#every year i watch their performance at esc to remember him and the band even though their music is not my style

[gyunikum]

I went ahead and made a Hungarian playlist of mostly recent songs for anyone who's interested. I included songs with Hungarian lyrics only.

There are 94 songs in total, mostly rock and rap (these two genres seem to dominate the Hungarian music scene) and all of their subgenres, with some odds and trinkets in between.

There is also a spotify playlist with 6 less songs.

Fun fact: many of these artists have already or will perform at Sziget Festival.

[annathesimple]

Tidbits from the 1st semi-final of Vidbir (cause an actual summary from me would suck)

Even the beginning was rad, just listen how Andriy Danilko was announced, “His commentary is already as honest as it gets, but last year he outshined himself, a person who can tell you to go (fuck yourself) and don’t notice it - Andriy Danilko”

--- Host going like, “omg, Danilko, you have a different shirt today, will the same happen to your hat one day??”

---one time I actually agreed with our host was about organizators’ motto being “not a single Vidbir without Melovin” and hey, who can blame them?

--H: ¨and while at the other side of the screen Melovinators are losing their voices due to screaming, and someone at the backstage is being revived, I want to say that he was asked to participate as a guest, not as a participant¨ - bold of u to assume it will stop all the screaming

- Andriy Myhaylovych (Danilko), do you know that you are a human meme?   - Yeah, I am aware. Probably that’s just my destiny.

--Showcasing stickers with Danilko’s last year’s quotes, aka quality content

-- How would you describe our place in last years esc with one word? - Proper. (yeeee, mama Danilko being proud of his son)

--- said that after Mel was picked the administration of STB channel (that wasn’t really sure about him in fact) called him (Danilko) and said that he was right (about Mel)

--- “Hey!” by The Hypnotunez was a good fucking song, I will defend it with my own fists and swinging long hair, i mean, come on, they are singing ”why don’t you do like the bad girls do” while showing a funky running dinosaur on a screen, come onnnn. --- Letay finally showing Prityla his place by fighting back, my God, thank you so much! 

Well, that’s how it went: Letay performed, and in the end of his song he grabs a handfulll of baloons and flies above the stage

well

later Pritula was making a fun joke (tm): reminded me of 80's summer Olympics, I even wanted to sing "goodbye, Mishka, goodbye"

and Letay went like: tbh, i have missed out on those games, i am not that old

--- ohhhh, Danilko liked it ↑ a lot.

--- Just so You know “ЦеШо“ translates as “What’s that?” and I love them too. ---Another sweet thing? Danilko being all supportive of  “ЦеШо“ and saying “I really love the crazy ones”

--Host called “ЦеШо“ minions cause of their yellow outfits and they responded by making minion sounds every time he turned his back to them, to the point that it was freaking him out. Hell yeah!

---YUKO has brought elecrofolk and was just like: ~hell yeah~

--- Maruv:  “My fans were like, “maybe-maybe you will participate in Eurovision?? so i had to tense my ass and write another song.”

---Also, for the ones who was kinda disturbed by Maruv’s performance: they themselves describe it as an “intelligent provocation and a kind of trolling”

---Host: in 2016 you said “all that i wanted to take from this contest - i have”. --Maruv: thank you, I remember

--- Host: I think it would be fair to give the first word to a person that you (Maruv) tried your best for - Jamala” (*•̀ᴗ•́*)و ̑̑

--- Danilko had problems with his radio set but instead said “wait, I am having troubles with my radiation”

---Host while announcing Brunettes Shoots Blondes, ”the guys that have spent 3 years making a stuffed piano” (btw, that piano is from XIXth century, don’t mess with it)

---honestly, the Frankenstein piano should get its own name and be listed as another member of the band

--- That legendary moment with Danilko and G-spot talk that i just must translate later ٩( ᐛ )و

--- “Oh, we got a translator from Danilko-language?” no, Prytula (the last name of the host), everybody understands him, you are just being mean.

--Danilko literally going ‘“God, let him stay quiet” about Prytula. Also “Jamala - go tell him”.  Yeah, Go tell him!! ೕ(•̀ᴗ•́)

--Melovin talking a bit about himself (God, I need to translate it as well, don’t I?)

--Host trying to provoke Mel with his “how do u feel about your 17th place?” and Mel being like: what 17th? I got 7th, cause public vote is more important to me; judges won’t come to my concerts, people will.

