Luxembourg LUXEMBOURG 2024 - Tali - Fighter

[ESC United Mod Team]

 

[BorisBubbles]

lol how are we (as a site) even going to do reviews for luxembourg. EVERY ONE OF THESE is a five out of ten.

 

[Marcos C]

what the actual fuck. Today's parents were SMALL CHILDREN when Lux last took part. Nobody under fifty has any recollection of Luxembourg directly participating at the contest.

Using Sweden as an example, voting in Melofestivalen is done by age categories. Among the categories are 45-59, 60-74, and 75+. I don't know if Luxembourg Song Contest will use age categories, but I'm sure that in a country where the life expectancy is 81, plenty of people do remember.

 

[NikolaiMoller]

 

[elanyvx]

Dardust is the producer of the song as well as having collaborated on the music. He was behind several songs by italian artists like: Elodie, Mahmood, Annalisa, Irama, Madame etc

 

[RainyWoods]

I found this NF exhaustingly average. It was like a mix between a Swiss internal selection minus the competitiveness and then with a dash of Dansk Melodi Grand Prix thrown in just to make it that extra bit more difficult for me to sit through. I was excited to see Luxembourg back in the contest and I hope it'll be for good. I also hope it's only going to be up from here. Having said that, Fighter is fine and probably the best bet for Luxembourg in our now jury-absent semis. Composition wise Drowning in the Rain is my fave but did we set the AI on Belarusian ESC Auditions mode when writing the lyrics ("from the year of ocean" what..)? It was hard to connect with, although pretty in its Ralph Siegel-esque ways.


Tali - Fighter = 6/10
Krick - Drowning in the Rain = 5.5/10
One Last Time - Devil in the Detail = 5/10
Naomi Ayé - Paumée sur terre = 5/10
Angy and Rafa Ela - Drop = 5/10
Edsun - Finally Alive = 4/10
Joel Marques Cunha - Believer = 4/10
Chaild - Hold On = 3/10

 

[ESC94]

Didn´t know what to expect from but sadly I´m not really hyped with any of these songs. I would say that Naomi Ayé is my favourite, followed by Tali whose song is a bit damaged by the chorus in English. I also enjoyed One Last Time who remind me a bit of my favourite band Imagine Dragons.

But generally I can´t really see any of these songs doing that well in Malmö, I can already see the country struggling to reach the final actually.

 

[EscGeek]

Tali or gtfo (nah, you're welcome to stay and welcome back)

 

[Biste]

I'm liking Tali (fave!), Naomi and One Last Time here. Krick is fine as well. The rest I don't care about.

Also, from their Youtube vid description:
Meet CHAiLD, a 25-year-old singer-songwriter from Luxembourg.
Music & Lyrics: Jimmy Jansson, Thomas G:son, Peter Boström Produced by Peter Boström, Jimmy Jansson, Thomas G:son

Like, don't announce him as a singer-songwriter and then have him participate with a song that's not of his own writing...

 

[Sammy]

Not yet sure about my favorite but I think it‘s one of the following: Tali, Naomi or One last time.

 

[SpiritofKeiino]

Even if the songs are distinctly average and don't feel like qualifiers, maybe the 'novelty' or 'feelgood' factor from a return after 30 year gap will give Lux a public voting boost? I don't think that alone is enough though to qualify

 

[Mainshow]

I've said it once or twice but that's what you'll be getting by a samey-ish Eurovision-esque International jury.

Nothing to get excited about even though there's not a single bad song in this NF. I think that @RainyWoods described it perfectly.

A pity that RTL's approach was to neglect creativity and local flavours (could even be Portuguese ones looking at the demograhics) and instead make established Luxembourgish artists sing Swedish rejects.

I think that Krick has the beet chances but honestly, all entries smell like NQ's.

 

[ESC94]

I've said it once or twice but that's what you'll be getting by a samey-ish Eurovision-esque International jury.

Nothing to get excited about even though there's not a single bad song in this NF. I think that @RainyWoods described it perfectly.

A pity that RTL's approach was to neglect creativity and local flavours (could even be Portuguese ones looking at the demograhics) and instead make established Luxembourgish artists sing Swedish rejects.

