to surprise us by not sending his usual gloomy stuff.
Could be, highly unlikely still, even though I did Rak-Su season of X-Factor together with him.
He could be Finland. Again 😃
I wouldn’t be betting on that,tbh.
It’s very Aki Kaurismäki.
OFFICIAL PROMOTION OF… UKRAINE!
Another guest joined our party! And as the dress code requires, he got his stilettos on!
OFFICIAL PROMOTION OF… UNITED-KINGDOM!
https://www.instagram.com/p/CBlcDuRD9C7/
Rak-Su are not the stereotypical British lad, they would rather play basketball instead of football or rugby
New York held our primary elections nearly a month ago and we still don’t have all the results, it’s such a mess, and we’re not even the worst state with this. Don’t know what the big elections are gonna look like in November now…
Many reports of ballots not being counted. Apparently 25% of mail-in ballots in one of the New York district’s primary elections were discarded.
Civil war in November when people reject results of the elections, gotcha!
Can’t wait
I saw this tonight, it was good and with the 80s technique, it’s great looking!
I want to see this!