[Nicky91]

Just a little while longer and Rotterdam is completely against the Eurovision song contest that will be held in Ahoy. And the city pulls out all the stops to get into the spheres, with different artists who are allowed to go wild.

The artistic decoration of the city is provided by Studio VollaersZwart, Mothership, Arttenders, Stichting Hip Hop In Je Smoel and Flowerdales Agency, the Rotterdam Eurovision organization announced today. It is up to them to bring the city into Eurovision spheres.

The artists' plans came to an abrupt end last year because of the corona crisis and the cancellation of the Eurovision song contest. "We asked the artists to review their plans and adapt them to different scenarios" says Annemieke van Wegen-Delhaas, project manager citybranding & citydressing Host City Rotterdam. According to her, the decoration can be seen "first mainly digitally and remotely". "And then hopefully little by little to more visibility in the streets of Rotterdam to the Rotterdam living rooms."

In the city there will be colored flags and banners with lyrics of winning Eurovision songs. They mark a route between Central Station and Rotterdam Ahoy, where the song fest takes place.

https://www.rtlboulevard.nl/entertai...r-songfestival

cool idea

[Denver]

James Newman has pretty much confirmed he is doing an uptempo banger, will make a change from us constantly sending ballads

[Jay28jay2]

Originally Posted by Denver

James Newman has pretty much confirmed he is doing an uptempo banger, will make a change from us constantly sending ballads

If his brother is anything to go by, I’m extremely optimistic

[Denver]

Originally Posted by Jay28jay2

If his brother is anything to go by, I’m extremely optimistic

If we are going by his posts he is hinting at a possible summer dance athem

[UserSince2005]

Imagine the U.K. winning in brexit year. Solidify ourselves as the true champs of europe

[Nicky91]

Originally Posted by UserSince2005

Imagine the U.K. winning in brexit year. Solidify ourselves as the true champs of europe

i still won't vote for UK even with a banger

[Nicky91]

Ireland song release 9:35 CET

[Nicky91]

sure nq for Ireland ew, the only good thing thankfully only 2:36 length phew

[Nicky91]

i mean why even try finding a better singer like Patricia Kelly, Michael Patrick Kelly

when you can stick with the vocal horror that is lesley roy

[Nicky91]

Originally Posted by Nicky91

my ranking after 10 songs

12p) Ukraine
10p) Norway
8p) Czech Republic
7p) Finland
6p) Spain
5p) Lithuania
4p) France
3p) Croatia
2p) Israel
1p) Albania

my top 12

1. Ukraine
2. Norway
3. Germany
4. Czech Republic
5. Finland
6. Lithuania
7. Spain
8. France
9. Croatia
10. Israel
11. Albania









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12. Ireland

[Nicky91]

https://wiwibloggs.com/2021/02/26/ru..._M0LAVyPHQFego

Russia might go for national final? some media claim little big has been selected but that there will be a song national final, for the public to vote for the entry

[Nicky91]

Portugal FdC semi 2

Sweden Melfest semi 4

and Slovenia's non-competitive EMA + internal selection show for Ana Soklic

tonight

[Nicky91]

Youtube video

2 hours to go

[Nicky91]

1 minute

[Nicky91]

Cyprus serves yet again


piss off those pathetic christians over there, good on you Elena queen

[Nicky91]

55 minutes from now we get Melfest semi 4, and slovenia's ema show


22:07 CET portugal's FdC semi 2, before that on RTP bit of talking about previous FdC years


Portuguese people care more about FdC than eurovision, eurovision is more to share their culture to rest of europe, they don't care about results, so you will never ever see them go for generic pop stuff or latin pop

there are english songs now in that, but idk for the win, i think one of own language ones might stand more chance, the biggest name this year in that is Carolina Deslandes, and for the composers only bit Virgul, Helder Moutinho

[Denver]

Eric Saade finally getting his win this year

[Black Dagger]

Lol. I knew you'd support that basic ass song.

[Nicky91]

UK's entry is very danish, think Andy Abraham (but less soul) meets Lighthouse X, early 00's europop

or so i've read

[Nicky91]

Russia is gonna have a national final (for first time since 2012)


on March 8th, a special holiday national selection show, where there is a vote for the russian public voting for the artist and song who they want to see in Rotterdam



and we had our covid protocol yesterday revealed, scenario B is more and more likely, in the right direction now anyway


5 days of quarantaine before departure for rotterdam, and after arrival immediately all artists to the hotel, and only leaving the hotel for ESC official duties, face masks are a compulsory apart from when performing, but in green room too wearing masks is a must, press conferences will also be done differently, one artist at a time, instead all at once

if a artist can't perform they use the backup tape, if that one happens to qualify and able to perform in the final for example, the artist is allowed to perform live


but the main goal is to get all artists performing live, but we are also thinking of health and safety of all delegations, production members, hosts, backstage workers first of all


lesser delegation members travelling to rotterdam as well, so some could opt to appear virtually with a zoom screen if they want to

[Nicky91]

https://eurovisionfun.com/en/2021/03...ational-final/

Russia's NF artists/candidates

NILETTO 29 yrs old, former participant of New Star, a finalist of that

a example of past work:

Youtube video

2Machi a duo consisting out of Maria Zaitseva, Maria Sheikh

past work:

Youtube video

Anton Belyaev 42 yrs old, frontman of the band Therr Maitz

past work:

Youtube video

[Nicky91]

Friday 21st May (the day before the final) a charity livestream esc concert confirmed by former dutch esc acts such as Marlayne, Franklin Brown, but also from our esc expert Koos van Plateringen and our JESC presenter Buddy Vedder

another bit of fun esc event, with covers of most of the iconic winning songs in its 64 yr long history

[Nicky91]

Belgium's song slaps

the return of Geike brings a true miracle to Hooverphonic

[Nicky91]

Australia's song Technicolour: umm i like it , a lot for me a lot better than last years song for Montaigne don't break me, she is definitely much better in this one, also the notes near the end, comes even close to Kate or Dami's strong vocals


with right staging, top 10, maybe top 5 potential

[Nicky91]

Netherlands song title