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Country: Estonia

Performer: Gerli Padar

Song: Partners in crime

Music by: Hendrik Sal-Saller

Lyrics by: Berit Veiber

Review: Hot favourites in the late 90's and early 00's Estonia saw their reputation fade with the introduction of the current system hasn't reached the final since 2003. This doesn't mean that their songs have been bad, they just haven't been very lucky and I imagine that the same will happen this year.

Partners in crime is a cute pop song, with a nice chorus and a touch of rock, sang by a talented young singer. All seems to be fine with this entry, their biggest challenge will be reaching the european audience on the semi-final night with this very "normal" song.

Nothing stands out much here, it's all nice but a bit too soft for Eurovision.

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Country: Finland

Performer: Hanna Pakarinen

Song: Leave me alone

Music by: Martti Vuorinen, Miikka Huttunen

Lyrics by: Martti Vuorinen, Hanna Pakarinen

Review: In all their many Eurovision participations Finland is my favourite country no less then 5 times (including last year winners Lordi) with many others top 10 placings in my charts, this year however they are among my last places with Leave me alone by Hanna Pakarinen.

This is a meadle of the road pop-rock song, with nothing specially atractive in it. I doubt they will repeat they result from last year, even a top 10 seems very far away for them with this uninspired song...