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Semi 1: 1. Russia (135) 2. Denmark (134) 3. Ukraine (125) 4. Ireland (122) 5. Lithuania (100) 6. Netherlands (98) 7. Croatia (64) 8. Estonia (54) 9. Serbia (50) 10. Austria (44) 11. Slovenia (42) 12. Belgium (39) 13. Moldova (29) 14. Belarus (25) 15. Montenegro (21) 16. Cyprus (20) Semi 2: 1. Norway (172) 2. Azerbaijan (130) 3. Armenia (122) 4. Georgia (121) 5. Greece (118) 6. Finland (95) 7. Romania (69) 8. Israel (68) 9. Malta (67) 10. Switzerland (58) 11. San Marino (46) 12. Albania (43) 13. Latvia (29) 14. Iceland (14) 15. Hungary (4) 16. Bulgaria (3) 17. FYR Macedonia (1) Final: 1. Lithuania (193) 2. Denmark (177) 3. Norway (148) 4. Ireland (138) 5. Armenia (132) 6. Netherlands (132) 7. Ukraine (124) 8. Russia (119) 9. Georgia (105) 10. Italy (105) 11. United Kingdom (104) 12. Greece (80) 13. Azerbaijan (77) 14. Sweden (74) 15. Finland (69) 16. Serbia (66) 17. Estonia (65) 18. Israel (64) 19. Germany (61) 20. Romania (45) 21. France (44) 22. Croatia (44) 23. Switzerland (38) 24. Austria (29) 25. Spain (25) 26. Malta (4) Lithuania? lol go home, simulator, you are drunk :lol:

it's not Russian ;)

rehearsal for video in Istanbul TF3A2TGF vXjBhRbfNlw ETA: Alexander Rybak to star in Belarusian ESC video! http://www.facebookies.org/2013/03/13/22018/

pst ;) Belarus changed the song... and it has the word Kismet in the lyrics :lol:

dafuq was that Romania? you had pure gold in Electric Fence and you go and ef it up like that? EPIC fail

The year Alsou was representing Russia... I believe it was either 1999 or 2000...

Brilliant moves to get a Latin inspired dance tune with some Slavic sounding instruments here and there in the Ballads R Us year and semifinal. Belarus going 1st after a break should make people remember it too. Throw in the number of neighbors and at leas slightly friendly at times Balkan countries... All in all, I can see it qualifying without much of a problem. Good job, Alyona!

You can listen to the songs here. http://embed.prostopleer.com/list?id=Bme8eB7jmivBhbf

1. Serbia (234) 2. Sweden (233) 3. Austria (228) 4. Russia (214) 5. Ireland (165) 6. Cyprus (145) 7. Spain (129) 8. Norway (120) 9. Hungary (109) 10. Italy (106) 11. Greece (100) 12. Israel (97) 13. Bosnia Herzegovina (94) 14. Azerbaijan (89) 15. Malta (84) 16. Iceland (54) 17. Germany (42) 18. Romania (39) 19. Ukraine (27) 20. Slovenia (26) 21. Georgia (24) 22. France (23) 23. Lithuania (19) 24. Belarus (17) 25. United Kingdom (12) 26. Moldova (6)

Let's see... stuff that i like Semi 1 Iceland Finland Russia Semi 2 Serbia Netherlands Sweden Estonia Slovakia and you can throw Norway in... yeah, sure... Semi 1 is better... :whistle: <_<

odds + diaspora halfway through Sweden ran away as clear first, Serbia became "uncatchable" 2nd, and the rest of the countries were fighting for 3rd lol 1. Sweden (297) 2. Serbia (221) 3. Russia (177) 4. Spain (176) 5. Italy (156) 6. Norway (125) 7. Germany (116) 8. Turkey (104) 9. Bosnia Herzegovina (103) 10. Iceland (101) 11. Azerbaijan (99) 12. Portugal (99) 13. Netherlands (93) 14. Ireland (68) 15. Finland (64) 16. Cyprus (61) 17. United Kingdom (56) 18. Ukraine (53) 19. Lithuania (53) 20. San Marino (52) 21. Estonia (48) 22. Romania (40) 23. Denmark (29) 24. Hungary (24) 25. France (11) 26. Austria (10)

