Morten Thomassen from Norway started reported on the final positions of the 37 entries in the 2023 Eurovision song contest. ESC Covers google translated it from Norwegian to English.

This is a blog entry and represents only writer Morten Thomassen’s own views.

When you get to the final with a margin of only 3 points, you can hardly expect to do brilliantly there and thus it was perhaps not surprising that our Serbian friend Luke Black came in “last place” among the countries that qualified for the final.

Fortunately for him, I was about to say that there are always some direct qualifiers who “try” in the final, so he thus got two countries behind him on the results list.

For the song “Samo Mi Se Spava” he got a total of 30 points, one can boast that the jury and the public pretty much agreed on the song’s point value, namely he got 14 points from the jury and the last 16 points from those who voted.

Unsurprisingly, neighboring votes made up more than half of the votes he received, so actually this song did not hit well in ESC countries and why exactly?

As last year, this country filled up the uniqueness quota quite well and sent a contribution that is difficult to put into a special category, and they should be honored for that anyway.

I find this contribution quite unique and think that Luke obviously has a talent for conveying a message in the song he sang.

But, vocally, it’s quite flimsy at times and I feel that the power of the song doesn’t come out properly when it’s so complicated vocally.

And then a lot of people probably lost interest and whatever the story he was trying to tell disappeared in all the weird things he did on stage and quite possibly many people thought this was a bit too strange and not particularly cool to watch.

But, dear Serbia, please keep sending us unique submissions, there are already more than enough of the very ESC custom submissions from before and they will continue to come in the future as well.

Featured image – Corinne Cumming – EBU