Tonight: End of karaoke in Spain

Daniel Motiño Camúñez reports:

Tonight at 22.15 in TVE the last semifinal of Destino Eurovisión will take place. The 10 semifinalists will perform again hits from Eurovision Song Contest, two of them will be picked by the jury (this scares me) and one from televoting. Actually whoever goes to the final, we still do not have a clue about which songs are going to be in the final, as each finalist will sing three songs, so that makes nine but TVE selected 20. What about the other 11? To add more confusion the singers will not sing three full songs! They will sing a snippet of each song and only one of them will sung completely and compete in the Big-3 final. Have someone ever seen something more uncertain? We complainted last year about Ukraine or even this year with Azerbaijan, but is this much better?

On a brigther note we already have the list of songs that will be performed tonight:
* Da igual: Marionetas en la cuerda (Puppet on the string)
* Don Johnsons: Hard Rock Hallelujah
* Auryn: Eres tú
* Mónica Guech: Love shine a light
* Gio: Dime
* Lucía Pérez: Boom-bang-a-bang
* David Sancho: Volare
* Melissa: Diva
* Esmeralda Grao: La fiesta terminó
* Sebas: What's another year

Sebas is picking for the first time a male song. He was chosen by the public but somehow I do not see him as Johnny Logan, last week he was more like Chiara style. Esmeralda Grao knows what to do again and she will perform a song that really fits her style, La Fiesta Terminó, I Just hope that the party will not be over for her tomorrow! Not that clever are Melissa (Diva) and Lucía Perez (Boom-bang-a-bang) choices that cannot really show their potential. The big favorites Auryn go for a classic Eres Tú. Gio keeps on doing it pop with Dime I am sure he will perform better than Beth, but who wouldn't? Will he also rap again? Monica Guech seems like the most interesting performance of the night. The girl has potential and she picked a song where she can show it. David Sancho, alias "The Crooner" goes again for a "Crooner" song, I am wondering what will he do in the final if there is no "Crooner" songs for him, while the both rock groups has picked different kind of songs, Don Johnsons keep their profile as rock with Hard Rock Hallelujah and Da Igual which recently gave a concert on his home town Reus which gather 1500 fans will perform their own Puppet on the String in Spanish. Having a look at this, I bet for Auryn, Esmeralda Grao and Sebas in the final.

The conclussion tonight at 22.15 live from rtve.es

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