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Eurovision 2022: Lithuania’s First Rehearsal!

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The third act for today is Lithuania with Monica Liu with her song “Sentimentai” and she is ready to make her first impression of this year’s Eurovision stage in Turin.

Who is Monika?

Monica Liu is one of Lithuania’s most popular and respected artists. After graduating from the University of Klaipėda, where she studied jazz, globe-trotting Monica spent time studying in Massachusetts, living in London, before then settling in Vilnius.

Since her debut in 2015, Liu has released three albums and plenty more singles. Her repertoire is so impressive that she’s been called upon to sit on the panel of two of Lithuania’s biggest talent shows: The Voice and The Masked Singer.

According to the artist, she has been considering making her way to the Eurovision stage for many years, and the time proved right for her now, upon the composition of Sentimentai, which was written and recorded in London.

The Rehearsal

Unfortunately, the Lithuanian Head of Delegation has told LRT this morning that they are no longer able to stage Monika Liu’s Eurovision performance as they expected, due to a lot of technical difficulties. So, as we know so far, the Lithuanian Delegation decided to present something completely different from  what they expected.

On the first run, Monika has gone for a stunning silver sequinned dress and a backdrop of atmospheric swirly graphics. Otherwise it’s a stripped-back, classy performance – no dancers and props required, Monika’s totally got this.

There’s a lovely camera shot at the end of Monika’s performance where it sweeps up from the waterfall to Monika on stage. In her long sequinned dress she looked like a fish – it’s a really nice ending that makes the most of this incredible stage.

Below you can watch a small clip from Latvia’s first rehearsal from Tik Tok:

@eurovision Lithuania’s @MonikaLiuEurovision brought bags of class to Turin! 🇱🇹 Check out her first rehearsal on the #Eurovision2022 stage! #Eurovision #eurovisiontiktok ♬ original sound – Eurovision

EBU / NATHAN REINDS

EBU / NATHAN REINDS

The Second Rehearsal of Lithuania will be held on Wednesday 4/5, so we will know more details of Monika’s performance on the stage in Turin.

 

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Lithuania: Watch the official music video of Sentimentai!

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The official music video of the Lithuanian entry for Eurovision 2022, “Sentimentai” by Monika Liu, has just been released.

We remind you that Monika Liu won the lithuanian national final Pabandom iš naujo 2022! and therefore the ticket to Turin, last Saturday, 12/02.

You can watch the music video below:

https://youtu.be/acya6UcJP1k

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Lithuania: Monika Liu wins Pabandom iš naujo and will represent Lithuania at Eurovision 2022

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Tonight saw the final of Pabandom iš naujo 2022  commence, where 8 acts competed to win the right to represent Lithuania at Eurovision 2022 in Turin.

Pabandom iš naujo 2022 ran for 6 weeks, starting off with 36 songs and consisted of 3 heats and 2 semifinals before the final, which contained 8 songs.

Tonights show was presented by Giedrius Masalskis, Ieva Stasiulevičiūtė and Richardas Jonaitis.

Tonights running order was:

• Lolita Zero – “Not Your Mother”

• Ieva Zasimauskaitė – “I’ll Be There” 

• Rūta Loop – “Call Me from the Cold”

• Gebrasy – “Into Your Arms”

• Justė Kraujelytė – “How to Get My Life Back”

• Queens of Roses – “Washing Machine”

• Monika Liu – “Sentimentai”

• Augustė Vedrickaitė – “Before You’re 6ft Under”

The final result was determined by 50% jury voting and 50% public voting. In the final, 7 jurors made up 50% of the overall result and they were:

• Ramūnas Zilnys

• Gerūta Griniūtė

• Vytautas Bikus

• Stanislavas Stavickis-Stano 

• Aistė Smilgevičiūtė (Eurovision 1999 representative for Lithuania)

• Ieva Narkutė

• Vaidotas Valiukevičius (Eurovision 2020/2021 representative for Lithuania as part of The Roop)

 

Jury Vote (50%):

Televote (50%):

Overall Result:

The final result determined that the winner was Monika Liu with the song “Sentimentai” who placed 1st with both the jury vote as well as the public vote, earning 24 points overall and she will represent the Baltic nation in Turin for Eurovision 2022 !

Do you agree with Lithuania’s choice? Tell us in the comments!

 

 

Lithuania: Results of the second semifinal of Pabandom iš naujo

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The second semifinal of  Pabandom iš naujo 2022 took place today, which saw the last 9 semifinalists compete for the right to represent Lithuania at Eurovision 2022. 

