Ghoulian

I certainly hope Australia end their qualifying drought, which they should especially with jury votes. The song isn’t really for me but the performance is great as expected.

Very strong from Denmark - think that’s the full package and could do very well.

Ah yes the phone torches moment! I did rather enjoy that from Latvia though and great vocals.

Enjoyed the Austrian song actually, though agree it might not stand out enough to avoid getting lost.

Cyprus do this sort of catchy poorly sung Latin stuff quite well. Not my thing though.

Yes Switzerland not hitting me sadly. :( 🇨🇭

Middle Eastern disaster bop (Yeah not really my thing)

This French entry is very good and well staged. It will surely storm the jury vote.

Not sure the switch up was quite enough to make me enjoy the Czechia song. I look forward to seeing him in The Pop Factor 3 though.

Luxembourg quite boring for me, as well as too similar to “Keeping Your Head Up”

Yep liking Romania a lot

Yeah Azerbaijan reminds me of some of their early 10s entries. She’s giving it welly but it’s a bit too dated.

Not sure what to make of Bulgaria - the song seems to have multiple personality disorder. I think I quite like it overall though.

Love the Club Nouveau bassline to “Only U”, but I’m not sure the rest of the song is as good as it could be. “Play” is a decent and well produced track though I got very bored of it at the time. Quite like the strings on “You Won’t Forget About Me” but can’t really get into it otherwise.

Wondering whether to use the BJSC voting system for this one so people can include 15 songs instead of 10. Any views?

Last day @Bror , @Jade and anyone else who wants to enter. We’re almost up to Eurovision numbers but we won’t do semi-finals.

I went for Pink - certainly felt bigger than its peak.

“Soda Pop” is over 950k in total sales now.

I’ve decided on 2 further vetoes, so there aren’t calls for justice for Justice. Both hundreds of millions of Spotify plays plus silver certified in the UK.

The best is if you can find the intersection point in the Venn diagram.

No real shocks there - there were 6 I thought were at risk and the 5 eliminations were all among them, Belgium being the one who made it. Not sure I’ve seen the first four in the running order all qualify before.

I had poppier taste back in 2010 and I liked “Beautiful Monster” and several of Ne-Yo’s hits a lot. Now my response to it is similar to yours - still pleasant enough. “OMG” is iconic in that it encapsulates the period so perfectly in so many ways and I can’t help feeling some nostalgia at it. But hardly a very good record.

Sounds a decent bet - also not sure about Estonia.

Ooh that Serbia closer was up my street!

Yes very strong song and vocals from Poland.