Ireland and Ukraine are the clear winners for me based on the clips. Portugal also looks really good. I’m hoping the camera shots aren’t final yet because there are some bizarre choices. Cyprus is very hectic, Serbia and Moldova have unnecessary wide shots. The backing vocals are also quite loud in some clips. But overall, looks like a good semi final and also quite difficult to predict, especially in the middle.
Hello Matt, we are so proud of Iolanda. It looks wonderful and she definitely deserves to qualify. Thanks for your lovely comments and second place 🔥🤍 Gooooo Iolanda 🇵🇹💚❤️
I think i've watched the Ireland snippet about 4 million times. Won the rehearsal day with EASE. We have barely even scratched the surface too... theres so much we havent seen. #crownthewitch
Thank you for understanding and giving the fair value to Portugal 🇵🇹 only few have the capability to do it.. the majority only can love commercial songs, and can't see the perfect beauty of our song.❤
Based off that video, As an Australian I am confident that Australia is a NQ this year. Ireland on the other hand MUST qualify! That’s just pure Witchy Art and as a Wiccan, I love it!!! 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
Yeah I honestly am so sad that I'm disappointed with Australia, I had a lot of faith they were going to wow with sheer charisma. Holding out a little hope that they're just holding off for the rehearsals and will give fulllll energy later on. But yeah Ireland won the day with eaaaase #crownthewitch
Hi, Thanks you for the lovely comments. The nets on the heads of the Portuguese dancers are there because the dancers are not "persons" but the inner demons and emotions inside Iolanda's soul and head, therefore they have no faces they are a part of her not impersonating "real people" on stage. If it is put like that I guess the masks make more sense because the interpretative dance is a complement and a visual interpretation of the lyrics 🥰 Love❤💛💚 from a Portuguese next to you in UK BTWy Ireland is my absolute favourite this year Love it ❤
Teya dora ssid that she dorsnt like how her camera work is and asked for close uo camera work but as we all saw production didnt listen to her. She said she will ask again cause serbian delegation dorsnt like how camera work is. She holes production will listen and fix it
Ukrainian here : Ireland needs to qualify, it’s perfection, i’ll be spam voting for it. Ukraine will prob be top 5, it’s really good but not a Stefania good. Jerry+AndA have to pull off a miracle to win jury+ tele vote over the other three amazing acts like Switzerland, Croatia and italy. Switzerland might win, but the costume choice has to be more intricate for it to happen. pink fluffy outfit is cute but too cute ( the dress from the music video was my fav)
Thanking you as a Slovenian! 🤗 Raiven really deserves it! She always falls through just because she is so different and doesn’t serve what people expect. Loving Silvester’s Luktelk to bits as well! 🎉
Raiven has massive X factor on stage.. ❤️❤️ There are solid fine acts in this first semi, the weakest of semis this yesr, Oz, Slovenia, Bambi, Polska Ukraina
Teya dora said that she doesnt like camera shots of her preformance and some light problems and alredy asked production to fix it and they didnt. She said she will keep asking and she hopes they fix it. She said she was stressed avout it and doesnt like how it looks. Servia is getting so much hate for it evan tho they have nothing to do with it. She said she wants closer shots of her face caus eshe wants to send emotion thru camera vut for some reason profuction put in thosr far away shots
Matt, how do get the time to watch all these live rehearsals and videos? Do you not have to do a day job to pay the bills? Or are you a full-time UA-camr?
I do actually like it but I don't like the song, the vocals are kinda bad and traditionally at as many songs if not more go from the first half as the second. Between Ukraine and Croatia's a tough gig - I think Poland's an NQ.
@@EmoBearRightsPolish delegation said that they were not happy with sound during rehearsal so there will be changes to make backing vocals more impactful, with 100 % tele Poland will q easly.
