On Monday (February 19), TVP announced that she was the Polish representative at Eurovision she stayed Aleksandra Wielgomashiding under a pseudonym Glow. As revealed on eurowizja.org, the decision to select the Polish woman for Eurovision was made by a five-person jury. It included: Kasia Moś, Piotr Klatt, Michał Hanczak, Konrad Szczęsny and Łukasz Pieter.
The jurors selected 10 items and gave them points on a scale from 1 to 10. It turned out that Luna’s proposal – “The Tower” (listen) – received 34 points, a Justyna Steczkowska with the number “WITCH-ER Tarohoro” 33 points. They took third place in the voting – with the same result – Marcin Maciejczak and Dagadana and Kayah a song from the movie “Chłopi”.
On February 21, TVP posted a list of 22 songs on the eurowizja.tvp.pl website that were included in the jury’s final ranking. Interestingly, the article in which the list appeared quickly disappeared from the website. This was reported by eurowizja.org.
1. Luna – “The Tower” – 34 points
2. Justyna Steczkowska – “WITCH-ER Tarohoro” – 33 points
3. LUC, Dagadana, Kayah, RBFO, Laboratorium Pieśni – “Jesień – Tańcuj” – 23 points
Marcin Maciejczak – “Midnight Dreamer” – 23 points
5. Natasza Urbańska” – “Who We Are – 22 points
6th thread – “Thunder” – 19 points
7. Bryska – “Alien” – 13 points
8. Sasi and Blascello – “Karma” – 11 points
9. Maciej Musiałowski – “Sign” – 10 points
10. Karolina Wielgus – “Kwiatuszek” – 9 points
11. Happy Prince – “Insatiable” – 8 points
Izdeb – “Ghost” – 8 points
My Friend Casino – “Enslave” – 8 points
Izabela Zabielska – “Nowhere To Go” – 8 points
Krystyna Prońko – “Tempus Fugit” – 8 points
16. Paulina Wróblewska – “Days” – 6 points
Krystian Embradora – “Rebel” – 6 points
Koko Die – “If I Could” – 5 points
Edyta Górniak – “I Remember” – 5 points
Mr. Savyan – “In Color of Amaretto” – 5 points
Kuba and Kuba – “Light” – 4 points
Piotr Odoszewski – “Day Night” – 4 points.
Eurowizja.org journalists also draw attention to the fact that the disclosed table is missing 3 points, because after summing it up there are 272. Each juror had 55 points to allocate, i.e. a total of 275 points. TVP has not yet revealed the individual lists of jurors, even though they are in favor of making them public.
Very low places may come as a surprise Krystyna Prońkoand above all Edyta Górniakwhich, as it turned out, with the yet unpublished song “I Remember” was almost not the jury’s favorite at all.
TVP accepted submissions for Eurovision until February 2. Until the end, it was not certain whether the Polish star would fight for another trip to Poland Eurovision. She did not confirm her participation, and in the fall she said the following about the fight to go to the competition in Sweden:
“I would have to have a super mega team, a super giga mega song, support from everyone. Working together, maybe it would be worth fighting. However, if I had to compete, take part in some competitions beforehand between labels and fans, I definitely wouldn’t decide on that,” she commented. in an interview with “Fakt”.
Recall that Edyta Górniak To this day, she is the author of Poland’s greatest success at Eurovision.
In 1994, Poland made its official debut in the competition and, as it turned out, it turned out to be extremely impressive, because Górniak took second place in Ireland, where the competition was held, with the song “To nie ja”, scoring 166 points.
The singer’s possible return to the competition is talked about almost every year when the time to choose the representative approaches. Górniak finally signed up to compete for another trip to Eurovision in 2016. She then took part in the preselections organized by TVP, but the diva lost then Michał Szpak and Margaret.