Twenty acts will compete at Eesti Laul 2018, the Estonian national selection for Eurovision 2018, but only one can grab the golden ticket to Lisbon. To help you make an informed decision on who to pay attention to, the Wiwi Jury – our in-house panel of music unprofessionals – will preview and review each of this year’s acts. We’re ready to pick our favourite for Estonia!
Our jury for this edition consists of 15 jurors who come from Australia, Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary, Iceland Lithuania, New Zealand, Serbia, Spain and the United Kingdom. Each juror assesses each song independently, and awards each song a score from 0 to 10. Before calculating the Wiwi Jury verdict, we drop the highest and lowest scores to reduce potential bias and outliers.
We’ll be unrolling these one by one over the coming weeks. You can read the completed reviews by clicking on the song title.
Eesti Laul 2018: Reviews and rankings
- Stig Rästa – “Home” (7.5)
- Desiree – “On My Mind” (7.12) *
- Elina Netsajeva – “La Forza” (7.12) *
- Nika – “Knock Knock” (6.92)
- Etnopatsy – “Külm” (6.88)
- Iiris & Agoh – “Drop That Boogie” (6.85)
- Vajé – “Laura (Walk With Me)” (6.46)
- Girls in Pearls – “Spellbound” (5.96)
- Aden Ray – “Everybody’s Dressed” (5.92)
- Indrek Ventmann – “Tempel” (5.85)
- Sibyl Vane – “Thousand Words” (5.81) *
- Karl Kristjan & Karl Killing (ft. Wateva) – “Young” (5.81) *
- Frankie Animal – “(Can’t Keep Calling) Misty” (5.65)
- Marju Lanik – “Täna otsuseid ei tee” (5.23)
- Tiiu x Okym x Semy – “Näita oma energiat” (4.96)
- Rolf Roosalu – “Show A Little Love” (4.85)
- Ellis Parna & Gerli Padar – “Sky” (4.81)
- Metsakutsu – “Koplifornia” (4.58)
- Miljardid – “Pseudoprobleem” (4.54)
- Evestus – “Welcome to my World” (4)
* Ties are broken by preferential vote.
Eliminated acts are in italics.
Not a fan of last minute changes, but final performances shaked things up a bit for me, and here you go, my final, re-evaluated ratings of Eesti Laul 2018: 1. Elina Netšajeva: La Forza – 10/10 2. Aden Ray: Everybody’s Dressed – 9/10 3. Etnopatsy: Kulm – 8.5/10 4. Frankie Animal: Can’t Keep Calling (Misty) – 8/10 5. Nika: Knock Knock – 7.5/10 6. Vaje: Laura (Walk With Me) – 7/10 7. Evestus: Welcome To My World – 7/10 8. Eliis Parna & Gerli Padar: Sky (Taevas) – 7/10 9. Stig Rasta: Home – 7/10 10. Karl-Kristjan & Karl Killing… Read more »
I’ll never understand how La Forza is lower than Home but… ok?
Umm Robyn.. You guys have already reviewed Sky, Koplifornia, Knock Knock and Home. Why aren’t they on main ranking?