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.
As accredited in Malmö, you were lucky enough to get a little closer to some of the artists and for one reason or another our Estonian friends have thrown themselves in and are one of the participants and organizers of the Nordic party and that’s when they performed their song there I got my eyes on the song with the longest title of all time: “(nendest) narkootikumidest ei tea me (kûll) magida”, a bit of a challenge for most commentators, I would think.
It was the two groups 5MIINUST and Puuluup that I kept saying literally hit their heels together and gave us a music that was reasonably unique and among other things contained zombie people, in other words you’ve heard it too.
Not unexpectedly, the juries were quite cold towards this kind of music, which for the most part is placed in the box of silly music, and they were actually in last place before the people had their say, and the people who said something were mostly neighbors of Estonia, and thus they rose from last place and came in 20th place and it is a place that has been 5 years since they last achieved it.
Rølpepop with touches of ethnic tones and ethnic instruments is probably the best way to describe this song, and it falls pretty straight into the category of music that you either love or hate, it’s a little hard to be indifferent to this.
Vocally, you may not be knocked to the ground, but there is nothing to be ashamed of and they bring out the energy in the song quite well in what happens on stage, even if it gets a bit raucous at times and I think that these are guys who don’t jump and dances a lot as usual.
However, they didn’t have enough charm to attract anyone other than their neighbors and when you only get this far, you think most people probably want more pop of the more normal kind, should this country catch on further out in Europe.
Featured image – Sarah Louise Bennett EBU