Eurovision: in preparation for Malmö 2013 (VI)

Moving to the South I will now talk about two countries that were 2 big surprises last year: one very positive but unfortunately another very negative.

SWITZERLAND AND HEILSARMEE

Let start with the biggest negative surprise of last year's festival. The swiss song and performance was one of the best acts last year in Baku. Unfortunately
This year Switzerland back to give us an unexpected choice and far from being the best in your music festival, is at least the most controversial.
Starting with the group's name 'Heilsarmee' that means "Salvation Army". This name has a strong political connotation and therefore will have to be changed before the festival, at the express request of the EBU. Moreover the group is associated with homophobia and xenophobic ideologies.
As for the group itself, the idea of ​​gathering in a group people of several generations is interesting. However, despite the music being different than usually is seen in Eurovision, I don't think that has sufficient capacity to attract juris and much less the public. The music does not have a single high moment than can make it more attractive.
As for the competition, this year Switzerland again had some interesting proposals that would be much better than the winner, including Nicolas Fraissinet and also Melissa. I thought this year Chiara Dubey was worse than last year, but still would be a better choice than the winners.
I think the idea of the decision only based on televoting not proved be the right one.
Of the countries that usually give (few) points to Switzerland will vote this year in the same semifinal in which it participates, Malta, Germany and Finland.
Given the current low quality of competition, there are still strong hopes of  Switzerland qualifies for the finals in Switzerland.

ALBANIA AND ADRIAN LULGJURAJ & BLEDAR SEJKO

Last year Albania was a big positive surprise in Eurovision. After the song and artist had been revealed, this country was always among the last palces in the opinion of most fans. But surprisingly, after the revelation of the official videoclip, the opinions started to change drastically. Rona eventually became a great success, qualifying for the final in 2nd place and finishing in 5th place in the grand final. In fact Albania submitted its best voice ever in the festival and this time the judges were on the side of Rona.
But I have my doubts that this year Albania will have the same success. Fans returned to quote this song very badly, but I can not believe they will receive much support on the part of juries. The music has an initial part relatively interesting, but the quality worsens when the singer starts singing and continues to deteriorate along the song. Unfortunately the competition also failed to match: the quality of the albanian musical festival was much lower than last year.
In the semifinal this year, Albania will have the three countries that usually give more points to it: Switzerland, Macedonia and Greece. This may be sufficient for the passage of Albania to final.