Albania’s Song Selected, Sanremo’s Lineup Complete, and New Hopefuls Revealed | Eurovision Fam

Happy New Year Fam!

We’re hopping back into the #Eurovision sphere following a two week break for the end of year holidays.

This week we kick things off by discussing our site articles going through Eurovision Fan Resolutions, take a look at Luxembourg’s Past National Finals, and get to know the host city Malmo through the past times they hosted Eurovision.

We then begin our discussion of everything we missed in the last two weeks, the Stage design being revealed, the results of Sanremo Giovani, and Besa getting the ticket to represent Albania via her win for Festivali i Kenges, and the 18 acts who will be competing to represent Norway in Melodi Grand Prix.

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Cera happy New I I forget how to sayc New Year in German I keep like Merry Christmas keeps coming to mind but that’s wrong now that’s inaccurate we are in the New Year you guys this is the first stream of 2024 hello welcome to the stream I it’s been

A twoe Hiatus because we had Christmas Eve and then we had New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Eve and the Eurovision fandom we are distracted by other content um which oh god let’s have that conversation oh yeah oh yeah the new year the New Year’s Eve um that was kind of a

Blowout that like drama happened well because we were two different 250s this year MH um and the 1250 Kia one and the other 250 lurine one from from my understanding yes I don’t know I wasn’t paying attention I didn’t see the list of the

Second ESC 250 but I did see the one in which kadia won and I was like this is curious because this was after they had that separation in within the 250 sphere between like song festival be and uh ESC radio was it um yeah yeah they had a

Disparity so that made it a little awkward for voters and viewers or listeners but uh with with time you can’t really have no conflict so oh yeah totally but yeah so here we are enjoy yeah here we are we do have some national final news too like here we go

Merry Christmas for Vana lubich Orthodox Christmas today Vana hello it orod is the seventh that makes sense happy Orthodox Christmas so we’re not too late that’s perfect there we go we’re still in the holiday season then yeah so I don’t know where should we start where should we

Go site articles yeah okay let let me get right to the site articles you guys and after that yeah we we’re gonna be discussing the National Finals uh for Albania which had already happened we’re going to be talking about the malova national final the Norwegian National final and uh Lithuania we’re going to

Touch on a little bit right yep we’re gonna touch on Lithuania for a touch touch because they kick off the actual shows oh look my camera fell uh they kick off the actual shows this week so um I have here let’s talk about some we talked

About New Years so one of our site articles is EUR Vision fan uh resolutions for 2024 basically it’s an Al it’s an article by Elda and it’s kind of going over what we as your vision fan should promise to do in this coming year um within the fandom Elder’s been on fire lately

Because the next article was written by her a look back at luxembourg’s National Finals so Luxembourg back when they used to compete in the contest before this year also had National Finals just like traditionally any other Eurovision pre-selection Countrywood so go ahead and check those out if you want to get

To know luxembourg’s attitude as they select their songs or at least as it was previously yeah it’s like I like kind of like looking retrospectively back at you know what’s been happening with National Finals throughout history um I’m having a good time right now kind of working on something similar um so yeah

Like let’s go ahead and talk about other things that happened like we got the official stage mockups and they are interesting construct is impact construct is impact what I mean with that stage design the whole like oh the Swiss Army cross oh noani baby so what do you think of the stage

What do you think of the stage design well I’m gonna bring it up here hold on give me one second oh yeah our Tech Master is pulling up the stage everyone impossible Jingles oh sweet I’m Kim Possible now awesome Pome I don’t want to get rid of

You Jordan I want to keep you there we are so there we have that’s the upper half of the venue there’s the lower half of venue it’s a very sharp looking cross I can’t get over I can’t get over the amount of right angles on the stage it’s

Too many honestly I didn’t like the stage of Mama last time too I felt like it was too angular then as well but even then it was like I didn’t like the design I just didn’t like it before I like this better than the last Mama stage I do like it better than

13 yeah oh no I’m sorry I’m getting M mixed up with Stockholm I didn’t like Stockholm stage I like Stockholm stage Stockholm stage was very like masculine angular as well but I actually thought that to be quite fitting because like Momo stage uh that was 20 so they didn’t even have LEDs in

2013 no they did they had LEDs they just they weren’t not like prominent no they didn’t don’t know they didn’t well I I feel like I could have I feel like I remember Russia having some kind of like stuff in their staging what did Russia said that year what if what if we

Are like that one the lady in like that terrible tan dress the balloons okay yeah I I don’t remember that song I it it probably pH top 10 and I was just like whatever what change the path of time that one oh wow it’s not ringing a bell

Huh I I I remember the dress that dress was freaking ugly yeah it was a terrible tan dress like staging the entire staging was terrible and tan that’s my point like the balloons were a nice touch but I mean it was to distract from the fact

