SEMI FINAL MUSINGS

Once I realised that the Eurovision powers-that-be were actually going to release the foreseen semi final rosters, I knew I had to get my two penneth in first. The semi draw is always an important part of the Eurovision timeline and would have given us some idea as to the placings of the favourite and possibly some ideas of staging (sometimes countries needing vast staging change can be placed after a 'break' usually 1/3 or 2/3 of the way through each running order. As we din't fully know any of these details, that's something I'm just going to have to imagine!

After a short umming and ahhhh-ing session I decided upon these two running orders for the semis

Obviously we know what is in each semi AND who is in the bottom and top halves of each draw.
My personal taste sways the order a little bit but I have tried to keep similar songs apart and keep the genres switching. I have also tried hard to keep song not in english apart too, especially when they are few and far between.

There are some really hard decisions to be made:
top half of semi 1 has a lot of mid-tempo dance-y songs
bottom half of semi 1 has a glut of girls singing ballads
top half of semi 2 is quite uptempo
bottom half of semi 2 has a lot of tracks that are mid-tempo and slower.

The real running order won't be anything like this (it never is!) and I wait to see what they came up with!

SOA 2020 ep6

Shite or Alright episode 6 - 700 points for a blank tape

Eurovision 2020 may not be going ahead but by golly are we still going to review them!

Whilst reviewing the last batch of songs we made the following (useless) comparisons - 

Frances Ruffelle gone goth
4 people who were about to do a bank robbery
Poundland Adam Lambert
Chrome, metal and high quality ferric cassettes available RIGHT NOW
Anton Du Beke wouldn't be seen dead dancing to that
The singing version of Putin
He could be the Tania Evans to their Fettes Brot.

The songs under the microscope today - as ever in alphabetical order - are:

Armenia, Germany, Moldova, North Macedonia, Sweden, Switzerland and Ukraine

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SOA 2020 ep5

Shite or Alright episode 5 - 15,000 headhanders

Eurovision 2020 may not be going ahead but by golly are we still going to review them!

Whilst reviewing today's songs we also made the following critiques and descriptions - 

Hold your plums
Nodding off in the chorus
Every Robin Schulz record
A piece of wet lettuce
Chacarron by El Chombo
A plastic excuse for your inability to control your own drugs
Mr Wilson's Second Liners instead of the dancers

The songs under the microscope today - as ever in alphabetical order - are:

Albania, Cyprus, Israel, Lithuania, Romania, Serbia and United Kingdom

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