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.

The year’s biggest surprise in terms of results was undoubtedly our Latvian friend Dons, according to the bookmakers he should have finished 16th in his semi-final and with only a 15% chance of reaching the final it should have been completely out of reach, but shame on those who don’t have faith, because he got 16th place, they were right there, but it was in the final that he got that position.

Artūrs Šingirejs, as the artist is actually called, was shown that if you are a steady and experienced artist who knows how to perform a song, you can sometimes turn not exactly gold out of gray stone, but at least something that shines quite well and I think many of those who placed odds actually overlooked that particular quality.

I can’t actually remember anyone going to the final with such bad odds, a little check shows that in 2019 San Marino made it to the final with only a 17% chance of making it, so such surprises have happened before.

He repeated the stability that took the Dons to the final there, perhaps not unexpectedly he got a slightly better score from the jury than from the people, but all in all he scored 64 points and this was actually the first time since 2016 that our Latvian friends took to the final saw absolutely time that it happened you could say.

I think what happens on stage is a very good example of how to perform a ballad in such a way that what we see visually does not become boring, but at the same time you stay down to the ballad’s calm tempo and do not exaggerate visually and then it damages not that the artist is screwed in the performance and has the vocal capacity to perform the song in the strength it needs.

The last time Latvia was in the final they were there two years in a row, you have to believe that this is what they are aiming for next year, in which case send an experienced artist who knows the art of performing a song on stage, worse than that Actually not.

Featured image – Corinne Cumming EBU