Semi Final 1 01 <Montenegro> Rambo Amadeus - Euro Neuro 02 <Iceland> Greta Salóme & Jónsi - Never Forget 03 <Greece> Eleftheria Eleftheriou - Aphrodisiac 04 <Latvia> Anmary - Beautiful Song 05 <Albania> Rona Nishliu - Suus 06 <Romania> Mandinga - Zaleilah 07 <Switzerland> Sinplus - Unbreakable 08 <Belgium> Iris - Would You? 09 <Finland> Pernilla Karlsson - När Jag Blundar 10 <Israel> Izabo - Time 11 <San Marino> Valentina Monetta - The Social Network Song 12 <Cyprus> Ivi Adamou - La La Love 13 <Denmark> Soluna Samay - Should've Known Better 14 <Russia> Buranovskiye Babushki - Party For Everybody 15 <Hungary> Compact Disco - Sound of Our Hearts 16 <Austria> Trackshittaz - Woki Mit Deim Popo 17 <Moldova> Pasha Parfeny - Lăutar 18 <Ireland> Jedward - Waterline Semi Final 2 01 <Serbia> Željko Joksimović - Nije Ljubav Stvar 02 <Macedonia> Kaliopi - Crno i Belo 03 <Netherlands> Joan Franka - You And Me 04 <Malta> Kurt Calleja - This Is The Night 05 <Belarus> Litesound - We Are The Heroes 06 <Portugal> Filipa Sousa - Vida Minha 07 <Ukraine> Gaitana - Be My Guest 08 <Bulgaria> Sofi Marinova - Love Unlimited 09 <Slovenia> Eva Boto - Jerjamem 10 <Croatia> Nina Badrić - Nebo 11 <Sweden> Loreen - Euphoria 12 <Georgia> Anri Jokhadze - I'm A Joker 13 <Turkey> Can Bonomo - Love Me Back 14 <Estonia> Ott Lepland - Kuula 15 <Slovakia> Max Jason Mai - Don't Close Your Eyes 16 <Norway> Tooji - Stay 17 <Bosnia & Herzegovina> Maya Sar - Korake Ti Znam 18 <Lithuania> Donny Montell - Love Is Blind i know i only have 9 from semi 2 :lol: i don't really want anybody else it was a stretch to have 9 lol. i only like 6-7 songs from there.

ok my turn! finally listened to everybody.ok so bold font is for those that i at least like. so i bothered putting them in order. the rest are split in categories, where i don't really care who is better... LOVE LOVE LOVE this song and Zeljko Serbia Zeljko is amazing! I understand only very few words, since Russian and Belarusian are not that close to Serbian. But I can feel what he is singing. It's a great gift that very few posess: singing with your soul. I didn't even see his face or eyes, I was listening to plain audio. He is that great with expressing emotion through his voice. This is #1 for me this year. Awesome Slovakia - my kind of music. :D take note Litesound, people do not compromise who they are and sing rock at Eurovision. It's a very current rock sound. Sweden - She is weird on stage, and I don't think "good" weird. Makes me a bit uncomfortable, but i'm willing to look past that, cause song is great. Russia - guilty pleasure. I love it where I should hate it. They are so effing adorable. Estonia - YES! YES! YES! One of my favs this year. Minimal, vulnerable, sincere. Azerbajan - are they trying to win it two times in a row? Lol great song. Very James-Bond-soundtrack-ey. i mean it's better than last year's winning song... Finland -I have a soft spot for Finland. This song reminds me of Hijo de la luna on some level. Great Iceland - like the celtic motives. the song is very haunting Romania - energetic, fun Hungary - very nice pop song Italy - it's actually very good. And in a "duh!" moment… it's very Italian. (ok you can say "DUH!" now lol) It's hard to get more italian lol Ireland - very 90s. It's nice. Loved their last year entry, this one is good, i still like their energy. Malta - nice summer song. Netherlands - cute and different. I'm not sure if I love it, but have nothing against it. Cyprus - good dance song. Sweden is better in this category, but I like that one too. Turkey - I'm surprised I like it lol turkish melody definitely helps Good. i don't care. whatever lol Norway - reminds me of Born this way by Gaga lol I mean it's nothing great, but ok i guess :) Albania - powerballad, great voice, but does nothing for me. Switzerland - I like rock, but that one is kinda meh. Belarus - It's ok. Wasn't my fav in Bealrusian final. I can get over the fact that they are kinda cliché rock band, but their attitude sucks. B&H - flashback to russian song I like russian song better lol Slovenia - Hello obligatory Disney-ish ballad song. Nothing special UK - very nostalgic. Great for being a soundtrack to a movie. Kinda cheesy… but not bad lol France - it's ok. Seems like I haven't really liked French entry since L'amour a la francaise bad to ok but not exactly a crime against music Belgium - trying too hard and doing stuff with her voice that she can't do well Greece - meh, I like the Greek melodies incorporated, but that's about it. Israel - I don't have a phobia of clowns. Correction I didn't until this song. Bulgaria - how many techno dance songs do we need? Lol and that one is not very good... Croatia - ok. Nothing special FYR M - I don't relly like it. I have no idea why. Her sobbing voice or very poorly sounding guitar… Lithuania - He can't sing live… going flat so often. Can't get past that. Portugal - it's ok for a Tango show in the middle of Buenos Aires but anywhere else, meh. Ukraine - too repetitive and flat in terms of dynamics of melody. And why is she singing "welcome?" is Eurovision in Ukraine? Or was this song written for soccer tournament (whatever it is. i'm a hockey person lol) Germany - pretty generic pop ballad. Spain - very weak voice… i miss Daniel Diges :'( Denmark - does nothing for me. DAFUQ Montenegro - just no Latvia - all i can say is DAFUQ? I like the music, voices and girls are pretty. But really? Country music, celtic ballad, and bard/minnistrells "I sing what I see" had a bastartd child, gave it for adoption and it somehow got to Latvia Austria - no San Marino - really? No I mean… REALLY????????

