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Artist: Blanka

Song: Solo

Currently with bookmakers: 21st*(200/1-500/1)

Place 2022: 12th in the final

Wins: 0

Blanka and her entry to Eurovision has been the subject of accusation of cronyism in Poland with accusations two jury members, including the jury chair were associated with Blanka and the heavy use of her song to promote Tu bije serce Europy! Wybieramy hit na Eurowizję!, the Polish national selection. The the fan favourite Jann had 3 times the televote of Blanka. Multiple petitions were launched to change the result, but nothing changed and we still have Bland Blanka Solo.

Solo is a fairly middle of the road popsong and despite reaching #1 in Lithuania nothing about it stands out. The performance at Eurovision will probably be equally as middle of the road with lots of strutting, grinding and twerking in lieu of actually dancing. Even if this makes the final, there it will come against more polished popsongs with actual dance routines which will leave this middle to the bottom of the road, in the gutter somewhere.

Poland finished second in their first Eurovision and have never replicated that success, they have not even made the top 5. Their next highest is 7th which they reached in 2003 with Ich Troje with a ballad for the ages

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Most Wins: Ireland 7 (Poland 0 - Best result was second to Ireland)
Most entries: Ireland 54 (Poland 23)
Bookies favourite: Poland 20/1 (Ireland 300/1)

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Brooke competed in The Voice UK in 2020 and after finishing third went into the Irish National final Eurosong 2022 where she won the international Jury and the public vote. Ochman was also a voice contestant in 2020 in The Voice of Poland which he won and went on to win Tu bije serce Europy! Wybieramy hit na Eurowizję with over 50% of public vote in the 3 artist super final. Even without the jury backing, Ochman is proving popular with the people, not just in Poland.

Though both performed in musical theatre in high school, they are both taking it different directions. Brooke is definitely all about the drama and her song is ALL the drama. Not to be done Ochman song starts dramatic in a Gary Jules 'Mad World' kinda way before breaking it down. Though the drama in the song doesn't really end, Ochman is more about the singing, He is the grandsons of a famous Tenor afterall.

In the end River is more of a Eurovision song, whereas That's Rich is an Essex Chick kind of song. Initially That's Rich is a really annoying song that annoys the purists, but it has youth appeal and the bookies are probably a bit cruel. Still River is the better song despite the 'breakling it down' moment in the song ruining the drama a lot.

This round goes to Poland just.

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Selection: Internal
Wins: 0
2020: Alicja – Empires
2021: Rafał – The Ride

Current bookmakers: 34th

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Rafał has been in a number of bands in Poland before going on The Voice Poland in 2011 and though he didn’t win, it lead him to a career in both music and as a TV host. He also graduated as a Physical education teacher. He has done a little bit of a lot of things and new he is going to Eurovision.

The Ride is completely different to the song that Poland intended to send in 2020. The Ride is everything excessive about the 1980s. Empires, is a epic Eurovision ballad with a drop of James bond that really wants to be Rise Like the Phoenix, but is nowhere near. It is weird to think the excessively 80s song is the better of the two, but Empires probably would have drowned in similar and better songs, whereas The Ride just has to be better than Denmark’s similar 80s song, which is in the same semi as Poland.

This could be Poland’s first real 80s entry seeing they didn’t enter Eurovision until 1994. Their early songs were ballads but they discovered a different tempo in 1997

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Poland - 0 wins
Tulia - "Fire of Love (Pali się)"

Verses

Estonia - 1 win
Victor Crone - "Storm"

"Tulia - Fire of Love (Pali się) - Poland 🇵🇱 - Official Music Video - Eurovision 2019" (Watch on YouTube)

Polish folk that borders on J-pop verses an Estonian song that sounds like Avicii meets Mumford &Sons. Sadly they did not meet in a burning building, if they had we would not have had Stig Rästa's third Estonian Eurovision entry in five years.

"Victor Crone - Storm - Estonia 🇪🇪 - Official Video - Eurovision 2019" (Watch on YouTube)

These songs may not be to Everybody's taste, or anybody's, but someone liked them which is how they are going to Eurovision. Both have their nuances, Poland being the second time in recent years they have sent more traditional dress, and Estonia managing to rhyme 'this' with... 'this'.

Neither of these songs may be great, but at least one of them is interesting. I am going Poland.

Appearances: 20
Wins: 0
Selection method: National Final Krajowe Eliminacje 2018
Vote: 50/50 Jury and public voting
Winner: Gromee feat. Lukas Meijer
Song: Light Me Up

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Another dancy little number made for European summer. If you get enough of these and play them back to back they would probably sound like one song that goes for hours and hours. Different lyrics but the dame song “Help me to ignite, the spark I feel inside, So Help me now. Light me up, light me up my baby, Light me up and tell me where to go-o-o”. Sounds like a suicide bomber.

If the Jury had their way the overall second place getter, Happy Prince, would be going to Eurovision. Happy Prince is like the Polish version of The Police, though not as good. Sadly the public chose the better song. Doesn’t appear there was much of a choice.

Poland is not known for great Eurovision songs. They are more infamous for “We are Slavic” which featured milk maids. They may bring back the milkmaids to improve this year’s performance. They will need something. The summer songs may be popular but it is the performance that wins the Eurovision.

Performance is part of what was lacking in 1997. Also missing was a decent outfit and a good song. At least they sung it well.

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Poland
Semi Final 1
Artist Kasia Moś
Song: Flashlight
Odds: $81

Word of the day
mdłe – bland
*snore*

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‘Must be the music. Only music’. That was the name of the Polish talent show that Kasia graduated from. Her bio is blah, blah, blah about how she is talented and all these famous people she has apparently worked with but that is really the stock standard bio for Eurovision. It just makes the artist seem blander.

