So at least I want to leave my comment after the show, about the songs and the controversies, which were so many this year!
Semifinal I:
This was the most hard semifinal, with many of the countries that usually go to the grand final. We had many countries that went to the grand final as usually: Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Sweden and Russia with all the controversies (more about the country's situation - the anti-gays laws and the situation with Ukraine).
Armenia, Hungary and Sweden were among the favourites since the beginning and their live performances in the tuesday's evening confirmed that. All well performed with strong voices creating interesting performances.
About Ukraine, I was a little desapointed before the great performance and especially the great singer and voice of Zlata. This song was more comercial and empty of content. However Mariya Yaremchuk deserved a place on the grand final.
Also Azerbaijan, even thought the lower popularity of the song, and the performance too simple and minimalist, deserved a place among the finalists. I really like Dilara's voice.
Now the special cases. In this semifinal we had two controversies that reached the final. First Russia. I can't find anything good on the song and on the performance. But for me the most strange thing was the fact that, being a country that created in the past so many anti-gay laws, wants to participate in the most unofficial gay event of the year, also inviting a gay to be on stage. Is Russia trying to show an image about the country different from the reality only to receive votes? Is Russia acting falsely? I think so.
And second Iceland. With an image of non-discrimination, using a performance a little bit confuse. However, even not being among the favourites of this semifinal, Iceland qualified for the saturday's final, despite almost all the predictions. Probably the energy was the key factor.
On the other side, the countries that (almost) never take part in the grand final. First San Marino, which was the big surprise. In the third attempt Valentina Monetta went to grand final. Many people said that after the last year's "great" song was inpossible for San Marino to achieve the grand final due to the political votes that would always put San Marino outside the grand final. But the fact is that, the good performance of Valentina was enough to put San Marino in the grand final for the first time.
The next country for the first time in the grand final was Montenegro. Like San Marino, everyone was saying that if this year Montenegro didn't achieve the grand final, it would neve be possible for this Balkan country. The performance and voice of Sergej were brilliant, which makes me to not understand the so low place in the grand final. Probably with many Balkan countries voting (but not present) in the final, the result would be different.
And finally a country that only last year went to the grand final. the Netherlands. With a song worse, in my oppinion, it was for me a big surprise when I saw the Netherlands as a finalist, and even more when the results were revealed showing that The Netherlands were placed in the first place both in teh juries and the the televoting. The duet have a great voice and the performance was very charismatic: these were the ingredients for the success.
For the countries that didn't advance for the grand final, the big surprises were Estonia and Portugal. Even with all the bad comments saying that Tanija made a bad copy of Euphoria, I always believed in the qualification of Estonia, which didn't occur due to the televoting. For my (amd many others) surprise, it didn't occur. And, even with all the bad comments in the home country, many were the people expecting the qualification of Portugal, which didn't occur due to the juries.
For the other countries, the result was the expected: Moldova sent a very confuse song, Albania made the terrible mistake to change the song to English and the latvian entry was too pathetic to be approved by the audience.
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