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Tuesday, 12 March 2013 21:40
Cyprus: Video for 'An Me Thimase' Unveiled
Written by Marc Calleja Bayliss
CyBC, the broadcaster responsible for the participation of Cyprus within the annual Eurovision Song Contest is known to be extremely cash strapped but nevertheless went about an internal selection with the aid of several private companies. Their representative at the competition is none other than the stunning Despina Olympiou who will be performing the track An Me Thimase during the first semi-final. As has been the case in the past couple of years, brand new versions and official videos are currently being presented and whilst sifting through the tracks on viral website, YouTube, we came across the preview video for the Cypriot entry. During the 2012 edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, Cyprus managed to perform better than Greece noting that their entry La La Love performed by Ivi Adamou finished in a mid-table position following qualification. This time round, many believe that their participation could very much be an…
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Tuesday, 12 March 2013 19:51
Malta: Video for 'Tomorrow' Out on Friday
Written by Marc Calleja Bayliss
Tomorrow, co-written by Dean Muscat and Boris Cezek with vocals provided by Gianluca seemingly had a music video recorded in preparation to the upcoming edition of the Eurovision Song Contest and it will be published at some point on Friday, most likely during the evening. In recent years, the music video has been a critical element of promotion and also given accolades at the Malta Music Awards in 2011 for example whilst also being nominated in 2012. The idea of the production team led by Angie and Duane Laus is to tell the story of the song, considering that the lyrics have been written in this manner. Malta will be competing in the first half of the second semi-final in a position which is yet to be determined by the host broadcaster, SVT in accordance to the several music genres that will be present. On Monday, all of the entries…
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Tuesday, 12 March 2013 19:27
Belarus: Videoclip for 'Solayoh' being Recorded
Written by Marc Calleja Bayliss
Alyona Lanskaya will be representing Belarus with the song Solayoh co-written by Marc Paelinck and Martin King within the first semi-final of this years' Eurovision Song Contest. Following a successful first promotional visit in Romania, where she performed at the National Final, Alyona departed to Istanbul to shoot the videoclip during these days. The director of the videoclip is very known Turkish Senol Korkmaz who has been working with many stars like amongst Britney Spears and Hadise, from the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest. The choreography is directed by Serbian ‘Zile’ Aleksa Rafoivic who is a very known name in Serbia and who has collaborated with many big stars. He was also the choreographer of the FYR Macedonia entry at the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest. Alyona will also be joined in the video by Serbian dancers. Today the rehearsals for shooting the video are in full swing while recording will be…
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Tuesday, 12 March 2013 18:58
France: 'L'Enfer et Moi' to be Released Tomorrow
Written by Patrick Strouk
Nearly two months after being chosen by an internal jury to represent France at the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest set to take place in Sweden, Amandine Bourgeois will be releasing her entry L'enfer et moi tomorrow much to the delight of fans all across the continent who are anticipating an extremely competent entry. This is not the first internal selection for the Big Five country considering that this has very much been the case since 2009 when Patricia Kaas had been selected to represent the country, ultimately achieving their last top ten result with Et S'il Faillait Le Faire. In the mid-morning, at around 10:00 CET, the song will be made available through the medium of Spotify. Just before though, she will be the guest star of the radio show Laissez-Vous Tenter which is broadcasted on RTL, the leading radio station in France. Within the show, she is expected to…
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Tuesday, 12 March 2013 12:34
Albania: Official Music Video Published
Written by Marc Calleja Bayliss
During the years, Albania has somewhat kept the tradition to be the first to select their entry for the Eurovision Song Contest, but nevertheless, it seems that December is becoming a hub of selection processes for the simple reason that countries would have time to give the track a complete overhaul. Albania got their best result last year with Suus performed by Rona Nishliu finishing in fourth place following a stupendous placing by the professional jury and an above average placing by the public at large. This time round they selected a rock track entitled Identitet performed by Adrian Lulgjuraj & Bledar Sejko. In less than a week, all of the final versions with their respective preview videos will be submitted to the European Broadcasting Union and therefore the uploading will commence through the official channel of the competition on viral website, YouTube. Identitet has been kept in Albanian as…
