Ukrainian broadcaster NTU announced today that the country will hold its national final on the 21st December 2013, which will select the song to represent the country at the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The country will again hold its national final in the year prior to the contest, with its representative chosen through a mixed jury and audience vote on the night.

 

This means that the country will be, so far, the first country to select its song for next year’s contest, followed by Albania on 22 December and neighbour Russia on the 31st December.

 

Applications for songs will be open until 6th December, only shortly before the contest, with finalists to participate in the televised show chosen by a jury which will select 20 songs for the final show. Songs can be submitted in any language.

 

The show will be broadcast on the First National channel.

 

So it looks like Ukraine will be the first country to select their entry for 2014! Hopefully they will choose something as amazing as 'Gravity'! :wub:

You misspelt 'Be My Valentine' there Ryan!

BOTH were life-defining momes

This national final is currently happening! Here are the 20 finalists from eurovision.tv:

 

Duet Anna-Maria - 5 Stars Hotel

Roman Polonskij - Wanted Dead Or Alive

ULI RUD - Tswetok (Flower)

Marietta - It's My Life

Stas Shurins - Why

Anatoli Shparyov - Waiting For You

Nataliya Valevska - Love Makes You Beautiful

Lissa Wassabi - No Fear

Volodymyr Tkachenko - Buty Tam De Ty (To Be Where You Are)

Shanis - Moya Dusha (My Soul)

Victoria Petryk - Love Is Lord

Evgen Litvinkovych - Strelyanaya Ptitsa (Wounded Bird)

Band NeAngely - Courageous

Illaria - I’m Alive

Tetyana Shyrko - Let Go

Tania BerQ - Believe Me

Maria Yaremchuk - Tick-Tock

Victor Romanchenko - Na Krayu Propasti (On The Brink Of The Abyss)

Anna Hodorkovska - Yesli Yest Lyubov (If There Is Love)

Denis Lyubimov - Love

This is what won the national final so we might be seeing it represent Ukraine in some form next year

 

 

When this gets re-mixed/re-worked this could potentially be another Ukrainian smash.

That intro is THE f***ING TITS *.*

 

This song has so much potential! It's already so damn catchy without a revamp (which let's be honest was always going to happen anyway).

KIEV 2015 (cancelled)

I actually QUITE LIKE IT but there's no escaping that the 'TICKY TICKY TOCK TOCK' bit has to go before May.

Aside: for this Eurovision season I will be DISCERNING the most gay-friendly entry in each NF (i.e. that which most closely adheres to an offensive and narrow-minded/fabulous view of homosexuality), and the CHOICE CUT from the Ukraine this year was THIS glittering number by a pair of pouting lovelies called NeAngely.

 

KEY FACTS:

• penned by Gravitonas (i.e. LA BARD and that bear he has fronting the tracks who he's clearly getting mashed senseless by in the time-honourable tradition of fucking 4 tracks), Henrik Wikström and a few other Swedes
• sounds like the Swedish House Wives follow-up single I'd never DARED IMAGINE
• is very obviously a Melodifestivalen reject (which will probably be a common theme during this project)
• finished fifth in the NF, so clearly the homosexual voting base is an ACTIVE RESISTANCE NICHE in Ukraine. Take THAT Putin *.*

Edited December 22, 201311 yr by Cassandra

OH MY GOD *.*

The bitch who won this year finished 5th in the last NF (and Zlata finished 5th in 2010). Plus they already came 5th in 2007 as well. The signs are THERE so they will be going to Eurovision before long.

Tick-Tock is already pretty good, even ahead of the revamp (I love that it's being talked about as a certainty, yay for ignoring what was voted for in the NF), a very lovely start to the NF season. Feels like it could make some waves yet again for Ukraine.

UKRAINE 2014: CHANGING SONG FOR MARY?

KYIV, UKRAINE – The recent political situations seems to have forced the singer Mary Yaremchuk to negotiate with NTU the change of song for the 59th Eurovision Song Contest although the artist won the Ukrainian national final with the song “Tick Tock”. Despite a new version issued the reactions were not good on the web and the artist had already thoughts of changing song. The current political situation in the country though seems to have forced things and it seems that Ukraine will submit to the EBU another song than the one chosen.

The team of oikotimes.com recently asked NTU about this information but at that moment NTU strongly denied the information! But you know how things go, so we better wait a few more days!

 

 

This is Oikotimes material so do take this with an entire packet of salt.

Little bit lost on how the Russia-Ukraine conflict would make them change song. If they were to send a song with a political context it would be vetoed (see Georgia 2008).

http://www.stephengordon.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/pinch-of-salt.jpg

 

:D

The lyrics for 'Tick-Tock' have been put up on Eurovision.tv and it looks like lots of the lyrics have been changed: http://www.eurovision.tv/page/history/year...ile/?song=31293

Also gone up In the betting odds

So it's essentially a completely different song, it just happens to also be called 'Tick Tock'

The first part of the chorus scans with the original chorus but yeah the rest sounds totally different. My question is when we will hear it, and are Belarus going to do the same?