Juranamo

I wanted this to qualify SO BADLY. I really love it, and big pop-girl anthems were sorely missed in the final this year (which was, of course, not a problem for Spain!)

Genuinely can't wait to be able to come back at people with this result when people (inevitably) start spouting out this bullshit next year! People forget Jade and Blue's results... Apparently we're usually supposed to be given everyone's 12s each year for sending a song that's "quite nice" and doesn't even get placed in their own top 10... This year I've heard lots of people say "I love that song!" before they knew it was out Eurovision entry... Shock horror, we send songs people would actually choose to listen to, and we do well! (Though, it's pretty ironic that the one time we're blocked from winning, is the one time I agree there was political voting playing a notable part... 😂)

01 | 🇬🇧 Sam Ryder - SPACE MAN 02 | 🇮🇪 Brooke - That's Rich - SUCH an undeserved DNQ, such a fun song 😭😭 03 | 🇫🇮 The Rasmus - Jezebel 04 | 🇪🇦 Chanel - SloMo 05 | 🇦🇹 LUM!X ft. Pia Maria - Halo - great studio version, didn't *pop* live, it was still my 10th fave performance in its semi... 06 | 🇩🇰 REDDI - The Show - very sad this didn't make it through 😭 07 | 🇨🇿 We Are Domi - Lights Off 08 | 🇳🇴 Subwoolfer - Give That Wolf A Banana 09 | 🇸🇪 Cornelia Jakobs - Hold Me Closer 10 | 🇷🇴 WRS - Llámame 11 | 🇦🇲 Rosa Linn - SNAP 12 | 🇮🇱 Michael Ben David - I.M 13 | 🇬🇪 Circus Mircus - Lock Me In 14 | 🇫🇷 Alvan & Ahez - Fulenn 15 | 🇧🇬 Intelligent Music Project - Intention 16 | 🇲🇹 Emma Muscat - I Am What I Am 17 | 🇪🇪 Stefan - Hope 18 | 🇩🇪 Malik Harris - Rockstars 19 | 🇬🇷 Amanda Tenfjord - Die Together 20 | 🇺🇦 Kalush Orchestra - Stefania 21 | 🇧🇪 Jérémie Makiese - Miss You 22 | 🇸🇲 Achille Lauro - STRIPPER 23 | 🇨🇾 Andromache - Ela 24 | 🇱🇻 Citi Zēni - Eat Your Salad 25 | 🇦🇱 Ronela Hajati - Sekret 26 | 🇷🇸 Konstrakta - In Corpore Sano 27 | 🇸🇮 LPS - Disko 28 | 🇲🇪 Vladana - Breathe 29 | 🇦🇺 Sheldon Riley - Not The Same 30 | 🇮🇸 Systur - Með hækkandi sól 31 | 🇵🇱 Ochman - River 32 | 🇲🇩 Zdob și Zdub & Frații Advahov - Trenulețul 33 | 🇲🇰 Andrea - Circles 34 | 🇮🇹 Mahmood & BLANCO - Brividi 35 | 🇦🇿 Nadir Rustamli - Fade To Black 36 | 🇱🇹 Monika Liu - Sentimentai 37 | 🇳🇱 S10 - De Diepte 38 | 🇭🇷 Mia Dimšić - Guilty Pleasure 39 | 🇵🇹 Maro - saudade, saudade 40 | 🇨🇭 Marius Bear - Boys Do Cry

Tbf, I'll be done with the dull ballads before the second half. Then *that* happens... There might be enough variety to carry the first half through Just no at Czech and Romania being the first 2 though... Blowing 50% of the energy straight away (practically all gone by Norway [a couple of brief bursts aside...]), where is the STAMINA?! Not rushing into bed with anyone involved in this decision*...

This. This. THIS. I'm fully expecting second with the juries (could be first, depends if juries give Ukraine the same landslide that I suspect they'll get from the televote [Note: this is in NO WAY a bad thing, this is the one year I actively condone "political" voting... Which I really do not think is usually a thing for the vast majority of voters anyway... Plus, the song is not that dissimilar to 'SHUM' last year, and that did really well anyway, so I think it's likely 'Stefania' would have done well regardless in a weaker year]). It may take a slight battering with the televote (do televoters tend to skew more to "bangers"?), but I'm hoping for Top 10/5, at least... Meaning hopefully at Top 5/3 should be on lock?

