Posted July 9, 20178 yr Welcome boys & girls, to heat 4. We have for you today, the indie nation that people don't appreciate when they send glorious dad rock, slightly appreciate when they send emotional and strained singers but mostly just ignore like most of Europe does. We have the little kid of the Nordic bloc who used to be doing well but has shifted to going through a period of bad luck despite the high quality of the entries not changing. And then we have the tiny island of Malta who is for the most part are just happy to be here, while Switzerland, the original kings of Eurovision have had some really tough times lately with most of this lineup having fallen deep in the semi. I think the theme of this week is EUROVISION LONERS. The only nation here with more than a 50% record is Iceland, three of the nations here are three of the nations that have never won but come 2nd in the past and with only 19 of the 40 songs here being finalists most of these have few close Eurovision 'bros' to constantly see them through. Shall we see what you think of them? ALBANIA ICELAND MALTA SWITZERLAND VOTING As normal, voting will be done in the traditional manner of 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 point(s). When we reach countries which have less than 10 entries, the number of points will simply reduce accordingly. You must rank each set of entries from the different countries separately. Do not send one ranking with a mixture of all 4 countries. Votes for this heat can be sent via PM to myself before 23:59 Saturday 15th July 2017. The results will be presented the following evening. The top 2 songs from each country will progress to the next round, as well as the next 2 highest ranked entries from across the 4 countries.
July 10, 20178 yr Ugh, I just know Iceland especially is going to be agony. Switzerland on the other hand...won't be.
July 10, 20178 yr Voted! For a country that loves Eurovision so much, Malta aren't brilliant are they. Vodka EXCEPTED *.*
July 10, 20178 yr Look at Albania, they might have had the worst run for me of any country so far. Just worse than Netherlands and their Radio 2 MOR tripe.
July 10, 20178 yr Look at Albania, they might have had the worst run for me of any country so far. Just worse than Netherlands and their Radio 2 MOR tripe. That 2008-2010 run though, ALL ESSENTIAL :heart:
July 10, 20178 yr Author That 2008-2010 run though, ALL ESSENTIAL :heart: *2008-2017 Do you have to vote for every one? Or for instance can I just vote for Iceland? You can vote for just one of them if you want to!
July 11, 20178 yr Frankly I think we need a clean sweep of all the 2008 entries this round! That wouldn't be the worst thing but 2009 is a higher priority for me - in my top 2 for every country here. (although for Malta it's rather by default, SLIM PICKINGS (excuse the irony))
July 15, 20178 yr Author I almost forgot to send reminders! Who do I need reminding! You have until the rest of this evening!
July 15, 20178 yr There are specifically four songs I want to go through for Iceland, I'm fairly confident for two of them but the other two I'll be incredibly disappointed if they don't make it.
July 16, 20178 yr Author I have... 10 votes. Hopefully that'll shame a few more people into voting (I'll accept late votes) but otherwise I shall be starting the results at... some point this evening, I'm afraid I'm not sure on details yet. You'll hear when it does, I'll do a final 30 minute warning or something.
July 16, 20178 yr Author Half an hour - I know we've got BJSC going on at the same time but you can check this in between or something.
July 16, 20178 yr Author SWITZERLAND Let's get the country that people probably care about the least out of the way first (although it IS a tough tie with Malta and Albania on that front), so I'm just going for my personal least essential. Anyway, here are the results of the bottom 5. 10th Michael Von Der Heide - Il Pleut De l'or - 26 points 9th Rykka - The Last Of Our Kind - 44 points 8th Takasa - You And Me - 52 points 7th Sinplus - Unbreakable - 55 points 6th Mélanie René - Time To Shine - 56 points Mourning the loss of Switzerland's attempts at guitars. Correct bottom 2 though. The top 5 going to be safe for the next round are Anna Rossinelli - In Love For A While Lovebugs - The Highest Heights Paolo Beneguzzi - Era Stupendo Sebalter - Hunter Of Stars Timebelle - Apollo
July 16, 20178 yr Author MALTA 10th Glen Vella - One Life - 27 points 9th Thea Garrett - My Dream - 40 points 8th Claudia Faniello - Breathlessly - 42 points 7th Kurt Calleja - This Is The Night - 55 points 6th Gianluca - Tomorrow - 62 points Inessential Breathlessly manages to beat two other entries! If it weren't for the insatiably cheerful Tomorrow being awfully low considering the low quality of Malta on the whole then this would be good, none of the 4 below it are worth keeping so onwards! Amber - Warrior Chiara - What If We Firelight - Coming Home Ira Losco - Walk On Water Morena - Vodka is the Maltese top 5!
July 16, 20178 yr Aw that Takasa song for Switzerland isn't too bad, it could've at least done better than the dreadful "Time to Shine". Correct bottom three for Malta, the rest are pretty interchangeable for me. I assume Ira will be in the top 2 and she is just about my favourite but out of the four countries this week, I think I prefer my other top picks.
July 16, 20178 yr I mean I love me some Il pleat d'Lor but not acting like I wasn't expecting that 10th.
July 16, 20178 yr Author ALBANIA 10th Eneda Tarifa - Fairytale - 30 points 9th Aurela Gaçe - Feel The Passion - 42 points 8th Adrian Lulgjuraj & Bledar Sejko - Identitet - 44 points 7th Hersi - One Night's Anger - 45 points 6th Lindita - World - 53 points GREAT SUCCESS as with two 12s and a barrage of 1s, Identitet beats two out of the nine inferior Albanian songs to get into 8th place. I've developed even more love for it this week. World is a bit of a loss too but I guess it's rather soon. The Albanian top 5 is: Elhaida Dani - I'm Alive Juliana Pasha - It's All About You Kejsi Tola - Carry Me In Your Dreams Olta Boka - Zemrën e lamë peng Rona Nishliu - Suus
July 16, 20178 yr Author Finally, the main attraction for most people and certainly the least predictable nation, considering so many of their entries are loved: ICELAND 10th Sjonni's Friends - Coming Home - 36 points 9th Pollapönk - No Prejudice - 40 points 8th Eyþór Ingi Gunnlaugsson - Ég á lif - 44 points 7th Maria Olafs - Unbroken - 57 points 6th Svala - Paper - 64 points Rather UNSURPRISINGLY, the three entries done by masculine (and mostly bearded) Icelandic men fill up the last three places (No Prejudice is a right anthem guys), followed by the least essential of the Icelandic pop from Unbroken and Paper. Icelandic top 5, but which are the top 2 here? Euroband - This Is My Life Greta Salóme - Hear Them Calling Greta Salóme & Jónsi - Never Forget Hera Björk - Je Ne Sais Quoi Yohanna - Is It True?
July 16, 20178 yr I was concerned Paper might have pushed out a better song because of its recentness but glad to see that's not materialised
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