In each semifinal 4 songs will qualify for the final. The 4 finalists were determined by 50% jury voting and 50% public voting.

The presenters of tonights show were Giedrius Masalskis, Ieva Stasiulevičiūtė and Richardas Jonaitis.

Tonights running order was:

• Mary Mo – “Get Up”

Second semi-final of the national "Eurovision" selection "Let's try again!", Mary Mo.

• Vilija – “101”

The second semi-final of the national "Eurovision" selection "Let's try again!", Vilija

• Urtė Šilagalytė – “Running Chords”

Second semi-final of the national "Eurovision" selection "Let's try again!", Urtė Šilagalytė

• Ieva Zasimauskaitė – “I’ll Be There”

Second semi-final of the national "Eurovision" selection "Let's try again!", Ieva Zasimauskaitė

• Augustė Vedrickaitė – “Before You’re 6ft Under”

Second semi-final of the national "Eurovision" selection "Let's try again!", Augustė Vedrickaitė

• Rūta Loop – “Call Me from the Cold”

Second semi-final of the national "Eurovision" selection "Let's try again!", Rūta Loop

• Titas and Benas – “Getting Through This”

Second semi-final of the national "Eurovision" selection "Let's try again!", Titus and Ben

• Monika Liu – “Sentimentai”

Second semi-final of the national "Eurovision" selection "Let's try again!", Monika Liu

• Moosu X – “Love That Hurts”

Second semi-final of the national "Eurovision" selection "Let's try again!", "Moosu X"

The jurors who make up 50% of the result. These were revealed during the show are:

• Ramūnas Zilnys
• Gerūta Griniūtė
• Vytautas Bikus
• Ieva Narkutė
• Stanislavas Stavickis-Stano

Tonights 4 finalists are:

1st – Monika Liu – “Sentimentai” (24 points)

2nd – Augustė Vedrickaitė – “Before You’re 6ft Under” (18 points)

3rd – Rūta Loop – “Call Me from the Cold” (14 points)

4th – Ieva Zasimauskaitė – “I’ll Be There” (13 points)

Monika Liu with the song “Sentimentai” was the winner of the second semifinal, placing 1st with both the jury and the televote.

Jury Result:

Televote Result:

Overall result:

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all the news regarding Lithuania’s participation in Eurovision 2022!

Lithuania: Rūta Loop speaks exclusively at Eurovision Fun!

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She is talented and she is one of the favorites to represent Lithuania at Eurovision 2022. Rūta Loop with Call Me from the Cold, hopes to be the winner of “Pabandom iš naujo! 2022” and then travel to Turin. Rūta Loop speaks exclusively at Eurovision Fun and we are very happy to host her!

Foto – @migletareilyte, Ruta Loop, Facebook Page

-Ruta, welcome to Eurovision Fun and thank you very much for this interview! How did you decide to participate in Pabandom is naujo?

This year I’m releasing an EP album, a mini version and we created some songs and one of them practically this one, Call Me from the Cold, we thought with the team, with the production that it might be a good sound and good song for the Eurovision Song Contest and I just made the song from the Lithuanian to the english version, but it’s talking about, completely diverse topics. 

-This is your third time in the national final. Which of your entries do you love the most?

So for me I would say that ”We Came from the sun”, was my first ever time on the Eurovision stage, ’cause probably when I got there the first time at first I thought that maybe I was trying to make a Eurovision song and it’s not even my style right now and with ”We Came from the sun”, I think this year I found my sound, how I want to be represented, I mean the song and everything, so that year in 2020 I was releasing my first album, ”Chapter” and ”We Came from the sun” was one of the songs from that album. And this year I have to be honest, it was a really spontaneous idea to perform and to participate in Eurovision but I really felt that this song has something really unique and special and it means so much to me as well ’cause I feel like my sound got really really near what I want to say and what I want to be like so when you find your voice, your sound I believe it’s so true and you want maybe to show it to Europe.

-What is the message you want to convey with Call me from the cold?

So in this one, I’m talking about the energy and I’m trying to be an energy at the perfomance between two people for the person who feels misunderstood, who feels sometimes lonely, sometimes afraid to speak out, to speak on what is on his mind, so I’m trying to be the energy who gets him to the light but the main thing is that he realizes that the light was always inside of him and he just has to remember how to light up again.

-What should we expect from you on the stage for the semi final? Would you make changes in your performance?

So I really believe that the semi final performance will be so so much better, actually I feel so much better after this one, we filmed it on Tuesday and I feel like this is gonna be really really close to what we even tried to do the first time so, you never know till you know, and till the stage, and then you see everything, so the team was really great and tried to do everything they can, for myself I feel that I did it better from the emotional aspect, the message and my voice and the whole perfomance.

