#Italy
on right track - staged like a gig. Juries will reward authenticity/musicianship & usual Italy-craving public vote will go nuts. Unique as f*. USP dot com. Guest superstar performance feel. Best way to do well is not care about competing & they SO don’t. It’s liberating.
That opening of the LED wall for him to enter from backstage until he bows down is brilliant. This will win the public vote or come close and it will get jury respect. You have been warned.
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2 yrs already, tears not getting sober. “And though my heart is broken, my picture is forgotten, but I still believe that I can see a piece of me reflecting in your eyes. We will rise, never fall and we will be free.”. Shine bright my beautiful friend, thinking of you every day.
To Daniel’s memory. Miss you, you sweet and witty gentleman. 🩵
Eurovision 2023: The man who made a living betting his house on a song - BBC News.
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Still tanked on the public vote though, Spotify success ≠ public vote. It was lucky it was used on those Tik-Toks, as it spiralled from there. It was nowhere to be seen before that, even after the contest.
Unfathomable that three years have gone by. The thought of you is with me every single day…“there's an ocean of emotion that I'm carrying inside.”. Shine bright you kind-hearted gentleman.
🇧🇬 has a very special concept with stunning visuals, a unique identity of a beautifully earth-y colour palette and an incredibly charismatic and relatable gem of a singer. A moment. Victoria a victory contender.
#Bulgaria
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🇮🇹 is not a what-is-it-about song, it doesn’t matter. It’s an “energy”, like 🇵🇹 2017 was. As the latter, it’s a top-notch song in its genre that transcends language & is an annihilating vote magnet on the basis of “the experience”/feelings it takes the pubic through.
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#Bulgaria
shaping up visually, vocally and connection-wise into an extremely strong, special and unique package. A moment. Dangerous. You have been warned.
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Rehearsals Opinion of the Day: Current semi 1 top3 prediction (no order) is 🇲🇹 🇱🇹 🇨🇾.
#Cyprus
has shaped up into a high quality package - both Elena & the choreo have an appealing classy sexiness/sweetness balance - next door diva.
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🇬🇷Stefania sounding top notch, is greatly charismatic & styled impeccably and once the green screen/projection synced with physical dancers and the “hidden staging” interaction come together this will be quite special. Very cool. OPA!
#Greece
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#Poland
looks excellent on camera - dramatic & cinematic. Beautiful visuals, graphics & effects and an overall stirring atmosphere. Scary thunders, dripping water, jittery screen. Imo all this enhances what could have been a plain performance.
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🇦🇿 feels very plain, empty & phoning-it-in as far as a concept is concerned, which is a first for them. Generic female dancers with generic moves, generic arabian background, tick, tick, sing, off to the hotel. Go on, give us nothing.
#Azerbaijan
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🇨🇾 slick, professional, MTV clip-y. Fitting concept, without being too choreographed/gimmicky. Her styling/image nicely softened up compared to promo, strong reliable vocal. A bit too red for me, I’d appreciate more evolution/less staticness in last minute. Strong!
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If I was
#France
I’d actually prefer a draw as far away as possible from
#Italy
. Easier to define “my own space” at RO 10-13 than near Italy & whichever big hitter comes in 2nd half. If Barbara placed close to
#Maneskin
there’s no question as to who will kill whom.
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The offensively clueless voting of the studio jury is a perfect reflection of the uselessness and inadequacy of the people in charge.
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#Ireland
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#Italy
is that devastatingly handsome & charismatic guy EVERYONE wants to sleep with, but is too nonchalant and
#chill
to care, which in turn makes him even more attractive. It’s the definition of COOL. A force to be reckoned with.
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Opinion of the Day: 🇮🇱 EuroJury (jury) success is of the 🇬🇷🇦🇲 2019/🇨🇭 2018/🇦🇹 2017/🇪🇸 2016 type: a basic yet well produced/packaged song with a good clip that fools EuroJurors but ends up either nQ or (probably) Q & getting a jury 11-15th in the final.
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Opinion of the Day: Post-jury rehearsal prediction of the semi 1 qualifiers:
Hell yeah - 🇲🇹🇺🇦🇨🇾🇳🇴🇭🇷🇱🇹🇷🇺🇸🇪
Probably - 🇧🇪
On the edge - 1 of 🇮🇱🇷🇴🇦🇿, in this order of priority. I think 🇦🇿 probably out, with 🇮🇱🇷🇴 fighting for the last spot.