That the song was just a we all the world Russia number which they were doing a lot of back in that time oh let me tell you how much I hate how much I hate that crap um these numbers from Russia yeah I just I’m not into it

Um so yeah regarding this stage I think if I think if it were like a little bit bigger in the center I feel like the edges come in a little too much like there’s too many right angles right where the feet are going to be and that might cause some slippage or tripping

Issues don’t love that I love the skylights I love yeah the skylights I’m really into and I like I like it looks like there’s also lights coming up from the ground as well light Vibes I think that could be used really interesting ly um I just I kind of miss having a

Satellite stage that was completely surrounded though by like uh the audience yeah that that I I mean maybe like towards the back of where that you see the United my by music Banner is there’s going to be more effective camera work CU I know for a fact that in

Terin anytime you were behind that like little margin you couldn’t see ish because I was in yeah like it was like the the spectacle was really bad once you got like past a certain point you couldn’t see anything Mark says I do like the squares on the ceiling I hope

They are used well by the delegations let’s see how switchin does that s g be like you gave us a stage of our flag we’re going to use that with our not man ballad so congratulations Sweden so witland is going to be turning the entire Arena into the Swiss cross

We’re going to look like an army knife up in here m i mean hey Surplus have you ever had a Surplus Army jacket from Switzerland I’ve not they are very warm the sleeping bags are excellent I could use more warm stuff adult has introduced anemia to me so I

Love anemia yeah we love her she’s my best friend she’s always at my house yeah she’s always over invites herself eats my food um I should do more beef um yeah but I like the stage I like it but I do feel like it might also be missing

Something it might be who knows I just again we don’t it’s all about how we use a stage and how we get creative with the stage you that is the most important thing yeah so yeah let’s see like are we have a black Sun situation no because there’s no moving

Parts that oh o nice clock nice I mean like there’s moving Parts I’m sure but like but nothing conent on like the layers of its own kind of thing there’s no layers to the movement Mark we’re not getting a Swiss sad boy this year and we’ve gotten a lot of swis sad

Boys haven’t we since 2020 like they said that uh I don’t know who it was but someone in the delegation was like our song is in a Swiss is in a man ballad or we’re not sending a male ballad so we’ll see I mean in a way that’s all

I can really ask for from Switzerland because they did excellent with Jon’s tears that was kind of like their yeah they nailed that and that was perfect they tried to follow up with a similar formula the last two years and they did not hit any kind of Mark in my

Opinion because I’m sorry but like especially out of the M ballad era we’re just out of it this last year it was just toned deaf yeah like I don’t know how else to like that was the biggest issue I think we both had with the song was how tonee

It was like could you imagine sending that song now like this year especially it’ be even worse like it was already it was already so toned deaf by the time we heard with without all the new conflicts like without all the new stuff that has happened since then it

Was already just like no you shouldn’t be singing this cuz like you probably don’t know what you’re talking about honestly I’d be down with a female ballad Mar watch should just be a female ballad just to troll us I’m okay with that I am okay with a female ballad just

Period I’m okay with a Eurovision where it’s just female ballad after ballad after ballad I bring that bring that to me Jordan uh I’m sorry but your Filipino is showing h i mean what can I say like it can never be a party without a little

Bit of a Selen on high note all by myself you know let’s talk about a female ballad uh because Albania chose their song oh my gosh yeah Albania chose their song you guys which by the way is not the winner of their National final per se no the winner of the national final

Was let’s talk about Bessa let’s just talk about Bessa let’s talk about Bessa because she’s going to EUR Vision yeah she’s the one who matters um how do you feel about the song it’s an Albanian Eurovision song pre- revamp that’s how I feel about it it’s literally an Albanian Eurovision song

Pre- revamp it’s not bad I like it and I’ll listen to it but typically the Albanian song pre- revamp I also really love I have not quite hit that with this but I do like it I think I there’s just something about the structure that I’m having trouble connecting with

Personally there’s kind of like a 2014 rap Moment Like toward the bridge it’s like I don’t know like number one I love the fact that Albania is just like let’s send a mature woman mhm like they always know what to do they give us she’s going

To Mother it down exactly they they they really do know how to bring that um and I think we need to have like the the annual Mother awards she she’s gorgeous like Bessa and her styling fantastic amazing that silver chest plate with the nipples it was so AV on guard I was like

Okay song number two loved itang I was like yes I love the fact that like one of pictures that was censored I’m like oh yes like wear an outfit that has to be blurred we love that um yeah know I just feel like it’s like there’s just

Something about it where like I’m having trouble connecting with it as well and I don’t know like what needs to be done but it’s going to be revamped and I I trust the albanians to revamp it um I did see a claim from Bessa saying that the song was originally written in

