Okay, long comments incoming.
I watched the show now because I couldn't watch it fully earlier
It was DIFFICULT AS FUCK to find a link to watch it without getting spoiled anywhere, but I've made it!
First of all, thanks
Bulgaria for this amazing show!
The design in general was amazing, I was a bit disappointed at the simple recap design (which was pretty amateur-ish tbh) and the bar when it shows the country, artist, song, composers etc.
Another thing that annoyed me were those random camera shots to random people in the audience
Back to positive things, the stage was amazing, many performances were amazing and in my opinion, it was the strongest year ever VOCALLY.
I watched the YouTube show, which had problems in the beginning but well urgh
I loved the commentary tho, especially Ivan (and his voice) *-*
Okay, now to each of the performances!
Serbia: Simple but great performance and amazing vocals ofc!
Georgia: My personal biggest disappointment of this evening, the staging was quite good. The guy tho, he struggled to get into the song at first (but well done that he managed to get back to the rhythm) but his random shouts towards the end of the song were ANNOYING AS HELL like just shut the fuck up and sing properly tbh... well at least they had fun
Slovenia: Amazing vocals with a stunning background *-*
Italy: The vocals weren't too bad, but the song is just so bland, it infected the performance..
Netherlands: Great vocals, but soooooo boring song Zzzz.... I liked the piano with the candles tho
Austalia: WOAH! Amazing vocals, very close to the studio version! Mediocre staging to be honest and weird dress
Ireland: Amazing vocals (but you could hear that she was nervous especially towards the end), amazing background and beautiful dress
Russia: Amazing vocals too and great background dancer
Didn't save the mediocre song tho..
FYR Macedonia: I started to like the song
The performance was kinda how I imagined a performance by KIDS, so well done
Belarus: Stunning background and I was REALLY impressed by his vocals!! *-*
Armenia: Annoying song, but pretty amazing vocals and nice choreography
Ukraine: Amazing visuals especially with that 'flower' which opened in the start, her vocals were a bit shaky tbh but overall good
Bulgaria: Tbh, one of my least favourite songs of the evening, but one of my favourite performances
AND HER DRESS *---*
San Marino: I felt sooooooo sorry for her, because she was really really nervous. Her hands were shaking all the time and she messed up the lyrics once
But overall, the performance was awesome and looked pretty professional to be honest
Malta: BEST VOCALS OF THE EVENING! She knocked my socks off like WOW! Simple but effective staging
Albania: I liked the choreography but the staging was a bit boring imo
Montenegro: Amazing staging but a very meh song with meh vocals
And... is it just me or does the singer look like she's 20 or something?
During the voting, I thought the way Poli introduced the voting countries was a bit odd (like "Next is Georgia, good evening to Lizi Pop from Georgia, what are your votes, Georgia?"), but maybe that was just me
Or also these awkward moments when spokespeople said something like "what an AMAZING SHOW!!!!!!!!!" ... *awkward silence*
Then, I felt really really sorry for
Kamilla at the beginning, because she already had trouble with her performance and then there was this camera shot when
Bulgaria received
points. And at that time, she still had receive no points except for the 12 points everyone got and you literally could see her sadness in her eyes
BUT THEN
RUSSIA CAME ON AND SAVED EVERYTHING
Even better when
Ukraine surprisingly gave
points to them
Their first
in an Eurovision event
Weirdest moment imo was the
Maltese
points to
Italy
Like, diaspora voting okay, but it was just unexpected in this moment idk
Poor
FYRoM, again last
Although I expected it,
Ireland is criminally underrated! ;__; Same for
Ukraine while I thought this would get top 3
I also thought
Australia would get a sure spot in the top 5, but 8th is okay too
Imo,
Armenia is very overrated, so are
Russia and especially
Bulgaria
The most surprising results have got
Slovenia with an amazing
3rd place, congrats!! And
Albania, getting into TOP 5!
But well
I'm also happy that
San Marino didn't end up in the bottom 3
And of course, last but not least,
AMAZING and DESERVED winner with stunning vocals!
In the middle of the voting, I was really scared that she would become robbed like Polina so that Armenia would win, but luckily they switched again soon
If we'll go to Malta again next year, I think we can expect another early national selection for Eurovision