October 11, 200816 yr I think Jessica might fail to get through to the finals now :( I don't know if it would appeal to alot of people's tastes ... it's already in my chart ;)
October 11, 200816 yr Shame you're in the wrong semi then! :heehee: I know :cry: but it was hard enough picking between the songs in Semi-1, if I had Jessica in the mix too I'd scream :lol:
October 11, 200816 yr I've no chance. Though I always thought that would be the case no matter who I was with...
October 11, 200816 yr there's a lot of Scandi-pop this time, surprisingly none of it from FSR Rontvia :lol: Brandy's success will have obviously increased the number of R&B entries...out of the winners we've had, these are the successful genres: 1. Britney Spears (pop) 2. Katharine McPhee (R&B)-pop) 3. Dixie Chicks (country) 4. Sara Bareilles (pop) 5. tATu (pop) 6. Beverley Knight (soul) 7. Katy Perry (pop) 8. Lily Allen (pop) 9. Margaret Berger (pop) 10. Brandy (R&B) hmm...a clear dominant genre there then! However pop is a much wider genre than say RnB or soul. I think the pop winners we've had have all been quite different.
October 11, 200816 yr Nonsuch has voted. I have to say (as I'm busier in the next two weeks & weekends) that I went through all the Finalists last night to give them my score before knowing which Semi Final they would be in, which I have revised/reviewed for SF1 this afternoon before I voted. Let's just say from my preparation last night that my 13th best song in SF1 (or 14th including my own entry) would have finished 7th in SF2.
October 11, 200816 yr I've just stumbled across the recap vid for Semi 1 on youtube, has it been posted anywhere here yet?
October 11, 200816 yr right, my votes are SENT was very hard, listened to every song 3 times, and had to remove one of my original ten off the list in the end, because one of the songs that had initially missed out grew on me substantially on the third listen :D very very tough, probably the hardest semi-final I've ever witnessed, and to be honest, there are only 1 or 2 songs in there that I would be unhappy to see in the final...
October 11, 200816 yr Author I'm going through and addressing all questions in a sec. ;o Just got up and lots to do. I haven't heard many of the songs in full yet so I'm not entirely sure if SF2 is good or bad for me but I look forward to finding out! OOI - How did you decide which Semi-Final each song would be enterred in? First I generated a list of random letters, and if the first letter of your country name was drawn first you went first, last got last etc. If two people had a name with the same first letter I rolled a die to decide which of the two / three went first. ;D Oh and which semi you were in was also decided by a dice roll. 1-3 = Semi 1 4-6 = Semi 2. Semi Final 1 does have the favorites, I noticed that right away...but I wasn't just gonna go do it all again. Would defeat the purpose of luck. Plus there are some amazing songs in Semi Final 2 I'd have to say. ;o
October 11, 200816 yr Author Ooof @ semi 1 :o Is that UK times in the post BTW Ben? :unsure: All times I post will be in UK time just for convenience for you all. ;D I'll definitely specifically state if I'm using my time.
October 11, 200816 yr I'm going through and addressing all questions in a sec. ;o Just got up and lots to do. First I generated a list of random letters, and if the first letter of your country name was drawn first you went first, last got last etc. If two people had a name with the same first letter I rolled a die to decide which of the two / three went first. ;D Oh and which semi you were in was also decided by a dice roll. 1-3 = Semi 1 4-6 = Semi 2. Semi Final 1 does have the favorites, I noticed that right away...but I wasn't just gonna go do it all again. Would defeat the purpose of luck. Plus there are some amazing songs in Semi Final 2 I'd have to say. ;o Ohh I did notice how loads of countries in the same semi started with the same letter lol that'd explain it.
October 11, 200816 yr Author It wasn't so much countries with the same name being in the same semi, just the order they're in. ;)
October 11, 200816 yr It wasn't so much countries with the same name being in the same semi, just the order they're in. ;) Ohh wait I read it again and I understand now!
October 11, 200816 yr Torchwood have voted, and it was so hard :( We had to give 0 points to quite alot of songs we didnt want too and some songs got low points which, had the standard not been so high, would have got much higher.
October 11, 200816 yr I'm going through and addressing all questions in a sec. ;o Just got up and lots to do. First I generated a list of random letters, and if the first letter of your country name was drawn first you went first, last got last etc. If two people had a name with the same first letter I rolled a die to decide which of the two / three went first. ;D Oh and which semi you were in was also decided by a dice roll. 1-3 = Semi 1 4-6 = Semi 2. Semi Final 1 does have the favorites, I noticed that right away...but I wasn't just gonna go do it all again. Would defeat the purpose of luck. Plus there are some amazing songs in Semi Final 2 I'd have to say. ;o :lol: wow that's different lol kinda... random! Which I spose is the whole point lol - That'd explain why in the semis all the 'k's are together in each semi and likewise with other letters. Just for reference I first numbered all entrants 1-42 then used http://www.randomizer.org/form.htm to generate a random set of numbers from 1-42 to decide which order they would go in - the first 21 were in SF1 and the next 21 in SF2 ^_^
October 11, 200816 yr Oh dear!!!! Semi-final one is possibly one of the strongest semis there has ever been! And this is coming from me, who never usually sees the difference between the two semis. I'm feeling a hell of alot less confident now. On the plus side it means Christina Milian's song doesn't seem so brilliant :D
October 11, 200816 yr I hope Vulcania can make it through coz their sound isn't very loud on the vids! :( and it's best when it's loud! :D
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