English and then translated to alanian yeah I saw that too I’m because like this is a totally English revamp formula kind of setup for Albania I’m I’m have a feeling that they’re going to revert back to the English version change up a few of the lyrics but there’s going to

Be high rhyming with Sky rhyming with fly I bet you now I mean I don’t mind it it’s like it it my thing is like if they just go fully into doing it in English I’m okay with that if they decide I don’t want to mix English and

Albanian I think it doesn’t really work very well one or the other this time commit to one or the other and I think that maybe I might connect with it better in English just feels like it kind of feels like a song that needs that that language change it needs that

Little flip up especially if Albania is in a semi without um that much of its diaspora so that English could be quite beneficial to it yeah I mean they have the rest of the world votes still unlock um so Georgia’s Pao says honestly I think Albania song is decent probably

Qualify Albania doesn’t usually qualify when they mix it up so they made the right choice okay this this can be mixed up like it really it really can’t it has a lot of like seed potential to it to still like I I feel like it could still

Be successful well I think he’s maybe even more referring to like when Albania doesn’t go with kind of like what you expect like a a big ballad from them they don’t qualify I mean to be fair I think the biggest issue with ranella was the staging it was just too much going

On was also it was also last minute too I did hear from Rella that like those staging decisions were made just like in the chaos of Trin and like last minute because of um like issues with her dancers and issues with the delegation okay but yeah like that’s just how I

Feel about that uh Mark I actually really like the Albanian song they always make this type of song work at ESC I can see it as um they make it to the final for sure yeah I can see it making the final as well I mean granted

We only have what three songs at this point yeah um I don’t know yeah but I could see it in the final just like imagining Mal Imaging the final I can see this in the lineup yeah I can I can do it as well and I kind of just real

Quick did you see that live performance that slon gave for the year um no I didn’t actually but it it came up on my feet I did not watch it yet babe you need to watch it I bet it’s excellent I bet it’s excellent things are clicking I mean he has a Fant

Fantastic voice really like with that early and with how early they were with everything all you needed was a fantastic voice and nail everything down until we get up to that point maybe France made the right decision things were clicking into place it didn’t work for me in the studio but live it’s

Giving what it needs to give I hope so because I really am going to need a fantastic live for me to save how I feel about that studio cut because hon cut is not impressive to me I was gonna say what is it called um mon post VOA

Monam yeah yeah monamore is like the opposite of um pedestal for me where it works live but Studio no but I love I love pedestal pedestal live it feeds off of chaos okay I love how she just like is chirping into the microphone and like screeching

Art absolute art I love it um so let’s go ahead okay let’s not step on the oh my goodness you see what happens kittens love to get us into Mischief I’m surprised that my cat actually hasn’t jumped on my keyboard and caus me to hop off the stream entirely but as she’s

Getting back on screen I will hold the for down you guys so um yeah that was Albania and with Albania just because the artist that we were talking about is going to Eurovision doesn’t necessarily mean that they were the winner of Festival kers themselves so the winner

Of fck was a gentleman named up Mal I forget his last name and the song was chandur and how I feel about that entry is kind of how I feel about like leandra’s om and um Dima Bon’s believe where it’s just like you are looking at this and you’re like wow the spectacle

The stage the show and it’s like oh three minutes happened I totally forgot about the song It’s that kind of a thing for me oh not comparing him to believe oh no I oh no hey I I had be honest right now because I knew that I would

Probably hold back from saying that in a later stream I had to get that off my chest right now oh no I mean but like you you can win you can win with just the spectacle element you don’t necessarily need a good song look at Ser

Lazarev that was an awful song but it was state-of-the-art led that is still used an example for like LED staging in in like time IM Memorial so oh no all you need is just a sharp staging element and for ma the winner of festiv Al Kus thear the sharp staging element was just

I don’t know those guns uh those I don’t know I don’t know what it was in the staging exactly that just made it that just made it all that more like what is it about what is it about a pair of bare arms on a man that makes Europeans go

Wild I don’t know it it was the fact that he was like bare arms and in like a leather skirt and his and he didn’t hit a single not he was a Sarah brand where it’s just like he’s dodging the notes like Muhammad Ali in that one fight you know

Oh my God he’s too pretty to get hit he’s too pretty to hit notes yeah he’s too pretty to hit notes but that’s okay because that shows us versatility of Fes ofal Kangas it shows us the versatility of that show I mean usually usually fck appreciates a vocal um you us

Albania I reward voal that was that was a little bit unpredicted unpredicted this year I was watching the results in my kitchen and my sister was like cooking dinner and I was like okay like I’m just sitting there talking to her with the results playing and she’s like can you turn that

