Over the past few months, I have been among many voices expressing an opinion about the various songs that have been brought to this year's 59th Eurovision Song Contest. It's been a long and busy ride for this one man band, only finishing and publishing my last review this past weekend.
Thirty-seven songs later, I thought I would gather my thoughts together and construct a countdown of my own favourite tracks from among them. I always find it difficult to create these kind of lists, so to make my life easier, I have decided upon just a Top 10. I would never be able to choose who I think should be placed at, for example, Number 28 and Number 29. That just seems a pointless exercise.
The only criteria I have allowed myself is: Which songs do I like enough to make me part with my hard-earned cash?
So, with the first semi-final just hours away, here's my own personal Top 10 of 2014.
- United Kingdom: Children of the Universe: Molly
- Hungary: Running: András Kállay-Saunders
- Slovenia: Spet (Round and Round): Tinkara Kovač
- Sweden: Undo: Sanna Nielsen
- Greece: Rise Up: Freaky Fortune ft. RiskyKidd
- Israel: Same Heart: Mei Finegold
- Italy: La mia città: Emma Marrone
- Ireland: Heartbeat: Can-Linn ft. Kasey Smith
- Netherlands: Calm After the Storm: The Common Linnets
- Denmark: Cliché Love Song: Basim
This is a very fluid list, but none of the selected countries would change. Of course, under normal circumstances, as a Brit I would not be able to vote for the United Kingdom. So, my substitute would be: Norway.
It will be interesting to see how these songs fare over the next five days and to discover just how bad my skills are at predicting the rankings at The Eurovision Song Contest! Good luck, Molly!
How about you? Do you have your favourite songs?
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