Azerbaijan 2024: FAHREE feat. Ilkin Dovlatov - Özünlə Apar

[EuroTischion]

They're doing a National Final this year (EDIT: No they didn't) after ten years of selecting internally. All Azerbaijanis and among them is their first non-qualifier AISEL

Azerbaijan announces 6 finalists in Eurovision 2024 selection

AISEL and other household names have made the cut - Is your favourite still in the mix?

wiwibloggs.com

I always appreciate a reason to post this banger. A Eurovision (semi only) DIAMOND.

 

[Darcus & Carnivus]

LUNA MOON ME UP!

 

[Baby LaZenne]

It better just be a BARELY DIFFERENT REWRITE

 

[Una Kratz per San Marino]

Amongst the most ROBBED of non-qualifiers!


I TEAR DOWN THE FIREWALLS!

 

[Una Kratz per San Marino]

Also disproving the notion that Azerbaijani entrants go STRAIGHT into the mincer

 

[EuroTischion]

Also disproving the notion that Azerbaijani entrants go STRAIGHT into the mincer

But has ANYONE heard from TuranTuralX recently?

 

[Una Kratz per San Marino]

But has ANYONE heard from TuranTuralX recently?

Baked into one of Efendi’s cakes

If they want to do a national final it should be a Battle of the STARS

AYSEL
AISEL
EFENDI
SAFURA
NIKKI BUT NOT ELI
DIHAJ
SAMRA!

 

[Havada Kedavra - I Hak to Destroy!]

I don't know. Does AISEL really have Anna B upside?

 

[auretz]

X My Heart is indeed iconic, but she was vocal even at the time how she disliked it and wanted to come back with a song in her usual style, ie jazz

 

[Una Kratz per San Marino]

No, we don’t need jazz at Eurovision (or indeed, anywhere).

 

[Havada Kedavra - I Hak to Destroy!]

I'm sure jazz is great fun for the musically gifted AISEL, but please keep it at arm's length from the common people.

 

[Madisön]

Aysel YES, Aisel NO.

 

[Haiku Rewrites]

NIKKI BUT NOT ELI

I assume that she has finished working for Azerbaijan's Make Roads Safe campaign (despite getting into a car accident where she was doing a video selfie without a seatbelt on) she has got free time next year?

 

[EuroTischion]

Apparently this will be an internal selection after all. Shame. Was looking forward to getting the Chromecast out and seeing what Azeri adverts look like

The six finalists that made it through the round of auditions are:

Aisel
Emy Lia
Fahree
Ilkin Dovlatov, Mila Miles and Etibar Asadli
Qorqud
Sabina Guluzadeh

No word on when we'll hear the songs or when we'll get any further news, so I imagine there'll be a nice period of Azeri heel-dragging for the next 8 months or so.

 

[LoooooOOOOOooooOOOooocille]

Why would we not want the opportunity to use the term AZERBAIJAZZ?!

 

[Madisön]

Why would we not want the opportunity to use the term AZERBAIJAZZ?!

I guess it would be being forced to watch three minutes of jazz. Possibly six minutes.

 

[auretz]

Supposedly the song

 

[Baby LaZenne]

Supposedly the song

Oh, she did NOT come to play stand on a slight incline

 

[VoRonika]

Not Aisel after all

Fahree will represent Azerbaijan in Malmö

Fahree will represent Azerbaijan at the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö this May.

eurovision.tv

 

[Darcus & Carnivus]

A MAN?

 

[Darcus & Carnivus]

Wait I just saw a picture of him. I pull that back

 

[Una Kratz per San Marino]

Wait I just saw a picture of him. I pull that back

Let’s just hope he brings a tit shaker

 

[auretz]

A very LQ clip of the song:



Diyar is Azeri for "the land", the main line seems to be "going back to the land" which can easily be interpreted as about Artsakh. Yet another headache for the EBU (if they've even noticed)

 

[Pingu]

Wow they slipped that in while the EBU were looking elsewhere didn’t they!

 

[RaspberrySwirl]

No surprise there

 

[Laß diemlaw Sonne in dein Herz]

And here the EBU were so relieved that the Icelandic and Serbian songs that they’d have had to ban both lost their national finals.

 

[Una Kratz per San Marino]

But it sounds like it might slap so…

 

[Una Kratz per San Marino]

Joking obviously. Is it subject to EBU review?

 

[auretz]

I wonder if the EBU are regretting allowing things like "1944" compete - it seems like we've really upped the ante of fairly unsubtle political lyrics since then. Mind you, Greece 1995 slipped through the net back then too so I guess it's always been a possibility

 

[Penelope Will Rave]

 

[Una Kratz per San Marino]

What happened to Azerbaijan?

Awful

 

[VoRonika]

Well that definitely doesn’t sound like something that was rejected early in the selection process and then mysteriously got abruptly announced as the winner at the eleventh hour for unexplained reasons.

 

[Pingu]

I hear they've ditched the not at all contentious line from the demo about going back to their land.

 

[EuroTischion]

I don't really know what's going on but I've corrected my opening post

 

[Penelope Will Rave]

That sounds gorgeous.

 

[LoooooOOOOOooooOOOooocille]

I think this could be a massive grower, the STRINGS are stunning, and of course the whiff of the SOUK warbling at the end is fantastic.

 

[Madisön]

Is it written by Swedes?

 

[win_the_game]

This is great.

 

[Apoca]

I don't dislike this? I appreciate the soundscape but it does feel a bit 75% there.

 

[LoooooOOOOOooooOOOooocille]

Could this be the season’s SULTRY GEM?