Eighty candidates took to the stage, and on Monday all will be revealed on who has made it through to the next round.<\/p>\n
The performances featured songs in French, Portuguese, Luxembourgish, Italian and English, in a wide variety of styles. <\/p>\n
This time, however, the focus was squarely on the artists themselves. <\/p>\n
Participants were allowed to perform cover songs, though many chose to present their own original material.<\/p>\n
The jury focused on vocal ability, artistic identity and stage presence. <\/p>\n
The songs themselves will only be chosen in a second phase. <\/p>\n
In the final stage, songs and artists will be matched up and selected in a “pairing workshop”.<\/p>\n
The artists who progress to the next round will be invited to submit their own songs. <\/p>\n
Submissions will be accepted until 29 October, and around 300 songs have already come in.<\/p>\n
The candidates who have made it through to the next round will be announced on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eighty candidates took to the stage, and on Monday all will be revealed on who has made it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-634252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}