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MOSTLY RECENT SECTION The Comet Is Coming feat. Kate Tempest - Blood Of The PastTyler, The Creator - GONE, GONE / THANK YOUThe Cinematic Orchestra feat. Grey Reverend - Zero One/This FantasyIDLES - Mercedes MarxistFoals - In Degrees [RE]Vampire Weekend - SympathyGeorgia - About Work The DancefloorThe Amazons - Doubt ItFlying Lotus - TakashiFour Tet - Teenage BirdsongSleaford Mods - DiscourseSlowthai - GorgeousSigrid - Mine Right NowLogic feat. Eminem - HomicideHoneyblood - She’s A NightmareRosie Lowe - PharaohBlack midi - Talking HeadsKylie Minogue - New York CityPurple Disco Machine - Body FunkFontaines DC - Boys In The Better LandCage The Elephant feat. Beck - Night RunningCourtney Barnett - Everybody Here Hates YouFrank Carter & The Rattlesnakes - Kitty SuckerCrissy Criss X WIDE AWAKE - Real (Drum & Bass Remix)Erland Cooper and Benge - First Of The TideJordan Rakei - Say SomethingSlowthai feat. Skepta - IngloriousLone - Melted (Out Of Body Experience)Slipknot - UnsaintedToro y Moi - Laws Of The UniverseFlying Lotus feat. Anderson .Paak - MoreKaren O & Danger Mouse - Turn The LightRichard Hawley - AloneAu/Ra - AssassinKate Tempest - FiresmokeTyler The Creator - WHAT’S GOODFlying Lotus feat. Toro Y Moi - 9 CarrotsMattiel - Keep The ChangeWhite Denim - Small Talk (Feeling Control)Pottery - The CraftSamm Henshaw feat. EARTHGANG - ChurchBeirut - When I DieJohnny Hostile and Jehnny Beth - Let It OutDenzel Curry - RICKYLittle Simz - 101 FMJack Goldstein - DUNGENESSRide - Future LoveJ-E-T-S, Machinedrum, Jimmy Edgar and Tkay Maidza - REAL TRUTHSkepta - Bullet From A GunCharlotte Adigery - Cursed and CussedKAYTRANADA feat. VanJess - DysfunctionalPenelope Isles - The ChlorineBrookes Brothers - Good ThingSPINN - Believe It Or NotSacred Paws - The ConversationTyler, The Creator - I THINKYak - Blinded By The LiesPip Blom - RubyKoffee - RaptureSteve Lacy - N Side RETRO SECTION (songs from before May 2019) Mac DeMarco - The Stars Keep On Calling My NameMac DeMarco - Baby’s Wearing Blue JeansCaribou - OdessaJustice vs. Simian - We Are Your FriendsBasement Jaxx - Bingo BangoMoby - If Things Were PerfectMIA - XXXOPeaches - Boys Wanna Be HerShanks & Bigfoot - Sweet Like ChocolateImany - Don’t Be So Shy (Filatov & Karas Remix)Ghostemane - MercuryCassius - Feeling For YouFool’s Garden - Lemon TreeTyler, The Creator feat. A$AP Rocky - Who Dat BoyDRAM - Cash MachineTrippie Redd feat. Travis Scott - Dark Knight DummoShania Twain - That Don’t Impress Me Much (Dance Mix Edit)DJ Spinna - RockBeastie Boys - Remote ControlGinuwine - What’s So Different BONUS IVOR NOVELLO SECTION Young Fathers - In My ViewIDLES - Danny NedelkoLet's Eat Grandma - Falling Into MeBen Howard - Nica Libres At DuskGhetts feat. Kojey Radical - Black RoseJorja Smith - Blue LightsHozier feat. Mavis Staples - Nina Cried PowerThe 1975 - Love It If We Made ItArctic Monkeys - Four Out Of FiveGeorge Ezra - Shotgun

Wasn't very fond of Echo or Under Pressure (Ice Ice Baby), though I did quite like Vanilla Ice's parts in the latter. I liked the Helping Haiti song, though it doesn't top the incredible original by REM.

A BURNS song at number one? Excellent! I also checked out that Lone track. It's marvellous! Great to see Hot Chip, Telemoveis, Slowthai and Tyler on the chart.

