Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

The individual rehearsals come to end today when the Big5 have their second technical rehearsals for 20 minutes each. Tomorrow it's time for the Turquoise Carpet and Welcome Party following Euroviison Village opening today as well. Next week is all about Dress rehearsals and live broadcasts. Today in their post-rehearsal press conferences the Big5 will draw out which half of the final they will perform. As we know Italy is already drawn to number 9. France draw first half, UK second half. Spain got first half and Germany as well.  Just like with the semi-finalists is spare you from any further comments and let the videos provided by eurovision.tv speak to themselves. Have fun! Mystical Chills Victorius Bootyliscious Casual

The time has come: Also the Big 5 countries have arrived and have had their first rehearsals on stage in Turin.  France brings the beat with dance and folk, black and gold wardrobe, a podium on stage. Add pyros, flames, floor graphics and flashing lights and even a wink from Alvan in the end. More is more! I still don't the appeal of this song and by no means this is a winner. Italy next with Eurovision 2019 runner up Mahmood wearing something he surely won't be wearing come Saturday I think with sunglasses, too. He flew in from Madrid concert last night and apparently didn't get any sleep in between. so..... Blanco on the other hand is having a concert in Florence tonight and wasn't present but there was a stand in. No pyros as they would really be unnecessary but there's smoke. And very simple backdrop with some great white lightning. Italy is closer than any country for a long time to do a double, but maybe this is still a bit too special for a winder European te...

Here we go again! Once again Blogilkar's home jury has sat through the songs and videos and voted from 1 to 10. This year the jury consisted of pre-teens, 20somethings, 30somethngs, 40somethings and 50somethings. Even a dog participated and went nuts for Romania but was not allowed to vote. Most of the jury members had not heard any of the songs beforehand, some not even the Finnish one.And yes, this jury didn't care for betting odds, fan favorites or wanks but only their own taste and first impression! I will be counting down from bottom to the top and  here are places 17-20.  Check out also places 21-24 here .  17. GERMANY - MALIK HARRIS - ROCKSTARS (Average score 6,00) Eminem without Dido? Heard before, modern yet very 90's at the same time. Somehow likable. I don't mind hearing this again, and again. Quite ok, a bit too slow at times. Not really sure how this will work on stage if done the German national final style..... 18. SAN MARINO - ACHILLE LAURO - STRIPPER (A...

In the end they chose the best one, even if for a moment or rather all through the radio pre-vote the runner ups were leading but tonight's vote turned it to Malik's favor. I believe he will get more than 12 points .... Conchita Wurst was there, Jamala came and sung 1944 in complete silence and people standing up, and Emily forgot her lyrics and messed it all up  and got 7 televoting points Germany 12 points results: 1. Malik Harris - Rockstars (radio 90 + televoting 118) 208 2. Mael & Jonas - I swear to God (106 + 79) 185 3. Nico Suabe & team Liebe - Hallo Welt (63 + 94) 157 4. Felicia Lu - Anxiety (74 + 65) 139 5. Eros Atomus - Alive (53 + 70) 123 6. Emily Roberts - Soap (46 + 7) 

Germany 12 points is quite a demanding title for the German national final show. They haven't gotten that many points as a total in 2021, 2017, 2016, 2015... And they have placed 25th, 25th, 4th, 25th, 26th and 27th in the past six editions. This year out of 944 submissions these six were picked up by a jury after an audition with 25 entries. Hooray to them as it really takes talent to get this kind of group of songs together.... Felicia Lu, Malik Harris or Emily Roberts should win, but none of them will most likely do any better than the previous German entries. Germany 25th again should be the name I guess.  Malik Harris - Rockstar ** I'm glad I had a quick listen of the songs already before so now I know this is one of the best ones, if not the best one of this lot. I don't know why I am thinking Eminem as this is all but, but..... I kinda like his voice. Maël & Jonas - I swear to God * Somehow the same mood continues here as  Malik. But this is more of the uninteres...