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What even was Semi-final 2, honestly

[Semi-final 1 is now here]

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I’ve been seeing a lot of stuff about Salvador Sobral’s comments towards Netta’s song recently, and I just want to post my opinion on the whole thing here:

First of all, I love Amor Pelos Dois, and I appreciate the importance of his win for Europe, and Eurovision. I think it was important for Europeans to realize it was possible to win Eurovision with a song in a native language, and without an elaborate display as shown in ‘Love, Love, Peace, Peace’. The fact that Salvador’s sister wrote it for her brother who was experiencing heart problems makes it even better in my opinion.

But Toy is just as meaningful as Amor Pelos Dois. Toy is inspired by the #Me Too movement, which has encouraged many Isreali women to come forward about sexual violence, so Netta’s song is addressing that. Both songs have a meaningful message, but they are expressed in very different ways.

While I love Salvador’s music, I believe his comments were a little inappropriate. Of course he has the right to express his opinion, but when Benjamin Ingrosso was in that reaction video criticizing the other contestants, he had to remove the video and apoogize (rightly so, because he was showing very bad sportsmanship). Salvador can have his opinion, but I don’t think he should openly slander other contestants like that. 

Finally, I disagree with his statements about ‘real music’. There are a lot of different genres of music, and which genre is better is totally in the eye of the beholder. One of the best things about Eurovision is the diversity of the music. There will be pop songs, there will be songs with lots of fireworks, there will be love ballads. But almost every artist who comes to Eurovision is a talented musician who’s put a lot of hard work into their performance, and has hopes and dreams, so I think it’s unfair to write them all off as ‘fast food music’. And Salvador has admitted that he hasn’t listened to any of the songs other than Portugal and Israel’s, so I don’t think he can fully say nothing has changed since he won. There have been many meaningful or strong songs in the past two years, we have Francesco Gabbani’s gorilla and song about human evolution, Jacques Houdek’s amazing double opera/pop singer voices, Ermal Meta and Fabrizio’s song about finding hope and coming out stronger, Michael Schulte and AWS’s emotional songs about losing their fathers, Christabelle’s song about breaking the Taboo surrounding mental health, and many more. 

Anyways, that’s my opinion on the Salvador Sobral issue, and I wish the best of luck to all the contestants tonight.

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Christabelle's first rehearsal for the Eurovision Song Contest 2018, with the song Taboo (Malta)

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‘Thank you Europe!’ 

[Semi Final 1 here]

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Christabelle literally used her psychic powers to murder a woman on stage

I c o n i c

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Ranking: Malta’s MESC 2018 Contenders! Malta is just weeks away from staging its Eurovision 2018 selection show MESC. Before that we take a look at the sixteen songs that are in contention and rank them in order of our favourites.