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and AKOE Scottish muppet who had France as certain winners after first rehearsal: Its much the same performance as we seen in Melodifestivalen. We also have 3 female backing
singers to bring in the extra vocal that was on the backing tape in Stockholm, I think it adds a nice dimension to the original a bit more organic. There are lots of close up shots on camera and silouttes with the lighting, I think it looks good on stage. Vocally it was ok as I think Loreen was holding back a bit and learned later her throat was not so good today. The male dancer enters from under the platform that Loreen performs on and the whole thing is very theatrical with a good energy between them both. The snow effect come from above again but is also on the backdrop and looks very effective. I still can see this having a big chance for Sweden this year. |
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I'd trust her view over keith's..... and that's saying something
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I think the other guys, whose name escapes me, has always spoke the most sense and been the most objective on AKOE.
Plenty were wrong about France. |
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Andrew. I rip into AKOE every year and then feel bad about it later. I enjoy their coverage and glad its available
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that's the one...and yes they do a great job with their coverage.
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Slovenia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJi2z6OCECU&feature=plcp Nice voice and a promising start, but by about 1 min I'm bored. |
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..and that's being generous.
Croatia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWpHLoRpT_Q&feature=plcp Another turgid ballad. Gawd this semi is hardwork |
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Georgia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHaeEypoYbs&feature=plcp   |
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Turkey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQUuFo-eVNY&feature=plcp the guys a decent performer. Pity about the song. |
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Estonia.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv1uDU6ORVc&feature=plcp Barry Manilow would be proud of this. Not a bad ballad to be fair. Lenna woz stil robbed. |
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quite a coup - Slovakia getting Axl Rose
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think it would be better to close your ears as well as your eyes
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Slovakia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVT3mW4e0U4&feature=plcp Guns 'n' Roses fans will like it. I'm not sure how many will be watching tho. Could well qualify, but I think georgia showed last year that there's a limit to how well a genuine rock track can do. |
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lol squares. On the same page again
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Is there more to come?
Sweden & Estonia best 2 for me. |
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Norway
Bosnia Lithuania |
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Bex's fav
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I actually quite like Lithuania - as long as he doesn't perform in that blindfold lol. He's a decent performer from what I have heard
Norway lol I somehow know its going to be car crash  |
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Oh dear. I'm going to have to disagree again. Lithuania is embarasingly bad.
Tho the fanboys did appear to enjoy it at the recent concerts. |
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Estonia with a late draw in the final could be interesting
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to be clear Norway isn't my favourite song Iceland or Romania take that depending on my mood. It is however the largest stake I have placed on any song so car crash would severely compromise my trading.
I think you know my reasons for backing it |
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yep I'd reckon if you like Spain you have to rate Estonia. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ oops nodded off there just typing Spain and Estonia
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 It wouldn't be on my ipod if I had one, but it's the best of todays ballads by a long way. Or yesterdays |
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Gavster from ESC bet Norway reaction lay lay lay lay
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hang on take that back thats not in regard to the rehearsal as he's just started
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Here's your boy.
Norway. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UssuXpE9w04&feature=plcp Vocal a little shakey. Especially in the verses. But not too bad. |
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Maybe a little more than shakey. He sings the chorus well, but the rest sounds very flat to my ears
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better than i was expecting tbf. Prefer it to last year's kn0bhead.
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yep, he's not as punchable as Eric.
The choreograhy very good without being too posey |
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9/2 Estonia top 10 my bet of the day
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I liked it but then I would. perfectly good rehearsal, good choreography, vocal more than adequate for this type of song. If you rated it beforehand no reason here to change your mind
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altho baldies have cut it after my bet
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Devils advocate but if Tooji had come out of Melodifestivlen would he be 2.8 now or shorter?
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True Bex. Certainly a long way from a carcrash.
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bexley - "I liked it but then I would. perfectly good rehearsal, good choreography, vocal more than adequate for this type of song. If you rated it beforehand no reason here to change your mind "
Pheeew, nice to come on here and read this after the comments leading up to it were causingme concern. This simply has to trade in the teens at some point. Goes against all laws of Eurovision physics if it doesn't!! Remember, Eric was around 30 in the betting as well at this stage last year.  |
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AKOE female: Tooji sings Stay for Norway this year. You cannot help but notice the Eric Saade resemblence here both in looks and in style of dancing and song. It is certainly a lively little number and for me Tooji is a better vocalist that Eric particularly when he is dancing. Having wondered what they were going to do on the stage during the gap in the song, i was put out of my suspense with some nicely times pyrotechnics to fill the gap (which is now much shorter than the studio version). He has 4 dancers on stage with him also providing vocals and one backing singer. The routine is the same as the national final but i must say i quite liked it. His vocals were a little off at the beginning of the run through that i heard but he got it together and i enjoyed it. If there is going to be a shock non qualifier then it could be this but hopefully he will go through to the final.
So a good write up mainy positives then suggests a shock non qualifier wtf. Not a hope in hell of this not qualifying with this draw and performance |
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and Akoe Andrew: Norway on next and this was another much anticipated Rehearsal today.
Tooji is on stage with the hoody on again and the stage is filled with ground fog. Two male , two female dancers and one male backing vocal accompany him. His vocal was slightly ropey in the starting of the song but did improve. There is a bit of pyro effect at the break in the song. The dance moves are slick but not too messy. This should qualify but if the vocals do not deliver on the night it could be borderline. muppets |
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oikitimes - maybe they just like verything leaves :)
Persian Prince is now on stage: The performance is very influenced by white strobe lights, dark tones and as the performance fires up, strong orange and fiery colours that represent the story of his song in many ways and are very appropriate to the theme of the entire contest, “Light Your Fire”. The choreography is very impressive with very complex moves and a pretty cool backflip to start up the performance by one of the backing singers. The dancing is quite close with a mixture of fast and slow moves, as well as some easy moves in the bridge that are designed to be done by people at home. In addition to the great lighting effects there are som pyros including a smoke covered stage at the beginning of the song to add to the songs middle-eastern, mystical flavours. |
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I'll quit with the Norway review links but all I can find are broadly positive
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Lithuania, not keen on the blindfold but quite a dramatic performance. Wasn't keen before but comes across a lot better live.
Sounds very much like Could It Be Magic in places tho (a lot of places tbh). |