We will continue our exciting Eurovision journey with a series of posts, “Around The Continent,” where we will share a recap of the Eurovision season news.
Let’s travel country by country, to collect all the exciting stories and updates.
Besa will release her new version of the Eurovision 2024 song on Monday, March 11th 2024.
The new song is named “Titan”.
The lyrics will be in English and won’t be translation of the original ones
Kaleen released the video clip for Eurovision 2024 entry “We Will Rave“:
Electric Fields will represent Australia at Eurovision 2024 with the song “One Milkali” (One Blood).
The song includes lyrics in English and Yankunytjatjara (Australian Aboriginal language):
Fahree will represent the country at Eurovision 2024.
His song will be revealed in the upcoming days.
His song was said to fit into an action movie, a song that tells the story of a fight. One of the phrases in the song is: “I’m going back to Diyar“
Baby Lasagna will implement some changes in the staging and performance for “Rim Tim Tagi Dim”, compared to the one from “Dora 2024”.
The folklore and ethnic motives will be kept through a different costume. There will also be some changes regarding the people accompanying him on stage.
Aiko will release the revamped version of “Pedestal” soon
The Georgian entry “Fire Fighter” will be released on Monday, the 11th of March 2024.
You can watch the teaser here:
- The song was co-written by 2 North Macedonian writers: Darko Dimitrov and Ada Skitka. The first of them has already written songs for Eurovision like:
- North Macedonia 2006,2013,2014,2018,2019,2020
- Serbia: 2018, 2019, 2021
- Albania: 2015,2020
- Montenegro: 2022
- The Italian choreographer Luigi Alocca will support the chorography of the act. The singer will most likely be accompanied by 4 Italian male dancers on stage.
- The art director for the Georgian song for Eurovision 2024 will be the American-Israeli Sagiv Karpel. He has been involved in “American Idol”, “American Got Talent”, Katy Perry Prismatic World Tour, and more.
The Greek song for Eurovision 2024 – “Zari” was released:
Hera Björk won the Icelandic national selection “Söngvakeppnin 2024” with the song “Scared of Heights”
However, the Icelandic broadcaster RÚV hasn’t decided yet whether to participate at Eurovision 2024.
The final decision will be made on Monday, 11th of March 2024.
Hera herself has already expressed her willingness to participate at Eurovision 2024.
In addition, one of the sonwriters Ásdís María Viðarsdóttir, has criticized the way RÚV has managed the process, including some who claim the voting ran with failures.
Therefore, she is about to cut relations with the song.
The EBU has finally approved the Israeli song for Eurovision 2024!
Eden Golan will perform “Hurricane” as her Eurovision 2024 song.
Initially, the Israeli broadcaster Kan submitted the song “Octoboer Rain”, but the reference group found its message political.
Kan and the team behind the song decided to modify the lyrics of the song (while the melody remained the same)
“Huricanne” will be released (alongside the video clip) during a special show at Kan11, on the 10th of March 2024
Bambie Thug has released an official video clip of “Doomsday Blue“:
Angelina Mango reveals she won’t change the lyrics of “La Noia”
However, she might shorten the song in a few seconds.
Tali is working on a revamped version of her Eurovision 2024 song, “Fighter”:
Natalia Barbu gave an interview on the morning show on TRM.
She is looking for financial support to enable her staging ideas (including the 4 backing vocalists)
If she doesn’t achieve them, she will be alone on stage
Tonight, the final of “Festival da Canção 2024” will be held. 12 artists will perform their songs, and the winner will represent Portugal at Eurovision 2024:
- Silk Nobre – Change
- Rita Onofre – Criatura
- NOBLE – Memory
- Buba Espinho – O Farol
- Nena – Teorias da Conspiração
- iolanda – Grito
- No Maka FT. Ana Maria – Aceitar
- Cristina Clara – Primavera
- Rita Rocha – Pontos Finais
- Leo Middea – Doce Mistério
- Perpétua – Bem Longe Daqui
- João Borsch – … Pelas Costuras
You can find the playlists here:
YouTube
Spotify
The hosts of the final will be Filomena Cautela (Eurovision 2018 co-host) and Vasco Palmeirim, while Inês Lopes Gonçalves will host the green room.
The results will be determined by a scaled system (1-8, 10, 12 points) for both jury votes and public votes. Each one of them will be consiered 50% of the results
Last Saturday, the final “Pesma za Evroviziju 2024” took place.
Teya Dora won the national selection with her song “Ramonda”
The final results were as follows:
The final of “Melodifestivalen 2024” will take place tonight at 20:00 CET.
12 artists will perform their songs in the following running order:
- Maria Sur – When I’m Gone
- Jay Smith – I am Back To My Roots
- Lisa Ajax – Awful Liar
- Smash Into Pieces – Heroes Are Calling
- Cazzi Opeia – Give My Heart a Break
- Annika Wickihalder – Light
- Marcus and Martinus – Unforgettable
- Dotter – It is Not Easy To Write a Love Song
- Medina – Que Sera
- Liamoo – Dragon
- Jacqline Moss – Effortless
- Danny Saucedo – Happy That You Found Me
You can find the playlists here:
YouTube
Spotify
The results will be determined by a 50% public vote (based on 7 age groups and televote) and a 50% international jury vote.
The international jury will be from the following countries:
- Serbia
- Iceland
- Belgium
- Malta
- Australia
- Ireland
- Cyprus
- Germany
You can read Doron’s review here:
Olly Alexander recorded a live studio version of “Dizzy”:
