aiste pilvelyte lithuania eurovision 2020

It’s one of the national finals that, somewhat annoyingly, drip feeds its songs to us. Thankfully, by Saturday we’ll know all of the entries in Lithuania’s newly revamped Pabandom iš naujo! Eurovizijos atranka 2020 selection, once the third and final heat takes place.

But for the most part we don’t even have to wait that long as several entries are already available to listen to online. Amongst the number is Aistė Pilvelytė’s eagerly awaited “Unbreakable”.

Eurovizijos Atranka 2020: Newly released songs in Lithuania’s Eurovision selection

Aistė Pilvelytė “Unbreakable”

Aistė is nothing if not a fighter. “Unbreakable” will be her 12th entry in Lithuania’s Eurovision selection. It comes despite her previous vow to quit after finishing second in 2017. For her latest effort, she’s brought in the big guns — Thomas G:Son and Johnny Sanchez. G:Son in particular is known for being a prolific songwriter at Eurovision. His biggest hit to date is “Euphoria” — the all-conquering Swedish winner from 2012.

Vitalijus Špokaitis – “Nemušk savęs”

Justina Žukauskaitė – “Breathe In”

Nombeko Augustė “Reikia man”

Rokas Povilius – “Vilnius Calling”

The following entries have yet to be released at the time of writing:

  • The Backs “Fully”
  • Bernardas “Dad, Don’t Be Mad at Me”
  • Evgenya Redko “Far”
  • Ruslanas Kirilkinas “Soldier’s Heart”
  • Lukas Bartaška “Where Is That Change?”

Previously released entries

    1. Monika Marija “If I Leave”
    2. Baltos Varnos “Namų dvasia”
    3. Meandi “DRIP”
    4. Gabrielius Vagelis “Tave čia randu”
    5. Andy Vaic “Why Why Why”
    6. Petunija “Show Ya”
    7. Aika “Paradas”
    8. Glossarium “Game Over”
    9. Aistay “Dangus man tu”
    10. Justinas Lapatinskas “Highway Story”
    11. Donata Virbilaitė “Made of Wax”
    12. Lukas Norkūnas “Atsiprašyk”
    13. Moniqué – “Make Me Human”
    14. Kristina Jure – “My Sound of Silence”
    15. Rūta Loop – “We Came from the Sun”
    16. Viktorija Miškūnaitė – “The Ocean”
    17. Alen Chicco – “Somewhere Out There”
    18. Germanas Skoris – “Chemistry”
    19. Soliaris – “Breath”
    20. Twosome – “Playa”
    21. Antturi – “I Gotta Do”
    22. Abrokenleg – “Electric Boy”
    23. Indraya – “You and I”
    24. Voldemars Petersons – “Wings of Freedom”
    25. THE ROOP “On Fire” (Heat Three)
    26. KaYra — “Alligator” — (Heat Three)

What do you think of unbreakable? What’s your favourite song in Lithuania? Let us know in the comments.

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blueeyed
blueeyed
4 years ago

We don’t need anymore songs written by Swedish composers. We all remember how it ended for Laura and the Lovers.

Max
Max
4 years ago

You clearly hear Peter Boström was not involved in creating Unbreakable…

Mert
Mert
4 years ago

I like unbreakable it’s Like sanna nielsen – I’m in love
Troy on fire is my fave from her but she is good performer good luck aiste

Gabi
Gabi
4 years ago

I feel sorry for Aist?. She’s so talented but in the past 7 or so years she’s only known for her desperate attempts at Eurovision. She has somewhat become a national joke and people don’t take her seriously. Heard on a local tv show she said ‘I wish there was no jury at Eurovision’. This clearly relates to her disagreement with Ibelhauptaitè a few years back. Pretty sure she’s so gonna be a part of jury at least in the final because we Lithuanians love drama so much. Aist? is known for coming second a few times. This year she… Read more »

Colin
Colin
4 years ago
Reply to  Gabi

I don’t think Aiste will come in top 5, but I have a strong hunch she is qualifying from the heat. She’s too popular and the song is too on the nose ESC-type and catchy to miss out.
As Lithuanian, who do you think will win? Monique? Monika Marija? Gabrielius Vagelis? Someone who we the outsiders would consider a surprise?

