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han-g

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Why do I get the feeling that most of the songs in heat 3 will be better than most of the songs in heats 1 and 2.
 

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Queens of Roses going with the dark pop sound for their latest entry Taip. I've seen some people mention it has a throwback Serebro sound to it. Will be in the mix to make the final from Semi 3 would think.


Damn, that's smth that could go straight to "Fifty Shades..." OST :love: I mean that sounds really good and catchy. Indeed bit like Serebro, bit like other Lith girls group "69 Danguje", but it's fine. I think it's qualifier to finals and if they will deliver with staging it could be a contender
 

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10 years after Liepa last tried for Eurovision with the group Pop Ladies she is back as a solo artist and in it to win it. :cool:

I've heard comparisons of it being a Loreen style electro song in Lithuanian. Already has more views than all the others in the space of a day in a half, Not that much of a surprise as one of the most established artists in this years competition but yeah if she nails it live I think Ar mylėtum? will be Lithuania's entry in Basel. Produced by DJ Jovani one of the biggest producers in the Baltics.

The ending is my lone criticism but clearly this a live performance song.

 
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Also look out for Gøya's song which should be out early tomorrow. Its supposed to be the best song from the 3rd semi. Only one that isn't out for the show on Saturday.
 

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10 years after Liepa last tried for Eurovision with the group Pop Ladies she is back as a solo artist and in it to win it. :cool:

I've heard comparisons of it being a Loreen style electro song in Lithuanian. Already has more views than all the others in the space of a day in a half, Not that much of a surprise as one of the most established artists in this years competition but yeah if she nails it live I think Ar mylėtum? will be Lithuania's entry in Basel. Produced by DJ Jovani one of the biggest producers in the Baltics.

The ending is my lone criticism but clearly this a live performance song.

I love this style of music a lot and Liepa is great singer, but this song is just too bland and forgettable IMO. Tried my best to love it, listen again and again, but it simply lacks some good hook and feels too generic/monotonic, which kills this type of song for me. But it's just me, maybe my bar is set too high here as I'm big fan of this style :) Overall, people should vote for it, and I'd say so far it looks like the biggest contender to win our selection, but I'm afraid it would be simply lost in Basel
 

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Remembered to write something not minutes before the show but still very late! here we gooooo

1. Amari - Sirens Call
Another semifinal starting with another decent production song. It shows very well when I know who co-wrote the music (Vitalij Puzyriov, he worked on a lot of songs including "Be paslapčių" by Evita Cololo (PiN 2021)). I like some of this 90s tinge in some of the production elements, the chorus has that choppy synth (idk how to describe it) and that's cool, it has other strong synths all around and some string plucks that are nice, the backing track is very very solid and decent. However, the beat doesn't pop as loud as it should, there's always a little bit of that lacking throughout the song - I thought chorus 1 was bad with it but then I thought okay, this is just there to build up to how the song will sound stronger later on. Nope, their loudest beat is still somewhat subdued. Okay then. I like the girl's soft voice but the combination of this and the backing track makes me think that they remade "Jigsaw" by Martin from last year as a non-character piece and turned it into an actually competent song... but that wouldn't really get one far unless the semis once again were structured like they used to back in the day so we'd have more than 2 qualifiers per semi. It's a bit of a "show opener fatigue" effect kicking in - nice song, but that's it, because nothing about it is strong enough on its own merit. In terms of Eurovizija•LT 2025 semi openers, Halummi > Amari > LIT. If she were to try next time, I feel like one would need to lean in on her fairyness that the vocals could create and give her a soft song with more mystical elements, this kinda feels like it's somewhat there but a halfbaked idea. Better luck next time sweet princess.
(Almost forgot to add - nice touch of intertwining Lithuanian and English lyrics. Somehow not the only song in this semi to be doing this)

2. Thomas G - Highest Goals
From one uptempo to another, this one being a bit more club oriented and I feel like club pop music is more suited for Supernova - really this is what "Bigger Than This" by Markus Riva should've been. The chorus isn't as deep housy in "Highest Goals" as it warrants to be based on the verses, but at least this is more convincingly inspiring, but still very vague and basic. But I can relate, "it's always not enough" out there and "not" very "brave enough" sometimes, and I too want to be "strong enough to reach my highest goals", but reaching highest goals isn't as easy as this chorus wants to imply. I'll give this song a thumbs up though. Upbeat enough for me to not be very nitpicky about the production 100% and I can feel that there's just enough pleasantness for me. Obviously not a qualifier though, dunno if it would have had a chance in a system with more qualifiers per heat/semi.

