"Michael Ben David's song is not listenable but his performance atones for everything"

Our representative for Eurovision 2022, Michael Ben-David, crashes while gambling, but is praised by international Eurovision experts for his performance: "You're crazy if you do not like it."

Another expert states that the song is not good but Michael's performance is excellent.

And who's first in gambling?

Yaniv Dornbush

16/02/2022

Wednesday, 16 February, 2022, 07:00 Updated: 07:36

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The moment when Michael Ben-David won the X Factor final of the Eurovision Song Contest (Photo: Network 13)

A week and a half has passed since Michael Ben-David was elected as Israel's representative at the Eurovision Song Contest.

A week and a half where the song IM resides in Galgalatz's playlist between names like Noa Kirl, Raviv Kinner and Amir Dadon.

A week and a half in which supporters of the election are overflowing with "this song grew on me, can not stop hearing it," and opponents are still mourning the failure of Marionette or Eli Choli, "who were sure to return the Eurovision to Tel Aviv."

Because that's how it works at Eurovision, everything in moderation, soft, pleasant, without too big storms, on which rests.

After clearing the cynicism, we can go back to talking about Tekel's.

Next we will of course, how not, to the betting agencies, we will tell what happened last week in the Eurovision world, how the corona is going to affect the competition this year, what is expected to happen next Saturday and a bit of Eurodrama, but we will start with two more appendices. .

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"Admirable".

Michael Ben David (Photo: Screenshot, Network 13)

"Is it bad? I love it!"

Alicia Michelle is a well-known and beloved Eurovision blogger from the United States.

Her videos receive tens of thousands of views and even more, and although she is American, she covers the competitions, attends them, and even visited us in 2019 in Tel Aviv.

Her video about Michael Ben-David and Israel is approaching 15,000 views.

"Is that what they do in a talent show? Do people say it's bad? I have to stop for a moment. It's great! I love it, I love it, I love it!", She screamed in admiration.

"I've seen people say it's bad, but we have styling, there's choreography, it's ketchup! It's good! I feel like you're all lying to me, seriously, I love it. We'll all dance it in Euroclub and you're crazy if you do not like it." , She said and concluded with applause.

And what does she think of Israel's prospects?

"There were people who said it's bad, honestly, I do not even know why you need Rewamp. Is it going to win the Eurovision? Absolutely not. Does it deserve to win the Eurovision? Absolutely not. But does it need recognition and appreciation? Yes!".

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"The song is on the verge of not being listenable, the performance is great"

Even the bloggers who enjoy the most views in the Eurovision world watched our winning song of "Michael Ben David" (you will have a lot of work on the name, Michael), we are of course talking about wiwibloggs.

Among the things said about Michael Ben David and IM: "It's fun!", "He moves so beautifully, it's a moment Janet Jackson", "It's too much, but in a good section", "I will follow you because you Know who you are, that smile ", these are just some of the examples.

Blogger Deban celebrated the song: "It's an opportunity for Eurovision fans to redefine their understanding of tolerance. In many cases gays, and people in general, accept homosexuality, but for some reason it is disrespectful or inappropriate when it is performed on a big stage. But he slaps it in the face. "And say, 'Deal with it. And you know what? It's good.'

And what does he think of the song itself?

"Let's admit, the song is on the verge of not being listened to, but that's not the point here. I support you and I support your voice and you have my voice. Some will say it's aggressively gay, well, Bering It On! What's wrong with that? I do not want To sit for three minutes of eulogy, I do not want to sit for three minutes of climate change, I want to dance! "

According to Devan, Michael Ben-David has an excellent voice, and "I wish he had a better song, but his performance atones for all the shortcomings. He gives the soundtrack to Rupol Israel's drag show."

Pre-Eurovision in Ukraine

News channels in the United States reported the war drums beating with increasing intensity, headlines in Germany warned of an impending invasion, and in Israel, corona reports were pushed in favor of calling on Israelis to flee Ukraine and sending rescue flights.

At that time the Ukrainians were interested in something completely different - Vidvir 2022, the local pre-Eurovision.