[[GOLD]] +20 Vampire Weekend - This Life [105] +19 Kylie Minogue - New York City [104] +18 Mark Ronson (ft. Lykke Li) - Late Night Feelings [101] OUTSTANDING +17 KEiiNO - Spirit In The Sky [96] BRILLIANT +16 David Guetta (ft. RAYE) - Stay (Don't Go Away) [94] +15 Sigala & Becky Hill - Wish You Well [92] GREAT +14 Tyler, The Creator - EARFQUAKE [89] +13 Ed Sheeran (ft. Chance The Rapper & PnB Rock) - Cross Me [87] +12 Jess Glynne & Jax Jones - One Touch [87] +11 Ed Sheeran & Justin Bieber - I Don't Care [86] +10 James Arthur - Falling Like The Stars [85] SUBLIME none GOOD +9 Dominic Fike - 3 Nights [79] +8 Lewis Capaldi - Hold Me While You Wait [77] +7 Martin Garrix (ft. Macklemore & Patrick Stump) - Summer Days [77] +6 Carly Rae Jepsen - Too Much [75] ADEQUATE +5 Halsey - Nightmare [74] +4 Shawn Mendes - If I Can't Have You [72] ALRIGHT +3 Hardy Caprio & DigDat - Guten Tag [68] FAIR +2 5 Seconds Of Summer - Easier [64] +1 Charli XCX (ft. Lizzo) - Blame It On Your Love [62] Overall: SUBLIME (84%) selection of hitz

07/06/2019 #82. Naomi Scott - Speechless (Full) [OUTSTANDING] (FOTW HM) #81. DJ Khaled feat. Cardi B & 21 Savage - Wish Wish [ADEQUATE] #66. DJ Khaled feat. SZA - Just Us [bRILLIANT] #42. Joyner Lucas feat. Logic - ISIS [[GOLD]] (Fave Of The Week) #39. Sigala feat. Becky Hill - Wish You Well [bRILLIANT] #31. Jess Glynne & Jax Jones - One Touch [GREAT] #29. 5 Seconds Of Summer - Easier [FAIR] (Least Fave Of The Week) #18. Young Thug feat. J Cole and Travis Scott - The London [GOOD] #17. NSG - OT Bop [GOOD] #9. Ed Sheeran feat. Chance The Rapper and PnB Rock - Cross Me [GREAT] 14/06/2019 #95. Will Smith - Friend Like Me [bRILLIANT] #88. NF - The Search [[GOLD]] (Fave Of The Week) #72. Jim Radford - The Shores Of Normandy [OUTSTANDING] (FOTW HM) #66. One Acen feat. Yungen - Miss Diva [ADEQUATE] #64. Tiesto, Jonas Blue & Rita Ora - Ritual [sUBLIME] #57. Cheryl - Let You [GREAT] #56. The Chainsmokers & Bebe Rexha - Call You Mine [bRILLIANT] #44. Cardi B - Press [GREAT] #41. Mark Ronson feat. Camila Cabello - Find U Again [OUTSTANDING] #31. Miley Cyrus - Mother's Daughter [sUBLIME] #15. Mo'Stack feat. Stormzy - Shine Girl [ALRIGHT] (Least Fave Of The Week) #14. Skepta feat. J Hus - What Do You Mean? [GREAT] #13. Katy Perry - Never Really Over [GOOD] 21/06/2019 #69. CamelPhat & Jake Bugg - Be Someone [bRILLIANT] #66. Tyga feat. J Balvin and Chris Brown - Haute [GOOD] #64. Jonas Brothers - Only Human [ADEQUATE] #61. BTS & Charli XCX - Dream Glow [ADEQUATE] #49. B Young - Gucci Demon [ADEQUATE] #39. Mo'Stack x Fredo - I'm The One [ALRIGHT] #30. Young T & Bugsey feat. Aitch - Strike A Pose [GOOD] #22. Liam Gallagher - Shockwave [OUTSTANDING] (Fave Of The Week) #20. Avicii - Heaven [OUTSTANDING] (FOTW HM) #19. Mo'Stack feat. Dave and J Hus - Stinking Rich [FAIR] (Least Fave Of The Week) #18. Mabel - Mad Love [FAIR] #8. Chris Brown feat. Drake - No Guidance [ALRIGHT]

Shutter Island (2010) I don't want to spoil anything for you, but I can safely say that watching this movie was a unique, absolutely gripping experience. The DT32 way of watching Shutter Island: 1. Buy the film on DVD (not necessary if you have a copy in your DVD collection already) 2. Read the blurb on the back of the DVD box 3. If you're intrigued by the concept, insert the disc into a working DVD player 4. Sit back and watch the film with full concentration (...and enjoy!)

