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    Israel ISRAEL 2024 - Eden Golan - Hurricane

    This being eighth in the odds is way too low. The Israeli song last year was a bad song elevated by a talented performer and professional staging. This is an okay song, and from the video we can assume that they are going to throw plenty of money at this. This is a year without any clear...
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    ESC UNITED RANKING GAME 2024 - ROUND 14 OPEN (DDL FRI 29/3 23:59 CET)

    Voting from :se: Sweden! :12::nl: Netherlands :10::gr: Greece :8::it: Italy :7::lt: Lithuania :6::ee: Estonia :5::no: Norway :4::pl: Poland :3::uk: UK :2::pt: Portugal :1::am: Armenia
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    (... so maybe this is the) General Discussion Thread

    This is genuinely my favourite year since I started to follow the contest properly back in 2015 (obviously watched it all of my life, but that was the first one I followed from the pre-season). Normally I struggle to find many songs I genuinely like (not just find "good" on a relative scale for...
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    Sweden SWEDEN 2024 - Marcus & Martinus - Unforgettable

    All of the top 16 songs in the Spotify charts are from Melfest. As long as the songs are dominating this much, and the viewing figures still are this massive, SVT are not changing anything. Even if we don't place top ten. Songwise, this year was a real stinker. :( But at least there was a small...
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    Albania ALBANIA 2024 - Besa - Titan

    Wow, they totally slaughtered the song
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    Portugal PORTUGAL 2024 - iolanda - Grito

    For whatever reason Pelas costuras sort of reminds me of Bad Apple lol
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    The Netherlands NETHERLANDS 2024 - Joost Klein - Europapa

    If this draws first half of the grand final, the first lines of the song makes me think they might put this as the opener.
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    Sweden SWEDEN 2024 - Marcus & Martinus - Unforgettable

    Smash Into Pieces are the ones I dislike the most this year I'm afraid. The lyrics are stupid, their song is a lazy rehash of last year's success, the refrain is annoying. Can't understand how they are charting so high.
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    The Netherlands NETHERLANDS 2024 - Joost Klein - Europapa

    Every single "novelty" entry/party song/whatever you want to call them this year are of equal quality or better than the rest of the field. All of them are hits in their respective countries, Netherlands and Estonia especially. Maybe Finland is the exception, as that is more of a "funny" staging...
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    United Kingdom UNITED KINGDOM 2024 - Olly Alexander - Dizzy

    The structure of the song kind of gives me Occidentali's Karma vibes. Like after the first chorus, another pre-chorus starts immediately again, and it sounds as if they've aggressively cut down a song that originally was maybe 3:40 or longer.
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    Australia AUSTRALIA 2024 - Electric Fields - One Milkali (One Blood)

    Wouldn't surprise me if this received single digit televotes if it manages to get to the final
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    Iceland ICELAND 2024 - Hera Björk - Scared of Heights

    Still insane that Wild West was the best song that Bashar, with the entirety of Hatari and friends behind him, could come up with.
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    Switzerland SWITZERLAND 2024 - Nemo - The Code

    First reaction is that much like (ironically) Austria last year, it kind of gives me the vibe that it's trying to be "clever". Like constantly looking into the camera and mugging, "oooh now I'm rapping, now I'm singing opera". But it doesn't feel interesting in its genre-mixing like Käärijä did...
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    Sweden SWEDEN 2024 - Marcus & Martinus - Unforgettable

    I feel like some people are having a tiny case of bias towards Medina because it's in Swedish. Very clear step down from In i dimman in my book, maybe the staging will make me feel different. Sounds way too much FIFA and not enough Medina. Not too crazy about the Norwegians either, basically...
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