May 21, 20214 yr Happy for any of the top 9 to win 1 Switzerland - Gjon's Tears - Tout l'Univers 2 Serbia - Hurricane - Loco Loco 3 San Marino - Senhit - Adrenalina 4 Moldova - Natalia Gordienko - Sugar 5 Italy - Måneskin - Zitti e buoni 6 Finland - Blind Channel - Dark Side 7 Cyprus - Elena Tsagrinou - El Diablo 8 Bulgaria - Victoria - Growing Up Is Getting Old 9 Greece - Stefania - Last Dance 10 Spain - Blas Cantó - Voy a quedarme 11 Malta - Destiny - Je me casse 12 Iceland - Daði og Gagnamagnið - 10 Years 13 Israel - Eden Alene - Set Me Free 14 Albania - Anxhela Peristeri - Karma 15 Sweden - Tusse - Voices 16 Norway - TIX - Fallen Angel 17 France - Barbara Pravi - Voilà 18 United Kingdom - James Newman - Embers 19 Portugal - The Black Mamba - Love Is on My Side 20 Lithuania - The Roop - Discoteque 21 Germany - Jendrik - I Don't Feel Hate 22 Netherlands - Jeangu Macrooy - Birth Of A New Age 23 Belgium - Hooverphonic - The Wrong Place 24 Azerbaijan - Efendi - Mata Hari 25 Ukraine - Go_A - Shum 26 Russia - Manizha - Russian Woman
May 21, 20214 yr My last ranking of the year: Amazing (01) 01 | Cyprus: Elena Tsagrinou - El Diablo (02) 02 | Norway: TIX - Fallen Angel (11) 03 | Belgium: Hooverphonic - The Wrong Place (03) 04 | Malta: Destiny - Je Me Casse (07) 05 | Iceland: Daði og Gagnamagnið - 10 Years (06) 06 | The Netherlands: Jeangu Macrooy - Birth of A New Age (09) 07 | San Marino: Senhit feat Flo Rida - Adrenalina Great (04) 08 | United Kingdom: James Newman - Embers (12) 09 | Portugal: The Black Mamba - Love is on my Side (05) 10 | Sweden: Tusse - Voices (18) 11 | Switzerland: Gjon's Tears - Tout l’Universe Very Good (13) 12 | Italy: Maneskin - Zitti i Buoni (15) 13 | Bulgaria: Victoria - Growing Up is Getting Old (27) 14 | Ukraine: Go_A - Shum Good (17) 15 | Moldova: Natalia Gordienko - Sugar (21) 16 | Finland: Blind Channel - Dark Side (23) 17 | Azerbaijan - Efendi - Mata Hari (19) 18 | Israel: Eden Alene - Set Me Free (22) 19 | Lithuania: The Roop - Discoteque (24) 20 | Greece: Stefania - Last Dance Quite Good (28) 21 | Russia: Mazizha - Russian Woman (32) 22 | Serbia: Hurricane - Loco Loco (25) 23 | Germany: Jendrik - I Don't Feel Hate (26) 24 | France: Barbara Pravi - Voilà Average (36) 25 | Albania: Anxhela Peristeri - Karma (35) 26 | Spain: Blas Canto - Voy a quedarme Some big changes, as always after the performances. Sweden and the UK are still great but against everything else don't stand out that much so have fallen here. I'm becoming obsessed with Belgium - I keep replaying that - and Iceland, Ukraine and San Marino were so good on stage <3 Still backing Cyprus but I doubt Elena is a winner, none of my top three are. I'll take any of the potential winners apart from France though. I love Barbara and she's a great singer, but the song itself is not for me and the staging looks headache inducing. Edited May 21, 20214 yr by gooddelta
