Albania/Shqipërisë – "Feel The Passion" – Aurela Gaçe
This starts off with some nice Balkan beats, but gets a bit shouty in the choruses, which is a shame as she really wants to “share this song with you”. She’s got a definite Eastern European look and I like the video, but am a bit apprehensive about seeing it live.
Cyprus/Κύπρος - San Aggelos S'Agapisa - Christos Mylordos
Standard male ballad from Cyprus full of Laika, wailing, crying and angst. I’m all for formulaic pop music but seriously, it’s boring now. (Still, can always bet on the 12 points from Greece eh?)
He's not even really a looker to be honest so I'm quite disappointed.
Austria/Österreich – "The secret is love" - Nadine Beiler
No denying Nadine is a good singer, with lovely tone, but this ballad is so by the numbers you can predict the staging from about 10 seconds of the song – smoke machine, spotlight and backing singers doing “the grab”. Not bad at all, but not exactly standout.
Slovenia/Slovenija – "No one" – Maja Keuc
Every year I want to like Slovenia’s entry so much it hurts, and as hard as I try, I can’t warm to this ballad, though I do like the incongruous dancing by the two out-of-time dancers. Maja was on "Slovenia's Got Talent" (perhaps quite an ambitious feat for a country of just 2 million) She does sound quite like Anastacia and it's not awful, but it doesn't really have the POW! it should.
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