Malta Song For Europe Festival 2001

The Malta Song For Europe Festival 2001 was held in the Mediterranean Conference Center at Valletta on Friday 2nd and Saturday 3rd February. It was hosted by Louise Tedesco, Claire Fabri & Antonella Vasallo. The winning song was chosen by 7 experts (3 Maltese, 1 from Greece, Denmark, Germany and the UK) plus televoting (which counted as the 8th juror). 46,300 televotes were cast, and Fabrizio Faniello won the televote.

The winning song is "Another Summer Night" (Singer-Fabrizio Faniello, Composer-Paul Abela, Lyrics- Georgina Abela), in second place came "Spellbound" (Singer-Ira Losco, Composer-Philip Vella, Lyrics-Gerard James Borg), and third was "Count On Me" (Singer-Lawrence Gray). You can give you opinion on the song by participating in the poll. Here is the final classification together with my comments:

Pos	Song Title and Real Audio	Points	Singer	My Comments
1	Another Summer Night	154	Fabrizio Faniello	Deserved winner. A young man combined with four stunning young ladies and a simple song provide the perfect package for Malta.
2	Spellbound	122	Ira Losco	Is not worth second place in my opinion. A good song but was at least below two other songs in quality.
3	Count On Me	116	Lawrence Gray	Good ballad in typical "Lawrence Gray" style. Song is excellently delivered. Should have come at least second.
4	Don't Give Up	99	Ira Losco	Nothing special. Just an average song by a good singer.
5	I Wanna Be The One	92	Marvic Lewis	Again this falls under the "nothing special" category. It lacked the necessary twist that makes songs special.
6	A Song In My Life	78	Lawrence Gray	The lyrics were excellent, the song was average but it is clear that some jurors did not appreciate this ballad. Perhaps it's time for Gray to move on and adopt a new style although some might say that his voice is made for this type of songs.
7	Love Will See Me Through	71	Olivia Lewis	A promising song with a catchy tune. It should have come at least fourth.
8	Deep Inside My Heart	59	Ira Losco	This is a very good song with an impressive melody. Ira's performance was again flawless.
9	All I Need	59	Fiona Cauchi	This song should have come at least third. Fiona did an excellent job and her cool performance was one of the best on the night.
10	Hold Me Now	52	Olivia Lewis	Not a bad song and another one which falls in the "nothing special" category.
11	We'll Ride The Wind	50	Ira Losco	Ira continues her marathon with this slow ballad which is quite good to listen to but appears very ordinary on stage.
12	Eternity	49	Julie Zahra	This was a very high quality song and it would have certainly won the festival up till a few years ago. Unfortunately for Julie, we are in 2001.
13	Nothing I Can Do	46	Karen Polidano	One of those entries which should be quickly forgotten. Deserves this place.
14	My Three Minute Song	45	Tarcisio Barbara	This three minute song seemed to last six minutes to me. Extremely boring song.
15	Why Now?	39	Michelle Farrugia	This strong ballad did not deserve this low placing but it certainly did not raise any houses on fire. Interestingly though it seemed to find favor with foreigners in the messageboards.
16	He's My Romeo	37	Nadine Axisa	I don't have any comments regarding this song except that I did not like it and that it deserved last place. Again, some people in the messageboards found this song appealing.