May 21, 20214 yr New rankings for final: :wub: 1 Switzerland 2 San Marino 3 Finland 4 Lithuania 5 Serbia :dance: 6 Greece 7 Malta 8 Israel 9 Azerbaijan 10 France :D 11 Norway 12 Ukraine 13 Bulgaria 14 Sweden 15 Cyprus :) 16 Iceland 17 UK 18 Italy 19 Belgium 20 Albania :mellow: 21 Russia 22 Moldova 23 Spain :( 24 Portugal 25 Netherlands :puke2: 26 Germany
May 21, 20214 yr FINAL RANX based on studio+live versions+perfx GODDEß TIER 01 Ukraine - Go_A - Shum 02 Israel - Eden Alene - Set Me Free 03 Russia - Manizha - Russian Woman INCREDX 04 France - Barbara Pravi - Voilà 05 San Marino - Senhit feat. Flo Rida - Adrenalina 06 Malta - Destiny - Je me casse 07 Switzerland - Gjon's Tears - Tout l'Univers 08 Italy - Måneskin - Zitti e buoni 09 Azerbaijan - Efendi - Mata Hari 10 Serbia - Hurricane - Loco Loco GREAT 11 Albania - Anxhela Peristeri - Karma 12 Lithuania - The Roop - Discoteque 13 Finland - Blind Channel - Dark Side GOOD/ENJOYABLX 14 Bulgaria - Victoria - Growing Up Is Getting Old 15 Moldova - Natalia Gordienko - Sugar 16 Sweden - Tusse - Voices 17 Greece - Stefania - Last Dance 18 Belgium - Hooverphonic - The Wrong Place 19 Netherlands - Jeangu Macrooy - Birth Of A New Age TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT 20 Portugal - The Black Mamba - Love Is on My Side 21 Iceland - Daði og Gagnamagnið - 10 Years 22 Germany - Jendrik - I Don't Feel Hate 23 Spain - Blas Cantó - Voy a quedarme NO XO 24 Cyprus - Elena Tsagrinou - El Diablo 25 United Kingdom - James Newman - Embers 26 Norway - TIX - Fallen Angel
May 21, 20214 yr Author 01 / Russia: Manizha - Russian Woman 02 / Ukraine: Go_A - SHUM 03 / Serbia: Hurricane - Loco Loco - 04 / San Marino: Senhit (ft. Flo Rida) - Adrenalina 05 / Cyprus: Elena Tsagrinou - El Diablo 06 / Malta: Destiny - Je me casse 07 / Lithuania: The Roop - Discoteque 08 / Greece: Stefania - Last Dance 09 / Iceland: Daði og Gagnamagnið - 10 Years 10 / Italy: Måneskin - Zitti e buoni 11 / The Netherlands: Jeangu Macrooy - Birth Of A New Age 12 / Switzerland: Gjon's Tears - Tout l'univers - 13 / Albania: Anxhela Peristeri - Karma 14 / Belgium: Hooverphonic - The Wrong Place 15 / Azerbaijan: Efendi - Mata Hari 16 / Moldova: Natalia Gordienko - Sugar 17 / Israel: Eden Alene - Set Me Free 18 / Finland: Blind Channel - Dark Side - 19 / Germany: Jendrik - I Don't Feel Hate 20 / United Kingdom: James Newman - Embers 21 / Spain: Blas Cantó - Voy a quedarme 22 / Portugal: The Black Mamba - Love Is On My Side 23 / Sweden: Tusse - Voices 24 / Norway: TIX - Fallen Angel 25 / Bulgaria: Victoria - Growing Up Is Getting Old 26 / France: Barbara Pravi - Voilà Germany has been the biggest collapse for me from pre to post contest, I suppose I've suffered from overkill of it, but the performance doesn't elevate it for me. I still like it and it could still easily get a big televote though.
