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Having thought more about this I have decided that yes it is inherently bad.

This appears to be a Swiss innovation that has been signed off by the EBU.

I don't think this qualifier reveal needs to be inherently bad necessarily, but my god it just reeks of television production wankery and obsession with solving problems that aren't there or "innovating" for the sake of it. I've heard interviews over the years with the likes of Christer who say...

Hmm... that paper boat is a bit Button Moon...

AMAZING.

Kylie WAS frumpy for a while back there.

Apparently it’s a royalty-free sample that both songs used rather than one song stealing from the other. It’s a bit of a grey area when it comes to ESC rules but what are they going to do at this point? Actually don’t answer that…

They're just summarising what was in the Swiss tabloids yesterday. Might still be bullshit but it's not appeared out of nowhere. The nuance to it is that Celine herself isn't in Basel, but they've rehearsed her performance with a stand-in so signs are good.

To be honest I’d take it at this point that she’s doing it, and they just haven’t announced anything in case she needs to pull out at the last minute.

OK so either they’ve been accidentally announcing the Euroclub line-up on the main channels this whole time, or they’ve spent all their budget on Celine and are filling the rest of the running time with whatever Eurofan PA perennials will take the call.

I know some of the 2020 non-returners have said they wouldn't touch it with a barge pole but surely the likes of Ulrikke would be well up for this.

I’m starting to wonder if this is some kind of medley of the 2020 entries that never were… If so then it would be much more effective if they got a couple of the acts who didn’t get to appear the very next year (and in some cases, several times beyond :DAF:).

It’s just the mix from the music video isn’t it? It is strange that it’s been in existence as a mix for so long and not available on steaming but maybe they’re keen to focus all streams on the one version.

Well I’ve reached the April assimilation stage where I’ve started to think most of the songs are a bit good, but I’m under no illusion that I’ll be continuing to listen to most of them from 18th May…