DENMARK

The Danish Final was held on February 13th at Forum Horsens, hosted by Jacob Riising, Annette Heick & Hilda Heick. The winner was chosen in two rounds of voting. In the first round, a top 3 was selected through a 50/50 combination of jury & SMS/app voting. There was then a second round, just comprising of SMS/app voting, and the winner was Lighthouse X with “Soldiers of Love”

The song is a very bog standard, mid-tempo, boy band type song with very typical Danish Eurovision elements. The staging of the song is very simple and they way they perform is quite relaxed and in some ways a little pedestrian if not also predictable. The tree band members take it in turns to sing bits of the verses but sing together for the chorus, however it must be noted for the part of the song that repeats the title of the song, it seems that all three of them find this too high and an all too audible backing singer track is there for all to here. This makes the most important part of the song lose all power and makes what should be the strongest part of the song the weakest part. The ending is also a bit cringeworthy as they all join in for a bit of dad dancing and it’s all feels a bit embarrassing.

Lighthouse X (pronounced 10, as in the Roman numeral) in a three piece boy band, although judging by some of the info about them it is more of a ‘man band’. Martin is a singer and choreographer and has had a hand in many a musical, Søren was once in the Danish boyband C21 and appeared in the TV show 2900 Happiness and Johannes was had major roles in musicals and came second in “Vild med dans”. The trio had their first release as a band in 2014 and have released songs in both English and Danish.

It was a little bit of a shock win for the band as there were much more outwardly Eurovision-y songs in the national final. I feel that the song stood out because it was a little less showy and a bit more ‘safe’. I would say that this needs a total revamp in all areas but I don’t think this is going to happen. They need better clothes, better camera direction and more ooomph towards the end of the song. The song is not bad, the guys themselves are not bad but it’s just all a bit boring, samey and safe. No-one will hate it but nobody will love it either. I don't think we'll be seeing Denmark (again) in the final.

ARTIST – Lighthouse X

SONG – Soldiers of love

MUSIC - J Nymark, M Skriver, S.F. Ovens, D.L Jørgensen, K.KAndersen, S Bregendal

LYRICS - J Nymark, M Skriver, S.F. Ovens, D.L Jørgensen, K.KAndersen, S Bregendal