It’s time for ‘Fanning’s Folly II – This time it’s personal‘ – and another one of those fancy little live blogs that OnEuropean visitors seem to have taken to their fabulous hearts this year. Tonight, I’ll be relaxing on my chaise longue, laptop in hand ready to give out about the second semi-final – which promises to be an even more confusing affair than the one we enjoyed together just two nights ago.
Join me at 8pm (UK) or 9pm (CET) and share your views. And if you’re here early, share your predictions in the comments box below.
Quick promotional message, I’m doing the Grand Final on Saturday too. Please join me.
[livedojo id=”3″]
[…] The first semi-final airs at 20:00 GMT (21:00 CET) tonight. Mo Fanning will be on hand to talk you through things with a Live Blog. […]
My prediction(in order of appearance):
Norway
Romania
Denmark
Moldova
The Netherlands
Georgia
Poland
Hungary
Sweden
Ukraine
In semi 1 I had to think who will stay out. In this semi I have to think who has more chances of qualifying. Some of the qualifiers will do that because someone has to, not because the song deserve to qualify.
Romania and Russia are both in the danger of missing out for the first time but I can’t see both of them missing. Romania seem to be doing better and Russia is not even trying.
Georgia is here as personal favourite.
Some of the songs(Latvia and Malta) are suffering from the running order. There are just squeezed between 2 entries that have more to offer.
Montenegro – He can sing this but is lacking in the charisma department
I’m here from the press centre but I won’t be posting much cos, show innit”
Norway-dreadful song, but he is a professional
Romania-strange staging concept, but she is excellent.Better than expected
Serbia – wailing it through and I think 2 of the female singers are a bit too low in the mix
My prediction – late because I got home from work at 7pm to find water coming through the ceiling downstairs, had the plumber round who can’t find the issue, and I’ve got to take a break at some point to call the insurance company 🙁
In decreasing order of likelihood:
Moldova
Sweden
Norway
Australia
Ukraine
Malta
Denmark
Hungary
Georgia
Netherlands
San Marino is naf. There are hidden backing singers involved.
The robots are just odd
Denmark – competent. No surprises there, but never expected anything else from them. Some of the camera shots are wrong
Russia – already shakey vocals from first moment. It really is bad when you try to hide your lead singer.
She has hard time singing and the backing singers are doing all the job
The Netherlands – a combination of a good song and awful fashion choice and awkward staging. The staging distract from the song
Australia – she looks like a drag queen and why is she alone on stage.
Vocals are competent and she is aided with the backing singers. she miss some notes here and there.
This is how you don’t stage this kind of song
Georgia – is lovely harmonies.Love this one
Poland – the lead singer is having problems with singing the first verse. In fact he has problems singing the whole song.
And for a mid up-tempo, it’s quite flat
Malta – for the first minute of the song, her face are lit in red- not a really a good choice.
It really is too busy and I don’t really get the story she is trying to tell
Hungary – not my kind of song and I can’t really judge of the notes they miss are part of the song or not
Your view on Malta is disappeared from the feed
What did I say? Probably something about it being a pretty poor song and even the staging can’t hide it?
Latvia – she misses some of the camera shots. red dress with a red background- bad choice, you are basically drawn in the decor. but she is point on vocals.
Sweden – Not singing on his own. In fact, it’s a case where you hear the backing singers more than him.
How come Sweden is trying to hide he is singing a live gig in an arena?
Montenegro – It’s a fine song and he is a fine singer but no charisma and no contact with the camera
Slovenia – vocals are good, something we should commend in this awful semi.
And it went all good until the “fake” break. That was totally unnecessary
Ukraine – diction is not good. Vocals are ok.
Can someone explain me how the whole staging has anything to do with the song?
Walking under ladders = bad luck. Waking in a coffin, the stairs catching fire as you play the piano and an eye infection = bad day.
7 out 10, worse than the first semi.
Romania and Russia are out for the first time. Ukraine is the last country remain with 100% qualification record.
Serbia – I don’t think anyone was expecting this one to go through.
Again – 6 from 1st half and 4 from 2nd half
BTW – according to the Dutch commentators, 2 of Tuesday’s qualifiers, qualified with the assistance of the televoters