--Host to Danilko, ”Once one famous sportsman said: if you are the 1st one - everybody remembers you, if you are 2nd - nobody remembers you. Melovin got 17th place. What is this result to you?” -- I will tell you - your sportsman is stupid, because everybody knows the 2nd one”

--”I will tell you - I was very proud of Melovin’s performance, Because that atmosphere of negativity that was aimed at him at the national selection.., and it’s not really cause of the jury, let’s say it was cause of some other people if to put it gently, and I did say it very gently. I was.. you know, I was calm watching the performance; before, during the day, I have sent him a text message. Have you got it, btw? - (Mel) A huge thank you for everything! - Then why haven’t you replied?? *Mel starts laughing* --I am joking, joking, he did reply. I was sitting and was so content with you being confident, you being calm, everything went smoothly. What place? Guys, every time, on every national selection I am trying to tell everybody - that doesn’t matter at all. What matters is the quality of your country’s performance. And it was very high quality, it was proper, it wasn’t like any other year. Good job! --”He was the first one to write to me after the performance. I adore you!”

[sole-cuore-amore-e-droga]

Tel Aviv 2019: Straight outta Estonia to Eurovision with a lowkey tribute to Avicii soundwise I guess

I’m not one of those people to go all their way out to overdefend Eesti Laul as “THE most diverse NF to ever exist songwise”, but even I was disappointed in this sudden rush of radiofriendly pop music that I would rather refuse to describe if I had to endure any of them ever again all at once this year. Remember - Netta won with being CRAZY! Why can’t Estonia be CRAZY even more! Was this secretly a bigger demand from the new producers or so that Estonia would need to out-radiofriendly the Latvians whose goal actually was to find a good radiofriendly song that’s enough for qualification????

Also, I kind of wanted to watch Eesti Laul, but I haven’t really settled with it, as I didn’t have enough patience to watch it one time it wasn’t on Saturday (!!). Even with Eesti Laul usually taking the live tweets from foreign fans into account and displaying some of them on the national Estonian television for good measure. And often showcasing their weirdness through crude animations every so often. But I already saw my Twitter timeline being full of that stuff, and for that I’m happy.

I did have some favourites despite being tired of all this pop stuff, and one of them was the ever-so-gender-ambiguous INGER (I say so cuz I thought it was a guy, turns out it’s a she, yeah), and I kind of wanted to see her win after the lowkey last minute interest towards her? But the televote didn’t seem to want any of it during the final public say, and didn’t even want Kerli (not the Spirit Animal Kerli) through despite of her being “hot” (are we now choosing ESC NF winners based on their looks??? tighten up ffs). Instead the final’s televote thought it’d be a good idea to fuck up the international jury’s expectations by putting through an act that got 2(!!!!!) finalised points from them jurors overall and making it win the superfinal. That televote 12 the act got beforehand was just enough for the guy to last-minute qualify over another act of 14 overall points, and who knows, maybe if it wasn’t for that 12, the winner would’ve been someone else. But it didn’t and we have a last minute qualifier victory because televote superfinal is a thing.

And in the literal sense of the way Estonian minds thought their victor that was unfairly treated by the juries was a Swedish singer Victor Crone and his song “Storm”, which was written by the one and only Stig Rastafarian~ err I mean Rästa. Stig is one mythical human creature that never rests a minute without really wanting to appear in the Estonian delegation somewhere every year - whether as all by himself, with someone else, as a songwriter for someone else, or even as part of a band (remember Traffic, anyone? Now that I think of it, the whole band looks like a puppet-act just for Stig to get to Eurovision and the other band members didn’t even want any of it in the first place). Just exactly what is Stig’s aim here? To "take it back to Tallinn”? To meet new people in Europe because he’s too lazy to travel otherwise? To boast about the many Estonian entries he contributed to? Beats me.

That and Victor Crone being Swedish, therefore a man more suited to Melodifestivalen (where he actually once participated in) and only on Eesti Laul because Stig really wanted to save his voice for this one and tag some randomer along with him just for the sake of yearly input to Eesti Laul. Well, at least Victor is historically joining Sahlene and Sandra Oxenryd as “a Swede represending Estonia for a year because what do we know for the Estonians that weren’t chosen instead”. Let’s check his song out.

