May 9, 20187 yr Ireland going through though has absolutely made my Eurovision year! I found it so moving, just like I did the video. :wub: I've been in tears watching the Irish video. Very moving.
May 9, 20187 yr Everyone was absolutely CRAZY over Eleni in the arena. I'm sure it came across like that on TV but the Cyprus hype here is insane.
May 9, 20187 yr Everyone was absolutely CRAZY over Eleni in the arena. I'm sure it came across like that on TV but the Cyprus hype here is insane. C'hype'rus *.* All aboard for Nicosia '19! Still perplexed at how La La Love did so poorly if this does win though. Edited May 9, 20187 yr by gooddelta
May 9, 20187 yr I mean, it's no secret how much I adore La La Love, but it's the stage performance that has set Cyprus alight. The stage performance of books for Ivi was... a choice. And her vocals weren't as strong either. Compare the choreography of the two and one is very visibly more of a star.
May 9, 20187 yr Fuego seems to just have EVERYTHING, I'm still worried about Rybak but Fuego is surely going to catch the casual viewer immensely as a brilliant modern pop song performed well, much like Euphoria and Heroes did. La La Love was an absolute banger as a song but as Rob said it didn't really hit gold with the whole package whereas this does.
May 9, 20187 yr Author I mean these things go in cycles so after '1944' and 'Amar Pelos Dois', it really is time for just a stomping uptempo to take it. All the big uptempo numbers last night made it (Czech, Israel, Finland, Cyprus) so it's a good sign for lovers of fast food music *.*
May 9, 20187 yr Albania and Ireland was edited out and Switzerland was partly blurred in the Chinese broadcast. https://eurovoix.com/2018/05/09/china-irela...al-1-broadcast/
May 9, 20187 yr Rybak certainly does not deserve the win this year when we have such wonderful songs from Cyprus, Finland and Ireland in the final. I cant see Rybak winning, i feel everything is pointing to a win for Cyrpus, it is long overdue for them and i think like Portugal last year this is finally their time.
May 9, 20187 yr SF1 Live Performances on Youtube for Qualifiers - views, likes, dislikes (ordered by likes): ISRAEL (1m views) - 35k likes / 10k dislikes CYPRUS (1.2m views) - 32k likes / 8.2k dislikes LITHUANIA (379k views) - 14k likes / 1k dislikes CZECH REPUBLIC (352k views) - 12k likes / 1.2k dislikes ALBANIA (273k views) - 11k likes / 0.9k dislikes BULGARIA (247k views) - 10k likes / 0.5k dislikes ESTONIA (258k views) - 7.5k likes / 0.9k dislikes IRELAND (240k views) - 6.4k likes / 1.7k dislikes FINLAND (226k views) - 6k likes / 0.8k dislikes AUSTRIA (132k views) - 4k likes / 0.5k dislikes I think this is a realistic ordering of the songs as well (for televotes), what do you lot think? Edited May 9, 20187 yr by Midge
May 9, 20187 yr Cyprus and Israel smashing through a million views like that :wub: Yes! Easily clear of the rest - surely the top 2 (at least on the televote).
May 9, 20187 yr Number of likes each performance got on the Official Facebook page: Lithuania-30k Albania-9.6k Israel-7.4k Cyprus-6.4k Bulgaria-3.2k Estonia-2.3k Czech 2.2k Finland-1.9k Austria-1.9k Greece-1.6k Ireland-1.3k Croatia-1.2k Belgium-1.1k Armenia-1.1k Switzerland-894 Belarus-748 Azerbaijan-695 Macedonia-457 Iceland-431 Edited May 9, 20187 yr by Esmerelda
May 9, 20187 yr Lithuania doing crazily well. I thought it was a cute song from the first listen, and that it could probably qualify, but I wouldn't have expected it to do this well and be a top five contender :o I think Estonia can be ruled out of contention, it really wasn't quite the 'wow' moment I expected it to be.
May 9, 20187 yr Lithuania is really the only ballad that stands a chance of doing well this year so I’m not surprised. I said to Adam last night, if it qualified then I thought top 10 was sewn up.
May 9, 20187 yr Is it bad that I'm hoping that Azerbaijan and Armenia were 11th & 12th within a handful of points of 9th & 10th place - thus likely costing one another a place in the final?
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