Personally I felt this years' semis were far easier to predict than the previous two years. A few comments. Loved Malta's performance but suffered by being too similar to SloMo, but mainly running order. So many girly bops with male backing dancers in this semi and those that were latest in the memory unsurprisingly held out. Greece - the "line dancing" was basically a syrtaki, a traditionally Greek dance in which they wave handkerchiefs. Variants of this dance can be found throughout the Balkans and the near-Middle East. Switzerland's performance has a place secured in ESC legend. Odd that you say you weren't wowed by Czechia but then say Aiko was robbed... BTW, it's pronounced Check-ia, not Chech-ia ;) France was great but didn't like him starting by lying down and kneeling, it affected his breathing. Denmark - why was she standing on a table? Did the same at the NF. Why? Latvia - one word "Shock". Spain has a big meaning behind the song which is completely lost on a casual on-Spanish speaking viewer. Belgium - failed vocals. I bet you wish Mom was still chatting with you during Israel ;) Yes, she got booed but the EBU has non-booing technology, and yes, Eric Saade is Palestinian, a former Swedish contestant. He was one of the interval acts and wore a keffiyeh on his wrist. Absolutely, the EBU did not handle this correctly. If you check your news, Netherlands might be disqualified following the semi-final winners press conference. This could get even messier if other contestants choose to side with Joost Klein.
@@siennaxeurovision Sienna I'm good - Girl I was worried about you. you disappear out of our lives then come back with even more great thoughtful content as always. I do kinda love how your American perspective sometimes gets in the way of understanding this contest but if i could choose a single American to sit down and watch Eurovision with, it would be you
Also, I agree. The Slomo similarities are just too strong and recent. I still don't think she did bad, and if not for the Slomo call back, she would have definitely moved on to the Grand Final. And that's interesting! In Lebanon, it's called Dabke, iirc. Usually, it's a male led dance, so I thought it was cool a woman was leading. But it's even cooler learning that there are Greek dancers that are similar! Thank you for letting me know! Switzerland had a wonderful performance! I actually went back and watched it again. It's simple while being symbolic. I appreciated the performance! For Czechia, I think my reasoning is that I don't think things have to cater to my taste to be worthy of moving on 🤔 Pedestal is like Fighter from Semifinal 1 in my opinion (and Fighter an even worse offender). I can sit here and say that the singers didn't work on cardio enough to be able to move around stage comfortably without losing breath support, and I think the performances suffer because of it. But, objectively, if others aren't as picky as me, they would find the performance enjoyable. It's a question of what did Fighter do that Pedestal didn't 🤔 Though I do think the horrible first performance for Pedestal kept it off of peoples' radars, unfortunately. I agree about Denmark. It was just too empty (both musically and stage-wise). Latvia...just no words. I think everyone was shocked. Lol I will have to look up the lyrics for Spain prior to tomorrow then! Belgium, I honestly didn't think the vocals were that bad? Is the video they uploaded to RUclips the same as the live version? I admit he definitely had shaky parts and I still have my same issues with the ending, but I still find it hard to imagine it's literally a DNQ. Israel....yikes. No one is handling it correctly. There's bots in a bunch of people's comments and on Twitter. These major Eurovision sites are literally radio silent about it. It's a mess 😮💨 And, apparently, the issue with the Netherlands is because of Israel as well (he'd asked them not to take photos). And there's rude press about/against Bambi?? I just went on the Eurovision subreddit and it's kinda confusing what's going on. There's a post with around 300 responses trying to keep up with everything. And, apparently, they've canceled the Big 5 + Sweden press conference? It's 😬😬😬😬😬
I'm sorry 😞 I do film quite a few reactions, but then I just don't edit them. I get really tired of fighting with the AI about copyright 😮💨 Having to go back and re-edit videos 5, 6, 7 times to avoid it being blocked and then only getting 100 views or a bunch of comments saying I'm wrong is 🥲 😅😅 It happens. I don't really hear anything about what's happening with Eurovision unless I search it up myself, so I miss quite a lot 😂
@@siennaxeurovision Re:Spain. the word Zorra is the feminine of the word Zorro. Y'now, like "Zorro, the gay blade" - a man who is cavalier, brave, adventurous. When the word is changed to the feminine it describes a woman as a "sl*t". Get the "me too" vibes. An older woman on stage, but this time it's the male backing dancers who are used as the click bait... Joost Klein has been suspended from rehearsals - during the qualifiers press conference a journalist asked the Israeli delegation on their thought of possibly endangering and causing risk to other contestants. The moderator told Israel they were free to refuse to answer the question. Joost Klein asked back "Why not?".
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Personally I felt this years' semis were far easier to predict than the previous two years.
