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Greece: Listen to “What They Say” by Victor Vernicos!

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The moment that every Greek eurofan waited for, is finally here! “What They Say”, Greece’s song for Eurovision 2023, by Victor Vernicos, was released just a while ago!

The video clip of“What They Say” premiered through the ERT’s show “Dio sti 1”. After the release of the videoclip on “Dio sti 1”, the song was directly available on the ERTflix platform. Later it was available on every music platform, while the videoclip can be watched on ERT’s YouTube account.

You can watch it in the video below:

Who is Victor Vernicos?

Victor Vernicos is a proposal of PANIK Records. As he mentioned the theme of his participation is human anxiety, while he characterized his song as a festive, atmospheric ballad.

Victor has been involved in music since he was 4 years old. He has taken vocal and guitar lessons, while he has also attended music technology seminars.

In 2021 he released his first song in which he wrote music, lyrics but also produced it himself. At the moment he is taking vocal and performance lessons with Nina Lotsari.

What do we know about Victor Vernicos’ song?

As Victor Vernicos told us, in an exclusive interview back in autumn, his song is an English ballad and can be characterized as emotional but also energetic.

The music video was directed by ERT Director, Giannis Georgioudakis. Kostas Kalimeris, Steve Sovolos and vaggelis Gialamas, have all taken part in the production of the song.

The stage director of Greece for Eurovision 2023, will be Konstantinos Rigos. This will be his third time in the contest, having previously directed Loukas Yiorkas (Greece 2011) and Eleftheria Eleftheriou (Greece 2012).

What do you think about the Greek song for Eurovision 2023? Write us in the comments below!

Stay tuned on Eurovisionfun for all the news regarding the Greek participation at the Eurovision Song Contest 2023, in Liverpool!

Denmark: Reiley goes for a different staging in Liverpool!

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Reiley, who is only 25 years old, is this year’s representative of Denmark in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 in Liverpool, since he has already won the first prize at Dansk Melodi Grand Prix. In addition, he managed to receive 43% of the vote in the superfinal.

However, Reiley, being an interviewee at Melfest WKND, which is the pre-party of Melodifestivalen, told eurovoix.com that his staging in Liverpool “won’t be similar at all” to what audience has already seen in Dansk Melodi Grand Prix. Nevertheless, no matter the fact that Reiley’s staging will be completely different, his own unique artistic identity will still be present on stage. Check out his interview:

Keep in mind that Reiley is Denmark’s first ever representative who comes from the Faroe Islands and his song “Breaking My Heart”, which is on the first half of the second semi-final on May 11th, has been co-created by him as well.

Source: http://eurovoix.com

Stay tuned to EurovisionFun for even more news regarding Denmark’s participation in Eurovision 2023!

Azerbaijan: TuralTuranX will represent the country in Eurovision 2023!

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Ictimai, the Azerbaijani national broadcaster, has announced that twins Turan & Tural Bağmanovlar (TuralTuranX) will be the next representative of the country for this year edition of Eurovision in Liverpool.

Tural and Turan, both 22, will sing their self-penned song “Tell Me More“ in Liverpool. The brothers are street performers from Zaqatala – a picturesque mountainous town in the very north-west of the country.

They became one of the five short-listed candidates and since the day their candidate postcard was shared in social media and on Youtube, their popularity skyrocketed.

The Azerbaijani broadcaster, Ictimai, had announced that there are 5 acts still in the running to be chosen internally to represent this country in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023.

The 5 acts have all recorded the same songs in the same studio, and eventually had to perform the songs live. Below you can find the 5 acts that were in the running to represent Azerbaijan.

The 5 acts were:

  • Azer Nasibov
  • Humay Aslanova & Amrah Musayev
  • Leyla Izzatova
  • Mamagama
  • Turan & Tural Bağmanovlar

Still no official announcement has been made for the date of the release of the Azerbaijani entry for Eurovision 2023!

We want to remind you that Azerbaijan will perform at the second half of the first semi final, at 9th of May 2023.

Stay tuned on EurovisionFun for all the news regarding Azerbaijan’s participation in Eurovison 2023!

 

Israel: Listen to “Unicorn” from Noa Kirel for Eurovision 2023!

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Israel was the first country to announce its representative for Eurovision 2023, choosing Noa Kirel as its representative since the summer.

The song is titled “Unicorn” and is written by Noa Kirel herself and a team with many well-known composers consisting of Doron Medalie (Israel 2008, 2010, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018), Yinon Yahel (Israel 2020) and May Sfadia (she has written ZaZa from the 2022 national final).

The participation of Noa Kirel for Eurovision 2023 was presented through the Eurovision channel on Youtube!

Listen to “Unicorn” below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4wbdKmM3bQ

She is Israel’s biggest pop star of recent years, dominating the country’s charts since the release of her #1 hit ‘Killer’ when she was just 14 years old. He has been a judge on The X Factor for years, while starring in dozens of commercials, series and films, making him one of the most popular faces in the country. Noa belongs to Atlantic Records and has released 41 singles so far.

