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Five Eesti Laul songs online
Iiris Vesik - Astronaut (songwriters Iiris Vesik and Ago Teppand)
Violina feat Rolf Junior - Maagiline päev (songwriters Mihkel Mattisen, Timo Vendt, Rolf Roosalu and Liis Lass)
Robin Juhkental (songwriter and performer) - Siren
Mimicry - New (songwriters Timmo Linnas, Kaspar Ehlvest, Ivar Kaine, Kene Vernik and Paul Lepasson)
Groundhog Day - Teiste seest kõigile (songwriters Tõnn Tobreluts, Tauno Tamm, Keio Münti and Indrek Mällo): Click here to listen.
Eesti Laul 2010 will take place on on March 12th at the Nokia Concert Hall in Tallinn. The 10 candidates have been selected out of 155 submitted entries. The winner will be decided by a combination of jury vote and public vote.
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I love the cafe where Robin Juhkental sings, it's upstairs in the Viruk Keskus shopping centre - they serve the yummiest of food at cheap prices.......
i heard all songs and my favorites are Magiline paev and Siren, nice songs and catchy, Iris is... interesting, not my style...
You can tell that there is a high standard as everyone here has a very different opinion of what is the best one.
My favourite is robin with his siren... I think that no matter what you put this next to it will stand out in the actual contest which can only be a good thing.
Next up is Violina and rolf Junior with that magalene paev... please excuse my bad spelling.
Then its astronaut... any of these in Oslo would be very different and exciting for the contest.
Then new and then the last one... and thats not even all of the acts yet!
I like that Estonia is very firmly staying modern and ahead of the pack because it stops the contest from getting formulaic and makes it kind of cool I don't like the diet of shake songs europop sad ballads and ethno ballads
I love esti laul Estonia always have the most interesting preselection IMO
Best for me is Violina feat. Rolf Junior.
An interesting selection here from Estonia.
Violina/Rolf Junior has the most instant appeal for me. I keep listening to it over and over again!
I also like Juhkental's Siren. It's quite a daring choice for Eurovision. But it's good to try something different - makes a change from the usual ballads, Europop and cheese.
and please tell me exactly how did i insult you .
seems you understood my comment totally wrong . i havent insult anyone , i said its rude to say its shit / crap if its not your taste / typical eurovision song .
Oh forgot, Yes I know you were being on topic, and others went off topic but sometimes within your judging of songs and your interaction with sanka you came off disrespectful at some part. And I'm not going to mention the word again.
@Laila
Okay luckily I more or less have the inability to get mad. Yes what I wrote wasn't all too positive but to my opinion I was only commenting on how I thought you were acting in this topic and I wasn't judging you negatively as a person like others did, can't get it clearly typed out but I hope you get the grip of what I mean. To my opinion you were the one being disrespectful first towards sanka, in your eyes it's different but that's normal. What you're doing now is judging an entire group of people, while you react so heavily on being judged wrongly. What I've seen you doing more is that when you become mad or however I can call it you're more or less downgrading people and you don't know them, like we don't know you. You may say whatever you want, because I also want to say whatever I want, but I don't like it when I have the feeling when people are being disrespectful towards others which you were to my opinion. Within the disrespectfulness I mean the downgrading you're doing now, the way you reacted to other people ('that sanka person' and 'hahaha' f.e.). You treat people the way YOU don't want to be treated.
F. I sound like a fake preacher, can't really express myself all that well.
@Nord Lander
If you think I "clearly" love schlager music then you prove that you haven't read many of my comments seeing as I always complain about too much schlager from Sweden and other countries who try the same. Times might evolve, but truly great music still remains in the past! I don't need to evolve my music taste because I already find plenty of music I like both in the past, present and future. You make up things about someone you don't know. You don't know me or my music taste. I actually do love folk so = YOU made an epic fail-comment.
Tell me, how do you know whether I love or hate acoustic and folk music when you don't even know me? How can you state something like that? = You make false assumptions.
@Purple Cow
You clearly didn't read either. I commented the songs (staying on-topic) like I usually do until people like YOU talk NEGATIVELY about me personally. Because you people clearly can't HANDLE other peoples opinions that you don't like. Maybe you can't ignore it because you all get provoked so damn easily, I don't know, but I will not stop saying my honest opinion about the topics on this site. Deal with it. This sanka person commented ABOUT/TO ME first. Scroll down and you'll see that I said nothing personally about anyone or being rude until they talk sh*t about ME. I was negative about the songs = which is the topic. 
