Malta: Listen to a few seconds of the 22 songs of MESC 2022!

Malta’s public television, TVM, decided to broadcast a national final in order to pick the country’s representative for Eurovision 2022. That means, MESC returns for the first time since 2018.

We already know the 22 artists, as well as the songwriters of the songs competing in the semifinal of MESC 2022.

A few minutes ago, the official Instagram profile of the Maltese national final, revealed the first 20 seconds of the 22 songs that are going to compete on MESC 2022. From these 22 songs, 16 will qualify for the Final and of course the winning song will get the ticket for Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Turin. The show will run for three nights, starting in February 17 and ending in February 19, when we will learn the country’s representative.

Listen to the 22 songs of the Maltese national final below by clicking on the songs name:

• Nicole Hammett – A lover’s heart
• Jessica Grech – Aphrodisiac
• Janice Mangion – Army
• Denise Mercieca – Boy
• Matt BLXCK – Come Around
• Baklava Ft Nicole – Electric Indigo
• Sarah Bonnici – Heaven
• Richard Micallef – Hey Little
• Norbert Bondin – How special you are
• Derrick Schembri – II
• Nicole Azzopardi – Into The Fire
• Jessica Muscat – Kaleidoscope
• Miriana Conte – Look what you’ve done now
• Emma Muscat – Out of Sight
• Raquel Galdes Briffa – Over You
• Jade Vella – REVELACIÓN
• Francesca Sciberras – Rise
• Aidan Cassar – Ritmu
• Mark Anthony Bartolo – Serenity
• Enya Magri – Shame
• Malcolm Pisani – We came for love
• Rachell Lowell – White Doves

A pleasant surprise for us, is the presence Dimitris Stassos among the composers competing for the Maltese representation  at Eurovision 2022. The Greek composer, who lives and works in Sweden, was the composer of Aphrodisiac by Eleftheria Eleftheriou in Eurovision 2012 and  La Noche Es Para Mi by Soraya in Eurovision 2009, and he has also compete in national finals of various countries. Along with Dimitris Stassos we see Nektarios Tyrakis, known in the contest for being the lyricist of Shake It by Sakis Rouvas in Eurovision 2004, but also in entries of other countries.

Along the competing is Jessica Muscat who represented San Marino in Eurovision 2018. Furthermore the county’s representative for 2014, but also Malta’s representative for Junior Eurovision 2010, Nicole Azzopardi. Of course a lot of artists have a great experience in MESC, having tried a lot of times to represent the Malta in the past.

Lastly, the slogan of MESC 2022 got announced, that is “What a Feeling“.

This year’s representative for Malta was Destiny with the song Je me casse, finishing in seventh place with 255 points:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbbc2yKnv0M

Stay tuned in Eurovision Fun for everything new regarding Maltas’s representation in Eurovision 2022!

Source/Photo: Eurovision Malta/TVM