Lisbon calling Tirana and Andorra la Vella

Country: Albania

Performer: Frederik Ndoci
Song: Hear my plea
Music by: Adrian Hila
Lyrics by: Pandi Laço

Review: From the same composers of Tomorrow I go Albania will try to reach this year's final with an ethnic ballad that used to be sang in albanian and last 4 minutes and 30 seconds... Despite this changes the song still maintains some of its previous strength, much thanks to Frederik and Aida's emotional performances which are, in my opinion, the strongest aspect of this song.

On the negative side this new version gets a bit too repetive towards the end without ever reaching a true climax. The bad english pronunciation can also be a problem, I think that if a country decides to sing in english in order to make the song more understandable to viewers they should make shure the singer is able to sing it properly.

All thinks considered this is a nice effort from Albania and with some neighbourhood voting they can even reach the final or get very close to it.

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Country: Andorra
Performers: Anonymous

Song: Salvem el món
Music by: Niki Francesca, Alejandro Martínez, Guillem Gallego
Lyrics by: Niki Francesca, Alejandro Martínez, Guillem Gallego

Review: Radical chance of style from Andorra this year. Teen group Anonymous will sing a very modern pop-rock theme that I think can appeal to the younger audience of the contest all over Europe, giving Andorra their first ESC final.

There aren't many negative aspects in this song, it's young, modern and fresh, we could prehaps say that due to the fact that it is very "international" viewers won't pay much attention to it and go for more "powerfull" and "different" songs, but on the other hand they have a late starting position that can make them memorable in the end of the 28 songs.

Look out for Andorra this year... I think Portugal will give them many points!