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15-05-2025 01:17 PM |
Nicky's ESC Semi 2 Roundup
considering you guys are voting in this semi tonight
1) Australia - Go-Jo - Milkshake Man
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where Malta had to change its song lyrics over the curse word, Australia on the other hand its song is perfectly fine as long as you ignore the context and just don't think too much about, it has a laidback surfer feeling to it, and mentions of different milkshake flavours, since who in australia doesn't love milkshakes in the hot summers
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2) Montenegro - Nina Zizic - Dobrodosli
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Remember this top notch vocalist, she was the screaming lady next to the Who See astronauts for ''Igranka'' back in 2013, this time she is back solo, and with a completely different genre of music, a dramatic balkan ballad and in the native montenegrin language, she came 2nd in Montesong but due to Neonoen's withdrawal after they had won the festival, Nina was asked first if she wanted to compete at ESC and she said yes, afterwards the song had underwent a revamp, stronger bond theme vibes and a typical Darko Dimitrov signature all over it
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3) Ireland - Emmy - Laika Party
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last year we had norwegians for sweden, now we have this norwegian girl for ireland, and she brings Laika Party and that is not just word play, but it is a tribute to Laika, the first dog in space, like what if Laika never died is she still having parties in outer space? the guy with her on stage is her brother btw and also pay close attention at the backdrop behind Emmy, something will appear there and we reckon this performance will be quite a tearjerker
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4) Latvia - Tautumeitas - Bur Man Laimi
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Trip Hop (almost ukrainian production like instrumentals) combined with fairy-like characters, and first time they go with a song fully in latvian since 2004
this group recently won the best folk award in their nation
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5) Armenia - PARG - Survivor
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rhyming Survivor with Stay-Aliver, then you are a real songwriting genius, also worth mentioning btw that Parg by far has the most songwriters contributed to this entry, a total of 8 composers/producers
Parg has a lot of festival experience in his career so far, hyped by the nation's media's as one of their best performers
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6) Austria - JJ - Wasted Love
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JJ (his real name is Johannes Pietsch) is half austrian, half filipino, grew up in Dubai, and went to the most prestigious operatic music school in Vienna, is a professional opera singer, but he combines pop with opera (for short popera)
he took part in The Voice UK few years ago
and one of the co-writers, Teya Dora (who you might know from representing the nation in Liverpool alongside Salena for Who the Hell is Edgar?) is his best friend
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(AQ) United Kingdom - Remember Monday - What The Hell Just Happened?
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the first of our automatic qualifiers this evening, praised for their amazing harmonies, compared to acts like OG3NE, they bring us a typical britpop meets west end vibes entry, bit ABBA like, bit Bohemian Rhapsody inspired
similar to Austria's act, they too have competed on The Voice UK before
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7) Greece - Klavdia - Asteromata
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if you think you just travelled back in time and you think this is Nana Mouskouri, no, this is Klavdia, and those glasses are her signature look
the song means ''Starry Eyed'' in greek, and it is about the history of the pontic greeks, Klavdia herself has pontic greek roots, first fully greek ballad for them since 2018 ''Oneiro Mou''
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8) Lithuania - Katarsis - Tavo Akys
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the Lithuanian Nirvana, fans of alternative rock must love this one, and we love this nation being on such a strong streak of sending acts with their native language recently
the song means ''Your Eyes''
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9) Malta - Miriana Conte - SERVING
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the most controversial song of this year, first it was named ''Kant'' which is the maltese word for Singing, but this is against the EBU's rules since it sounds like a swear word to women, so they changed their song into ''SERVING'' and what is different than that word, well they replaced it with ''Aah''
also fans of Sound of Music must love the ''do-re-mi-fa-serving'' lyrics
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10) Georgia - Mariam Shengelia - Freedom
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this is Georgia bringing traditional georgian music, traditional georgian dancing and everything in the georgian language is very gorgeous, but the english lyrics feel too cliché, out of place
otherwise this is on par with the quality they usually give us at Junior Eurovision
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(AQ) France - Louane - Maman
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Maman is a song about Louane's mother who died of cancer back in 2014 when Louane was only 17 years old
this is a very typical french chanson, although compared to Voilá, Evidemment this is much more sophisticated in its lyrical content
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11) Denmark - Sissal - Hallucination
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2nd star from the Faroe Islands (after Reiley back in 2023) to perform on the eurovision stage
it is a very basic dance pop song, although thanks to Sissal her strong performing skills, a very effective one at that, it also reminds you a little of Loreen her music, especially Euphoria
Sissal is a mother of two daughters, and she sees herself as a mother figure for the other contestants
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12) Czechia - ADONXS - Kiss Kiss Goodbye
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this song is one which could've been in a soundtrack album of a Fifty Shades of Grey film
this song is about the complex emotions regarding love near the end of a relationship, highlighting love, pain and sweet memories
ADONXS (real name Adam Pavlocin) is from Slovakia, he is a singer, dancer and actor, he took part in the czech version of The Voice back in 2012, he participated in the slovak version of Strictly Come Dancing, Lets Dance
and he is a fan of RuPaul's Drag Race
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13) Luxembourg - Laura Thorn - La Poupee Monte Le Son
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it literally means ''the doll turns up the sound''
60 years after France Gall's win with Poupee de Cire, Poupee de Son, they decide to honour it with a modern sequel, Laura is from luxembourg as well, she is a singing teacher at a university, this song was composed by two frenchmen in Paris, who were waiting for the right singer, Laura sang a demo and they were so impressed they handed the rights to her
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14) Israel - Yuval Raphael - New Day Will Rise
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Yuval, a survivor of the October 7th Nova Festival massacre, this is her musical debut actually, she lived in Geneva for 3 years when she was 6 years old, with her aunt Ronit Raphael (self made millionaire thanks to the cosmetics empire L-Raphael)
the song New Day Will Rise is written by Keren Peles, experienced composer for the nation at eurovision, however final production was done by Yuval herself, and the participation and staging is entirely funded by her family instead of KAN
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(AQ) Germany - Abor & Tynna - Baller
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first song in german since 2007, the song means ''shoot'' as in shoot for the stars
in this eurovision journey they are mentored by Stefan Raab (who also gave the nation a win back in 2010 with Lena Meyer-Landrut with the song Satellite, as well as himself having competed in the early 00s with Wadde Hadde Dudde Da) he created the national selection Chefsache, this brother-sister duo actually submitted a song in english, but were told by Stefan to go with Baller instead
their father Csaba is a cellist in the Vienna Orchestra, famous for the new year concerts
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15) Serbia - Princ - Mila
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did we suddenly tune into a DC movie, nope, he only looks like Aquaman
this is Princ (real name Stefan Zdravkovic) the song means ''Dear'' in serbian
it is about a reflection of his current love life, one of the messages in the song is that true love sometimes means you need to accept you can't stay together forever
responsible for the song's revamped instrumentals is the eurovision veteran Zeljko Joksimovic (2nd with Lane Moje, 3rd with Nije Ljubav Stvar, as well as for composing Adio for Montenegro's Knez in 2015)
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16) Finland - Erika Vikman - Ich Komme
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she already tried to go to eurovision back in 2020, with Cicciolina, combining finnish and italian languages
now with this song which means ''i'm coming'' in german, she combines those german words with finnish language
it is composed by another big name act in the nation Chisu (real name Christel Martina Roosberg)
the song is about pleasure, extasy and trance and about breaking taboo's in the sex life, in today's political correct world
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