Eurovision 2022: Semi Final ONE (20:00 BST)

[dmlaw]

How exactly does Moldova do their National selection?

Extensive bribery.

 

[Alex]

What is this SHIT.
How could they get it so right last year and so wrong this yeah?
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHH

 

[Marina Salty]

@funky Portugal is up next!

 

[ButterTart]

Portugal
And now back to the coldly efficient coffee shop music.

 

[Mother Superior]

WITH EASE DARLING

 

[Haiku Rewrites]

How exactly does Moldova do their National selection?

and auditions ONLY show were basically they were the only act with some idea of staging, hence won by default.

 

[funky]

@funky Portugal is up next!

The only reason I’m here

 

[lolly]

LOVE THIS

 

[straightorbroken]

During lockdown I loved watching drone footage of big cities and Rome was just stunning and very moving. Just sharing.

 

[ManicKangaroo]

How exactly does Moldova do their National selection?

They ask the BBC to choose

 

[Ellie]

Promising intro. But her voice is a bit shit.

 

[Nancy]

This is the music equivalent of a coffee table book.

 

[AGinAg (38)]

OH THANK GOD LOVELY PORTUGAL

 

[win_the_game]

This is the music equivalent of a coffee table book.

Controversial!

 

[straightorbroken]

This is lovely, like something that would play at Suzy's fun-eral.

 

[ButterTart]

It fades into nothingness so quickly.

 

[dmlaw]

Why is Portugal singing about her Dad?

 

[GNL]

During lockdown I loved watching drone footage of big cities and Rome was just stunning and very moving. Just sharing.

I watched depressing drone footage of European cities during lockdown too. Or was that the Eurovision replacement show?

 

[Ellie]

Return to Innocence Part 2?

 

[Haiku Rewrites]

women dressed in pink and/or black singing ballads seems to be a re-occuring thing tonight

 

[funky]

What a stunning stunning song

 

[ButterTart]

Return to Innocence Part 2?

I’ve not seen the first one so I think I’ll skip it

 

[RS]

Disappointed by it not being a fado ballad.

 

[Nancy]

It reminds me of that band from the 90s, Enigma.

 

[AGinAg (38)]

I really like this. Easily in my top 5.

 

[lolly]

She's serving me Tanita Tikaram lite, and I'm very much here for it

 

[straightorbroken]

Mumbled beautifully.

 

[Nancy]

Don't think this will qualify.

 

[AGinAg (38)]

This had better qualify.

 

[GNL]

I love this Portuguese song. It's LUSH.

LISBOAN RIGHTS!

 

[win_the_game]

Disappointed by it not being a fado ballad.

Nelly Furtado's Folklore era will more than suffice though.

 

[ManicKangaroo]

This is FAB!

It reminds me of the one that woman sang who was dressed all in silver and had like an upside down trophy on her head.

Verka Serduchka pisses all over this

 

[RS]

This is what Madame X needed

 

[straightorbroken]

If I could be bothered to make a score card, this would surely be on it.

 

[Star]

Portugal works better for me with my eyes closed

 

[Nancy]

Portugal works better for me with my eyes closed

Like sleeping.

 

[FetchFugly]

I liked it when they were all singing, rather less so when she was straining through the first verse.

 

[ButterTart]

I like to think my music taste has evolved over the years but I just don’t understand what there is to latch on to in the Portuguese song. It’s just blandly pleasant.

 

[AGinAg (38)]

It's charming and if you don't like it, GET SOME NUANCE!

 

[GNL]

I'm choosing to believe that that smirk she did at the audience was because she saw a Giraffe drinking piss in the stalls.