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Singer Destiny with an energetic appearance: She got ahead for Malta with the title »Je me casse«
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Soeren Stache / dpa
It is difficult to say whether this is just personal friability or whether it is already good for a collective parched trend feeling, at least: Has one ever been more receptive to completely self-centered bubble fun, were the smile reserves melted away more sensitively than just now? In spite of all the traditional, and occasionally actually political, tussle in the run-up to the competition, one of the Eurovision Song Contest is particularly touching this year as a constant bastion of innocence and a tour through an invented European escapism.
The first semi-final was the prelude to this time, in which the frill helps again, in the gold robes pass as casual and the extreme feelings are reliably only acted out. Ten of 16 countries competed in the final on Saturday, and this year it tended not to be the larger-than-life ballad of longing sobs that trusted that a well-lit voice alone would get the audience going.
The very "Here I Stand" by Vasil from North Macedonia, whose isolation knocked him out of the competition despite disco ball doublet - his song could still be wonderfully fed into the instant emotionalization industry as a classic Disney film teardrop. Romania was possibly doomed that the actually positive self-love plea of the contribution was clumsily bogged down by gloomy dancers crawling along, while the also voted Irish Lesley Roy singed too agitated through the etsy-like analogue backdrop.
Seldom has it been possible to predict more accurately than this year which countries would make it to the finals: Of course Norway, for which Tix took a more-is-more counter-blow against the emaciated minimalism spirit: As a sun-goggles polar bear angel with a name headband and six times Accompanying house demons, he portrayed himself in a simple and strangely adhesive pop song as "Fallen Angel". The Russian participant Manizha stepped out of a mobile tent dress in a red boiler suit, in which she had previously rolled across the stage like a folklorically dressed up Dalek - apart from her convincingly powerful, empowering message with her song "Russian Woman", this move was probably the most effective stage dramaturgical This evening's idea.
The tightly tied reference roulade of the contribution from Azerbaijan, for which Efendi sang about »Mata Hari« - and in her song not only referred to »Cleopatra«, the song with which she would have played last year, was also successful should compete, but also borrowed her stammering "Ma-ma-ma-ma" from Lady Gaga's "Poker Face".
And of course she referred to veterans of the competition like Genghis Khan's "He fathered seven children in one night" with lines like "I'm a liar / Playing the game of desire" with ESC-classic historical frivolization.
Just like Destiny, who made progress with “Je me casse” for Malta, referred to Netta's winning title “Not your toy” from 2018 both with her line of text “I'm not your baby” and in terms of punchiness.
The second Gaga-Klau of the evening was provided by the Cyprus contribution by Elena Tsagrinou, who not only grafted you into the audacious catchy tune with "El Diablo", but with her declaration of love to the devil also a promising candidate for the next song for soon possible Satanist club vacation.
The fun reinterpretation of coronary isolation brought the Lithuanian home dance anthem »Discoteque« by The Roop further, the highly dynamic Ukrainian, beat-backed »Shum« screaming song by Go_A finally avenged the Polish lyre-plaring quartet from Tulia, which incomprehensibly did not make it to the final in 2019. Sweden and Belgium also made stable, albeit less spectacular progress (the latter delivering the almost defiant kitchen sink banal line "You get up 'cause you need an organic cup of tea"). That with the Israeli contribution by Eden Alene, which was also voted into the final, the non-Eurovisional reality could not be completely blanked out mentally that evening,when she conjures up her love affair with lines like "Set me free / Feel my beating heart in perfect harmony", despite the longing for a healing world filter that is briefly put on, a necessary anchor of reality is a necessary anchor of reality - however relaxing the ESC as a parallel world may be.
Second semi-final on TV on ONE, Thursday, May 20, 9 p.m., final on TV on
ARD
, Saturday, May 22, 9 p.m. and in the live blog on SPIEGEL.de
