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 represents only the writer Morten Thomassen’s own views.

Two countries finished with 218 points in the final and our Ukrainian friends finished last of these two countries as they received fewer points from the people than the country that got the place before them Albania, it is a little different how the order of results is determined depending on whether you look at just one vote or two votes combined as the final result is, it should not be easy.

The group Ziferblat who sang the song “Bird Of Pray” actually has to go all the way back to 2018 to find a worse placement, in the 20 finals this country has been in (and they still have to miss a final) they have finished outside the top 10 only 6 times, so this is something they can do.

To the extent that the guys in Ziferblat were let down by someone this year, it was the jury who thought that this song only deserved 60 points and then you end up in the middle of that result list and it was the 6th place from the public that tipped them up to a position with only one digit once again and they were probably very happy that they won their semi-final in which they were otherwise called last, a nervous exercise that.

Some types of music just can’t penetrate the part of my brain and heart that likes music and this song is a very good example of such music, no matter how hard I try, I’m relatively indifferent to this song, but I hear that this is good musical craftsmanship and that the guys know their stuff, so to speak.

There is something clearly 70s about both the song and the costumes, so in that sense they hit the spirit of the times quite well and the strong vocals probably appealed to many people. I personally only like the parts where the female choristers sing alone, it’s beautiful, the rest, which is more rock-ish, is up to others to like.

Since Ukraine is the only country that has never missed making it to the final, the biggest tension with them is probably what they will send to manage not to qualify, I don’t know, you know?

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