Ten years later, singer Edyta Górniak, while in London, contacted Jacek Cygan to write the lyrics to the music, that she had heard and had won her heart.

At the same contest, Hungarian entrant Friderika, making her country's début with "Kinek mondjam el vétkeimet?"

[citation needed] Górniak was threatened with disqualification after singing the second half of the song in English during the dress rehearsal watched by the national jury members.

The song was performed twenty-fourth on the night, following Russia's Youddiph with "Vyechniy stranik" and preceding France's Nina Morato with "Je suis un vrai garçon".

"To nie ja" starts with Górniak singing on a dark stage surrounded by smoke and blue light.

For "Once in a Lifetime", Górniak wears yellow clothes in front of a white background, while the camera shows her from different perspectives.