This Friday, the 36 songs competing in the Slovene preselecetion EMA 2004 will be revealed. Speculations in the Slovene media about possible participants are hot these days! This year an all star female quartet consisting of four Slovene divas might sing a song written and composed by a well-respected team.

Nu�a Derenda (Eurovision Song Contest 2001), Alenka Godec (3d in EMA 1993, EMA 2001 and EMA 2003) and Pika Bo�iè (6th in EMA 2003, 8th in EMA 1998 and 11th in EMA 1999) along with Anja Rupel (also one of the writers) are supposed to sing a song written by Ale� Klinar, who are responsible for hits by artists like Pika Bo�iè and Alenka Godec. Rupel and Klinar mentioned in an interview for the Slovene tabloid Nova that they are preparing “something big” for EMA 2004. After a very successful colaboration between the same artists in 2001 with the girl-power anthem I'm not for you, a new collaboration was only a question of time.

However, it seems the whole fairytale is not going to take place! After Nu�a Derenda became the big winner of Hit Festival in November, her team decided that singing with the other three is not a good idea: Derenda dropped out. She was replaced by Monika Puèelj (5th in EMA 2002), but then Alenka Godec decided to leave, because “she would look like a grandma” next to the young Monika. Pika Bo�iè followed Alenka and only Anja Rupel and Monika Puèelj were left for the song.

Now it looks like Monika Puèelj will sing the song by herself. Monika won the Slovenian pop festival Melodije morja in sonca in June with the catchy Klinar-Rupel penned Ti ob meni si. We will find out what happened with the singers this Friday, though it is speculated that Nu�a Derenda decided not to submit a song for EMA 2004 at all and Pika Bo�iè decided not to sing at festivals at all anymore.

Probably 'to be continued'…