Ukraine, the land of Eurovision legends like Ruslana and creative trainwrecks like Svetlana Loboda, will stage its national selection tomorrow at 12:15pm Ukraine time / 11:15 CET. You can watch a live stream of the contest on Eurovision.tv.
But you don’t have to wait until then to check out this year’s contestants. You can listen to all of the finalists by clicking here. You can also watch the videos of most of the acts below. Unfortunately not all of them are readily available on Youtube.
It’s gonna be hilarious, y’all. The Anna Maria duo are playing the sisterly love card like Slovakia’s TWiiNS did back in 2011. A contestant named Lisa Wassabi is presumably gonna bring some spice to the stage. And Victoria Petryk, a much larger version of JESC 2011 winner Anastasiya Petryk, is throwing down a dance number called “Love is lord.” It’s gonna be HOT. Contestant Natalia Valevska sums up our excitement: “All of your energy is taking me over/ looking so radiant about to take cover.” BRING IT UKRAINE!
Anna Khodorovska – If there is love
Anna Maria duo – 5 Stars Hotel
Dennis Lyubimov – Love
Eugene Litvinkovych – Strelyannaya Bird
Illariya – I’m alive
Lisa Vassabi – No fear
Marietta – It’s my live
Natalia Valevska – Love makes you beautiful
Roman Polonsky – WANTED DEAD or ALIVE
Stas Shurins – Why
Shanis – My Soul
Vladimir Tkachenko – Be where you are
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-3ErNX0rlvk
Victoria Petrik – Love is lord
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QmIMEv4VXUA
Group “NeAngely” – Courageous
Tatiana Shyrko – Let Go
Tanya Burke – Believe me
Mary Yaremchuk – Tick-Tock
ULI RUD – Tsvetok
Victor Romanchenko – At the edge of the abyss
Anatoly Shparov – Waiting for you
Willy Lee Adams contributed this report from London. Follow him on Twitter @willyleeadams. You can also keep up with the latest Eurovision news and gossip by following wiwibloggs.com on Twitter and Facebook.
After having listened to all the songs at least 1 time (some in very poor quality) I can conclude that Ukraine doesn’t have a very strong final. Out of the 20 songs, I think there are only six or seven that I like. It won’t be easy to equal the 3rd place of Zlata Ognevich and “Gravity”. She was my big favorite of Eurovision this year in Malmö.
I hope for a victory for:
Anna Hodorkovska,
Anna-Maria,
Marietta,
Nataliya Valevska,
neAngely,
Tania BerQ
or Victoria Petryk
Good luck Ukraine!
I think that Tatyana is the winner, she has a powerful voice and the song is very good
oops .. 21st, d’oh.
So … checks timeanddate.com … 20th at 22:15:00 UTC
Leaning toward Vika based on these.
The audition videos are a bit too rough to judge.
Tatiana Shyrko (not Tanya Shyrko 😛 ) all the way. Viktoria gets a close second place, followed by Uli.
I’ve only listened to a small bunch, so based on that, NeAngely, Viktoria, Tatiana or Uli FTW puhlease. All fierce, all female. I.e. what Ukraine generally like in their Eurovision reps.
Vika Petryk