Off please when he came and did his reprise I’m like yeah I can’t I can’t with this um he said lfg didn’t he like at the at the end of his reprise I don’t remember he’s pretty he’s pretty he’s very pretty congratulations but he’s not the one going to EUR Vision let’s

Remember no let’s you’re right he’s he’s you’re right just sometimes a pretty face distracts people very distracting to a point where it’s winning um oh no let’s you want to talk about more pretty face Duncan La Lawrence makes me want to compulsively put on sunscreen I don’t know what it is every

Time I see his face I just think of like I need to put sunscreen on right now his face reminds you of sun damage yeah it does well I I mean like I don’t have sun damage skin so I I I like that’s something I should worry about as well

Yeah all right so let’s talk about let’s talk about uh let’s go ahead and go on the next topic we have here um looks like Norway Melody Grand Prix W Norway’s coming back with one of the campiest National Finals you will ever see in your life to be fair I think that that’s

Not bad though cuz your variety and it’s a show that you’re going to be engaged in um not every song that competes in a national final needs to go to Eurovision thank God sometimes it’s songw writing can’t fun like sometimes an artist goes to a songr in Camp and they’re just like

This is like a yodel number and this young girl is gonna sing it and they just have fun all right yeah let’s go ahead I don’t know let’s see um let’s go ahead and do it this way let’s name everyone competing first and then we’ll

Go back can kind of talk in depth about the songs in sim1 since we’re about a week out from simi1 we sure are I can read down those names yeah go ahead and read the Nam for S me one I’ll read s me too so okay you guys the names that

We’re going to hear coming up next week in he one of Melody Grand Prix in Norway will be Frederick Holland singing the song Stranded goth Minster with the song We Come Alive ing Jasmine with the song A not a we have Margaret barer returning with the song Oblivion and we have Matilda

Spz featuring Chris Archer and slam dunk with the song women show and closing out heat one will be mea with heart on fire yeah and then s two we have Doug Eric oold and an um ano with judge tenderly of me um Eli Christen with Touch of Venus oh I like that title

Farita is back um what was it two years ago and she will be singing heartache love you g will be singing then we have Meo with your M super Rob and Erico Norwich with my AI I haven’t listened to sem2 yet so that eye will makes you

Go um I I haven’t heard sem2 songs I’ve just heard like Snippets so I’m doing everything I can not to judge it was just that song title that uh it rubs me the wrong way a little bit yeah anyways heat three you guys so after um that heat two heat three is

Comprised of an princess singing the song save me um Koo returning with Dum digida Mia with the song green lights mistra with the song Walts of death Thomas yenson with take me to heaven and Vidar V with the song may oh wow all mesty titles in this very M titles in

This take me and I go take me to your BS Christmas song it sounds like a [ __ ] Christmas song I’m done it does it does hear it Mak yeah same I I inex um inexplicably put it on my family’s Christmas playlist so they hear that song without knowing

That it’s a Eurovision winner all the time yeah sorry over my um my thingy again oh he he knows you’re streaming so he’s being Mischief he already stepped on my my keyboard knocked me off yeah he did um yeah let’s talk about the songs in Simi one um do

You want to just kind of talk about like which ones you were not feeling as I actually I like to be positive more than negative um I don’t know see so okay I I can talk about um so so okay do you want me to to talk

About which ones didn’t impress me or did impress me I could I could go either Direction real big bit uh real quick for Mark Margaret coming back for that wi you should have had in 2013 to be fair I remember I thought nor won 2013 didn’t

They wasn’t Bergen the host City oh B Bergen was fantastic Bergen was fantastic and K was the perfect winner in Bergen yeah yeah it was it was fantastic show um yeah no I just I’m happy to see her back I’m really happy to see her back and this

Number okay so I feed you my love was like a really heavy electronic dark number that had kind of that 2013 like inyou face electronic flavor this is similar but you could tell it’s an evolution here’s the thing she’s really good at combining like her vocals are always very haunting and mysterious like

It draws you in she’s kind of like singing to you and like trying to Laurel you and it has that Darkness I like from Norway it’s ass norian Eurovision songs up until 20 like 2017 no no yeah maybe Norwegian EUR Vision songs up until alexand the Ryback’s return always had

Like this air of like Darkness to them like just like that little bit of darkness and it’s like it works though it’s like I understand Winters are long y’all need anded pressence too let’s go but bring that cold Elsa bring that cold yeah the cold never bothered bothered them anyway

It really is giving that for me um I that’s my thing it’s like this has those elements it has that darkness and that that synth what’s going on in the electronic and then she’s got that vocal on top of it that’s like eerie and just

Oh so good but it also sounds like it has been influenced by um recent developments in the European music industry kind of like um so you see 2021 Ukraine’s shum that kind of electronic like deep dark flavor that’s also kind of hyper at the same time it sways more

