Alright after listening to the songs more, these are my thoughts on what would have been this years songs. Iceland, Russia, and Ukraine are by far the best. If this was TISC, Iceland wins gold for me, Ukraine silver, and Russia bronze. They’re not campy pop songs, well Russia’s might be, but at least it’s fun and different.
Solovey makes me want to see a European Games opening ceremony in Kiev. Its really cool to see a country actually try a folk song. The modern track that goes along with it is a bop as well. Performance wise, she could stand to be a little more animated, though her finish is awesome.
Iceland’s song is cool for multiple reasons. They beat and tone are completely different from every other song in the competition. The song is not a love, empowerment, or loss of love song. The song is actually about his son who was yet to born when he wrote it. So “Think About Things”, is really about what his child will think of his family (at least that’s what I’ve heard). So this is now two years in a row where Iceland was my favorite song. They seem to have a great tradition of sending unique songs.
Other songs I liked were Latvia, Lithuania (I cant get that fucking beat out of my head), Malta, Azerbaijan, and Greece.
If this was American Eurovision with the states voting, the winner would either be Armenia or Sweden. I though both those songs were decent. Sweden really sent pretty much the same thing it sent last year though.
I’m not a fan of Billie E...I mean Bulgaria. She has a great voice, but it’s clear Bulgaria was trying to cash an easy win.
San Marino was...freaky. You probably wouldn’t be able to televise that in the US ?
Serbia, Slovenia, Belarus, Poland, and Portugal have some work to do. Poland can’t even hit her notes. Belarus sucks as always. Serbia is pretty much everything I hate in music. Slovenia and Portugal just don’t have appealing vocals to me.
So there’s my thoughts. We might all get to vote in a “Eurovision” next, since the U.S. version is scheduled to debut next year. It will just be terrible rap, country, and pop songs probably. Maybe we’ll get lucky and California or New Mexico will through something Spanish or Native American in. My bet is that the contest will never happen though, so let’s get to the point where entries are chosen first.