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When last I checked, Iolanda was not doing very well on the bookies' boards, even though I believe the song "Grito" to be top-10 material. The choreography at the Festival da Cançao does not fit the song. Too overdone for a song as emotional as that one. They need to get rid of that dance routine and replace it with something more subdued; or maybe get rid of the dancers entirely and utilize a CGI background that is appropriate for the song.

Methinks Kaleen should lose the guys, point-blank; and bring dancers, the lasers and the flashing lights! That video was so obviously un-rave-like, and should not be repeated on the Eurovision stage, if she wants to finish in the top 10!

Is it just my imagination, or is this year's Eurovision about to become one big rave revival? Here we have Olly Alexander (U.K.), Windows95man (Finland), Nemo (Switzerland), Kaleen (Austria) and Joost Klein (Netherlands), entertaining us with songs and music worthy of a 1990s rave party... ...On top of that, we have 1980s-style synthwave from Luna (Poland) and Nebulossa (Spain); not to mention some house from Hera Björk (Iceland) and art-pop from Mustii (Belgium). 🎛

Anticipation is so much more thrilling when you don't look or listen until it's the right time. Once again, as the national contests and internal selections came and went, I didn't listen to or watch a single song or video (or videoclip) until they established the performance order in the semifinals and I was ready to evaluate them... ...I started two Saturdays ago; and after one round of evaluations (I do 3 of these), my top 10 are the following: France, Croatia, Italy, Estonia, Norway, Ukraine, Portugal, Greece, Switzerland and Latvia. I don't know why Portugal is so low on the bookies' boards. Iolanda's "Grito" is reminiscent of Maro's "Saudade, Saudade".

Putin's henchmen knew exactly what they were aiming for and when.

And Loreen won without a single 12-point score from the televoters! All of her 12-point scores (14) came from the jury. Käärijä got two 12-point jury scores and 18 from the televoters! He got a televote point from every country and the world voters. He needed to be a lot closer on the jury side, though (I was counting on him to get at least 200), but he got no points from 14 juries.

10 minutes before Tvorchi took the stage, Russia launched a missile attack on their home city of Ternopil. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65586701

Well, once again, and for the 11th-straight contest (including the 2020 cancellation), I was entertained, and I will undoubtedly watch again.

And this year, nobody got goose-egged! Everyone got a point from the jury and the public.

I had a feeling we were going to see 2 countries with 500 points like in 2017.

185 for Israel! SWEDEN HAS IT! 243 POINTS!

There are 428 points remaining.

HOLY $#!+!!! 376 FOR FINLAND! He has 526! Loreen needs 187 to win.

Here we go. He needs a huge one.

NO WAY! 5 FOR SPAIN??!!