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. Today we have reached position 1 and so this is the end of this series.

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

Our Swiss friends are obviously not in a big hurry to win the ESC, they let over 30 years pass between each time, first they won in the 50’s, then they won in the 80’s, 32 years later and then they increased by 4 year and let 36 years pass since they won in the 20s.

The latest victory came, as everyone probably knows, with the artist Nemo, who is actually christened this as his first name and his surname is Mettler in case anyone is wondering, and he is therefore non-binary, which means that the person in question does not identify as either male or female and thus have a somewhat fluid gender identity, but believe me apart from that they are actually like me and you and that someone is like that shouldn’t basically be a big deal.

But, back to the music, with only a 15% chance of winning, the song “The Code” should really have had no chance of winning, but the circumstances would probably be different this final night, I choose to believe.

We can’t overlook the fact that what happened on stage was one of the most spectacular things we’ve seen, vocally put it like a shot and that someone manages to do all that Nemo had to go through in 3 minutes and that without it went significantly beyond the vocal is simply a feat, I simply get a little dizzy at times from what is happening and one can only wonder how much practice Nemo went through before he came to Malmö.

Throw into the mix a song that is just so unusual, but at the same time so accessible and you basically have the jury on the hook so it works and the folk fish also bit well, in fact Switzerland got about 38% of its votes from the people in the same way as Croatia did 38% of its votes from the juries, so the victory simply came primarily from the fact that Nemo managed to garner more votes than the competitor Baby Lasagna.

We should not ignore the fact that some of the jury members were perhaps a little skeptical that Israel would win and thus were a little more generous towards Switzerland than they might have been in a normal year, because there was little doubt that the high gentlemen and ladies and who knows, non-binary in the juries liked this because there were only 7 juries that didn’t have this song in one of the top two places and the Croatian jury then who curiously thought that this song didn’t deserve points.

This year, the 5 songs that came at the top scored a whopping 55% of the points that were given out, so it’s probably also a small dose of luck that simply made our Swiss friends want us to meet in Basel or Geneva next year for next year’s musical contest and which city it will be, we will find out on 30 August actually.

If the statistics are to be believed, there will be no Swiss victory, they won’t win again until 2064 according to my calculations, maybe instead they can do as when they last had a final and sing in Romansh, which is the least used of the 4 official languages ​​in Switzerland, it would have been a bit exotic at least back then.

Featured image – Sarah Louise Bennett EBU