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.

This country has a tendency to send songs that are tipped high up on the results list, but once in the final city they have had alternating luck with how far the song has appeared on stage and thus on the TV screen, then the final score and thus the position of end has varied a good deal.

This time it worked as only rakker’n on stage and thus Slimane cashed in one of the best positions this country has had since the turn of the millennium and also for this country the people and the juries pretty much agreed, the people gave a total of only 7 more votes for this song than the juries gave, great agreement in other words that great French ballads can occasionally be the thing.

There is something about performances of such ballads when the person performing it is big, both physically and vocally, and it comes out particularly well in the part of the song where he stands meters from the microphone and still has a vocal that carries from here to eternity, I have almost want to say.

The close-up camera work fits like a glove the fervor and intensity of this song and you feel a closeness to the artist that almost borders on invading, but I would think that was the intention since I have understood that the song was sung to his little daughter.

The fact that the relatively young Mr. Nebchi had one of the evening’s strongest voices hardly hurt, and if you check more closely he was probably one of this year’s artists with the most songs that had been in the charts in his home country, so maybe our French friends will look in the same circles when next year’s artist must be chosen, quality artists rarely disappoint when they get to choose the song they will sing all by themselves.

Featured image – Corinne Cumming EBU