Your ideal ESC 2013 (time to change ESC 2013 line-up!)

[A-lister]

This thread is a bit similar to the "Best entries that weren't to be", but are some differences:

1) Choose ONE entry/by country that you think should have won the county's selection instead of the chosen one. IF you however agree with the actual choice, then you just move on to the next country in line (please mark some sort of difference in your list though if you picked a new entry for a country so it'll be easier to distinguish).

2) You can choose ANY entry that has been officially taken part in a country's selection (semi-finals, finals, quarter-finals you name it!). In the Italy case you can choose any of the Sanremo 2013 entries. In cases like Macedonia where a song has been internally chosen but changed you can pick the original pick instead.

3) Finally, if you want to, you can make your "Ideal ESC 2013" top. 10 and we can see how it would differ from your top. 10 ranking with the current entries. This is a fun way to see if countries really picked the "wrong" entries.

 

[A-lister]

So I guess I'll start then as a demonstration (in cases where the artists have been internally chosen I just write the song names, the ones in bold are my ideal picks and changes from the actual choices)

Kejsi Tola - S'jemi më atje [NF #4]
Toy Planet (This was the only song I could stand in a dreadful selection, their actual entry is my bottom entry this year... I can't believe Armenia went from great ethno-pop to Boom Boom shaka laka to this dreadful nonsense?).
Natália Kelly - Shine
Farid Mammadov - Mammadov
Alyona Lanskaya - Rhythm of Love (Belarus always changes, but not always for the better , they should have simply kept the first choice!).
Reste toi
Samo Shampioni (I was disappointed with the change of "Kismet" but I guess I will have to agree in the end, I swallowed my pride and acknowledge that this is better).
Mižerja
An Me Thimasai
Emmelie de Forest - Only Teardrops
Grete Paia - Päästke noored hinged [NF #2]
Rautakoura - Ilmalaivalla [NS SF] (Their chosen entry is one of my entries this year!).
L'enfer et moi
Waterfall (I can't believe that this comes from the same country that had one of the best debut songs in ESC history... I guess their 2007 entry was an exception).
Betty Dittrich - Lalala [NF #8]
Aggeliki Iliadi - Hilies Kai Mia Nihtes [NF #4]
Ildikó Keresztes - Nem akarok többé játszani [NF]
Eythor Ingi - Ég á líf (Initially not my fav in the Icelandic selection but now I totally agree with them).
Ryan Dolan - Only Love Survives
Julietta - Fantasia [NS SF3] (As much as I like their chosen entry, I guess I preferred something up-tempo, fun and booty-shaking from Israel for a change).
Chiara - Il futuro che sarà [F Big Artists #8]
Fox Lima - Tirpini [NS SF1 #11] (Such a loss for ESC that they treated this mystical different song with such disrespect and we ended up with some crap instead ).
Mundis & Elvina - Aš ilgiuosi tavęs [NS Heat 2 #6)
Pred da se razdeni (I changed my opinion on their sudden change of mind, this is actually better than "Imperija").
Kevin Borg - Needing You [NF #2]
Aliona Moon - O mie (I wouldn't have chosen this in its English version, but since they're sending the Romanian one to ESC I happen to agree with the choice).
Igranka
Birds
Tom Hugo - Det er du [NS SF1]
Liviu Mititelu - La donna di nero [NS SF1 #8]
What If (Why Russia why? This is so anti-intellectual and it's not even charming, fun or catchy just one big fat meh!).
Crisalide (Vola)
Moje 3 - Ljubav je svuda (This one has grown on me and I changed my mind on it, afterall I think Serbs did the right choice in a weak national selection).
Straight Into Love
Atrévete [NF #2]
Robin Stjernberg - You (when all has been said and done, I actually think this one was the best afterall).
Takasa - You and Me
Zlata Ohnevich - Gravity
Believe in Me

 

[LalehForWD]

Agree with you on:
Kejsi Tola - S'jemi më atje
Fox Lima - Tirpini

couldn't really tell for the others except for:
Ben Ivory - The righteous ones
Anton Ewald - Begging

 

[LalehForWD]

Isn't this thread pretty much an exact copy of Best entries that weren't to be?

