The Internationalist Eurovision Blog

Whoo, anybody else still recovering from the excitement of the weekend? That's what switching between Melodifestivalen, A Dal, EMA & Supernova on the same night does to you! Anyway, we have another exciting weekend to discuss as we move in to the penultimate (that's right penultimate) week of Eurovision national final selections. Estonia I'm not entirely sure exactly why Eesti Laul is hailed as one of the most exciting selection processes in Europe. Yes, it found the gem that was 'Goodbye to Yesterday' in 2015, but that has since been followed by two miserable attempts at qualifying for the Grand Final. This year's Tallinn contest should be an interesting one. Stig Rasta has returned for a second bite of the Eurovision cherry, but the one that everybody is talking about is the poperatic 'La Forza' by Elina Netsajeva. Not only is this the favourite for Eesti Laul, it has also kept Estonia in the top three of Eurovision winner odds for the last few...

Come one, come all for the biggest week of the Eurovision 2018 season yet! By this time next week, we will know the entries from Serbia, Germany, Moldova, Hungary, Latvia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Armenia & Romania. With that in mind, I have a lot of writing to do and University work that I am conveniently distracting myself from in order to write this blog post. Serbia So credit where credit is due here, I was very negative about most of the finals I wrote about in the last post. I will therefore start this post by saying that in a country with a very firm recent history of internal selections, Beovizija 2018 could definitely have been just downright painful (they only need to look across the border to Montenegro to see how much of a car crash that one can end up us). I will say that I don't actually think this is a bad batch of songs. There's a little bit of something for everybody, a mix of genres, a return of Rambo Amadeus (what a stage name) and a lot of gorgeous Serbian...

Sorry for the delay all! I'm currently in the midst of my final year of University and I only get my bits and pieces of free time very sporadically (explaining of course why this post was started at about 11 pm on a Tuesday night). I'm nonetheless very eager to run down everything that's set to happen in the Eurovision world. I will not look at the songs already selected just yet and I will wait until after more of the songs have been selected to do a Class of 2018 review post. For now though, let's check out the races around Europe coming up. United Kingdom Coming up, I am planning to write a longer blog post about what the United Kingdom needs to do in order to win Eurovision again. Sadly, 2018 is not their year to break back into the chasing pack. In fairness to the BBC, they have at least managed to get something for everybody this year and I am fully convinced that tonight's show in the Brighton Dome will be fantastic, but let's not kid ourselves, we...