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I really don't have much time to spare this time around, so I decided that I was going to be brutal from the very first listen. No one was safe. 17 songs survived. Edit: forgot to add that for the first time in forever, nobody struck a 5/5 and I don't know where my 12 points are going to yet.

Oof, so Marozaitė and Krupeckaitė skipping both championships alltogether, interesting. I remember them saying they're going to be preparing for it after the Olympics.

Wasn't yesterday the deadline?

I've no idea if we're sending anyone, but we'll probably know one day before the championship starts. Krupeckaitė and Marozaitė skipped the Europeans, perhaps so they could have a better chance starting here? Lendel, Jonauskas and Baleišytė would be additional good bets for athletes that might be representing Lithuania here.

I'm so confused right now, but it seems that everybody is now in and we're up to 37 songs in total? I was looking forward to doing a first listen today, since I have some free time, but I'm not entirely certain if I can just yet

Really shocked that both of the Tunisians decided to implode when nobody expected it.

@intoronto is counting the days till Camila Cabello finally marries Shawn Mendes, renounces her citizenship to become a full-fledged Canadian and then Canada will send a song in Spanish

Yeah, I know, I just didn't want to be factually incorrect, because you're from a multi-lingual country

I thought about going to the concert in Krakow as well, but I really need to save my money to fund my own music career right now. I also heard rumours that it is difficult to enjoy his concerts from the sounds of shrieking banshees, I mean little girls. Perhaps now that he's more mature, his audience has grown up with him a bit? I'll be curious though how you enjoyed it all, I watched the Netflix documentary, which pretty much circled around his tour and it was an awesome watch, especially since I was stuck in my home with 1 year of no work during the pandemic

Not gonna lie, I completely blacked out the fact that that Weeknd song actually won the contest despite the tire screeching sounds during the video. That is why I somehow thought that only GB has two victories, but checked the statistics page just in case and here you go

After you win once, you never aim for the win, unless you're Ireland Though Canada and Great Britain have two wins each as well, but they are also a primarily (bcuz Canada French too) English speaking country, so the tendencies lie with pro-English.

Yes, yes and yes, apart from the fact that she only started training with us this summer

Hey guys, whoah! You won't believe this! But we actually won a match too

Rocket Brothers from Denmark was an interesting watch throughout The first TISC ever, I think got 11 points from me, only losing out to Hindi Zahra's "Beautiful Tango" from Morocco.

I have faith, since Lithuania won with a static image The only way that a video influences my judging experience is for example video insert sounds like we've had with The Weeknd, which completely killed my listening experience every single time.

Can we have the Czech Republic back? @Hipooo @ahjfcshfghb

The point of the contest is to judge it off of music only, so you shouldn't really worry about a video.

When did we ever not have an extension in both posting a song and sending votes

Perhaps @sami-eg wants to wave the flag for Egypt if @thepharoah is not in this year? There's also @AustralianFan for a chance to represent Australia, because @KingOfTheRhinos seems to be missing.

Tunisia are pretty regular as well, missed one or two contests at best.

On Saturday and Sunday, a Baltic biathlon cup is being held in Ignalina, Lithuania. This is the very first international biathlon race for independent Lithuania ever and it's going to be the debut for our new shooting range that took probably a decade to be finalised. There will be athletes from Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Finland joining the Lithuanian biathlon squad. With this new infrastructure and the ability to host official races without having to go to Otepaa (EST) or Madonna (LAT), perhaps we'll have a wave of newcomers in the sport in time, especially since Ignalina has strong winter sport traditions in Lithuania.

Imagine flexing on us peasants for having more than a single valid option for an open contest It's the second open contest in a row where I accidentally find that an artist that I like is old enough to enter And their best songs are usually in the 2018-19 era :////

I'm not entirely certain that this song is going to do well here, but it definitely represents the fact that I'm absolutely in love with anything that has guitars as a lead instrument. And heck, Lithuanian language is making a return too jautì - is a Lithuanian alternative rock band and "Eyes" is their first single from when the band started playing together in 2016. They gained a fair amount of attention in the indie scene and followed it up with a 2019 debut album, a small EP in 2020 and their second album released this year. All three of their works have been positively acclaimed and the band had a great summer season doing shows across Lithuania. LITHUANIA jautì - Akys | Eyes Tu surasi | You'll find us Mus Mažus | When we were little Kai tais krantais | When we're on the shore Brisim kartu | Wading together Pasiimk mane | Take me Į vandenis gilius | To the deepest waters Aš nuskęsiu tavo akyse | I'm going to drown in your eyes Aš nuskęsiu | I'll drown Aš nuskęsiu tavo akyse | I'm going to drown in your eyes Aš nuskęsiu | I'll drown Tu surasi | You'll find us Mus Mažus | When we were little Kai tais krantais | When we're on the shore Brisim kartu | Wading together Pasiimk mane | Take me Į vandenis gilius | To the deepest waters Aš nuskęsiu tavo akyse | I'm going to drown in your eyes Aš nuskęsiu | I'll drown Aš nuskęsiu tavo akyse | I'm going to drown in your eyes Aš nuskęsiu | I'll drown Aš nuskęsiu tavo akyse | I'm going to drown in your eyes

I've been so overwhelmed with work lately, that you're lucky you didn't have to hunt me down

Lithuania is in, only two weeks to register a song, it's gonna be fast paced, so I better start thinking now