A few former Macedonian ESC participants ( Vlatko Ilievski, 2011, and Tamara Todevska, 2008) tried for a second time to be able to sing on the Eurovision stage, but eventually the prize went to Daniel Kajmakoski, who won the first season of X-Faktor Adria, with the song “Lisja Esenski” (“Autumn Leaves”). (By the way: how do you pronounce her name?)Īnd Macedonia (FYR) held its national final Skopje Fest today (at least it’s still “today” in the USA as I’m writing this). I’m guessing that since Roberto Bellarosa (also a Voice Belgique contestant) got to the final in 2013, why fix something that’s not broken?Īnouk revealed that she co-wrote a song for Trijntje Oosterhuis, who will represent the Netherlands in May. RTBF internally selected Loic Nottet, a former contestant of the Voice Belgique to represent Belgium. (Confession: I’m not watching the rehearsals I know he sounds pretty good live but don’t know what the performance looks like).Ī) typing lab reports (yay for procrastinating on organic chem lab!)ī) sleeping in (because I had been procrastinating on the lab reports and ended up finishing them at 3:00 AM)Ĭ) stress cooking (due to the lab reports)Ī lot of stuff happened in the Eurovision world:
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Still, since Loic is performing on stage and it’s not the music video that’s getting points from televoters and jury, he should probably be able to do something as slick. My geography prof agrees, as she complained that she wasn’t planning on watching a Twilight film before class started. I get that it’s trying to show that everyone bleeds red inside despite looking and acting differently on the outside, but the colour kind of creeps me out, especially when the paint runs through the mechanical heart. While the song is really good, the music video is kind of weird.
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Instead, his entry “Rhythm Inside” (as countless people- I think it’s in the zillions already- have mentioned) the song sounds like something similar to what Lorde would sing.It’s pretty catchy, especially the “ra-pa-pap” hook in the refrain. Since he’s probably not a major ESC fan, he probably has the preconception of what a stereotypical ESC song sounds like, and as a result he didn’t want his song to sound like that. This year they’re sending Loic Nottet, who came second in the Voice Belgique, who prior to saying yes to ESC had no idea that ABBA won Eurovision. If Walloon broadcaster RTBF managed to get Belgium to the final with a former The Voice participant in 2013, then it wouldn’t hurt trying the same technique again after VRT’s crash with the Axel’s ode to his mother. It’s either that or find a guy with a more reasonable vocal range to sing along to. Maybe it’s time to sing with a female vocalist instead…as long as there’s no crud in my throat, and I’ve recovered from the sound jump.
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The artist will make the jump easily in studio, but I won’t. Of course, I could just take it easy and switch to work voice, but since I like to sing like I’ll be on Your Face Sounds Familiar next week, I keep trying to sound like a guy.Īnd then comes an awful crack. It’ll end up somewhere on the border of regular speaking voice and work (head) voice, where I have to pinch my speaking voice and risk a massive headache/rehearsing for Day of Silence tomorrow to hit the high note. That is, until I end up singing along to a song that requires really high throat voice. It might be annoying to have to crank up my voice up an octave at work, but when off the job it’s great to be able to sing along with male artists on my phone.
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So this female blogger’s got a low voice that sounds like a guy on the phone? Can I switch with her for a day so no one thinks I’m my mom anymore?