May 11, 20232 yr I can already foresee that I’m gonna be čūito tūto-ing my way through the day tomorrow
May 11, 20232 yr So glad that Greece couldn’t diaspora their way out of the semi. Georgia is a weird one - my main theory for why it didn’t take off is that it probably felt very “style over substance” to your average televoter.
May 11, 20232 yr Before seeing any performances I think my bottom 6 is: Romania Iceland Greece Georgia San Marino Albania Well can live with the Albania-Denmark swap
May 11, 20232 yr Blanka first half, she is absolutely opening the show. Austria also drawing first half, I think COMPLETELY kills it now. Will probably be put before Loreen, Käärijä, Blanca etc.
May 11, 20232 yr Gutted for Georgia! :( I ranked them third. What a shame! A consolation for Iru is that Echo will be going in my playlist x Mildly disappointed for Iceland, I quite liked Power, but I had a feeling they'd not get through. I honestly thought Denmark's song was nice, but the vocals were so shaky and only warmed up slightly towards the end. The performer wasn't strong enough to sell it, but I'm interested to hear the studio version. Delighted for Poland :wub: Rather surprised that Solo is so divisive here, I think it's quite firmly a bop! Also thrilled for Belgium, would love to see them come Top 5 in the final. Great song from Austria but I agree that the performance/staging doesn't effectively sell the song as well as it should do.
May 11, 20232 yr really baffled at lithuania getting through! esp over georgia and iceland this was definitely the more competitive semi, but i don’t see a winner coming from it. the crowd in the village was going wild for belgium tho
May 11, 20232 yr Delighted Poland and Slovenia went through, easily my 2 faves tonight, i actually really like Poland this year, very Ace of Bace sound from the early days. I hope it does well in the final.
May 11, 20232 yr Blanka first half, she is absolutely opening the show. Austria also drawing first half, I think COMPLETELY kills it now. Will probably be put before Loreen, Käärijä, Blanca etc. Ffs Austria you had ONE job
May 13, 20232 yr Haven't really left any comments on either semi but gonna dump some thoughts here before the final! Going into this, the only songs I knew in advance were the UK, Sweden and Denmark (I've followed Reiley for a couple of years), with one play each for Norway and Ireland, so there was lots to discover. Semi 1 was the better of the two for sure, Israel blew me away and I really love Azerbaijan's track, not a surprising DNQ (particularly coming right after Loreen, a harsh slot) but it's such a lovely song, a great discovery! Ireland had a poor live vocal but the song is nice. Obviously was disappointed in the semi 2 result with Denmark DNQing, but I really enjoyed Poland in particular. Not loads else really grabbed me, a few kinda samey songs and some of those made the final in my opinion, but other than that + Azerbaijan my favourites made it through.
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