country: belarus, year: 2007
awww, thanks for the ask!
honorable mention: alekseev - forever (i just can’t with the english version :// he’s a really sweet guy and i like some of his other songs but idk forever just...doesn’t work for me idk)
5. 2007: dmitry koldun - work your magici wish i could say that, ah, i know why this is the highest ranking belarusian entry but i don’t. i really think others were better and think they should have appealed to more people than they appeared to? it’s not bad.
4. 2011: anastasia vinnikava - i love belaruslook.....i can explain...no i can’t hdsjkfds but this is despite the lyrics just so damn catchy and that instrumental?? incredible. with different lyrics i think it could have (and should have) made the top 10 that year
3. 2016: ivan - help you flythis is...funny? you do you, ivan, have a nice time teaching your pet wolves how to fly while running naked in the forest and also playing billiard, seducing twins, being painted naked idk
2. 2015: uzari and maimuna - time (the top two are the only i listen to on a regular basis)..........how did this not qualify? it’s even ~radio friendly~ packaged and should have been loved by the juries, right? lmao, but, yes i love how catchy this is, in 2015 i listened to it so much i highkey forgot it was a eurovision song, i looove the violin parts
1. 2017: naviband - historyja majho žycciaOF COURSe khsdkj there can be no other answer for me, my favorite eurovision of all time you been knew i could talk for hours about how this just is?? the most genuine and positive song i’ve ever heard and probably ever will hear, it always relaxes me or energizes me depending on which i need at the given time and it just feels like such a naturally flowing song, like a song that always should have existed? if that makes sense, and of course they sing and deliver it beautifully (it’s better live, i tell you that! especially when it starts out slow with only the audience singing...and it’s teh whole audience that does it let me tell you and then they just ZOOM and turn up the speed and start singing along and everyone shouts HEY HEY HAYAYAYAO at the top of their lungs and its just a soul-healing and revitalizing feeling)
and they’re just simultaneously MY BABIES and MY PARENTS and the absolute sweetest kindest people i’ve met... if you think they seem friendly and adorable online they’re even nicer and cooler in real life! i’ve never known of any other artist who makes time for all their fans and want to talk to everyone the way they do!
top 10 of 2007 (this isn’t a year i remember that well tbh, i had to check up on the songs again)
10. belarus: dmitry koldun - work your magicnormally i hate it when people say guilty pleasure about songs (especially when it’s a song that’s not particularly cheesy or dated or has a silly message or something which is...how i think that phrase should be used...anyway) but this is kinda a guilty pleasure in the way that i don’t think i really should enjoy this lmao but it’s very catchy nonetheless+great instrumental
9. france: les fatals picards - l’amour a la francaise if i had to pick a meme (nah there’ll be more) idk this is just fun?
8. finland: hanna - leave me alonefor the relatable title of course :)) it’s really badass as well (where are our badass songs in eurovision now?)
7. slovenia: alenka gotar - cvet z jugalook i like operatic singing a lot and i think the buildup and uniqueness of this makes it really enjoyable to listen to
6. bulgaria: elitsa todorova and stoyan yankulov - waterthis is experimental, original and well performed and i’m so glad it did well
5. bosnia and herzegovina: marija sestic - rijeka bez imenaa lovely balkan ballad
4. ukraine: verka serduchka - dancing lasha tumbai what can i say? verka really shaped eurovision lmao and the song is a bop
3. moldova: natalia barbu - fightanother epic badass song, the violin solo and the high note boi
2. georgia: sopho - visionary dreamIcoNIC! it’s such an epic song and performance and it sounds?? futuristic? and also traditional
1. serbia: marija šerifovic - molitvalove this so much, i remember that during/after the contest my mom loved it and played it all the time and i have many good memories of it…and it’s just such an amazing and emotional song delivered beautifullly….shes just The Queen
one of the best eurovision winners!