First and foremost, as the title obviously states, the song reminds me of the late Avicii’s music style, especially around 2012-2013, when he was just starting to get bigger post-”Levels”-release. Just with a bit more singing surrounding the song because... well, maybe to fill up the song some more in order to not look awkward on stage during an instrumental part of the drop being as long as would be one you hear on the radio.

Then he has this easy-listening generic male radio voice that the audiences can not necessarily reasonate with, but it’s memorable, together with the chorus, whose purpose is to be memorable - you don’t need no message that’s special, you just need a melody to hum in your head for the next few weeks, and that’s basically what Stig was able to achieve with this little ditty. Then there’s the amazingly easy song structure: verse - chorus - verse - (extended) chorus - bridge - chorus (+ song ending). That’s a structure that works on basic songs to make them more user-consumption-friendly and not too overbearingly dragged out. And I enjoy it, just like I did “Light Me Up” last year, which was also sung by a mediocre-live-vocalist-Swede that could have easily ended up 6th in Melodifestivalen edition with such song, sadly. I do acknowledge that it’s basic, but I enjoy it.

The problem the Eurofandom finds with this song is that it’s too basic of a song from Eesti, Victor’s proven himself to be a dull live singer, and the chorus rhymes “like this” with “like this”, and all the self-rhymes are automatically shite. And it’s fine if a song I like has its flaws, but it automatically worries me that its live potential is automatically down the drain because of the singer’s lack of vocal compassion or strenght. That begs the question, why choosing THAT kind of song if it’s totally going to underperform live in Eurovision if the singer wasn’t sick in the NF at the time???

...oh I get it now, you Estonians must have thought Stig deserves another year in the Estonian greenroom. Or you found Victor hot. Or you find it great that a song about a storm actually was originally staged to look like Victor’s in a storm. At least for the televiewers’ eye. Because all that they see in the real arenas is the singers’ backs if they don’t turn around in time.

With visuals like these, why even need a music video! (except that there already is one, look at the beginning of the review)

All in all, all condiments are there: just the sugar, spice and everything nice there’s needed for a song like this to break a fandom like this. You can practically smell the Hesburger grease from this song. I don’t care if that’s a bad thing - if you like the song, that’s fine, just shut up and enjoy... but if you dislike it, welp, there’s no way I can change your mind then.

And a random backing singer. Not that she’s helpful as the one for Ott Lepland or anything, she just strikes like thunder and leaves no lasting impact whatsoever.

Greta Salóme’s imaginary cousin, is that you????

Now excuse me while I contradict and repeat myself some more in the next few paragraphs:

Approval factor: As you might have seen me shading Elina a lot last year, I can safely say that at last I’m spared from her vocal practice entrapped in a porcelain-and-silk dressing!!! I like “Storm” myself so I’ll sheepishly approve the hell out of it, lolol. :-)

Follow-up factor: I would be lying if I didn’t say that after a risky-ish way to get all out opera and then coming back to a safe song after doing well with that opera number weren’t a complete nosedive into an empty pool. Subjectively it flows way better for me, but objectively, and the same could be, once again, said for Eesti Lawl [sic] 2019, it is rather interesting of a letdown? But hey, maybe it was finally time for the Estonians to chillax a bit and cave in to send an Estonian-Swedish pop number after the opera stuff, after the 80s synthpop stuff, after the smooth and slightly orchestrated and a little bluesy number, and heart-grabbing ballads... just so they could keep up their ‘variety’ in case Hungary runs out of ideas and starts sending cop-outs of themselves. They already did it with rehashing one artist and one lyrical idea already this year (the catch is that the father’s alive!), honestly. And oddly enough, they have yet to send something a little more modern/electro-influenced that appeals to the common crowd... (”Running” may not count because not everyone can relate, whereas there are more cases of broken-off love (as if in the other half being a heartbreaker or the first half missing the other half so much that they feel “incomplete” than abusive fathers. Just what I think there is? If I’m wrong I obviously expect to be @’ed in the replies section lol) For this conclusion though I’ll say that my opinion says it’s a ‘’’decent’’’ follow up, but for Eurofans, it’s not very much so of such, idk.

