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.
Not only was this country no longer the most winning country in the ESC alone, but they entered 2024 with only one final place since 2013 and this former powerhouse in our beloved competition could almost soon be called an ESC-U country.
Fortunately, they got a song into the Irish final that was totally different from anything else you’ve heard from that side, and luckily for them, that song managed to win and make it to Malmö and once there, it might not have been so beforehand high hopes for Bambie Thug and whether she should be able to do something about the deplorable Irish ESC history after the year 2000, that was the year this country last did as well as 6th place.
Despite a good number of challenges in the back room where the character Bambie was supposed to represent had his share of shit-slinging and other indecencies, Bambie Ray Robinson, as he is called, managed to really take his show on stage to some heights we rarely see in ESC.
Not unexpectedly, such songs become a love-hate song, but songs that you cannot be indifferent to very often manage to achieve a good result and that is perhaps largely due to the fact that those who love this really love it with a capital E.
Here the people and the jury were very much in agreement, there was only 6 points between the two scores they gave separately and that is simply due to a rather perfect performance of this type of song, the mood of the song came out in a fantastic way, the vocals were just right as terrifying as the song demands and I really can’t find anything to complain about here, other than that this isn’t for everyone, but as I said, sometimes a song doesn’t lose on that.
Personally, this wasn’t quite up my alley, but I love the difference in this and well, next year’s Irish artist will have to work hard to reach the level this song was in so many areas.
Featured image – Corinne Cumming EBU