Héctor
Héctor
4 years ago

Let me say I usually like Aiste’s attempts. “Unbreakeable” is actually enjoyable but more like a guilty pleasure than like a serious entry and a real contender. It sounds like a 2004-2009 Eurovision song they have tried to bring to the 2020 by adding some modern effects. It have ended up sounding like an schlager song. The lyrics seem produce by a computer which has the lyrics of the songs from the past 20 years thrown into it. So the result is your usual cheap, cheese and uplifting song in the Maltese National Final. Enjoyable but not a real option… Read more »

Merdy
Merdy
4 years ago

Aiste’s song is just millions of cliches thrown into a blender. Meh. She had way better gems in the previous years.

Colin
Colin
4 years ago

No bad songs in the third heat thus far. I still expect that *one bad song* each heat had unreleased until the performance. The first one had Atsiprašyk and the second one Chemistry. Thus I fear that one of the five unreleased ones is actually a dud.
So far, my favorite of the heat must be Alligator! It’s so catchy, funny and charming. I’m waiting for Lukas Bartaška now. Last year, he was really solid. Hopefully, he’s not the dud now. 🙂

joff
joff
4 years ago

I’m still on the train with Gabrielius.
so:
1. Gabrielius
2. Monique
3. Ruta Loop

Monika Marija has an innocent song, very weak compared to last year.
Aiste has a song that can be a waste of any other selection.
Alen Chicco is visually very strong but the song does not convince me 100%
The proposal of the Baltos Varnos sisters is interesting.
I await Evgenya Redko.
The Roop was better with “Yes I Do”
All other songs are weak and do not deserve to win.

Kris
Kris
4 years ago
Reply to  joff

I love Namu dvasia

Solo
Solo
4 years ago

The highest quality song of Aist?, with igniting energy.

Sabrina
Sabrina
4 years ago

I’ll just say that “Unbreakable” is everything I hope Eurovision has already left behind. There are 3 songs in this third heat which concepts I appreciate: “Alligator”(though the artist as marionettes thing need to be showed also with staging, cause the lyrics are a little vague), “On Fire” (I like how it’s about more self convincement than about self empowerment) and “Vilnius Calling” (makes cute humorous references about Eurovision without being offensive to the contest). Maybe one of them can get my 5th spot after Gabrielius, Ruta, Moniqué and Monika.

Skiwalko
Skiwalko
4 years ago

Aiste, if your song’s lyrics sound as if they were written by an AI… maybe don’t release it as a lyric video?
Like this is Nicky Byrne’s “Sunlight” level of genericness.

Purple Mask
Purple Mask
4 years ago
Reply to  Skiwalko

Indeed. At least “Sunlight” contained a message about equality and liberation. What is “Unbreakable” trying to tell us?

Kris
Kris
4 years ago
Reply to  Skiwalko

Dance like we’re weiners

bastian
bastian
4 years ago

I dont care about cliches, i love Unbreakable! I still need songs like this in esc. Good luck to her!

Roelof Meesters
Roelof Meesters
4 years ago

Nooo, what is Aistes song? I’m Like A Wolf was so daring and catchy, this is super dated. If Lithuania picks her with this song but not in 2017, that would be a crime. Same goes for Monika Marija, her last effort was far better. Im fully team Moniqué now.

Colin
Colin
4 years ago

Aiste’s song is indeed very cliche-ridden. Still, I find it kind of… enjoyable?! I don’t think she’ll win over MM and Monique, but if so, good luck to her, since she really, really tries!

Has anyone noticed an interesting connection between a Lithuanian finalist and an Albanian one? Even if the songs themselves cannot be more different, we have two very similarly titled one – Vilnius Calling and Ju flet Tirana (Tirana Calling).

