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.

Just like in the other semi-final, our Australian friends in the Electric Fields group lacked a few points to take Serbia’s final place, however, had they collected the 5 points, they would still not have made it to the final, because our Serbian friends have something our Australian friends do not have, namely good ESC neighbors who were generous in terms of points.

This long-distance participating country has actually won semi-finals 3 times, but the last 2 times they have done so they have only finished 9th in the final and this time it was even worse with the sour 11th place in their semi-final.

They brought something new to the scene, namely the language Yankunytjatjara and it is spoken by only 600 people so we are actually talking about an endangered language, maybe this song can give it new vitality, who knows.

Musically, you can’t say that there was much new on the field, all in all this was a fairly standard fast song with ethnic undertones and we’ve heard that a few times in our beloved competition and if such songs are to catch on, you have to get the mood of the song on stage and you couldn’t do that here at all.

What happens on stage actually appears a bit amateurish and messy and you’ve probably seen Russian revues with better choreography and when the vocalist also takes a little too much off, the vocals become screaming at times and it also drags you down.

Too bad, because the song had potential and you can’t help but love that countries bring elements from their own culture, however you have to have a whole on stage and if you work more on that issue, our Australian friends will probably be back in the final field next year provided they send an OK song then.

Featured image – Corinne Cumming EBU