With the semi-final stages drawing to a close a fortnight ago, Eesti Laul’s final twelve acts have had plenty of time to recover and prepare for this weekend’s final in Saku Suurhall, but which of the acts will bring their A-game to the Estonian final? More importantly, which of the twelve acts are #YOU rooting for? Vote in our poll …
As part of the five-song rush Thursday, the host nation has released their song the Eurovision Song Contest 2021! The Dutch representative Jeangu Macrooy just released the music video for his 2021 Eurovision Song “Birth of a New Age.” He has to chance to represent the host nation for a second year in a row after having been chosen internally …
Bucharest, 4 March 2021 It has happened! After a few days of teasing, Roxen (stage name: Larisa Roxana Giurgiu) has finally released her song, ‘Amnesia‘. The song is a mid-tempo, heavily autotuned dark pop song, with a mental health theme. Like her previous entry, the song draws inspiration from the work of juvenile pop revelations Billie Eilish and Halsey. [embedyt] …
Brussels, 4 March 2021 We bring you good tidings from Belgium, for Hooverphonic have now officially released their Eurovision song. My-oh-my, is it a banger. The iconic Belgian trip hop band released their song, “The Wrong Place” earlier this morning on Peter Van de Veire’s Ochtendshow on the MNM (Music ‘n’ More) radio station. Van de Veire is the Flemish …
After dropping details day by day over the past two weeks on her social media channels, Australian musician Montaigne finally unveiled her Eurovision 2021 entry “Technicolour” on ABC radio station Triple J. While the full song will be released tomorrow on official streaming channels, Triple J listeners were able to listen to the full track, while Montaigne also posted a …
The penultimate stage of the Melodifestivalen journey is upon us this weekend, with the famous Andra Chansen round and its duels returning to our screens on Saturday night. #YOU know the drill by now – eight of the acts who made it this round have been paired off, with one song in each duel making it to next week’s final …
This post is an editorial and therefore heavily prone towards subjectivity, as well as strong opinions and speculation. Anything stated beyond this point is the author’s personal opinion and does not necessarily represent the views of ESC United as a whole or its other editors. I hear the critics question the point behind holding National Finals this year – …
Sydney, 3 March 2021 Australia’s representative, Montaigne (stage name of Jessica Charro) has made a facebook post in which she has revealed the drop date of her Eurovision entry: We can expect it on Friday, the 5th of March at a currently unspecified time. Since Australia are half a day ahead of Europe in time, the release could happen as …
With special thanks to FSC moderator aardvark for contributions to this article. Forum Song Contest 144 – February 2021 The latest edition of the Forum Song Contest, FSC 144, took place in February and was hosted in the town of Cehegín, in the Murcia Autonomous Region of Spain. As in the previous edition, we had entries from 36 participating countries …
It wasn’t all that certain that Sanremo would even take place this year due to the current covid-19 situation in Europe and the world. Nonetheless, they found compromises and decided to hold it without audience. Tonight we saw the first show of 5 and we found out how half of the songs sounded like tonight! The show started off as …