-Do you have any favorite from this year’s Pabandom is naujo? Do you fell threatened by someone?

You know Lithuania, we are not a big country so we know each other. I don’t know, I don’t feel threatened by someone, because I’m really focused on my perfomance and I feel like this is the key on how to be really successful and make it the best you can for your perfomance but I can say that I really like Monika Liu, it sounds really like lithuanian tradition. But I don’t feel threatened. Every year you don’t know what song Lithuania will send to the contest. I feel like my song has something special and I believe in it.

– Which is your favorite Lithuanian entry from Eurovision?

In 2015, I was going to Vienna to Austria with Monika Linkytė & Vaidas Baumila, to perform as a backing vocalist, so that day I really was focused on getting on the stage as leader singer and creat songs and when Ι feel ready I’m trying to go to Eurovision. This performance makes me feel nostalgic. So I would say Monika Linkytė & Vaidas Baumila with the song ”This Time”.

-Have you ever visited Greece?

I actually never have been in Greece but I hope I will come soon and I will visit this beautiful country.

-Ruta thank you very much! Good luck to you and Call me from the cold.

Best wishes for everyrone and thanks for the interview.

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all news regarding the Lithuanian participation in Eurovision 2022!

Interview was taken by Apostolos Bogiannos

Lithuania: Results of the first semifinal of Pabandom iš naujo

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The first semifinal of  Pabandom iš naujo 2022 took place today, which saw the first 9 semifinalists compete for the right to represent Lithuania at Eurovision 2022. 

 

In each semifinal 4 songs will qualify for the final. The 4 finalists were determined by 50% jury voting and 50% public voting.

 

The presenters of tonights show were Giedrius Masalskis, Ieva Stasiulevičiūtė and Richardas Jonaitis.

The running order for tonights show was:

• Queen of Roses – “Washing Machine”

• Elonas Pokanevič – “Someday”

• Emilijana – “Illuminate”

• Joseph June – “Deadly”

• Erica Jennings – “Back to Myself”

• Justė Kraujelytė – “How to Get My Life Back”

• Gebrasy – “Into Your Arms”

• Gintarė Korsakaitė – “Fantasy Eyes”

• Lolita Zero – “Not Your Mother”

 

The jurors who make up 50% of the result. These were revealed during the show are:

• Ramūnas Zilnys
• Giedrė Kilčiauskienė
• Ieva Narkutė
• Gerūta Griniūtė
• Vaidotas Valiukevičius (represented Lithuania in Eurovision 2020 & 2021 as part of The Roop )

 

The 4 finalists from tonights show are:

1st – Justė Kraujelytė – “How to Get My Life Back” (22 points) 

2nd – Lolita Zero – “Not Your Mother” (20 points)

3rd – Gebrasy – “Into Your Arms” (18 points)

4th – Queen of Roses – “Washing Machine” (11 points)

 

Justė Kraujelytė with the song “How to Get My Life Back” was the winner of the first semifinal, placing 1st with the jury and 2nd with the televote.

 

Jury Result:

Televote Result:

Overall result:

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all the news regarding Lithuania’s participation in Eurovision 2022!

Lithuania: First Pabandom iš naujo 2022 semi-final tonight!

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Three weeks after the start of Pabandom iš naujo 2022, it is time for the first semi-final of the selection process for the Lithuanian representative in Eurovision 2022.

As it is known, Pabandom iš naujo 2022, consists of six shows: three quarterfinals, two semifinals and the grand final. The result for all 6 nights will be determined 50% by the TV audience and 50% by a five-member jury. For the first time, the judges will not be revealed, with the results announced at the end of each show to ensure that the audience’s vote is not affected.

Presenters of this year’s edition of Pabandom iš naujo are Giedrius Masalskis, Ieva Stasiulevičiūtė and Richardas Jonaitis.

Participants

Nine artists will be competing in tonight’s first semifinal Pabandom iš naujo 2022, aiming to qualify for the grand final on February 12th.

These artists are:

  1. Elonas Pokanevič – “Someday“
  2. Joseph June – “Deadly“
  3. Gebrasy – “Into Your Arms“
  4. Emilijana – “Illuminate“
  5. Queens of Roses – “Washing Machine“
  6. Gintarė Korsakaitė – “Fantasy Eyes“
  7. Lolita Zero – “Not Your Mother“
  8. Justė Kraujelytė – “How to Get My Life Back“
  9. Erica Jennings – “Back To Myself“

Only four of them will have the opportunity to claim, until the night of the final, the representation of Lithuania in Eurovision 2022.

