May 6, 201312 yr The basics stay FIRMLY bottom ten (Chiara excepted) PkHultQSN_A But you can easily replace Slovenia 2011 with Austria 2011.
May 7, 201312 yr What are you implying Vulker? I have to admit that I didn't pay "Shine" much attention pre-live shows but then Sofia delivered the performance of the NIGHT.
May 7, 201312 yr What are you implying Vulker? I have to admit that I didn't pay "Shine" much attention pre-live shows but then Sofia delivered the performance of the NIGHT. YESSSSSSS She was abso-f***ing-lutely incredible.
May 7, 201312 yr I have listened to all the songs and i must say there is nothing this year that has truly excited me. I would go so far to say it is quiet a weak year and the weakest in a long time. That said we have been spolit for choice the last 2 years. I think Denmark are the clear winner this year and my top 10 predictions are as follows. Top 10 01 Denmark 02 Russia 03 The Netherlands 04 Ukraine 05 Norway 06 Azerbaijan 08 Georgia. 09 Serbia 10 Ireland/UK
May 7, 201312 yr The Secret Is Love redefined amazing! What are you implying Vulker? I have to admit that I didn't pay "Shine" much attention pre-live shows but then Sofia delivered the performance of the NIGHT. YESSSSSSS She was abso-f***ing-lutely incredible. I'll have to disagree with all of you. "The Secret Is Love", "No One" and "Shine" are as basic as they come to me. Powerful vocals on the first two, granted, but if you take that out I see nothing special in there. The less said about "Shine" the better. :blink:
May 7, 201312 yr No One's definitely in a different category to those other two! It's like comparing Christina - Fighter with a Disney ballad...
May 7, 201312 yr No One's definitely in a different category to those other two! It's like comparing Christina - Fighter with a Disney ballad... I really can't see much of a difference. It's punchier, yes, but to me they all have the same soul. But maybe my dislike for it is making me do the comparison so I'll leave you to it.
May 8, 201312 yr Never got what was so great about The Secret is Love apart from her amazing voice but the latter two were FABULOUS.
May 8, 201312 yr Semi Final One 01. Russia 02. Ukraine 03. Denmark 04. Moldova 05. Serbia 06. Croatia 07. Belarus 08. Lithuania 09. Montenegro 10. Belgium 11. The Netherlands 12. Cyprus 13. Estonia 14. Austria 15. Ireland 16. Slovenia Semi Final Two 01. Georgia 02. Azerbaijan 03. Greece 04. Norway 05. Iceland 06. Armenia 07. Finland 08. Romania 09. Israel 10. Switzerland 11. Malta 12. Bulgaria 13. Albania 14. San Marino 15. Hungary 16. FYR Macedonia 17. Latvia Here are my predictions, but I will probably keep changing them as rehearsal and jury finals happen! Hopefully these aren't correct as quite a few of my favourites would be missing out here. :(
May 8, 201312 yr I haven't done any predictions yet so here we go. 1. Denmark 2. Russia 3. Moldova 4. Ukraine 5. Montenegro 6. The Netherlands 7. Belarus 8. Slovenia 9. Ireland 10. Serbia --- 11. Croatia 12. Austria 13. Estonia 14. Lithuania 15. Belgium 16. Cyprus Fairly clear-cut now I've heard rehearsal reports, I think the top 5 are certainties no matter what, this does include my 3 personal favourites but they seem to be gaining a lot of momentum so whatever. Fairly sure about the Netherlands, Belarus and Slovenia will rep the 'fun for Europe' side, Ireland isn't failing, it's too strong for that and Serbia is a bit of a toss-up between it and Croatia, both are very borderline. Austria and Estonia COULD but probably won't and I think the bottom 3 are no-hopers, although I've written off Lithuania too many times in the past so.. I don't know. 01. Georgia 02. Azerbaijan 03. Norway 04. Greece 05. Switzerland 06. San Marino 07. Finland 08. Iceland 09. Bulgaria 10. Israel --- 11. Romania 12. Albania 13. Latvia 14. Armenia 15. Hungary 16. F.Y.R. Macedonia 17. Malta Top 3 will definitely be through, becomes a little more difficult after that. Greece by virtue of being the only novelty entry should be through easily, I think Switzerland and San Marino are the next strongest, both should stand out, I'd be suprised if Finland fails because of wedding gimmick etc, Iceland should end up being rather emotional and Bulgaria's gotten through before with this act, and it's a weaker semi so I'd suspect they're through too despite a slightly weaker song. Israel could just about scrape through. I'm worried about Romania qualifying so it should at least come close, as should Albania. The rest of those songs I don't think are going to appeal to anyone in great numbers so should be bottom 5 in any order.