Qualification factor: you may think it’s dead while going to perform in between the more badass entries AND mediocre live vocals, but it won’t at least be the worst Stig entry to ever place - around 14th in the semi at the very worst and maybe in the lower half of top 10 at very best imo. Nothing more, nothing less.

NATIONAL FINAL BONUS

I actually barely even bother with Eesti Laul since they don’t accept my Twitter comments live on their television anyways. Say, were there any Twitter comments live on their television this year? No one on Twitter boasted about it if they saw theirs from what I’ve seen, but what I’ve definitely found from the eager Eesti Laul watchers were some casual and usual Estonian oddities thrown on the broadcast, such as:

• The soft and warm but also random and deranged yearly transitional postcard animations (that were refered to as “crude” earlier in this review), which I commonly know now as “my last two braincells”. Even if the graphical theme itself of this year’s Ee-Lawl were oddly-shaped birds coming out in forms of letters, they didn’t really show up much in the broadcast I suppose, and the best fuckery with my mind this year definitely happened when I saw some of THOSE pop up on my Twitter timeline:

We now return to your regularly scheduled news programm~ wait why are you saying that the scheduled programme should be Eesti Laul

• Even if the most acts themselves weren’t that kooky musically, they were obviously interesting performance-wise. We were greeted with an impulsively quirky crazy cat lady Kaia Tamm who bemoaned the absence of the fluffy creatures in German somehow (you know Germany’s a terrible track-record keeper when the only song in German this year featured on Estonia and the only German in Eurovision this year was gonna be sung by an Ukrainian entrant if she was alowed to), as if a song in full Italian from last year wasn’t enough. Not only did she dress up as Alice in Wonderland with kitty ears, but her costumed dancers were entertaining, the violinist was FIRE and a cute large teddy bear looked cute on stage. Not to mention, someone have rightfully noticed that some costumed felines in the audience looked like as if they were to kill someone:

• Lumevärv too is an interesting thing. Never forgetting Lumevärv. This Inga woman, the fiery orangehead she was, used her 3 minutes on stage the best possible way with dancing with her back turned on at the audience and only looking at the camera, while millions of lights (which is sadly not what the songtitle "Milline päev" means) shone in the audience, creating an amazing mood.

• Hey everyone, the 10 years challenge is back! This time it’s with the violin virtuousess(???) Sandra Nurmsalu, the lead of Urban Symphony, who deserved much more than a 3rd place. Unfortunately the Estonians did not bring her back to get her desired revenge, which meant that they thought that they woodn’t need no magic tale fairy that’d grant them tree wishes and let her magic wand our out the wondrous [sic] sawdust. I’m already seeing myself out for how terrible this sounded. And it’s a bit saddening about this not doing as well as some hoped, considering she would have brough out the new and the better Jacques Houdek teas:

• Other favourite act of mine from this year, besides the aforementioned “ever-so-gender-ambiguous-looking INGER” with her indie-folk jingle “Coming Home”, was the charming disco-haired Sissi Nylia Benita with a wholesomely radio bop “Strong”, and they both actually looked like they stood a chance in the superfinal vote-up now that the actual Eesti Laul fan favourites, pretty cute pop boys like piano-indie-pop-driven Stefan and electro-pop-and-Kirkorov-driven Uku Suviste, were not receiving enough support by the juries I guess??? I’ll show a video to INGER if anything and link you all to the rest so you could judge these young and beautiful souls to yourselves in a way!

• Other note-worthy acts include another song about the notorious instrument horsefly in Ee-Lawl’s history that stood even less chance than “Parmupillihullus” but is still fun regardless, and the united forces of Tanja (EE 2014) and Birgit (EE 2013) trying to compose a bigband talk show anthem and dedicating the lyrics for them being ladies with their high heels out on. And honestly, that’s all I’m gonna talk of acts-wise because most other songs were THAT of a radiofriendly-radio-filler that they don’t warrant anything else exciting for me to say.

• No but for real, the voting to the superfinal was completely off-rails. Instead of Victor, juries were there to support that Kerli woman that wasn’t from 2017 (and her soft acoustic song too), as well as Sissi and INGER (but you already know that because I barely read my write-ups before I finish them, hence lots of redundancy). At least that’s all to my knowledge. But everything definitely changed when the televote attacked! And turned the top 3 all male, lol. This voting was rather random simply because the juries didn’t really love Victor, but it definitely took the televote to convince them that “lol Victor is definitely worth of Eurovision!!! screw that he’s non-Estonian!!!” (the difference is that Victor doesn’t have a big social media following unlike Bilal and didn’t win an obnoxiously people-powered talent show unlike USNK from A Dal 2018 - it’s just that he’s more backed by Stig Rästa, and Stig is love, Stig is life.) Honestly, I am all up for unpredictable voting, but if it looks unpleasant to me, then I feel like tuning out.

