ESC Covers, like in previous years, google translated ESC Norge discussion on the Eurovision song contest positions, from Norwegian to English.
This is a blog post and only represents the writer Morten Thomassen’s own views.
Two countries ended up with 47 points and in the final the order is then decided based on who received the most points in the televoting and while Danish Sissal was not very popular with the people, Luxembourg’s Laura Thorn managed to spread her points better with 23 points from the jury and 24 points from the people. It is not possible to spread them more evenly and the credit for that was to be the best of the songs that ended up with 47 points.
The song was called “La Poupee Monte Le Son”, a tribute to their entry that won in 1965, but in Norwegian the title means “Dukken Hever Lyden”, which basically means that while young ladies in the 60s mostly did what they were asked to do, today’s young ladies have taken back their right to decide and that’s probably all that’s missing.
The best scores Laura received were from the people in Montenegro and Albania who thought she had the third best song in the final. Now, the song did have starting number 2, which many believe is possibly the worst starting number you can have, but there were probably other reasons why this song was so popular.
First of all, Laura probably had one of the weakest vocal performances this final night, there were probably quite a few red lines in that grade book, but she makes up for some of what was lost with a rather charming performance.
Because visually, this is as sugary as one would expect from a song about dolls, and here I think we from Norway have a lot to learn from how a song should be packaged when it is to be served to an ESC audience that will be voting on it.
Our Luxembourg friends have made it to the finals both times after returning after over 30 years of absence and they know how to give us a great show on an ESC stage, so they should just keep going.
Featured image – Sarah Louise Bennett – EBU