Austria: Watch the official music video of “We Will Rave” by Kaleen!

A few days after the official release of the song, it’s time for Kaleen to release the official music video of “We Will Rave” for Eurovision Song Contest 2024!

The filming of the music video took place in Los Angeles, while the song is composed by Anderz WrethovJimmy “Joker” ThörnfeldtJulie Aagaard and Thomas Stengaard.

You can watch the official music video of “We Will Rave” by Kaleen, in the video below:

Austria will participate in the first half of the second semi-final of Eurovision 2024, on May 9!

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Austria: The “We Will Rave” MV release date!

As you read in our previous article, yesterday’s planned premiere of the Austrian music video had to be delayed.

However, a few minutes ago Kaleen shared a story on her personal Instagram account (@kaleenmusic), in which she has added the countdown to the release of the MV while commenting “…no turning back this time”!

According to this, the music video is expected to be released on Monday, March 4 at 18:00 CET!


The Austrian song, “We Will Rave”, has already been officially released through the singer’s YouTube channel and has received positive feedback from the contest’s fans.

How do you think Austria will do in the upcoming Song Contest in Sweden? Let us know in the comments!


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Austria: The music video for We Will Rave will be delayed!

Austria’s Eurovision scout, Eberhard Forcher, has revealed on Facebook that the release of the music video for We Will Rave will unfortunately be delayed.

Ιn particular Kaleen’s label had commissioned a US-based company to produce it and they missed the deadline to deliver it to ORF.

The Official Music Video for We Will Rave, will be publiced in the upcoming days.

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Austria: Listen to “We Will Rave” by Kaleen for Eurovision 2024!

In January 16, ORF, the public broadcaster of Austria, announced that Kaleen, a pop singer and dancer, will be the country’s representative in Malmö! Read more

Eurovision 2024: Dan Shipton to Direct Germany, Austria, and Cyprus!

Dan Shipton will be directing three countries in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. Specifically, Black Scull Creative, owned by Dan, his husband Ross Nicholson, and their collaborators Jay Revell and Paul Gardner, will be responsible for the television production of the entries from Austria, Germany, and Cyprus.

Speaking to The Euro Trip, Dan Shipton revealed:

We have Austria, Germany, and Cyprus.

We are very excited about these countries and we are very close to them.

We turned down several collaborations this year to dedicate more time to family, but we couldn’t miss out on Eurovision because it’s our passion.

Shipton has been the creative director of many entries in the past decade and was the main creative director of Eurovision 2023 in Liverpool. Also, in 2022, he worked with four countries, while in 2021, he collaborated with seven. Shipton and Nicholson had to reduce their collaborations for this year’s Eurovision as they are expecting their first child. Marvin Dietmann will also be collaborating with them on the three entries in Malmo this year.

Kaleen, this year’s representative of Austria at Eurovision, is married to Dietmann and is a close friend of Shipton.

Kaleen and I have been friends for years.

The song is a banger and has very nice elements. It’s wonderful, her vocals are amazing, the choreography is fantastic, and the song is perfect.

It has something different from what you would expect from a typical Eurovision song. What we have prepared will excite.

17-year-old Silia Kapsis, who will represent Cyprus with “Liar,” has already started working with Shipton and his team to prepare her performance for Malmo.

The song is fantastic. When her team sent it to me, I listened to it, listened to it again, listened to it for a third time, and I really liked it.

As an artist, she is amazing. Vocally, she is great. The choreography is wonderful. She definitely has the potential to stand out.

The Eurovision stage has been designed by German designer Florian Wieder, who has designed seven stages at Eurovision since 2011, including last year’s in Liverpool.

Whatever Florian designs is amazing.

It’s wonderful to have the audience around you. The cross-shaped stage will compel people to rally around it.

It’s up to us, as creative directors, to find a way to capture something different and guess what the result will look like to do something that will stand out. The stage has many possibilities.

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Source: The Euro Trip Podcast

Austria: Listen to a snippet of Kaleen’s “We Will Rave”!

Just a week prior the official release of the Austrian entry for Eurovision 2024, Kaleen shared a thirty-seconds snippet of “We Will Rave” on X.

Kaleen wants to keep the excitement high, while building a hype around her entry.