What do you think about “Unicorn”? Will Israel manage to qualify to the Grand Final?

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all the news about Israel’s participation in Eurovision 2023, in Liverpool!

Joker Out: We will have a lot of interaction with the crowd!

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Joker Out gave an interview to EurovisionFun’s Paschalis about their participation in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest with the song “Carpe Diem“. Kris, Jan, Jure and Nace were with us.

Some things about the song:

We recorded the song in Hamburg in December. The lyrics are telling what happened there. We stayed all night in the studio and just created the song. We did that to avoid all of the negative energy. We tell the people to play the game of hate for themselves, we are just dancing and singing.

The song was written for Eurovision, but we didn’t have in mind to do something special. We had the idea and recorded the song, it’s a song that represents us as Joker Out.

Some things about the performance:

It will be a 3-minute Joker Out concert. We’re going to keep the same energy, be as close to each other as possible and try to have as much interaction with the crowd as possible.

Slovenia is a relatively small country with not much financial power. We believe some of the Slovenian entries have been really good and deserved better. We are here to set this trend upside down!

There will be an English version of the song as well, but we are going to keep the Slovenian version.

Their favorite Eurovision entries:

We are fans of Eurovision and our first memory is Ruslana!

Our favorite Slovenian Eurovision entry is Samo Ljubezen from 2002.

Their message to the readers of EurovisionFun:

Hello EurovisionFun! Thank you so much for all of your support and we can’t wait to meet you in Liverpool!

We would like to thank Joker Out for their interview and wish them best of luck!

Lithuania: Preparations for Liverpool have started!

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Monika Linkytė, Lithuania’s representative for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, started her preparation for her performance on Liverpool’s stage, as she herself revealed on her social media platforms. Specifically, she shared some of her photos taken into a dance studio, in which Liverpool’s stage is shown to be marked, in order for her better positioning on stage.

Linkytė, besides her rehearsals for her on stage performance during May, has confirmed her presence at the following Eurovision Pre-Parties

  • Barcelona Eurovision Party
  • Eurovision In Concert 2023
  • London Eurovision Party
  • PrePartyES 2023

Monika Linkytė mentions that she feels extremely happy but impatient as well for her own participation in the oncoming contest. However this is not going to be her very first experience from the Eurovision Song Contest, since she has already represented her own country once more, back in 2015 as a member of the duet along with Vaudas Baumila, singing the song “This Time” which ended up in the 18th place.

Remember that Monika Linkytė came at the first place of Lithuania’s national final format called Pabandom iš naujo! 2023 and she is going to perform her song “Stay” during the second half of the second semi-final on May 11th.

Source: eurovoix

Will Monika Linkytė manage to bring her own country on Saturday’s grand final for a third year in a row? Stay tuned to EurovisionFun for even more news regarding Lithuania’s entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023!

Serbia: With Luke Black and “Samo mi se spava” at Eurovision 2023!

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Serbia has started the search for its representative and participation in Eurovision 2023. “Pesma za Evroviziju 23“, as the public television process is now called, consists of two semi-finals and a final. A few minutes ago the grand final with 16 contestants was completed.

The show started at 21:00 local time and took place in Studio 8 and 9 of RTS in Kosutnjak, Belgrade.

The presenters of the event were Dragana Kosjerina and Milan Marić. In the Green Room the presenters were Kristina Radenković and Stefan Popović.

The 16 songs that claimed the ticket to Liverpool are:

  1. Stefan Shy – “Od jastuka do jastuka”
  2. Boris Subotić – “Nedostupan”
  3. Nadia – “Devojka tvog dečka”
  4. Duo Grand – “Viva la Vida”
  5. Nađa – “Moj prvi ožiljak na duši”
  6. Frajle – “Neka Neka”
  7. Hurricane – “Zumi zimi zami”
  8. CHEGI & Braća Bluz Bend – “Svadba ili kavga
  9. Dzipsii – “Greh”
  10. Luke Black – “Samo mi se spava”
  11. Filip Baloš – “Novi plan drugi san”
  12. Princ – “Cvet sa Istoka”
  13. Filarri – “Posle mene”
  14. Gift – “Liberta”
  15. Empathy Soul Project – “Indigo”
  16. Zejna – “Rumba”

The results:

The results were determined 50% by the jury and 50% by the televoting.

Jury results

Televoting results

After the voting ended, the big winner was Luke Black, with the song ““Samo mi se spava”.

We remind that Serbia will appear in the first half of the first semi-final on May 09.

Stay tuned to EurovisionFun for all the latest news regarding Eurovision 2023!

The Netherlands: Eurovisionfun Reacts to Eurovision 2023 Entry “Burning Daylight”!

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The Netherlands’ public broadcaster AVROTROS revealed in early November that Mia Nicolai and Dion Cooper will represent their country at the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 in Liverpool.

The song is titled “Burning Daylight” and is in English. It was written by Mia Nicolai and Dion Cooper, dutch Eurovision 2019 winner Duncan Laurence, as well as Jordan Garfield and LUKAZ.