30/05/2019 Just to let you know that since Dalek is going to go into exam mode, he will be pausing the extra elaborated thoughts for a month. Don't worry, he'll still continue his usual weekly ratings. #96. Madison Beer - Dear Society [ALRIGHT] #81. Polo G and Lil Tjay - Pop Out [ALRIGHT] #76. OneRepublic - Rescue Me [sUBLIME] #75. Lana Del Rey - Doin' Time [GOOD] #73. Mahmood - Soldi [bRILLIANT] #70. Charli XCX feat. Lizzo - Blame It On Your Love [FAIR] (Least Fave Of The Week) #68. Slipknot - Unsainted [[GOLD]] (Fave Of The Week) #67. Duncan Laurence - Arcade [[GOLD]] (FOTW HM) #66. Sam Fender - Hypersonic Missiles [[GOLD]] #61. KEiiNO - Spirit In The Sky [OUTSTANDING] #54. Digga D - P4DP [ALRIGHT] #50. Slowthai feat. Skepta - Inglorious [[GOLD]] #48. DJ Khaled feat. Travis Scott and Post Malone - Celebrate [FAIR] #43. DJ Khaled feat. Nipsey Hussle and John Legend - Higher [OUTSTANDING] #41. Tyler, The Creator - IGOR'S THEME [[GOLD]] #37. DJ Khaled feat. Chris Brown, Lil Wayne and Big Sean - Jealous [ALRIGHT] #30. Tyler, The Creator - I THINK [[GOLD]] #26. Halsey - Nightmare [ADEQUATE] #17. Tyler, The Creator - EARFQUAKE [GREAT] Dear Society makes use of a great sounding reverb effect used on the guitar to give a dark, depressing tone, with a drum pattern accompanying it to fully paint this downbeat image. I also quite like the multi-tracking vocoder effect on Beer’s voice in the chorus, similar to the one used in the chorus of Clean Bandit’s 2017 song I Miss You. The lyrics sound like one of those “comparing love and infatuation to drugs” songs (I’m not sure if it’s that though), but the production elevates it. Pop Out has a solid setup of its production with the piano chords playing over a trap beat and our two rappers sound alright. Plus Tjay sounds better than he did on French Montana’s Slide. Rescue Me starts to burst with energy after the bassline comes in during the 2nd chorus with some fantastic vocals from this point. I like how the lyrical content involving the importance of the partner during a relationship is handled, as it doesn’t get too overdramatic. Also, extra points given to the addition of the uplifting piano chords in the bridge. And before we move on… (images) Is it me or are these cover arts similar? I have been really impressed by Lana Del Rey with her two recent singles Mariners Apartment Complex and “hope is a dangerous thing for a woman…”, the former of which made it onto my Top 75 Songs Of 2018 during my EOY 2018 countdown. The single that follows these two up is her cover of the 1996 Sublime song Doin’ Time, which itself covered George Gershwin’s 1934 composition Summertime. The Sublime version has some pretty sad lyrics for an upbeat ska song; it’s about a man who feels like he’s doing time in prison while trapped in an abusive relationship. The array of instruments including a vibraphone, drum kit, bass, flute and occasional DJ scratches do a marvellous job at presenting the ironic happy vibe in this version. Lana’s version keeps the lyrical content of the song she’s covering, but there’s a slower rhythm and the music sounds more dark, with a harp and syncopated drum line playing to accompany Lana’s smooth vocal style. It’s nowhere near as brilliant as the Sublime version, but still a solid cover nonetheless. This week sees three new songs from this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, including entries from Italy, Norway and this year’s winner The Netherlands. Soldi deals with Mahmood’s relationship involving his estranged father. The piano and guitar instrumentation is really good, and I also like the addition of the strings in the pre-chorus. Spirit In The Sky carries a wonderful anthemic 80s style, with some excellently produced synths and fantastic vocal performances. There’s also an unusual bridge in Joik. Winning entry Arcade uses arcade game