Eurovision 2018: Austria
Apr. 16th, 2018 07:54 pmWins: 2
Selection method: Internal selection
Vote: A song by writers of this Eurovision pedigree should suffer the injustice of a vote
Winner: Cesár Sampson
Song: Nobody But You
This song sounds a lot like what the song by Australia’s Isaiah Firebrace should have sounded like last year. ‘Nobody but you’ is remarkably similar to ‘Don’t come easy’ in parts, particularly the second verse sounds similar. Cesár sings it better than Isaiah did as this tune sits more comfortably in Cesár’s range than it did in Isaiah’s.
Songwriters for this song have been involved in a few Eurovision entries. In 2017 (at least some of them) wrote ‘Dance Alone’ for Macedonia, ‘In Too Deep’ For Macedonia, and ‘Beautiful Mess’ for Bulgaria which finished second overall. They also wrote for Bulgaria in 2016 with ‘If Love Was a Crime’, which was one of the better songs of the night. The same cannot be said about this year’s composition.
Cesár is not a stranger to the Eurovision stage having been a backing singer to the Bulgarian songs his songwriters contributed to Eurovision in 2016 and 2017. He is not expected to go top 5 like those songs did though. If he gets a top 10 finish it will be more than the song deserves.