Herbs

Ennea for the win would be a nice story

Embrace

Britney

Ffs I should have voted! Silent Disco wonderfully higher than I would have expected - although Natural At Disaster being that low 😭

Votes sent

Alpine: Gasly (Q, R) v Colapinto Aston Martin: Alonso (Q, R) v Stroll Audi: Bortoleto v Hulkenberg (Q, R) Cadillac: Perez (Q, R) v Bottas Ferrari: Leclerc (Q, R) v Hamilton Haas: Ocon v Bearman (Q, R) McLaren: Norris v Piastri (Q, R) Mercedes: Antonelli v Russell (Q, R) Racing Bulls: Lawson (Q, R) v Lindblad Red Bull: Verstappen (Q, R) v Hadjar Williams: Albon (Q) v Sainz Jr (R) Pole Position: Leclerc Winner: Russell Fastest Lap: Leclerc

OGAE results are giving me hope for Australia as they’re battling for 2nd place in that

Didn’t cor get NQ predictions?!

Cor Lupus would be a great winner

Haha that is what I did with my Keaton Henson entry - which has barely any words!

Was the spreadsheet shared of who pointed the non-qualifiers? I'd like to update my national thread and thank those who sent me votes :)

Thank you for the lovely comment - really appreciated. I've been told off before for querying why other songs would qualify over some of the ones that didn't (New Lexico was really robbed for me), but I do share the same sentiment. And I've said before that I do not want to compromise my choices and send something I don't like (I allowed myself to send an artist I love in Keaton Henson, despite not caring much about the song, but it got me good result.....) This result has left me at a bit of a loss. Loads of great comments in the listen through, mostly predictions to qualify (including a couple of comments predicting a top half finish) and then I end up nowhere near qualifying at all. I don't fully subscribe to the notion that it's down to the song being a ballad. So my over-arching response to the competition atm is meh!

I mean we do love Botanikka, we’ve voted for them many times and they’ve chucked points our way a few times :)

Oh crap Elton was a potential winner for me! Going for The Feeling

Tom novy

Putting my vote in for Bronzil winning

Congrats on making the final - wishing you every success for future competitions

My take on Eclipse is - could it hit you more instantly, like songs such as The Sound of Silence, Tattoo and Euphoria - probably? Is the musicality there and does it tick certain boxes (killer vocals, massive key change, stage presence)? 100% and then some

Thanks for the extension - defo needed it! Finding it hard to rank songs so multiple more listens are required for me!

David Sneddon!!!!

Kind of feel like Finland is this years Sweden - in that they may not get the public vote in the way people are expecting But I see one of 3 outcomes 1) Australia bosses the jury vote and gets enough points in the public vote to win (from what I’m seeing online she is doing very well with fans) 2) Finland do well enough on jury vote and win the public vote to win overall 3) The nation who shouldn’t be there gets a stupidly high public vote - wiping out any jury advantage Either way my main hope is that Estonia make the final…..

Yeah I cant believe how bad it's odds are....

I'm not sure I fully agree with ballads struggling. A lot of pop ballads have done well and Father John Misty won with a ballad!

