Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

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Moldova has concluded the first round of their selection where 59 became 40 became 59 after protests became 24 for the semifinal on March 11 and 13, 2014.  I suspect this list could be also the ranking order the jury made.... I'm partial to Vis and Ascultă-mă tăcere right now. Here is the list of the lucky 24: 1. Diana Brescan - Hallelujah 2. Margarita Ciorici – Vis 3. PARALELA 47 – Fragmente 4. Carolina Gorun – Turn the tide 5. Lucia S – Frozen 6. Curly – Your  Recovery 7. Ana Cernicova -  Dragostea divina 8. Rodica Olisevschi – Without you 9.  Alina Sorochina – Asculta-ma, tacere 10. Diana Staver – One and all 11. Vlad Ray – Freedom 12. Mikaella – Follow your dreams 13. Lana Lights – Solar wind 14. Aurel Chirtoaca – Urme de iubiri 15. EDICT – Forever 16. Cristina Scarlat – Wild Soul 17. Doinita Gherman – Energy 18. FLUX LIGHT – Never stop no 19. Felicia Dunaf – The Way I Do 20. Anna Gulko – Happy tomorrow 21. Dana Markitan – Queen of th...

And the songs keep on coming. Tonight also the 40 (chosen out of 61) Moldovan songs are online here . Included are also the songs that seem to be also in the running in Lithuania, thus breaking the rules over there. Then there's also a Adam what-do-you-want-from-me Lambert wannabe...Let's see how this ends.  Among the hopefuls there some familiar names and even some good songs! These 40 will have to perform their songs live for a jury that then picks up the 24 semifinalists. This takes place next Saturday, February 1, 2014. The semifinals wil take place on March 11 and 13, and the final on March 15. Two songs made me listen and enjoy them to the finishing notes, Margarita Ciorici's Vis , and Alina Sorochina's Ascultă-mă tăcere. Both ballads in Moldovan. They showed one can get good results even with that recipe so why not continue also this year?  UPDATE 30.1.2014:   Moldovan Tv has indeed made some mistakes and therefor accepts the already dropped 21 songs in...