It's time to kick of the usual reviews. The opinions are all mine and if I don't like some song it's simply just not my cup of tea so to speak. If I like something you dislike or hate, it's fine, too. No stresso, no need to be depresso it's just music and tastes that re diverse and therefor beautiful! I also try to predict their success come May a little bit but as we know once the staging is out everything may change, remember Fuego and Rise like a phoenix for example?
For this series I have grouped the songs in fours as usual as the songs may have similarities or something in common. Some fours came out beautifully, the others.... well not so well. Here comes the fourth part!
DENMARK - Sissal - Hallucination
I see this one's got some devoted fans out there but for me this does nothing much and have this at a borderline qualifier but more as NQ as Q but that's just me. Sissal deserves better song and most of all better staging and styling and if I have understood right all that will be changed for Basel, thank you for that! But the song is a bit of 13 in a dozen.
BELGIUM - Red Sebastian - Strobe lights
Another fan favorite that I don't get. He's got the voice but the song is noisy mess with tight falsettos that get into my nerves. I can imagine liking this around 3am in a club after a couple of drinks but as I don't do clubs and drinks anymore there's no space for this song in my life. Also somehoiw I feel the song has no structure, no ending, it just plays on from one point to another going anywhere. In Basel I suppose this will reach the final but end up middle of the right side of the scoreboard.
CYPRUS - Theo Evan - Shh
This one has a lot of same elements as Belgium with the bonus this has clear verses and chorus where as Belgium seems just to drag on the same. This said I have this as a NQ but thinking now this will end the semi-final... I may have to rethink this. Then again I do have some doubts about his vocal skills live, so.... Prove me wrong, Evan!
GERMANY - Abor & Tynna - Baller
Another noisy entry and another entry with doubts about the vocal performance live. This said it's nice to have Germany singing in German for a change. The national language thing is a trend and I'm loving it! Also siblings seems to be a thing as we have besides these Germans Iceland and Ukraine at least keeping in in the family. The song is what it is, kinda nice when hearing it and kinda catchy, too, but is it among my favorites in the end of the day? No. But it's refreshing as a German entry. Is it enough to drag Germany out of bottom five remains to be seen.....
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