@@vacaac Not convinced myself because it would be really remarkable if 7 or 6 songs Qed from the first half. It's impossible as a lot of the songs in the first half are either very good or from well supported countries or both (which is why I think Cyprus are boned as they comparatively are neither). As I said Poland are between two very big hitters this year. Usually when their disapora get them through it's in a weak semi. Serbia also have a lot of support. Maybe I don't want to believe it as the next likely NQs are Serbia and Ireland in the 1st half and Australia and Slovenia in the second (I think we can say Iceland, Moldova and Azerbaijan are dead in the water or at least drowning fast) and I don't want that. Doesn't mean it won't happen though. Maybe a miracle will happen and Finland will flop but with the UK and Germany who like a joke however lame and fellow Nordics Iceland and neighbours Lithuania that seems unlikely.
Wow Ireland what a rehearsal hands down beat rehearsal out of all the countries It was the only country that I had to re watch over and over it captivated the audience in the first 3 seconnds living to see the full performance it's my winner this year well done Ireland 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
Ngl I love Luna’s staging. There’s an on stage chess game happening, I love it! The vocals NEED improvement though. There were no backing vocalists, idk why
The theme for this year seems to be Scifi and Fantasy. For me Ukraine is giving winner vibes from that clip, and Lithuania, Ireland (this was maybe the best clip with Ukraine), Finland, Croatia (camer angles were too shaky and messy so i got feeling this won't win), Portugal and Luxembourg are fairly sure qualifiers. The other performances were mostly good as well, but none of them is giving me sure qualifier feeling. Portugal imo is winning the "ballady battle" between Serbia and Portugal and Serbian being in second slot kind of makes me think it wont qualify. Iceland is maybe the only one im 100% sure won't qualify. Even Moldova has made such nice looking staging i won't fully count it out yet. I feel Poland entry being quite meh, but people are saying they qualify because of the Poland people living across Europe so idk. I would much rather have Slovenia qualify instead of Poland. Someone from the Moldova-Azer-Australia line up surely qualifies as it is near the end of running order. And all Windows95man "only beautifull women, and Spanish men are allowed half-naked" -haters are going to be disappointed when it surely goes to final, atleast after that clip as even w95man has improved his vocals, and they probably intentionally chose to show the start where Henri isn't singing much as he has improved even more since UMK final. Also the way he sings (or speaks) made it sound even more like fairytale/story, as it is kind of theme of the song if you spend some time trying to understand the meaning of the performance as it has quite deep meaning under the "funny joke" cover.
Finally the time has come to take the word "song" out of the Eurovision Song Contest!,,,,,,,,this year more than ever its all about STAGING......and yes i know that the contest was originally staged to show the developments in television,,,,,,,,,but i wonder which countries would qualify if they didnt have such expensive stagings.....................
stop complaining about the snippet choice 🙂. This is not the official recap. So of course they are not going to choose the best and more iconic part of every song. They need to increase the hype.
Ukraine is by far the best. Portugal very artistic and solid. Croatia has a messy staging and they have to fix the shots. But their main problem is that he seems as a total Kaarija copycat.
My honest thoughts. Cyprus - Kinda dissapointed in Silia's dance break, my expectation was WAY TOO HIGH tbh. Still keeping her inside my personal top 10 (and when i say personal i mean of all 37 songs, not just semi) Serbia - I can a NQ if im being 100% real Lithuania - Nothing we haven't seen before, it remains just outside my overall top 10 Ireland - Holy Shit...im speachless, this is amazing. I think it will qualify, i think it has a strong chance of top 10 in the final, and i think it might crack into my personal top 20. Ukraine - Biggest improvement. I am speechless. Outstanding. It gave me winner vibes. This was my 10th favourite song, and now i think it might be 5th. Poland - dissapointed at first, but the shot of the horse is so impressive. It left me speechless and confused at first, then i realized wtf is going on. Lots of people will have the same thought. I still see it as a NQ but good job. Massive improvement. Croatia - It was my 6th favourite song of the year coming in. I don't think it will win. They needed more, and unless they are still hiding something, i just really can't see it winning, sorry. Iceland - The more i listen to this song the more i laugh, just for the memes. NQ, sorry. I FEEL IT COMING...UUUUUUHHH. BEEN HERE BEFORE SOMETHING SOMETHING, IDK. Slovenia - You know when you like that song, and have that feeling that it will be a NQ when you want it to qualify. Yeahhhh...im getting that vibe. Finland - Fun, safe Qualifier. And ok song really. Moldova - massive improvement, will still NQ, next. Azerbaijan - Could be the shock Qualifier. They have a chance. Huge improvement. Australia - i like the LED's, thats it. I still think it can qualify, but i dont want it to. Portugal (my country) - I want this to qualify. (Unlike last year, where i actually didn't want us to qualify cuz i didnt like our song) Anyways, i need us in the final. I really like it. Not really any improvement from the national final but oh well. It's in my top 15, but still barely hanging on. Luxembourg - SHE GOT RID OF THE BLACK OUTFIT, HURRAYYYYYY. LET'S GO!!! Hopefully it qualifies. I love the LED's they showed in the Tik Tok.
