Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

Time has come also to find out who will represent Portugal in Liverpool's Eurovision song contest. Festival da Canção has went through the usual semi-finals (read more here and here ) and it's time for the grand final. The finalists are 13 instead of 12 as ín the first semi-final there was some hick up with Esse Povo's voting lines, and they were added to the line up for that. The favorites seem to be Mimicat, Ivandro and Edmundo Inácio, one of the open call winners in the line up. There will be 50/50 regional juries/televote. Here's my new take on the songs after initial reviews (links above), now with the stage performance effects added and maybe a couple of further listenings.  Cláudia Pascoal - Nasci Maria ** Already a rather confusing song has been staged to become even more confusing. It's colorful, a bit fun, a bit crazy and rather entertaining. Only that you forget about the song while you wonder what's happening next and what everything has to do with ...

Here we go with the second semi-final of Festival da cancao 2023. You can read my thought about the first semi-final here. Edmundo Inácio - A festa **** He's one of the open call qualifiers and I certainly want to join his party. Lovely arrangement and rhythm, very nice voice. Latin inspired but not in the usual banal way. I hope the live staging and performance will be good! The Happy Mess - O impossivel *** Again very nice but quite forgettable. Not much to say, enjoyable while it's playing. Teresinha Landeiro - Enquanto è tempo *** Very classic old school, beautiful. Timeless.  Bandua - Bandeiras *** Intriguing and interesting. Probably would suffer Telemóveis fate in Eurovision. But I like this a lot more, that was way too weird.  Bárbara Tinoco - Goodnight ** Why in English, why? Loses a lot becoming a song from any random national final anywhere. A song that doesn't bother the top of the scoreboard. Anywhere. Inés Apenas - Fim do mundo ** Another open call qualifier....