ESC Covers start the Eurovision 2024 countdown from position 37 to the top place. We are using the review of Morten Thomassen from Norway. ESC Covers google translated it from Norwegian to English.
This is a blog entry and represents only writer Morten Thomassen’s own views.
Some songs win their national final on a solid wave of tailwind and involvement from the fans in the hall who are present and send their national contribution out into the big ESC world.
This is how I would assume that the two in the Spanish duo Nebulossa must have felt it when they won at home in the Spanish final where you could see and hear a rare big sing-along factor and with such support at your back you might think that this then had to catch the rest of those who are in the ESC.
Well, one can make mistakes, with the exception of a couple of generous juries from Italy and San Marino, the scoring was rather poor and our Spanish friends had to settle for 22nd place and it was actually the thirteenth time they got a place the results list where they are number 20 or worse this millennium, in other words more than half of the times since the year 2000 they have been in the bottom tier in terms of results.
That it was the two countries on the Italian boot that gave them points was perhaps not so surprising, all the while what we were served was what was called in those days italo-disco, a style that many of all ages have probably danced to.
It swings to a thousand of the song, but when the vocalist opens her mouth, it reveals herself a vocalist who has probably skipped most of the singing lessons in her life and, let’s say, she has had time to have someone and the fact that she has plenty in the audience who is extra choristers possibly help a little bit, but not bothersomely much.
The fact that the show itself is very much designed to please the queer environment might seem great fun to some, for others it will probably be a bit too much of a good thing and with the lackluster vocal effort in addition, most probably found something else from the party genre to like.
No you, our Spanish friends will probably have to look up the recipe from 2022 and find an artist who masters all elements of a performance to the tips of their fingers and well then, then maybe they can start approaching something resembling a song that can do well in terms of results .
Featured image – Sarah Louise Bennett EBU