The writers of this song are almost as bland as he singer. Their bios are mainly filled with “look at who we have worked with. The only interesting writer is Pete Barringer who is one third of DWB (Drew Watts Barringer), who are like the new SAW but crapper… if that is possible. Pete and DWB also co-wrote this year’s entry for country formerly known as the Czech Republic. We are all looking forward to that one.

This song could potentially not be bland. It could be amazing, atmospheric and thunderous. Here’s hoping it will be because there is too much bland in pop.

Poland finished 2nd in their first Eurovision in 1994, which is still teir best result. Their second best was Ich Troje in 2003 who finished 7th. Hard to believe really….

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Poland
Previous Entries: 18
Wins: Nil
First Entry: 1994 Edyta Górniak - To nie ja!
Most recent Entry: 2015 Monika Kuszyńska - In the Name of Love
National Anthem: Mazurek Dąbrowskiego

2016:

Michał Szpak - Color of Your Life

Second place in X-factor is unlikely to result in a Eurovision win, even with a strong song, and Michał does not have a strong song. I hope his presence on the stage is bigger because this will not qualify.The bookies say yes, but computer says no.

This is like Balkan Ethno-pop without the random traditional Balkan instruments. It sounds like the stock-standard Eurovision track and the bookies think that gives it a chance and they are optimistic on qualification but this song freaking bores me. I vote this as the toilet break.

Poland could afford to host a Eurovision and though I would love to see them win one, they have to try a little harder. I am not sure Poland gets Eurovision. Maybe they still think they are in Intervision or something.

I wonder what the late Sir Terry Wogan would make of this song. I guess it depends on how late in the evening it is. You never wanted to be in the second half of the draw like Poland’s Barbara Dex winning act was in 2001

Poland
Population 38 483 957
Area: 312 679 km2
Language: Polish
Eurovision attendances: 17
Eurovision wins: 0

Monika Kuszyńska - In The Name Of Love

In a word, Inspiring. I cynically said a few years ago of Diana Gurtskaya of Georgia that she was ‘proof that the sympathy vote can take you all the way', but there was no voting in Poland, this was an internal selection. She may not be blind like Diana, but least they found a pretty paraplegic.

It is interesting that in the presentation clip you don’t see Monika is in a wheelchair until the end of the clip. I wonder if her performance in Eurovision will be similarly subtle. Either way, I doubt she will be moving around the stage much…

The tune is making me think there is something New Romantics about the writing. Parts of it remind me of a couple of the popular songs of the 1980s, maybe that’s why I don’t mind it. Even though the bookies do not rate this song but I think it is ok, better than some.

The best finish for Poland was in their first Eurovision. Maybe next year they can better that result.

This is all of the semi final 2 performers this year. SPOILER ALERT this has details of their performances as well as a link to their rehearsals. If you want to keep how dire the acts are a surprise, please stop reading now

There is always one Eurovision semi that is far better than the other. This is not the better semi.

Anyways

( full list of second semi finalists )

so in short, I doubt anything from this semi will win or even come close. either the song is dire or the performance it not good enough to get it votes.
Best performances: well... possibly slovenia
Auto non-qualifiers: either greece or poland wont qualify or both,

the highlight of this semi is clearly Jessica Mauboy

Poland has never won Eurovision and since the semi's came in they have only qualified once, and even that was just. This year will follow the usual trend

Artist: Donatan & Cleo
Song: My Słowianie - We Are Slavic

This clip is designed for straight guys who want to watch the song with the sound off. They even had to extend the clip beyond the end of the song to ensure they got enough cleavage shots. Maybe this is not meant to be a music clip but a mail order bride catalogue, though don't mail order brides usually come from Poland's neighbours, Russia and Ukraine. Maybe Poland is trying to start a new export industry, tits.

According to their bio, the clip has been viewed more than 40 million times since the song was released! This could explain why the bookies have this song in the top ten, as apparently you tube hits are used in their algorithms to calculate odds. That is about the only logical reason.

Regardless of the popularity of the clip, this is a sound that is available everywhere. The US regurgitates these sounds and regardless of their sales, it wont necessarily translate to Eurovision success. Remember that their live act will have to be more demure than this clip because Eurovision is a family show, not a making a family show.

Regions are often represented in Eurovision songs. Serbia did it with 'Ovo je Balkan' in 2010 and a year earlier Romania sung about the Balkan girls who apparently like to partly like nobody likes to party

Previous: Cyprus

Poland/Pologne

Marcin Mrozinski - Legenda

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You know how you get those songs that make you dizzy from them going around and around... well this is one of those. it appears to want to be on the sound-track of some fantasy film... Seriously, Lord of the Rings was so last decade, get with the program already

Remember, in the Eurovision Drinking game: High & loud obnoxious noises emitted from singer during their act = 2 fingers. thats what I give this act, two fingers, index and middle with y nals showing to the performers

Oh look it isnt that bad compared to everything else this year. I think it is like 'Fairytale' for adults, or at least thats what it is trying to be. This song does make one pose the question: are there any Straight male solo singers performing in this years Eurovision? hmmm

This year is Polands 15th Eurovision. no wins but they keep trying. In 1997, in their fourth Eurovision they sent Anna Maria Jopek with 'Ale Jestem', quite a pleasant song, but there were a number of interesting acts in 1997 (like Iceland), the year televoting was brought out in a number of countries in Europe for the event.

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