metaphors to represent heartbreak, with Laurence being accompanied by a melancholy piano line along with an enchanting choir occasionally coming in. Blame It On Your Love is a song about a girl who feels bad for messing up a relationship. The song is okay, Charli's parts are fine, and Lizzo delivers a pretty fun verse. One thing I really like about metal is the sense of energy and darkness the guitars display over the frantic percussion lines, and Unsainted carries these elements. The song is a fantastic look into depression with the heavy instrumentation backing the themes up excellently and Corey Taylor puts on an incredible vocal performance throughout. I also love the addition of the haunting choir in the intro. The dystopian themes from Play God carry on from there into Sam Fender’s latest track Hypersonic Missiles, with some great rock production that reminds me of The Killers. There’s also a magnificent saxophone line added at the end. P4DP may have some lyrics involving shooting up people, but it also contains some solid flows and wordplay from Digga D, plus the beat is decent. Inglorious carries some organ chords in G# minor to present a menacing tone for the track, and sound great over the trap beat produced for this. Slowthai then comes in and he goes hard with his aggressive flows in his verse, which is then followed by Skepta, who also delivers a brilliant verse. We see two three-track sets from two particular albums this week. One is from DJ Khaled’s latest album Father Of Asahd (and none of these new entries is Holy Mountain, which is a shame because it is such a great album opener). Jealous has some nice synth chords, and all three rappers delivering some decent parts. Celebrate acts as a celebratory party song, which contains a flute sound at some points of the song which I like. Higher is my favourite of the three. It’s filled with sacks of soul, with John Legend delivering an uplifting chorus accompanied by a beautiful sounding choir. Nipsey’s verses are also excellent and insightful with heartfelt lyrics involving him looking back on his life. The other album set comes from Tyler, The Creator’s marvellous studio effort IGOR. IGOR’S THEME does a great job at setting up the album with the sound of a dark lower range synth before transitioning to a night time drive feel. There’s not a lot of lyrics present except for Lil Uzi Vert’s chorus (which is repeated twice). His voice sounds much different from his usual melodic autotune style and he unexpectedly fits well. Also, that high pitched synth at the end sounded amazing. EARFQUAKE is a breakup song carrying the usual 80s feel of the album. Tyler sings really well and Charlie Wilson adds a soulful vibe to the song. Playboi Carti’s verse feels out of place, though it’s starting to grow on me after a couple of re-listens. I THINK bears some fantastic synth production, along with a catchy handclap backbeat. The song sees Tyler let out his true feelings while in the middle of a relationship. He conveys his emotions well throughout the song. Plus Solange delivers a really good vocal performance during the chorus. Nightmare starts off with the interpolation of the prayer "Now I lay me down to sleep", which I first heard being referenced in Frankie Knuckles' raunchy house track Baby Wants To Ride from 1987. While that track used the four-line prayer to set an erotic tone, Nightmare uses this in order to have the peaceful tone of the prayer contrast with the nightmares our protagonist is bracing herself for. I quite like the alternative metal influence the song carries from its instrumentation, it reminds me of Bring Me The Horizon a bit. Also, this is the 2nd week in a row in which I covered a song containing a trap beat similar to Drake's Nonstop; it's in the verses. This has been a great week overall, with not one, not two, but six golden songs.

