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Ranting:
I actually really like BLANKA's Solo [the studio version at least], but it's been wrapped up in too much baggage so people immediately dislike the song [baggage: accusations of jury rigging for the song to win the national final, winning over the huge fan favourite Gladiator by Jann, poor vocals in the national final performance]. I hope that people can at least acknowledge the song and performance outside of the baggage without resorting to anger and hatred that will not work out in the end [the national final performance and music video have been posted to the Eurovision Song Contest YouTube channel, so I don't think the EBU will disqualify the song unless something drastic happens]. And if anyone else saw the full national final, there were some WAY worse choices [Booty and Champion in particular, I’m looking at you] and if anything other than Gladiator would have been chosen, the chosen song would have probably gotten the same vitriol that Solo has gotten. Yes, BLANKA and TVP have been questionable [BLANKA’s social media posts towards Jann in particular], but it's a song contest at the end of the day even with all of this baggage attached. However, I do agree with the general consensus that Poland is not qualifying. TVP definitely messed up big time. Long story short, please do not send hate to BLANKA or TVP; there are actual humans at work here, please treat humans as humans and not objects.

TL;DR: I'm annoyed that people can't look past Solo's baggage to at least acknowledge something positive about it, even if people don't want to. Please treat people with some respect here.

Anyways, I heard the song and I was thinking "that sounded familiar". Someone on the r/eurovision subreddit pinpointed it to me and then I whipped this up in my spare time.

Clean Bandit ft. Demi Lovato - Solo (Official Instrumental and Audio)
BLANKA - Solo (Filtered Acapella done by vocalremover.org)

Made in Audacity.
Rendered in Sony Vegas Pro 17.
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