Re: SERBIA 2018
At least Slovenia will also apply the language rule next year. And France also announced the same too, didn't they? Or that the majority of the song has to be in French at least
Apparently, some of us (including me) got excited about Slovenia too quickly... According to EscGeek, an article said RTVSLO will simply force next year's acts to sing in Slovenian in the semis and leave the language choice for the final (like in Iceland), which certainly means all songs will be in English by the time they qualify
I hope some will stick to Slovenian though: given Iceland recent failures, I'm not sure it was a good example to follow... And on top of that I find that new requirement really useless: people vote for a song in its entirety, not just an instrumental. The musicality of the language plays a big part in setting the atmosphere of a song imo.
Regarding France, submissions have to contain at least 70% of French lyrics. In other words, they low-key encourage people to continue our silly trend of English sentences insertion even though it's unnecessary. :? I wait for our potential songs before complaining, but given your success this year, I don't see the point of trying hard with our English lines that tell nothing interesting.