Ladies and gentleman!! Here we have my personal number one of 2017,
!!
The interesting thing about Belgium is that every year another broadcaster is responsible for the ESC, the French speaking RTBF and the Dutch speaking VRT. So far I think RTBF had the more interesting entries to offer, especially the awesome "Rhythm Inside" from 2015. In 2017 they chose the young singer Blanche with the song "City Lights", which she also wrote along with Pierre Dumoulin. The song was a dark electronic pop song with a very interesting atmosphere, perfectly in combination with her very deep sounding voice that you wouldn´t expect from her at the first sight. The song had a very hypnotizing effect on me, when I heard it for the very first time I immediatly had the desire to hear it again!!
Sadly the performance in the first semi wasn´t that great, because Blanche was a very shy person and seemingly didn´t felt all that comfortable on the big stage. Luckily she got the chance to sing again in the final, and there we saw a complete new Blanche, she really looked much more confident and also sang much better. I wasn´t that surprised by the mediocre jury result since I couldn´t imagine them to like this considering the often high average age of jurors, but as expected the viewers absolutely loved her and pushed them up to a very deserved fourth place, she also got very good
from the viewers in
!! I was really happy for her and her reaction to the good televote results made me smile a bit!!
All in all this was my personal favourite from 2017, and also my favourite entry from
in the whole decade!! I still listen to it very often and and even two years later it hasn´t lost any of its hypnotic aura to me. That´s why it really deserves
from me!!