The difference between what happened on the news sites and what happened on the screen of the Ukrainian Broadcasting Corporation was simply amazing.

In the end, Alina Pash won.

The joke says that that evening the song was chosen that did not represent Ukraine at the Eurovision because there will be no more Ukraine until the Eurovision, but it is really not at all certain that the song "Shadows of Forgotten Fathers" will indeed reach Turin and for completely different reasons.

In Ukraine, there are allegations that Pash supports Russia and visited the Crimean peninsula in 2015, on a flight from Moscow after annexation, that is, in violation of Ukrainian law.

Pash herself claimed she got there by bus through the land border and showed Ukrainian television documents proving it.

On Tuesday, this saga continued when local TV people announced that they were checking the credibility of the documents and in the meantime they were not signing a Eurovision representation agreement with Pash.

Did you think it was over?

Did you think that in Israel the production is addictive?

Think again.

The squad that came in second place accuses Ukrainian TV of falsifying the results.

The hard-working Eurovision fans who watched the competition live saw that during the voting all sorts of glitches occurred, from incorrect reading of a score from a sheet of paper, through the disappearance of the scoreboard altogether, to a manual calculation on a small piece of paper.

The production refuses to reveal the full results, and the second place threatens to make Anat Atzmon and take the winner to court, because as mentioned, there is nothing more important in Ukraine than the selection of representatives for the 2022 Eurovision.

Mahmoud will bring Italy a double victory?

Despite all the dramas, Ukraine leaps to second place in the odds of winning in Turin with a weighted 12% between the betting agencies and for the first time there seems to be some competition in the agencies for a song that represented Italy.

The Italians lead the bets by a considerable margin from the moment they open, and they now stand at a weighted 18% and threaten to win back-to-back.

Our informant Mahmoud, who came in second in Tel Aviv, returns to the biggest music stage in the world, this time on the home field and in a duet with Blanco, and many use words like "exciting" to describe this ballad.

Will Italy be forced to host two consecutive Eurovision Song Contest for the first time since the winning streak of Ireland's dull ballads in the early 1990s?

We will know soon.

What is certain is that before we talk about Eurovision 2023 we still need to talk about Eurovision this year, and when we are already on February 15, less than three months before the grand final, ticket sales have not yet opened.

The discerning will say that for Eurovision in Tel Aviv, the sale only opened on February 17, but it was three months and a day before the final, so here the window of opportunity is even shorter.

Not only did ticket sales not open, even the press booking phase did not begin.

It is not clear whether the big delays are due to the fact that this is an Italian production, or because we are still in the days of Corona and the production just do not yet know how the Eurovision will be held and will look, or a winning combination between the two.

The only thing we can recommend to you is when ticket sales start, purchase only from the official ticket office or from people you know and trust.

No speculation, no second-hand sites, you may find yourself without money and without a ticket, but at least you can take comfort in the excellent ice cream in Turin.

And where is Israel in gambling?

And here we come to the part where everyone loves to hate: Where are we at gambling?

So after all the compliments of the bloggers in the world, in gambling we are in the depths.

As of this writing, Michael Ben David and his song IM are bringing Israel to 35th place in the chances of winning the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest in Turin.

It's hard, it's tough, it's worse than previous years, it's also impossible to say "only five songs were selected".

There are currently 13 songs, next Saturday six more songs will be selected, the big Eurovision lions have not yet made announcements, so the chances of declaring "it means nothing" are dwindling.

Still, that does not mean much.

This mostly means we will not win, even if we are not at the top of the table.

Even in previous years songs that spent at the back of the betting tables (Albania, we are talking about you) managed to qualify for the final.

If there is one thing that Israel has proven in recent years, it is that we are able to put on a good enough performance that manages to lead mediocre songs to the finals, and there is no reason why this should not happen this year as well.

We are, of course, always always in favor of the Israeli representative, and we will give him the maximum possible votes from our phone when we send you live reports all the time straight from Turin during Eurovision Week.

Israel, it will be recalled, will participate in the second semi-final on May 12, live here at 11 starting at 22:00.

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