Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

Where to start? I'm trying to compose myself from the disaster I just witnessed moments ago. One country left to announce and yet no Finland , and then there comes ... Belgium! Ok, I had it in my qualifier list as well and it was a big pre-comtest favorite but I was still hoping it would be Finland instead. The other ones out.... Georgia was just dull and she appears to be singing well but I find it just screaming and forced. Question of taste. And did I mention the song is so dull and unoriginal? Same goes for Albania. A mess of a song like I have said before and Lindita looked scared and missed notes here and there and she should fire her stylist to start with, and follow with the make up artist.  But that's just my opinion and question of style. If she likes that, good for her. Montenegro didn't hit any notes - I still don't understand why they didn't do Sweden and have someone sing every his line and let him mime? It could have done wonders. But the cho...

Now it's time to say it again: What did I say? Finland came last in the first semifinal, that was won by Russia. Here are the results (and full results here ) 01. Russia 182 02. Belgium  149 03. Estonia  105 04. Gerogia  98 05. Romania  89 06. Greece  81 07. Armenia 77 08. Hungary  67 09. Serbia  63 10. Albania  62 11. Moldova  41 12. Belarus  39 13. Denmark  33 14. Netherlands  33 15. Macedonia  28 16. Finland  13

As expected Denmark won also the first semifinal: Denmark 167 Russia 159 Ukraine 140 Moldova 95 Belgium 75 Netherlands 75 Belarus 64 Ireland 54 Lithuania 53 Estonia 52 Serbia 46 Montenegro 41 Croatia 38 Austria 27 Cyprus 11 Slovenia 8 As Azerbaijan was in the second. San Marino was the first to drop out :-)  Azerbaijan – 139 Greece – 121 Norway – 120 Malta – 118 Romania – 83 Iceland – 72 Armenia – 69 Hungary – 66 Finland – 64 Georgia – 63 San Marino – 47 Bulgaria – 45 Switzerland – 41 Israel – 40 Albania – 31 FYR Macedonia – 28 Latvia – 13 Full results country by country can be seen in eurovision.tv. I'm surprised Azerbaijan gave Finland 3 points despite the kiss! Yuhuu! But where did all the votes from Iceland and Norway etc vanish in the final?

Ok, we got only 7/10 in our prediction but during the show I made a note that Lithuania and Belgium might make it after all and Serbia miss out instead. Very sad for Montenegro, but I had my doubts for Croatia's qualification but wanted to believe in it, as I wanted strongly to believe Belarus would miss it. But all this aside, it was a great show. Most everyone sung well, nothing went wrong apparently, it all looked beautiful, Petra did a great job, so did Lynda! The history part was hilarious, true Petra style.  The opening number was okeyish, Petra's entrance rather spectacular indeed. As I wrote earlier all sung pretty well. Slovenia's Hannah lost it a couple of times (and made me think what it would have been had Nina Zizic sung it?), Belgium's Roberto pulled it nicely together after a little shaky start and Despina from Cyprus lost a few notes, and unfortunately those were shown in the recap. Shame. But she was wonderful anyways, no question about that....