Eurovision 2012 – Tonight is a Super Saturday for Eurovision fans with Sweden, Romania and Portugal all choosing their songs in exciting national finals, and Serbia will also preview their song tonight. It all starts at 20.00 (CET) with the legendary Melodiofesivalen live from Globen in Stockholm, as Sweden chooses this year’s representative. Loreen is clear favourite to win there. You can watch it live at http://svtplay.se/
At the same time, 20.00 (CET) The Romanian final kicks off in Bucharest. Guests on the show will be Irelands’s Jedward, France’s Anggun and last year’s entrants Hotel FM. Results are expected just before 23.00 (CET). You can watch it online at TRO or at Eurovision.tv. You can see all of the Romanian songs here.
Also at 21.00 (CET) the Serbian entry will finally be premiered in a show called The European Song. Serbian superstar Željko Joksimović will perform a mini concert with the RTS Symphonic Orchestra which will conclude with the premiere of his entry for the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest. Watch it on Eurovision.tv.
Last up is Festival Da Cancao, the Portugese national final, which starts at 22:00 CET and can be seen here. RTP have uploaded rehearsals of all of the acts for 1º ensaio Festival da Canção 2012 and these can be seen here.
Sweden:
Romania:
Portugal:
Mandinga -Extremely catchy song..I love it to bits and she is not a bad singer as expected
Songs 9 and 19: boring. Miss Mary was a disppointment.
T&L: I love rap but this song simply doesn’t work for me. It is not all bad though. 6/12
Eurovision NF 11: T&L – Twilight
I don’t really feel anything for or against this one. The girl sure can sing though. 6/12 (maybe 7/12)
T&L -cheesy title for a song ,and those contact lenses were horrible but I like this song!
Iona (I can comment before they are finished …): wannabe tough girly stuff is among the silliest and dullest stuff in the world. 1/12
Ioana Bianca Anuta -hmmm stylist needed here…the song is not bad but not good either!Mandinga will win
Eurovision NF 2012: Ioana Bianca Anuţa – Girl’s Don’t Cry
Vocals shaky and generally on the negative end of the spectrum. The song is okay but nothing special. 5/12
Real fail there:
Romanian NF 12:
Tasha: I love her song in studio version but those club tunes never work live, at least for me. Hope that she won’t win but her song will be in my play list for sure. 7/12
Romanian NF 13: Tasha – Say My Name
One of my favorites of the night. The performance is really amazing, and the song, while heard before, isn’t annoyingly generic. 7/12 or 8/12
Tasha – She looks great on the stage,terrific hair and I really love her song!
She does look great. Electric Fence are still in the lead for me.
Is Bianca ill? It sounds painful.
Bianca obviously had technical problems which is a shame because she has a nice ballad. 5/12
Romanian NF 14: Bianca Purcărea – Don’t Say Sorry
I wanna forgive Bianca because the way her voice is straining sounds like a really-bad cold or possibly even the flu, but I can only judge on what I see, and her voice isn’t doing it today. It kinda hurt to see the defeated posture she had in the end though. She tried so hard to sing through it. 4/12
If she was singing well, it would’ve likely been a 7/12.
Bianca- missed her performance
Ana 2: She is a very fine singer but like the ballad she sang before, this one doesn’t do it for me either. 6/12
1. Electric Fence (to Baku!)
2. Raluca
3. PRK
4. Tasha
5. Ana 1
All other songs were ok imo except Iona and Bianca (because of vocal and technical problems).
Anyway, I guess that Mandinga will grab the ticket to Baku.
Romanian NF 15: Ana Mardare – This Must be Love
She looks wonderful. Anyway, the song is pretty good. If I hadn’t gotten distracted, I bet it would’ve enthralled me more. 7/12
Electric Fence to Baku, please. I hope Bianca gets well soon.
I’ll be back later.
Loreen has just won Mwlodifestivalen..time to hear Serbian masterpiece!
Mandinga have 5543 votes…Catalin 1600…Shunta 1700…
*shuddering*
I will check the results later and have a quick supper now.
Will be back in some minutes for FdC.
YAAAAAAAYYY – We’re goin’ up up up up up u-up…
(and just in time for Portugal…)
are you fllowing Serbian NF?Have ı just heard Serbian esc song?
Ugh. I knew it was going to be Loreen. Doesn’t change the fact that it’s extremely overrated to the point of being sickening.
I still think that Loreen is trying to sell a conventional beat from the 90s as sth innovative. Anyway, I am happy that they do not send Danny. Sweden goes to the middling bunch section of my list for now. @ Max, I am very happy for you, my friend.
Thanks a lot..
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I’ve got what I needed – now anything can happen…
Electric Fence won jury vote in Romania.
But it’s Mandinga anyway because of televote.
What a shame. From a 12/12 in jury to a 4/12 in combined. This is almost as bad as “Balkan Girls”.