“We Will Rave” will be officially released alongside with the official videoclip on Friday 1st of March, and will be broadcast by the national broadcaster ORF. The official video was shot on Los Angeles.

Who is Kaleen?

Kaleen is an Austrian pop singer-songwriter based in Vienna.

Her song title is “We Will Rave” and it’s techno-inspired. She is a professional dancer, choreographer and singer. Kaleen has quite a lot of experience working for Eurovision: numerous JESC stagings, stage director of the JESC 2022, a director of the German selection for Eurovision 2023 and many other Austrian and German shows.

She also collaborated with Martin Deitmann on many-many projects But you may remember her from the iconic Cyprus 2018 stand-in rehearsal where she performed “Fuego”, while she has also served as a stand-in performer for the Armenian entry “Dance” by Nare at JESC 2022.

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Austria: The entry will be revealed on March 1st!

The entry of Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 is expected to be revealed on Friday 1st of March!

According to the Austrian newspaper Kleine Zeitung the entry of Austria at the upcoming Eurovision 2024 in Malmö Sweden under the title “We Will Rave”, and with Kaleen as the representative, is expected to be revealed alongside with the official videoclip on Friday 1st of March, and will be broadcast by the national broadcaster ORF.

As we have already informed you in a previous article the shooting of the official videoclip is going to take place in Los Angeles. Further information regrding Kaleen you will find available in the article below.

Source: Kleine Zeitung

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Austria: Kaleen is flying to Los Angeles to shoot her music video!

ORF, Austria’s national broadcaster revealed that Kaleen is flying to Los Angeles, in order to shoot her music video.

Kaleen will wave the austrian flag on the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 with the song We Will Rave, which is inspired by techno music.

Kaleen has gathered much experience working for Eurovision, as she has had a part in many Junior Eurovision entries, she directed the Junior Eurovision of 2022 as well as the German selection for Junior Eurovision 2023 and a plethora of other austrian and german shows.

She has also co-operated with Marvin Deitmann in numerous projects, but she is most likely remembered from her exceptional stand-in rehearsal of the cypriot entry on Eurovision 2018, Fuego, where she stood on stage as Eleni Foureira to execute the rehearsal. Kaleen is no stranger to stand-in rehearsals, because she took part as a stand-in performer for “Dance” by Nare, the armenian Junior Eurovision entry for 2022.

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Source: ORF

 

Eurovision 2024: The Semi-Final Allocation Draw Results!

Malmö with a very nice event hosted a few minutes ago the draw for the semi-finals of the 68th Eurovision Song Contest.

The analyzes of the fans and not only, have been on fire for a few minutes now. Since the theories based on the pre-history of the countries in the competition, it is a first insight into how passable the qualification to the final is or not. In other words, it’s time to make our predictions, about who will go through to the final and who are the favorites to say goodbye to Malmö early…

The presenters and the handover ceremony

Presenters of the Eurovision 2024 semi-final draw were Pernilla Månsson Colt and Farah Abadi. It is worth mentioning that Pernilla Månsson Colt was also the presenter of the corresponding draw in 2013, eleven years ago when Malmö hosted the Eurovision Song Contest for the last time. Both of them are part of the SVT staff, being some of the most beloved faces of the Swedish state broadcaster.

During the draw, the ceremony of handing over and accepting the emblem of the contest took place. The mayor of Liverpool, Steven Rotheram, formally handed over the “keys to the event” to the mayor of Malmö, Katrin Stjernfeldt Jammeh.

Draw Procedure

Big 5 and Sweden

With the big winner of last year’s competition, Sweden, directly in the final, along with the Big 5 (UK, France, Italy, Germany, Spain), the first part of the draw determined the semi-final that the direct finalists would vote for.

Will vote in the 1st Semi-Final:

  • Sweden
  • United Kingdom
  • Germany

Will vote in the 2nd Semi-Final:

  • Spain
  • Italy
  • France

In the semi-final that the six aforementioned countries were drawn to broadcast and vote for, the video from their dress rehearsal will also be shown. This was done at Eurovision 2016 for the first time, for reasons of equal exposure of the countries directly in the final and the countries that qualify from the semi-finals. Essentially, viewers see each entry twice during the shows.

