Eurovision 2013: Hungary

My ongoing tour through the national finals continues with the Hungarian national final "A Dal".

To be honest, it was a rather lackluster affair with eight artists competing to with this song winning the entire thing:

 

ByeAlex   "Kedvasem"

 

It's not particularly surprising, considering the selection for the entire portion of the contest. 

 

To make it into the final, there was a 50/50 split between the group of judges--five people who have a direct connection to the Eurovision Song Contest--and televoting.  Half the songs were selected by the jury, while the other half were selected by the public. 

 

In the final, this was changed, with the five judges ranking the songs.  Then the top four were placed to the public vote.

 

Three of the four songs were jury choices from the very beginning, and they favored this number:

 

 

András Kállay-Saunders  "My Baby"

 

However, those three were outvoted by ByeAlex, who was ranked fourth at the end of the jury process, but was the only one the general public actually liked.

 

There isn't particularly anything substantial to "Kedvasem".  It's perfectly nice and would be great as a background song in an iPod or a Levis commercial.  But as a winning song it's got no real chance.  It's got a good chance to make it into the final--with a nice placing at twelfth--but I can't see it storming the charts anywhere, much less storming to the top of at the finals.

Honestly, I couldn't see any of their songs storm anywhere.  It's sad, because "A Dal" was a well put together, enteretaining little show.  It makes me wonder what sort of show the Hungarian national broadcaster would put on if they won the contest.