Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

The rehearsals are in full swing for the orchestra and the media has had their usual preview hearing of the entries and their comments, votes and critics are all over the Italian press. At the same time the betting odds are shaping up to determinate the favorites. Who are they? Will Achille Lauro finally enter the podium? Will he return to Eurovision?! Will Giorgia score another win? She's already got a perfect podium: 1st, 2nd and 3rd. Will the giant Olly (1,95m)  lift the trophy to new heights? First of all summing the various media comments the best scores overall went to Brunori Sas and Simone Cristicchi, followed by Giorgia, Lucio Corsi, Achille Lauro, Joan Thiele, Shablo & co, Willie Peyote, Noemi and Olly completing the Top-10.  The first two are probably getting the Critic's awards rather than the podium though. The betting odds in various sites seem to agree with the Top-10 almost completely as the Top-8 is the same for all when writing this and almost in same ord...

It's time. Every year this is hard, some years harder than the others but this year takes the prize. Out of 17 semi-final one entries each one is a possible qualifier, except Denmark, in either my prediction or in my own preference list. It's also harder than usual as I haven't been following that closely and haven't seen too many videos as usual and most performances are still a mystery to me on stage. Let's see better. I would say Ukraine, the Netherlands, Greece, Norway and Armenia are sure qualifiers. with Moldova and Portugal quite surely doing it. That's seven.Then we have Albania, Latvia and Lithuania that are fan favorites, but will juries and televoters fall for them? Albania is shouty show number with questionable rhythm changes and might end up way too chaotic for a general viewers. Besides history has proven angry ladies don't do well at Eurovision. Latvia is fun and colorful and great audience pleaser in the arena but does it work on telly? Lith...