Mei Finegold is a woman taking success in stride. ‘Same Heart’ topped the Wiwi Jury for several weeks and has been tipped by many as Israel’s strongest entry in recent years. We caught up with her at a Russian cafe in Moscow ahead of the Russia Eurovision Party in April. Mei was glowing in the sunlight and full of life.
On Her April Fools Joke
I put it up and said my dress is ready and the reactions…came very quickly!
On Her Internal Selection
We sat together for 7 or 8 hours and listened to more than 100 songs.
On What Skinning Out Means
It’s a metaphor for dealing with your demons.
This interview came from Deban Aderemi in the UK. You can find him on Twitter @debanaderemi and once you’ve followed him you can also like our Facebook page to keep up to date with all the latest from ESC 2014 in Copenhagen.
Deban is a hilarious and a good interviewer. He brings up serious subjects in a light-minded and humorous way. And his attitude is totally fab
Great interview and I love Mei’s personality!
Love Mei, love Wiwibloggs. Best ESC blog out there, by a mile.
Great interview; agree that Wiwibloggers always give excellent interviews. And Mei is so well-spoken and gorgeous and talented. Tel Aviv 2015 please 🙂
@Sam "Sopon" yeah I’ve noticed! And that’s great, well done wiwibloggers! (:
@Theifo
The Wiwibloggs interviews are very relaxed because the Wiwibloggers keep constant, friendly relations with the singers rather than stalk around. Look at Valentina, for example. Wiwibloggs makes an effort to be friendly with her and even act as tour guides rather than pesky paparazzi.
Deban was very kind, yes. Mei SO deserves world recognition!!
Deban, congratulations on this interview and especially for asking the meaning of “skinning you out”. I’ve been looking for weeks to the answer to that question and was just about to bribe the escxtra team to go and and get the answer. I want to use that phrase myself now.
Of course it also helps when the media is also as relaxed and friendly as Deban 😛
She’s so nice! It’s nice to know when contestants can be this relaxed and friendly with the media, it tells a lot about them.