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Shouldn’t we get involved?

Then the Romanian media also asked if it would be better for Roxen to withdraw. Let such a young lady give in to pressure, what should we do? Shouldn’t we get involved? Yet there she was.

This was in part due to her willpower, but to summarize very succinctly: It’s very complicated for a country to change something about your entry at the last minute. Indeed, in many cases this is impossible.

Setes Bakker, Executive Producer of the Eurovision Song Contest Rotterdam 2021, is now part of the Eurovision Song Contest Board of Directors. Any change request after the deadline for submitting your entry must go through this forum. He told NU.nl that there are basically two ways to change performance after all.

“It might be a small change. Look, for example, at the light ball Duncan Lawrence brought with him in Tel Aviv. That didn’t work right in the semi-finals. At such a moment, Avrotros asks the board if it’s okay To delete this ball. In the final on Saturday. These kinds of requests are often about small technical things and they are usually good.”

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What if Nikolai or Cooper don’t want to be involved?

Avrotros has already said that he would like to continue with Nikolai and Cooper and have every confidence in them, but what if the duo themselves no longer want to? And then it is not possible to simply appoint a new singer. The artist and song had already been recorded for months. Then it becomes very complicated to change something.

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“In extreme cases, for example, if someone dies or if someone is seriously ill, we also receive a request for a change. Another example: the number turns out to be plagiarism. Then we think as a council whether there could be something Another do,” Packer says. The council is strict: is it really necessary to change it?

In 2003 Tatoo participated to Russia. It was revealed that one of the singers had a tumor on her vocal cords and wanted to abstain from rehearsals. Officially, this is not permitted during the Eurovision Song Contest. Only with a doctor’s certificate did the duo finally get permission from the European Broadcasting Union to do rehearsals with another singer.

Nicolai and Cooper along with AVROTROS are working hard to get it done in three weeks Burning daylight Sing as best you can. On Tuesday 9th May they will be competing against entries from fourteen other countries. If we had to believe the bookmakers, it would be very interesting if they would end up among the ten eligible countries: we now always oscillate between tenth or eleventh place.

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