1. Cyprus - Tamta: "Replay"
Someone in David Lynch's paper may have been scolding the discarded Ideas notebook: First, we see singer Tamta so lavishly gushed pink, as if this video is an Awareness image film against too much packaging waste, then someone takes a shower, down trickle, people are placed on thick-link chains, there is a champagne shower, in a frivolous workshop lewd welding work is carried out. On the head of the singer Tamta seems to have sucked a pack of glittering leeches in the meantime, she throws with knives and dog treats, then she tries to escape from a men's sanitary area from the window, someone is doused with honey, and in between is always Once again, the Blitzduscher can be seen as a subtle trigger to the wash gel purchase, perhaps influencers now equip with such perfidious Mindgames on - in short: The official video for the Cypriot contribution "Replay" employs even experienced metaphor Dröselisten longer than the recent Rammstein movies. It will be interesting to see if and how she will translate all these disturbances on her performance on stage. If the budget is tight: We recommend a radical reduction to Egeldusche.
2. Poland - Tulia: "Fire of Love"
We see and hear the lament of the second-, third-, fourth- and fifth-placed in this year's Schmandköniginneninnen, the - still in full competitive denomination including Klimbimkrone - their grief over the again by clumsy, usurpatorische shift to the daughter of dairy magnates lost honorary title in the Sing the world. In their traditional red Plusterärmeljacken and striped skirts, they seem rural-festive, by the static turntable fixation but also latently scary. You do not want to be in the skin of the bribed Sourcings jury, whom these four goddesses of revenge rightfully seek out in their troubled dreams and prick with extra sharpened rye stalks.
3. Czech Republic - Lake Malawi: Friend of a Friend
If Tim Bendzko, Wincent Weiss and a seasonal selection of Fühlosophiesänger were visually condensed to a single person, the chances would be quite good that the singer from Lake Malawi would emerge. As lammlockiger sweet boy in the mustard yellow sweater he sings with innocent climatic eyes of neighborly Bumsegeräuschbelästigung and turns in the video like a cute little monkey through an Instagram grid. His two bandmates are also dressed as basic and unadorned, after the uni-top-style model of tick, trick and track each was assigned a color, but gratuitously dispensed with exposed rump. A honey shower would do the outfits good.
4. Australia - Kate Miller-Heidke: "Zero Gravity"
Finally, the Australians, who have been honored as Europeans for the Song Contest for some years now, embrace the stylistic insanity of this event with open arms - and combine two world-famous sights for their performance. The thin-pronged ray diadem by Kate Miller-Heidke is vaguely reminiscent of the headdress of the Statue of Liberty, but unfortunately also of the pigeon defense systems of genuine antics, which transform their window sills with similar spines into invincible spines of thornbirds. For Kate's dress you have then for the sake of simplicity quite simply the Eiffel tower covered with fabric, zack, done is the Robenlaube that outside the ESC season can easily rent as Tiny House for a frugal small family. It is really VERY high. What's going on with what Kate Miller-Heidke's performance is all about, you can only guess with red ears, given their occasionally sharp cries.
5. Iceland - Hatari: "Hatrid Mun Sigra"
Magnificent roll roast, but as a stage outfit: Matching the rhymed stanzas, most involved in this magnificent S / M minimusical pretty laces made of leather, whose generous solution is certainly useful in case you need to abseil somewhere or tie up anybody in front of the supermarket , "The hate will prevail / Europe will collapse" is the Gude-mood-feel-good message of the accompanying lyrics, which should be meant according to interpretation assistance, especially anti-capitalist. With all the angry evil, that's pretty cute somewhere.
6. Germany - Sisters: "Sister"
If you turn off the sound during the presentation of the German contribution - completely neutral in value, for purely scientific reasons - you could easily fall on the wrong track because of the holistic blacklabbing, what is being sung about here: Neither two young architects argue engaged here on the merits of saddle, hipped and towing roof, two representatives of the "Sartre-friends Bitburg-Prüm" still quarrel with their too minimalistic unusual stage set. Who caluses meanwhile, the color of the stage outfit correspond quite well with the chances of success of this year's contribution, since they also played rather in the Dusterbereich must turn on the punishment the sound immediately.
7. Portugal - Conan Osiris: "Telemóveis"
In view of this wonderfully insane gold-plate facial spoiling Harald Glööckler will not pluck his eyebrows in rage for a week, because he did not even think of this over-talented stroke of genius. Conan Osiris has a deep flamboyant supply and is well-equipped: he has golden long claws that make chopsticks unnecessary for him, a fluffy bathrobe, sewn together from 1000 Angora rabbit babies and an extremely exalted dancer, who puts down a perfect Deathdrop. Only the music, that bothers a bit.
8. Croatia - Roko: "The Dream"
Instagrammer surprisingly merge with their thousands of times durchgerudelten motives and have to deal with them not at all photogenic everyday life. Suddenly they notice how hard it is to find a seat in the subway if a bloated swimming swan permanently sticks to your buttocks. That it feels really nasty when the geknipsten on the beach hotdog Legs suddenly really turn into wobbly sausage legs of the finest veal roast. And how silly you look on an ESC stage, when suddenly the wings of this old posing wall in LA really stick to your back. Well, dumb, Roko.
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