Today Morten Thomassen looks at the Netherlands entry which is in semi final 1. ESC Covers google translated it from Norwegian to English.

Getting help from a former winner could possibly be a recipe for success, but time will tell if Duncan Laurence is the right one to get help from.

Mia Nicolai and Dion Cooper are the duo who will perform the song “Burning Daylight” and they will fight for the final place against our own Alessandra.

About the artists, it is said that Mia grew up full of violin lessons and ballet and that Dion meditates naked in front of an infrared panel every morning.

Quite possibly none of this comes in handy now that they perform the rather toned-down, but at the same time powerful ballad, which you clearly feel has lines back to Duncan’s winning song from 2019.

I feel that this is a song that is perfect jury food and then it is a bit silly that the juries should not vote in the semi-finals this year.

So unless this duo comes up with a very convincing performance then I fear the lights go out for this song after semi-final 1 actually and it hasn’t since 2015 for this country.