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.
In the period from semi-finals being introduced in 2004 to 2018, our Swiss friends only made it to the final 4 times, so they were really far from being a nation with ambitions in this competition, but after 4th place in 2019 it was clear that this country was committed and not unexpectedly led to victory, which came last year and was the reason why the entire ESC circus was in Basel this year.
The home team’s hope was Zoë Më after the juries had given their verdict on a great second place with the song “Voyage” and I have no idea if the finance manager at Swiss TV at that time started looking for the defibrillator because one could wonder if there would actually be a home victory for Zoê Anina Kressler, which is the artist’s real name.
Naturally, she couldn’t hide her disappointment when the audience gave her the famous finger and she received 0 points for her effort, a zero point that most people are probably still wondering why it came, I certainly didn’t see it coming, I probably expected a not-so-good score, but nothing, no, I didn’t see it coming.
For those sitting in the audience, you didn’t see much of Zoë Më all the time as her performance was of the very artistic kind and she was mostly surrounded the whole time by camera crews and others who controlled the lights and other things that are needed to have such an intimate performance on TV, all for the TV audience in other words and the worst pay ever for such a job in other words.
What we saw on TV was a performance that probably looks a lot like a music video and not a performance on stage and it’s obviously a recipe to get the jury on their toes and I understand them well, it’s an absolutely beautiful melody being performed and vocally there’s little to complain about here.
One can wonder why the people completely overlooked this, perhaps it was simply too artistic and not popular enough, or perhaps they thought that Switzerland had now won, so now they should simply use their hard-earned money set aside for voting in another country.
Our Swiss friends always stick to the pop route when it comes to choosing entries for ESC and I would be surprised if they surprised us in that area next year.
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