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. In this way, it turned out that Luna’s proposal – “The Tower” (listen) – received 34 points, a Justyna Steczkowska with 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 “Peasants”.
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. Initially, the article in which the list appeared quickly disappeared from the site. It came back only a few hours later, updated with the exact votes of the jurors and with one more contestant (Sargis Davtyan).
1. Luna – “The Tower” – 34 points
2. Justyna Steczkowska – “WITCH-ER Tarohoro” – 33 points
3. LUC, Dagadana, Kayah, RBFO, Laboratorium Pieśni – “Autumn – Dance” – 23 points
Marcin Maciejczak – “Midnight Dreamer” – 23 points
5. Natasza Urbańska” – “Who We Are – 22 points
6. rivet – “Thunder” – 19 points
7. Bryska – “Alien” – 13 points
8. Saxons and Blascello – “Karma” – 11 points
9. Maciej Musiałowski – “Sign” – 10 points
10. Karolina Wielgus – “Little flower” – 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 Amaretto” – 5 points
Cuba and Cuba – “Light” – 4 points
Piotr Odoszewski – “Day Night” – 4 points
23. Sargis Davtyan – “Balconies of Our Love” – 3 points
Very low places may come as a surprise Krystyna Prońkoand above all Edyta Górniakwhich, as it turned out, had a yet unpublished song “I Remember” She was almost not the jurors’ favorite at all. The only points for Prońko and Górniak came thanks to them Piotr Klatt.
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. After the results were revealed, the singer finally spoke out, claiming that she had broken the rules because she sent the song too late.
“Well, you already know. That’s true. I recorded a new, premiere song on the occasion of the extraordinary 30th anniversary of Poland’s debut at Eurovision. My debut on the international stage. (…) At the last minute I decided to send it to the competition, at the suggestion of my closest people. Unfortunately, I did it after some time. I literally exceeded these specified dates and times” – she commented.
“I don’t know which score my song took part in if I didn’t submit it in accordance with the regulations. But still, of course I would like to thank the jurors” – she added, by the way, that the song will of course be published.
One of the jurors quickly reacted to Górniak’s statement, Michał Hanczakwho accused Górniak of lying.
“I don’t know why Mrs. Edyta said this. I saw her story and unfortunately I have to accuse her of lying. It shows that she submitted the application on February 11. The jurors had access to the competition songs from February 8 and her song was already there” – he replied.
“I would have to have a super mega team, a super giga mega track, everyone’s support. Maybe it would be worth fighting together. However, if I had to compete and take part in some competitions between labels and fans, I certainly wouldn’t do it.” – she commented in an interview with “Fact” in the fall in the context of a possible fight for Eurovision.
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 She took second place with her song in Ireland, where the competition was held “It was not me”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.