Eurovision Song Contest - Tel Aviv 2019

[Mirai]

Eurovision 2018 is approaching!

First Semi Final is May 8th! Playlist in running order is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWomOdD ... sLUwUvPBe7

Second Semi Final is May 10th! Playlist in running order is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mvxni-W ... bF2_iSkrtL

The Grand Final is May 12! Playlist of the automatic qualifiers is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHb-gWC ... vuBd8x099b

My favorite is France:

[Mirai]

Eurovision 2018: Semi-Final 1 Qualifiers:
Austria: Cesár Sampson – “Nobody But You”
Estonia: Elina Netsajeva – “La forza”
Cyprus: Eleni Foureira – “Fuego”
Lithuania: Ieva Zasimauskaite – “When We’re Old”
Israel: Netta Barzilai – “Toy”
Czech Republic: Mikolas Josef – “Lie to Me”
Bulgaria: Equinox – “Bones”
Albania: Eugent Bushpepa – “Mall”
Finland: Saara Aalto – “Monsters”
Ireland: Ryan O’Shaughnessy – “Together”

Tomorrow is Semi 2!

[Mirai]

Semi-Final 2 Qualifiers
Serbia: Sanja Ilic & Balkanika – “Nova deca”
Moldova: DoReDos – “My Lucky Day”
Hungary: AWS – “Viszlát nyár”
Ukraine: Mélovin – “Under the Ladder”
Sweden: Benjamin Ingrosso – “Dance You Off”
Australia: Jessica Mauboy – “We Got Love”
Norway: Alexander Rybak – “That’s How You Write a Song”
Denmark: Rasmussen – “Higher Ground”
Slovenia: Lea Sirk – “Hvala, ne!”
The Netherlands: Waylon – “Outlaw in ‘Em”

The Grand Final is Saturday!

(Reminder that the Big Five - UK, France, Spain, Germany, and Italy - plus the host country, Portugal, are already qualified for the final.)

[CaptainBerryzGiraffe]

If there's one thing I really don't like, it's when countries sing their songs in English. I feel like if you're representing a country, it should also be in its language... It takes away a bit. Something about hearing the native language always makes me like the songs better. That being said, the best songs I choose aren't necessarily based off of that at all... Though I wish they were!

I really like:
Italy,
Israel,
Hungary,
Denmark

I think Hungary has the best tbh, we'll see what happens.

[Mirai]

Israel won!

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I feel really bad for SuRie though with the stage intruder welp.

[CaptainBerryzGiraffe]

I'm happy my country won ^-^
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The way she handled it though, that was amazing That's something really admirable!

[Zunu]

... I thought you were from Long Island

[Mirai]

Now that running orders for the semi finals have been set, here are the playlists for this year's songs!

Semi 1

Semi 2

Big 5 + Israel (Host Country)

My personal favorite is Norway! I love the blend of EDM and the Sami joik.

[Mirai]

Eurovision 2019 Semi-Final 1 Qualifiers:
Greece: Katerine Duska - “Better Love“
Belarus: ZENA - “Like It“
Serbia: Nevena Bozovic - “Kruna“
Cyprus: Tamta - “Replay“
Estonia: Victor Crone - “Storm“
Czech Republic: Lake Malawi - “Friend Of A Friend“
Australia: Kate Miller-Heidke - “Zero Gravity“
Iceland: Hatari - “Hatrið mun sigra“
San Marino: Serhat - “Say Na Na Na“
Slovenia: Zala Kralj & Gašper Šantl - “Sebi“

[Mirai]

Semi-Final 2 Qualifiers:
North Macedonia: Tamara Todevska - “Proud”
Netherlands: Duncan Laurence - “Arcade”
Albania: Jonida Maliqi - “Ktheju tokës”
Sweden: John Lundvik - “Too Late For Love”
Russia: Sergey Lazarev - “Scream”
Azerbaijan: Chingiz - “Truth”
Denmark: Leonora - “Love is Forever”
Norway: KEiiNO - “Spirit in the Sky”
Switzerland: Luca Hannï - “She Got Me”
Malta: Michela - “Chameleon”

Grand final on Saturday!!