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Abordé cada canción por grupos y tras completarlas, como dije en algún post, prometí publicar el listado de ese top general inicial y la nueva versión. Pensaba lanzarme al agua con la posible lista de clasificados por semifinal, pero voy a esperar a los ensayos para ver qué tanto puede cambiar la cosa, pero creo que los cambios serán pocos. Entonces mi top general inicial iba así: 43. Montenegro 42. San Marino 41. Islandia 40. Irlanda 39. Bielorrusia 38. Georgia 37. Lituania 36. Azerbaiyán 35. Reino Unido 34. República Checa 33. Russia 32. Malta 31. España 30. Polonia -  Top de las Exsoviéticas. 29. Moldavia 28. Noruega 27. Alemania 26. Serbia 25. Croacia 24. Suiza 23. Armenia 22. Países Bajos 21. Letonia 20. Rumania 19. Eslovenia 18. Suecia 17. Austria 16. Ucrania 15. Italia -  El Top de los Balcanes 14. ARY/FYR Macedonia 13. Finlandia 12. Chipre 11. Albania 10. Australia 09. Grecia 08. Bulgaria 07. Bélgica 06. Dinamarca -  El...

Debo hacer dos aclaraciones: Este top lo he venido haciendo basado en la primera escucha y una serie de observaciones que hicieron sumar y restar puntos en varias canciones y al final lograr las colocaciones que los dejó en esta especie de top desperdigado que me inventé este año para hablar de cada país.  A esta altura de la temporada Eurovisiva hay muchos actuaciones en directo de por medio que han hecho que esa primera percepción haya cambiado; para bien o para mal, gracias a “Eurovision in Concert”, “Tel Aviv Calling” y el resto de fiestas previas a la cita en Lisboa, que no he visto en totalidad pero sí de aquellos que me representaban inquietudes fundamentadas. Tras lo explicado en los numerales, les cuento que terminaré de hacer las observaciones basado en el primer top y esa primera impresión, y luego actualizar mi top previo a los ensayos y presentaré los posibles top10 de las semifinales.  Bueno, ahora si continúo, y llegó la hora de los países ubicados en ...

Turno de los países del occidente de europa, también se les podría referir como los países clásicos de Eurovision, partiendo por los fundadores: Suiza, Países Bajos y Bélgica, y los que se agregando con el pasar de los años. Sobre los Países Nórdicos en 2018. Les quiero recordar que no soy músico y mis opiniones son eso, observaciones hecha a cada canción desde el otro lado del atlántico, respetando al artista y al país que representa dentro del magno evento de la música Europea (pero que ya hoy es global) 7. SAN MARINO - JESSIKA FT JENIFER BRENING - “WHO WE ARE” No es una mala canción pero tiene un gran defecto, le sobra el rap. Hubiese sido interesante que fuera una canción más de pop y no un mestizaje forzado. Jessika se cansó de intentarlo por Malta y ha decidido hacerlo por San Marino, lográndolo. La verdad, es que Jessika tiene muy buena voz y la canción en su parte pop logra caer bien, el problema es cuando sale Jennifer y hace ese rap todo soso, ya que fuera algo al esti...

I’ve been watching Eurovision Song Contest Live for Eleven Years to 2017, this year, it’s going to be my 12th… Whoohoo!!! I know about the show since the voting of 1998 and the final result of that year, but without internet it was not easy to know about it until 2001. At my first navigation on the Internet guess what was my first search…? Yeah, Eurovision.   Ulrika Jonsson casting the votes from Jury and Televoting. I’ve lived far from the big urbes and almost the civilization because all the new technologies came very slowly to the town, and I was able to watch it in repris in 2006, thanks, once again, to the internet and thanks to YouTube, I could finally see Carola and Anzej Dezan singing along (And Linda Bengtzing and Patrik Isaksson in Melfest). Well, after the little review of my personal story, I’m going to rank the top11 winners from those years I’ve watched Live Eurovision Song Contest. Ok, stop reading and just watch this video: I really love my top...

Based on the first listening impression, I decided to do my general top42, after three previous posts, here it is... My top7. The songs I love the most of this year, at least before the shows. 07. FINLAND Full of emotions and shadows song with a beautiful message, with that emotional piano solo playing almost at the end of the song, and her magnificent voice. Finland could not pick up any other better song. It’s just perfect, for me the 2nd best ballad of this year after my top2. 06. LATVIA Watch out Europe, we are having a potential winner in Baltic region, Latvia is growing up and getting strong year by year with their music and since 2015 are showing the power they have to fight against big fishes like Sweden, Russia and Australia. This year Supernova has exploded and once again they pick up a dark horse that is going to make it to the final and could be fighting for the victory.   I love the voice of the girl, I don’t like that much her stylish but i...

I'm going to divide the last 14 places into two parts. Here are the places 14 to 8:  14. NORWAY Aleksandr Walmann has great vocals and JOWST one of the best mixes of the year. It will depend on what they have to performance it. I love the song and it was one of my favs from MGP this year.   I’d like to see Aleksandr by himself in future too. 13. ESTONIA Verona is a nice retro-eighties-song. Despite I cannot really find chemistry between the singers the song itself it’s really good.   The risk will be in his vocals, Laura sings pretty well, but Koit could be penalized with his, I’m afraid.  12. SWITZERLAND Flawless voice and great live performance, I hope they can make a great show live using a good backdrop and nice graphics that helps to sell their song. Switzerland could be placing really well this year, a top10 for sure if they have all the ingredients ready. 11. NETHERLANDS For 5 th year in a row, The Netherlands sends a...

It's Eurovision Time and there are tops on line from the whole world, well, sometimes I made mine, and this year, I've been working on that too.  Here are the first delivery of what is my point of view according to the first listening and the song itself, let’s start this…. 42. LITHUANIA The singer has a great attitude and she can deliver a good version live of the song but the main problem is the buildup of the song itself, what is that?! 41. GEORGIA I think she has one of the best voices of this year, the message of the song is good but I cannot stand the old-fashioned of this song, maybe if it had had some modern instrumentation it would work much better at first listening. 40. ISRAEL Most of the fans are going to hate me, but I cannot find a gap in this song, I know it’s an up-tempo and he has a nice voice but it wasn’t enough to captivate me at first. Maybe in rehearsals or in his semifinal will make me change my mind, but it’s still not...