Check your facts. And yes, I do have a very varied taste in music, maybe that's why people can't put me in a category like Nord Lander tries to without knowing me.
I am so not surprised that you think they have been nice and polite towards me when they started it... lol. AS IF you remember everything I have said about Estonia and what they have said to me.
yay iiris is back :X
i love , that someone is ready to take a risk . Siren is excactly the music i listen and you dont see such thing at eurovision . thats why i dont usually vote for the countries who keep sending the same songs every year because they are " safe " . tired of europop and etnopop ( by some certain countries )
My Rating for the first five Estonian Eurovision NF participants;
Iiris Vesik - Astronaut = One word, Unique. After a listen or two I have summarised the good and bad points of the song and here was my findings. The good - If she can pull off a live performence note perfect I would be so impressed, I like the song in a whole its cute but not over the top and its unique but nothing too strange, its very kitch and pleasant to hear more than once. The Bad - There is a high chance it would have a split reaction from the Estonian public and if selected would have the same effect on the voters in the actual Eurovision, it might be too different to score well in Eurovision. Only dire hard fans of the song would vote Estonia and by the looks even the ESCtoday lobby is split when making up their mind on this song. But I like the song. With work I think this could be a real contender for the Estonian song in 2010. [6.5/10]
Violina feat Rolf Junior - Maagiline päev = from the beginning this stands out as a contender. I like his voice and the fact the song is in Estonian which I think is a very beautiful language is a great point. I like this song and again I think this could do well. But not only in Estonia but in the Eurovision if performed well that is [8/10]
Robin Juhkental - Siren = An awful song, by a talentless clown, He cant sing nor compose.. So cheap and forgettable. something I would expect to see from the Malteese 2010 heats its that bad.. [0/10]
Mimicry - New & Groundhog Day = Yuck both in ways as bad as each other, but not as bad as the awful Siren 1/10
So Far?
You can tell from my ratings which songs I like 
@DannyT
In all honesty the standerd of the first two Norwegian Semi-Finals has allready been so low this year, I'm waiting for either A1 or Mira Craig to represent us, I only hope one of them has a good song as before I hear any songs I know one of them will represent us (They are both huge acts in Norway, bigger than way Maria from 08' anyway) Like last year I knew the minute I heard that Alexander Ryback was going in the Norwegian MGP and then heard a small bit of Fairytale that he would go to Moscow and do well. (But never in my wildest dreams did I guess he would win, even on the Night I was backing Urban Symphony and Yohanna)
Also yes Heji has something special and the comical lyrics along with the sickining sweetness of the song and her look I think would do very well in Eurovision (I only hope her live performence lives up to my expectations)
Oh and comparing Estonia's NF songs to the songs from Malta, Poland, The Netherlands, Switzerlands and even Albania's song the people in charge and Eurofans should hang their heads in shame. These songs are 'mostly' classic and different (maybe too different)
I would have like Iiris best if she didn't sound like one of the smurfs. Otherwise I think Maagaline Päev could have a good routine on stage.
Fun thing with Essti Laul 2009 and 2010 is that there are so many types of music represented so it's a real feast for the ears. Most songs would sound good in ESC
Maagiline päev is great and i would never be ashamed is Siren will represent Estonia . BritPop is nice and it has quality , back to the basics
meant Top10, of course... although by thinking about it... - she has indeed deserved to be in the Top5... 
Estonia is measuring up to last year's NF - it turns out to be great... Till now, there's not one single drop out, all of them on a high standard.
My list out of these 5 would be:
1. Iiris Vesik (definitely, she should be Estonia's choice - and with a certain performance, this is absolutely NOT doomed to failure)
2. Robin Jukhental
3. Rolf Junior & Violina
4. Mimicry
5. Groundhog Day
btw.: I LOVED Sopho Khalvashi - I really think that she would have deserved a Top5-place - much more at least than Turkey's Shake-Shake, Belarus' Koldun, Greece's Sarbel or Molodova's Fight...
Violina feat, Rolf Junior will represent Estonia, 90%, It will be 12 points from televoting like last year for Laura "Destiny"!! I love televoting in Estonia!!!! 