1 NE Vanilla Ninja - Too Epic To Be True 2 1 Monroe - Regarde! (CR: 1-2) 3 2 Galantis, David Guetta & Little Mix - Heartbreak Anthem (CR: 1-1-1-2-3) 4 NE JoJo - Creature of Habit 5 NE Griff - One Foot In Front Of The Other 6 NE Bob Sinclar ft Molly Hammar - We Could Be Dancing 7 4 Delta Goodrem - Eclipse (CR: 2-3-3-4-7) 8 3 Dynoro ft 24KGoldn - Monsters (CR: 3-8) 9 5 The Veronicas - Sugar Daddy (CR: 2-5-9) 10 6 Lottery Winners - Times Are Changing (CR: 4-6-10) 11 7 Look Mum No Computer - Eins, Zwei, Drei (CR: 2-5-7-11) 12 NE MØ - Live To Survive 13 8 Rebecca Black - Worth It For The Feeling (CR: 8-13) 14 9 Sigrid - Mirror (CR: 6-6-9-14) 15 10 The Vaccines - Headphones Baby (CR: 1-1-3-7-10-10-15) 16 NE Paloma Faith - Monster 17 NE Grace Davies - Testosterone 18 11 Years & Years and Kylie Minogue - Starstruck (Remix) (CR: 7-11-18) 19 12 Essyla - Dancing On The Ice (CR: 4-8-12-19) 20 13 JP Cooper - Holy Water (CR: 5-11-13-20) 21 14 MK - Chemical (CR: 9-14-21) 22 15 Bella Poarch - Build A Bitch (CR: 1-2-2-2-4-9-12-15-22) 23 16 Conor Maynard - Crowded Room (CR: 37-48-51-43-19-14-9-7-8-5-4-1-1-1-2-3-5-4-6-11-13-16-23) 24 NE Marie Fredriksson - Stay 25 17 Marshmello & Jonas Brothers - Leave Before You Love Me (CR: 8-14-17-25) 26 NE Nelly Furtado & Quarterhead - All Good Things (Come To An End) 27 18 Jiva - Just Go (CR: 18-27) 28 21 Olivia Rodrigo - Good 4 U (CR: 1-3-3-5-10-15-21-28) 29 19 J. Cole ft Lil Baby - Pride Is The Devil (CR: 19-29) 30 23 BTS - Butter (CR: 8-12-17-23-30) 31 22 Sharon Van Etten & Angel Olsen - Like I Used To (CR: 16-22-31) 32 25 Agnes - 24 Hours (CR: 5-9-14-18-25-32) 33 27 Tones And I - Won't Sleep (CR: 6-10-15-20-27-33) 34 29 Imanbek & Cher Lloyd - Baddest (CR: 3-4-5-5-6-7-11-16-21-29-34) 35 20 The Prototypes ft Lowes - Reason (CR: 20-35) 36 NE Foy Vance - Sapling 37 28 Darren Criss - I Can't Dance (CR: 7-13-19-28-37) 38 24 Big Freedia - Judas (CR: 24-38) 39 26 Jorja Smith ft Shaybo - Bussdown (CR: 26-39) 40 31 Martin Garrix ft Bono & The Edge - We Are The People (CR: 7-9-13-18-23-31-40) 41 32 Surf Curse - Freaks (CR: 4-8-12-17-24-32-41) 42 33 Jake Bugg - Lost (CR: 2-3-4-6-10-11-16-21-26-33-42) 43 39 Anton Ewald - DeLorean (CR: 3-6-6-6-7-11-12-17-25-29-39-43) 44 30 Chvrches & Robert Smith - How Not To Drown (CR: 30-44) 45 36 Kungs - Never Going Home (CR: 19-25-36-45) 46 34 Sleeper - We Should Be Together (CR: 34-46) 47 40 Cheryl - Sexy Den A Mutha (CR: 2-3-4-8-10-15-22-30-40-47) 48 42 Keiino - Summer Of My Life (CR: 14-17-19-27-33-42-48) 49 46 Bebe Rexha - Sabotage (CR: 7-5-6-6-8-2-3-5-5-5-7-6-7-9-11-12-13-16-20-21-25-32-41-46-49) 50 NE Kezia Gill - All Of Me

We’re on hiatus again Thought we’d return with a gorgeous song that really struck a chord with us. Comments in the listen through were fantastic and I had renewed hope that I could get a good result - thanks to all who showed some love for Gay Angels Sadly as is common with Herbilore we barely got any votes. Honestly I do think that our style of music is not suited to BJSC I won’t mince my words though - I think there are a small section of people who vote for their friends and/or who avoid voting for certain nations. I really hope that nations like Ennea don’t fall into the same place we have fallen into. It breaks my heart to see them struggle to qualify on multiple occasions. Someone made a comment before that new nations struggle - I would be interested to hear why people think that is - as I personally don’t think it’s always about the song choice. Maybe we’ll return for a one off again in the future, maybe not. Again, thanks to all who showed us support.