In the direction of Shum and like SW Luna from malova last year I see it in that camp in that family and that is calling to my heart very deeply yeah oh yeah no it’s kind of or like what was it uh fluen fluen kind like that oh yeah

Kind of in that same Vibe I totally get that like that’s why it’s well liked and speaking of Schuman fluen um I feel like with a from ingred Jasmine it’s kind of giving us that like traditional flavor um of like there’s electronic elements and then feeding us something

Traditional um does it sound a little C Shanty yes it does it’s in Norwegian and the thing I like about this one the most is that you can listen to that like a more than once and I feel like the more you listen to it the more you get out of

It it’s like I felt the same way about Icebreaker speaking of another Norwegian song where like like you can listen to it multiple times they kind to pick apart everything that really really makes it work oh I agree and another thing with a I find that like and this this is

Something that we bring up we’ve brought this up in a couple times in like the last couple years but uh it’s one of those songs where the voice serves as a part of the instrumentation and that is what causes so much Harmony in it and it

It creates kind of like a J sequa soulfulness in the instrumental track itself where just like the lyrics are just there to support the instrumentality of the voice yeah um got some comments here JoJo’s papao says and say one I like Margaret and a uh Margaret is kind of my MGP

Favorite this year you put a knife I mean honestly I an oblivion I mean I’m all for another electronic song called Oblivion since I kind of fell off with the old one I loved so much because someone made poor choices and H and father for children um goodness

Sorry um were there any other ones you wanted to highlight from this heat because you literally brought up the two that I thought were just my most effective I agree I think Myra was cute hard on fire that was cute um I do I think it should go to EUR Vision no did

I find it like enjoyable when it was on I’m like yeah it’s kind of and it made me feel nostalgic it kind of brought me back to like S Club 7 steps like you know those British a groups it has that kind of flavor like those British groups

From the late 90s early 2000 oh my God it sounds like a steps suits that and it’s like I enjoy that though like there’s a place for that there’s nostalgia in that exactly it’s really sweet I don’t like I don’t necessarily think it should go on but

Like it’s listenable um perfect for a national final viewing session frck not M will not ski Frederick Collin stranded it was okay like it’s a it’s a man piano ballad it wasn’t as post Ed Sheeran as something you’d find in Estonia yeah but it still had that kind of just like

Lamenting guitar boy about a girl I needed more lament I feel like like because it just feels very standard as like by the numbers in its current form maybe live it’ll come together better I mean I think it’s more lamentful than some of the lamentful ballads in Estonia

This year yeah I mean it’s not bad it needs a bit more like it needs a sharper sadness I do think I agree with you on that like it’s not what was it last year the one that was like a dad singing his child’s funeral song made me cry um and

I was like the only one defending that one bettery I can’t remember Mr rain no that was what Mr rain San Remo second last year like a row of Angel children and like two of them died I no anyways sorry you were saying I interrupted you were saying but yeah

Like I just feel like that it maybe live it’ll work better for me but it doesn’t work for me at all um I’m I’m seeing like a spotlight with stars he’s standing there with his guitar the camera’s over here and then the camera’s over there and then it’s

Over is he sitting on a stool um oh he he has to have a little bit more artistic grit to do that let’s see if he’s got that in him he’s got those chops Mark I live in the UK and need to I need to I need people to stop

Giving young men acoustic guitars to be frank honestly the British the empath the epidemic the Brits have caused with white men and acoustic guitar specifically um I am older than a lot of people I don’t know who might be watching this um I remember going to parties and there’s a guy playing wonder

Wall on an acoustic guitar and just I’ve never been to one of those parties but the ey roll I would have mised in the always painful always painful you know always wonder wall like it’s always wonder wall like the most unrealistic thing about the Barbie movie is that it

Was not wonder wall that the kids were playing at the beach oh gosh I feel I feel like they’re all roughly within that age range too yeah yeah um let’s see here and then another one from Mark honestly I wanted to invest uh I want to be invested in

MGP this year but I feel like they’re just going to pick go with Kyo or the robot song which is a shame because they have some really good songs here I’ve been saying this now for months at least which is Norway is in their theme park era like all their

Songs they’ve sent since 20 17 was it no 20 you said 2018 I claimed 2017 all the songs since 2018 have been like juvenile just like not not it like like that’s how he wrote a song literally sounds like it sounds like it’s written for kindergarteners can’t stand it I’m

Not a child and if I had children I would not let this listen you like how he won the semi but got like what was it bottom five in the final how the hell did he win that semi they were Shenanigans Shenanigans were a were Shenanigans yeah people were being silly

