Having just sat through the evening dress rehearsal I now know that I know precisely nothing about this contest any more.
And that is a good thing.
Basically, for me, it reinforced the fact that Portugal, Russia, Ukraine, Sweden, Serbia, Israel, Finland, Iceland and Azerbaijan all have a shot at the top five. Now the keen-eyed among you will notice that that makes nine songs for five slots. Believe you me it is that open and those are only the ones that I can think of now … just before midnight.
I believe that the semi finals have done this contest the world of good and actually have got rid of the p00 songs and that we are genuinely left with the 25 best songs. You opinions will be different of course but welcome non the less.
This is the contest I fell in love with, because it has all the ingredients of a classic. Loads of variety, different things following each other so there are very rarely two songs that are the same next to each other – and the voters of Europe should be totally confused so votes will be coming in from all over the place. One of my managers said to me, “When will you grow up” meaning out of the contest – my reply? “Never!”
We may well be writing something from here tomorrow but we’ll see – as you can appreciate there is something else happening tomorrow.
Thank you for visiting over the last 15 days – we have had 250% more visitors than last year which is amazing!!
See you tomorrow or, if we don’t make it, on Sunday night or Monday for a wrap-up!