Portugal was a pleasant surprise!
Ireland and Ukraine are the clear winners for me based on the clips. Portugal also looks really good.
I’m hoping the camera shots aren’t final yet because there are some bizarre choices. Cyprus is very hectic, Serbia and Moldova have unnecessary wide shots. The backing vocals are also quite loud in some clips.
But overall, looks like a good semi final and also quite difficult to predict, especially in the middle.
Hi Matt, thank you so much from Ireland 😊
The difference in Ireland from eurosong to now is amazing you can see how much work was put into it overall and i love it💚
Hello Matt, we are so proud of Iolanda. It looks wonderful and she definitely deserves to qualify. Thanks for your lovely comments and second place 🔥🤍
Gooooo Iolanda 🇵🇹💚❤️
Thanks from Portugal 🇵🇹 🇵🇹 🇵🇹 ❤
I think i've watched the Ireland snippet about 4 million times.
Won the rehearsal day with EASE. We have barely even scratched the surface too... theres so much we havent seen.
#crownthewitch
Portugal 🇵🇹 Perfect ❤
Thank you so much Matt 😊🤗
Thanks from Portugal ❤️🇵🇹
Thanks from Portugal! Iolanda deserves your vote!
Wow wow. Bambi has taken this to another level I love it - a dark horse song that could easy do top 10 in the final ! 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
Ireland is my favourite, it's real art.
❤portugal to the final❤voting voting voting all people on portugal❤
Thank you for understanding and giving the fair value to Portugal 🇵🇹 only few have the capability to do it.. the majority only can love commercial songs, and can't see the perfect beauty of our song.❤
Ireland is pure ART & VERY EUROVISON. They have a great chance this year. Go Bambi
Thank you ❤
My qualifiers for sure:
Croatia 🇭🇷
Portugal 🇵🇹
Ucrania 🇺🇦
Serbia 🇷🇸
And good luck for the rest of coutries ❤
Ireland amazing amazing I can’t wait to see it
Based off that video, As an Australian I am confident that Australia is a NQ this year. Ireland on the other hand MUST qualify! That’s just pure Witchy Art and as a Wiccan, I love it!!! 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
Yeah I honestly am so sad that I'm disappointed with Australia, I had a lot of faith they were going to wow with sheer charisma.
Holding out a little hope that they're just holding off for the rehearsals and will give fulllll energy later on.
But yeah Ireland won the day with eaaaase #crownthewitch
I think Australia can qualify 🤗
Agree totaly!!! Croatia+ Portugal+ Ireland 🤘🏼🤗🫂🇵🇹
Hi, Thanks you for the lovely comments. The nets on the heads of the Portuguese dancers are there because the dancers are not "persons" but the inner demons and emotions inside Iolanda's soul and head, therefore they have no faces they are a part of her not impersonating "real people" on stage. If it is put like that I guess the masks make more sense because the interpretative dance is a complement and a visual interpretation of the lyrics 🥰 Love❤💛💚 from a Portuguese next to you in UK BTWy Ireland is my absolute favourite this year Love it ❤
Thank you guys for your hard work. Love the Tshirt Matt. Hope you are keeping well.
I have a 'warning likely to spontaneously talk about Eurovision sticker on my TV'.
Crown The Witch 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Poland & Ireland!