They were just being silly silly silly with their votes people were being dumb um and then what was it 2019 what did they send 19 Kano Spirit of Sky Spirit In The Sky Is Good okay but telling me it doesn’t feel theme Parky it’s very theme Parky that’s

No it’s that’s the kind of sound that you would hear like at the coaster where it’s not the loopi and it’s not the longest but it is the roughest like it’s that’s the kind of song you would hear for the roughest coaster at the theme

Park yeah or like um yeah like it was cute I’m not angry at it but it’s not my favorite thing in the world um it’s Dancy it’s like fresque it’s fun it’s fun i i y was new yor was new to like the EUR Vision sphere back then no

Because we only we get it every once in a while uh we get it like we get it like once every 20 years not was that’s 20 year return yeah this this was a cycle yeah and then it’s like he’s real winning every years um what else is

There then what was happened in 2021 I can’t remember 2021 no 2021 was Fallen asan okay I mean honestly from 2020 would have been a nice breakup in that uhuh but it still would feel a bit theme Parky I think it’s just because ori’s voice is so like clear like her voice is

Gorgeous don’t theatrically trained very theatrically trained for sure exactly it feels like you’re going to watch like a St show at a theme park and I don’t mean that as like I mean like it just her voice and the way she sings is so like technically perfect I think is what I

Would say it has no grit to it it’s just it’s all just beautiful and clear and I love voal vocal specialist at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom I can just see her like the little vest with like a little like whale on it and just going up to the

Stage and like her slacks like I never knew oh my God love you girl come back whenever awful awful I’m so sorry I I live like 15 minutes away from a theme park okay I would have been happy if she would have won last year that would have been I feel like that

Would have been better for Norway if she won last year I feel like Norway would have gotten a better result and like Queen of Kings is fine whatever but it just feels so like it’s too pirate Chanty it’s too pirate Chanty for me like I can enjoy it like

Oho but after that point after those three minutes I’m seeing it again in a 2023 recap baby like it’s like I’m not gonna SE it out it’s like Wolves of the sea with less fun Wolves of the sea had Camp woles of the sea had costuming it had

Lyrics I mean I like the elm cover of wolves of the sea too yeah it’s just like I need Denmark not Denmark oh my God I need Norway to get out of this that’s the second time you’ve done that today I know I know can you tell how I’m feeling about MGP

Lately gosh well anyways what what else do we need to talk about regarding MGP um I mean that’s to me one we’ll talk about the songs in S2 next week um just so that way you guys have something to come back to um we’re gonna be basically because they have three like

Heats and then four shows you’re going to get a whole month of Norway content exactly and like keep it sweet keep it simple um so yeah that’s kind of what’s happening there let’s go on and let’s talk about another National final that kicks off next week Lithuania so Lithuania oh my gosh we’re

Finally back choing our tutos welcome back Lithuania our tutos urisia is the national final that we’ve I just realized how dumb that sounded you guys it’s it’s been a long two weeks it’s been a long two weeks okay I spent the last two weeks sick so of course I’m gonna be a little

Delusional I we’re just gonna touch on a little way you kind of briefly here yeah um there’s not really like oh no the roof is back we don’t even we don’t even have the Heats yet we just have the songs so we know the roof is back um

They’re gonna be bringing us a song called simple joy um I’m just looking kind of over there’s of course a good number of rures one rury oh wait we should read through them first before we talk about returs huh oh no I think we should just have

Returnees oh wow there’s a lot okay yeah we not gonna yeah I’m not reading that whole list I’m not Tre my way through through uh trying to pronounce Lithuanian names you must be crazy the turny that I am anticipating the most can you guess I

Feel like you can guess I don’t know um hold on because okay then I’ll tell you yeah go ahead so the one I’m anticipating the most is Monica Maria oh yes of course you guys I’ve been wanting her to represent Lithuania for years since 2019 even prior to

2019 I need that pretty girl with that Deep Adele type voice and that cute little gap tooth to get up there and and give us Soul Lithuanian soul that is something I’ve been needing since 2016 actually we need we need the third Monica oh my God we need the third

Monica it’s the Infinity Stones are you kidding me we have to collect all the oh my we had two Monas in a row we need to keep it going third Monica give us our third Monica oh like if if she wins then she just needs to cut her hair

Into a bob that’s really it no she can keep it long think about it when you’re talking about your girl like your girl groups like your powerful girl groups they each have a distinct silouette she can have long hair yeah she can be the Kelly rollan oh my gosh no gotta catch them

All I hopefully we do and okay what was what was her song this year Monica Maria song this year called starting tomorrow that sounds like it’s going to be a Lithuanian Soul ENT tree and that will feed me that is screaming possibly my winner of the year I’m speaking very

Highly of her because she has that track record with me like I have been so moved by all of her entries oh yeah 100% I I want to see what she’s bringing I enjoy the Lithuanian National final I feel like I’m in the minority there no I

