Eurovision 2017 – Belgium

The Belgium song is called “City Lights” and performed by Blanche.

ARTIST

Ellie Delvaux, now known as Blanche, will represent Belgium in the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest with the song City Lights. Broadcaster RTBF announced Blanche as Belgium’s representative late last year. The singer co-wrote her entry for Kyiv with singer-songwriter Pierre Dumoulin.

Blanche is 17 years old and previously took part in the fifth season of The Voice Belgium.

SONG

Over the past few months Blanche has been working on her latest release, City Lights, with Pierre Dumoulin, lead singer of the group Roscoe. Roscoe won the Octave Award for Best Album of the Year on two occasions, in 2012 and 2015.

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OPINION

Wow! What an old-sounding voice for such a young girl. Although I do like it more and more each time I hear it, I feel like it’s missing something. Maybe if she upped the key earlier in the song it would stop any boredom setting in. It is quite current and she’s definitely very talented.

PREDICTION

I think this could go either way. People will either love it or hate it. I hope it qualifies and I can see it doing so well in the final and will be middle of the left hand side of the leader board.

LYRICS

‘All alone in the danger zone
Are you ready to take my hand?
All alone in the flame of doubt
Are we going to lose it all?
I could never leave…you in the city lights
I could never beat…the storm in your eyes,
The storm in your bright eyes

All alone in the danger zone
Are you ready to take my hand?
All alone in the flame of doubt
Are we going to lose it all?

Looking in between…the space in the city lights
All we ever seen is stars in your eyes
The stars in your dark eyes