OUR EUROSTORY EUROVISION SONG 2019: I DON’T SPEAK YOUR LANGUAGE

We asked the awesome Koonian to write  a song for us! And… we dared him to fit ALL THIS YEAR’S EUROVISION SONG TITLES in the lyrics. Just like last year. So here it is – with this one we celebrate Eurovision 2019!

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Italy wins Eurostory Best Lyrics Award

To highlight the art of writing song lyrics, www.eurostory.nl hands out the Eurostory Best Lyrics Award – an award for the best song lyrics from this year’s Eurovision-songs. This year’s award is won by Italy: song writers Mahmood and Dardust, for the lyrics of their song Soldi. Who came second… »

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France: Bilal Hassani’s Kingdom

The best lines of his debut album

He is nineteen years old (born on the day of the nines: 9-9-’99) and he is the French participant at Eurovision 2019. Bilal Hassani is his name, a boy of Moroccan-French descent, who got famous after taking part in The Voice Kids (where he sang Conchita Wurst’s winning Eurovision song… »

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INTERVIEW MADAME MONSIEUR: O, it’s so great !

They came to Eurovision 2018 with a story. On Twitter, the two members of Madame Monsieur, Émilie Satt and Jean-Karl Lucas, learned about a baby named Mercy, born a refugee, on a boat in the middle of the Mediterranean sea. The sincere lyrics of their song were awarded our ‘Best… »

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Bilal Hassani: Kingdom

The best lines of his debut album

He is nineteen years old (born on the day of the nines: 9-9-’99) and he is the French participant at Eurovision 2019. Bilal Hassani is his name, a boy of Moroccan-French descent, who got famous after taking part in The Voice Kids (where he sang Conchita Wurst’s winning Eurovision song… »

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Iceland: what Hatari has to say about Gaza

Our love for the first semi-final

The Eurovision entry for Iceland paints a dystopia: a horrific, fictional society. A society full of dismal elements that can best be described by using a word such as ‘sinister’. The lyrics for Hatrið mun sigra (‘Hatred shall prevail’) reads as the musical reincarnation of the science fiction novel Brave new world (published in 1932)…. »

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Izhar Cohen: Many, many things happened

Izhar Cohen (1951) was the first Israeli winner ever. He competed for his country in Paris in 1978 and won with the now iconic disco song A-ba-ni-bi. Still being a renowned and respected performer, he talks to Eurostory about the glory of it all – and the hardships.  You are… »

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IMRI: Let’s continue!

Imri Zev (IMRI, 1991) is the young Israeli singer, dancer, actor and model that participated in Eurovision three times. Twice as a backing singer – and then, in 2017, on the main stage, singing I feel alive. Eurostory spoke with him about the impact the festival had, and about his… »

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PingPong’s Roy ‘Chicky’ Arad: I think if you win too much in life, you’ll become a bad person

He was responsible for perhaps the most talked-about Israeli Song Contest entry of all time: Sameyakh. A song with rather suggestive lyrics (‘I want to do it with him all day long’) and an act (flying the Syrian flag) that tormented many Israeli television viewers. Nineteen years later, he –… »

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Ode to Milim

The most beautiful Israeli entry for the Eurovision Song Contest ever was selected in March 2010, approximately six months after my father passed away rather suddenly. I was nineteen years old, a journalism student who still lived at home with his mother. Her grieving process had a few jagged edges…. »

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Who wins the Eurostory Best Lyrics Award 2019? [poll!]

Onwards! Onwards! Every year the Eurovision Song Contest is professionalizing a bit more. And we try to give a little push as well, by  crowning the best lyrics – to the writers of which we hand (for the fourth year in a row) the Eurostory Best Lyrics Award. Last year’s… »

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