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.

A country that rarely deviates from its national distinctiveness is our Portuguese friends and in this sense Iolanda was no big exception and although it took a few years before the rest of Europe took over this uniquely Portuguese, it seems to have taken root now.

While the previous decade consisted of a win, a last place and otherwise mostly breakdowns in the semi-finals, the decade we are almost halfway through has given us a straight path to the final where the result has mostly also been in the best half of the results list.

It seems as if they have understood that since they very often sing in Portuguese, a language that few of us understand, the visual impression of the song must instead tell us the story they are trying to tell, and there they have simply found a good formula.

In her shiny white costumes, the artist and the dancers she brings on stage manage to create the intensity that the song she performs with quite impeccable vocals such a song needs, and that often pays off in this competition.

That I personally find this song a bit boring and unengaging is perhaps reflected in the fact that the audience only gave this song 13 points and it didn’t hurt too much when the score from the juries was over 10 times greater, namely 139 points and the tall gentlemen, ladies and others in the juries probably fell for what I described earlier, numbers that fit in most ways and then it is obviously not so dangerous seen and heard with their heads that the song itself cannot be called worthy original.

One can hardly help but love the fact that this country is very faithful to what many believe and perhaps think should be an important factor in the selection of each ESC song, namely something with a national character. will be something in the same street next year.

Featured image – Sarah Louise Bennett EBU