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Congratulations Rollo, that's a lovely winner - and great to see Coconut Mall running up. Thanks for taking on the concept Noche, that was a very unique contest to listen through. I didn't expect all too much but I was happy to be along for the ride here, thank you to all who pointed my bop.

oh wow what a round, where does one even begin, just from a quick scan and in no way indicative of what I'll choose, great choices from The Weeknd, Lily, Ace Of Base, LiSA and definitely many others

A small community of smart and enlightened individuals would absolutely love certain kinds of rap. this may or may not be a similar group of posters in both identities and numbers to those who enjoy metal entries such as your last one.

Voted, that was very good effort from all involved, some of those decisions were on a knife's edge. Also a certain number of songs that I hadn't heard before got the nod.

meanwhile me rushing to confirm my rock entry that there's a 5% chance of anyone else being after

I had listened to some of the Blackwater Holylight album before and thought it was a decent listen, was cool to see it showing up here. Illegal Aliens I'd also heard before the contest (once) and that was very fun to see here, I'll have to check more of hers out too. Congratulations Mattias, good to see you winning even if I didn't vote for it, very pleased to see Radio Aurora doing so well of course.

There are plenty of battles here where I'm not sure how I'm going to call it, and then also a few where in trying to go popular they've landed on a song of theirs I wouldn't consider a favourite myself, but overall I really don't see any clear cut results here, exciting!

I fucking loved and still love the flawed barely electro electro-swing that was Electro Velvet in studio form but I never pretended it was coming top 10 or anything of the sort. Incidentally that's the worst BBC staging that I can think of and this year if LMNC brings his setup we should have potentially one of our best.

Was reading the thread we had back when Solemaini got assassinated, specifically because I remembered making a post on why attacking Iran was a stupid idea that any warmonger wouldn't be going full throttle on. Interesting thread to link so I'll do that at this time because we had a lot of discussion there on why it was a spectacularly stupid idea. ^I agree with this guy, he seems pretty smart. In that Trump is very much looking to wrap up the war and say that 'it was a complete victory, very complete', and stocks are rallying again. No sign of committing to the bit. Netanyahu will though, but hopefully price shocks on this will be small? Too early to say still.

well I am doing... okay, I liked that Maybe Psychic was such a chill downbeat entry and it felt very classically Unknown Pleasures to me, thank you for the votes so far most of my votes need to be doing far better (over half the points of Lambs are mine, what?), so I guess I'm team Radio Aurora

we may be requiring for many songs that have no points right now to get more points

I am very glad to see LiSA get this far (and it's because I like her so much that I paid attention here in the first place), though I was hoping to see more of her early stuff that I got into her for show up - Oath Sign is an absolute banger that you should all check out. Eric and The Chicks both did very well too and were interesting to see songs from, shame to see them gone also.

ooh I knew there was a reason I thought I'd seen the name of your song before, possibly I've even heard it. I haven't seen that show (a TV show spinoff of the films I believe), only Ghost In The Shell content I've ever seen is the excellent original 90s film, but hype, that has a vibes advantage for me and Yoko's always good value.

Mojtaba Khamenei is the new Supreme Leader. Most influential son of the former Supreme Leader and from what I can tell your standard issue grey eminence, I expect nothing much will change on this front. The US-Israeli attacks are looking horrendous, the images from Tehran apocalyptic, with thousands dead. Along with great economic instability across the world, horrendous war from the American administration.

aww the anime opening one didn't get chosen this is going to be chaos, although I say that as from my perspective I'm going into this with something I would never choose to enter otherwise - but it is very fun so I'll allow that

I know what he meant. I also think it's borderline obsessive and disturbing to be bringing up unrelated murderers and essentially hoping that the same will happen to them. It isn't a positive outcome that Huntley has been murdered in prison.

Shame because of what? What is the implication here? God I absolutely despise the obsession culture has with murderers, despise them but also forget them - they deserve nothing less. Holly and Jessica would have been about my age had they lived and lost however many years of life in the future, that's the biggest tragedy here, not whatever happens to the monster that murdered them or any like him.

having heard Felicia for the first time tonight, that is some QUALITY EDM, to say nothing of her commanding the stage with that performance - that's going to have a long life in Eurovision circles great winner even if I'd have been also happy with half of the rest of the final winning, but only really one winner there in the end

I was probably a bit hasty, a focused search has me right down a rabbit hole of Egyptian, Lebanese and other Arabian pop, submitted something iconic.

whether or not this waste of oxygen survives, and I give very little thought as to whether that will be the case, we shouldn't be hearing about murders in prison, wasn't even six months ago Ian Watkins was murdered.

Florence + the Machine - My Love Blondie - Sunday Girl ABBA - Take a Chance on Me Scissor Sisters - Let’s Have a Kiki The Corrs - Summer Sunshine Erasure - Chorus Atomic Kitten - Eternal Flame HAIM - Want You Back The Chicks - Julianna Calm Down

David Bowie - Lazarus The Weeknd feat. Daft Punk - Starboy George Michael - Jesus to a Child Tone Damli feat. Eric Saade - Imagine Conan Gray - Caramel Romy & Fred again.. - Strong Les Rythmes Digitales feat. Nik Kershaw - Sometimes Ruel - I Can Die Now Troye Sivan - Angel Baby

Congratulations John, absolutely not my pick as a winner (was somewhere down in the 30s for me ) but a decently fought battle for the top, I did enjoy Pagasa, though I wish I was as into it as the rest of the alt bloc, Hendinia would have been a good winner but it's a fine third, er, second placer. Not that it was unexpected, but ouch at the song that was bottom of my semi rankings and that I thought had no chance (possibly related phenomena) knocking me out with a last second surge. Good to see some insights and thank you for some wonderful hosting Sabrewulf, very professionally put together and all done very speedily.

getting in a quick top 42 based off of vibes and not much reading about other predictions (only a little) 1 Hendinia 2 Fljótavík 3 New Lexico 4 Altyr Muunilinst 5 Aeroche 6 Pagasa 7 N DNTN 8 Botanikka 9 Neliönoir 10 Taahino 11 Deandria 12 Zanmatony 13 Wholune 14 POPHub 15 FARC 16 Yehesi 17 Dobago 18 Baleghde 19 Kluminican Republic 20 Dalisska 21 Lentyll 22 Persephonia 23 Harmonica 24 Ojnoj 25 Cheiron 26 Freidland 27 Mothetopia 28 The Spodic Empire 29 Jupiterdonia 30 Sovarasma 31 FSR Rontvia 32 Elëdan 33 Summericia 34 Trifoski 35 Hushkanukia 36 Land Of DW 37 Lookylion 38 Danæviia 39 Scotland 2 40 Juranabaijan 41 East Rukahavian 42 Cor Lupus

It is such a weird experience that the UK entry is the song fully embodying the energy and hype I love the contest for. Obsessed. In some ways it doesn't matter where we finish when we're trying something this zanily brilliant, and on another, seeing this smash the televoting would be so cathartic and I hope it happens. also it helps keep to my pledge to not vote if my favourite entry actually is the British entry (pending actually hearing any other entry lmao)