Estonia's 'Kuula' Makes the Cut for Eurovision (7)

By Steve Roman
Published: 24.05.2012 23:55

Ott Lepland ( Photo: ERR )

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Ott Lepland's song 'Kuula' (Listen), Estonia's entry in this year's Eurovision Song Contest, has made it through to Saturday night's final in Baku. 

In the event's second semifinal on Thursday night, entries from 18 countries competed for the ten remaining slots in the big show. Judges and televoters from the participating countries were impressed enough with Lepland's romantic ballad to tap it for advancement.

The other nine countries that make it though were Lithuania, Bosnia and Hertzegovina, Serbia, Ukraine, Sweden, F.Y.R. Macedonia, Norway, Malta and Turkey.

They will join the winners of the first semifinal round, Iceland, Greece, Albania, Romania, Cyprus, Denmark, Russia, Hungary, Moldova and Ireland, and automatic finalists France, Spain, Germany, Italy, the UK and Azerbaijan, in the main competition in the Baku Crystal Hall.

Saturday night's contest, which airs on ETV, will begin at 22:00 local time (19:00 UTC).

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Comments (7)

  • mirahorian

    25.05.2012 00:24

    Ott Lepland - Kuula is a clone or copy of a Romanian song played by Monica Anghel Tell me/ Spune-mi... See/listen from minute 1:23: watch?v=A8rk6jtmfFU

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    auslane

    25.05.2012 10:45

    Indeed, a striking similarity....

  • deaf?

    25.05.2012 13:09

    you should get new ears guys...those 2 songs have noting in common. Just listen it's easy !

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    Karu87

    25.05.2012 13:51

    Most of the song are cliches, basically bad copies of mediocre songs. There are thousands of ballads like this out there.

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    auslane

    25.05.2012 14:23

    @deaf - nice Poe, but in case you are serious I know of at least one court case lost over main melodies that are less similar, or where the .... ahem ... 're-use' wasn't as blatant.

  • reosarevok

    25.05.2012 15:02

    The similarity is clear. The blandness and unoriginality is too, though, so I wouldn't be too surprised if the composer of this had never heard the other.

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    knut_albers

    25.05.2012 17:35

    In any case, principle of legal certainty is not what the music industry is exactly made of. Funny though, all these suits from the rights owner, slowly kills music with no dead end as no piracy or plagiarism would ever be able to do so. And since when participants of the Eurovision Song Contest become "heritage artists"? It must be awhile ago. I agree with Karu87, this contest become about to release lowest common denominator music that would sell fast but fade just as quickly, with a major disconnect between the product and consumer. So why not permit "re-use" of material at this contest? Next season, no one remembers anymore that this is taken from a song form the previous season, anyways. Or let's shut down this contest alltogether, which is particulary paid at the expense of european taxpayers and often hosted in countries with authoritarian regimes we would not want to let them profit at our expense in the first place, and use this to threaten some of Baku's local property owners to "clean up the place" with the wrecking ball for this quite disposable, but utterly exhausting contest.