3. Queens of Roses - Taip!
I appreciate that they were finally offered up to do a Lithuanian language song, that's a first in their Eurovision NF career. And I get that they've always been mature women so this finally sounds like the kind of song they are singing for their age. But I feel like they have sold their souls for a perfect enough song in their lives in exchange of what made them actually engaging for the NF audiences - they were these fun-loving party moms and I loved them for it. I personally think that "Washing Machine" pre-vamp and "Walk through Fire", and also "Fisherman" in a way, were their better efforts, because they were more focused on not caring how the audience would perceive them, the outgoing fun party women. The attempts to take their effort more seriously with taking the jury comments to heart and taking the deep house remix of "Washing Machine" to the semifinals of the 2022 NF broke my heart just a little bit, and was probably the warning call for me to maybe anticipate "Taip!" in secrecy. The era where the beat is mature enough for the women that carry it (serious deep house and enlisting local production that's well versed with this stuff, including Elena Jurgaitytė who also co-wrote "Luktelk"), that it's so cold and sterile... where's the heart? (- C. Montgomery Burns)
I don't know where this semifinal is heading but since this is gonna sound so well for a common Lithuanian's ear, I expect it to qualify. Just have to see if the juries are on board.
If they don't win the NF this year (which they won't), maybe I hope that the ladies do get to work with the people who wrote "Need More Fun", because seriously, after this they already sound like they need more fun... sheesh

4. Gøya - After Storm
Hasn't been released in full at this stage, but from a recap snippet that I heard, this is sort of aiming at the same voters who would maaaaaybe enjoy stuff Leon Somov and DJ Jovani at their least pandering to nostalgia or club atmosphere - so far just decent electronic pop for the radio, and she doesn't sound so bad live based off of it, compared to when she did the NF 7 years ago with "This Love". Her first attempt was a solid pop song that I think I'll find better than her new attempt, but at least Gøya tries and it doesn't sound like a lost cause. I don't know how well she'll be able to be pulled through if a lot of or not enough Lithuanians were to vote for her based off of familiarity (she still sticks around in the music industry and is on some dates of the Ten Walls tour; so I guess the few remaining Ten Walls enjoyers who don't know about his controversies 11 years or so ago would enjoy her as well), but this semi is strangely meandering so I expect a 3rd place at best - she could lean in on a slight 2nd if Indrė and Laimonas don't accidentally snatch the SIMcard demographic (and I assume people gonna vote for them with old SIMcards they have bought before the SIMcard registration regulations starting 2025) and/or if Gebrasy somehow underwhelms the televoting public. But she's in that sweet 4th spot in the R.O., and in Eurovizija•LT this brings luck, so anything can happen. We'll see.

5. Hansanova - Leilydo
At the very least we can say that "Luktelk" made quite an impact in terms of Lithuanian language usage in the NF and this is no exception. This is a very basic medieval county fair song that would entertain the kids of all ages, so the "child-friendly-ness" of this would make the juries immediately not take it seriously and the televote would think it's some sort of a parody in turn, so the stormy seas Hansanova are sailing on won't quiet down on them anytime soon. At least this is more entertaining than "Dragons and Rainbows" from last year, which felt especially written like it was supposed to be a medieval song for children's animation series - "Leilydo" doesn't feel any less that but at least it has a beat. Still, it's very subduet on how fun it would need to go to unironically go off for Eurovision levels. Has the guy behind the band ever considered making a more "Wolves of the Sea" kinda song? It surely would still sound very parodyesque but at least it would be more eccentric than average, I guess. I didn't not enjoy it though. But again, I don't think that the juries and televote will take this seriously. At least it's not the worst kind of "wtf" fun we could have, so maybe they will not be too bewildered as they were last week with "Pašok".

6. MeidĖ - Gyvatės
Speaking of Lithuanian language impact, this is another act in a row that sings in our language when having sung in English last year. This is a standard MeidĖ song with vague spooky song topic and a simple dance beat, I'm not begging her to change her style but I would hope that one day she realizes she needs to inject a little more drama in her music, because she sounds like she wants to appeal to "spooky girls" but not be too scary for them by suddenly amping up the production in a darker way. It would have benefitted from stealing some of the drama angles from parts of "Tai kur namai", is all I'll say. At least this kind of musical aesthetic produces better music for her than that in her regular repertoire, because her non-Eurovision songs I've heard so far are more underwhelming for what they try to present. Based off of name recognition MeidĖ isn't entirely toast, but she should've been put in a semi where she would be a clearer qualifier and saved "Zoo" for this year, to have better chances to make it to the final, at least this year.