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Tuesday, 12 March 2013 12:16
Ukraine: Revamped Version of 'Gravity' Released
Written by Marc Calleja Bayliss
One of the first entries to be selected fir the upcoming edition of the Eurovision Song Contest is the one coming from Ukraine. The eastern country is one of the most successful in the competition having always managed to qualify for the final stages but nevertheless, did not do as well as expected last year with their entry Be My Guest performed by Gaitana. This time round, the public and a professional jury have once more selected a female by the name of Zlata Ognevich who does not need a lot of introduction in the surrounding area where she has got strong credentials. She will be performing the song Gravity. NTU, the broadcaster responsible for the participation of the nation in the Eurovision Song Contest has worked closely with the production team to make sure that the final version of the song is the very best possible and whilst working…
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Monday, 11 March 2013 17:32
Bulgaria: 'Kismet' Withdrawn by Broadcaster
Written by Marc Calleja Bayliss
Bulgaria is one of the most unsuccessful countries in the Eurovision Song Contest and will be hoping that this years' internal selection in favour of the duo known as Elitsa & Stoyan could change the figure as they compete within the second semi-final with the song Samo Shampioni. Following the results of the national selection, it seemed like the track that they would be performing on stage in the event would be Kismet having managed to take over the public vote, finishing in second place with jury but with copyright issues coming intact, disappointment struck and the broadcaster, BNT had to make a change. One of the songwriters of the track, Kismet was none other than Jonatan Tesei, a muisician and producer from Argentina. It seems that the individual at hand wanted to make some changes with the track which could not take place in time for the Heads of…
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The Heads of Delegation meeting will be taking place this time next week and the countries are currently finalising their selections for the upcoming edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. Some nations are somewhat making their revelations late for the simple reason that they wish to present a finished product rather than a demo version which might reason negative criticism as has been the case with several tracks. Anouk will be representing The Netherlands in a couple of weeks time and the song she will be performing is entitled Birds. It was officially presented earlier today. Following in the footsteps of stars such as Bonnie Tyler and Cascada, the latter of which had to go through a national selection process, Anouk will be representing her home country with the hope of heading into the final of this years' competition noting that The Netherlands have only done so on one occasion,…
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Romania has a habit of making the right choices when it comes to selecting their entries for the Eurovision Song Contest especially considering that they do have a perfect qualification record since the semi-final system was introduced back in 2004. It is quite intriguing to denote that the eastern country has never decided on any track internally and thus for yet another year, Selecția Națională was the method of selection. There were a total of thirty-two (32) entries which competed in the semi-finals but only twelve (12) got through to the final stage of the competition. Whether it was pop, rock, or a ballad, one could instantly realise that the diversity in genres was the key to why the outcome of the process was successful. Surprises have always been part of the package in several national selections and indeed, this was the case once more this evening because the favourite…
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The Eurovision Song Contest has got another hearthrob: It's 22-year-old singer Robin Stjernberg, a new promise in the Swedish pop scene, whose career kicked off in 2006 when won the Sommarchansen (The Summer Song) in Malmö that year and went to Stockholm to become one of the four singers of the prospective boy band What's Up! One of bandmates was none other than pop sensation, Eric Saade, who rose to fame when in 2010 he competed in Melodifestivalen with Manboy. A year later he did Melodifestivalen with Popular, the actual 2011 Swedish ESC entry. In 2011 he took part of Swedish Idol and was the runner-up behind Amanda Fondell, who also competed with Robin in this year's Melodifestivalen with Dumb, but voted out of the contest. 2013 is the year for the Scandinavian country to be the host after last year's Loreen's storming Eurovision victory with the powerful eurodance track…
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