On Saturday evening, February 17, the grand final of EUROVIZIJA.LT took place in Klaipėda's "Švyturio" arena, after which it became clear that Lithuania will be represented in this international competition by singer Silvester Belt with the song "Luktelk".
After it was announced on various platforms that Lithuania had chosen Silvestras Beltė as its representative, it didn't take long for the bloggers' reaction to the Lithuanian representative to pour into song. For example, there are at least 30 videos of reactions to the song "Luktelk" and the performance on YouTube, and the number of reaction videos is growing.
The American has been commenting on Eurovision for almost a decade
One of them is Alesia Michelle, a famous Eurovision blogger living in the United States. Since 2015, she has been posting her reactions and insights on this song contest on the YouTube platform. She has more than 25 thousand channel subscribers on YouTube. She's been around music all her life: singing in musicals since she was little, studying at Virginia's private Hampton University, where she learned about traditional media arts and the evolving digital media market. After graduation, she went on to lead digital media strategy and communications for non-profit organizations. She also worked as a radio presenter. Her predictions were often 80% or more accurate.
Alesia was one of the first to post her reaction and her whole reaction and analysis took almost 20 minutes. Her reactions to each song usually last up to ten minutes, and only on rare occasions does she expand on her comments. According to her, Lithuania did an excellent job in organizing such a high-level selection and the Lithuanian Eurovision Song Contest should become an example for other countries.
Often quick to criticize and comment on artists' vocals and/or stage production, this time she was practically speechless as she enjoyed Silvester Belt's final performance and song. According to her, the song is modern, the staging and filming angles are excellent and precise, the costumes are coordinated and stylish. She was also convinced that the representative of the United Kingdom, Olly Alexander, should be worried, because the representative of Lithuania can properly kick the British ass.
The Irishman is happy that the song will be performed in Lithuanian at the Eurovision Song Contest
Another YouTube blogger "ESC Tom" is happy that a song in Lithuanian will be played on the big stage of Eurovision. According to him, Silvestre's song and performance will really stand out in Malmö and he should have no problem making it to the finals. Tomas is convinced that Lithuania will finally achieve its best result in Eurovision. According to him, the Lithuanian song can be among the Top 5 songs, while the results of Irish reactions and the voting results of the community of video subscribers say that Silvestro's song deserves to be in the Top 3. Voting results are updated daily.
For the Spaniard, Pedro's song simply took away the promise
For Youtube blogger Pedro Rivas, the Lithuanian song was a very pleasant surprise, that it is a modern song and performed in Lithuanian. He liked this song very much and even promised to learn the words of this song in Lithuanian so that he could also sing this song and be the artist's biggest fan. The whole performance was very effective and cool for him, he even wanted to buy tickets to Malmö and participate in the big Eurovision party and dance to the rhythm of "Luktelk". Pedro is not the only Spaniard who liked the Lithuanian song, besides, they quickly memorized the word "luktelk" and then sang to the music.
The Eurovision Hub community was impressed with the song and the performance
The Eurovision Hub community was surprised and, in their opinion, everything is in sync: the rhythm of the song is effective, the stage design is accurate. He also mentioned that Lithuania is returning the real festival to Eurovision. According to them, Lithuania can be proud of its choice. Others mentioned that they want to play this song over and over again.
You can find more reactions to SIlvester Belt's song "Luktelk" on Youtube