The Eurovisionfun team once again watched and reacted to the official music video of the country’s entry for the upcoming Eurovision contest! Enjoy Apostolos, George and our special guests Justin & Juri from ESCXPERTS in a Reaction video with detailed commentary on the Netherlands’ participation in 2023!

(Video Editing: @xristosrpk)

Listen to this year entry of The Νetherlands in Eurovision 2023:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOf-oKDlO6A

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What do you think about the entry of The Netherlands for Eurovision 2023? Tell us in the comments!

Germany: Frida Gold withdrew from Unser Lied für Liverpool!

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Eight songs will compete tonight to represent Germany in the national final Unser Lied für Liverpool, after Frida Gold withdrew due to the illness of their lead singer Alina Süggeler.

Frida Gold, with the song ‘Alle Frauen in mir sind müde‘ (‘All women in me are tired’), did not take part in the second rehearsal yesterday, nor in the rehearsal scored by the jury, who judged them based on the video of the first rehearsal. The singer’s health does not seem to have improved, making it impossible for her to participate in today’s show.

Frida Gold stated the following:

“Already on the second day of the rehearsals it was obvious to all involved that Alina Süggeler was very ill and suffering from fever. She was only able to do two run-throughs, during which she could only partially sing. She then immediately left for home in the hope that rest and medication could stabilize her for the next day.

Unfortunately, the opposite happened; in addition to fever, chills and a sharp sore throat, she had completely lost her voice. The doctor pointed out that she needed to rest in bed for a week.

The available medication did not lead to any improvement to enable her to meet the requirements of the competition. For Alina and everyone involved, after weeks of work and preparation, this is a shock and a huge disappointment.

It was Frida Gold’s idea and desire to present the message of the song “Alle Frauen In Mir Sind Müde” in front of a large audience, as it is an important topic.

The possibility of possibly singing it in Liverpool as the German entry was also a big motivation.

Frida Gold would like to thank all the organisers and of course their fans.”

In terms of the scoring for tonight’s show, this means that the eight international juries will now only award 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 3, 2 and 1 points each.

Listen to Frida Gold‘s “Alle Frauen in mir sind müde“, which unfortunately will not appear in tonight’s national final:

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all the developments regarding Germany’s participation in Eurovision 2023, in Liverpool!

Source: ESCKompakt

Serbia: The results of the second semi-final of Pesma za Evroviziju 23!

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Serbia has started the search for its representative for Eurovision 2023. “Pesma za Evroviziju 23“, as the public television process is now called, consists of two semi-finals and a final. A few minutes ago the second semi-final with 16 contestants was completed.

The show started at 21:00 CET and took place in Studio 8 and 9 of RTS in Kosutnjak, Belgrade.

The hosts of the event were Dragana Kosjerina and Milan Marić.

The 16 songs that vied for the last eight tickets to the final were:

  1. Hurricane – “Zumi zimi zami”
  2. Nadia – “Devojka tvog dečka”
  3. Filarri – “Posle mene”
  4. Zejna – “Rumba”
  5. Frajle – “Neka Neka”
  6. Igor Vince i Bane Lalić – “Zato što volim”
  7. Egret – “Ako shvatim kasno”
  8. Dzipsii – “Greh”
  9. Eegor – “Starac dana”
  10. Jelena Vlahović – “Kao grom iz vedra neba”
  11. Ivona – “U noćima”
  12. Gift – “Liberta”
  13. Milan Bujaković – “Fenomen”
  14. Duo Grand – “Viva la Vida”
  15. Andjela – “Loše procene”
  16. Doris Milošević – “Tišina”

The results:

The eight finalists selected after the vote of the audience and the five-member jury, with a 50/50 ratio, are:

  1. Frajle – “Neka Neka”
  2. Nadia – “Devojka tvog dečka”
  3. Filarri – “Posle mene”
  4. Gift – “Liberta”
  5. Hurricane – “Zumi zimi zami”
  6. Dzipsii – “Greh”
  7. Zejna – “Rumba”
  8. Duo Grand – “Viva la Vida”

After the results, the draw was held for the last eight artists who made it to the final. The running order of the final is as follows:

1.  Stefan Shy – “Od jastuka do jastuka”

2. Boris Subotić – “Nedostupan”

3. Nadia – “Devojka tvog dečka”

4. Duo Grand – “Viva la Vida”

5. Nađa – “Moj prvi ožiljak na duši”

6. Frajle – “Neka Neka”

7. Hurricane – “Zumi zimi zami”

8. CHEGI & Braća Bluz Bend – “Svadba ili kavga”

9. Dzipsii – “Greh”

10. Luke Black – “Samo mi se spava”

11. Filip Baloš – “Novi plan drugi san”

12. Princ – “Cvet sa Istoka”

13. Filarri – “Posle mene”

14. Gift – “Liberta”

15. Empathy Soul Project – “Indigo”

16. Zejna – “Rumba”

Stay tuned to EurovisionFun for all the latest news regarding Serbia’s participation in Eurovision 2023!