🇦🇿 Azerbaijan: New Hints About Six Eurovision Selection Acts

The six shortlisted Azerbaijani artists have given new hints regarding the songs they are in running with for Eurovision 2024.

12xal has shared a tweet featuring interviews with the six artists in the Azerbaijani selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2024. In the video, all of them were asked “if your song sounded in a movie, what genre would that movie be?”. They replied as follows:

• Aisel: “Horror. But actually, it could be a historical movie as well.”
• Fahree: “A fighting movie, probably.”
• Emy Lia: “A melodrama, I guess.”
• Qorqud: “A spy story.”
• Səbinə Quluzadə: “I think, some fantastic movie.”
• İlkin Dövlətov & Mila Miles & Etibar Əsədli: “Drama”. “Yeah, I think drama, too”.

After this, the artists were asked what is their favourite line in their own Eurovision song. Two artists replied in Azerbaijani language:

• Fahree: “I’m going back to diyar.”
• Emy Lia: “I left my pride in the fire.”
• Qorqud: “Now forget your fears, All you need is love.”
• Səbinə Quluzadə: “I’ll be searching for my own light, Tame my inner demons.”
• İlkin Dövlətov & Mila Miles & Etibar Əsədli: “Eşqi dərk edib bilərsən ki, qadirdir nəyə?” (“Once you really get what love is, You will realize its full power.”)
• Aisel: “Bəsdir yatdın, oyan dünya.” (“That’s enough, world, wake up already.”)

One name that will be familiar to both Azerbaijani and Eurovision fans is Aisel, who represented the nation in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal. She sang “X My Heart” at the contest, but came 11th in her semi-final, meaning she became the first Azerbaijani entrant not to qualify for the Grand Final at the contest.

TuralTuranX represented Azerbaijan at Eurovision 2023 with the song “Tell Me More”. They finished 14th in the first semi-final with 4 points, leaving Azerbaijan out of the final for the second time in history and the first time since 2018.

Image source: EBU / Chole Hashemi | Source: 12xal