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.
Records in the ESC can be counted in so many ways, the record for not having made it to the final for the longest number of years was this year sent from Georgia and Latvia to our neighboring country in the south, Denmark and I strongly doubt that this is a record they brag uncontrollably about.
Our Danish friends, this year’s representatives of SABA have obviously got themselves into a musical quagmire when it comes to ESC and have not made it to the finals since 2019 and even though they only lacked 2 places and 7 points to cheat Norway of a final place they were nevertheless, what must feel like miles from a final place, which the odds also agreed on in advance, they tip them for 12th place in their semi-final and it was right on point.
SABA must have one thing, vocally there was a big progress just on the trip across the Øresund, but that was probably also the only progress this song had, although it must be said that I was in no way disturbingly impressed by the vocals this time either, she was simply not a steady vocalist, as it turned out.
When in a song about sand you actually bring real sand on stage, it shows a lack of ideas that you almost deserve when it’s as obvious as this, throw in a rather boring show that I couldn’t quite understand what was wrong with the song to do so, our Danish friends manage to destroy what is basically a pretty good song, I find it a little strange that the Norwegians who voted thought this was the second best song of this semi-final night, but music taste cannot be debated, just let marvel at.
It may seem that our Danish friends now have to get together, maybe find new people who choose songs for the Danish final, songs that can catch on outside the Danish borders, because with the average quality that has been of the songs in the Danish MGP is no wonder they struggle internationally.
Featured image – Corinne Cumming EBU