Sabrewulf

Brilliant 1. Norway: Margaret Berger - I Feed You My Love 2. The Netherlands: Anouk - Birds 3. Israel: Moran Mazor - Rak bishvilo Great 4. Spain: ESDM - El Sueño De Morfeo - Contigo Hasta el Final 5. Ukraine: Zlata Ognevich - Gravity Good 6. Ireland: Ryan Dolan - Only Love Survives 7. Bulgaria: Elitsa & Stoyan - Samo Shampioni 8. Iceland: Eyþór Ingi Gunnlaugsson - Eg a Lif 9. San Marino: Valentina Monetta - Crisalide 10. Slovenia: Hannah Mancini - Straight Into Love 11. Belarus: Alyona Lanskaya - Solayoh 12. Austria: Natalia Kelly - Shine 13. Hungary: ByeAlex - Kedvesem 14. Greece: Alchohol Is Free - Koza Mostra feat. Agathonas 15. Montenegro: Who See - Igranka 16. United Kingdom: Bonnie Tyler - Believe in Me 17. Sweden: Robin Stjernberg - You 18. Denmark: Emmelie de Forest - Only Teardrops Average 19. Serbia: Moje 3 - Ljubav je svuda 20. Finland: Krista Siegfrids - Marry Me 21. Cyprus: Despoina Olympiou - An Me Thimase 22. Germany: Cascada - Glorious 23. Armenia: Gor Sujyan - Lonely Planet 24. Estonia: Birgit Õigemeel - Et uus saaks alguse 25. Albania: Adrian Lulgjuraj & Bledar Sejko - Identitet Poor 26. Switzerland: Heilsarmee - You and Me 27. Russia: Dina Garipova - What If 28. Lithuania: Andrius Pojavis - Something 29. Croatia: Klapa s Mora - Mižerja 30. Macedonia: Lozano & Esma - Pred da se razdeni 31. Azerbaijan: Farid Mammadov - Hold Me 32. France: Amandine Bourgeois - L'enfer et moi 33. Georgia: Nodi Tatishvili & Sophie Gelovani - Waterfall 34. Latvia: PeR - Here We Go Awful 35. Romania: Cezar - It's My Life 36. Belgium: Roberto Bellarose - Love Kills 37. Malta: Gianluca Bezzina - Tomorrow I feel like the hype for Denmark has fallen flat for me. I'm going off the song very fast. (I think I remember saying ages ago it was repetitive and that's starting to show now)

I'm kinda divided on this. Don't really like the rap parts but I like the parts from Nina Zizic. Might grow on me. Better than last year anyway.

Heard the song the other day. It's very dull and forgettable. There's far better ballads already in the contest. Was hoping for an uptempo song from them. :(

Brilliant 1. Norway: Margaret Berger - I Feed You My Love 2. The Netherlands: Anouk - Birds 3. Israel: Moran Mazor - Rak bishvilo Great 4. Spain: ESDM - El Sueño De Morfeo - Contigo Hasta el Final 5. Ukraine: Zlata Ognevich - Gravity Good 6. Ireland: Ryan Dolan - Only Love Survives 7. Iceland: Eyþór Ingi Gunnlaugsson - Eg a Lif 8. Bulgaria: Elitsa & Stoyan - Samo Shampioni 9. Austria: Natalia Kelly - Shine 10. Slovenia: Hannah Mancini - Straight Into Love 11. Denmark: Emmelie de Forest - Only Teardrops 12. Greece: Alchohol Is Free - Koza Mostra feat. Agathonas 13. Belarus: Alyona Lanskaya - Solayoh 14. Hungary: ByeAlex - Kedvesem Average 15. United Kingdom: Bonnie Tyler - Believe in Me 16. Serbia: Moje 3 - Ljubav je svuda 17. Sweden: Robin Stjernberg - You 18. Finland: Krista Siegfrids - Marry Me 19. Germany: Cascada - Glorious 20. Armenia: Gor Sujyan - Lonely Planet 21. Cyprus: Despoina Olympiou - An Me Thimase 22. Estonia: Birgit Õigemeel - Et uus saaks alguse 23. Albania: Adrian Lulgjuraj & Bledar Sejko - Identitet 24. Russia: Dina Garipova - What If Poor 25. Switzerland: Heilsarmee - You and Me 26. Croatia: Klapa s Mora - Mižerja 27. Georgia: Nodi Tatishvili & Sophie Gelovani - Waterfall 28. Latvia: PeR - Here We Go 29. Lithuania: Andrius Pojavis - Something Awful 30. Romania: Cezar - It's My Life 31. Belgium: Roberto Bellarose - Love Kills 32. Malta: Gianluca Bezzina - Tomorrow

Happy with this, Samo Shampioni was my favourite of the three.....and the national final performance seems even better than the preview one. With this and the Netherlands song, this years Eurovision finally looks like it's on the up. Azerbaijan and Moldova to pick amazing songs now to top it off please.

I think the idea that the juries save the "good" songs and the public saves the "bad" songs isn't really correct. If I remember correctly Iceland wouldn't have qualified last year if we had been counting on just the juries.....same with the Netherlands last year it was actually the juries that ruined them. With the voting change it really seems like a song will need the support from both the public and the juries, so if Netherland flops in either one there will be no Netherlands in the final. I'd like to think Birds stands out a little more than your typical ballad though.