An American ESC Fan
An American ESC Fan
4 years ago
Reply to  Colin

I noticed that last part too! Now watch us have a “Paris Calling” or “Moscow Calling” lol

Sale
Sale
4 years ago

Will Monique release her entry on spotify and the studio version on yt?

Merdy
Merdy
4 years ago
Reply to  Sale

She said the music video is coming in early February, before her performance at the second semi-final (8th of February). And a Spotify release the same day.

Purple Mask
Purple Mask
4 years ago

Nombeko Auguste – wow, she has a great voice in the lower range. Love it.

Sabrina
Sabrina
4 years ago
Reply to  Purple Mask

Not a fan of her song, but her low register it’s indeed beautiful. Hope to hear more from her in the next years.

Colin
Colin
4 years ago
Reply to  Purple Mask

Beautiful voice! Interesting song too.

Jo.
Jo.
4 years ago

It’s so cheesy that I end up liking it =s

Jo.
Jo.
4 years ago
Reply to  Jo.

the weirdo auto play tho LOL

Purple Mask
Purple Mask
4 years ago

I’m loving the backhanded ESC tribute song that is “Vilnius Calling”; very amusing. 🙂
I’m sure that a lot of people out there watch ESC out of boredom and loneliness, so fair play for writing that.

Skiwalko
Skiwalko
4 years ago
Reply to  Purple Mask

I feel very uneasy about “Vilnius Calling”. I can’t decide whether it’s genius, bad or ingeniously bad.
Is it a troll act, is it an homage, are the lyrics ironically cheap, is it a spoof on rock songs or a genuine ballad, where is “Croatia, Rotterdam”? I’ve just got so many questions…

Purple Mask
Purple Mask
4 years ago

About Vitalius’s song (“Nemušk saves”) – I honestly checked outside for a barking dog while I was listening to this song, until I realised that the dog was a sound effect on the actual track itself! How silly of me. 😀
It’s a cheerful enough song; I wish him well. I’m still listening to the others.

Rasmus
Rasmus
4 years ago

I likes Aistes song. Thomas Gson work as a song writer. If you think he should quit. Then you should stop watching ESC to right? he likes writing and you like watching. So your opinions are as usual like a 5 year old girl.

Purple Mask
Purple Mask
4 years ago
Reply to  Rasmus

I would never tell anyone to stop songwriting. However, I would like to ask him and other songwriters why they insist on using four-chord songs and previously used lyrics. Is it because of what listeners buy, or because that is what they want to write, or what is in demand by the performers? I don’t know the reasons behind it, hence why I would ask.

Rasmus
Rasmus
4 years ago
Reply to  Purple Mask

i actually like this sound. In melfest its called schlager. Yes i know that it will probably not win in Lithuania. its Aistes 12th time competing and i think she thinks its will win.

blueeyed
blueeyed
4 years ago
Reply to  Rasmus

Jag var en gång på en schlagernatt i Stockholm. Värsta kvällen i mitt liv. Jag hatar schlager. Också i melfest.

blueeyed
blueeyed
4 years ago
Reply to  Purple Mask

I would. G:son writes boring generic songs. We don’t need them anymore.

Mr Vanilla Bean
Mr Vanilla Bean
4 years ago
Reply to  Rasmus

An unbreakable five-year-old girl. Like a diamond, the horizon. Unbreakable.

Rasmus
Rasmus
4 years ago

I love schlager and this sound. Yes i know that this sound have a hard time to win now a days. But i still love it:)

Olgafan
Olgafan
4 years ago
Reply to  Rasmus

I like schlager too 🙂

Rasmus
Rasmus
4 years ago
Reply to  Olgafan

cool 🙂

impressiveinstants
impressiveinstants
4 years ago

Every verse in Aiste’s song has a name of a past Eurovision song.