7. Gebrasy - Whole
Now for someone who doesn't create for Eurovision in Lithuanian, and hasn't seem to created for it in Lithuanian even once. This feels like a re-thread of "Saw Your Ghost" (a pop ballad type of song but with a beat), but I feel like it's slicker and got more effort put in it? However I fear Gebrasy is having a hard time re-establish himself as someone contender-esque after his "Saw Your Ghost" slip-up - I have a feeling it should've happened to him in 2022 as well because "Into Your Arms" feels a bit too tryhard for a typical Gebrasy ballad thing, and it's not something great to follow up his big success of 2021 with (which maybe shouldn't even have given him the "fame"? "Thank You Very Much" was the best finalist that made it out of the semi imo). So honestly, I think that "Whole" is kinda his best attempt? There's a little bit of emptiness in the song when he doesn't sing before there's this really good chord part thrown in before the outro, I wish he had sung a bit more in there but until then I hope he makes up for it with doing something interesting during the performance. It sounds very "basic Eesti Laul midtempo ballad man" (Janek) type but I almost always liked those for some reason. Again, since Gebrasy's status as an easy NF finalist has faded overtime, I think that he's going to hit the ceiling at 3rd place - might be lucky a little if the juries are positive towards him and the televote still cares, but the path to the final isn't paved as straighforwardly, considering that this semi also has...

8. Indrė and Laimonas - Namo
...one half of Il Senso competing in it as well. They were actually not that bad of the unexpected NF final qualifiers when their songs weren't such a "LNK channel would use this as their theme song for their channel anniversary" sounding song. "Sparnai" was a decently composed popera piece if not somewhat dated, "Time" was camp with their overdramatic theater kids aesthetic looming heavily over this, while this is just an average family song you'd hear on a Sunday afternoon in a restaurant. What even is the demographic for this in Eurovision, anyway? Who keeps letting middle-aged people/grandmas vote for songs like this in NFs? Will they at least hopefully remove Stano from the jury if they God forbid reach the final with this, so there's no overbiased voting? All I'm going to say for now is - dear Lithuanian televoters, take our NFs seriously for a second and don't vote for someone who's your mom's co-worker's aunt's friend. You can do better than this.
...they're totally going to give this a 12 by the end of the semi aren't they. Juries, save us...

(Remember, this song's release and MV is clear about the song's theme - it's about coming home for the winter holidays. Yeah that's gonna sound amazing if, hypothetically, this were to represent us in Basel and the foreigners who haven't fallen asleep are going to question of what is a polar bear (this song about Christmas) doing in Arlington, Texas (a contest that's held in May, the last month of SPRING).)

9. Black Biceps - Visaip man reik
Ah my beloved bootleg Antikvariniai Kašpirovskiai Dantys fodder. As a Lithuanian Pole father's daughter I feel represented this year (because Black Biceps back in the day mostly consisted of Lithuanian Poles). This is actually decently quirky, I know it won't be for everyone but at least there's gonna be enjoyers of this, at least those that enjoy music similar to ska and whatever genres that are fast and feature trumpets. The lyrics are interesting too, the chorus uses antonyms but the negative ones are in English and the positive ones are in Lithuanian, and they kinda somehow tried to make it so that there's an English phrase that sounds similar to "visaip man reik" phonetically??? Brilliant. This is not gonna be brilliant to someone who's higher versed in the art of songwriting but impressed me so I don't care. I just hope it didn't meander in the middle and we got to the second prechorus and chorus faster; the breakdowns could just be left to later in the song honestly. Yes it could also sound wilder too, but what am I going to do. I hope that this at least goes to the middle of the semifinal resultswise and at least some voting party appreciates what's being done here - if only Ramūnas was a judge for that taping to point out that "so cool that they've thrown in some meta humour about watching Eurovision and seeing yourself on TV for there in the lyrics" 😢

I won't say my full opinion on Liepa's song until next week but here's all you need to know - for those that hate her song being compared to Loreen's music, please don't vote for this to win or I'll be beating the comparisons over it to death from its victory to the Eurovision 2025 week and maybe beyond, you've been warned. Save us, Petunija 🙏
 
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Before show my rank (only songs) for this heat is as below (but I must say - this is waaaaay worse than both previous heats, not a single song that I really enjoyed):

1️⃣ Hansanova – Leilydo 4️⃣/🔟
2️⃣ MeidĖ – Gyvatės 4️⃣/🔟
3️⃣ Queens of Roses – Taip! 3️⃣/🔟
4️⃣ Gebrasy – Whole 3️⃣/🔟
5️⃣ Amari – Sirens Call 3️⃣/🔟
6️⃣ Indrė & Laimonas – Namo 2️⃣/🔟
7️⃣ Thomas G – Highest Goals 2️⃣/🔟
8️⃣ Black Biceps – Visaip man reik 2️⃣/🔟
▶️ *Gøya – After Storm #️⃣/🔟

If I would be forced to say who will advance to final I would put money on Gebrasy and QoR.
Still my fav from this selection is Petunija.
 

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So Gøya doesn't release After Storm prior to the show. Eurodiena had a 3 way tie for this show between Queens of Roses, Gebrasy and the aformentioned Gøya. Someone is going to miss out.

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Goya was also ok lol

I think I'll comment when there's something I'll really like :lol:
 

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For me MeidE and Black Biceps (eventually Goya). But I think it would be probably Gebrasy and QoR. However, I'd like to be wrong.
 
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