A few comments. Loved Malta's performance but suffered by being too similar to SloMo, but mainly running order. So many girly bops with male backing dancers in this semi and those that were latest in the memory unsurprisingly held out. Greece - the "line dancing" was basically a syrtaki, a traditionally Greek dance in which they wave handkerchiefs. Variants of this dance can be found throughout the Balkans and the near-Middle East. Switzerland's performance has a place secured in ESC legend. Odd that you say you weren't wowed by Czechia but then say Aiko was robbed... BTW, it's pronounced Check-ia, not Chech-ia ;) France was great but didn't like him starting by lying down and kneeling, it affected his breathing. Denmark - why was she standing on a table? Did the same at the NF. Why? Latvia - one word "Shock". Spain has a big meaning behind the song which is completely lost on a casual on-Spanish speaking viewer. Belgium - failed vocals.
I bet you wish Mom was still chatting with you during Israel ;) Yes, she got booed but the EBU has non-booing technology, and yes, Eric Saade is Palestinian, a former Swedish contestant. He was one of the interval acts and wore a keffiyeh on his wrist. Absolutely, the EBU did not handle this correctly. If you check your news, Netherlands might be disqualified following the semi-final winners press conference. This could get even messier if other contestants choose to side with Joost Klein.
Bob!!! I was actually about to send you an email to check on you since I hadn't heard from you in a while!! I hope you're doing well!!
@@siennaxeurovision Sienna I'm good - Girl I was worried about you. you disappear out of our lives then come back with even more great thoughtful content as always. I do kinda love how your American perspective sometimes gets in the way of understanding this contest but if i could choose a single American to sit down and watch Eurovision with, it would be you
Also, I agree. The Slomo similarities are just too strong and recent. I still don't think she did bad, and if not for the Slomo call back, she would have definitely moved on to the Grand Final.
And that's interesting! In Lebanon, it's called Dabke, iirc. Usually, it's a male led dance, so I thought it was cool a woman was leading. But it's even cooler learning that there are Greek dancers that are similar! Thank you for letting me know!
Switzerland had a wonderful performance! I actually went back and watched it again. It's simple while being symbolic. I appreciated the performance!
For Czechia, I think my reasoning is that I don't think things have to cater to my taste to be worthy of moving on 🤔 Pedestal is like Fighter from Semifinal 1 in my opinion (and Fighter an even worse offender). I can sit here and say that the singers didn't work on cardio enough to be able to move around stage comfortably without losing breath support, and I think the performances suffer because of it. But, objectively, if others aren't as picky as me, they would find the performance enjoyable. It's a question of what did Fighter do that Pedestal didn't 🤔 Though I do think the horrible first performance for Pedestal kept it off of peoples' radars, unfortunately.
I agree about Denmark. It was just too empty (both musically and stage-wise).
Latvia...just no words. I think everyone was shocked. Lol
I will have to look up the lyrics for Spain prior to tomorrow then!
Belgium, I honestly didn't think the vocals were that bad? Is the video they uploaded to RUclips the same as the live version? I admit he definitely had shaky parts and I still have my same issues with the ending, but I still find it hard to imagine it's literally a DNQ.
Israel....yikes. No one is handling it correctly. There's bots in a bunch of people's comments and on Twitter. These major Eurovision sites are literally radio silent about it. It's a mess 😮💨
And, apparently, the issue with the Netherlands is because of Israel as well (he'd asked them not to take photos). And there's rude press about/against Bambi?? I just went on the Eurovision subreddit and it's kinda confusing what's going on. There's a post with around 300 responses trying to keep up with everything. And, apparently, they've canceled the Big 5 + Sweden press conference? It's 😬😬😬😬😬
I'm sorry 😞 I do film quite a few reactions, but then I just don't edit them. I get really tired of fighting with the AI about copyright 😮💨 Having to go back and re-edit videos 5, 6, 7 times to avoid it being blocked and then only getting 100 views or a bunch of comments saying I'm wrong is 🥲
😅😅 It happens. I don't really hear anything about what's happening with Eurovision unless I search it up myself, so I miss quite a lot 😂
@@siennaxeurovision Re:Spain. the word Zorra is the feminine of the word Zorro. Y'now, like "Zorro, the gay blade" - a man who is cavalier, brave, adventurous. When the word is changed to the feminine it describes a woman as a "sl*t". Get the "me too" vibes. An older woman on stage, but this time it's the male backing dancers who are used as the click bait...
Joost Klein has been suspended from rehearsals - during the qualifiers press conference a journalist asked the Israeli delegation on their thought of possibly endangering and causing risk to other contestants. The moderator told Israel they were free to refuse to answer the question. Joost Klein asked back "Why not?".