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.

Our Greek friends have usually had a taste of the feeling of making it to the final, but last year they bet maybe a little too young and they were 3 places away from a final place, this year they partly went back to their Greek roots and they get it very much often well paid for, so fifth place in their semi-final must be seen as accepted and that with a song in Greek, the last time they tried that it didn’t make it to the final.

Once in the final, Marina Satti lacked 26 points to get into the top ten, but all in all I think the lady is satisfied, she continued the good tradition that sounds clearly inspired by home Greek music have of doing it acceptable in terms of results in our beloved competition.

In the final, the song was liked twice as much by the people as by the juries, but it was a twelfth in both votes, the people of Cyprus not surprisingly liked this the best, with the juries it was the 5 in the Swiss jury who had this as their favourite, possibly the song gave them good memories from previous holidays.

Personally, this was the song I liked the least, but enough about that, here I was obviously in the minority, but I still don’t understand why the lady with the occasional whistling voice and a song that just annoys can be so successful.

What probably caught the attention was that many felt that they were being dragged into a wonderful party by a charming lady who sang in a way that you might expect and you can’t complain about the energy level in this song anyway, a lot of calories were burned here you could say , the drive goes absolutely all the time so it was a full party.

Are you to believe that our Greek friends will not dare to move too much away from the musical Greek landscape next year and create something that can captivate the masses again next year?

Featured image – Corinne Cumming EBU