We’re over with this write-up, thank-fuck-fully, so that you won’t need to hear me lamenting how supposedly cheap “Storm” is ever again. But before that I will have to leave you with some Eurovision 2019 facts coming on: Estonian delegation can be lucky for once - instead of having had to panic for spending an egregious amount of money for a staging detail, this year they don’t have to worry, as the organizers were so shook by Victor’s stormy sky effect, they offered to pay for it themselves!!! Crazy, huh??? (reported for favouritism)

And now I’m done. And we’re moving on to another review and I end up wishing Victor Crone the every best of luck out there. Storm out with a good time well spent! (Whatever that might mean.)

[bbcblackjack]

Soo my dear friend @yukiakaren did made me do this :D my answers are under read more :)! She saw AlexESCRomania’s video on YouTube of this challenge made by @escshane on Instagram.

Day 1: Favorite ESC song of 2022: Okay so Italy - Mahmood&Blanco - Brividi is like my top fave! I just loved it since Sanremo and it just keeps getting better at each listening. 

Day 2: Least favorite ESC song of 2022: Latvia - Citi Zēni - Eat Your Salad   Lyrics doesn’t really make it for me. I like sound and guys seems super nice but yeah song is no for me.

Day 3: Most underrated ESC song of 2022: Super duper easy answer: Azerbaijan - Nadir Rustämil - Fade To Black It’s literally best ballad of the year. Also Nadir have such a strong vocals like wow!! 

Day 4: Most overrated ESC song of 2022: Super easy to say again Sweden - Cornelia Jakobs - Hold Me Closer So basically it feels super Swedish, like they make high quality music every year. I’m not gonna deny it, but like it doesn’t make me feel anything? It has good production and good singer.

Day 5: Biggest grower of ESC 2022: I have to say it is Slovenia - LPS - Disco Like first I didn’t even remember such a song existed, but slowly it has grown on me and I honestly kinda like it!

Day 6: ESC 2022 song that makes you happy: Spain - Chanel - Slowmo I love latin vibes and it makes me want to dance! It just makes me happy because of that. 

Day 7: ESC 2022 song that maked you cry: I do’t cry easily but I have to say  Italy - Mahmood&Blanco - Brividi. When they did perform it at Sanremo I got shivers and tears in my eyes.  

Day 8: ESC 2022 song that needs to be played loud: I have to say Estonia - Stefan - Hope, I don’t even know why but I feel this song is something which deserved to be played out loud!!!

Day 9: ESC 2022 song that gives you inspiration: Inspiration for me gives  Estonia - Stefan - Hope

Day 10: Best male vocal of ESC 2022: Okay gonna have to say Azerbaijan - Nadir Rustämil - Fade To Black

Day 11: Best female vocal of ESC 2022: North Macedonia - Andrea - Circles, I just vibe with her sound! 

Day 12: A country that surprised you: I have to say it is UK - Sam Ryder - Space Man! I never thought UK would really send such a good song which can end up in top 10! 

Day 13: A country that disappointed you: Switzerland - Marius Bear - Boys Do Cry Last year their song was just so so good, so idk this feel like... nothing after that. I know we shouldn’t compare to last year but it is something which happens kinda automatically. 

Day 14: Favorite ESC 2022 duo/band: Simply Italy - Mahmood&Blanco - Brividi

Day 15: ESC 2022 song that makes you dance: Because I meantioned Spain earlier I’ll say Romania - WRS - Llamame

Day 16: Your ESC 2022 guilty pleasure: Well I don’t even understand concept of guilty pleasure so it’s always hard for me to reply to these, but I would say Norway - Subwoolfer - Give That Wolf A Banana

Day 17: Favorite Eurovision winner: Oh my god this question is so so hard. I love so many, but I need to say Russia 2008 - Dima Bilan - Believe. That song just means a lot to me. 

