Eurovision 2012 – The Republican primaries in the US are under way and what they call a “Super Tuesday” (Many states voting) Eurovision fans call a “Super Saturday”. Today, Malta will choose its representative at the Eurovision Song Contest 2012, Sweden will starts its selection process with the first semi-final of Melodifestivalen 2o12 and Hungary will hold the second semi-final of their selection “A Dal”.
Malta:
Yesterday 16 acts qualified for the Grand Final. Here are the lucky qualifiers:
01. – Lawrence Gray – In your eyes
02. – Deborah C. feat. Leila James – You make me go uh uh
03. – Dorothy Bezzina – Autobiography
04. – Gianni Zammit – Petals on a rose
05. – Claudia Faniello – Pure
06. – Danica Muscat – Seven days
07. – Fabrizio Faniello - I will fight for you (Papa’s Song)
08. – Corazon – Mystifying eyes
09. – Richard Edwards – Look at me now
10. – Kaya – First time
11. – Amber – Answer with your eyes
12. – Wayne Micallef – Time
13. – Kurt Calleja – This is the night
14. – J. Anvil – You are my life
15. – Klinsmann Coleiro – No way back
16. – Francesca Borg – Take me far
The winner and thus Maltese representative in Baku will be determined by 2/3 jury and 1/3 televoting. The show will start at 20:45 CET. A webstream is available here.
Sweden:
The first semi-final of the most popular Swedish Tv-Show will be held tonight. Here are the 8 participants:
01. – Sean Banan – Sean den förste banan
02. – Abalone Dots – På väg
03. – The Moniker - I want to be Chris Isaak
04. – Afro-Dite – The boy can dance
05. – Dead by April – Mystery
06. – Marie Serneholt – Salt & pepper
07. – Thorsten Flinck & Revolutionsorkestern – Jag reser mig igen
08. – Loreen – Euphoria
The show starts at 20:00 and a webcast is available here!
Hungary:
Here are the candidates in the second Hungarian semi-final:
01. – Tibor Gyurcsik – Back in place
02. – Gina Kiss – Chasing dreams
03. – Péter Puskás – Csillagok
04. – Monsoon – Dance
05. – Renáta Tolvai – Élek a szemeidben
06. – Anti Fitness Club – Lesz, ami lesz
07. – Juli Fábián & Zoohacker – Like a child
08. – Mónika Veres (Nika) – This love
09. – Linda, Ben & Viktor Király – Untried
10. – Sophistic – Yeah ok!
Three of them will qualify through jury voting and one will be selected by the jury to go on to the national final. The show starts at 20:15 and will be broadcast here.









How very typical of Malta
If I were a composer I would give up composing songs for this festival! Its useless! Mediocre songs win always!
Oh well, he can sing it better than he did tonight. Malta 12 has just become my new nº 2 waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay behind Albania. Congratulations, Kurt.
The level of ESC 12 is low atm, imo. Luckily there still many songs to come.
It’s not a bad song, but there were just better songs imo. This one is just average.
Indeed, way too average as they all are (or even bad). Albania 12 is the only one that I sincerely support. The rest is just a bunch of forgettable tunes.
I like Switzerland (ignoring the horrific English for the moment) and Denmark too.
Togravus, I can’t ignore his creepy English. It’s downright scary. LOL I suppose that if I forget about that detail, Sinplus have the second best song.
We Maltese seem to be masochistic! And how come even the jury agreed with the televoting result? Believe me I don’t even believe its televoting at all. I believe its all rigged!
Sorry, Malta, you are my favourite country in this world but this disgraceful act deserves a big fat 0 in the semi.
Btw, I have changed my mind … compared to this drivel ‘La La Love’ is a masterpiece. Give a Grammy to Ivi! LOL
lol malta, so typical, so typically bad too; never cared for them in esc, but they’ve gotten from bad to purely ridiculous
Amen! They have obviously decided to make utter fools of themselves. Who in any country remotely in touch with contemporary music they think will vote for this shit? Sorry!
What? What did they do?
They had such a nice final, not like in the last two years when they actually picked the best song in a weak line-up…
Okay, well, I think, we’re in for a great edition this year – according to my personal taste – and Malta, well, is in spot number 6 out of 6…
I mean, if they wanted to choose a surprise, why the hell couldn’t it be Francesca Borg or Corazon Mizzi?