Oh World of Eurovision, with all this news, you are truly spoiling us. No sooner have I muttered something vaguely encouraging about a Dutch rapper than news hits my desk of thirty six (count ’em) acts lining up for the annual marathon that is the Lithuanian Eurovision national final season.
LRT has announced the participants for Pabandom iš naujo which kicks off on January 8 and lasts until someone breaks and begs for it to end.
Just fifty acts wanted in, so the bottom of many barrels found themselves in for a scraping as a supposed ‘short list’ went public. There are, however, four tried and tested former Eurovision names in the list – Erica Jennings (2001), Vilija Matačiūnaitė (2014), Monika Linkytė (2015) and Ieva Zasimauskaitė (2018).
The thirty-six participants are
- Aldegunda
- Artūras Aleksiejus – Alekas
- Augustė Vedrickaitė – Augustė
- Basas Pegasas
- Clockwork Creep
- Elonas Pokanevič
- Emilijana
- Emilija Valiukevičiūtė – Emilija V
- Erica Jennings
- Gabrielė Goštautaitė
- GABREA
- Gebrasy
- Geleibra
- Gintarė Korsakaitė
- Ieva Zasimauskaitė
- Joseph June
- Justė Kraujelytė
- Justin 3 feat. nanaart
- Lolita Zero
- Mary Mo
- Mėnulio fazė
- Monika Linkytė
- Monika Liu
- Moosu X
- Cosmic Bride
- Queens of Roses
- Rūta Loop
- Sun Francisco
- Titas ir Benas
- Urtė Šilagalytė
- Vasha
- Viktorija Faith
- Viktorija Kajokaitė
- Vilija Matačiūnaitė
- Voldemars Petersons & the Break Hearters
- Živilė Gedvilaitė