Second Chance - Hugarro

It's like 1:30 am and I cannot get Magni's song out of my head, which i didn't even really like the first time round, but sigh, I think I loves now. Oh well, I wasn't an icelander who could have voted anyway. (How I wish I could have been. Paul Oscar, Silvia Knight, awesome volcanoes -- what's not to love?)

Oh Magni, please lose the facial hair, or at least the dodgy under-lip hitler tasche. You'd be such a cool rock ballad eurovision entry!.

Overflow -- the very reason we need second chance rounds

Since I've stated my indifference to Denmark's entry I'd like to point to my favourite from the night, Ditte Marie's Overflow, some fabulous glam pop, which would be perfect but for one thing: TROUSERS! Get some TROUSERS! Or a skirt!

Are you sure, oh mighty people of Denmark, that you wouldn't have preferred this song? Are you really sure? :(

I'm so in love with this. My love is in, like, overflow for this. :D Booo, Denmark, boooo!

Second Chance: Rytingur

Second Chance -- songs from the National Finals that we (or me!) think deserve another go for Eurovision glory.

With semi finals and lengthy national finals, there are always a few songs that seem genuinely good, but somehow don't grab the audience enough to win. Here is the first I've seen so far, from Iceland, the cool-synth Rytingur by Fatherz'n'Sonz

I think this is a pretty cool song, and outside the Eurovision, I could see a place for this. Stylistically, is it a bit too odd. The chorus is a bit subtle, and there's no real hook. It's a song that could be 6 minutes long rather than 3. We've never heard this sort of music at the competition, who knows. It's on my ipod though, and I still like it, unlike the songs that did get through.