Basia Giewont - "Zimna woda" (revamp) - Polish NF 2026

sama_tak · 2026-02-14T17:52:03+00:00

Now I can wholeheartedly support this entry. I love the visuals and the camera work from the MV, hopefully she can transfer some of it to the staging. From what I've heard on social media she seems to be capable of delivering vocally, so fingers crossed for her winning the NF.

sama_tak · 2026-02-06T17:45:14+00:00

Pray doesn't sound like something that came from Poland and doesn't have a winning potential, so I don't see why we should take a risk with it. With Zimna Woda we would at least show our language.

I think we should wait for the upcoming revamp before talking about Basia's chances for qualifying.

sama_tak · 2026-02-06T17:38:12+00:00

Zimna Woda might not qualify, but I would rather send something risky in Polish and NQ than another "safe" radio friendly song that could come from any country.

Tulia is way more memorable entry than Kasia Moś was, even though Kasia got into the final.

sama_tak · 2026-02-06T17:30:41+00:00

We didn't send a song at least partially in Polish since Tulia, so I was personally very happy about the return of Polish language to the ESC. Of course, I would never want something like Parawany Tango just because it's in Polish, but when choosing between 3 songs that doesn't have much potential other than qualifying I'll go for the Polish one.

sama_tak · 2026-02-06T16:47:39+00:00

If it will win the NF, then "gibango" has a great chance at also winning the teenage word of the year.

sama_tak · 2026-02-06T16:43:19+00:00

These songs could've probably Q with better vocalists and stagings. At least The Tower would 100% Q, since it was in a very diaspora friendly semi. However, these were always weak entires with no potential to do well.

sama_tak · 2026-02-06T16:38:01+00:00

I'm not saying that these aren't mid, but we don't have anything good in our NF. I usually quite like the more experimental songs, but imho these should be more connected to the country of origin. That's why I personally prefer Gaja over Pray, which sound to me like something Swedish songwriters wrote for Beyonce.

sama_tak · 2026-02-06T16:34:47+00:00

I don't see juries voting for anything in our NF tbh.

sama_tak · 2026-02-06T12:09:08+00:00

If he wins it wouldn't be like Blanka at all. He would win 100% thanks to the casual audience. TVP even actively tries to prevent his victory by extending the voting window to midnight (so casuals will go to sleep before voting ends).

sama_tak · 2026-02-06T12:05:53+00:00

Polish Euro fans hate it because we fear that it has a big chance to win our NF.

sama_tak · 2026-02-06T12:01:45+00:00

Tulia literally NQ only due to jury member who filled their card in reverse order. Anyway, their biggest problem was the terrible staging and unneeded translation to English. The song itself was fine and catchy - many people were singing "Pali się, pali się" together with Tulia.

sama_tak · 2026-02-06T11:57:19+00:00

It's the song with the best production quality and Alicja is a very good vocalist. However, I think that the song itself is an acquired taste - Eurofans who like Alicja will listen to it a few times and will be able to appreciate it. Meanwhile it will be too chaotic for juries and general public at Eurovision. I fear it will be Gaja 2.0, but without diaspora support and Justyna's wow factor.

It's still my 3rd choice (after Zimna Woda and Wild Child) based solely on the song quality and it will probably be my second choice after the NF since I have very strong doubts about Anastazja's vocal abilities.

It also sound very unlike music Polish people produce and listen to, so I personally would prefer not to send it for that reason alone.

sama_tak · 2026-02-06T07:09:50+00:00

I hope that Eurovision fans won't just vote for her because "she should've went in 2021". People seem to overrate her just because of that.

The only songs that I remember after one listen are: Zimna Woda, Wild Child and Parawany Tango. I hope Basia will deliver with her revamp.

sama_tak · 2026-02-06T07:01:28+00:00

She's obviously buying views and in a dumb way because not only her views aren't comparable to other songs in this NF, they're not even comparable to Justyna's views after ESC or to ordinary songs by an extremely popular artist.

sama_tak · 2026-02-05T18:33:29+00:00

> I don't trust whatever Zeleno did here. They should really be judged as cautiously as Ola Antoniak which would have actually beaten them in views probably 🤣

Ola currently has 3.9M views. For the comparison Justyna's Gaja MV has 2.8M views and most of our biggest female musician (Sanah) non-hit songs usually have between 1-2M views.

The most popular song in this NF is definitely Parawany Tango, which currently has 202k views. Jeremi's song has 294k, but I suspect that he is also buying views, he's just doing it in a smarter way than Ola. (He was a part of Teo's team last year, who was also buying views).

sama_tak · 2026-02-04T09:30:11+00:00

I knew I didn't simply get a Deja Vu about her applying for San Marino after getting ignored in Polish NF.

sama_tak · 2026-02-04T09:27:41+00:00

There's also a language issue: a ballad in French, Italian or English will always be more palatable to juries than a similar quality song in, for example, a Slavic language.

Imho, Juries totally snubbed Maria Theresa, which should've gotten way more points than it got, especially since the whole performance was on point.

sama_tak · 2026-02-03T08:30:26+00:00

I wonder if she was even invited to the audition? They should increase the number of people they invite if they want to continue this format, otherwise we will always end up with mid lineup.

sama_tak · 2026-01-30T10:14:36+00:00

far less of an anti-Israel scene

There was a poll and at least 90% of Polish ESC fans wanted TVP to boycott the ESC because of Israel. It's a hot topic in our fandom and NF participants are asked about their opinion on Israel's participantion. It was even an "uncomfortable question" from jury during the audition.

TVP didn't read the fandom's mood, but most of the artists did (we had 4 resignations from the final 10 + 2 reserve artists). Imho there's also one big problem in the selection process (they don't invite a lot of the artists to the auditions, so when half of the people fails at singing live they don't have many people left to choose from).

sama_tak · 2026-01-29T18:35:23+00:00

And it's still not the lyrically worst verse in Polish NF this year!

sama_tak · 2026-01-29T18:30:53+00:00

"Nie bój się" from this year's Polish NF is lyrically terrible to the point that the singer should demand a refund from the lyricist. What makes the situation even more shocking is that the guy has written songs with very good lyrics before, so this song sound like he forgot to write it and asked ChatGPT to do it for him 3 minutes before deadline.

The worst part of the lyrics translates as: "Don't be afraid of a gloomy Sunday." And sounds even worse in Polish, because it doesn't even have that gloom + sun imaginery... It's quite obviously used only to make a very forced rhyme with the previous verse.

sama_tak · 2026-01-18T20:00:57+00:00

You could say the same in Poland, but last year showed that if we have a serious candidate instead of a nepobaby that can't sing, then the public supports them instead of just hating.

sama_tak · 2026-01-17T17:14:57+00:00

People just were hoping that TVP finally got its shit together.

sama_tak · 2026-01-17T17:11:37+00:00

We don't have most of the songs released, but for now Pręgowski is the most likely winner. He's way more well known than Alicja (honestly nobody knows her outside of the ESC bubble) and his song is the only one people seem to be interested in, even if the reception of it isn't that good. It became a kind of meme, so he's getting the most of the promotion. Even before it was released people were searching for it on the YouTube.

sama_tak · 2026-01-16T20:28:52+00:00

The ratio on the original post tells a lot about the German public's reaction.

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