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Slovenia: RTVSLO officially confirms their participation in Eurovision 2024!

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Judging from the happenings of the previous days, Slovenia is set to participate in the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest 2024, and in fact, they will announce their plans in the next month!

As we have previously informed you, Slovenian participation in Eurovision 2024 was confirmed by the sayings of the website evrovizija.com; however, RTVSLO, the country’s public broadcaster, announced their participation just earlier today!

The public broadcaster will announce their plans on the selection method in October.

After Slovenia’s official announement, the number of countries taking part in Eurovision 2024, rises to 34:

  1. Albania
  2. Austria
  3. Azerbaijan
  4. Belgium
  5. Croatia
  6. Cyprus
  7. Denmark
  8. Estonia
  9. Finland
  10. France
  11. Georgia
  12. Germany
  13. Greece
  14. Iceland
  15. Ireland
  16. Israel
  17. Italy
  18. Latvia
  19. Lithuania
  20. Luxembourg
  21. Malta
  22. Moldova
  23. Netherlands
  24. Norway
  25. Poland
  26. Portugal
  27. San Marino
  28. Serbia
  29. Slovenia
  30. Spain
  31. Sweden
  32. Switzerland
  33. Ukraine
  34. United Kingdom

Lately, the name of the singer Raiven has been heavily rumored to be involved with the Eurovision Song Contest, however, public television’s respond on the matter was:

“The method of selecting the representative of Slovenia for the Eurovision Song Contest will be announced in October.”

Even though Slovenia tends to organize a national final almost every year, in the last three years, they have conducted two internal selections (2021, 2023). Only time will now tell whether Slovenia is going yet again for an internal selection, or if we will watch another national final.

Joker Out were the representatives of Slovenia in Eurovision 2023 with their song “Carpe Diem”, ending up in 21st place in the Grand Final:

https://youtu.be/3LXlPviGiWc

Stay tuned on Eurovisionfun for all the news regarding the Slovenian participation at the Eurovision Song Contest 2024, in Malmö!

Source: zurnal24.si

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Slovenia: “Carpe Diem” by Joker out is now the most streamed song in Slovenian!

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Joker Out’s entry in Eurovision 2023 is now the most streamed song in the Slovenian language.

“Carpe Diem”, the Slovenian entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2023, earned more than 10 million streams, making it the most streamed song in the Slovenian language.

Joker Out represented Slovenia at Eurovision 2023, following an internal selection, with their song “Carpe Diem” and managed to bring their country back to the Grand Final after a two-year absence, finishing 21st:

https://youtu.be/3LXlPviGiWc

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Slovenia: Joker Out revealed their Costume Designer!

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Fashion designer Ponorelii (Damir Raković) has been announced as the costume designer of Joker Out for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest.

The designer has already worked with the band on the clothes for the presentation of their song “Carpe Diem” and states that the styling concept will be similar to the presentation:

“Joker Out have mentioned that the stage presentation will actually stay the same, because that works best, and as they are quite good at live performances they should be encouraged to do so. I didn’t think it was enough to repeat what I had already done for the EMA, but they wanted it because it was successful. If I went beyond that, the costume would take away from the essence of the members when they make love on camera, which is not the case for all bands.”

Ponorelii also explained that the band will be dressed in romantic colours for their Eurovision performance, in reference to the theme of the song, the Garden of Eden. Each member of the band will have their own animal, plant and gemstone incorporated into their individual attire, with the colours corresponding to each individual’s energy and personality. Ponorelii also collaborated with designer Karl Kirri to incorporate a specially designed Idrija lace into each look.

Joker Out will be performing in the 10th spot of the second semi-final on May 11.

Source: RTVSLO

Slovenia: Joker Out filmed the first postcard for Eurovision 2023!

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The first postcard of Eurovision 2023 has officially been flimed and it’s not other than Slovenia’s.

RTVSLO, the public broadcaster of Slovenia, has confirmed that the first postcard of this year’s Eurovision was filmed by Joker Out, the band that is going to represent them in Liverpool in May.

Back in October, BBC made an offer to find an independent production company, that would come up with the concept and film the 37 postcards of the coming contest. The postcards will be 40 seconds long.

The greatest thing we learned by Slovenia’s filming, was that the production company, decided that each representative will make all filmings for their postcards in their respective countries, which means that this year, the postcards will not be used to promote the host country.

Adrijan Pregelj/RTV Slovenia

Joker Out filmed their postcard in the roof of Radio Slovenija’s building. As you can see, they asked for a pinball machine to be in the postcard and they were especially happy when BBC approved of it. Jure Maček, the band’s drummer, revealed the connection between the pinball machine and their song:

“We really like the pinball machine, because we started playing it already in Hamburg while recording the song.”

Joker Out will represent Slovenia in Eurovision 2023 with their song “Carpe Diem” and they are allocated in the Second half of the Second Semi-Final:

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

Source: rtvslo.si

Slovenia: Eurovisionfun Reacts to Eurovision 2023 Entry “Carpe Diem”!

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Slovenia’s public television (RTVSLO) in a special press conference announced that Joker Out!, a pop/rock band will fly the country’s flag in Liverpool. Joker Out! they were already working on the song they intended to submit to EMA (the Slovenian national final for Eurovision), when the RTVSLO people made them a proposal.

RTVSLO has announced that the song that Joker Out will represent Slovenia with is titled “Carpe Diem”, it was previously confirmed that the song is in Slovenian.

Through a special show entitled Misija Liverpool, the participation of Joker Out! for Eurovision 2023 was revealed last weekend!

