Iceland gets points from me due to the fact that it actually sounds like a cedible Eurodance song, one of my favourite types of music when I was.. younger. I still absolutely love the best of this genre, it's my "80s" music. lol
Portugal song wasen't as bad as I thought it would be, but it reminds me so much of Pride in the chorus.
Latvia...
apparently this genre did not die with Aqua and similar danish acts...
I vote Armenia For teh win! Look at her Paris video, she's adorable! Her semi final performance was better than this one though, it seemed like she had some problems with the playback track. Her song reminds me of Ruslana's song, it's catchy, ethnic and amazingly danceable.
I think Russia will do well not only because the song is ok (sounds like a boyband song from the end of the 90s), but because people seem to love dima.
I don't particualrly care for Sweden and Ukraine because I've heard this kind of song so many times and with better and more catchy guises, like
this swedish entry "cara mia" that didn't even make it to the eurovison final, but was played in clubs more than the actual swedish winner and several others (I couldn't find one other that I was thinking of that's both in swedish and some eastern european language). The songs are not bad, but not exactly very fresh.
Edit: I found it , it's
Tornero by romania Mihai Traistariu in 2006 ^_^ Apparently I've only been exposed to swedish remix. >_<
LOL@spain