ESC PREVIEW Today: #27- LATVIA.  A preview of the 43 songs in this year's Eurovision Song Contest, which begins this May in Lisbon, Portugal. The preview begins with the weakest songs and works its way to the best in this year's line-up.The songs are ranked in order of quality as heard in the studio versions.

EUROVISION 2018 PREVIEW

27.

LATVIA

FUNNY GIRL

Laura Rizzotto

Latvia won the Eurovision Song Contest in 2002 with Marie N's "I Wanna". Its 2018 entry "Funny Girl" will be performed in English by Laura Rizzotto. She wrote the song herself.

Rizzotto was born in Brazil to a mother of Portuguese origin and a Latvian father. She later studied music in New York City. Her song is pleasant enough, but may struggle to qualify in Semi Final 2. It is extremely unlikely to give the country its second win at Eurovision. 

28 POLAND

29 AUSTRIA

30 GREECE

31 IRELAND

32 BULGARIA

33 GERMANY

34 GEORGIA

35 LITHUANIA

36 MALTA

37 RUSSIA

38 SLOVENIA

39 NETHERLANDS

40 ALBANIA

41 SERBIA

42 HUNGARY

43 SAN MARINO

Hear a special playlist with all the songs from this year’s contest as they are released on spotify.

spotify:user:alanrosscaffelatte:playlist:3aFWyVHxGLWZ3Xwb6K3tf2

https://open.spotify.com/user/alanrosscaffelatte/playlist/3aFWyVHxGLWZ3Xwb6K3tf2?si=XiLET1zpTlabrf3yAVNfiw