It'll be interesting to see how the audience reacts to the recorded footage. Obviously Australia struggled last night, but they were in a very different situation anyway. Will the EBU add crowd noises to the feed for instance? A performance in a dead arena from the rehearsals might be awkward.
What a joy to wake up in a world where Azerbaijan has qualified for the grand finale. After last night performance, Mata Hari is the one for me.
I'd swap out Norway or Belgium for Croatia but overall I'm ok with the results. Cyprus, Malta, Ukraine, and Russia all gave me Top 5 tingles.
Malta performance is doing nothing on Youtube compared to the numbers of Russia, Ukraine, Cyprus, Azerbaijan, Israel… Talk about an overrated favourite.
True, and Malta will do well because she is a favourite and juries will be giving it points for being the favourite. But I still can’t understand the appeal!
For Lithuania you could barely hear the main singer with the backing vocals being so loud, and no one complained about that because *he’s a babe*.
And Serbia has been dominant on the platform cause they're extremely popular in Serbia that doesn't automatically transform into international votes. Youtube views have never been a reliable source for the votes.
I'm not complaining about anyone's backing track, I hope the new rule is here to stay, if anything. Efendi did what needed to be done!
^this. You can view your own country's video but you can't vote for them. This is why Russia always gets so many views.
Right, I'm going to admit I was wrong. Norway is actually the one, it's been in my head all day and I love it.
Jesus, poor dadi and his group. Hope everyone, especially his wife, is safe. Gutted they had to go through this.
YouTube views don’t mean anything. KEiiNO’s semi final performance got hardly any views and they got the highest amount of votes from the public out of everyone else in the final
I wonder them being first on, people just didn't notice? Incidentally, I know a guy who looks almost identical to the singer.