Day 18: Favorite Eurovision non-qualifier: Switzerland 2018 - Zibbz - Stones It should have qualified!! Like their stage and energy was just wow!!

Day 19: Favorite Nordic 2022 entry: I'll say Finland - The Rasmus - Jezebel

Day 20: Favorite Balkan 2022 entry: Favorite Balkan entry is queen herself Albania - Ronela Hajati - Sekret

Day 21: Favorite Eastern European 2022 entry: Ukraine - Kalush Orchestra - Stefania those lyrics and music! I just loove it!

Day 22: Favorite Western European 2022 entry: Umm maybe I’ll say Netherlands - S10 - De Diepte so I won’t say Italy 24/7 :’D

Day 23: Favorite song from 2022 national finals: Soo I don’t usually watch many nationals but I do watch melodifestivalen every year and Omar Rudberg - Moving Like That was absolutely my favorite, he didn’t go to finals but I’ll still say him ._.

Day 24: Favorite ESC 2022 national final: SANREMO!!!! I just loved it soo much. It was so much fun as well!

Day 25: ESC 2022 entry that is personal to you: Italy - Mahmood&Blanco - Brividi

Day 26: ESC 2022 song with best lyrics: Ukraine - Kalush Orchestra - Stefania

Day 27: Your ESC 2022 runner-up: Soo after Italy my second favorite would be Ukraine - Kalush Orchestra - Stefania

Day 28: ESC 2022 songs that describes how you currently feel: Austria - LUM!X feat. Pia Maria - Halo I’ve been in this constant hype for Eurovision for the past week already (watching fan channel streams daily, listening to Eurovision music 90% of the time and other good stuff like that), that’s why I’ll choose the hypest song of the punch. (Oh man, the post-Eurovision depression is gonna hit extremely hard this year, I can already imagine it…) < lol I just ended up leaving my friend’s @yukiakaren answer because it fits to me as  well ahahahah

Day 29: Biggest dark horse of ESC 2022: I would say it is UK, because no one really expected them to send good song but they did! And like general audience who doesn’t follow all Eurovision stuff will be blown away!!

Day 30: Country you think will win ESC 2022: I will say it is Ukraine or Italy

[sole-cuore-amore-e-droga]

current eurovision 2018... top 25 with the bookies #5

Fuck it I’mma expand on this.

My primary source of reason used to be Eurovision World but since I can’t hotlink their images without having it replaced with just their logo wanted to try Oddschecker analysis for a long time, today I’m going for them instead.

(Also my last overview of the odds was here)

Anyway I’mma start with the obvious: Israel. They’re still leading. Followed up by France who look like they’re taking up the Salvador effect this year against the Francesco effect. But this year I want neither to win, can you believe it? xD

Nor do I want Australia to win. Sure they sound fast food enough this year but she in a different context wouldn’t be memorable enough, trust me. Plus, I don’t want my tartare hater online friend from the States rejoice that plastic music can still win against different Eurovision genres. Pathetic :V

Now who I’d be fine with winning, like I said, it’s Bulgaria. The message is there. The song is something. Not sure about a one-year-later winner reprise effect but it might work... plus, most other countries that will do NFs next year can easily have their last winner do a reprise at some point of the show... but as this country’s into internal selections lately, there’d be no chance of that happening easy, simply because they haven’t won yet. Sorry Kristian and Poli fans :(

And back to the irritable winner scenarios. I’d drown in disappointment if Norway wins again. “Fairytale” was decent to win with, but “That’s How You Write a Song” is just something too cliché that wouldn’t work as the winning song... or would it? I can see the criteria working to him as well, oh noes :S Though would it be good in future winner medleys that Eurovision organizers love to stick in? Whatchu think? x)

More countries into one column please. Czech Republic went from 3rd to 6th quite easily. I am not sure if Mikolas’s injury had an impact on any of it but God I hope now. Doesn’t sound like an easy winner to me (mostly because I cannot imagine an epic choral version of “Lie to Me” that other winner countries do for their winning songs from a year before xD), but hoping Miki will just place well. Sweden is also an odd choice for a winner, mostly happening only because of their winning pattern every 3 years. Well if the winners of Eesti Laul and Sanremo could break any patterns this year then this would seem broken easily as well. Top 5 at most but that’s all, hopefully (probably will get just 5th because another Swede that seemed arrogant at first ended there as well xD). Plus, ESC is not a hitmachine so you don’t really need an extra relevant winner in their own career, or do you?