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My pre-rehearsals, pre-EuroJury, pre-OGAE top10 prediction, in decreasing order of probability of making the top10:
🇲🇹 🇸🇪 🇮🇹 🇧🇬🇨🇭🇱🇹 🇫🇷 🇳🇴 🇲🇩
For the final spot I would guesstimate, in alphabetical order, one of:
🇦🇹 🇭🇷 🇨🇾 🇮🇸 🇷🇴 🇷🇺 🇺🇦
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#Greece
serving lovely rich vocals with a staging of identifiable/unique identity and nice camera work. Perfectly lovely and utilising the raw material in a more than adequate/respectable way.
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Opinion of the Day: 🇮🇹🇲🇹🇧🇬 top5/6 w both constituencies, 1 wins
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. Guess atm 🇮🇹 (pv win). Francophone entry 🇫🇷🇨🇭 juries like most earns jury-driven 4-6th. PV-pull to top6: 🇱🇹 + nordic liked most by pv 🇮🇸🇳🇴 (can’t call it). WC to spoil this top6 party 🇨🇾.
🇮🇹 Vs 🇫🇷 - Besides song strength and act relatability, with the gap between the 2 being cataclysmic for me, I think another major difference is Genuine Vs Pretentious/High Brow.
#Italy
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🇲🇹Concept was always going to be “in-your-face modern MTV clip”. Destiny was always going to channel empowering Lizzo - the signs were there (down to purposely exposed thighs!). Vocals were always going to be strong with the rest very work-in-progress at this stage.
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🇫🇷We were never going to learn anything new from
#France
. Barbara was always going to do her thing brilliantly, in the same way, with the same concept and her backers were always going to be enamoured with it.
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#Cyprus
!!! This is top-notch stuff! Not dissimilar to a slick guest star performance during an international awards evening. 👏🏻👏🏻
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Lve that
#Switzerland
has an artsy, non-piano concept, will do v well, but does suffer from the France 2018 problem of not really putting a message across. It’s very good but it feels like an edgy/avant-garde 4/5th, like Loic, Margaret Berger or Suus.
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Opinion of the Day: 🇸🇲 to pull an Adrenalised MonstroDisiac. Their most competitive entry, overrated pre-rehearsals as 🇫🇮Monsters, equally competent yet basic, singer of similar inspiring:uninspiring ratio. Qualifies 8-10th, then 🇬🇷Aphrodisiac result.
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Opinion of the Day: The Salvador/Foureira-like genre-defying annihilator was always gonna be
#Italy
, not
#France
, and market/people are finally starting to realise that.
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🇭🇷I am loving the way this is coming together and it has a strong space disco visual identity. Oh, and Albina is a charismatic relatable voteable gem, obvi.
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Public vote annihilator
#Italy
just had an even more bombastic rehearsal with even more cool/appropriate attire and camerawork. This will soar from any RO.
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#Switzerland
’s projections, visuals and camera angles too WIP still for a coherent judgement. Some of his moves give the sense there’s LED projections supposed to be part of the story of the performance that the black sun of death is obstructing.
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Opinion of the Day: Imo 🇲🇹🇮🇹 will be top5 with both constituencies & 1, if not both, of 🇳🇴🇱🇹 from the scandi/exUSSR powerhouses will be pv top5. For 🇫🇷 to be pv top5 (& hence a contender), it has to pv-beat most or all of 🇨🇾🇭🇷🇷🇸🇧🇬🇷🇴🇷🇺🇺🇦🇲🇩🇦🇿🇸🇪🇫🇮🇮🇸🇸🇲🇨🇭.
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My educated guess on the RO: With 🇬🇧 2nd half, 🇪🇸 1st half & 🇮🇹
#9
, even if all of 🇺🇦 🇸🇪 🇵🇱 get 1st half, we will get something like 🇺🇦
#1
-6, one of 🇸🇪 🇵🇱
#8
and the other one
#11
-13 with 🇪🇸.
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And I think we might be in for an open year like 2013/2017, and the certainty the winner is coming from heat 5 does not sit as well with me as with many others. Pending full songs and visuals ofc, but I do think they could do better with a couple of others from the other heats.