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Kat's ESC Discourse S6 E19: From Genre To Genre 7 -- Dino Merlin, Love In Rewind (Bosnia-Herzegovina) This is such a hot mess??? But i love it?? It's just one big nostalgic feel-good folksy mess and I love it even though it confuses me. It sorta felt so...chill, you know? Relaxed, comfortable, not like a strategy but like he was just singing the song he liked. 6 -- Ell/Nikki, Running Scared (Azerbaijan) I don't totally hate this? Did it deserve to win, no. But do I hate it? No! I thought the staging in particular was very nice, it was very atmospheric and the camera angles made it seem like you were standing with them, were in on the drama with them, which was cool. I think what happened here was that there wasn't any one song that deserved the win, so voters were split between Sweden and Italy and a few others and this song ended up coming out on top because the votes were so split.

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Kat's ESC Discourse S5 E19: Mom 6 -- Pastora Soler, Quedate Conmigo (Spain) [Jana where do i put accents how do i Spain help] ok i LOVE THIS SONG alright Pastora has SUCH a strong voice and she's so good at being emotional and this is a great song and the staging only helped and i just have a lot of feelings about this song okay 5 -- Kaliopi, Crno I Belo (Macedonia) [Im too lazy to spell it out and i don't think Angelina or Ness are gonna fight me] al. RIGHT. As i have said before my Main Kink in a eurovision song is when it starts out rlly old and boring sounding and then it gets modern and AHH. also, this woman. kaliopi. let's talk for a minute about kaliopi. this woman. she can do these THINGS with her VOICE to which i,,, a humble zwischenfach,,, can only hope to aspire someday and be a True Soprano. this is pretty much something i'd want to sing if i ever went to eurovision except i can't go as high.

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Kat's ESC Discourse S4 E19: Marry Me 3 -- Margaret Berger, I Feed You My Love (Norway) Despite the awkward title, Margaret works it. She is a snow queen and she is powerful and she could kill me and i'd like it. Norway was probably trying to emulate her success with Agnete this year (blonde girl in white dress singing about being cold with blue themed staging), but there is only one Margaret Berger. And she is amazing. 2 -- Zlata Ognevich, Gravity (Ukraine) Yes, this is where my blog title comes from. With good fcking reason. I love her presence and most of her staging, her backing people are awesome, and the song itself sounds magical - and also it's a good song for me to sing, which endears the song to me even more.

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Kat’s ESC Discourse S3 E19: A Show Within The Show

1 – András Kállay Saunders, Running (Hungary) This song didn’t have much of a contest for my winner. András has such a great voice, it’s one of my favorite voices in this year’s competition. The staging was…wow. I can’t even begin to describe the awesomeness. Kicking over the chair at the beginning, the girl at the piano being - surprise! - part of the narrative, András’s role as the narrator dissolving when he suddenly steps into the story right at the end. This is a great song and it was geniusly staged, and honestly?? I can’t get enough of it. I just love the staging so much, ok? You don’t realize for a moment that it’s going to be a scene, you think the song will be András on a chair and a lady playing the piano. And then suddenly he stands and RUNS. The chair falls. She keeps playing. And then the chorus hits. The father walks on. The girl gets up, runs, hides. Cuts to András singing on the side as narrator. The scene plays out. She looks for love and gets nothing but violence in return. They fight. Play a mad game of chase. András as narrator can do nothing but watch. The song begins to climax, you think he’s about to get her and then - András is back in the story again, this time as the protector. It’s genius.

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Kat’s ESC Discourse S2 E20: Power Babes

2 – Aminata Savadogo, Love Injected (Latvia) YES AMINATA YOU GO. Her voice is so strong and flexible, her staging was beautiful (also some of my favorite staging), her song was absolutely poetic. Her dress looked like something spun from cotton candy or magic or something. I really love it.

1 – Maria-Elena Kyriakou, One Last Breath (Greece) This is such a great song. Her staging was simple and not overdone, she has a lovely voice, and her song is very musical theatre which is really my niche. I originally ranked this song in the 20s somewhere, but watching it the second time I realized how amazing she actually is.

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Kat's ESC Discourse S1 E19: Girl Power 6 -- Ira Losco, Walk On Water (Malta) YES IRA !!! deserved better ok all these songs deserved so much better! I love Ira's dress, she was showing just a little bit and I liked that for some reason idk why. Also I loved the staging and the dancer but I would have rather it been blue the whole time. I was fine with the floating head. I thought that Ira wasn't hitting all her notes necessarily but that she does sound very similar to Molly Petterson Hammar and that that was a really good collaboration!! It's a nicely composed song too, good job Molly and the other Swedish writers 5 -- Sanja Vučić, Goodbye (Shelter) [Serbia] My god. Sanja's voice is so strong, perfectly suited to her song (although the Serbian performance was better ngl). I love it and I wish that ZAA was on American iTunes. I want more of her. Now. Awesome message and also this song is very theatre-y so it's very my forte which is probably why I like it so much? Backup people were killing it. Excellently staged. Wasn't too sold on Sanja's outfit but I have no real complaints okay Sanja is queen of all