Estonia ESTONIA 2024 - 5miinust & Puuluup - (nendest) narkootikumidest ei tea me (küll) midagi

[ESC United Mod Team]

 

[SpiritofKeiino]

I LOVED this entry. I knew it wouldn't get much support in the final, personally I'm just delighted that it made it to the final. The guys looked like they were having a ball. Great entry.

 

[Franzilein]

Well, now that I got to talk with friends and co-workers, many agreed that this along with Finland were the most entertaining and best parts of this year's Eurovision Sadly it did not reflect in points, guess I just like to surround myself with people with similar taste.

What remains will be one of my favourite clips this year. They caught the essence of the contest perfectly!

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1788665275040112718

 

[MojVoda]

Underrated

Estonia could do better if having a lyrics international people can understand but loses on the charm.

Happy to see the song in the final

 

[Sammy]

definitely not my kind of humour. but yeah, a song like this apparently has to be in the final.

 

[BernadetteCydonia]

I enjoyed it, it might have been very much a victim of Croatia just being the bigger talk of the year (like how Finland took away most points from songs like Germany's and Australia's last year), but I've always had more heart for it than anything else this year. It does bite not knowing just how better it would've looked if Estonia had a bit more of, you know, budget, but I don't think that it would've done much more than it already did, it seems.

 

[henhu]

I think 13th place in televoting + 6th in the semi-final (where they were predicted as borderline qualifiers) is kind of a good achievement nothing to be ashamed for. Hopefully we do better next year, but I kind of think that we will send generic English songs for the next 10+ years (like after Birgit got 20th in Malmö, ironically).

 

[BernadetteCydonia]

It could have been surefire IF and only IF this NQ'd, and it did not, so I better see you not be scared of ever going this fun again. Remember, being overrated by juries (affectionately) only got you 22 televote points last year... 33 is not a lot more, but it made you place better with the televoters overall in the final, so that's something

 

[laululind]

Well, Alika's overall position was quite a bit higher, thanks to those overrating juries. But I think it'll really come down to the songs in the end. Don't think this year's entry being 20th will have any negative effect (being a NQ might have), but I wouldn't expect us to pick fun songs in Estonian every year from now on either. The biggest obstacle is the fact that such songs are simply pretty rare in EL! Most of the time the songs in Estonian are far fewer and less competitive, and the main heavy hitters and televote pleasers are generally in English. And fun songs (that are still well done and catchy and not just LOL WTF weird stuff) don't come by too often either. We shall have to wait and see what next EL editions bring I guess. If another song as interesting & catchy as "nendest..." comes along, I have hope our televoters won't shun it. But at the same time, if there's a well done pop song or stirring ballad in English, that's fine too (would be nice if more of them were in Estonian, but eh, whatever the singer feels most comfortable with I guess). I wouldn't want us to get stuck in a cycle of picking increasingly lamer novelty entries either, just 'cause one was good and did well or some such. Variety is the spice of life, and picking the best song with good chances to do well should be the goal, no matter the genre. So fun song, ballad, pop song, indie, rock.. if it's good, I hope our televoters will see it!

 

[BernadetteCydonia]

next year y'all should just pick a rock song because the Måneskin shockwave has worn off. besides, if San Marino ends up in your semi as the other rock song, you guys will have a chance to be better than your competition once again

 

[toinou03]

Pretty good result for a very Estonian song. They gave good fun (not good enough vocals for the juries) and people loved them, although no idea what it is about. :-) It was a risky choice and it paid out ! Well done !

 

[Milos-BC]

Expected result. They couldn't have ended better than this, but nonetheless, I really enjoyed the performance, and overall, it was an amusing package. Thank you for delivering so much fun this year.

 

[BernadetteCydonia]

Alyona Alyona shared something on her Instastories yesterday (BST) about 5MIINUST in the studio. Finally, a Eurovision collab of the alumni of the same year, it's been forEVER since we got a proper one, wasn't it?

(Also the DAI BOH EP had a song each featuring a Lithuanian artist (Monika Liu) and a Latvian duo, so naturally, someone Estonian was missing to complete the Baltic triangle of Alyona Alyona features (wondering if it will feature Jerry as well)