{"id":6697,"date":"2016-03-17T13:26:50","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T12:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/?p=6697"},"modified":"2016-03-21T16:23:31","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T15:23:31","slug":"maltezen-niet-te-spreken-over-songwissel-ira-losco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/stockholm2016\/maltezen-niet-te-spreken-over-songwissel-ira-losco\/","title":{"rendered":"Maltese not to mention song Exchange Ira Losco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #D49D6E; font-weight: bold;\" class=\"post-p-lead\">Unfortunately this article is not available in English and has been automatically translated. Please visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/\">homepage<\/a> for all English content or get an overview of all English articles <a href=\"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/english\">here<\/a>. You can also request a translation by sending us an <a href=\"mailto:info@songfestival.be\">email<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"lead\">In Malta there is murmurings about the exchange of songs Ira Losco. The public indicated her as winner of the national qualifying round with <em>Chameleon<\/em>, but eventually it will <em>Walk on Water<\/em> Ira singing in Stockholm, without the public anything about had to say. Malta proposes that song for tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Especially on <strong>social media <\/strong>gets the Maltese broadcaster PSB there heavy of Maltese television viewers and Eurovision fans along. find that the national tour of Malta presented nothing this year because the final result &#8216; ignored &#8216;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fitvids-video\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Changing IRA&#8217;s song from &#8216; Chameleon &#8216; to &#8216; Walk on Water &#8216; is a slap in the face for those that voted for her at the national final <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Eurovision?src=hash\">#Eurovision<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lukee! #Icebreaker (@lukejames1995) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lukejames1995\/status\/709654816616751105\">March 15, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"fitvids-video\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Walk on Water better be winning-worthy. I loved Chameleon so much <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/malta?src=hash\">#malta<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/eurovision?src=hash\">#eurovision<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jovan (@jovan_esc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jovan_esc\/status\/709421373182107648\">March 14, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"fitvids-video\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Is this equally permitted in the rules and regulations?  Or do we have no rules, regulations or standards at all? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9F453J3U4V\">https:\/\/t.co\/9F453J3U4V<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jennifer c. Magri (@JenniferMagri) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JenniferMagri\/status\/709389030048268288\">March 14, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p><strong><em>Complaint<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some even say that they never would have voted if they had known that only the winning artist chosen would be effective and not the song. PSB received all complaints from televoters who their <strong>money back requirements<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Also the fact that the public has no say in the final song select, is <em>not done<\/em>for many. An internal panel got presented with ten numbers and chose there, <em>Walk on Water<\/em>, but the public has never heard those numbers. Even the <strong>renewed<\/strong> version of <em>Chameleon<\/em> remains a closely guarded secret.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Favorite<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Maltese broadcaster says that the new number was the obvious favorite of the panel and more likely to <strong>score<\/strong> on the next song festival in Sweden.<\/p>\n<p>Howard Keith Debono, the manager of Ira Losco, responded via facebook on the many negative comments. &#8216; Malta is a very small country that cannot automatically count on a place in the final on Saturday. It will take a while until all <strong>precipitated<\/strong> , since this is not &#8216; normal &#8216;. Believe me, it had been much easier for us to let things as they are, but we went to the <strong>challenge<\/strong> &#8216;, he wrote.<br \/>IRA Losco itself hopes that they can count on a lot of <strong>support<\/strong> .<\/p>\n<p>Anton Attard, one of those responsible at PSB, says in a statement that they have done <strong>Nothing invalid<\/strong> . According to Attard gives the broadcaster soon free more details about how and why the song in connection with Exchange. He let fall that <em>Chameleon<\/em> already it probably would get (too) difficult to stay upright between all European entries. In other words; the first song was too weak.<\/p>\n<p>As a reminder, so sounds <em>Chameleon<\/em>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"fitvids-video\">\n<div class=\"container-lazyload preview-lazyload container-youtube\"><a class=\"lazy-load-youtube preview-lazyload preview-youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-m9trmP50PE\" video-title=\"MESC 2016 SF - Ira Losco - Chameleon\" title=\"Play Video \"MESC 2016 SF - Ira Losco - Chameleon\"\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#000\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-m9trmP50PE<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PSB received all complaints from televoters who spend their money back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[351,9],"tags":[1689,975,978,1692,17,1690,668,974,138,1691,805,1663,1693],"class_list":["post-6697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mt","category-stockholm2016","tag-wow","tag-7th-wonder","tag-chameleon","tag-change","tag-eurovision","tag-eurovision-song-contest-2016","tag-invincible","tag-ira-losco","tag-malta","tag-psb","tag-song","tag-walk-on-water","tag-wissel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6697"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}