Morten Thomassen starts today to view all 37 songs of the 2023 Eurovision song contest. He looks at their chances to do well. ESC Covers google translated it from Norwegian to English.

There is no way around it, I have to talk about all the 37 songs that will fight for the favour of the juries and the public in May.

At present we know that 36 of them will not succeed in reaching the top, but right now all are winners, they have in one way or another been chosen to represent their country.

First up is Latvia and they have the group Sudden Lights and the song they sing is called “Aija” and it should mean quiet.

Well, the song is anything but quiet, this is quite as rocking as an ESC song from Latvia would be now I would say and I understand that they are trying something new for a change.

Because we actually have to go all the way back to 2016 to find the last time this country made it to the final and now our Latvian friends feel that it should soon be time for such an experience again.

I wish I could confidently say in my voice that they would be able to do that this year, but I have my doubts about that.

For me, the song is a little too messy and I hope that it may appear a little more streamlined when we see them on stage in Liverpool, we can hope.

The guys from Latvia meet Alessandra in the first semi-final and, as you can see, I don’t think she will see these guys as very dangerous competitors.