May 21, 20214 yr 1 San Marino - Senhit - Adrenalina 2 Italy - Måneskin - Zitti e buoni 3 Malta - Destiny - Je me casse 4 Russia - Manizha - Russian Woman 5 Ukraine - Go_A - Shum 6 Finland - Blind Channel - Dark Side 7 Germany - Jendrik - I Don't Feel Hate 8 Cyprus - Elena Tsagrinou - El Diablo 9 Greece - Stefania - Last Dance 10 France - Barbara Pravi - Voilà 11 Belgium - Hooverphonic - The Wrong Place 12 Lithuania - The Roop - Discoteque 13 Switzerland - Gjon's Tears - Tout l'Univers 14 Israel - Eden Alene - Set Me Free 15 Iceland - Daði og Gagnamagnið - 10 Years 16 Serbia - Hurricane - Loco Loco 17 Sweden - Tusse - Voices 18 Moldova - Natalia Gordienko - Sugar 19 United Kingdom - James Newman - Embers 20 Azerbaijan - Efendi - Mata Hari 21 Bulgaria - Victoria - Growing Up Is Getting Old 22 Albania - Anxhela Peristeri - Karma 23 Spain - Blas Cantó - Voy a quedarme 24 Portugal - The Black Mamba - Love Is on My Side 25 Norway - TIX - Fallen Angel 26 Netherlands - Jeangu Macrooy - Birth Of A New Age
May 21, 20214 yr 01 / Italy: Måneskin - Zitti e buoni 02 / San Marino: Senhit (ft. Flo Rida) - Adrenalina 03 / Lithuania: The Roop - Discoteque 04 / France: Barbara Pravi - Voilà 05 / Iceland: Daði og Gagnamagnið - 10 Years 06 / Finland: Blind Channel - Dark Side 07 / Germany: Jendrik - I Don't Feel Hate 08 / Portugal: The Black Mamba - Love Is On My Side 09 / Moldova: Natalia Gordienko - Sugar 10 / Greece: Stefania - Last Dance 11 / Cyprus: Elena Tsagrinou - El Diablo 12 / Norway: TIX - Fallen Angel 13 / Albania: Anxhela Peristeri - Karma 14 / Ukraine: Go_A - SHUM 15 / Azerbaijan: Efendi - Mata Hari 16 / Spain: Blas Cantó - Voy a quedarme 17 / United Kingdom: James Newman - Embers 18 / Belgium: Hooverphonic - The Wrong Place 19 / Malta: Destiny - Je me casse 20 / Serbia: Hurricane - Loco Loco 21 / Israel: Eden Alene - Set Me Free 22 / Russia: Manizha - Russian Woman 23 / Bulgaria: Victoria - Growing Up Is Getting Old 24 / Switzerland: Gjon's Tears - Tout l'univers 25 / Sweden: Tusse - Voices 26 / The Netherlands: Jeangu Macrooy - Birth Of A New Age Edited May 21, 20214 yr by Jason
May 21, 20214 yr Ah my final rating would probably be like this - 1. Italy: Maneskin - Zitti e buoni 2. Ukraine: Go_a - SHUM 3. Bulgaria: Victoria - Growing Up Is Getting Old 4. France: Barbara Pravi - Voila 5. San Marino: Senhit (ft Flo Rida) - Adrenalina 6. Finland: Blind Channel - Dark Side 7. Iceland: Daði og Gagnamagnið - 10 Years 8. Isreal: Eden Alane - Set Me Free 9. Cyprus: Elena Tsagrinou - El Diablo 10. Switzerland: Gjons Tears - Tout l’univers 11. Malta: Destiny - Je Me Casse 12. Greece: Stefania - Last Dance 13. Albania: Anxhela Peristeri - Karma 14. Azerbaijan: Efendi - Mata Hari 15. Moldova: Natalia Gordienko - Sugar 16. Serbia: Hurricane - Loco Loco 17. Russia: Manizha - Russian Woman 18. Norway: TIX - Fallen Angel 19. Germany: Jendrik - I Don’t Feel Hate 20. Lithuania: The Roop - Discotheque 21. United Kingdom: James Newman - Embers 22. Sweden: Tusse - Voices 23. Belgium: Hooverphonic - The Wrong Place 24. Spain: Blas Canto - Voy a quedarme 25. Portugal: The Black Mamba - Love Is On My Side 26. The Netherlands: Jeangu Macrooy - Birth of a New Age Obsessed with my top 5. Would also be happy with numbers 6-11 winning. 12-15 I really like. 16-20 are all decent and have grown on me, 21-24 are alright but no lt ones I go back to. 25-26 are not really for me Overall a really solid year !
