REACTION: Timebelle, Apollo
Switzerland is on to something with Timbelle’s Apollo. Switzerland made the right choice in their final. The mid-tempo power ballad has quality production value and Switzerland is off to a very strong …
REACTION: Norma John, Blackbird
Norma John is the rightful winner of Finland’s Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu. Their performance was haunting and tasteful. No matter how sophisticated the song is I fear that this is going …
REACTION: NaviBand, Historyja majho zyccia
Congratulations Belarus! You picked the right entry this year. IVAN’s entry last year wasn’t horrible, but #ugh the staging was silly and  the track was whack. “Learn How To Fly,” …
REACTION: Lindita Halimi, BOTË
Lindita, GIRL! You betta just SANG. Lindita Halimi’s BOTË is Albanian GOLD. Look, the song isn’t a dance track. It isn’t in English (yet– Dear Lord let the translation not be TRASH). …
RANKING: My Top 4 Eurovision 2017 (so far)
We only have 4 songs, and the benefit of that is that it makes it that much more easy for me to set up my first ranking of this Eurovision …
REACTION: Lucie Jones, Never Give Up On You
Thanks to Brexit, there is no doubt in my mind that the United Kingdom was going to struggle this year at Eurovision and they didn’t exactly help themselves out with …
REACTION: Tako Gachechiladze, Keep The Faith
Georgia is switching up things from last year. “Keep the Faith,” is a power ballad sung powerfully by Tako (or Tamara).  Don’t be distracted, this beauty has pipes to sell …
REVIEW: Switzerland’s Die Entscheidungsshow selections for Eurovision 2017
Die Entscheidungsshow is ready to find it’s Swiss representative for Eurovision 2017. Switzerland has not had it easy at Eurovision these past couple of years, and looking at the lot …
One Eurovision Belgium
The Eurovision entry can be a touchy issue regardless of the result since the process to choose it can already be a polemic topic. The internal selection vs. public one …
Where Eurovision and Politics clash
So it was rumored that  Alexander Panayotov might have been the artist selected by Russia to represent them in Kiev next May, but it turned out to be just speculation. …
Belarus: Reviewing the 13 national final acts
What a circus the Belarusian national final auditions were! There were clear highlights and very dim low lights. I mean this happened: And this happened: Yes… he is singing about …
The Melodifestivalen 2017 participants BREAKDOWN
I woke up yesterday morning in Washington, D.C. with the most welcome news EVER. By now you know that Loreen is returning. Yes, there are other artists returning to the …