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.

Semi-final 2 had a hard fight to avoid last place and with only 5 points ahead, our Belgian friends managed it and with two more countries between them and the previously mentioned last place, they thus came in 13th place and then also became the only country tipped to go to the final that didn’t make it out of the countries the odds believed in.

Now, previous years have shown us that a 70% chance of a final place is by no means a safe one, and even though there were 40 percentage points down to 11th place and a whopping 55 percentage points down to the song that made it to the final, it didn’t go Mustii’s way as in the time before the ESC circus got to Malmö was considered by most to be a sure candidate for the finals.

One of the biggest problems for the man who sang about the party being over was that no juries had been invited to the voting party, because in many people’s ears this was probably a song that would have made them feel so much better that a place in the final could have been achieved, but now the rules are that only the audience votes for songs until the final, and there it was not the way for this song.

Purely in terms of performance, I feel that our friend Mustii’s choice to be alone on stage was possibly not the smartest, he struggled a bit to own the stage and capture us as an audience into his world and when he also had a vocal that was uncertain and at times a little weak, what we got to see and hear became a little puzzling.

The power that his song undoubtedly has was a very long time before we saw anything else and then it doesn’t help that you sing the same line very many times, it also made the song less original.

After 3 years of final place with a top-10 placement last year, they went with a bang and Europe gave the thumbs down to the country where the EU has its “capital”, we’re going to bet on a party song next year that actually oozes a little party over?

Featured image – Alma Bengtson EBU