Le yellow for Malin Åkerman, red for Petra Mede: at the start of the second semi-final of Eurovision, organized this year by Sweden, after Loreen’s victory in 2023, the tone was set, with the colors ( minus one) of the Belgian flag, in the dresses worn by the two presenters of the evening. However, these outfits did not bode well for Mustii’s qualification for Saturday’s final. The Belgian, despite a quality performance, did not qualify this Thursday for the Eurovision song contest, unlike Latvia, Austria, the Netherlands, Norway, Israel, Greece, Estonia, Switzerland, Georgia, Armenia in order of qualification announcement.
Musically, it was Sarah Bonnici who had the privilege of opening hostilities with the sympathetically pop title Loop. A performance that not all Belgians will have had the opportunity to see, since, at the start of the evening, the VRT displayed a message of support from the unions to condemn the human rights violations committed by the State of Israel, a message which also recalled that the State of Israel was “destroying freedom of the press”.
A powerful service
None of that on RTBF, where the ordinary course of things allowed us to taste the performances of Nemo, one of the favorites of the competition, for Switzerland, of the very acclaimed Saba, candidate from Denmark, of the “beautiful energy” says Maureen Louys, co-host of the program on the front page with Jean-Louis Lahaye, from the Armenian Ladaniva. While waiting for Mustii, twelfth in the running order, in a second semi-final more challenging, it seemed to us, than that of Tuesday, and just as full of visual effects. Tuesday evening, the first semi-final, broadcast on Tipik, failed to overshadow the first episode of the series HPI (on the front page, 426,814 viewers), nor Koh Lanta (on TF1, 216,000), nor at PSG-Borussia Dortmund (on RTL Club, 244,737 viewers). Tough competition for the European song contest…
From Mustii’s performance, shortly after 10 p.m., we will remember the power released by the Belgian singer/actor, who had been preparing for the test for a long time and had struck people’s minds during rehearsals, thirty-eight years after the victory of Sandra Kim. The Belgian had requested, for his piece, a choir of singers from all over the world via the internet, represented on stage by a forest of microphones. It was finally when he was able to escape that his performance took on its full scope, concluded on his knees (and with his tongue sticking out).
After the closely watched candidate Eden Golan (for Israel), it was Joost Klein who had the honor of closing the evening – leader in terms of views on Youtube with his festive and stromaesque Europapa. The singer from the Netherlands took his ticket for the final, unlike Mustii…