Enjoy it too it’s Jam there’s a lot of songs the show quality isn’t always great but it gives you music music music music it’s mess it’s so much fun to watch though and the the music has more originality than um mfest not as good production value but

Sometimes all you need is just a lot of originality yeah um another person that’s coming back is Andreas po pois um he represented Lithuania and moo um previously with his song something um which honestly L I’m in love with you that’s the one right yeah um I hated that song back in

2013 not my favorite but he he he’s coming back after 10 years um good for him good for him yeah um oh my gosh what was this I love the drag que with the horns let me tell you all about Lolita zero umita that’s art no is okay I would have been

So surprised Lolita I would welcome it that’s another Lithuanian need I need that from Lithuania expeditiously it’s so oh my gosh like iconic it it’s like camp in the best way possible yeah and I feel like I was missing something by not being in the arena to watch that number

You know I feel like it’s like I didn’t get it but I loved it despite not getting it so Mark um yeah no Ruda Merr she she has an album coming out the spring as a heads up um somebody tagged me in this information as soon as I found out

Because they know how I feel about solo yeah SOLO was so good like I again s you think that should have been the song I know you think I and I I do agree I do agree it should have been the song from a results

Perspective but I think I Cho my tuto a little bit more yeah especially after saying the your vision staging I it’s created bias for me but but rud Mo congratulations on the album girl yes I mean solo was on oh God solo is good um right so never let me down wrong

Solo wrong baby it’s kind of crazy how was to phras it anyways anyways God I can I can recite that entire song from memory it’s a b it’s a Bop we we are okay with it now um so yeah let’s talk about I don’t know not really much more

To say about Lithuania kind of want to just touch on it briefly yeah we don’t have the Heats yet we’re still gonna find those out and then we have mova release their list of what’s Happening um I am sad looks like Al aliona Moon dropped out of mova oh no

Did she yeah a she was she was my favorite in the selection last year she I’m after the fact that is yeah I’m like kind of sad um it’s a messala is just it’s it’s something else you know what I really want because we have to we

Have to go through like the live audition process at this point oh my God the live auditions I’m happy to see that Tor is still alive um not gonna lie Tor bomach missed him very important man to all of our hearts the year Vision fandom and he kind of has a jam this

Year I’m not gonna lie I was kind ofing which he always has a Bop what are we talking about I was kind of bopping I was just like okay like this is this is a little hot but honestly like looking through the list because like right now

Because I think next week is when they have having the open auditions let’s hope there’s no blizzard um oh no yeah let’s let’s hope there’s no evil Slavic cold to impede the auditions I just really enjoy what mdova brings us because like it’s a mess it’s but it’s an entertaining

Mess and they have some things in here that are not awful I mean they do have things in here that are awful as well I mean I’ve already seeing people bring up a certain person’s name I’m not going to mention their name because I feel like

Talk about don’t yeah no we can hint I’m GNA hint at it all day even we don’t talk about the song I feel like he’s still gonna come the you know have us take the stream down because you can’t take criticism for being a [ __ ] not good songwriter um and that’s beside

Everything else being a not good songwriter that’s what we talk about and then consistently bringing songs that are just gross I was going to say morally inept but gross is the better way to describe it and just like making everyone like no one likes you dude I mean like the first

Time we saw him in the National final we were like okay this song has an absolutely inappropriate subject matter like this is making people uncomfortable shouldn’t be in the National final period and now he’s bringing an almost equally bad subject matter again to the National final remember that Budweiser

Commercial from like the 2000s or whatever it was like I like beer no it was terrible and people here aren’t going to know it but like it was like this really popular Budweiser commercial and like it was like listing off all the things men like and the

Punch line at the end was and Twins and that’s what this song is giving me so like there there’s elements of very strong elements of misogyny there’s hinting to potentially no no no no never mind I I could get into a whole L things not not appropriate to talk about it’s a problem

Just this is the second subject matter though that this artist has brought up to the National final a different subject matter but almost equally as bad I mean at least this time he’s not implying their age that that is true but I mean like we we are still like TLC Sister

Wives that the Duggers that’s what it’s giving it’s awful hate it um anyways that’s things you like was there anything you enjoyed so in malova um I find it so interesting how there are like a couple artists who have two entries in this you don’t find that in all national finals

You guys of course not um I’m down like valyria Pasha antie princess I thought that was cute anti princess was that was pretty fun I don’t feel like I was quite able to access it but I might not even necessarily need that I for I forget the

Name of the one that I kind of loved which is I okay so you guys if you watch a lot of National Finals you’re gonna see long lists of names and you’re GNA see long lists of song names you’re gonna end up forgetting which ones you really truly loved that just happens