Jackie Brown: This was the only Tarantino movie that I haven't seen, and I'm glad to have done so today. Tarantino brings in another interesting direction to this film, going with a great screenplay and great soundtrack as always. I also liked the scenes showing Jackie's stacks of records on her house, with her putting on a Delfonics vinyl on the turntable (Plus this was when CDs started to overtake vinyl as the biggest selling media format. There's also a seen in which Max Cherry buys a Delfonics cassette from a media store and plays it in his car while driving. The story takes a great look at its characters associated with a huge wad of cash that Samuel L Jackson's character Ordell Robbie has kept hidden back in Mexico. The money exchange scene showing the perspectives of three characters was also very interesting and excellently directed. What weighs this film down were that some parts felt slow and it also got confusing at some points. Nevertheless, it was an excellent film.

Managed to add the 45th anniversary red vinyl edition of David Bowie's Diamond Dogs to my collection. Really good album, and I like the dystopian 1984 influence most of the songs carry.

+40 Pond - Burnt Out Star +39 Let's Eat Grandma - Falling Into Me +38 Thom Yorke - Unmade +37 Let's Eat Grandma - Snakes & Ladders +36 Beach House - Lemon Glow +35 Thom Yorke - Suspirium +34 Young Fathers - In My View +33 Ex:Re - Crushing +32 Ben Howard - Nica Libres at Dusk +31 Villagers - Again +30 twenty one pilots - Jumpsuit +29 Billie Eilish - you should see me in a crown +28 IDLES - Danny Nedelko +27 Gwenno - Eus Keus +26 Lana Del Rey - Mariners Apartment Complex +25 Christine And The Queens - Doesn't Matter +24 Billie Eilish - when the party's over +23 Moses Sumney - Rank & File +22 Everything Everything - Breadwinner +21 Christine And The Queens feat. Dam-Funk - Girlfriend +20 Yves Tumor - Lifetime +19 Ionnalee feat. TR/ST - HARVEST +18 Florence + The Machine - Hunger +17 The 1975 - Love It If We Made It +16 The Beths - Little Death +15 ROSALÍA - MALAMENTE +14 Against All Logic - Know You +13 Grymm - Br-Ea-The +12 Katie Garfield - Gallows +11 Friendly Fires - Love Like Waves +10 Arctic Monkeys - Four Out Of Five +9 Cosmo Sheldrake - Wriggle +8 Sufjan Stevens - Mystery Of Love +7 Iglooghost - Clear Tamei +6 NIMMO - Orange Skies +5 James Bay - Pink Lemonade +4 Of Montreal - Paranoiac Intervals/Body Dysmorphia +3 Superorganism - Everybody Wants To Be Famous +2 The 1975 - TOOTIMETOOTIMETOOTIME +1 Dream Wife - Somebody

08 raindrops (an angel cried) 09 blazed (feat. Pharrell Williams) 08 the light is coming (feat. Nicki Minaj) 08 R.E.M 07 God is a woman 07 sweetener 08 successful 08 everytime 09 breathin 10 no tears left to cry 08 borderline (feat. Missy Elliott) 08 better off 07 goodnight n go 07 pete davidson 09 get well soon 08 imagine 07 needy 07 NASA 07 bloodline 09 fake smile 08 bad idea 05 make up 08 ghostin 08 in my head 06 7 rings 09 thank u, next 06 break up with your girlfriend, i'm bored

Riverside is such a bop

I'm seeing SPINN pop up quite a lot now after hearing about them in the BJSC. They sound really good.

YES at Vossi Bop debuting, and Before I Let Go is also good. War is pretty great. Probably in my Top 10 of that BJSC it entered. Plus Teenage Birdsong, Late Night Feelings and Cellophane are very good. Edit: And from the chart flashback, On The Floor and Sweat are probably my favourites, and I remember seeing Lovesick pop up in an episode of Friday Download at the part where the presenters were recommending new songs at the time (like they did in every episode) around the time it came out.