May 21, 20214 yr 01 Italy: Måneskin - Zitti e buoni 02 Malta: Destiny - Je me casse 03 Bulgaria: Victoria - Growing Up Is Getting Old 04 Finland: Blind Channel - Dark Side 05 San Marino: Senhit ft. Flo Rida - Adrenalina 06 Cyprus: Elena Tsangrinou - El diablo 07 Ukraine: Go_A - Shum 08 Serbia: Hurricane - Loco Loco 09 France: Barbara Pravi - Voila 10 Russia: Manizha - Russian Woman 11 Switzerland: Gjon's Tears - Tout l'univers 12 Israel: Eden - Set Me Free 13 Belgium: Hooverphonic - The Wrong Place 14 Netherlands: Jeangu Macrooy - Birth Of A New Age 15 Moldova: Natalia Gordienko - Sugar 16 Lithuania: The Roop - Discoteque 17 Azerbaijan: Efendi - Mata Hari 18 Sweden: Tusse - Voices 19 Norway: TIX - Fallen Angel 20 Albania: Anxhela Periestri - Karma 21 United Kingdom: James Newman - Embers 22 Greece: Stefania - Last Dance 23 Spain: Blas Canto - Voy a quedarme 24 Portugal: Black Mamba - Love Is On My Side 25 Germany: Jendrick - I Don't Feel Hate 26 Iceland: Dadi - 10 Years Only really the bottom 2 I dislike, not big on Spain or Portugal but wouldn't say I dislike. Adore my top 12, could easily change again after the final :lol:
May 22, 20214 yr 01 / Finland: Blind Channel - Dark Side 02 / Italy: Måneskin - Zitti e Buoni 03 / France: Barbara Pravi - Voilà 04 / Bulgaria: Victoria - Growing Up is Getting Old 05 / Russia: Manizha - Russian Woman 06 / Belgium: Hooverphonic - The Wrong Place 07 / Ukraine: Go_A - Shum 08 / Netherlands: Jeangu Macrooy - Birth Of A New Age 09 / Portugal: The Black Mamba - Love is on my Side 10 / Norway: TIX - Fallen Angel 11 / Germany: Jendrik Sigwart - I Don't Feel Hate 12 / Malta: Destiny - Je Me Casse 13 / Iceland: Daði og Gagnamagnið - 10 Years 14 / Switzerland: Gjon's Tears - Tout l’Univers 15 / San Marino: Senhit - Adrenalina 16 / Spain: Blas Canto - Voy a quedarme 17 / Serbia: Hurricane - Loco Loco 18 / Greece: Stefania - Last Dance 19 / Albania: Anxhela Peristeri - Karma 20 / Lithuania: The Roop - Discoteque 21 / United Kingdom: James Newman - Embers 22 / Israel: Eden Alene - Set Me Free 23 / Cyprus: Elena Tsagrinou - El Diablo 24 / Azerbaijan: Efendi - Mata Hari 25 / Moldova: Natalia Gordienko - Sugar 26 / Sweden: Tusse - Voices Would be very happy for any of my top 10 to win, didn't lose very many favourites at the semi stage. Ukraine and Portugal really improved for me with their performances. I only really don't like Voices, but some of the basic pop songs are also fairly bad. Greece has redeemed itself from last though with a decent performance.
