Morten Thomassen from Norway continues his review of the 40 songs from the 2022 Eurovision song contest.  He writes in Norwegian and ESC Covers google translate it to English.

Until now, this series has dealt with songs that most people thought would not make it to the finals.

Now we are going to imagine a country that for a very long time was, one would think the bookmakers, to make it to the finals.

We’re talking about the Austrian DJ LUM! X and his perhaps a little unfortunate choice of vocalist Pia Maria.

Do not think there were many who had thought that this song would end up in 15th place in its semifinal.

But, it did so and I will probably put most of the blame for this on the choice of vocalist here.

Such Dance songs require her vocalist and Pia Maria was not experienced enough to take this task when it was to be sung live.

She held back a bit during the jury final to perhaps try to save some of the stumps without being rewarded with more than 6 points.

It’s fair enough that the professional jury rarely appreciates this type of music, but here it was in their place that this was rarely bad vocals.

Whether the vocal instability is due to nervousness or simply not better vocal quality of the woman who sang is not known, she did not impress on any of the rehearsals either as far as I remember.

From the people she got a total of 36 points, but in total this was far from being able to make it to a final.

They should probably get a small star in the margin for having created an atmosphere in the hall, but the atmosphere in the hall does not always result in points when it comes to.

After the great third place in 2018, this country has not qualified for the final, time to get Cesar Sampson back in the ring?