Morten Thomassen from Norway started reported on the final positions of the 37 entries in the 2023 Eurovision song contest. ESC Covers google translated it from Norwegian to English.

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

For the second year in a row, the jury in the Adresse programs thought that our French friends were really going to make it big and this year there were top scores from all 8 who could vote, so it had to go their way.

For a long time, our French friends also thought it would go the same way, and in the preview video La Zarra clearly had the big diva factor the song “Evidemment” needed.

But, as we’ve seen a number of times in our beloved music competition, it’s the stuff you do on stage that you’re actually judged on and when it doesn’t meet the same standard as expected, it sometimes goes much worse than expected.

In fact, the bookmakers had as many as 4 of the big 5 in the top ten before the final was held, the conclusion was that 4 of the big 5 ended up in the bottom 11 instead.

What did our French friend do so wrong then, she finished a full 9 places lower than predicted.

Well, no one can take away from her the fact that she gave us tons of diva factor, but unfortunately I feel she lacked the last confidence factor a diva should have, she looks like a diva, but in the look on her face I see unfortunately little of the diva factor.

She was simply not convincing enough and the idea of ​​having her high up on a plateau was simply not very good.

She appears quite insecure where she stands almost a little shaky up on her little plateau, manages the vocals well enough, but as a diva I feel this becomes a bit of a puzzle at times, even if her song is super cool.

In terms of points, the jury and the people pretty much agreed, respectively 54 and 50 points they gave up to madam Fatima-Zahra Hafdi as her real name is and with “only” 104 points in total you unfortunately end up in the lower part of the results list, I’m afraid.

But, our French friends are really trying so I’m looking forward to another big song next year.

Featured image – Corinne Cumming – EBU