Purple Mask
Purple Mask
4 years ago

It’s a very fun game, indeed. 🙂

xoxo
xoxo
4 years ago

Didn’t know that there was a song in Eurovision called “Everlasting Glow”

Mr Vanilla Bean
Mr Vanilla Bean
4 years ago
Reply to  xoxo

There totally should be, though.

Purple Mask
Purple Mask
4 years ago

I’ll write one for 2021. 😀

impressiveinstants
impressiveinstants
4 years ago
Reply to  xoxo

There’s a Melfest song called Glow haha

Colin
Colin
4 years ago

Let’s count – 1. You (Sweden 2013) – I know it’s kinda cheating, since half of songs have this one, but it still counts. 2. Walk on Water (Malta 2016) 3. Invincible (Sweden 2006) 4. Won’t ever (Never) Let You Go (Russia 2006) 5. World on Fire (Belarus NF 2018) 6. Unbreakable (Switzerland 2012) 7. Believe (Russia 2008) 8. Fly-ing (without) wings (either Denmark 2000 or Czechia NF 2018 would roughly respond) 9. Reach out for the Stars (almost the same as Finnish NF 2017, similar to Israel 2016) 10. Together (Ireland 2018) 11. Stronger (I believe a Romanian NF… Read more »

Skiwalko
Skiwalko
4 years ago
Reply to  Colin

13. Believe in me (UK 2013)
14. Diamond [of Night] (Estonia 1999)
15. World (Albania 2017)
16. Fire – Fuego/Feuer (Cyprus 2018/Germany 1978)
17. Change (Romania 2011)
18. Like [It] (Belarus 2019)

Mr Vanilla Bean
Mr Vanilla Bean
4 years ago
Reply to  Skiwalko

It goes far beyond Eurovision, even.
Flying without wings -Westlife
Unbreakable – Westlife and a million others
Titanium – Sia
Stronger Together – Hilly Clinton

Olgafan
Olgafan
4 years ago

Bulletproof ? That’also in a commonly played song

Mr Vanilla Bean
Mr Vanilla Bean
4 years ago
Reply to  Colin

‘Never ever let you go’ gets double points – Denmark 2001.

Campbell Grace
Campbell Grace
4 years ago

Bulletproof by La Roux and Dotter

Purple Mask
Purple Mask
4 years ago

Credit to Thomas G:Son and Johnny Sanchez, who managed to put together lyrics from many decades of well-known songs, put them into four of five chords and make it sound good. Deliberate or not, this appears right in the face of the Sobrals. Discussion?

Mr Vanilla Bean
Mr Vanilla Bean
4 years ago
Reply to  Purple Mask

Yeah, totally. Not a single original phrase in the entire lyrics. I’m amazed by such genius.

Mr Vanilla Bean
Mr Vanilla Bean
4 years ago

I think to wish Aiste well means to wish her another 2nd place. This sounds like it’d be headed for a Claudia Faniello Eurovision result. All the cliches packed into that one song… I can’t even count that high. And weirdly, I still totally enjoy her voice in the song but while listening to it for the second time, I’m like ‘why am I listening to this?’ Kinda like when you have a lazy day and eat fast food and regret it while you’re still eating it because you know you don’t even really enjoy it and it’s totally not… Read more »

Purple Mask
Purple Mask
4 years ago

As you see above, I agree about the clichés. But is this “sloppy” or a deliberate attempt to generate what Sobral saw as plastic music? It’s very well produced, which makes me think it’s all deliberate.

Mr Vanilla Bean
Mr Vanilla Bean
4 years ago
Reply to  Purple Mask

It’s sloppy. You could have written those lyrics just as easily. The melody is also really dire. The production allows for some awesome moments for Aiste’s voice but it’s like putting lipstick on a pig. The pig being the song, obviously. If Thomas really wanted, he could have at least given Aiste a decent one of his interchangeable pop schlagers, like Denmark 2010.