Program

The full program of Pabandom iš naujo 2022 is as follows:

  • 1st Quarterfinal – January 8th
  • 2nd Quarterfinal – January 15
  • 3rd Quarterfinal – January 22
  • 1st Semifinal – January 29
  • 2nd Semifinal – February 5
  • Final – February 12

You can watch the first semifinal of Pabandom iš naujo! 2022 at 20:00 CET on the official website of lithuania public television, by clicking here.

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Lithuania: The artists and running order of the first “Pabandom iš naujo! 2022” semi-final!

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A few minutes ago, the Lithuanian broadcaster LRT announced the artists who will compete in the first semi-final of their national final, Pabandom iš naujo! 2022 (Let’s try again! 2022), as well as their running order.

The artists of the first semi in order are the following:

  1. Elonas Pokanevič – “Someday“
  2. Joseph June – “Deadly“
  3. Gebrasy – “Into Your Arms“
  4. Emilijana – “Illuminate“
  5. Queens of Roses – “Washing Machine“
  6. Gintarė Korsakaitė – “Fantasy Eyes“
  7. Lolita Zero – “Not Your Mother“
  8. Justė Kraujelytė – “How to Get My Life Back“
  9. Erica Jennings – “Back To Myself“

That means that remaining artists Augustė Vedrickaitė, Ieva Zasimauskaitė, Mary Mo, Monika Liu, Moosu X, Rūta Loop, Titas and Benas, Urtė Šilagalytė and Vilija will be competing in the second semi-final.

The first semi-final will be held on Saturday, January 29 at 20:00 CET.

Pabandom iš naujo 2022 consists of six shows. The three heats which have already been complete, two semi-finals and the grand final. The winner will be chosen 50% by the public vote and 50% by a jury.

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all news regarding Lithuania’s participation in Eurovision 2022!

Lithuania: The Roop will not participate in Eurovision 2022!

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After playing for a while with the anguish of their fans, The Roop in their statements today, dispel the gossip (which they themselves started) and wanted them to try another participation in the Eurovision Song Contest, next year.

Ever since the Eurovision final took place in Rotterdam in May, we have been receiving requests to return to the national final and participate again and again. We do not say no and we do not burn bridges or close the door on this idea. However, this may not happen this year (we are talking about 2022).

Eurovision has taught us a lot. There must be fun in an international context. As a result, we had to take a broader look when we got there.

We also want to share some experiences with new participants. Here, it is not only the song that matters, but also how you present it – the image has to match the song… Just feel what you want to say and follow it… Eurovision is not a goal, but a great start. So do not give up, no matter how successful you are.

We are very happy that Eurovision fans all over the world have us in their hearts. It is a united family full of good feelings, where we feel comfortable!

We remind you that these rumors started last week, when on the occasion of the release of their new song, which lasts exactly three minutes and was accompanied on YouTube by the description: Eurovision 2022, the well-known band avoided giving a clear answer to the question, whether they will participate again in the “Pabandom iš naujo”, through which the selection of Lithuania will be made this year as well.

Lithuania finished 8th at Eurovision 2021, with The Roop and Discoteque, which is the second best place the country has won in the history of the competition, after LT United 6th in 2006 with We Are The Winners .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNweec5olYw

Source: LRT

Lithuania: The Roop back at Eurovision?

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The possibility is left open for The Roop to participate again in the Eurovision song contest, in its upcoming edition, next May in Turin. The band, which reached the eighth place in Rotterdam, in today’s interview on the country’s public television turned a blind eye to a new participation.

Earlier they released a new song, putting in the title and description Eurovision 2022. The Roop did not answer if this is joke or if it will be their participation in the national final.

Lithuania for another year will choose its participation and its representative through the national final, which it calls “Pabandom iš naujo” (“Let’s try again”). The deadline for applications was November 25.

Up to 36 contestants, who will be selected to participate, will be given financial support (up to 54,000 euros in total), for the production of the songs and the stage appearance of their participation.

Pabandom iš naujo will start at the beginning of January and depending on the number of participants will consist of up to 6 shows (3 preliminary stages, 2 semifinals and a grand final). It is not yet known whether an audience will be allowed to attend.

Lithuania finished 8th at Eurovision 2021, with The Roop and Discoteque, which is the second best place the country has won in competition history, after LT United 6th in 2006 with We Are The Winners .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNweec5olYw

Would you like to see The Roop represent Lithuania with Ohmygodable?