The Eurovisionfun team couldn’t help but comment on the entry for the upcoming Eurovision contest! Enjoy Rossopoulos Thanasis, Koronakis Spyros and Mantounaris Konstantinos in a delightful video, with detailed commentary on Slovenia’s next participation, for 2023!

You can listen the Live Version of Slovenian entry for Eurovision 2023 below:

https://youtu.be/vfTiuZaESKs

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Slovenia: Joker Out! will represent the country at Eurovision 2023!

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A while ago, the fourth artist for Eurovision 2023 was announced . Slovenia made a surprise because for the second time in its history, the artist that will represent the country in the contest will not be selected through a national final, but by internal selection.

Slovenia’s public television (RTVSLO) in a special press conference announced that Joker Out!, a pop/rock band will fly the country’s flag in Liverpool. Joker Out! they were already working on the song they intended to submit to EMA (the Slovenian national final for Eurovision), when the RTVSLO people made them a proposal.

We talked about the Eurovision Song Contest years ago, but we were waiting for the right moment, which is obviously now!

Bojan Cvjetićanin , frontman of Joker Out!

The Joker Out! consists of Bojan Cvjetićanin, Kris Guštin, Jan Peteh, Jure Maček and Martin Jurkovič . They have already released four singles and a full length album since 2016 when they formed. They are one of the most popular Slovenian artists in recent years. In 2020 they won the award for the best new artist, and in 2021 for the artist of the year! All their concerts are sold out, while they recently released a single in Serbian, targeting the entire music market of the former Yugoslavia.

The song that will represent Slovenia at Eurovision 2023 will be recorded next weekend in Hamburg and we will be able to hear it on February 4th!

Watch their presentation video below:

What do you think about the choice of Joker Out!? Tell us in the comments below!

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Slovenia: Plans on selection method will be announced On December 8!

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According to reliable information, the final decisions on the representation of the country in the upcoming Eurovision 2023  will be made on December 8th.

Local media reports that the country’s state broadcaster, RTV Slovenija, will either follow the internal selection method or repeat the EMA, the established national final for the country’s representation in the competition.

Important, of course, is the fact that so far according to the official programming of RTV Slovenia, it has not been officially decided to hold a national final. The program and production plan is a fundamental document of the state body, which is approved annually by the Program Board of RTV Slovenia and defines the content that viewers, listeners, readers and other users of public media services will be able to watch. In this plan, among other things, the broadcasts of the entertainment program, such as the EMA and also the Eurovision Song Contest, are listed every year!

A few days therefore wait until the country’s official announcements on December 8th on how the country will select to bring the best possible result to Liverpool in 2023.

We remind you that this year’s winners of EMA 2022 and representatives of Slovenia at Eurovision 2022 were LPS with the song “Disko” who finished in the last place of the first semi-final:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1tFqoflsT8&embeds_euri=https%3A%2F%2Feurovisionfun.com%2F&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE&feature=emb_title

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

source: evrovizija

Slovenia: “We shouldn’t even participate in Eurovision for years” says councilor of RTVSLO!

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Sašo Hribar, councilor of Slovenia’s public broadcaster – RTVSLO, caused quite a stir at the last council meeting, by stating that they “should not participate in Eurovision for several years, because no one takes responsibility for poor rankings year after year”.

The Slovene news website novice.svet24 invited Vanja Vardjan, editor-in-chief of RTV Slovenia’s entertainment program, in a conversation about Eurovision and Slovenia’s relationship with it.

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Slovenia: LPS’ Disko will remain in Slovenian!

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The Slovenian broadcaster, RTVSLO, announced that LPS, Slovenia’s representatives in Turin, have decided to keep the song “Disko” in their native language!

LPS won EMA 2022 and therefore secured their ticket to Italy. Their journey started at EMA Freš, a qualifying event organised by RTVSLO for unestablished artists where they came second in the jury, giving them a qualification for the semi-finals of EMA 2022.

Their song “Disko” is entirely in Slovenian. The song was written by all five members of the band in August during a rehearsal at Gimnazija Celje – Center. In an interview with MMC, they revealed that they do not intend to change the lyrics, as they are based on several true events.

LPS’ victory was a surprise for them as well, with the band having rapid success in recent months. From a high school band, the five of them are now preparing for the stage in Turin. As they say, they haven’t thought much about the staging in Italy, but have been rehearsing a lot for EMA 2022. They also added that, above all, the plan is to enjoy the experience that is the Eurovision Song Contest.

Music is our way of life and performing at Eurovision will mean a lot to us.

LPS won EMA 2022 and therefore the right to represent Slovenia in Turin, you can listen to their entry here:

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

Source: Eurovoix

Slovenia: Results of the first semi-final of EMA 2022!

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Slovenia continues searching for a representative for Eurovision 2022! The first semi-final of EMA 2022 was completed a few minutes ago, with six contestants advancing to the next stage of the grand final.

The presenters of the evening were Melani Mekicar and Bojan Cvjetićanin.

The artists who competed on the first semi-final were:

  1. July Jones – “Girls Can Do Anything“
  2. David Amaro – “Še vedno si lepa“
  3. Le Serpentine – “Tud teb se lahk zgodi“
  4. Bowrain and Brina – “Čas je“
  5. Luma – “All In“
  6. Stela Sofia – “Tu in zdaj“
  7. Jonatan Haller – “Obzorje“
  8. Batista Cadillac – “Mim pravil“
  9. Zala Smolnikar – “V ogledalu“
  10. Manouche – “Si sama?“

The results:

Three qualifiers were selected by a special jury and three were chosen by the audience through a telephone vote.

The artists that made it to the final are:
  • Batista Cadillac
  • July Jones
  • Manouche
  • David Amaro
  • Stela Sofia
  • Luma

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