This year Switzerland won the Best Lyrics of 2024 award – the award given out every year by Eurostory for the best lyrics in the Eurovision Song Contest.
Nemo receives a text award codewhich she co-wrote with Linda Dale.
Nemo received the award in Malmö.
Who came second and third?
Second: Italy (Angelina Mango, Madame), No intention
Third: Netherlands (Jost Klein, Maradoni, Tim Harz), Urubaba
Who was on the jury?
The winner was chosen by a professional jury Writers, journalists, publishers, songwriters and former Eurovision participants from 16 different countries (75% of votes, see list of names below) – and by readers Eurostory.nl (Via the poll on our website, 25% of the votes).
Nemo: “This song is a journey.”
“I'm honored,” Nimmo said when accepting the award. “For me, this song captures everything about the journey I've been on. It covers the hardest and most beautiful moments, without judgement. The fact that I received this grand award is very special to me.
Jury report:
Nemo sings about “code”. This is reminiscent of secret writing, something you have to decipher. But for Nemo, discovering what lies behind the code has to do with something much bigger: with the limited choices society imposes on them as a sexist person. It must be zero or one – computer language for one or the other. In other words: binary. In other words: male or female. Nemo expressed it beautifully in the bridge of their song: “Somewhere between 0 and 1, this is where I found my kingdom.”
This last word is an important nuance: “their kingdom come,” not just “their kingdom.” So the expectation of the kingdom has been found, not yet the full kingdom (see these lines: “Let me taste the lows and the highs, let me feel this burning fear”). The great thing about this song about nonduality is that the melody and lyrics are neither apologetic nor accusatory, but simply joyful. And a line like “I cracked the code like an ammonite, I gave it some time” is of course a wonderful and promising way to describe this life-changing endeavor. Furthermore: How many times will ammonite be mentioned in a Eurovision song?
Previous Eurostory Best winners Word Award:
2016: Ukraine
2017: France
2018: France
2019: Italy
2021: Italy
2022: Italy
2023: Austria
Professional Jury 2024
Daniel Bacchus (Holland: writer)
Elsie Bay (Norway: Participant in the Melody Grand Prix 2022/2023)
Marius Beer (Switzerland: Participant in Eurovision 2022)
Hanna Bervoits (Holland: writer)
Marco Bushnak (Croatia: Participant in the 2022 session)
Bilyana Crvenkovska (North Macedonia: Writer, publisher)
Christine Diltins (Belgium: writer)
Mia Demšić (Croatia: Participant in Eurovision 2022)
Don Doens (Holland: writer)
Fadla (Bosnia and Herzegovina: Participant in Eurovision 1993)
Nikki Francesca (Andorra: Participant in Eurovision 2007)
Ingmar Hitze (Holland: Writer, poet and performer)
Truong Hue (Germany/Vietnam: Unser Lied für Liverpool Participant 2023)
Vasil Ivanov (Bulgaria: Former Head of Press BNT Eurovision Bulgaria)
Greetings, Coffield (Holland: Participant in Eurovision 1961)
Getty Caspers (Holland: Winner of Eurovision 1975)
Igulfur Christianson (Iceland: Participant in Eurovision 1991)
Cornald Mass (Holland: Writer, presenter and Eurovision commentator)
Bart Moyart (Belgium: writer)
Thomas Mohlmann (Holland: writer)
Alexandros Panayi (Cyprus: Participant in Eurovision 1995, 2000)
Martin Rombouts (Holland: Writer, performer)
Jose Luis Serrano (Spain: writer)
Lillian St. Pierre (Belgium: Participant in Eurovision 1987)
Moira Stavris (Malta: Participant in Eurovision 1994)
Eric Tituson (Sweden: publisher)
Voyager (Australia: Participant in Eurovision 2023)
How did we determine the outcome?
Professional jury members were asked to cast two votes: #1 (good for 3 points) and #2 (good for 1 point). The final score was converted to a 12-10-8-6 point distribution, which represents 75% of the final score. Website visitors can cast one vote. This score was also converted into 12, 10, 8 and 6 points, which then represented 25% of the final score.
