Because the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 is coming closer, I’ve decided to write a post about this. I don’t like the fact that the juries are usually morons and that most of the tele-voting is done on a “we like this country the most”, rather than “we like this song the most”. This year, forty songs (and countries) will compete, 17 in the first semi-final (on May 10th), 18 in the second one (May 12), and the Big Five will get straight to the Final, along ten of the best-ranked songs in each of the two semi-finals.

I’ve made a playlist with the participating songs, at least the ones that have been selected so far, as most of them should be selected by mid-March. Under the playlist you’ll see the songs that I consider to be my favourites (or least).


The playlist, for convenient listening.

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The very good songs

Intelligent Music Project - Intention
Bulgaria 🎀 🎀 🎀 🎀

The Bulgarians have hired a Dave Grohl clone to do a pop-ish Everlong. Great song from our neighbours.

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Monika Liu - Sentimentai
Lithuania 🎀 🎀 🎀 🎀

Smooth jazz meets pop and adds up to a silky sensual song. One of the best.

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Zdob Θ™i Zdub & Advahov Brothers - TrenuleΘ›ul (The Train)
Moldova 🎀 🎀 🎀

Eurovision veterans are back with a folklore-rock song, now with the help of the Advahov Brothers taraf. All of them wonderful musicians. The song itself is good, but still far away from their mega-hit “Boonika Bate Doba”.

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Kalush Orchestra – Stefania
Ukraine 🎀 🎀 🎀

Very good hip-hop mixed with ethnic motives. Seems like an eastern European motive in the last few years to return to folklore, and this is catchy. Fingers crossed for them.

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Subwoolfer - Give That Wolf A Banana
Norway 🎀 🎀 🎀 🎀 🎀 🎀

This is why Eurovision was created. To bring out the craziest, catchiest, weirdest song, and put it in the spotlight. Six microphones, because it’s so meta, it might win.

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The Rasmus - Jezebel
Finland 🎀 🎀 🎀 🎀

Great song, has a lot of potential. Also nice to see The Rasmus back in the spotlight, and I think Lauri YlΓΆnen is a vampire, because he still looks like 16. Top 10 song for sure.

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Andrea - Circles
North Macedonia 🎀 🎀 🎀 🎀

Catchy song, great lyrics, Andrea’s voice is excellent, definitely a top 10 song.

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Ochman - River
Poland 🎀 🎀 🎀 🎀 🎀

One of the competition’s favourites this year, River is a strong song, taking advantage of Krystian’s great voice.

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Malik Harris - Rockstars
Germany 🎀 🎀 🎀 🎀

Germany comes with a strong pop song but doesn’t seem to be very different than 80% of the charts now. Maybe that’s their recipe for success.

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Mahmood & Blanco - Brividi
Italy 🎀 🎀 🎀 🎀 🎀

The Sanremo winners have a very good sentimental song, but I’m not sure if it’ll appeal to the broad European audience. Top 5 for me, for sure.

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Some other songs that I liked:

S10 - De Diepte - Netherlands 🎀 🎀 🎀
Good sound, good voice, I see it finishing somewhere in the first half. Youtube


Mia DimΕ‘iΔ‡ - Guilty Pleasure - Croatia 🎀 🎀 🎀
Good easy pop, Mia’s voice is excellent. Definitely first half. Youtube


We Are Domi - Lights Off - Czech Republic 🎀 🎀 🎀
Good voice, great catchy pop song, but doesn’t strike me in particular. It’s a nice listen though


Reddi - The Show - Denmark 🎀 🎀 🎀
Good pop-rock song, nice addition with the piano, excellent effort from them.


Stefan - Hope - Estonia 🎀 🎀 🎀
Very good song, reminding of the old spaghetti western soundtracks. Also video is filmed where some western was taped 104 years ago.


What the fuck

Citi ZΔ“ni - Eat Your Salad - Latvia 🎀 🎀
That’s what you get when you water your salad with cocaine. Please stop.


Sheldon Riley - Not the Same - Australia 🎀 🎀
Just like their British colonialists, the Australians sent a good voice, but a shit song. Sad


Michael Ben David - I.M - Israel 🎀
Great voice, started like a male version of Nina Simone’s “I’m Feeling Good”, and then turned to literally shit.


Achille Lauro - Stripper - San Marino 🎀
Achille had a good song, “Domenica” at Sanremo 2022. Somehow he decided to represent San Marino with this. Wtf Achille, go home, you’re not MΓ₯neskin.


Konstrakta - In Corpore Sano - Serbia 🎀
The voice is not bad, but it feels like Kraftwerk on very very very bad drugs. I know we’re during a pandemic, but this girl is washing her hands for 2 minutes. That’s not healthy.


WRS - Stripper - Romania 🎀
As usual, Romania avoided to host the show next year by choosing yet another bad song, feels like a 2022 Despacito, but in the bad way. I’m thinking top 5 (:

Ola mi bebebe
Llama me, llama me

I shit you not.