 

[RainyWoods]

Rezarta Smaja - Ti?
Didn't watch
The Bandaloop - Back to Fantasy
Didn't watch
Alyona Lanskaya - Rhythm of Love (yeah probably prefer the first song a little more)
Didn't watch
Samo Championi
Mižerja
An Me Thimasai
Emmelie de Forest - Only Teardrops (didn't watch but heard snippets and I thought the nf sounded horrendous. This must have been the best choice)
Didn't watch but happy enough with choice
Mikael Saari - We Should Be Through (one of the biggest crimes of this year was this being not chosen.. and the awful song that was).
L'enfer et moi
Waterfall
Ben Ivory - The Righteous Ones
Thomai Apergi - One Last Kiss... ONE LAST KISSSSSS MY I REMIND YOU WHAT A YOU MISSSSSS!
Didn't watch
Eythor Ingi - Ég á líf
Kasey - Kiss Me There (Purely because it was hilarious)
Aderet - Victory
Didn't watch
Fox Lima - Tirpini Yeah this was great
Didn't watch
IMPERIJA for the love of god why not Imperija!!!!???
Didn't watch but pleasant choice
Aliona Moon - A Million
Igranka
Birds
Adelen - Bombo
Cezar - It's My Life
What If (although I really rather that I did have another choice here)
Crisalide (Vola)
Moje 3 - Ljubav je svuda
Straight Into Love
Didn't watch
Anna Jarvinen - Porslin
Lys Assia ft New Jack - All In Your Head
Tetyana Shirko - Feeling Like A Sir (Love Zlata but this would have made for a charmingly quirky little entry)
Believe in Me

 

[DanielLuis]

How strange that every single song A-lister replaced was not in english

 

[DanielLuis]

Isn't this thread pretty much an exact copy of Best entries that weren't to be?

Pretty much so.

 

[toinou03]

Ardian Bujupi - I çmendur për ty
Gor Sujyan - Toy Planet
The Bandaloop - Back to fantasy
Farid Mammadov - Hold me
Nuteki - Save me
Roberto Bellarosa - Reste toi
Elista & Stoyan - Samo Shampioni
Klapa S Mora - Mižerja
Despina Olympiou - An Me Thimasai
Frederikke - Jeg har hele tiden vidst det
Teele/Tuuli/Ula - Ring the alarm
Mikael Saari - We should be through
Amandine Bourgeois - L'enfer et moi
Sophie & Nodiko - Waterfall
Cascada - Glorious
Alex Leon feat. Giorgina - Angel
Gigi Radics - Úgy fáj
Magni Ásgeirsson - Ekki Líta Undan
Aimée Fitzpatrick - Crashing down
Kathleen Reiter - Ad elay (Jusqu'à moi)
Marco Mengoni - L'essenziale
Antra Stafecka - When you're with me
Monika Linkyte - baby boy
Esma & Lozano - Pred da se razdeni
Gianluca Bezzina - Tomorrow
Boris Covali - Runaways
Who see - Igranka
Anouk - Birds
Adelén - Bombo
Electric Fence - Emilia
Dina Garipova - What If
Queen-V - Crisalide (Vola)
Saška Janković - Duga u tvojim očima
Hannah Mancini - Straight Into Love
ESDM - Atrévete
David Lindgren - Skyline
Nicolas Fraissinet - Lève toi
Zlata Ohnevich - Gravity
Bonnie Tyler - Believe in Me

 

[RainyWoods]

Isn't this thread pretty much an exact copy of Best entries that weren't to be?

Yes and i'll be taking A-Lister to court over this.

 

[toinou03]

Yes and i'll be taking A-Lister to court over this.

3

This is a clear case of plagiarims... EBU and NDR will make investigations if A-lister has made a blatant rip-off of Loreen, Sarah Connor and Allez Ola Olé... 3

 

[QwaarJet]

Entries in bold are considered big mistakes.