prolly shoulda worn skates lol btw. the not "evribadi dens" part is in Udmurtian... Finnish and Estonian people might/should understand some of it since it's the same language group.

studio sounds ok... butt heir live sound and harmonies leave A LOT to be desired pEgcqJD75ZY and i still can't understand half of what they are singing... although half is improvement over most... :lol: my fav still was Juzari... sigh. screw you flu season! :angry:

paRt off ze chaRm? :lol:

:lol: true lol but they try to take pride in it haha i remember my teachers: "mind your pronunciation!" it was like a mantra before exams haha although i doubt that now after spending over a decade in US i'd pass that "pronunciation" test. we had to speak with "royal british" accent... heavily seasoned with thick russian :lol: it baffles me though. with skype nd stuff it's so easy now to find yourself friends from every corner of the world. practice your english all you want! [/rant] :lol:

pros: she is pretty she can sing she is pretty faceless and moldable, can take on any image: romantic girl, bitchy diva, whatever new song will require cons: song is rather boring (fixable) her english is rather awful (what else is new! MIGHT be fixable) dance skills unknown all in all Belarus entry CAN be saved... will it be? time will tell.

so it's Alena but since Kirkorov was there and was implying that he will bring victory, he will change the song, just wait and see.

the finalists are Lightsound WssF4Ebwb6c Gunesh suw-jgohiEU Alena Lanskaya zkLtDQfyH2I Uzari -sS8DHyKKM0 Victoria Aleshko ciUKfkIPNSc I have to say I'm very impressed with entries. I prefer some over other but will be ok with any of them representing my home country at Euro 2012 Job well done Mr. Tikhanovich and Ko!

here are those that seem to be top contenders. pretty raw... http://kp.by/video/461796/ in order of appearance there: Aura ( :puke2: ) Yskui Abaljan ( :blink: ) Gunesh ( :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: ) Lightsound ( :cheer: ) though i get a feeling i've heard it before... The CHampions :wacko: Youzari ^_^ i like it but it's not for Eurovision for sure. Alexandra Gajduk and Natallia Baldina <_< GTFO! Alena Lanskaya :w00t: :dance: :heart: Georgiy Koldun - yes older brother. :rolleyes: Anastasiya Vinnikova :???: Drozdy (Blackbirds) :rofl: :lol: Elena DOrofeeva :no: Nina Bogdanova :banghead: Tiani-Tolkaj (Pull-Push) and Vera Karetnikova :ph34r: :nono: Ekaterina Tereschenko :thinking: it can be worked on (or with) and made into something interesting. but i doubt anyone that they can hire will have enough of a taste level to pull it off oh btw in case your head can take some abuse, here are some other entries http://kp.by/video/461747/ lots of facepalming, but i warned you

haha yeah, i feel in similar way. though i don't like or dislike Jedward cause it's the first i've heard of them. but i can appreciate a good show. i will not be listening to this song or will not be seeking out their other stuff. it's not my cuppatea. but it's undeniably best use of stage and technical possibilities. by miles. you have your simple stuff like a singer and some pretty pictures in behind in abundance, you have some attempt at tricks, screens and seizure inducing random stuff blinking behind... wind machines and pyrotechnics are getting old. and don't get me started on the sheer creepiness of Blue's screens... whoever staged the song and orchestrated the screens for Jedward though is a genius. head and shoulders above the rest.

sooo... i've come to the dark side :lol: hated the official video but the actual performance was awesome so i'm officially jumping on a bandwagon :lol:

LMFAO at the favorites slots. Sweden and ireland France and Russia UK before an ultimate freak show... we might get a very random winner :lol:

why oh why haven't Belarus sent J:Mors yet? rock ballad? something up tempo?