23/05/2019 #84. FISHER - You Little Beauty [OUTSTANDING] (Fave Of The Week) #68. ZAYN & Zhavia Ward - A Whole New World (End Title) [ADEQUATE] (Least Fave Of The Week) #60. Avicii feat. Agnes and Vargas & Lagola - Tough Love [sUBLIME] #47. David Guetta feat. RAYE - Stay (Don't Go Away) [bRILLIANT] #42. Skepta - Bullet From A Gun [OUTSTANDING] (FOTW HM) #35. DaBeatfreakz x Dappy x Swarmz x Deno - Motorola [sUBLIME] #34. James Arthur - Falling Like The Stars [GREAT] #22. Skepta feat. Nafe Smallz - Greaze Mode [GOOD] #1. Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber - I Don't Care [GREAT] I have heard a handful of tracks sample vocal snippets of Loleatta Holloway’s soulful 1980 tune Love Sensation, with the likes of Cevin Fisher, Lenny Fontana & DJ Shorty, Chase And Status and the most well-known example, Black Box with their 1989 dance classic Ride On Time. FISHER has done the same on his new dance track You Little Beauty. The vocal sample can get repetitive at times, but the production boosts it up. I also like the use of the short lower range synth lines in the breaks. It’s basically Losing It, but with the Love Sensation vocal sample instead of “I’m losing it!” Former 1D member ZAYN and newcoming artist Zhavia Ward team up to record a cover of A Whole New World for the upcoming live-action remake of the Disney classic Aladdin. The original version is a great song about opening your eyes to the many wonders of the world with some fantastic arrangements of piano, strings and woodwind instruments, as well as great vocal chemistry between Aladdin and Jasmine (with their singing voices respectively provided by Brad Kane and Lea Salonga) The cover is transposed down a perfect 4th (beginning in A major before modulating to C major in the 2nd verse, and then an extra modulation to C# major). It is also set to a slower tempo (and a similar one to the Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle version that played in the credits of the original 1992 film), with some added finger clicks and software produced percussion, unlike the original which had no percussion. It also has the use of a traditional Dead Can Dance-like vocal at the beginning and the end, which I liked. It loses some of that lamp magic with the slower tempo and the addition of the clicks, but both vocalists sound decent over the song. Posthumous Avicii recording Tough Love carries some great production, with a brilliant use of strings added to the mix and some swell sounding vocalists to go with it. The song is about a couple who aren’t that perfect; they get into fights quite frequently and their relationship is showing signs of falling apart. One person of the couple relies on tough love from the other person to solve their problems. While I didn’t like this concept as much as the one presented on SOS, I still thought it was executed solidly on this song. Guetta returns to produce an excellent 80's synth-driven gem in the form of Stay (Don’t Go Away). Some of RAYE’s lines may be on the line of typical ‘making love’, but the production does a really good job at backing them up and RAYE provides a swell vocal performance altogether. There are also some points at the start of the song and in the post-chorus where RAYE sings a melodic line reminiscent of the synth melody at the beginning of David Morales’ remix of Jamiroquai’s 1994 song Space Cowboy. Skepta has put out two new singles to make way for his upcoming album Ignorance Is Bliss. I really liked his Konnichiwa album, so I'm quite excited to see how this project will turn out. The first of the two Bullet From A Gun sees Skepta take a great look into a lot of things going on in his life such as the origin of his name, the effects of police brutality and him wanting to write a song involving his dad, but then thinking about how his dad's treatment made him evolve into a better, stronger person in the future. There's also some really good production involving the use of dark leads blending with a drum pattern to back up his lyrics. Second single Greaze Mode bears some percussion similar to that of Drake's Nonstop, but Skepta adds some dark sounding synths to spice it up. Skepta brags in his verse, but his brags are presented really well, along with some great flows from him to back them up. It took me a while for me to get into Smallz' autotune-driven verse; I disliked it at first, but then ended up finding it okay despite a few questionable lines, including one about him getting your girl 'addicted to the sex'. Motorola has a trio of UK rappers fitting very well with the beat consisting of chime sounds blending with the 808s produced by the freaks of the beat DABEATFREAKZ, Swarmz and Deno deliver some good verses, and while Dappy has that line about how he should be calling his girl on the phone, even though he doesn't like her, he displays some solid uses of wordplay in his verse (one of which involves Swarmz' Top 40 hit Bally from earlier this year) Falling Like The Stars carries a beautiful sound to go with its nice sentiment involving Arthur being there to comfort his partner. James Arthur sticks to a lower range than usual on this song, which, to me, fits better as I am not too fond of his croaky high-range vocal style found in songs like Empty Space and his duet with Anne-Marie in their cover of Rewrite The Stars, and while some elements of this style do show up at some points of the song, they don't weigh it down too much since they're used sparingly. Probably one of my faves from him along with You Deserve Better. This week's number one single I Don't Care carries some upbeat tropical production with some Troye Sivan-like lyrics added in. Both Ed and Justin do a good job at painting these characters at a party they don't want to be at and them wanting to be with their partner in order to experience the best moments possible. It’s like I’m So Tired except with a more positive feel. Also, the use of the 'ooh-ooh-ooh' in the chorus provided by the backing vocals is also pretty good too. Despite no songs with the gold rating, this week has been really good with no songs below the 7/10 region.

Just out of curiosity, what does HH mean?

Chevalier (2015): A Greek movie focusing on a group of men engaging in competitive games on a boat. This may sound like one of those concepts you'd expect from a raunchy comedy film, but the film carries a more serious, grounded tone. It does a good job at displaying elements of masculinity and the weaknesses men often encounter in life throughout the film. It can get a bit too slow-paced at times though. 'Tis a good film overall

YAY! NORWAY AND ALBANIA QUALIFIED! And so did some of the other 9/10 songs on my ratings, along with the robots on the last entry.

The rest of my ratings Croatia (Roko - The Dream, 9.1/10) Malta (Michela - Chameleon, 9.1/10) Lithuania (Jurij Veklenko - Run With The Lions, 7.9/10) Russia (Sergey Lazarev - Scream, 9.5/10) Albania (Jonida Maliqi, Ktheju tokes, 9.7/10) Norway (KEiiNO - Spirit in the Sky, 10/10) Netherlands (Duncan Laurence - Arcade, 9.0/10) North Macedonia (Tamara Todevska - Proud, 8.4/10) Azerbaijan (Chingiz - Truth, 9.0/10)

OMG! There's robots on the stage!

I'm blown away by the Norwegian entry.

This stage is on FIYAH!

He's got an army of clones!

Sergey's back! YAY!

I'm hearing a handful of Eurovision entries carrying this syncopated beat similar to the one used in Justin Bieber's Sorry