May 22, 20214 yr Love 01 :: 15 Ukraine: Go_A - Shum 02 :: 02 France: Barbara Pravi - Voilà 03 :: 03 Switzerland: Gjon's Tears - Tout l'Univers 04 :: 01 Italy: Måneskin - Zitti e buoni 05 :: 12 Iceland: Daði og Gagnamagnið - 10 Years 06 :: 33 Russia: Manizha - Russian Woman Great 07 :: 06 Malta: Destiny - Je me casse 08 :: 08 Bulgaria: VICTORIA - Growing Up Is Getting Old 09 :: 09 Norway: TIX - Fallen Angel 10 :: 22 Azerbaijan: Efendi - Mata Hari 11 :: 04 Cyprus: Elena Tsagrinou - El Diablo 12 :: 07 Greece: Stefania - Last Dance 13 :: 10 Lithuania: The Roop - Discoteque Good 14 :: 14 Belgium: Hooverphonic - The Wrong Place 15 :: 18 Israel: Eden Alene - Set Me Free 16 :: 13 Sweden: Tusse - Voices 17 :: 23 San Marino: Senhit - Adrenalina 18 :: 16 Moldova: Natalia Gordienko - SUGAR 19 :: 17 Finland: Blind Channel - Dark Side 20 :: 26 The Netherlands: Jeangu Macrooy - Birth Of A New Age Okay 21 :: 29 Germany: Jendrik - I Don't Feel Hate 22 :: 35 Albania: Anxhela Peristeri - Karma 23 :: 31 Serbia: Hurricane - Loco Loco 24 :: 28 United Kingdom: James Newman - Embers Dislike 25 :: 34 Spain: Blas Cantó - Voy a quedarme 26 :: 39 Portugal: The Black Mamba - Love Is On My Side
May 23, 20214 yr Copying my ranking from the final thread with a little bit of extra commentary as I didn't really want to spend too much time typing it out earlier xx I specifically avoided hearing any of the songs ahead of the final this year (didn't even listen to the UK one as I usually do, I can't say I felt any temptation at all to hear it ahead of time anyway x) as I like the 'surprise' of hearing everything live for the first time. Except it isn't really that much of a surprise because I always read other people's reactions so I have quite a decent idea of what I will and won't like ahead of time regardless lmao. Maybe next year I'll do the 'don't read about Eurovision at all until the final' challenge to be 100% surprised xx I am going to check out the DNQ songs at some point so I may post again in here whenever I get around to that if I have anything at all to say about them x Life-giving 1 Ukraine - I was already stanning this within the first few seconds and it just never let up, in fact got better and better as it went along and picked up in intensity, what an absolute bop of life *.* I'm excited to hear the studio version of this as I feel like I might like that even more (because if there is any criticism I have it would be that the live vocals were not exactly flawless, but they weren't bad enough to distract from the song being incredible) 2 Italy - Easily the better of the two heavy rock offerings and absolutely thrilled to see this winning, quite possibly my 2nd favourite winner of the last decade after '1944' (although I probably need to listen to it another couple of times to confirm how it stacks up against 'Amar Pelos Dois' and 'Rise Like A Phoenix'). Fantastic energy, parts of it reminded me a bit of Rage Against The Machine and other parts were a bit Royal Blood 3 Iceland - Not sure how hot a take this is but I actually like this quite a lot more than 'Think About Things'! That song grew on me a bit over time after not making my top 10 of the 2020 songs on first listen but I still felt like there was something missing to make me fully stan it, whatever it was they nailed it on second attempt, obviously a similar formula but idk it just worked better this time for me. Strong Hot Chip / Daft Punk vibes Great 4 Albania - I always have to stan at least one of the Balkan songs and it's this one this time, a dramatic bop - idk why but I was expecting this to be a ballad (I clearly didn't read a lot about this one) so it was a pleasant surprise when the production kicked up a notch 5 Switzerland - Also an improvement on the artist in question's offering from last year which I was never massively taken by for whatever reason, this one was lovely though, a bit AURORA-esque 6 Finland - I expected to like this one more than I did but maybe that's just because my benchmark for heavy Finnish entries is Lordi and they're probably never living up to that. Still a jam and I think I'll like it more with another listen or two after getting over the initial expectations V good 7 San Marino - Just iconic. I love that Flo Rida seemed actually genuinely into it rather than just being reluctantly there for the clout 8 Serbia - If Flo Rida hadn't been there this would have been the trashbop of choice for the year. Balkan supremacy 9 Lithuania - Now this one I think did kind of come across as a pale imitation of the song from last year. But then their song last year was my favourite so a B-tier recreation of it is still pretty enjoyable 10 Malta - I think I kind of hated Destiny's song last year so this was one of the bigger surprises of this year for me! Have a feeling it wouldn't stand up too well to repeated listens but for a first impression it was a rather fun Lizzo-esque bop, fun