Morten Thomassen from Norway starts reported on the final positions of the 37 entries in the 2023 Eurovision song contest. ESC Covers google translated it from Norwegian to English.

This is a blog entry and represents only writer Morten Thomassen’s own views.

Now it should be said that there is not really a total ranking for the countries that do not make it to the final, I calculate the ranking based on the number of points they get in their semi final and it is not really 100% correct.

Because as most of you probably remember, there was one more country in semi-final 2 than in semi-final 1, so the former potentially got a little more points than those from the other semi-final, but let’s look through these trifles.

In contrast to semi-final 2 where 2 countries went home scoreless, all countries that took part in the first semi-final got points, but our friends from Malta that I will talk about today only got 3 solitary points.

And had it not been for the additional people’s jury from all over the world who thought that the song “Dance (Our Own Party)” deserved one small point, it would have actually only received two points and they had both come from Israel.

As the title suggests, this island performed a party song this time and with only a public jury you would think that it should be a good thing to collect a lot of points, why was it received so indifferently then?

Well, it’s sung quite well and it swings quite well and many people think a fierce saxophone is cool stuff, but the artists were a bit too busy with everything they had to do on stage to be able to deliver the goods with such energy and joy song demands.

So then for some mischievous reason there is something tame and puzzled about this performance, but somehow feel that there is something straining about this whole party, they do everything to make it go away, but in their faces it shines that this party going to hell before the night is over.

It did, and it probably didn’t help that they started after Norway and thus this song became a rather confusing and colorful party attempt instead of the charm bomb it had the potential to be.

Finally, it can be stated that woolen jumpers are unlikely to ever become a party outfit.

Featured image – Corrine Cummings – EBU