And the last 6 finalists of Eesti Laul 2026 are:

🔵 Getter Jaani
🔵 Ant x Minimal Wind
🔵 Robert Linna
🔵 Laura Prits
🔵 Stockholm Cowboys, Stig Rästa and Victor Crone
🔵 Clicherik & Mäx

🧵 Comments by jury member An-Marlen & host Korea (in ~15 mins) Today's guest commentators are An-Marlen and Korea

Listening to this year's songs as a jury member An-Marlen kinda felt like looking back she should have enjoyed Eesti Laul time more

For Korea hosting is always scary since you think for months about how nothing must go wrong

The first 6 finalists of Eesti Laul 2026 are:

🔵 NOËP
🔵 Marta Pikani
🔵 Grete Paia
🔵 Uliana Olhyna
🔵 Vanilla Ninja
🔵 Ollie

🧵 Comments by pre-jury member Ines & host Karl-Erik Taukar (in ~15 mins) Today's Ringvaade reveal features Ines who handed over Eesti Laul hosting duty to Karl-Erik Taukar as she gives birth to a second child

Turns out Taukar had tried to participate but even though the song "Vastupandamatu" became a hit... Guess only good enough to host

The next 7 finalists of Eesti Laul 2025 are:

🔵 Andrei Zevakin feat. Karita
⚫ Frants Tikerpuu
⚪ Gem98
🔵 Janek
⚫ Joelle
⚪ mimimal wind feat. elisabeth tiffany
🔵 Tommy Cash

🧵 Comments from pre-jury member Tanja Mihhailova-Saar

[🖼️ ERR] Today Tanja joined as the Jury member in the Ringvaade studio to comment

Most of her favorites are in the 15 finalists, there's been of course surprises so it'll be an exciting competition

The first 8 finalists of Eesti Laul 2025 are:

🔵 An-Marlen
⚫ Anna Sahlene
⚪ Ant
🔵 Elysa
⚫ Felin
⚪ Stereo Terror

And previously announced
🔵 Räpina Jack & Kaisa Ling
⚫ Tuuli Rand

🧵 Comments from pre-jury member Jüri Pootsmann

[🖼️ ERR] Jury member Jüri Pootsmann, who listened through all 175 songs, joined Grete in the studio to announce the finalists and give a brief comment on them

There may have been a few he liked that didn't get in, but he recognises most of the songs that are in and he's happy with them

Eurovision YouTuber Epix Eurovision Guy and musician & songwriter Egert Milder visited ETV's Morning show Terevisioon to talk about 5Miinust & Puuluup's song and the songs already selected for Eurovision

🧵For Summary For Epix, the result was pretty certain once it was clear the juries rated them highly

For Egert the show was a bit mild in semifinal, maybe because of the smaller stage, but the adaptions for finals were wonderful and made it the right choice

5Miinust's [Estoni] Kohver went on Raadio 2's morning show to talk about Eesti Laul and the future at Eurovision

🧵 For summary
📸 Kirke Antsmäe/R2 5M&P went to Saturday with only 2 acceptable scenarios - winning it or getting the 4th place

Magnus Müürsep, who handled them, warned that if they lose, all the cameras would be on them. Kohver doesn't know how to lose [tells the story of how he broke a keyboard playing NFS:U2]

Youtuber Epix Eurovision Guy appeared on today's morning show Terevisioon to talk about the Eesti Laul semifinal, both as an eurovision fan and as a jury member

🧵 for tl;dr, he usually uploads interviews to his youtube channel after a week About the 5 Q songs: Not quite his top 5 and as much as he talked to other jury members, none of them were really satisfied with the final choice

Peter Põder was a surprise Q, intl fans liked Cecilia but her vocals and she's not as known in Estonia, Traffic also a surprise NQ

Live now: Eesti Laul 2024 introduces it's participants at the press event
menu.err.ee/1609158349/ots… Starting off Eesti Laul producer Riin Vann thanks everyone for coming, the venue, the snacks and the ice cream

🖼️ Thread pictures ERR

⏬ And here are the 5 #EestiLaul2024 AQ finalists, along with comments by host Tõnis Niinemets and jury member Lauri Liiv 1⃣ Brother Apollo "Bad Boy"
Authors: Erkki Sippel, Joseph Miettinen

Tõnis: Band from Helsinki, doing rock-pop-rap for a year
Lauri: Very memorable and catchy, can compare it to Rasmus, but all 3 elements are well represented
T: Finns taking over? Singer's uncle is Hardi Volmer

👇 Here are the 15 semifinalists of #EestiLaul2024, along with comments by host Grete Kuld and jury member Ott Lepland

🖼️ ETV/ERR 0⃣1⃣ Ollie "My Friend"
author: Oliver Mazurtšak

Grete: Rock at it's peak
Ott: Ollie hasn't lowered his target, maybe even risen it. Glad to see him back with another really strong song