Purple Mask
Purple Mask
4 years ago

I’m relieved that you clarified what the pig was. Haha. I just find it hard to believe that such unoriginality can sound so good without genuine support behind it. Someone obviously believes in this, somewhere. Perhaps the fault is in us listeners, for buying such music for the past two decades?
“Let us rather blame ourselves.” Oops, sorry that’s from a play. 😀

Mr Vanilla Bean
Mr Vanilla Bean
4 years ago
Reply to  Purple Mask

Would you still find the sound good if someone with no impressive voice was singing it? Aiste has to be a powerhouse for the entire three minutes here, carrying all the weight, in my opinion.

Purple Mask
Purple Mask
4 years ago

No, of course not. However, the same could be said about any song, no matter how it is written.
I suppose my question is really about: How do we (the audience) judge song content in the post-Sobral era of Eurovision?

Mr Vanilla Bean
Mr Vanilla Bean
4 years ago
Reply to  Purple Mask

No it isn’t. Not for me anyway, given the fact that I never cared for Sobral. But 2017 makes my point nevertheless because I loved City Lights. Blanche had no impressive vocals. She has a captivating voice but her singing wasn’t impressive and yet the song had such quality that it still stood out. So, I totally disagree with both of your points here. And there is no post-Sobral era, Netta won the year after, the exact opposite.

Purple Mask
Purple Mask
4 years ago

We can probably disagree all night, especially about Blanche, who I saw in London and I can still remember her voice. I just find it difficult now to find where the songwriting “bar” is to judge song content ever since the Sobrals raised that bar. It makes songs like “Unbreakable” appear very unoriginal, although such songs are still likeable to the masses.

Mr Vanilla Bean
Mr Vanilla Bean
4 years ago
Reply to  Purple Mask

What bar? I just like what I like. I am supremely indifferent to Sobral. It didn’t raise anything for me. Music is not academia. I don’t find judging music difficult, I have my ears.

Kris
Kris
4 years ago

Wow bean I’m really impressed here. People trying to make things bigger than they are and you telling exactly what matters!!!

If it sounds good , it’s a good song.

Purple Mask
Purple Mask
4 years ago
Reply to  Kris

Sorry Kris, but that reply annoys me. We are all asked to give our opinions on the music, so who decides what “matters” and what doesn’t? Answer: We do.

Olgafan
Olgafan
4 years ago

Yes , city lights should win . Song was too strong compared to everything else in 2017

Olgafan
Olgafan
4 years ago
Reply to  Purple Mask

Sobral was not an era
That was a mistake

Purple Mask
Purple Mask
4 years ago
Reply to  Olgafan

Post-Sobral = “The years after Sobral won the contest.” So, 2018 to…?

Jo.
Jo.
4 years ago

she’s gonna win the ogae 2nd chance with song, it’s exactly what they like ^^

Mr Vanilla Bean
Mr Vanilla Bean
4 years ago
Reply to  Jo.

lol so true

Polegend Godgarina
Polegend Godgarina
4 years ago

what did you honestly expect from a thomas g:xpired-written song? he did the trick with euphoria, and then never again.

Mr Vanilla Bean
Mr Vanilla Bean
4 years ago

There was still the slight chance he would give her something okay-ish, like Spain 2012, Denmark 2010, or Georgia 2013, not that I was crazy about any of those, either. I didn’t expect a miracle. I suppose he wouldn’t ‘waste’ a real effort on a Lithuanian NF, so yeah… I suppose I should have expected exactly a song like that. lol

Purple Mask
Purple Mask
4 years ago

Not entirely. In my view, “Amanecer” by Edurne (Spain 2015) is a powerful and beautiful orchestral pop song.
Credit, where it is due.

Azaad
Azaad
4 years ago
Reply to  Purple Mask

He also contributed to Cyprus 2016 which was a very good effort, especially in the studio cut.

Eurovisionfan12
Eurovisionfan12
4 years ago
Reply to  Azaad

Also don’t forget “Taboo”, which actually has a really strong message in it.

Kris
Kris
4 years ago

Lyrically taboo was mind-blowing
My mind gave up trying to connect the words