My favourite is out!
Sadly, I think that was María's worst performance to date... the nerves obviously got her.
I'm glad that playing safe finally backfired for the Nordics this year. For amost a decade both Denmark and Iceland were sending songs that were nothing special and always qualified with an ease. But this year the overall quality is so high that playing safe became dangerous.
And frankly the Icelandic song was nothing else than one chorus repeated a few times. I was really dispointed when they selected this song, since I thought that after last year they would go for something more daring again...
Also she gave by far the worst vocal performance of the semi.
I'm glad that playing safe finally backfired for the Nordics this year. For amost a decade both Denmark and Iceland were sending songs that were nothing special and always qualified with an ease. But this year the overall quality is so high that playing safe became dangerous.
Yes, Sweden takes ESC too far and I don't like how their song this year is relying on a gimmick just as much as Ukraine did in 2011. But that's not why Iceland and Denmark didn't qualify. Both of them were really weak this year. All the years of qualifying resulted in them with trying less, since they thought that they are certain qualifiers no matter what.I couldn't disagree more with this. These entries were above the quality they normally send, and this year has plenty of weak songs, so both of these should have qualified. Instead crap like the Swedish one qualifies based on the effects they use and those who don't have a big budget for staging uptempo songs lose out.