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Not sure if Land of DW qualifying makes me more or less hopeful for myself...! Shame for Dalisska, might be one that suffered from the alt field being too crowded - it did just miss out on points from me (ranked it 12th, it wasn't quite hitting me as much as songs of that style sometimes do but still a good one that I'd have liked to give a point or two ideally)

Freidland was quite a standout among the pop songs in semi 1 I thought! Willing it to be a first top 20 for them x

Vaskla's song was cute but did seem like one of the least likely to qualify from that semi unforch! twigs song was good as usual from her x

2 more gooduns from semi 2 there! (Greenfroze is a tune too - it had a more lighthearted sound to it than I expected given the song title (all of SKYND's song titles really) and the rather more dark atmosphere of their previous BJSC entry, although it's still pretty dark lyrically ofc) Oop at Mulgracia being out again, thought this was another decent entry from them (certainly better than the two previous CHINCHILLA entries for me). Good for Deandria though x ((have dropped some very high budget graphics in your PMs blacksquare :3))

Yay Mothertopia escaping the DNQ streak - pretty good sang x

The stage is set for Cheiron to have their HENGE / Devon Again moment in 190 x

Terra with the banger yay Willing Séyetana to click with me more in the final as it's currently stuck on 'cool vibe but not much to it' for me, well done Izzle nonetheless x (and not the tension video making a cameo ) Am about to get home so will quickly knock together some graphics for my reveal xox

I hope we may get a non-AI Kylienips entry soon oop (FWIW I thought this one was a lot more listenable than the previous one x) Also need to double check when I get home but I think that's the first time J00ps has got either 3 qualifiers in a row or 3 DNQs in a row for quite a few years! (WD x)

Yes, you qualified! (The results are hidden behind spoiler tags, you have to click on the 😮 x)

2 semi 1 essentials there ❤️ (I think The Drums' song has more pop appeal than Jim seems to be making out x)

Ennea and Elëdan <3

Jabjunaarain x

Make sure all of my bribe cheques go through pls x

I saw these leaked lyrics from the new Tater Tot song: "Ma ma pa pa pa perfect housewife"

Was hoping 'Where Is Gone?' might sneak in from its first partial day but still a decent start on Apple Music at least and good to see their other songs rising on Spotify (plus 'Roman Holiday' finally debuting, guessing it's not been far out for a little while considering its entry in the official top 100 the other week, still no idea why it's seemingly on SCR while 'I Love You' isn't but hey ho). It is a gorgeous song (I was probably always stanning it no matter what based on the artist names alone lbr) but I'm not sure it sounds like as big a hit as 'Marianne', hopefully it can chart decently though especially with their album being out for its first full week ofc, think I saw it had a vinyl release coming too but not sure when it's coming out. If it can be a new chart peak for ROSALÍA that's good enough for me!

I'm pretty sure Calum is fine, he was hounding me on Discord to submit something a mere couple of hours ago x (If I'm still in that is 😮) That was a while before you joined! Were you lurking here for years? x

Real ones remember the filter was originally 'iamspamamispamwhoamispam' and it was changed to 'iamspamspamami' after a failed attempt to remove the filter x (edit: I am apparently not a real one because it wasn't exactly that but something else slightly longer ddd) ((edit 2: it didn't have the last 'i', that was it xo))

He's had nearly 28 years to do that and hasn't managed it yet so I wouldn't hold my breath xo

Chappell does make a lot of sense for a remix for this song - not one of my absolute favourites from the album but a banger nonetheless and if this makes it a big hit then I'm not complaining x (though I will continue to sit and wait for 'maggots for brains' to assert itself as the true sleeper smash of the era)

So what you're saying is it's not going to #1?

My prediction was pretty close! I might be out when these start but will try and follow on my phone at least. I hope the fact my song sounded so out of place in this semi might have worked in its favour but we'll see, otherwise lol at the universe conspiring to return me to my seemingly natural state of DNQing this year x

What trickery

Taylor ratf***ing across multiple weeks would tend to do that yes xx

Ok so that makes it ok then!

Voted at 23:59 lolol There were a couple of songs among my top half of the semi that grew on me on second listen but also a couple that I liked a bit less so balanced out to still feeling about the same about it. x