This was the semifinal with the most difficult predicitions, since only a few countries are used to make a presence in the grand final. I'm talking about Greece and Romania, which really advanced to the grand final, even thought I need to admit with weaker performances than usual. Especially Romania: there was lots of expectation about the duet Paula &Ovi, but I was very disapppointed with the performance. The same for Greece: I'm glad they changed the style, like last year, but I knew that the juries wouldn't rank the greek entry very high.
As for the other qualifiers, I was expecting the qualification of Norway (Carl really gave a great performance and brought lots of emotion for the stage), Poland (especially due to the public which appreciated such "happy" performance! I didn't like the english part, but it was very funny to see the performance) and Finland (due to the unique style in this semifinal and to the power and energy brought by the band).
As for the others, everything was unknow. Like the previous years Malta was unfairly benefited by juries and Belarus by the public. The first song was to simple and without a climax, and the second was to "plastic" and empty of emotions, and a little bit ridiculous.
I had two positive surprises: the qualification of Switzerland and Slovenia. I was happy for the qualification of these two countries, which rarely advance to the grand final. Both had great peformances on stage. And finally the controversial performance of Conchita. If at the beginning (weeks before the show) many expected a non-qualification of Austria, the tru was that his popularity was growing a lot. This allied to a great performance, put Austria in the grand final.
For the countries that didn't advance for the grand final, the biggest surprise was Israel. Everyone was expecting the qualification of Israel, and even with the bad choice of the dancers' choreography, Israel deserved the qualification due to the great vocals of Mei Finegold.
The Georgian song and performance were the worst before the semifinal and the performance on stage didn't help in anything.
I never understood the Lithuanian and Irish entries, especially the favouritism around the sencond one. The songs and the performances were to confused and even being both good singers, they didn't show their potential on stage that day.
And finally Macedonia. Even being also a good singer, the strange performance didn't help Macedonia to advance to the grand final.
Being a semifinal were almost everyone was a possible finalist, there wasn't big surprises, neither anything special to comment, except of course the non-qualification of Israel.
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