ESC Final

I wasn't really looking forward to this final since I didn't like most of the songs but I still watched the whole show ofc (well it's still going as I'm writing this)

The winner was Salvador Sobral from Portugal which was a disappointment to me. Idk I just didn't like the performance...also I don't wanna sound rude, but why do I get this feeling that one of the main reasons why he won was bc of his story? He is sick and had had a surgery not that long time ago.. I'm still kinda happy for them because this was the first time Portugal won and even got to the top 5, so that's pretty impressive 👌

Second one was Bulgaria. I didn't even remember the song from the semi-finals but it wasn't that bad ✌ the singer was this guy who was born in 2000, but had already turned 17, what a baby 🙈 (haha yes I do realize that he is less than 2 yrs younger than me but still 😜)

This year there was at least 3 countries whose singers were under 18-yr-olds; Australia, Belgium and Bulgaria.

In the end I was hoping that Moldova would win, I mean who can resist "the epic saxoman"? 😂 Also the performance was entertaining with it's funny coreography 💃 But well better luck next time.

Also let's hope that Finland will get to the final next year 🇫🇮😅✌ it has become sadly unlikely since our competition on who gets to represent Finland is based on giving every single little band a chance. I mean I'm all up for that, like not many had heard about Softengine before they represented us in the ESC but since then it has become really popular. But if we ever wanna have a change again to win we need to start sending professionals there.

But now it's 1.52 am here and I really need to go to sleep. It's Mother's Day tomorrow (well, today) so gotta wake up pretty early...👎

Good night ♡

- KK

2nd Semi-final

Again, I was really surprised by some of the countries who got to the Saturday's final. This time I wasn't watching the semi-final as interested as on Tuesday but I still could spot my favs.

Today the countries who got most votes were: Bulgaria, Belarus, Croatia, Hungary, Denmark, Israel, Romania, Norway, The Netherlands and Austria.

I wasn't a big fan of all of them, but for example I thought that Romania's yodle/rap song was kinda catchy. Alltho the girl doesn't yodle as well as she did in the music video so I'm not totally convinced by her 🤔

Hungary's song kinda sounded like some nonsense, like sounds instead of words put together but idk maybe Hungarian is like that 😅 ( no offense). The Netherland's song was pretty goodand the 3 sisters sang well but I kinda feel that the short dresses and their story behind the song (their mother has a cancer) was one of the reasons they got to final.

I really would've wanted to see Malta in the final but that didn't happen. Malta's beautiful ballad " Breathlessly" is actually one of my favs in the whole competition and happens to also be in my spotify list but well you can't always win 🙈

Also what happened today was (probably) the first proposal in ESC when F.Y.R. Macedonia's lead singer's boyfriend proposed to the singer (who also happens to be expecting their child 👌) That was pretty cute but also not that romantic. There wasn't really many sweet words, it was more like just " Will you marry me?" but hey she said yes and that's what matters 😉✌

- KK

Eurovision Song Contest

So, the Eurovision Song Contest started today with the first semi finals. Even tho Finland hasn't really succeeded well in it, I've been watching it since I was little and every year cheered for my country ofc. This year I actually kinda likef Finland's song 🇫🇮 (Norma John - Blackbird) and thought that maybe this year we will at least get to the final but nope, we didn't... I don't wanna sound like a sore loser but srsly, some of the countries' singers couldn't even hit the right note most of the times. It was painful to watch and listen 😅.

The 10 countries which made it to the final were: Moldova, Azerbaijan, Greece, Sweden, Portugal, Poland, Armenia, Australia (I thought that they were only gonna get in to the competition on the 75th anniversary 2 yrs ago but well still going strong), Cyprus and Belgium.

Some of these really surprised me because I for example didn't like Cyprus', Azerbaijan's, Portugal's or Belgium's performances at all... Belgium's singer was a shy 17-yr-old girl who unfortunately couldn't hit the right note and I thought that the whole performance wasn't really finished.

Moldova probably got thru because of the saxoman everyone loved a couple of yrs ago and the funny choreography.

I also really hate how most of the women nowadays just wear short and revealing dresses. Is it just to get votes or did the singers really choose those kinda costumes themselves? That's my question. Also, why do almost everyone wear white?

But anyway,
Since I remember, Eurovision Song Contest has pretty much been more of a "who creates the best show" contest instead of an actual singing contest like it used to be, and each year I feel like the singers get worse and worse because all the countries just focus on the show with all the high tech laser and light shows and fire elements. I think it's kinda sad. I would really love to see some amazing singing talents too, but only few countries offer that each year.

But I think I've talked enough about tonight's semi-final, maybe more after Thursday's one or at least about the final on Saturday, so stay tuned 😉

- KK