Well I say great, I only really love Iiris, the rest do nothing for me Apart from think we've gone back to the 80s ( one of my least favourite times )
Laila is right that none of these songs will do that well, they are too different to do well in ESC. It still doesn't stop the fact that they are great, but still the general saturday night viewer would really vote for something like this?
Thing is with Laila her music taste is actually like she said herself more or less, different and varied. I believe she really liked Belgium and Czech Republic last year and now in the Norwegian semis she's going wild for Keep of Kalessin. But the way she presents her opinion in this topic is disrespectful and makes her come off as narrow minded and 'as long as it's bum shaking and schlager I'm in-ish. She's acting bitchy towards someone who has been nice or respectful to her in every Estonia 2010 topic, that's her own choice or she simply doesn't see that she makes this impression on people.
Every time I read one of 'Laila ♥ YEUROVIZJON's comments I can't but facepalm. Clearly her music taste is extremely narrow, limited to bad schlager music. I'm not saying this because all schlager music is terrible, but a lot of it is - reading her profile makes me drop a tear. Everything evolves, so should Eurovision... and so should you, Laila. Evolving doesn't necessarily mean that you should adopt electronic music, but you could show up some interest in acoustic music as well, you could dig in the archives and sift through old folk songs. That's also evolving.
Anyway, here's my opinion on the songs I've heard so far. I might have a bit different perspective, because I'm not an avid ESC fan myself and I find most Eurovision songs rather bland and horrible. My perspective may also be a bit different since I'm an Estonian myself.
Iiris Vesik - Astronaut : As mentioned by most, it's awful. She could be better off covering some bad Japanese anime show. Definitely not something a grown-up would like to listen to.
Violina feat. Rolf Junior : I've never been a fan of his. His vocal abilities aren't too shiny. He can sing, but he's nothing extraordinary. The pop 'eurodance' he's cultivating couldn't be any further from what I like to listen to.
Robin Juhkental : Superb! It's calm, relaxing, you can actually hear the lyrics. You can ponder over the lyrics. It has information (something that most Eurovision entries lack of) and it has emotions. It's not just shaking your bottom and repeating the same lines over and over again. I might be biased on this one because I'm a great fan of British music, and this track perfectly combines elements of The Strangles, David Bowie, why not even The Beatles.
Mimicry : Horrible. The vocalist of this band isn't representing an experimental avant-gardist genre as many might believe. It's the combination of awful English and inability to carry a tune.
Groundhog day : Better than the majority of Eurovision songs in ESC 200x. Still, I find it boring and generic. I usually tolerate this kind of music, even enjoy, but they are trying to be too much someone else. The song is missing the x-factor.
I love Estonia because there they do not chose the same pop songs every and every and every year............ the sound there is real for 2010. I can see some of them in the States or UK.
Siren is soooooooooooooooooooooo cooooool.
Astronaut is greeeeeeeat.
New is amazing too.
Also love Groundhog Day.
For all those who said the songs do not represent the time we live in: I think they also listen to ESC songs and Swedish pop crap or stupid else.
The songs are AMAZING, just think what we have from NETHERLANDS and that song from Switzerland which is perfect for ESC 1990.
I've already posted the link somewhere here, so i think that there were more suitable songs for the Eurovision.
http://www.youtube.c(...)/watch?v=jbkxRwSSqAY - here is one of the songs that was taking part in the contest, and it's pretty catchy.
I don't want to say that thees songs are bad or good, but i think they are not actual today, not massive and pop, they are not for everyone, and Eurovision is really massive show.
That's just my point of view...Nothing personal...
@sanka
Hahaha, it's so funny when you make up things. Since when did I ever say that anything unusual for ESC = crap? I never have. All I said and think is that this type of music is not pop(ular) enough to WIN or do much better than Sopho. It is called "alternative" for a reason, you know.
And if my taste is so very different then why don't I like alternative music? Actually, I like some in all genres. You don't know how weird my taste is or not. I like what I like, popular, unpopular, country, metal, indie, some alternative, pop, rock, chalga, indian, j-pop, whatever as long as it's good. I like Kerli and some of Björk, but I didn't like Iiris Vesik, mostly because of her baby-voice which creeped me out.
I agree with you on the last part though and I also said the same previously. I said it is good for those who like this kind of music that there is something in Eurovison for them too. It is good for genre-variation. It's good to get more styles into Eurovision, sure, but I don't have to like all of it personally.
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