Israel – Out of the 9 demo songs and the top 3 that Eden Alene recorded personally, “Set Me Free” won thanks to a long online voting.
So this year, KAN internally selected Eden Alene, who won the national final last year. It’s often been the case this decade that KAN selects an artist either internally or through an idol-like contest and then picks a song for them; however last year they had a national final to pick Eden’s song so it makes sense they would do it again.
This year, nine demo songs, often sung by the songwriters themselves, were picked up by the broadcaster and posted online. An online voting picked two and then a third one was selected through a jury wildcard. The three songs are: “La La Love”, “Set Me Free” and “Ue La La”. Yes, out of all combination in the English language, not to mention all the other languages in the world, they came up with the exact same title as Cyprus 2012. Imagine that!
Then Eden Alene recorded a revamped version of each one. They were presented on January 19th. On that date, online voting was reopen as well and only closed today, where a small NF was hosted to present the songs and reveal the results of online voting. It was revealed that “Set Me Free” won!
What do you think of this entry? What are its chances in Rotterdam?
The Eurovision Times 
Stavangerkameratene are gonna perform the English version of their entry in the MGP final. It’s even more boring now.
It’s going to be a busy weekend a head. So many heja-skylter to do! I need one for Eric, one for Danny, one for Anton, one for Jessica, one for Tess, on for Charlotte, one for Lena Ph, one for Pernilla and surely one for Christer, and maybe SVT too. I probably forgot someone!
Seems that SVT is going to do it big within these circumstances as expected. Maybe a concept try out for Rotterdam?
I think I’ll buy balloons and helium tomorrow. I’m pretty sure next the want frantic balloon waving home vids.
Hjallis! You’re just in time as I was about to post this naked greek guy!
Hjallis! You’re just in time as I was about to post this naked greek guy!
There’s a shot from that scene where his bubble butt is exposed :P
Bring it on!
To think about it, Dimi probably has full frontal of him in his vaults
:D
Yes I almost died…
That good, huh?
It’s there on his insta as well. Look further down :-P
Oh yeah. All of his pics are truly amazing. And all of his stylings.
Why on earth do you post him here? You know all naked Greek men should be posted to my home address, duh!
Who is he? And how are you?
Vasilis Mihas, actor/model. That’s from a romantic comedy that premiered last night where he is young bartender who falls in love with cougar lady. And gets caught by her children in the living room.
I am fine as long as lockdown TV keeps these goodies coming 😄
Hear, hear! I think I’m in love!
YLE should open their horizons right here right now and bring us some Greek romcom!
You are not the only one! More greek nakedness tomorrow. I will make it artsy this time :)
You finally started your modeling career! Can’t wait :-)
That’s a nice boy
I do think he’s more of a Morgan boy:
the lack of hair means none of you get to have him, I’m obviously the only one (with Goran) who advocated smooth boys :p
Hey, I do smooth, I do hairy. This one’s for keeps!
Yesss, but actually in my case smooth men (30+), rather then boys 😀
then they’re all for me O:)
(and Lina, sometimes, if she’s nice to me)
Stop pimping him to Morgan. He’s obviously daddy’s boy!
And now mister, go to your vaults and bring us the goodies! 😃
He can call me whatever he wants!
Yes, I’m sure he can!
I’ll do my best. At the moment i’m checking this American POLE vaulter who i just discover earlier competing as the Karlsruhe meeting:
Very nice! Your taste level is strong as ever! He looks very Slavic. What’s his name?
Matt Ludwig:
Thanks!
hey hey… welcome back ;)
Hey, hey Oxi :-*! Thank you. So good to see you too! How is your season going? Any big favorites yet?
Voila from France, Discoteque by The Roop and Saudade from FdC! <3
I don’t think anything can beat Discoteque in my rankings this year. It’s simply fantastic. I’m also waving my both tricolors for Barbara! I haven’t listen to Saudade yet. High hopes as many of those who I think are in the know seems to like ti a lot!
You didn’t warm up to Finnish iteration of nu metal?
Still to catch up with UMK.
There could be a proper treat for you! And I’m not talking about Nordic bears 😃
Listening to Saudade. Again.
I’m obsessed with it.
As a friend with you for many years, maybe misunderstand your comments above, Greek dick etc, all very interesting here, as it’s 2021 and with so many problems, why not focus on getting ESC 2021 together properly for once, instead of Greek dick?
As you should! This is really good. My ESC machine is coughing really badly, big problems with the ignition, but there is actually surprising amount of songs I like in the NF’s at this point. Am I loosing the touch? 😃
As dull as I find Portugal overall, this one was pleasant and I wish more Portuguese entries were like Saudade. Combine folk and modern to form a unique product that obviously got your flavor.
So I finally caught up with MGP qualifiers so far and nothing’s really comment worthy except for flushing herself down the toilet Raylee. What a cheap Flashdance reference. She doesn’t even look like Jennifer Beals. It’s more of a bad take on aerobic Jane Fonda.
If she wins the ticket she should be aware that water’s not allowed in a Eurovision performance. This solution however should be feasible and in line with EBU rules:
Raylee’s hair looked like they already tried it in rehearsals!
My absolute favourite song from Flashdance.
Moi, Hjallis! How’s been your winter sleep?
Moi Dominik! My winter sleep has been wonderful like always. Can’t do without it!
How are you doing?
Fab! Doing alright, can’t wait for spring to come around to end this mess we’re all in.
:-)
indeed, love our French master here too!, despite all our previous misunderstandings remembr him from cerca 2006, on a website re euro songs/day, he pissed off people even then LOL :-)
I really like Kaja Rode’s song. Not my favorite in MGP so far but with a good live it could be up there for me. I am noticing the trend this year is retro throwback (Cause of Dua Lipa?) I think I prefer it over the Fuego trend though.
Also I wish 2009 Laura would make a comeback. “Destiny” is one of my favorite preselection songs ever but since then her songs have been so bland and forgettable.
Betting odds for the French final:
I’d be satisfied with any of the top three favorites then. Hopefully we don’t get any surprises lol
Ι hope they are right when it comes to the winner.
It would be logical
Despite Terence James’s being my big favorite for encasing my tastes so boldly, I feel it’s going to be one of three possible scenarios: Barbara, Philippine or Andriamad. I’m really hoping for the latter two, as I feel they’re the strongest on radio and strongest as an ESC entry.
Barbara’s a respectable song, but it’s definitely getting lost as I don’t find heavy replay value. And after Italy 2018, I don’t count anything as an “obvious jury” one
Good morning everyone.
I am very excited about France tonight; along with Finland it is my favorite NF of the season.
I love 7/12 songs, I like 4/12, and there is only 1/12 I really dislike very much (Magique).
My favorite is “Alleluia” and one of my favorites is also “Maeva”, which everybody hates:-))))
I haven’t listened to a single French song yet, but I will watch tonight’s show. :)
If I tried to guess, I would say you will probably like “Pourvu qu’on m’aime”, “On a mangé le soleil” and “Voilà”.
Probably also “Bah non” and “Amour fou”.
But let’s see tonight if I am right 😀
These are my top 5 in the wrong order lol (1 Barbara, 2 Cephaz, 3 Pony X, 4 Juliette, 5 Philippine)
I’ll tell you once all acts have performed. :)
I hope that France won’t disappoint me like in 2019. Barbara for the win!