This is giving me Facebook Song vibes in the verses (only less cheap), and I'm kinda LIVING for that!

After watching the semi... 🇩🇰 REDDI - The Show 🇳🇴 Subwoolfer - Give That Wolf A Banana 🇦🇲 Rosa Linn - SNAP 🇬🇷 Amanda Tenfjord - Die Together 🇧🇬 Intelligent Music Project - Intention 🇺🇦 Kalush Orchestra - Stefania 🇱🇻 Citi Zēni - Eat Your Salad 🇦🇱 Ronela Hajati - Sekret 🇸🇮 LPS - Disko 🇦🇹 LUM!X ft. Pia Maria - Halo ------ 🇮🇸 Systur - Með hækkandi sól 🇲🇩 Zdob și Zdub & Frații Advahov - Trenulețul 🇱🇹 Monika Liu - Sentimentai 🇳🇱 S10 - De Diepte 🇭🇷 Mia Dimšić - Guilty Pleasure 🇵🇹 Maro - saudade, saudade 🇨🇭 Marius Bear - Boys Do Cry Not much changed (Iceland were my 10th anyway...). The results weren't for me 😂

I'll watch this tomorrow... But the semi is full of less than brilliant songs. Shame my 5 least favourites hogged half the spots. 05 | 🇩🇰 REDDI - The Show 10 | 🇦🇹 LUM!X ft. Pia Maria - Halo 14 | 🇧🇬 Intelligent Music Project - Intention 15 | 🇳🇴 Subwoolfer - Give That Wolf A Banana 17 | 🇺🇦 Kalush Orchestra - Stefania 20 | 🇱🇻 Citi Zēni - Eat Your Salad 21 | 🇦🇲 Rosa Linn - SNAP 22 | 🇬🇷 Amanda Tenfjord - Die Together 24 | 🇸🇮 LPS - Disko 27 | 🇮🇸 Systur - Með hækkandi sól 28 | 🇦🇱 Ronela Hajati - Sekret 32 | 🇭🇷 Mia Dimšić - Guilty Pleasure 35 | 🇵🇹 Maro - saudade, saudade 36 | 🇱🇹 Monika Liu - Sentimentai 37 | 🇲🇩 Zdob și Zdub & Frații Advahov - Trenulețul 38 | 🇨🇭 Marius Bear - Boys Do Cry 40 | 🇳🇱 S10 - De Diepte Ideally, SF2 would have more songs qualifying in lieu of this semi... 😂

