By the way, we're discussing the Festivali i Kėngės like everything is fine. Why didn't Albania select Era Istrefi internally? They're literally throwing away a huge chance by keeping that dated festival that hardly produces anything interesting going as their Eurovision selection process
FiK will always be their NF and no one can change that. No even if Era releases a song that will go #1 for +16 weeks on the Hot 100. It's just not happening.
By the way, we're discussing the Festivali i Kėngės like everything is fine. Why didn't Albania select Era Istrefi internally? They're literally throwing away a huge chance by keeping that dated festival that hardly produces anything interesting going as their Eurovision selection process
Because they're supposed to sing live in Eurovision
Because they're supposed to sing live in Eurovision
I agree that FiK is outdated
The past winners have taught us that if you don't have a great voice (Lena, Ell & Nikki, Dima Bilan) or if you cannot sing at all (Alexander Rybak), you can easily win with the right song/performance. And BonBon is a winning song.
So, tonight we'll get the Albanian artist + song (unless an Elhaida-type of drama occurs) and tomorrow we'll find out the Armenian representative.
Rooting for Artsvik...
FiK was a mess!!! The televote being only 1/13 of the total votes.
Lindita deserved to win tho. She slayed her performance. She is the third Kosovar Albanian to represent Albania. Congrats girl.
I'm actually really excited about this song! I'm afraid that if they send in a revamped English version, it will lose it's power. It would need amazing English lyrics to work well
I think with a good presentation, this could enter the finals. I want her to take inspiration from Interstellar/Dark Universe from the Museum of Natural History for her visuals