Agree about Serbia, I need more closer shots of her, similar to Serbia stage, it is an emotional song so need to be more intimate ❤ Love Teya❤
Teya dora ssid that she dorsnt like how her camera work is and asked for close uo camera work but as we all saw production didnt listen to her. She said she will ask again cause serbian delegation dorsnt like how camera work is. She holes production will listen and fix it
Let’s hope the production listens to delegations’ comments, to help them bring their best to the audience, not undermine anyone’s performance.
@@mima240 i really hope so cause the song is by far one of the best this year
🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹 PORTUGAL - Iolanda - GRITO 🎉🎉🎉🎉 Pure ART
So glad Bambie is getting their deserved flowers lets just hope people vote to get them to qualify
Croatia is my favourite😻😻😻
Croatia ❤ Vauu Fantastko ❤
My top
1. Croatia
2. Portugal
3. France
Croatia 🎉❤
Serbia 💜 and Portugal 🤍
❤❤❤❤🇵🇹🇸🇰
My two favourite songs...
@@aderitodealmeida5644and they sabotage serbia with bad camera shots that serbian delegation alredy asked to be fixed but production didnt fix
IRELAND ❤
Obrigada! Thank you. Go Iolanda! 🙂🇵🇹
Portugal 🇵🇹🇵🇹
Yess
Croatia is so winning!!!
Portugal ❤🇵🇹QL
I agree with your take on Poland. It's camp and that's what Eurovision is all about. I lovee it.
Bambi is such a fun act ❤❤
Portugal is actually up to 9 in the semi final 1 qualification odds. Go Portugal ❤🇵🇹
Portugal 🇵🇹 ❤
🥇Croatia
🥈Portugal
🥉Serbia
4 Lithuania
5 Ireland
6 Ukraine
7 Poland
8 Slovenia
9 Luxembourg
10 Azerbaijan
Україна в топ 3 . Твій рейтинг неточний
I P
O O
L R
A T
N U
D G
A A
❤️❤️ L
GRIIIIIIIIIIITOOOOOOO ❤️👌
Thanks Matt ❤️❤️
PORTUGAL ❤🇵🇹❤🇵🇹❤🇵🇹❤ So Proud our IOLANDA
Teya Dora my favorite❤
Abraço de Portugal!
Ukrainian here : Ireland needs to qualify, it’s perfection, i’ll be spam voting for it. Ukraine will prob be top 5, it’s really good but not a Stefania good. Jerry+AndA have to pull off a miracle to win jury+ tele vote over the other three amazing acts like Switzerland, Croatia and italy. Switzerland might win, but the costume choice has to be more intricate for it to happen. pink fluffy outfit is cute but too cute ( the dress from the music video was my fav)
Ну какая Италия. Я не вижу ее в тройке
I am from Lithuania and able to vote in the semi 1, all my votes will go to Slovenia!!!! I want to see her in the finals!!!! 🎉
i am not even from slovenia but thank you for that 😭 we NEED her to qf
Can you use one of your votes for Portugal? 😅
Slovenia staging cud of been better
Thanking you as a Slovenian! 🤗 Raiven really deserves it! She always falls through just because she is so different and doesn’t serve what people expect. Loving Silvester’s Luktelk to bits as well! 🎉
Raiven has massive X factor on stage.. ❤️❤️ There are solid fine acts in this first semi, the weakest of semis this yesr, Oz, Slovenia, Bambi, Polska Ukraina
Love you
Portugal🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹
Thanks from Croatia.🤩🇭🇷
Are you selling that shirt? Wishing you great health for now and the future. Hopefully next year you can travel again.
