Freyr’s entry this year is another catchy disco track called “10 Years,” this time about his marriage (“How does it keep getting better?” he sings in the chorus). It still took 12 attempts to come up with a new song he liked, he added. “I didn’t go to try and recreate the success, because I know it’s impossible to predict something like that,” he said. “Luck has to be part of it.”Four other Eurovision returnees said in interviews that they found the pandemic to be the biggest hurdle to writing a new hit. “I sort of got to November and was like, ‘Hmm, I should probably start working on that Eurovision song, huh?’” she added.

Source: New York Times May 06, 2021 15:22 UTC