aen :neocat_book: San Marino 2024<br><br>For such a small country, they somehow managed to find two bangers (I suppose neither Mate or Megara are actually from San Marino but still)<br><br>I was actually surprised to find myself really liking two of the songs from this national final, when most of the time I really don't like anything San Marino sends. For those unaware, San Marino gets a lot of Italian (and some Spanish) artists in their national final since their native population is so small, and it's usually people who don't have the talent to represent their own country but desperately want to go to Eurovision anyway and see San Marino as an easy but expensive option to do so<br><br>Despite all of that, I loved Mate and Megara! Maybe San Marino will qualify this year, who knows... 🫣<br><br>Also quite funny that Loredana Bertè was personally invited over from Sanremo in Italy to compete in San Marino with her song, with everyone calling it rigged in her favour, only for her to come 2nd in the end. That's also why I have a duplicate in my spreadsheet now<br><br>Two more things: they also had some kind of "AI" contest where artists could send in their songs to be enhanced by an AI and then the best one would go straight to the final? Not sure what the fuck that was supposed to accomplish but it resulted in a song from the perspective of a Polar Bear that came 7th<br><br>Finally, I am NOT listening to and scoring the full 129 songs in this national final. That would be insane<br><br><a class="hashtag" href="https://larkspur.one/tag/eurovision" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Eurovision</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://larkspur.one/tag/eurovision2024" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Eurovision2024</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://larkspur.one/tag/sanmarino" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SanMarino</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://larkspur.one/tag/unavocepersanmarino" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UnaVocePerSanMarino</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://larkspur.one/tag/uvpsm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UVPSM</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://larkspur.one/tag/unavocepersanmarino2024" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UnaVocePerSanMarino2024</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://larkspur.one/tag/uvpsm2024" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UVPSM2024</a>