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At which point they put the request form out and half of them said “Forest, please. In blue”. It’s a good thing nobody in the press centre drinks, or we’d have a decent drinking game going on here.
Anyway, Switzerland’s Melanie Rene is performing Time To Shine in the middle of a forest. It’s blue. She is flanked by drummers, she’s strikingly attractive, she performs well, but it just ends up being The Eurovision equivalent of The Song That Goes Like This. It’s absolutely fine, there are just too many people doing similar things this year equally absolutely finely.