Their odds are really shifting up somehow into different areas. Spain holds the spot 8, although I’m not sure if the people from there are those that invest a lot in Almaia becoming THE ‘ganadores’ in their lovely neighbour country or there are people betting for the two to make the locals of their nation happy af. Would probably go with the former. Especially when their entry seems to be good again after Manel’s disaster (tbh I will still like ‘Do It for Your Lover’ better :V). And suddenly Saara from Finland shoots up to the 9th spot! Rejoiceful... I guess... no but seriously, WATCH her potentially getting 2nd again. Just WATCH. And to nicely close it off, Oddschecker is being nice to Italy for them to end up 10th. Yay Metamorians! You ghostbet well, but you still need some more skill! ^^

Though I mentioned I’ll expand my talks so here goes more than just 10 countries being talked about: Austria, Greece, The Netherlands, Cyprus, Belgium are countries in top 15 right now, and the last one of the bunch just feels like that it ‘echoes, echoes, it falls’... I suppose it’s just a matter of time before Sennek picks back up again in the odds though, as long as her stylists get fired immediately. :V The 14th place is an odd pick by somebody of betting tips preview, especially because “no one that cannot sing in tune has ever won” (the others might as well ask “but what about the 2011 winners” but not really they were). We’ll see about that though, although I don’t think they’re winning, and that would rather be a not well winning song for me... not because of my criteria but because they had much better songs in the past tbh.

Next 5, to complete off the current top 20: Denmark, Belarus, Portugal, Germany, Lithuania. #16 should sound like a winner but for some reason people are sleeping on it. Is it because of it being drawn in Semi 2? I call bullshit on that. Semi 2 NEEDS MORE LOVE. WHY CAN’T JESSICA GIVE SEMI 2 MORE LOVE. SHE GOT LOVE. #17... is definitely not a winner with that staging, but at least they hit the memorable department. #18 - heard some people ‘not minding a host country win again’ this year, but Cláudia is no Salvador, if anyone has a sob story this year then it’s her composer, and even she is lowkey relegated in the credits although a backing singer. #20 - lol no way we’re going to win, trust me xD Fast food lovers will kill Eurovision if a ballad wins it again and everyone sends ballads next year because ��oh so apparently simple ballads work every time now... thanks Salvador >:(’.

And I was too not arsed to talk about more countries today so I’ll cap it off with the 5 that make up the top 25. #21, Ukraine. Saw them more fondly received on Eurovision World, even moreso in top 20 (along with the fellow countryman Alekseev), and... yeah lol cool I guess but Mélovin is not seeming to bank on anything too winner-like and will end up being remembered as ‘that gothboy’, do y’all want that? #22, Russia. Lol no hell’s way it’s even going to do this well enough, although the final seems possible because it’s them, afterall they can’t not qualify, can they? Plus the staging will look so otherworldly that people will forget about Julia’s breeeeeeaaaaaking vocals. #23, United Kingdom. Do people just bet for them well enough just because there’s some sort of an inisible barrier that separates the easily non-qualifying plebs from the Big 5 + host nation deities? Cuz if so, then this song would be in like bottom 5 if a semifinal country sent it. Nothing against SuRie... it’s just that it’s creepy to see automatic qualifiers way above semifianl countries with their songs being generally ‘meh’ received. #24, and I shit you not, Hungary. Seriously! They just went up today! You might want to think I’m ghostbetting for AWS like mad but that just isn’t the truth because I’m too financially unable to put my future uni funds into the chances of finally getting everyon to Budapest for Eurovision. Besides, I might never even go to uni. Also it seems crazy to me about this situation because there’s no rehearsal yet... but I guess people start to finally get the hype vibe buzzing after all them pre-party performances that were done by the band. #25, just above their enemies nr. 1 - Azerbaijan. They also got featured in the site’s betting tips preview. For now I think they’d just be lucky enough to qualify, and that’s what they’ll do because their staging was received well enough, plus it’s THEM so of course you know they canNOT fail. I’d personally put them 30th to win though, sorry.

I’m so sorry for this tl;dr, I hope I will only be able to talk about less countries tomorrow or so. Take care y’all ^^