Netherlands

We have some songs, well snippets!

The finalists are;

1. Rafaëlla Paton – Chocolate (Winner of Pop Idol 2004).
Written by Jan Rooymans, Chris Silos

2. Joan Franka – You and Me (Eliminated from 5th week of The Voice, Netherlands).
Written by Joan Franka, Jessica Hogeboom

3. Ivan Peroti – Take me as I am (Established artist)
Written by Alain Clark, Steve Diamond, Ben Caver

4. Pearl Jozefson – We can overcome (2nd in The Voice Netherlands)
Written by Gordon Groothedde, Curtis Richardson

5. Tim Douwsma – Undercover Lover (5th in So you Want to be a Pop Star 2007)
Written by Bruce R.F. Smith, Michel van der Zanden

6. Kim de Boer – Children of the World (3rd in The Voice Netherlands).
Written by Martijn Schimmer

Listen to them by clicking here

First impressions suggest a decent selection. I'm looking forward to hearing the full versions now. By the way, the songs are not played in order, so you'll have to listen for the artist's name.

#4 and #6 sound quite similar stylewise, hopefully neither is chosen as they would bomb in the televote.

#1 we dont get much of but its a female singing a dance song which isnt promising for Eurovision.

#5 the worst of the lot.

#3 sounds like a cutout early 2000s chart entry, and unfortunately will prob get chosen, altho the dutch are often quite quirky.

Personally I hope they go with #2 - depending on the rest of the song it might not work or be done in too playful a way, but based on those 5 seconds it sounds the most promising to me.