An Italian win is always a possibility, but I think having one or two microstates attached to it doesn't help.
England will win one day. The UK managed it, as have Wales and Ireland, all of which share a very similar music scene, so there's a winner out there somewhere for England!
I was only lurking at the time, but I was so pleased when Kyla won that contest, she's pretty much my favourite artist around. Walk through walls isn't even her best song IMO, so she might have another win in her.
Edit: If England win, bring it to Bristol!
01 Slovenia Karmen Stavec Vzemi Mojo Dlan
02 Vatican City Pauline Give Me A Call
03 Slovakia Katarina Knechtova Isabel
04 [url= ] Norway [/url]
05 Kazakhstan Luina Odna
06 Algeria Aqua How R U Doin?
07 Wales Lilygreen & Maguire Ain't Love Crazy
08 Luxembourg Luca Vasta Cut My Hair
09 [url= ] Saaremaa [/url]
10 Andorra Pastora Soler Te Despertaré
11 Svalbard Christel Alsos Please Say
12 Netherlands Kensington Ghosts
13 [url= ] Macedonia [/url]
14 Azerbaijan Safura Glass House
15 Switzerland James Gruntz Song To The Sea
16 Ireland Duo Tinselitis Kraken Island
17 Malta Ira Losco ft. David Leguess The Person I Am
18 Hungary Hien Who Matters
01 Isle Of Man Bastille Things We Lost In The Fire
02 Cyprus Marianne's Wish Still Here
03 Uzbekistan Shahzoda ft. Costi Moi Zolotoi
04 Germany Alphaville Song For No One
05 Iceland Ásgeir Going Home
06 Portugal Sky Ferreira Lost In My Bedroom
07 Austria Marina Zettl Is It Fine
08 [url= ] Scotland [/url]
09 [url= ] Sweden [/url]
10 England IAMX I Come With Knives
11 Belarus Anastasiya Vinnikova One Life
12 Czech Republic Markéta Poulíčková Illusion
13 Latvia Katrine Lukins Find You
14 Israel Shiri Maimon Now That You're Gone
15 [url= ] Poland [/url]
16 Faroe Islands Mads Langer Elephant
17 Italy Greta L'estate
18 Northern Ireland The Overtones Gambling Man
Quarter Final 4
01 [url= ] Croatia [/url]
02 Ukraine Drofa Colors
03 Georgia Elena Satine Ashes
04 Albania Seldi Qalliu Jam Bo Tap
05 Karelia Chisu Sabotage
06 France Woodkid I Love You
07 Bulgaria Andrea Nai-velik
08 Montenegro Edita Abdieski Done With You
09 [url= ] Greece [/url]
10 Denmark Fallulah Dried-Out Cities
11 Kosovo Vali Kuqi Rruga Ime
12 Armenia Iveta Mukuchyan Target
13 Russia Irina Dubtsova Eat, Pray, Love
14 Belgium Birdy Wings
15 San Marino Anna Tatangelo Occhio Per Occhio
16 Greenland Sys Bjerre Hey Vanessa
17 Moldova Trandafir Suona In Tutta Europa
18 Morocco Adam J feat Amelle & Nightcrashers Love Is All We Need
How does it take SO long to find a swedish song?
OR a scottish song for that matter of fact!
I find the better countries harder in a way because there's so much expectation riding on them - you feel as though you have to look further as the right song should be out there somewhere as long as you look hard enough.
An Italian win is always a possibility, but I think having one or two microstates attached to it doesn't help.
There's a song I adore for Italy, but if previous songs didn't win that won't win either. I suspect after so many great songs over the contests, when they do win it will be with a song I don't like...
Any country can win though, it's just a case of the right artist appearing with the right song. No-one would have thought Armenia or Lebanon would ever win, or maybe even that Russia would win again.
It takes me long whether it's a good country or a bad country.
It takes a long time to find a good song for my bad country and a long time just searching through all the singers of the good country.
As a first timer, my experience was somewhere in the middle between AxG's description.
Country #1 was quite easy, perhaps because I knew it had a taste for the kind of music I'm into
Country #2 was almost impossible, because the search patterns I had used for #1 didn't work (iTunes charts were full of songs which couldn't be allowed, etc.).
I know - not just "don't think", I *know* - that neither song was chosen to win.
It takes me long whether it's a good country or a bad country.
It takes a long time to find a good song for my bad country and a long time just searching through all the singers of the good country.
Yes, that's pretty fair. I probably spent longer on my 'good' country than my 'bad' country this time but that's because I was losing the will to live with the latter.
I find the better countries harder in a way because there's so much expectation riding on them - you feel as though you have to look further as the right song should be out there somewhere as long as you look hard enough.
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There can't be many Aqua songs left now which are eligible.
In all seriousness, it can't be easy to find something easy for Algeria. I had hated having Morocco.
They would have won if they sent Kyla that contest. Its a hard country because people expect so much.
England will win one day. The UK managed it, as have Wales and Ireland, all of which share a very similar music scene, so there's a winner out there somewhere for England!
Edit: If England win, bring it to Bristol!
