This year marks the first year since 2001 that I was not being able to watch Slovenian preselection either live in the studio or on TV, so I wanted to watch it through RTV website. Sadly, beacuse of my (new) Portuguese IP, the stream didn't work, so I couldn't watch it. At all.
But I did watch it today from the archive and my reaction to this years EMA is: xslap
I highly doubt that these ten songs were the best songs from those 61 entries, that were submited to RTVSLO. I seriously want to hear the remaining 51 entries, just to be 100% about them being very bad or lame.
My absolute favourite last night was Anja Kotar. I liked her on "Poprock" competition two weeks earlier and I really liked her yesterday. My second choice would be Žan Serčič. The chours of the song is still in my head and I cannot get it out, no matter what. I knew that the "veterans" Regina and Nuša will flop. I also 100% stand behind my words, that if people would've been able to vote for all 10 songs from the begining, Nuša would be the winner. I really don't remember any other songs. I think that tells a lot about this years entries.
This brings me to the two superfinalists. I knew Manuella from Misija Evrovizija and never heard of Raiven before. Very different songs, very different genre of music. Personally, I preffer "Blue and red", beacuse I also like country music, but as I watched their second performances, I thought that "Črno bel" would perfectly fit on the ESC stage.
I think Slovenia won't see the final this year. So from me, the song gets 4 points.