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To the attention of no one, Slovenia have now got their final line up for EMA next week, with these three as the most hyped, Serial entrants BQL VF9oljwwgkE July Jones, known associate of Raiven from EMAs past -XbTlBbvsGI and the winners of EMA Fres with "yassified Sebi" D8rcj0zGYik

I'm feeling positively JUICY!

From what I've seen, I think this is this is a kind of throwback to 60s Soviet era pop music that feels charmingly retro in Lithuania but that's a bit lost on us in the west.

Stefan wins!

Monika Liu wins as was expected.

Alina Pash wins the ticket to Turin! rz6aQLKyBHc

Swedish 3-9 year olds are transphobic confirmed!

I know it was basic but I really liked “My Way”

(if the app breaks again then who the f even knows?)

So my pre-show call is that Liamoo gets the first round win (probably by a distance) and then Lundvik edges it due to the buff that older voters get on the age categories breakdown DTF: Liamoo, Lundvik SF: Alvaro, Tone 5th: Niello & Lisa Ajax 6th: Browsing Collection 7th: Samira Manners

Has to be Alina Pash - with a good tailwind that could be another Ukrainian Top 5!

After Super Saturday 1 Great 01 Spain: Chanel - SloMo 02 Czech Republic: We Are Domi - Lights Off 03 Ireland: Brooke Scullion - That's Rich Good 04 Albania: Ronela Hajati - Sekret 05 Italy: Mahmood & Blanco - Brividi 06 Israel: Michael Ben David - I.M OK 07 Moldova: Zdob şi Zdub & Fraţii Advahov - Trenuleţul 08 North Macedonia: Andrea - Circles Meh 09 Bulgaria: Intelligent Music Project - Intention

OMG that's totally it - the "take the crown" line being the biggest tell. Not sure what this is going to do competitively but this will be a fun bop in the semis at least.

Michael Ben David gets the ticket to Turin g5AWR7GfZ_Q What's Hebrew for friend of Rylan?

Cornelia is my first legit obsession of this year's NF season and I am so fecked off it's going to be another three weeks until the studio version drops. Enjoy it before the video gets deleted ldGR8JlVY3w

I think this is probably Stefan's to lose at this point - which I could very happily live with!

FO&O members underachieving against expectations once again!

Well deserved Heat winner there!

Really loved Cornelia’s song - hoping that can snatch a semi final place from one of the twinks!

I thought both of those first two songs were bops. Also lmao at the app going down in the first show as if they didn’t need anything else to go wrong!

Here we go girlies!

The hype train is building around Ochman's entry WA5dQL7Q5hw It's good but very "been there done that" to me.

I feel like Brividi is going into tonight the frontrunner but with Mahmood's tour dates I wonder if they might turn down the ticket to go to Turin and then something like Ciao Ciao actually gets selected as the host entry?

Ireland choosing the most contemporary song of the bunch is a turn up for the books! I think this might do decently in Turin once its got more than ten euros for the production budget.

Obviously the timings have shifted around a bit this year so the actual clips drop in the evening. Robin's the obvious winner of the heat but then beyond that it feels like you could make an argument for any of Malou, Theoz, Omar and Cornelia taking the other places in the next rounds. If the alumnus of The Felix Oscar Omar Conspiracy weren't melfests biggest perpetual underachievers I'd edge him into the second finalists spot but as is I'd probably predict the following from those snippets. DTF: Robin, Malou S5: Omar, Theoz 5th: Cornelia 6th: Danne 7th: Shirley