instrumental Good 11 Russia - I thought that I was going to properly stan this from the very start of it but I feel like it ran out of momentum fairly quickly, still thought the staging was great though and it's rather interesting to see this kind of entry coming from Russia of all countries in current year 12 Belgium - Loved their song last year and didn't understand the hate. This year's wasn't as interesting but still enjoyed it and still don't understand the hate. Melody in the verses was reminding me a little of Coldplay's 'Violet Hill' 13 Portugal - Very classy, not the most amazing vocalist but I'm glad this one didn't end up being lost in the semi-finals. I found it interesting to watch this going from being a complete laughing stock when it won FdC to slowly transitioning into a legit top 10 contender 14 Spain - Honestly I've kind of forgotten this one completely but I ranked it this high so I must have enjoyed it Decent 15 Germany - It's naff but I can't pretend it didn't put a bit of a smile on my face so that has to count for something 16 Azerbaijan - It was fine, this kind of thing has been done better many times before in Eurovision though 17 Israel - The high note was impressive I guess but felt rather unnecessary, otherwise just a passable pop song 18 Netherlands - Loving the use of an obscure language, other than that not particularly remarkable Ok-ish 19 United Kingdom - It's a mid-tier Becky Hill song. Nul points was deserved 20 Greece - The production was fine if a bit lightweight, shooting for The Weeknd/Dua Lipa but just falling slightly flat, the vocals left no impression at all so the instrumental is the only thing saving this from the meh tier 21 France - I want to like this and I can see why people do but it falls victim to the French language just sounding hideous as it does on like 60% of French language songs for me. Translate it into a more palatable language and it'd probably be at least up on the level of Portugal et al as another classy if not outstanding song Meh 22 Bulgaria - Cute but zzz 23 Cyprus - Don't like her voice at all so I feel like it could have been ranked last but it had a half decent / memorable melody which is more than can be said for the last three songs 24 Norway - zzz 25 Sweden - zzz (and the way he said the word 'haters' was possibly the worst moment of the night) 26 Moldova - Sounded unfinished, and the really long note was even more unnecessary and less impressive than Israel's really high note
June 8, 20214 yr Finally got around to checking out the DNQs from this year - I really enjoyed Latvia & Denmark, I think both of those would have been around my low top 10 / top 15 of the final if they had qualified! I would have qualified those 2 and Poland over Greece/Bulgaria/Moldova in semi 2, while in semi 1... honestly I don't think there were even 10 final-worthy songs (that was the semi everyone said was the better one?? I couldn't disagree more, apart from it having Go_A in it, semi 2 had all of my other big highlights (bar Italy obvz) and more songs that I liked in general) but Australia & Croatia stuck out as the best of a decent-at-most set of DNQs and I'd have qualified those two over Norway & Sweden. And then maybe I'd also have thrown in North Macedonia instead of Cyprus but they're both pretty mid so I'm not that bothered (also Cyprus' song does sound better in studio form, I just hated her live vocals). As for the other DNQs... Slovenia sadly a meh despite being one of Ana's only defenders last year, Ireland was ok, Romania was a big improvement from 'Alcohol You' but that is saying absolutely nothing, Estonia was pretty good (almost on par with Poland), Czech Republic was alright, Austria was meh, Georzzzz
September 1, 20213 yr What's been growing for you guys? Denmark has certainly been the biggest grower for me. Probably top 10 now. I only really play 2 songs from this year - Serbia (at least twice a day), and Switzerland (maybe twice a week)
September 1, 20213 yr Still on my playlist is: San Marino, Serbia, Slovenia, Finland, Italy, Cyprus, Russia and then my two faves from the year are now Lithuania and Ukraine. Shum is bonkers and wonderful in all the right ways and Discotheque is just superb. Both have a great energy to them
September 1, 20213 yr I’m only still regularly playing Italy and Belgium, but there are a few national final songs still in high rotation too - namely Behover Inte Dig Idag and Still Young from Melodifestivalen.
September 1, 20213 yr 'ZITTI E BUONI' still hasn't left the top 10 of my chart :D I still listen to Iceland and Switzerland's entries a fair amount too. Cyprus has been my unexpected post-contest grower, I have it stuck in my head a lot
September 1, 20213 yr Cyprus improved so much when I noted that she could actually sing like that. I had a suspicion that her vocal tone was a product of the studio.
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