XTRA Decides continues this Eurovision 2022 season. In this feature the team here at ESCXTRA rank the national final songs, giving our choice of the winner. We are ranking the songs using the Eurovision style 12-1 scoring system. We’ve now chosen VANU with “Never give up” as our winner of Romania’s Selecția Națională.
Our Scores
| Total | Twelve | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | VANU – Never give up | 43 | 2 |
| 2 | WRS – Llamame | 41 | 2 |
| 3 | Cream, Minodora şi Diana Bucşă – România mea | 39 | 1 |
| 3 | Dora Gaitanovici – Ana | 39 | 0 |
| 5 | Alex Parker & Bastien – All this love | 30 | 0 |
| 6 | PETRA – Ireligios | 28 | 0 |
| 7 | MØISE – Guilty | 22 | 0 |
| 8 | Gabriel Basco – One night | 20 | 0 |
| 9 | Kyrie Mendél – Hurricane | 18 | 0 |
| 10 | Andrei Petruş – Take me | 10 | 0 |
Reviews
Nick (12pts)
There’s a hook to the start of the chorus here which just sticks to me. “I’ve been shattered into pieces, I’ve been drinking and I’m sleepless” – with the music behind it, it just presents a good hook to this song. Throw in a good old oh-oh-oh and you just know you get a pretty classic Eurovision midtempo/ballad effort. I like this!
Xtra Decides so far…
Previously on Xtra Decides:
- 🇨🇿 We Are Domi – “Lights Off”
- 🇦🇱 Ronela Hajati – “Sekret”
- 🇪🇸 Tanxugueiras – Terra
- 🇮🇱 Inbal Bibi – Marionette
- 🇲🇰 Andrea – Circles
- 🇮🇪 Brooke – That’s Rich
- 🇮🇹 La Rappresentante di Lista – Ciao Ciao
- 🇱🇻 Aminata – I’m Letting You Go
- 🇱🇹 Rūta Loop – Call Me from the Cold
- 🇪🇪 ELYSA – Fire
- 🇺🇦 Alina Pash – Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
- 🇲🇹 Nicole Azzopardi – Into the Fire
- 🇳🇴 Elsie Bay – Death Of Us
- 🇵🇱 Daria – Paranoia
- 🇸🇮 July Jones – Girls Can Do Anything
- 🇭🇷 Mia Negovetić – “Forgive Me (Oprosti)”
- 🇦🇺 Voyager – Dreamer
- 🇫🇮 BESS – Ram pam pam
- 🇷🇸 Angellina – Origami
- 🇩🇪 Felicia Lu – Anxiety
- 🇩🇰 CONF3SSIONS – Hallelujah
- 🇫🇷 SOA – Seule
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