Kazakhstan Luina Odna
Isle Of Man Bastille Things We Lost In The Fire
Iceland Ásgeir Going Home
01 Slovenia Karmen Stavec Vzemi Mojo Dlan
02 Vatican City Pauline Give Me A Call
03 Slovakia Katarina Knechtova Isabel
04 [url= ] Norway [/url]
05 Kazakhstan Luina Odna
06 Algeria Aqua How R U Doin?
07 Wales Lilygreen & Maguire Ain't Love Crazy
08 Luxembourg Luca Vasta Cut My Hair
09 [url= ] Saaremaa [/url]
10 Andorra Pastora Soler Te Despertaré
11 Svalbard Christel Alsos Please Say
12 Netherlands Kensington Ghosts
13 [url= ] Macedonia [/url]
14 Azerbaijan Safura Glass House
15 Switzerland James Gruntz Song To The Sea
16 Ireland Duo Tinselitis Kraken Island
17 Malta Ira Losco ft. David Leguess The Person I Am
18 Hungary Hien Who Matters
Quarter Final 2
01 Serbia Ivana Selakov ft. DJ Shone Probijam Led
02 Spain Love of Lesbian Wio
03 Gotland Dajana La-La-Love
04 Shetland Islands Alex Hepburn Under
05 Turkmenistan 2Sunny Lyubolovi
06 Kyrgyzstan Jamala Cactus
07 Azores Os Azeitonas Ray-Dee-Oh
08 Liechtenstein Lena Neon (Lonely People)
09 Aland Islands Laura Närhi feat. Erin Siskoni
10 Lithuania Evelina Anusauskaitė Alone
11 Bosnia Herzegovina Dubioza Kolektiv Kazu
12 Turkey Gülşen Yatcaz Kalkcaz Ordayım
13 Jordan Omar Naber Parfum
14 [url= ] Gibraltar [/url]
15 Monaco Brice Conrad Songe
16 Finland Indica Islands of Light
17 Romania INNA J'Adore
18 [url= ] Estonia [/url]
Quarter Final 3
01 Isle Of Man Bastille Things We Lost In The Fire
02 Cyprus Marianne's Wish Still Here
03 Uzbekistan Shahzoda ft. Costi Moi Zolotoi
04 Germany Alphaville Song For No One
05 Iceland Ásgeir Going Home
06 Portugal Sky Ferreira Lost In My Bedroom
07 Austria Marina Zettl Is It Fine
08 [url= ] Scotland [/url]
09 [url= ] Sweden [/url]
10 England IAMX I Come With Knives
11 Belarus Anastasiya Vinnikova One Life
12 Czech Republic Markéta Poulíčková Illusion
13 Latvia Katrine Lukins Find You
14 Israel Shiri Maimon Now That You're Gone
15 [url= ] Poland [/url]
16 Faroe Islands Mads Langer Elephant
17 Italy Greta L'estate
18 Northern Ireland The Overtones Gambling Man
Quarter Final 4
01 [url= ] Croatia [/url]
02 Ukraine Drofa Colors
03 Georgia Elena Satine Ashes
04 Albania Seldi Qalliu Jam Bo Tap
05 Karelia Chisu Sabotage
06 France Woodkid I Love You
07 Bulgaria Andrea Nai-velik
08 Montenegro Edita Abdieski Done With You
09 [url= ] Greece [/url]
10 Denmark Fallulah Dried-Out Cities
11 Kosovo Vali Kuqi Rruga Ime
12 Armenia Iveta Mukuchyan Target
13 Russia Irina Dubtsova Eat, Pray, Love
14 Belgium Birdy Wings
15 San Marino Anna Tatangelo Occhio Per Occhio
16 Greenland Sys Bjerre Hey Vanessa
17 Moldova Trandafir Suona In Tutta Europa
18 Morocco Adam J feat Amelle & Nightcrashers Love Is All We Need
OR a scottish song for that matter of fact!
I find the better countries harder in a way because there's so much expectation riding on them - you feel as though you have to look further as the right song should be out there somewhere as long as you look hard enough.
There's a song I adore for Italy, but if previous songs didn't win that won't win either. I suspect after so many great songs over the contests, when they do win it will be with a song I don't like...
Any country can win though, it's just a case of the right artist appearing with the right song. No-one would have thought Armenia or Lebanon would ever win, or maybe even that Russia would win again.
It takes a long time to find a good song for my bad country and a long time just searching through all the singers of the good country.
Country #1 was quite easy, perhaps because I knew it had a taste for the kind of music I'm into
Country #2 was almost impossible, because the search patterns I had used for #1 didn't work (iTunes charts were full of songs which couldn't be allowed, etc.).
I know - not just "don't think", I *know* - that neither song was chosen to win.
Yes, that's pretty fair. I probably spent longer on my 'good' country than my 'bad' country this time but that's because I was losing the will to live with the latter.
same views here.
I send songs that I feel are finalists rather than potential winners.
Sometimes I send potential winners, but none have won to date.
Just be happy you even managed the top 5! I'm thinking I might have a chance this contest.
I'm grateful for every high placing but that doesn't mean I can't want my win sometime
It has been like 30 contests lol
I think Dylan & I have the most contests per 0 wins? Maybe Stan?
I really like it, just wish the vocals were a bit stronger in the chorus.
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