Eurovision, the report cards of the first semifinal: the terrible kitsch of the Polish shaman (vote 4), Lucio Corsi, makes the foundations seem live live (8)

Iceland: Væb – Róa 5
Earth with a high percentage of global stars (from Björk to Sigur Rós), Iceland has been lost two consecutive finals in Esc. And again the selection process shows some weakness. The brothers Matthías and Hálfdán Matthíasson of silver clothes bring a casinaro rap that makes the refrain of passengers of Iggy Pop cone of the folk violins. Rowing boats on stage and aesthetic from Boyband years zero with silver rompers, in the text they say they row towards Greenland and to hear the victory close … be careful of the waves.

Poland: Justyna Steczkowska – Gaja 4
The Professor Madam, so they call her to The Voice Poland where she is a judge, returns after 30 years to Esc. But it is above all « the shaman » of Polish music because he loves to evoke newly age -style magical songs in his texts. Here the protagonist is Gaja, or love. All dark, epic charge from fantasy series, electronic folk (non -folk), flames on stage and esoteric symbols on video … of the chains raises it on stage to impersonate the bird/black dragon on the megahritis. The voice is there, the rest even less

Slovenia: Klemen – How Much Time Do We Have Left 6
360 degree character of the Slovenian entertainment (imitator, songwriter, actor, TV conductor) brings a classic ballad that focuses on emotion. It is the story (in English) of his wife’s illness: « Our son crawled in the living room and you read the diagnosis he said would be dead soon ». The plan and private videos create tension. In the end there is also on stage, a kiss and wins love.

Estonia: Tommy Cash – Espresso Macchiato 6.5
It has been said and written about everything on Tommy Cash, a brief summary: a character who plays a lot between irony, trash and world fashion with songs that makes fun of the Italian clichés. Someone took it for the word « mafia », but more than offense it is cureed (perhaps a little approximate). The now iconic Spaghetti Dance, the tie up to the knees, the fake invasion of a fan stage cover a vocal performance that is not irresistible.

Spain: Melody – ESA Diva 5
Out of the race, as a founding country it is already in the final. The story that Melody tells is partly autobiographical, her being who became a child prodigy with a 2001 Spanish rumba of the Spanish summer (« El Baile del Gorilla), then becomes a hymn of female empowerment because all women are dive and therefore returns to herself with the rebirth, the return. Melody works, the production has remained behind like the sequins of her dress.

Ukraine: Ziferblat – Bird of Pray 6
The trio (discovered with the local X Factor) brings a soft rock song with some 80s influence even if in the outfit we are more in the colors and shapes of the previous decade. The desire to return home on the wings of a bird is a message to all those who fled the country for the Russian invasion. We hope that before the bird of prey of the title will arrive the dove.

Sweden: Kaj – BADA Bada Basu 7.5
The warmth of the sauna (protagonist of the text), the wooden cacastes, the pinets in the background. It seems the setting of a Christmas advertising. Sweden had accustomed us to proposals with an international pop cut (much of the world one was born in those parts) and although this time it focuses on a dance accordion and uses the made language and not English manages to avoid the dangerous abyss of the trash. Works. The trio, Tiktaker and comedians as well as musicians, could bring home the number 8 victory, and would be absolute record. Very favored

Portugal: Napa – Deslocado 6.5
A indie-psychidelic ballad on the nostalgia for those who are away from home. A proposal all too refined for a competition where some gram of tamarragine takes it. The performance of the five is also composed.

Norway: Kyle Alessandro – Lighter 6
The videowalls with brutalist stonehenge style graphics, he in medieval armor, flames of pyromaniac … The ESC style is there, the style is something else. The text is an invitation to find light and strength within itself and the boy wrote it for his mother sick of cancer. In this folk Dance Banalotto there is energy, but Kyle loses some precision.

Belgium: Red Sebastian – Strobe Lights 7
A techno base that beats where it has to beat, the red of the name everywhere: on the hair, in the latex suit and in the lights. Beautiful interaction with the double reflection in the LEDs of the base of the stage. When his voice goes up to the top, remember that the Autoun is vital here.

Italy: Lucio Corsi – I wanted to be a tough 8
Out of the race. In all senses. Already qualified for the final of law because Italy is in the « Big Five ». In the kingdom of fiction (the ESC regulation forces everyone to use bases, you cannot play live) courses recreates a world in which the instruments are still at the center of the performance (and perhaps the harmonica plays it as well): from the piano to the guitar, the support of Tommaso Ottomano with a second guitar, the white makeup and the yellow bolero with the shoulder shoulders: like the first evening in Sanremo.

Azerbaijan: Mamagama – Run with U 7
The piece is well built. The melody works well and a few years ago it would have been in line with an elegant international population pop. The presence of the Saz, a kind of lute, from a folk touch without falling into the kitsch. Too bad for the unstable falsetto (especially to the tests).

San Marino: Gabry Ponte – All of Italy 6.5
Another piece of Sanremo at the ASC who earns the final. The festival stacket, the dance accordion and clichés about Italy, arrives in the race. Gabry in the console, behind him symbols of Italian art, from Leonardo to Michelangelo to the Colosseum. If in Sanremo it seemed out of context, there is really there. The tamarrates should also be done well.

Albania: Shkodra Elektronike – Zjerm 6
Italy is also here, but it is only geolocation: Kolë Laca and Beatriçe Gjergji are Shkodra-Scutari but have lived in Italy for years. He was also the keyboardist of the Teatro degli Orrori. Musically, on the other hand, the sounds and atmospheres of their tradition, brought to date by electronic production, to drive. Noble intent, but difficult to assimilate for such a superficial context.

Netherlands: Claude – C’est la vie 5.5
It is not that if they are not tamarri they are promoted (and vice versa). Smart text that mixes English and French (the Beatles have done better with Michelle, but that applies to whatever the four have done) and spotted but not very original melody. There is a bit of a lot of Stromae in this ballad.

Croatia: Marko Bošnjak – Poison Cake 6.5
A two -sided song: a dark and mysterious with metal atmospheres and a fairytale from pop nursery rhyme.