#and tbh other performances in jesc as well

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polish team really loves their special effects huh

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Ukraine - Indila with a mini-revolutionarist anthem, braid tails and a megaphone. Reminds me of some act with megaphone from another JESC year.

Portugal - Dated even by 00s JESC standarts. Nice couch on stage. Will flop

Kazakhstan - Woah woah woah, pipe down with the hype there. She might be good and all that but she is likely to be Sergey Lazarev of JESC 2018 - Slavic song that should win... but likely comes 3rd or so. Will this mean Australia’s safe bland ballad will come 2nd and Ukraine wins???? :OOOO (technically Kazakhstan should win in this case because she’s of similar origins as Jamala but screw it, Daneliya will downplay her Jamalaness with her Sergey.)

Albania - Cheap dance pop that didn’t stop Cyprus from ending bottom 1 last JESC. Could be the unfortunate case for Efi too - poor girl... So she’s likely to downplay her Nettaness (she’s already doing just that without giving us crazy - she just goes for the “not a toy” simile, color pink and... being a female) with her Nicolenicolaou-ness.

Russia - JESC Australia levels of safe - in fact not even Australia would want that. Malta would. I’m here for Anna subdueing everyone’s expectations and actually coming top 10 - unlike Julia, which flopped in the semi of the ESC’s this year, and a flop was coming to her regardless. Not the case here. Kids and teens will fancy Russia because it’s that kind of teen drama music you can pay attention to, unlike Portugal.

Netherlands - Love ballad #1, but actually IS a friendlier-for-kids-sounding love ballad. Call it a “childhood/teenage crush ballad” - it will probably suit it better. The staging is eww. Invite Alekseev for a duet so I can enjoy me some of “togeeeetheeeeeer foreeeeeehvAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH”.

Azerbaijan - Inattentive. Impatient. A glaze look in the eyes. Nah just kidding. It’s actually the “harmless spring blossom song #1″, and unlike the song coming up on this, it’s more “payable-attention-to” if you try hard enough to do so. Reminds me of their JESC 2013 entry and also a bit of Lithuania JESC 2011. Will flop. Sorry delegation ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Belarus - Nah it grew on me. Boyband material. Teengirls will eat this up, as long as they’re watching, which I doubt. Will probably steal a place from a song that deserves to do better, but won’t because... well, Belarus...

Ireland - A dance song demo that got stuck in 2012, hence that random dubstep. Cringy dancing, at least in their NF. If I see awkward staging of this song live today, I will immediately write this off as a total failure. P.S.: Ireland JESC 2017 deserved better

Serbia - Another flop, especially with being drawn after another flop - flop out-cancellation! Messy structure, bit too many keychanges, school concert level - the makings of a flop are there, unfortunately.

Italy - Love ballad #2. It is probably the “Tu canción” of JESC 2018 because these two might play their childhood crushing to wow the audience at how are they “so in love with each other” but if no one fell for Almaia, no one will fall for Marcissa either. Hvala ne. Also it sounds too adult (and slightly old-fashioned?) for them, and Spain 2018 was better (despite horrible costume choices and awkward on-stage chemistry). They’re not Vincenzo, they can’t work their weaknesses into strenghts just like him...

Australia - Well at least I like this one, no matter how safe and too polished this sounds. As much as I do though, she got pretty good makings of Dami Im of JESC 2018, which would be a crime for this contest because it shouldn’t be ESC 2.0! I believe the winner should be something with at least some of the childhood attained. Which this song is not really. Also most of the 2nd placers as of recently are truly bad tbh. Go back to haunt the ESC waters, safe Australian ballads, pretty pls

Georgia - TFW you want to drum‘n’bass but you don’t have the FL Studio/Ableton/Garageband equipment, so you use studio drums. Is a good song, won’t flop

Israel - Too... sophisticated for Junior Eurovision. Kids won’t get this.

France - Your average everyday radio pop from the likes of Felix Jaehn and Western Europe in general. Might do well but I wouldn’t hold my breath on this one

Macedonia - Beautiful but lacks cohesion and straightforward editing. Could be “Moj dom” of JESC 2018 - a ballad from mediocre country in top 10? No way!

Armenia - Gives me Netherlands JESC 2017 teas - radiotic dance stuff that will probably go for the fourth. Please steal some of the internet televotes from Netherlands.

Wales - Harmless spring blossom song #2, and unlike Azerbaijan, this one sounds sweeter... but even more harmless. :L She does not have a better gun to wow the audiences with than the dancers, which sucks because Lithuania 2018 is another song that relies on sounding sweet af, but the package somehow included someone close to her... maybe Manw should have been surrounded by her close friends as the dancers?? Or maybe they should’ve learned some staging lessons from Ryan O’Shaughnessy, who turned his harmless song into something magical because of certain performance details??????

Malta - I.N.O.F.F.E.N.S.I.V.E. Even blander than Australia this year. Especially with the lyrics. Come on, bring us some of “Not My Soul” and even “Diamonds” back. If this gets a higher position than at least few songs that deserve it, I will sue EBU

Poland - Latvia 2010 teas? Modern for its time, hyped, comes from a country that did rather badly in JESC for most of their participations. Hopefully it won’t flop though, just like “Viva La Dance”...