Is this week!Semis are tonight and Thursday at 8pm on BBC Three.
UK are sending their best entry in a long time and stand a good chance of doing alright.
Ukraine are favourites, unsurprisingly, although the song isn't very good.
Personal favourites are Spain with the best slag banger since Cyprus 2019, and Iceland with an 80s-y female Fleet Foxes type thing (that's going to have to fight to qualify tonight). Both below for your viewing pleasure.
Ukraine's reward for winning will be not hosting it next year.
Wrote up some thoughts on each act in running order to gather my thoughts:
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Last edited by -james-; 14-05-2022 at 11:47 AM.
Bets please.
Posted in the betting thread.
Jury results come first, I think we should know pretty quickly how it's looking. If Ukraine are getting 7s and 8s from the first handful of countries, they've probably got it in the bag. 2s and 3s, game on.
Best guess at final standings:
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Just got in, what have I missed?
Fucking hell I remember these
The lead singer's kept in good nick for someone who must be in his 50s by now
Bit breathy is our Rasmus.
If Switzerland hit double figures an inquest needs to be launched.
Alternating between alright (relative to Eurovision standards) and shit so far. That Swiss song would probably work better if performed all out Tom Waits style.
France all over the show.
There are too many of them on stage here.
Not feeling any of the acts or songs yet.
I actually like France a lot.
France the best one yet, even though the individual parts don't really come together. But at least there were some catchy bits.
Get so far in the bin Norway.
The song is too plain here to match all the wackiness of everything else.
What the fuck?
What's wrong with you all, Norway was epic.
First year in a long time I won’t be watching with the Ukraine thing. Not worth watching a race when you already know the horse that wins. Haven’t even seen a song, no point.
Cool.
Gets good now.
What do the kids say? Edgelord?Originally Posted by Manc
And would you watch something where you already knew the winner you top kid scrote?
Mahmood's last Eurovision song (Soldi) was better. This is a bit shit.
Italy don't fancy hosting it again then.
Here we go.
Bit of blue for the dads now
Well played Spain.
Spain
My money looking safe. Ukraine can't match that.
They don’t need to.
They've not done the Dutch girl any favours with the scheduling here.
Decent effort from the Dutch.
Sexy > sympathy
This song is the worst thing to happen to Ukraine in 2022.
I can't tell if I love or hate it.
It’s 2022.
False gestures and waving a flag a bit so you’ve to do fuck all else > *
Where do you reckon UK are coming?
The production this year is by far the worst I can remember. Another reason to cheer for Sweden.
Even if they’d attached some meaningful bollock lyrics to something like Reichenem here then they could have sold it as something real for Ukraine, but the song is that terribly bad it will always just scream token. Did none of the feel good merchants think to check their song first?
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That German effort could be great but it's missing something and it falls short.
As low as ever I’d think. Neither side of that coin cares any more.
Lithuania with by far the best singer yet. Song's lacking something though.
I work with a Lithuanian bird that would get more points just standing there than this thing will get.
Dunno why you hated this Belgium effort, James. Racial?
Belgian effort is easily top 3 of what we've heard so far.
It hasn't been great thus far though.
Euphoria will never be topped
Janssens Euphoria
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