ERR has held today official presentation of the artists, taking part in Eesti Laul 2019. The split of the semifinals of the event was revealed as well.

This year will also introduce a participation fee, which will depend on the. The same number in other languages (English, Russian, German and Spanish).

Speaking earlier to Raadio 2, new Eesti Laul boss Tomi Rahula described the changes in the contest and discussed formation of the preselection jury. 'The goals of the new Eesti Laul are to carry forward the old traditions, to simply upgrade and update things,' says Rahula.

One of the changes was to make semifinals live. 'The tension is even bigger for the competitors, it's like the Eurovision, you do not have multiple chances, it's live broadcast and the people will vote on that basis,' Rahula explained. In addition, Rahula wants to improve the quality of the music with his changes. 'To make music writers more motivated and to increase their level. Similarly, in the TV picture, the level will go up as well.

We will bring in tiny updates - mappings and things that have not yet been used,' said Rahula, adding that projections will be introduced in the television picture. Rahula agrees that the drop in the number of submitted entries was due to the introduction of the participation fee, but says: 'I think that certainly some tracks were not sent in because people thought if it is a kind of joke then why should they waste their money. Despite the fee, the participation still was very large, which is very good.

I've heard the songs and it is clear that people thought before submitting their entries. There were a couple of pearls inside as well. In the majority, it's still a foreign pop, poprock. Unfortunately it is clear that songs in English have been better produced and on average of better quality than of songs in Estonian'. The new rule is that the songs submitted to the competition must not be made public until December 4. 'My wish was for all the artists to have an equal start,' Rahula said. 'When we give a start, everyone will have the opportunity to hype their entries', he added.

In the preselection jury was included only one representative of ERR. Rahula does not think that the private media has hijacked Eesti Laul. 'I have the pleasure of having a private media or someone else's media.

It's important that the jury I have put together is competent, whom I trust,' Rahula explained. The disputed issue was inclusion of Karl-Erik Taukar, whose partner Kerli Kivilaan is taking part in the contest. According to Rahula, such situations were there before. 'When I asked Taukar if he would agree to participate in the preselection jury, he immediately said that Kerli would take part. I said that there was no difference, let's take it'. According to Rahula, there were also members in this jury who had close friends among the singers. 'It was nicely said to the jury that they should not give their loved ones marks, there were some who left some entries without evaluating, so they had some connection, it was very honest, and I do not doubt the people I dared to choose,' said Rahula.: List of Eesti Laul participants has been released: Tickets for all shows are on sale.

216 songs were received for the participation in the Estonian preselection show Eesti Laul, 108 of them in Estonian and exactly the same number in other languages (English, Russian, German and Spanish). 12 people correctly guessed this number on the social networks of the project and Eve Gross will receive tickets to the show as a prize. Last year, 258 applications for the participation were received, which was a record of the project. 216 is the lowest number of applications since 2015, but producer of the show Tom Rahula is pleased. 'I have already listened to a third of the applications - and I rate them very positively,' he said.

Submission period for Eesti Laul has ended yesterday night. 'We had to create even more upload space at the last minute, so many entries were coming in and there were plenty of uploads on the end of the day. About a quarter of the songs were sent 24 hours before the deadline,' producer of the show Tomi Rahula informed during Terevisioon program this morning. Fable 2 pc rip torrent download. 'I was able to get a little acquainted with the songs at night, and I can say that the level is high. There are a lot of songs in a different languages, in five different languages: Estonian, Russian, English, German and Spanish. Song in Spanish is pretty good,' said Rahula. The prelistening of the songs will take place this weekend.