Lithuania LITHUANIA 2024 - Silvester Belt - Luktelk

[ESC United Mod Team]

 

[AlekS]

As much as I liked the Roop, I'm here for BalTwink states

 

[njdevils94]

Monika Marija's staging looked incredible. It looks Eurovision ready and then some. She should soar through to the final tonight.

 

[AlcOtraz]

Monika Marija should have no problems to qualify to final, really classy performance, maybe even superfinal could be reachable, but I'm afraid she stands no chances against Silvester or The Roop

 

[BarefootBoogaloo]

Jury vote:

Televote:

Combined ranking:

 

[Gwendal]

Il Senso once again (suspiciously) smashing the televote. At least Monika went through.

 

[empo21]

Vilija, girl, invest in some simcards like il senso. This is your 18383th televote flop.

 

[Juliette]

Ugh. I was rooting for Kasparas.

 

[RainyWoods]

Hooray! At last some finalists I can really get behind in Lithuania's selection this year. I think I was being moody with the national final for its lack of Gabrielius Vagelis (fulfil my dream please one day Lithuania and send him to Eurovision).

Monika Marija's song is such an understated beaut. The production is stunning. Gorgeous staging as well even if I could personally do without the seizure inducing flashing towards the end (I didn't understand that). This style of Americana music really suits Monika's voice. Would be a beautiful entry.

Il Senso's Time is an interesting song and performance. There's something about it I find strangely hypnotic. It's an engaging 3 minutes for certain.

Also, I enjoyed Vilija's song and performance. She didn't deserve last place.

 

[njdevils94]

I can't with Il Senso sim-carding that hard again in the semi. There song is fine and actually better than last year but not sure it was the 2nd best according to the jury. Semi 4 was another strong semi with plenty of variety.

Vilija's song that sound like it was written by Chat GPT was actually ok live but it was always going to flop. What was her outfit though with the purple onsie and neon yellow boots? I though Daniele's ballad was pretty but she was clearly nervous and didn't have any staging. Kasparas was pretty good too. He'll likely be back in the future.

Monikaze aka the voice of Martin was the one that should've gotten the second spot. Jigsaw was an artistic performance serving high art with clever lyrics. Even if the performance was messy with the heart falling off midway through it stood out a lot to me in a positive and out of the box way. For the record Monikaze is the female singer while Martin is the guy with box on his head. @EscGeek

 

[shameless]

I am so much rooting for Monika Marija to continue the recent trend of Monikas representing LT and giving an understated, confident performance that hopefully will would also qualify and give them another good placement on the 1st side of the scoreboard. Except for Silvester all the other finalists so far I cannot get behind. Especially Il Senso I find more cringe worthy than anything else and I imagine it to do as well as Witloof for Belgium did some time ago and since I don't like The Loop that much I am sure Monika will remain my favorite for this year.

 

[EscGeek]

The most underrated artist in the lithuanian NF (possibly in europe) finally released her song. I hope she gets more than 0 points this time around.

 

[njdevils94]

April Frey - New Years

Cute low-fi indie song. I've already seen a few people mention Billie Eilish vibes.

 

[lasse braun]

i will not watch semi 5 today - prefer latvia and sanremo and that is enough but here is a lovely acustic version from simple joy.

 

[shameless]

Gosh, I find Vaidotas nasal way of singing so annoying. Never got why it was embraced in first place but I really don't need them again at ESC.

 

[njdevils94]

Pictures from Semifinal 5.

1. Freya Alley - Serenade

2. Kàro - Weightless

3. Petras - Run

4. Queens of Roses - Walk Through Fire

 

[njdevils94]

5. April Frey - New Years

6. Emilija V - Trophy Wife

7. The Roop - Simple Joy

8. Lina Štalytė - Perfect

 

[njdevils94]

The last song to be revealed.

Petras - Run

 

[njdevils94]

Weightless is a really nice song but she was given next to no staging. Queens of Roses the most likely of the first four to make the final.

 

[Lietuvis]

The vocalist of The Roop said they decided to ditch the dancers this year, alluding to the idea of the whole song. But unfortunately, I think that wasn't a good decision. This song desperately needed the staging to carry it.

 

[AlcOtraz]

I think we can leave The Roop aside as they are sure qualifiers no matter what But in final they surely need much better performance IMO, today it wasn't convincing at all (ok, lead singer was ill during it, but the show itself was quite average). From the rest - Weightless was the best song for me by a mile, but lack of experience was visible in Karo performance, if I got it right it was her debut overall on bigger stage, so better vocals, better show was wanted and I'm afraid it won't be enough to qualify. Queens of Roses had not the best their entry ever, but confidence and experience might lead them to final against the rest