Switzerland have three minutes to shine

By
Nick Deller
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It’s an odd comparison, of the type you’re used to by now, but watching Switzerland after Sweden gives me the same feeling I had in 2006 watching Amambanda after Lordi. It’s perfectly nice, bit dull, feels like a time-filler. Well enough performed, nothing to really dent your brain – for a song called Time To Shine, there’s actually not a lot that shines and screams “Notice me!”The intro’s too long. The outro’s too quiet and there’s a shade too much of it. I called out Portugal earlier for feeling padded to fill three allocated minutes, and I kind of get the same sense with this – to a lesser extent, but still.

It feels like the sort of song that gets overlooked when points start being allocated. I’ve got too many non-qualifiers already, but this seems like an absolutely textbook honourable NQ.