Israel 2022

Michael Ben David
I.M

8 songs are revealed for the X Factor finalists. The singers and the competing songs are:

Inbal Bibi – “ZaZa” & “Marionette”
Sapir Saban – “Breaking my own walls” & “Head Up”
Michael Ben David – “Don’t” & “I.M”
Eli Huli – “Blinded Dreamers” & “Nostalgia”

My ratings:

 

1. Marionette (9/10)

2. Head Up (9/10)

3. Don't (7.5/10)

4. Nostalgia (7/10)

5. Blinded Dreamers (7/10)

6. ZAZA (6/10)

7. Breaking My Own Walls (6/10)

8. I.M (5/10)

 

Overall rating: 7.06/10

Top 5 rating: 7.9/10

 

Production value is pretty high in this selection and is indicative of the present Israeli music industry. Hence, there are no songs that score a fail here. I really hope Israel can send something in Hebrew in the future because this language works really well with their music.

Edited February 7, 20223 yr by uhsting

Even the weakest Israel song is better than the any of the Irish songs. :(

Michael Ben David – “Don’t”

 

:wub:

I.M, Blinded Dreamers, Marionette and Breaking Down My Own Walls have qualified to the next round.

Michael Ben David gets the ticket to Turin

 

 

What's Hebrew for friend of Rylan?

Not the worst song won :(

What a great performer! :o

 

Edited February 5, 20223 yr by Voodoo

This is fabulous and I'm very happy that we're going to see this kind of representation at Eurovision. I just hope Israel manage to find a way to get this to the final.

Israel really decided to give up on their qualification streak huh

The song feels very 'Drag Race contestant writes a verse to Swish Swish', but Michael is excellent and the main selling point of this for me.

All 8 songs are now available on streaming platforms! :wub:

The song feels very 'Drag Race contestant writes a verse to Swish Swish', but Michael is excellent and the main selling point of this for me.

 

OMG that's totally it - the "take the crown" line being the biggest tell.

 

Not sure what this is going to do competitively but this will be a fun bop in the semis at least.

Actually, I did like Inbal's songs but I was secretly hoping Michael would win, this is cool shit, makes up for the rest of this weekend's choices.

He's the lovechild of Conchita and Freddie Mercury :D

This is one of my least favourite Eurovision entries ever, I can't believe Israel are sending this?! It sounds like a RuPaul song and not even a good one, a Blame it on the Edit level one.

The Israeli press reports that Marvin Dietmann (Conchita Wurst’s artistic director) will stage Michael’s Eurovision entry. :w00t:

Also Michael Ben David seems to be unhappy with the arrangement so not sure if we might see a change in the representative

This is racing up my rankings. Will finish in my top 5.

Is there a revamp? Because the song is horrendous lmao but he might actually make it through because of charisma (+ uniqueness, nerve and talent hunty).