EUROVISION 2019 REVIEW: DENMARK - Leonora - Love Is Forever

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Denmark this year once again used Dansk Melodi Grand Prix to choose their entry for this year's contest. This year was possibly the weakest DMGP I've ever seen (with the exclusion of Simone Emilie's Clean Bandit-esque banger 'Anywhere', of course), and they decided to go with Leonora's 'Love Is Forever'. Brace yourselves, it's time for my honest review!

Here are my thoughts:

What I Like: I'll give it to Leonora here. I think she is quite charming. I've seen people say that she seems quite scary the way she stares into the camera during her performance, but how can you be scared of her anyway? I think she'll be a great ambassador for Denmark at the contest and I think she's probably the best element of this entry.

What I Don't Like: Maybe its a personal thing, but I find this entry incredibly annoying. I'm not usually a fan of cutesy, twee songs as it is, but when they have such vapid lyrical content it switches me off even more. I'm all for 'not getting political' as the song suggests, but at least give me a song that's fun enough to distract myself from songs of a political nature! Furthermore, the song goes nowhere. It's another one of those entries that makes you feel like you went nowhere by the time it finishes, making me mutter 'what a waste of 3 minutes'. The staging didn't do anything particularly engaging in DMGP either, making in it even more bland to me. I have absolutely no idea how this won.

The song also feels incredibly inauthentic. The shoehorned in multilingual parts with the same bland message repeated just creates a lame 'unity' message with a theatre-esque vibe, which is just my personal idea of hell on paper. Sis should've took some notes from Sofi Marinova.

Prediction: Maybe I'm just cynical, but I can't see people falling for this songs lovey dovey message. In a semi-final filled with female mid-tempo/ballads, are they even going to remember her by the end of the show? Absolutely not. This is staying in the semis, and I'd be annoyed if this qualified out of such a strong semi-final.

Final Score: 2/10

Summary: A cute little ditty... but nothing more.

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