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Posted by: Ryan. 5th October 2014, 10:37 PM

Switzerland
Mélanie René - Time To Shine

Posted by: Ryan. 10th October 2014, 12:17 AM

Another song that has been uploaded to the online selection is 'Candy' by former Pussycat Doll Jessica Sutta! Her song can be heard http://esc.srf.ch/de/jessica-sutta?sorting=created.

Confusingly, Jessica has denied such rumours on Twitter - but as far as we can see, her song is on that Eurovision site just as Kitty's and many others are! Very confusing - I would assume it's a mistake but you never know.

Posted by: Ryan. 31st January 2015, 12:18 AM

Back by popular demand (from myself)...

Switzerland · Final
31st January 2015

Watch the selection on the http://www.srf.ch/unterhaltung/events-shows/eurovision-song-contest

7.10pm UK Time / 8.10pm Central European Time
(Programme scheduled to last 2 hours)

Running Order
Click ► to listen to the songs!

Round One - Eurovision Entries
01 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qb6Z6OPkM0 Deborah Bough - Take Me Back To 23
02 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFQMxJmyCRI Timebelle - Singing About Love
03 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9RwktZQ_-A Licia Chery - Fly
04 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xqO-s0SW6U Andy McSean - Hey Now
05 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBn2PeYPaYY Mélanie René - Time To Shine
06 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVWHw-OYYp8 Tiziana - Only Human

Round Two - Covers of International Hits
01 | Deborah Bough - Shake It Off (by Taylor Swift)
02 | Timebelle - Rude Boy (by Rihanna)
03 | Licia Chery - All About That Bass (by Meghan Trainor)
04 | Andy McSean - Chasing Cars (by Snow Patrol)
05 | Mélanie René - Chandelier (by Sia)
06 | Tiziana - The Power Of Love (by Frankie Goes To Hollywood)

Voting
50% jury vote and 50% televote.

Special Guests
2014 Eurovision winner Conchita Wurst will be performing!

Further details available at http://www.eurovision.tv/page/news?id=tonight_the_swiss_final

Posted by: Ryan. 31st January 2015, 12:21 AM

My favourites are Timebelle, a fabulous pop-rock song with saxophone (!) that is reminiscent of Mandinga with its instrumentation (and their Romanian roots). It has over 300,000 YouTube views, none of the others have anything much higher than 10,000 and is deemed to be the favourite alongside Tiziana.

With that running order draw I'm sensing a Tiziana victory, unless Andy McSean gets the "only male artist effect" that Italy got in JESC! I really hope Timebelle can somehow succeed, a fantastic pop song and would go straight to the top of my rankings and would more than likely be in my top 5 by the end of the national final season.

Posted by: AdamAloud 31st January 2015, 01:04 PM

Out of those I'd say my favourites were Tiziana and Mélanie René. Timebelle were OK too, I'd say the Swiss will most likely pick Tiziana or Andy McSean.

Don't think I'll be watching tonight though.

Posted by: AdamAloud 31st January 2015, 06:19 PM

Well I have nothing else to do tonight so bring it on die Schweiz

Posted by: Ryan. 31st January 2015, 08:30 PM

I've just been watching the screen while watching The Voice. Reading the various forums, I get the sense that Timebelle are out of the running thanks to that running order slot. Mélanie was apparently impressive but I feel like we could end up with an Andy McSean victory which would surely guarantee Switzerland a stay in the semis.

Mélanie was very impressive singing 'Chandelier' just then.

Posted by: AdamAloud 31st January 2015, 08:32 PM

I was quite impressed by Timebelle actually! Though I do think Andy is gonna win, Mélanie would be my personal pick.

Posted by: Ryan. 31st January 2015, 08:40 PM

Andy McSean is so "3rd place in Ireland's Late Late Show national final"!

Posted by: AdamAloud 31st January 2015, 08:42 PM

When are the results, Ryan do you know?

