Euroviisut 2010 semifinal 3 live tonight

The third and last semifinal in Finland takes place tonight. Another 3 songs will qualify for next week's final and YLE will also announce the chosen wildcard amongst Bääbs, Boys of the band, Monday, Veeti Kallio and the two unlucky tonight. Superfavourite - unfortunately - Eläkeläiset is expected to qualify but after then the competition is quite open... The Swedish speaking population will propably vote Linn to the final just like they did with Twisted Sister last week. Fans seem to go for Osmo Ikonen while Maria Lund is also rather popular amongst the elderly generations. My vote goes for Kuunkuiskaajat, they could also be the black horse in Euroviisut 2010 and if not qualifying directly might be the wildcard?

THE SHOW IS ABOUT TO START

The show has started but Jaana seems to be still sleeping......

Maria Lund - Sydän ymmärtää
Maria has a very 50's look as does her backing group, dancers. White and blue are the colors. Maria dances along with her dancers proving she hasn't forgot all from Eurovision Dance Contest... She gives a very lively and humourous performance with the 50's nasal vocals included.
Jaana waked up after Peltsi shows a clip of 12 points Finland has got over the years...

Osmo Ikonen - Heaven and hell
Osmo starts the song behind keyboards and on stage he has three sisters and various cousins proving the family dynasty in music business is strong as ever. They are all dressed in white and black. Osmo's vocals are flawless as always but the song might be just a bit boring?

Kuunkuiskaajat - Työlki ellää
The girls are in white in the dark stage with a full moon at first, then we are treated to their backing group of two male backing singers and a female violinist. The guys get into some folksy dance in the background and it all comes across very happy and summery, like a midsummer festivities or something... handclapping included! Would this do the trick? At least the audience love it!
After that we are treated to big names who have taken part from Nana Mouskouri to Julio Iglesias, from Cliff Richard to Olivia Newton-John, t.A.T.u, Alla Pugatsova and Patricia Kaas....

Linn - Fatal moment
Linn looks like Grace Adler from Will & Grace dressed in black leather. The start of the song's staging is dramatic but it falls flat soon after and Linn, Seb and the backing singers can't lift the song. This can't qualify - can it? If it does I blame the west coast! They already made her get this far from the internet selection, that should be more than enough!

Eläkeläiset - Hulluna humpasta
I would like to just write No comment here and ignore this bullshit but I guess I can't. The guys all are seated and dressed in a humourous way - I suppose - except the accordeon player that runs around. A big smoking crazy clock completes the act (Why?). I suppose also raping a keyboard on stage during the instrumental part is funny?
Interviews with the artists follow with the recap and now we just wait for the qualifiers and the wildcard! But before that we have to suffer yet another humour act: connection to Oslo.... :-(
Thank heavens it was shorter than before and we go on to watch some sexy, risky performances from Eurovision... Keti Garbi, Helena Paparizou, Kalomoira, Sakis Rouvas, Mando.... oh well...

The first qualifier is.... Kuunkuiskaajat!!!! The second one is... Eläkeläiset... and the third one is... Linn.... :-(
And the YLE's wildcard goes to.... Maria Lund!

Comments

Jan1964 said…

Well, if Amadeus wants to switch to English I hope Heli Kajo or Kuunkuiskaajat win and do not switch to English.

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