FINALLY got around to listening to all of these... It's been a crazy few months, and I honestly can not believe it's *already* Eurovision week! First rankings... 01 | 🇮🇪 Brooke - That's Rich 02 | 🇫🇮 The Rasmus - Jezebel 03 | 🇪🇦 Chanel - SloMo 04 | 🇬🇧 Sam Ryder - SPACE MAN 05 | 🇩🇰 REDDI - The Show 06 | 🇲🇹 Emma Muscat - I Am What I Am 07 | 🇨🇿 We Are Domi - Lights Off 08 | 🇮🇱 Michael Ben David - I.M 09 | 🇪🇪 Stefan - Hope 10 | 🇦🇹 LUM!X ft. Pia Maria - Halo 11 | 🇬🇪 Circus Mircus - Lock Me In 12 | 🇸🇪 Cornelia Jakobs - Hold Me Closer 13 | 🇫🇷 Alvan & Ahez - Fulenn 14 | 🇧🇬 Intelligent Music Project - Intention 15 | 🇳🇴 Subwoolfer - Give That Wolf A Banana 16 | 🇩🇪 Malik Harris - Rockstars 17 | 🇺🇦 Kalush Orchestra - Stefania 18 | 🇷🇴 WRS - Llámame 19 | 🇨🇾 Andromache - Ela 20 | 🇱🇻 Citi Zēni - Eat Your Salad 21 | 🇦🇲 Rosa Linn - SNAP 22 | 🇬🇷 Amanda Tenfjord - Die Together 23 | 🇸🇲 Achille Lauro - STRIPPER 24 | 🇸🇮 LPS - Disko 25 | 🇵🇱 Ochman - River 26 | 🇧🇪 Jérémie Makiese - Miss You 27 | 🇮🇸 Systur - Með hækkandi sól 28 | 🇦🇱 Ronela Hajati - Sekret 29 | 🇲🇰 Andrea - Circles 30 | 🇲🇪 Vladana - Breathe 31 | 🇮🇹 Mahmood & BLANCO - Brividi 32 | 🇭🇷 Mia Dimšić - Guilty Pleasure 33 | 🇦🇿 Nadir Rustamli - Fade To Black 34 | 🇦🇺 Sheldon Riley - Not The Same 35 | 🇵🇹 Maro - saudade, saudade 36 | 🇱🇹 Monika Liu - Sentimentai 37 | 🇲🇩 Zdob și Zdub & Frații Advahov - Trenulețul 38 | 🇨🇭 Marius Bear - Boys Do Cry 39 | 🇷🇸 Konstrakta - In Corpore Sano 40 | 🇳🇱 S10 - De Diepte

Fully prepared for this to do a Torn... But... It really should be the new Everything I Do 🤷‍♂️ BANGER. (also, DEFINITELY sounds like tampon... You're not wrong about that...)

I've seen a lot of negatives... But I don't actually see what's been agreed as a particularly bad track...? (at least it's not in a literal CAR PARK again 😂) Yeah: it hardly looks like a challenge... But the cars going down the strip AT NIGHT (with all the glitzy lights) will look amazing, and it almost looks like a diet-Baku with the long straights/nearly 90° turns. (Actually, a better comparison... Aside from the small tighter section at the top, it's quite reminiscent of the Bahrain outer configuration [which turned out to be pretty decent!]) My main neg is a third US race clogging up the calendar (when Kyalami is literally waiting in the wings for a Grade 1 license/slot), which is countered by the relief that it's not in another "who gives a shit about human rights, anyway?" country *cough* most of the middle east countries/russia/china */cough* (even if this reeks of money talks, and there's certainly better places for inclusion still...)

Feeder have 7 sales from me (dunno if this is good or bad lol). CD, Picture Disc, Purple Vinyl, Red Vinyl, Purple Cassette, Red Cassette, and another CD as part of the instore... It's my favourite of theirs in years. I'd be so happy if they finally nabbed a number one 🙈

She seems to think she is on Facebook... Gives the impression she has a fair few preordered?

It'll be either ArrDee, Charli, or Feeder (maybe wishful thinking... But I've seen some great reviews, and I could definitely see them doing 10kish). Probably in that order.

Pretty sure it'll be ArrDee or Charli (I REALLY wanted to say Feeder, but there's not a chance in hell they'll pick up the streams to bridge what I think will be the gap between ArrDee's and theirs - although think they're in with a shot at sales #1 [or physical #1, at the very least]) I predict... Sales: 1) Feeder 2) Charli 3) Sea Girls Streams: 1) ArrDee 2) None of the above 3) None of the above Combined: 1) ArrDee 2) Charli 3) Feeder

Actually love the sound of the spoilered non-spoiler! (though, I guess some people will like to go in blind)

Episode 6 (essentially based on runway look, and attitude [with a bonus point of they won a lipsync]) 1 | Blu Hydrangea 2 | Jujubee 3 | Lemon 4 | Mo Heart 5 | Pangina Heals 6 | Baga Chipz 7 | Janey Jacké 8 | Cheryl Hole 9 | Jimbo Overall 1 | Blu Hydrangea (83.45%) 121 2 | Pangina Heals (80.00%) 96 3 | Jimbo (76.84) 73 4 | Janey Jacké (75.17%) 109 - More highs 5 | Mo Heart (75.17%) 109 6 | Lemon (73.33%) 33 7 | Jujubee (64.83%) 94 8 | Cheryl Hole (62.86%) 44 9 | Baga Chipz (53.10%) 77 Based on scoring of all episodes and MTQ. All queens could score up to 10 in MTQ and final, all other eps were 25 points. A lipsinc win = 1 bonus point.