No RULES 🕺🕺
I LOVE SLOVENIA 🤍💙❤️
❤❤❤ Portugal
Serbia will change camera zoom in. Its so pretty and magical ❤️🇷🇸🪻
❤🇵🇹❤️
CROATIA ROCKS THIS YEAR. 🇭🇷
BABY FROM 🇭🇷👍👍💥🔥💥💥THE BEST ❤🐈🐱🐈 Mijauuuuuu 🐈🐱🐈🐱🐈🐱🐈🐱🐈🐱🐈🐱
Baby Lasagna - A star is born 🤩
Go Portugal ❤
Teya Dora Serbia, Perfection😊
Teya dora said that she doesnt like camera shots of her preformance and some light problems and alredy asked production to fix it and they didnt. She said she will keep asking and she hopes they fix it. She said she was stressed avout it and doesnt like how it looks. Servia is getting so much hate for it evan tho they have nothing to do with it. She said she wants closer shots of her face caus eshe wants to send emotion thru camera vut for some reason profuction put in thosr far away shots
U love all songs 😅🤗👍🕺
Not really. I just don't find it necessary to just being super negative about the large amount of work every team has put into their performance.
Portugal 🇵🇹
Azerbaijan 🇦🇿
Ukraine 🇺🇦
I'm so sick and tired of dance breaks I don't think they should be aloud it song contest ( I know controversial opinion) 🙊
I am with you. It’s still a SONG Contest 😂
Agree 100%. I've said the same many times in different comments. SO done with dance breaks in a SONG contest.
So glad I am not the only 1 😁
Am I the only one thinking THE LIONKING when i'm watching Ukraine ? 🤭
❤
Portugal was 💎 Ukrain anda Irland were very good too, for me.
CROATIE APSOLUTE WINNER!!!!!!!! Baby Lasanja,,,, 12 points from Holand!!!
Crown the witch
🇵🇹❤️
But Croatia slays it !!!
Portugal qualifies!!! Grito is powerful!!!❤❤❤
Matt, how do get the time to watch all these live rehearsals and videos? Do you not have to do a day job to pay the bills? Or are you a full-time UA-camr?
I have the same question
Azerbaijan my favorite❤
😂😂
I love that Polish stage.
I do actually like it but I don't like the song, the vocals are kinda bad and traditionally at as many songs if not more go from the first half as the second. Between Ukraine and Croatia's a tough gig - I think Poland's an NQ.
@@EmoBearRights Yeah, it is tough.
@@EmoBearRightsPolish delegation said that they were not happy with sound during rehearsal so there will be changes to make backing vocals more impactful, with 100 % tele Poland will q easly.
@@vacaac Not convinced myself because it would be really remarkable if 7 or 6 songs Qed from the first half. It's impossible as a lot of the songs in the first half are either very good or from well supported countries or both (which is why I think Cyprus are boned as they comparatively are neither). As I said Poland are between two very big hitters this year. Usually when their disapora get them through it's in a weak semi. Serbia also have a lot of support. Maybe I don't want to believe it as the next likely NQs are Serbia and Ireland in the 1st half and Australia and Slovenia in the second (I think we can say Iceland, Moldova and Azerbaijan are dead in the water or at least drowning fast) and I don't want that. Doesn't mean it won't happen though. Maybe a miracle will happen and Finland will flop but with the UK and Germany who like a joke however lame and fellow Nordics Iceland and neighbours Lithuania that seems unlikely.
@@EmoBearRights with all the countries than can vote in this semi poland is in even if they send a mooing cow
Portugal have it all.
🇵🇹❤
Lithuania staiging and outfits,dancers perfect ❤
🇸🇮👍
Lithuania my favorite❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉
Can’t wait to see Greece 🥲✌️🇬🇷🎲
Wow Ireland what a rehearsal hands down beat rehearsal out of all the countries It was the only country that I had to re watch over and over it captivated the audience in the first 3 seconnds living to see the full performance it's my winner this year well done Ireland 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
Poland❤🐎
Ireland to win
Ngl I love Luna’s staging. There’s an on stage chess game happening, I love it!
The vocals NEED improvement though. There were no backing vocalists, idk why
So far Ukraine is the best of the SF 1
The theme for this year seems to be Scifi and Fantasy.
For me Ukraine is giving winner vibes from that clip, and Lithuania, Ireland (this was maybe the best clip with Ukraine), Finland, Croatia (camer angles were too shaky and messy so i got feeling this won't win), Portugal and Luxembourg are fairly sure qualifiers.