Semi-Final Allocation Draw

The allocation draw for the two semi-finals had two parts. In the first part the 31 countries participating in the semi-finals were drawn in which of the two they will compete in. Fifteen countries will compete in the first semi-final and sixteen in the second semi-final.

In the second part, each country learned whether it will appear in the first or second half of the semi-final in which it will compete. The exact order of appearance will be determined by the EBU and the show’s producers at a later date.

1st Semi-final (May 7):

1st Half

  • Ukraine
  • Cyprus
  • Poland
  • Serbia
  • Lithuania
  • Croatia
  • Ireland

2nd Half

  • Slovenia
  • Iceland
  • Finland
  • Portugal
  • Luxembourg
  • Australia
  • Azerbaijan
  • Moldova

2nd Semi-Final (May 9):

1st Half

  • Austria
  • Malta
  • Switzerland
  • Greece
  • Czechia
  • Albania
  • Denmark
  • Armenia

2nd Half

  • Israel
  • Estonia
  • Georgia
  • Netherlands
  • Norway
  • Latvia
  • San Marino
  • Belgium

Malmö will host the 68th Eurovision Song Contest from 7 to 11 May at the Malmö Arena. The motto of this year’s event, as chosen by the organisers, is “United by Music“, retaining the motto first chosen for last year’s contest in Liverpool.

You can see the draw again through the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_-2hMEq5sk

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Eurovision 2024: Tonight the Allocation Draw!

At 19:00 CET and live from Malmö, Sweden, the draw for the Eurovision 2024 semi-finals will take place tonight.

During today’s event, there will also be a handover of the event’s banner from the city of Liverpool to the city of Malmö. For this reason, both the Mayor of Liverpool, Steven Rotheram, and the Mayor of the Swedish city, Katrin Stjernfeldt Jammeh, will be present at today’s draw.

The hosts

The hosts of tonight’s draw for the semi-finals of the 68th Eurovision Song Contest will be Pernilla Månsson Colt and Farah Abadi. It is worth mentioning that Pernilla Månsson Colt was the presenter of the equivalent draw in 2013, eleven years ago when Malmö hosted the Eurovision Song Contest for the last time.

The draw procedure

The first part of the draw will determine which semi-final will be broadcast and voted for by each of the six countries that are directly in the final on 11 May (Sweden, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and the United Kingdom).

The second part of the draw will determine which semi-final and which half the other 31 participating countries will compete in. As in recent years, the exact order of appearance will be determined by the event producers at a later date.

The 31 countries have been divided into five pots, based on historical voting patterns as calculated by Eurovision’s official voting partner, Digame.

Drawing countries from different pots aims to reduce the likelihood of so-called neighbour voting and increases the suspense in the semi-finals.

Pots

Pot 1
  • 🇦🇱 Albania
  • 🇦🇹 Austria
  • 🇨🇭 Switzerland
  • 🇭🇷 Croatia
  • 🇷🇸 Serbia
  • 🇸🇮 Slovenia
Pot 2
  • 🇦🇺 Australia
  • 🇩🇰 Denmark
  • 🇪🇪 Estonia
  • 🇫🇮 Finland
  • 🇮🇸 Iceland
  • 🇳🇴 Norway
Pot 3
  • 🇦🇲 Armenia
  • 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan
  • 🇬🇪 Georgia
  • 🇮🇱 Israel
  • 🇱🇻 Latvia
  • 🇱🇹 Lithuania
  • 🇺🇦 Ukraine
Pot 4
  • 🇨🇾 Cyprus
  • 🇬🇷 Greece
  • 🇮🇪 Ireland
  • 🇲🇹 Malta
  • 🇵🇹 Portugal
  • 🇸🇲 San Marino
Pot 5
  • 🇧🇪 Belgium
  • 🇨🇿 Czechia
  • 🇱🇺 Luxembourg
  • 🇳🇱 Netherlands
  • 🇲🇩 Moldova
  • 🇵🇱 Poland

https://twitter.com/Eurovision/status/1751972070479565001

So in the evening, we all tune in for the draw of the semi-finals of our favourite contest. You can watch the draw on the official Eurovision channel on YouTube.

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