I will start with the Eurovision 2011 videos today with my comments. My likes and dislikes. My predictions. That will be all wrong once again. Or then not...
Switzerland - Anna Rossinelli - In love for while **
This song has lost a lot of its charm since it was chosen last year. I did like it back then so should I trust more on my first impression of the song? But she really needs to work her stage presense and her movements or she ends up looking like a C-class Idols wannabe. Iceland has a litlte bit similar song that might end up sounding and looking like more voters-friendly come mid-May. Qualifier? No.
Ireland - Jedward - Lipstick ****
Now what to make of this? I'd love to hate it but when I listen to it I can't. A little bit the Verka-effect. I hated Verka with passion but by the ESC week I loved it. The guys seem to be a bit of a disaster vocally on stage but propably they manage to create a kind of hype and mediastorm in Germany we haven't seen since Dana International vol.1 and Lordi... Will it be enough?. Qualifier? Yes.
Hungary - Kati Wolf - What about my dreams? *****
This is my clear favourite this year. I absolutely adore the original Hungarian version but this works even when shorter and in mixed English. She is fantastic in a drag queen kind of a way and the boombastic choir towards the end gives me shivers. Qualifying will be difficult from the first semi but I trust Kati will charm the voters and fly to the final, shame that the songs by Croatia and Poland in the same genre are all in the same semi! This one's the best out of them though by far. Qualifier? I pray!
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