Brooke Borg: ‘Even though it’s about toxic situations, Checkmate is still about good fights’
As the Malta Eurovision Song Contest quarter-finals are coming to the results stage soon, we had a great pleasure to chat with the participants of this year’s edition of Malta’s national selection. Brooke Borg is a name that all Eurovision fans know, as she has competed to represent Malta a couple of times in the past already. She is back in the Contest again this year, and she presented her song “Checkmate” back in the second quarter-final.
We spoke to Brooke about the song “Checkmate”, the story behind it, songwriting, preparations for MESC, as well as personal idols and dream collaborations. Check out all of that, and more, in this interview right here below:
Give a listen to the 30 second long snippet of Brooke’s song “Checkmate” right here:
Let us know which are YOUR personal favorites in the Malta Eurovision Song Contest, by voting for up to five songs in our poll below:
- Brooke - Checkmate 25%, 668 votes668 votes 25%668 votes - 25% of all votes
- The Busker - Dance (Our Own Party) 14%, 363 votes363 votes 14%363 votes - 14% of all votes
- Maxine Pace - Alone 11%, 297 votes297 votes 11%297 votes - 11% of all votes
- Ryan Hili - In The Silence 6%, 167 votes167 votes 6%167 votes - 6% of all votes
- Dario Bezzina - Bridle Road 6%, 154 votes154 votes 6%154 votes - 6% of all votes
- Nathan - Creeping Walls 4%, 93 votes93 votes 4%93 votes - 4% of all votes
- Dario - Pawn In A Game 3%, 83 votes83 votes 3%83 votes - 3% of all votes
- Cheryl Balzan - La La Land 2%, 60 votes60 votes 2%60 votes - 2% of all votes
- Fabrizio Faniello - Try To Be Better 2%, 56 votes56 votes 2%56 votes - 2% of all votes
- Stefan - Heartbreaker 2%, 53 votes53 votes 2%53 votes - 2% of all votes
- Matt Blxck - Up 2%, 46 votes46 votes 2%46 votes - 2% of all votes
- Kirstie - Girls Get Down 2%, 43 votes43 votes 2%43 votes - 2% of all votes
- Chris Grech - Indescribable 2%, 42 votes42 votes 2%42 votes - 2% of all votes
- Stefan Xuereb - What Do You Want? 1%, 39 votes39 votes 1%39 votes - 1% of all votes
- Mikhail - Lehen Fic-cpar 1%, 37 votes37 votes 1%37 votes - 1% of all votes
- Clintess - Lura Qatt 1%, 34 votes34 votes 1%34 votes - 1% of all votes
- Jessika - Unapologetic 1%, 31 vote31 vote 1%31 vote - 1% of all votes
- Maria Debono - X'allegrija 1%, 31 vote31 vote 1%31 vote - 1% of all votes
- Marie Claire - Thankful 1%, 28 votes28 votes 1%28 votes - 1% of all votes
- Eliana Gomez Blanco - Guess What 1%, 27 votes27 votes 1%27 votes - 1% of all votes
- Lyndsay - Haunted 1%, 26 votes26 votes 1%26 votes - 1% of all votes
- James Louis - Dream 1%, 26 votes26 votes 1%26 votes - 1% of all votes
- Klinsmann - Piranha 1%, 25 votes25 votes 1%25 votes - 1% of all votes
- Haley - Tik Tok 1%, 23 votes23 votes 1%23 votes - 1% of all votes
- Geo Debono - The Mirror 1%, 21 vote21 vote 1%21 vote - 1% of all votes
- Greta Tude - Sound Of My Stilettos 1%, 20 votes20 votes 1%20 votes - 1% of all votes
- Andre' - Broken Hill 1%, 19 votes19 votes 1%19 votes - 1% of all votes
- Christian Arding - Eku car 1%, 16 votes16 votes 1%16 votes - 1% of all votes
- Dominic and Anna - Whatever Wind May Blow 1%, 14 votes14 votes 1%14 votes - 1% of all votes
- Maria Christina - Our Flame 0%, 12 votes12 votes12 votes - 0% of all votes
- John Galea - Trailblazer 0%, 12 votes12 votes12 votes - 0% of all votes
- Dan - It'll Be OK 0%, 12 votes12 votes12 votes - 0% of all votes
- Mark Anthony Bartolo - Tears 0%, 11 votes11 votes11 votes - 0% of all votes
- Giada - I Depend On You 0%, 8 votes8 votes8 votes - 0% of all votes
- Francesca Sciberras - Masquerade 0%, 8 votes8 votes8 votes - 0% of all votes
- Jake - Love You Like That 0%, 8 votes8 votes8 votes - 0% of all votes
- Ian - On My Own 0%, 6 votes6 votes6 votes - 0% of all votes
- Bradley Debono - Blackout 0%, 5 votes5 votes5 votes - 0% of all votes
- Jason Scerri - Anything Can Happen 0%, 4 votes4 votes4 votes - 0% of all votes