I think it's more than a borderline qualifier. I actually like it a lot on first listen. I don't agree that it doesn't have the potential to be instant.....it's classiness is very apparent I think. The only thing I could really see working against it is that it's another slow tempo song....and it's among a lot of slow songs at the the start of the first semi. Aside from that it shouldn't have much trouble qualifying. (It hasn't got a whole of competition really) I don't think it'll actually win the contest but it should qualify easily enough. This is the brightest it has looked for the Netherlands in a long time.

Still, I think it could result in a situation where the winner isn't many peoples favourite. We'll see though. Making such a big change to the points system could make for a very unpredictable Eurovision this year at least.

Doesn't this new points system make it more likely for a song that both the public and juries are kinda "middling" on to win though? The favourites (from both public and the juries) will get shafted for some song that just happened to get a good similar score from both the juries and the public.....but that's hardly a good way to win. It's like saying your country won because neither the public or the juries hated it enough.

I don't really understand why they would give so much influence to the international juries. I wouldn't trust other countries to pick my entry that's for sure. It's practically begging for tactical voting.

I can only laugh. Look at the faces he's making. Bonkers. Could definitely see a DNQ for Romania now. Other countries like Russia and Ukraine have come close to not qualifying in recent years...so I can't see Romania being untouchable when they send rubbish.

You must be the prime example of a "grower" kind of song.

Happy Robin won over Ulrik at least. It's nice enough but nowhere near the epicness of Bed on Fire. :(

Oh dear, Tell the world I'm here is terrible. :( I would rather Robin win at this stage.

Gosh this voting is all over the place.

This falling song is incredibly boring. :/ Doesn't make any kind of impact.

To be honest those over the top entrances make me want to punch most of them. :lol:

Will the juries get behind Yohio though?

I'd be happy with either Bed On Fire or Heartbreak Hotel winning it. Not really interested in the other 8. (although admittedly there's one or two I haven't heard) I'm slightly more for Bed On Fire at the moment.

This was really catchy, it was popping into my head all day today. It was a pretty instant song and hard to forget. I had it at #12 on my rankings but it surely would have moved upwards. Shame, it seems like a lot of strange and silly decisions are being made this year.

Brilliant 1. Norway: Margaret Berger - I Feed You My Love 2. Israel: Moran Mazor - Rak bishvilo Great 3. Ukraine: Zlata Ognevich - Gravity Good 4. Ireland: Ryan Dolan - Only Love Survives 5. Spain: ESDM - El Sueño De Morfeo - Contigo Hasta el Final 6. Iceland: Eyþór Ingi Gunnlaugsson - Eg a Lif 7. Denmark: Emmelie de Forest - Only Teardrops 8. Austria: Natalia Kelly - Shine 9. Slovenia: Hannah Mancini - Straight Into Love 10. Greece: Alchohol Is Free - Koza Mostra feat. Agathonas Average 11. Germany: Cascada - Glorious 12. Macedonia: Lozano & Esma - Imperija 13. Hungary: ByeAlex - Kedvesem 14. United Kingdom: Bonnie Tyler - Believe in Me 15. Serbia: Moje 3 - Ljubav je svuda 16. Belarus: Alyona Lanskaya - Solayoh 17. Finland: Krista Siegfrids - Marry Me 18. Armenia: Gor Sujyan - Lonely Planet 19. Cyprus: Despoina Olympiou - An Me Thimase 20. Estonia: Birgit Õigemeel - Et uus saaks alguse 21. Albania: Adrian Lulgjuraj & Bledar Sejko - Identitet 22. Russia: Dina Garipova - What If Poor 23. Switzerland: Heilsarmee - You and Me 24. Bulgaria: Elitsa & Stoyan - Kismet 25. Georgia: Nodi Tatishvili & Sophie Gelovani - Waterfall 26. Croatia: Klapa s Mora - Mižerja 27. Latvia: PeR - Here We Go 28. Lithuania: Andrius Pojavis - Something Awful 29. Belgium: Roberto Bellarose - Love Kills 30. Malta: Gianluca Bezzina - Tomorrow I decided I would promote Norway and Israel to the top position, I'm loving those two.

Really happy to see my favourite win it. Not concerned about Forever at all, it was an underwhelming performance and would probably have kept Israel in the semis for another year. Also I believe Forever won the public vote by just 1%, not that convincing a victory. (Forever got 15% while Rak bishvilo and Toda La noche got 14% each.)

Did you hear that Kathleen has pulled out of the Israel national final. Apparently she heard judges were saying they weren't going to vote for her and accused them of favouritism. http://12points.tv/all-news/item/1663-kdam...ayter-withdraws To be honest I'm kinda happy because it means my favourite has more of a chance now....but I did like Kathleen's song.

I prefer Rhythm of Love. Neither songs are really up to much music wise, but at least Rhythm of Love was funky. This in comparison seems a little dull.

To be honest I'm usually not in favour of overturning televotes....but on the other hand it's not a good idea if your singer isn't fully behind the song. They need to sort that out. I agree with Elitsa, the song was the weakest of the three.