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they look so good! can’t believe Sara is so heavily pregnant and performing like that too! i’m excited to see if this leads to anything with them as they have some real bops. if you like swedish pop, you’ll love them. all of their albums are pretty solid. look out for ‘closer to perfection’, ‘cross my heart’, ‘let your heart do all the talking’ & ‘sugar rush’.. i could go on! :lol:

i got goosebumps hearing the crowd sing along! while i was in the arena, i was talking to attendees from israel, germany, australia + spain who were all talking positively about the song + sang along when it came on. the overall feel was that it won’t win but should do decently. i know that’s absolutely no bearing on how it will do tonight but there’s a lot of good faith + the audience genuinely like the song. really glad they’ve amped up the backing vocals as she definitely needed it - not that i think her vocals are terrible but this kind of talky chorus would need a lift regardless of the vocalist. i’m hopeful we’ll get a decent placing - anything on the left hand side will be a win.

great to see them all together again! one thing that’s always bugged me about s club is that they never seem to do a new photoshoot?! even in their heyday, they reused the ‘don’t stop movin’ single cover for the greatest hits. they used the ‘sunshine’ cover for the first reunion + now, they’ve used the ‘7’ album cover. it makes it all seem a little half-arsed. i’d love to see some new visuals, especially when we were so spoiled with steps. they loved getting in front of the camera.

my heart takes over is nice but it’s not what the public wanted from them. it should have gone notorious into all fired up and faster lead the album. i know they did the album chart show performance of ‘faster’ and it was starting to get played on radio but then it got pulled. i guess they thought with una being pregnant and what was happening with frankie, it would be easier to have a vanessa and rochelle led single.

the heat must have surely tampered with the taste levels cause sabina deserved to qualify x

i’m loving this! great hook + it’s so good to hear her on something like this. i haven’t really enjoyed her recent projects so it’s nice to have her back in the mainstream. only negative is that i don’t think it needs to be 4:38, i think a single/radio edit will trim the excess a little + leave an absolute bop.

the song is an absolute bop, i’m getting major britney pepsi vibes from it. also, i didn’t watch the video properly at first + thought that was kesha at the end of the photo but it’s patrica arquette :lol:

wow everything is so close, looks like everyone kinda split the vote a little this month! not surprised about the winner, i mean it’s stevie nicks so of course there’ll be crossover appeal. loved the track though so well done! not really sold on the top 10 as a whole, pop was given the boot this month huh. thanks so much for the votes for bigger love, i thought this one may have crossed over more as it’s primarily a pop song but not much love from the pop countries + some surprise points + mentions from countries that don’t usually point us so perhaps it appealed to a different audience than i thought. back to all-out pop next month. fab hosting, thanks so much for the smooth running of the semis and the final. you were great :heart:

bigger love is most certainly being slept on.

whew, didn’t think that was going to lead to a qualification in the end - good concept + great hosting! thanks for the semi votes :heart:

:heart: tysm x also, voted!

i just checked out the spotify playlist of all your entries + for a vast amount of time, the length of your entries was 03:XX - what prompted you to opt for longer songs now? was it just a switch in taste? are they more popular now? sorry for all the q’s, i’ve just never really paid that much attention to it + i’m curious.

i’d actually be really interested to see how many people listen to up-to-10 minute songs regularly or if they’re just sending them to appeal to a certain type of audience in the contest. it might just be me but i don’t have the attention span for them. i could do without the super long ones tbh. i guess it’s why eurovision do it too - the time it takes to get through them can be frustrating.

well you can’t be sure of that because there’s no way to know why it’s so far behind harry. perhaps it’s not doing as well because people are hearing it on radio, going to find it and the ones that like the original vibe are the only ones sticking around. think of how many streams she’s missing out on when people hear it and go “i prefer the radio version” and never play it again.. i think the same happened with adele. ‘oh my god’ had a remix playing on radio that wasn’t available to stream. i don’t understand the logic behind it? why have radio play a song that completely changes the tempo but don’t give the go-ahead to put it on streaming.

the radio version of ‘go’ not being available to stream is probably what’s stopping it going to #1. i added the original to my go-to playlist but when i realised it’s not the radio version, i took it off. also, really hoping sam grabs the #1 today.