Adrian Lulgjuraj & Bledar Sejko - Identitet
Truth (2 good songs and 2 good songs, Armenia missed a beat)
The Bandaloop - Back To Fantasy
Farid Mammadov - Hold Me
Alyona Lanskaya - Solayoh
Love Kills
Samo Shampioni (In the end, the right decision was arrived at)
Mižerja
An Me Thimasai
Emmelie de Forest - Only Teardrops
Winny Puhh - Meiecundimees üks Korsakov läks eile Lätti (feel strongly about this, would have been a great song for Estonia)
Mikael Saari - We Should Be Through (like with RainyWoods, I feel this was daylight robbery and the biggest crime of the NF season)
L'enfer et moi
Waterfall
Ben Ivory - The Rightoues Ones (pretty much a three way tie with Betty Dittrich and Saint Lu. Amazing NF.)
Thomai Apergi - One Last Kiss (Also Aggeliki would have been fine, but Greece vote almost the exact opposite order to how I would have)
Honestly can't pick one I liked.
Erna Hronn - Augnablik
Aimée Fitzpatrick - Crashing Down
Moran Mazor - Rak Bishvilo
Marco Mengoni - L'essenziale
Samanta Tina - I Need A Hero (thanks to A-Lister to introducing me to that Fox Lima song though, that is really good.)
See Hungary.
Imperija, for the love of all the Penguins in the world Imperija!
Jessica Muscat - Ultraviolet
Aliona Moon - A Million (yes, the English version is better, and A-Lister has put a contract out on me for saying that )
Igranka
Birds
Margaret Berger - I Feed You My Love
Luminita Anghel - Unique (A gorgeous song that would have been in my top 10 for the contest...Romania will get what's coming to them in the semi for that decision)

What If (Also agree with everything A-Lister said about this nonsense).

Crisalide (Vola)

Dusan Svilar - Spas (Serbia let me down big time, and along with Finland, this is the biggest error of the NF season. Dusan had a guaranteed top 10 with that amazing song)
Straight Into Love
Contigo Hasta El Final
Martin Rolinski - In And Out Love (my absolute favourite song of the entire ESC calender. Gutted this didn't win)
Melissa - The Point Of No Return
Zlata Ognevich - Gravity

Believe in Me

 

[RainyWoods]

Aliona Moon - A Million (yes, the English version is better, and A-Lister has put a contract out on me for saying that )

High fivei

*holds up special A-Lister repelling shield to protect us both*

 

[DanielLuis]

Aliona Moon - A Million (yes, the English version is better, and A-Lister has put a contract out on me for saying that )

A-Lister and me! O mie is just great!

 

[theCONWEL]

Ardian Bujupi - I çmendur për ty
Gor Sujyan - Toy Planet
Yela - Feels Like Home
Farid Mammadov - Hold me
Alyona Lanskaya - Solayoh
Roberto Bellarosa - Reste toi
Elista & Stoyan - Samo Shampioni
Klapa S Mora - Mižerja
Despina Olympiou - An Me Thimase
Emmelie de Forest - Only Teardrops
Winny Puhh - Meiecundimees üks Korsakov läks eile Lätti
Diandra - Colliding Into You
Amandine Bourgeois - L'enfer et moi
Sophie & Nodiko - Waterfall
Cascada - Glorious
Aggeliki Iliadi - Hilies Kai Mia Nihtes
Laura Cserpes - Élj pont úgy
Erna Hrönn Ólafsdóttir - Augnablik
Aimée Fitzpatrick - Crashing down
Moran Mazor - Rak Bishvilo
Marco Mengoni - L'essenziale
PeR - Here We Go
Gabrielius Vagelis - Sacrifice
Esma & Lozano - Imperija
Danica Muscat - Fantasy
Tatiana Heghea - A Brighter Day
Who See & Nina Zizic - Igranka
Anouk - Birds
Anina - The Young
Cezar - It's My Life
Dina Garipova - What If
Valentina Monetta - Crisalide (Vola)
Moje 3 - Ljubav Je Svuda
Hannah Mancini - Straight Into Love
El Sueno De Morfeo - Contigo Hasta El Final
Mary N'Diaye - Gosa
Melissa - The Point Of No Return
Zlata Ognevich - Gravity
Bonnie Tyler - Believe in Me

 

[A-lister]

Isn't this thread pretty much an exact copy of Best entries that weren't to be?

3

This is a clear case of plagiarims... EBU and NDR will make investigations if A-lister has made a blatant rip-off of Loreen, Sarah Connor and Allez Ola Olé... 3

Yes and i'll be taking A-Lister to court over this.

I hope you all got good lawyers then, especially RainyWoods for taking this to court : http://www.escunited.com/t7287/

Oh, and the concept here differs a bit while the other is more like "pick random songs from the national selections that you also liked"

 

[A-lister]

How strange that every single song A-lister replaced was not in english

Is that so? You should take a closer look then