My quiet week for Feeder is getting too busy 😭😭😭

Have I been watching something else...? To me, Blu has come across as the most consistently brilliant across the season. This week is the first week they shouldn't have been top 3... And even then, there was practically nothing between Blu, Janey, and Juju, to me. Likewise, Mo hasn't had a bad week... But has never really excelled until this week. They're the only viable winners in my eyes. Baga's been easily the worst across the season... Have no idea what the judges have been watching. Aside from the lipsync... And IDENTICAL track record to Blu... REALLY?!

This week: 01 | Mo Heart 02 | Jujubee 03 | Janey Jacké 04 | Blu Hydrangea 05 | Baga Chipz Overall: 01 | Blu Hydrangea (81.48%, 110pts) 02 | Pangina Heals (80.00%, 88pts) 03 | Jimbo (80.00%, 68pts) 04 | Janey Jacké (75.56%, 102pts) 05 | Mo Heart (74.07%, 100pts) 06 | Lemon (68.57%, 24pts) 07 | Cheryl Hole (63.33%, 38pts) 08 | Jujubee (62.96%, 85pts) 09 | Baga Chipz (51.11%, 69pts)

Week 6! 01 | Baga Chipz 02 | Blu Hydrangea 03 | Mo Heart 04 | Pangina Heals 05 | Jujubee 06 | Janey Jacké

Week 3: 1 | Janey Jacké 2 | Pangina Heals 3 | Blu Hydrangea 4 | Jujubee 5 | Mo Heart (would be 4th, if not for that awful reading challenge...) 6 | Jimbo 7 | Baga Chipz

Week 1 (think): 1 | Jimbo 2 | Pangina Heels 3 | Blu Hydrangea 4 | Cheryl Hole 5 | Baga Chipz 6 | Janey Jacké 7 | Monique Heart 8 | Jujubee 9 | Lemon Week 2: 1 | Jimbo 2 | Janey Jacké 3 | Pangina Heels 4 | Blu Hydrangea 5 | Monique Heart 6 | Jujubee 7 | Cheryl Hole 8 | Baga Chipz Overall: 1 | Jimbo 2 | Pangina Heels 3 | Blu Hydrangea 4 | Janey Jacké 5 | Monique Heart 6 | Cheryl Hole 7 | Jujubee 8 | Baga Chipz 9 | Lemon

Mostly agreed on the Juju comments here... I love her to pieces, but when she walks out in that (supposedly cat) dress, I said "no Juju, that's not enough...". I think they've kept her in to keep US fans interested, not really understanding that she would be the draw to the series, and people would carry on watching and be GRATEFUL someone doing a half-arsed job has (correctly) been eliminated. There's no reason why any of these queens wouldn't appeal to US viewers (particularly the very specific demographic that Drag Race caters to [i'd be surprised if most US subscribers to WOW for Drag Race hadn't bothered with all the English speaking versions, at least]). THAT Said... Simply 'not bringing it' wasn't enough for bottom two, for me, this week... That should be reserved for Baga (especially) and Cheryl's hideous looks. 😂 I was convinced on a Blu/Monique top two until the last look. I think tops were just about right... Jimbo clearly won. Monique/Blu/Pangina/Janey all were solid with notable highs and drawbacks! Blu's doing a solid job so far, and I don't think she's gonna do a bad look, so if she falters it'll be purely challenge based.

For me... Pre-lipsync, I'd go: Jimbo Pangina/Blu (better runway/better performance) Then the rest as a tussle for bottom two. :lol: Though I actually really enjoyed all! Monique had the worst 'act', but probably one of the best looks... Baga's was a decent act (I found it tacky, but entertaining), but the runway was easily the worst. I think I'd have placed Lemon and (maybe) Jujubee (as much as I love her) bottom...