At the moment the Belarusian entry was published, people started complaining about the lyrics. The song was, in the eyes of many, a way to explicit political song. EBU started investigating and came up with a statement on the Belarusian song today: “As part of the regular procedure for all
The title was already known for a few days, now the song itself has been presented: “Embers”. James Newman will sing the UK entry. The song is written and composed by Newman himself together with Connor Blake, Danny Shah, Tom Hollings and Samuel Brennan.
Many artists who were reinvited for the Eurovision Song Contest because they couldn’t participate last year, wrote a song and presented it. In Bulgaria, it went different. The public could make a choice from six titles, one of which will be performed in Rotterdam by Victoria.
We already knew it for a long time: Greek Stefania is going to sing “Last dance”, a song composed by Dimitris Kontopoulos and the composers collective ARCADE, with lyrics written by Sharon Vaughn. Today, she presented the song.
Also Gjon’s Tears presented his song today. He will represent Switzerland with the song title. Gjon’s Tears will sing his song in the 2nd semifinal.
Although it was already leaked yesterday, the official presentation of Vincent Bueno’s entry for Austria, “Amen”, took place this morning. Bueno will perform the song in the 2nd semifinal.
More or less out of the blue, the EBU announced the contestant for Belarus today. It is going to be the five man band Galasy ZMesta. The song, a feelgood song, is called “Ya naucha tebya”, which translates as “I’ll teach you”. Long time, nothing was known about what Belarus
It was the best kept secret of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest: what is Russia gonna do? Only at the beginning of the show, last year’s contestants-to-be Little Big announced that they would not represent Russia in Rotterdam. Singer Ilya Prusikin said they decided this together with broadcaster Channel 1.
Tonight, at 18.00 CET, Russia will have its national final. You can watch it here. The contestants are… And that is where the problem starts. We don’t know anything about the contestants. Russian broadcaster Channel 1 keeps everything secret. We only know rumours. One of the rumours is that Little
This morning, the song Senhit is going to present in the Eurovision Song Contest was leaked. Therefore, SMRTV decided to publish the song today in stead of tomorrow.