The other performances were mostly good as well, but none of them is giving me sure qualifier feeling. Portugal imo is winning the "ballady battle" between Serbia and Portugal and Serbian being in second slot kind of makes me think it wont qualify. Iceland is maybe the only one im 100% sure won't qualify. Even Moldova has made such nice looking staging i won't fully count it out yet. I feel Poland entry being quite meh, but people are saying they qualify because of the Poland people living across Europe so idk. I would much rather have Slovenia qualify instead of Poland. Someone from the Moldova-Azer-Australia line up surely qualifies as it is near the end of running order.
And all Windows95man "only beautifull women, and Spanish men are allowed half-naked" -haters are going to be disappointed when it surely goes to final, atleast after that clip as even w95man has improved his vocals, and they probably intentionally chose to show the start where Henri isn't singing much as he has improved even more since UMK final. Also the way he sings (or speaks) made it sound even more like fairytale/story, as it is kind of theme of the song if you spend some time trying to understand the meaning of the performance as it has quite deep meaning under the "funny joke" cover.
Finally the time has come to take the word "song" out of the Eurovision Song Contest!,,,,,,,,this year more than ever its all about STAGING......and yes i know that the contest was originally staged to show the developments in television,,,,,,,,,but i wonder which countries would qualify if they didnt have such expensive stagings.....................
Ukraine 🇺🇦 is SLAY - WINNER
stop complaining about the snippet choice 🙂. This is not the official recap. So of course they are not going to choose the best and more iconic part of every song. They need to increase the hype.
Ukraine is by far the best. Portugal very artistic and solid.
Croatia has a messy staging and they have to fix the shots. But their main problem is that he seems as a total Kaarija copycat.
and his vocals sound bad even with the backing vocals totally drowning him-
Onda su svi osim tebe čuli nešto drugo!
So far ukraine for sure the winner
ЛИТВА ❤❤❤🇱🇹🇱🇹🇱🇹
I’m scared for Australia based on the video
My honest thoughts.
Cyprus - Kinda dissapointed in Silia's dance break, my expectation was WAY TOO HIGH tbh. Still keeping her inside my personal top 10 (and when i say personal i mean of all 37 songs, not just semi)
Serbia - I can a NQ if im being 100% real
Lithuania - Nothing we haven't seen before, it remains just outside my overall top 10
Ireland - Holy Shit...im speachless, this is amazing. I think it will qualify, i think it has a strong chance of top 10 in the final, and i think it might crack into my personal top 20.
Ukraine - Biggest improvement. I am speechless. Outstanding. It gave me winner vibes. This was my 10th favourite song, and now i think it might be 5th.
Poland - dissapointed at first, but the shot of the horse is so impressive. It left me speechless and confused at first, then i realized wtf is going on. Lots of people will have the same thought. I still see it as a NQ but good job. Massive improvement.
Croatia - It was my 6th favourite song of the year coming in. I don't think it will win. They needed more, and unless they are still hiding something, i just really can't see it winning, sorry.
Iceland - The more i listen to this song the more i laugh, just for the memes. NQ, sorry. I FEEL IT COMING...UUUUUUHHH. BEEN HERE BEFORE SOMETHING SOMETHING, IDK.
Slovenia - You know when you like that song, and have that feeling that it will be a NQ when you want it to qualify. Yeahhhh...im getting that vibe.
Finland - Fun, safe Qualifier. And ok song really.
Moldova - massive improvement, will still NQ, next.
Azerbaijan - Could be the shock Qualifier. They have a chance. Huge improvement.
Australia - i like the LED's, thats it. I still think it can qualify, but i dont want it to.
Portugal (my country) - I want this to qualify. (Unlike last year, where i actually didn't want us to qualify cuz i didnt like our song) Anyways, i need us in the final. I really like it. Not really any improvement from the national final but oh well. It's in my top 15, but still barely hanging on.
Luxembourg - SHE GOT RID OF THE BLACK OUTFIT, HURRAYYYYYY. LET'S GO!!! Hopefully it qualifies. I love the LED's they showed in the Tik Tok.
I love Hera!!
Could be a SF1 Dark Horse.
Cyprus 🇨🇾 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
I'm