When you listen to hundreds of songs but um antie princess yeah that was one that I did want to bring up um uh Polly Lou oh yeah it was Laur Laura spoi I thought that was just refined polished so neat sounding and just yeah it has it has a

Very clean like it’s solid I I do easy listening easy listening for sure um I thought Lou by ply was really cool cool Lou by ply was really Co I was oh my God polycules we’re not talking about I I went down a rabbit hole of polycule Tik

Tok at one point but that’s story but yeah no um remember to clean your litter boxes cat owners anyway BL I enjoyed that one um don’t it come something upbeat in a Romanian that would be nice to have something upbeat and Romanian would be perfect for the

Maldovan formula but I also do kind of hope they strip it back and go ballad this year because I want Justice for prison I feel like you’re the only prison Defender I am the only prison Defender and I know that she came back with the cocena number that was called sugar but

We but no one remers prison and I will bring up prison because it was a terrible song with an awful performance but I loved it I loved it all the says I really like Natalia Berber song song in the middle in the middle I do I think that one actually

Did stand out to me I forget what exactly why but I remember that title I remember I that I’m sorry I’m just kind of like looking through everything honestly like it’s there’s some good stuff I’m also I just like watching the moven open audition portion with that ashy ashy blue light you know

That terrible gray blue light it’s one of my favorite here’s here’s the thing San Marino also does this process as well it’s like let’s just show you everything let’s put it all on the table baby and it’s always like a m Are You The Artist come here pick your staging

Come to the laptop you got to pick your staging you’re on in 20 minutes um and since bayor Roose is no longer in EUR Vision um um oh the Bell russan National final that that was like the OG of bad National Finals I oh I

Used I used to work in an office with a bunch of different people from all over the place there were people who didn’t even really watch Eurovision but I got them into watching the Boran thing like so we would just sit there and watch the stream at work and like have a

Time I had one gu these are just people from off the street like for real they were just from the street so good it was my fa um Romania when they did it to oh I’m still thinking about that one year open auditions are great y’all I wish more

National Finals had open auditions like malta’s open audition this year that was eating that was eating all the way down it was Talent like 15% talent but you need an open audition you got to show the people from the street I just yeah no and here we go

It’s just Mark never underestimate mova it be fair a bunch of moven dads beat Channel and uh you’re right Chanel the telepot it’s also lowercase which also like I I see why you’re red Channel but that is true all you need is sometimes high moven

Energy to make it very far look at their 2018 entry when they had like the moving walls and stuff that song forgettable by all means but I knew that I knew that song was coming top 10 I knew it was going to come top I thought it was

Qualifying I thought it was easy top 10 I don’t worry about malova the only times I worry about mova are when they send things like prison prison oh blessings be to God prison mova camp is the best Camp no one can match it honestly true yeah honestly no been spoken if we’re doing

An iceberg of Camp malova is definitely like we we’ve left the ice like toward the bottom half they’re down there I want to say with like Portugal like when it comes to campy I mean more so in their National final than their Eurovision stuff but

Also like I that was pure camp that was three minutes of just pure Camp it was and now I’ve got to deal with this that was all stage show that was completely allstage show I just yeah I heard you missed yeah he’s vocal he likes to talk he I’m

Have to hold him down so he doesn’t step on anything we’re just talking about malova little guy place that you will never know here you want to talk to the mik what do you think of aliona moon how do you feel about Alona Moon draw withdrawing he’s not gonna talk I I

Heard him Huff I heard him go fine he’s just purring at this point he’s got acne on his chin I want to get rid of but he’s not letting me Teenage Hood see that little blackhead okay sorry and I if he’s gonna have blackheads I have to pick them because that’s what he’s

Here for that’s SK um sorry thank you Mark I’m sorry I got distracted not going like my favorite thing about these streams has been pet chaos honestly thank you I try not to let them be too cha IC but he got chased up here by one of the dogs and now that

Same dog is laying on my bed chewing on his bone um motherhood I know single mom who works two jobs who loves her kids and never stops with gentle hands in the heart of a fighter I’m a Survivor okay sorry I I was the one of the people

Who fell in with Reba in the year like 2022 and I watched the entire Series in the year 2022 so okay um but yeah like I don’t know that’s pretty much everything this week I I do believe that’s everything you guys I’m surprised because with Christmas and the

New year you think there would be just a little bit more news but we pretty much covered all the stuff that’s going to be happening up until next week yeah um I’m trying to think yeah next week we’ll be back um we’ll have had the first Heats in Lithuania and in

Norway Norway and then the auditions for mdova um so excited for the auditions I’m so pumped for the auditions don’t forget to like And subscribe and if you subscribe keep an eye on the Community page because we’ll be having some articles coming your way um this week

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