I think that Krick has the beet chances but honestly, all entries smell like NQ's.

I wouldn´t go this far but it´ll be difficult to reach the final. Hope that they don´t disappear for another thirty-one years if it doesn´t go as planned this time.

 

[Sabrewulf238]

Nothing super exciting to me based off the recap.

Drowning in the Rain and Paumée Sur Terre sound like they have the most potential though. I think they could qualify, they'll probably get some kind of televote boost just from being back after being so long away.

 

[Mainshow]

I honestly have no idea if the casual viewers even get excited about comeback.

I mean, I still get the occasional question "why Turkey is not there this year?" or "why is Australia in it?" from time to time.
It's not like non-ESC fans keep track of the which countries have participated in recent years... and even if the hosts will highlight Luxembourg's comeback, I think that most viewers will feel pretty indifferent tot hat fact.... especially if they send a formulaic, basic ans generic pop song.

 

[BorisBubbles]

I'm liking Tali (fave!), Naomi and One Last Time here. Krick is fine as well. The rest I don't care about.

Also, from their Youtube vid description:
Meet CHAiLD, a 25-year-old singer-songwriter from Luxembourg.
Music & Lyrics: Jimmy Jansson, Thomas G:son, Peter Boström Produced by Peter Boström, Jimmy Jansson, Thomas G:son

Like, don't announce him as a singer-songwriter and then have him participate with a song that's not of his own writing...

Chaild entered with a song of his own making and it was rejected.

Then they gave him the melfest reject :-)

I honestly have no idea if the casual viewers even get excited about comeback.

I mean, I still get the occasional question "why Turkey is not there this year?" or "why is Australia in it?" from time to time.
It's not like non-ESC fans keep track of the which countries have participated in recent years... and even if the hosts will highlight Luxembourg's comeback, I think that most viewers will feel pretty indifferent tot hat fact.... especially if they send a formulaic, basic ans generic pop song.

There is a teeny-tiny chance the novelty of Luxembourg's return yields them points, but I don't think it's much higher than that; The songs need to be good (or pass as good) and they aren't. It's like how Australia got votes for Guy Sebastian and Dami and then when Isaiah came along their televote vaporized and never returned.

Like idk. Lux just seems...as dead as Malta and Latvia at this point and that's harsh without knowing the winner of the NF or the semi they'll perform in, but the selection commitee failed at their prime job. Another victory for international juries on national selections, I guess :-)

 

[SpiritofKeiino]

I've said it once or twice but that's what you'll be getting by a samey-ish Eurovision-esque International jury.

Nothing to get excited about even though there's not a single bad song in this NF. I think that @RainyWoods described it perfectly.

A pity that RTL's approach was to neglect creativity and local flavours (could even be Portuguese ones looking at the demograhics) and instead make established Luxembourgish artists sing Swedish rejects.

I think that Krick has the beet chances but honestly, all entries smell like NQ's.

Agree completely. I feel local flavour is lacking in these songs. I'm tired of Melfest reject songs

 

[FabiESC]

01 Krick - Drowning In The Rain 10/10
02 Tali - Fighter 10/10
03 Naomi Ayé - Paumée sur terre 8/10
04 CHAiLD – Hold On 7/10
05 Angy & Rafa Ela – Drop 6/10
06 One Last Time - Devil In The Detail 6/10
07 Joel Marques - Believer 6/10
08 EDSUN – Finally Alive 5/10

Great Comeback! I hope Krick or Tali will win!
Overall a good NF, i enjoy every song, i'm happy Luxembourg is back, i hope they can do well in Malmö.

 

[Biste]

Chaild entered with a song of his own making and it was rejected.

Then they gave him the melfest reject :-)

Rubbing some extra salt in the wound, always nice.
Feels like "your song sucked, but we need to meet the queer quota so please sing this left-over song so you can still participate"

 

[lasse braun]

with one of these 8 songs luxemburg is in bigger trouble to reach the final in malmö - only average stuff delivered.

 

[aef]

I‘m glad that Joel is competing with a different song than we expected. It’s good but still has now wow moment though. It would be my choice out of those 8 songs. All in all it’s a decent enough first NF effort from but the final is not guaranteed with this song selection.