May 8, 201312 yr The Secret Is Love was fantastic, the melody won me over straight away and her vocals were incredible! I guess it's just one of those songs that you either love or don't but it was very much the sort of thing that was tailor made for me.
May 8, 201312 yr My thoughts right now for the semis: Semi One 1. Ukraine 2. Denmark 3. Netherlands 4. Russia 5. Belarus 6. Moldova 7. Ireland 8. Austria 9. Lithuania 10. Montenegro ------------------ 11. Serbia 12. Estonia 13. Croatia 15. Slovenia 16. Cyprus 17. Belgium I think Montenegro could slip through but it'll depend on the live performance. (I haven't seen rehearsal yet so I don't know what it's like) I think songs like Russia, Belarus and Moldova will be inoffensively nice and benefit from the new voting system. Belarus in particular. Semi Two 1. Norway 2. Greece 3. Azerbaijan 4. Georgia 5. Israel 6. San Marino 7. Malta 8. Finland 9. Iceland 10. Hungary -------- 11. Switzerland 12. Bulgaria 13. Romania 14. Albania 15. Armenia 16. Macedonia 17. Latvia I think Hungary could be a bit of a dark horse in the semis....the one that lands in 10th place that nobody thought it would qualify. (There always seems to be at least one) As much as I like Bulgaria I feel the song might end up being too polarizing and be hurt by the new voting system. :( I think Norway and Greece have the top two in the bag. It's harder to call this year though, the new voting system could turn everything on it's head. Edited May 8, 201312 yr by Sabrewulf
May 9, 201312 yr Semi Final One 01. Russia 02. Ukraine 03. Denmark 04. Moldova 05. Serbia 06. Croatia 07. Belarus 08. Lithuania 09. Montenegro 10. Belgium 11. The Netherlands 12. Cyprus 13. Estonia 14. Austria 15. Ireland 16. Slovenia Semi Final Two 01. Georgia 02. Azerbaijan 03. Greece 04. Norway 05. Iceland 06. Armenia 07. Finland 08. Romania 09. Israel 10. Switzerland 11. Malta 12. Bulgaria 13. Albania 14. San Marino 15. Hungary 16. FYR Macedonia 17. Latvia Here are my predictions, but I will probably keep changing them as rehearsal and jury finals happen! Hopefully these aren't correct as quite a few of my favourites would be missing out here. :( There's no way at all that the Netherlands aren't going through!
May 9, 201312 yr There's no way at all that the Netherlands aren't going through! I just can't see where the televotes are going to come from and with the new voting change, doing well in just the jury vote won't have quite as much effect as usual. It's just my opinion but I hope it does qualify!
May 9, 201312 yr I just can't see where the televotes are going to come from and with the new voting change, doing well in just the jury vote won't have quite as much effect as usual. It's just my opinion but I hope it does qualify! People with taste and ears hopefully :o
May 9, 201312 yr I'd love to see the Netherlands qualify, such a beautiful entry. I'm just so used to them being a dead cert to fall out in the semis, I don't think they've qualified since I've been watching!
May 10, 201312 yr There's no way at all that the Netherlands aren't going through! I think the worst thing is that it's at the expense of BELGIUM actually going through too.
May 12, 201312 yr Rehearsals have made me change my mind slightly... 01 Denmark 02 Russia 03 Ukraine 04 Belarus 05 Netherlands 06 Lithuania 07 Croatia 08 Moldova 09 Serbia 10 Ireland 11 Estonia 12 Slovenia 13 Belgium 14 Montenegro 15 Cyprus 16 Austria The Belgian rehearsal was really rather dull whereas Ireland's wasn't, but even then I think Only Love Survives is a borderline qualifier. Estonia could easily sneak in instead. Austria comes across PAINFULLY dull so I think last place is secured there. 01 Georgia 02 Azerbaijan 03 Norway 04 Greece 05 Iceland 06 Israel 07 Bulgaria 08 Malta 09 Albania 10 Armenia 11 Romania 12 Finland 13 Hungary 14 Switzerland 15 FYR Macedonia 16 San Marino 17 Latvia As much as I'm not really fussed about it, I can see Armenia making it through, just. Romania and Finland may sneak in instead of any of Armenia/Albania/Malta though. It's pretty much wide open this year though, the only songs certain of not qualifying are actually Latvia and Austria. Tentative prediction for the final... 01 Denmark 02 Russia 03 Georgia 04 Greece 05 Ukraine 06 Norway 07 Azerbaijan 08 Netherlands 09 Germany 10 Iceland 11 Sweden 12 Italy 13 Belarus 14 Moldova 15 Serbia 16 Albania 17 United Kingdom 18 Bulgaria 19 Armenia 20 Lithuania 21 Croatia 22 Israel 23 Ireland 24 Malta 25 Spain 26 France
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