Croatia - Daria Kinzer - Celebrate ****
This one went from Lahor by Jacques Houdek to Daria to Break a leg and finally Celebrate. I think I liked a bit more the original softer Lahor/Break a leg version. I didn't go crazy for this one at first but it has grown to be one of my favourites, a good mood old fashioned Eurovision entry. But as I have said before it's will battle it out with Hungary and may lose. Qualifier: With a lot of luck.
Albania - Aurela Gaçe - Feel the passion **
Albania often reworks its songs so much you hardly recognise them anymore after the work out but this time Feel the passion and Kenga ime sound pretty much the same only underlining the fact the English version has lost the feeling of the song. To me it sounds pretty boring now and the stars went down. Aurela though will propably give all on stage and judging the preview video will look stunning. Will it be enough to bring it to the final? Maybe not. Qualifier: Will struggle.
Belarus - Anastasiya Vinnikova - I love Belarus *
I love Belarus. I am Belarusian. Born in Belorussia. How come EBU is allowing this 3 minutes advertising spot for a dictator? He must be very happy and giggling to himself! I suspect the first entry was piloted so the Europe would hear not only one but two propaganda songs and the disqualification caused so much media time no money could buy. Forgetting the lyrics the song isn't that bad, with a hint of a national flavor. Add bad English and a poor brainwashed bimbo to sing it I hope they will score a flat zero. Oh no, hang on, then they would stay in history! Let them score 3 points from Russia and 2 from Ukraine so they come second to last and will be forgetten forever. Qualifier: Hell no!
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