Lisbon calling Paris and Tbilisi

Country: France

Performers: Les Fatal Picards

Song:L'amour à la française

Music by: Ivan Callot, Laurent Honel, Jean-Marc Sauvagnargues, Yves Giraud, Paul Léger

Lyrics by: Ivan Callot, Laurent Honel, Jean-Marc Sauvagnargues, Yves Giraud, Paul Léger

Review: Now here is a very amusing song. France is back to the top of my favourite countries with L'amour à la française. This is not the typical "Celine Dion wannabe ballad " but I think that it will give them their best result since 2002. Maybe even a top 5 is possible for Les Fatal Picards with this contagious song with hybird lyrics talking about love the French way.

This is one of those songs nobody can be indiferent too, you either love it or you hate it. In my case I love it and I think viewers will also be captivated by the relaxed performance of Les Fatals Picards and the healthy humour of their hallucinant song.

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Country: Georgia

Performer: Sopho

Song: Visionary dream

Music by: Beqa Jafaridze

Lyrics by: Bibi Kvachadze

Review: Georgia is making it's Eurovision debut in Helsinki and what a debut it will be. Visionary dream is one of the best songs ever to spet into the ESC stage and I wouldn't be surprised if the next ESC was held in Tbilisi. It's such a good song that its weaknes might be being to good for Eurovision.

It's pop, reminds me of Madona, but also ethnic, it's modern and traditional at the same time. It's a very special song, not easy to fall in love with when you first hear it, but you can clearly understand that it is of high quality right from the begining.

Because it's so many things at once some some say Visionary dream it's a cahotic song, I think it's just a fabulous composition.

Congratulations to Georgia, no matter what the result will be next May, this is already one of my all time favourites.