Eurovision 2021

[JaquelineBeanstalk]

OK, I know I'm probably talking to a niche market, but any other euroviz fans out there? Scorecards ready for the first semi-final? got your tree up? bets placed? predictions?

Practising my Eurovision fingers

The woman in the sparkly silver frock sounds like Cookie Monster!

Mmm cookies

Is there anything worse than greenroom talk? Trying to remember anyone being good at it and failing.

Here's Ireland Jane

25 years since Ireland won. I feel old.

They did a runner

Oh dear- the discussion of the staging bothers me a bit.

Over doing the staging usually means they are trying to distract from something .

Blah, blah

Jane

Well this is a bit of a mess...

How embarassing for the Netherlands

Oh dear

The cardboard cutouts are distracting.

Its too much and it looks naff

This is crying out for big Monster puppets- like in 'Where the Wild things are'.

She's slightly out of tune nearly all the time. Painful.

Oh look an eighties wide belt.

Its Katy Perry

I like this one - good song, energetic performance, good arrangement, great staging.

I kind of get the idea.

But with a song called 'maps' she'd have done better just stood in front of a big map.

She's got Jedward's water fountain!

Here’s a singer making no attempt to mask her accent anyway! Swedish choreographer and if this set doesn’t scream Swedish Eurovision I don’t know what does

Shoeless

You're hot and you're cold...

I feel like I'm watching a kids programme.

Hmmm. DS really likes Marvel movies.

The disco ball vest is very superhero.

The north Macedonian guy can really sing but I couldn't get much feeling for the meaning of the song, just quite impressed he can hold all those long notes.

I quite like the song- but so much was going on- that might go against it.