Posted by: Ryan. 31st January 2015, 08:43 PM

I'm assuming the lines will close after this commercial break, be counted during Conchita's performance and then revealed probably from about 9ish our time. Looking at last year, there's no sign of any scoreboard or anything so the results will only take a minute or two if they do the same this year.

Posted by: AdamAloud 31st January 2015, 08:46 PM

Oh I thought we were breaking for like half an hour or something.

Posted by: Ryan. 31st January 2015, 08:49 PM

4 minutes until the lines close!

Posted by: AdamAloud 31st January 2015, 08:50 PM

God the backing singers for Licia Chery are APPALLING

Posted by: Ryan. 31st January 2015, 08:52 PM

Deborah Bough looks so similar to Karen Harding, and the fact that they both performed at #1 out of 6 in their respective national finals is even more coincidental!

Posted by: AdamAloud 31st January 2015, 08:57 PM

Conchita *.*

Posted by: AdamAloud 31st January 2015, 09:11 PM

Mélanie René is the winner!

Posted by: Ryan. 31st January 2015, 09:15 PM

I'm glad it wasn't Andy! Just watching the reprise now and she's sounding good, she definitely had the most positive response across the web tonight. Another moody pop song though to join the two Warriors!

I'll have to check out the music video again soon.

Posted by: J▲hq 31st January 2015, 09:18 PM

Not a fan of this on first listen, feels very very dreary.

Posted by: LexC 31st January 2015, 09:27 PM

Ooh yes Melanie! I'm really liking the dark/atmospheric vibe of this one. Probably my fave/second fave so far

Posted by: Ryan. 31st January 2015, 09:59 PM

Final result as confirmed on SRF's website:

1. Mélanie René
2. Timebelle
3. Licia Chery
4. Andy McSean
5. Tiziana
6. Deborah Bough

Shocked at Andy and Tiziana! So angry now though that Timebelle were second, I hope this isn't a sign of things to come this year! Any chance they can quickly enter the Romanian selection, I believe their submission process is still open!

Posted by: AdamAloud 31st January 2015, 10:01 PM

I don't think the running order made too much difference Ryan, there were only 6 songs after all!

Surprised Timebelle managed as high as 2nd! Poor Tiziana.

Posted by: Ryan. 31st January 2015, 10:03 PM

Oh no in that post I meant second as in second place finish! I'd rather they were lower down and not so close to the win

Posted by: AdamAloud 31st January 2015, 10:05 PM

Oh I see!

Still, onwards and upwards Ryan, it's Cyprus tomorrow!...

Posted by: ScottyEm 31st January 2015, 10:06 PM

This needs a LOT of work/tweaking if it stands a chance on the night. There is some potential there though...

Posted by: Ryan. 31st January 2015, 10:07 PM

I doubt anything from Cyprus will be troubling the top half of my rankings unfortunately, let's just hope Denmark choose wisely next week!

Posted by: Ryan. 22nd February 2015, 10:56 PM

First revamp is here! Mélanie performed a new version of her song on the Lithuanian selection yesterday. It's quite a subtle revamp but there is extra strings and synths in the production of the song and makes a huge improvement in my opinion!

http://www.esc-plus.com/switzerland-melanie-rene-releases-new-version-for-time-to-shine/

Posted by: AdamAloud 23rd February 2015, 01:54 PM

Love the little tweaks there, a strong entry from Switzerland this year.

That audience at the end of her perf though, they couldn't look MORE DISINTERESTED

Posted by: Ryan. 23rd February 2015, 02:17 PM

I'm not surprised after they've had to sit through so many months of this selection! But at least they've got their best entry ever as a reward!

Posted by: Ryan. 13th March 2015, 08:03 PM

The music videos with revamps are continuing to come in thick and fast, now we have the brand new music video and revamp of 'Time To Shine':



So much more power than the original, love the revamped guitar solo bit in particular!

Posted by: Jack89 13th March 2015, 08:12 PM

It's much better and has potential to be great but the lyrics really let it down. She has a Celine dion tone to her voice in parts too - obviously she ain't no Celine though.