GEORGIA
The Georgian representative, Diana, started today's rehearsals. Diana gave the same stable performance in terms of vocals, wearing a sparkling black outfit with silver details and white boots. The stage colours are mostly red. Anyway this is a good song with a positive message in favour of peace. In our personal estimation the team of oikotimes in Belgrade thing that this song is highly unlikely to qualify but you never know. The second rehearsal of Georgia was changed. Now the lights are more yellow, orange alike and Diana changed the outfit into white.
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HUNGARY
Csezy gives one more outstanding performance. She wears the white black dress and vocally she remains impressive. The stage has real candle lights and also candles in the backdrop of the stage. This performance is full of emotions and the new version works fine on TV. The camera work is also impressive. I would love to see this song in the final. Hard but not difficult.
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MALTA
Morena stepped on stage to perform her song. Blue, black and white spaking stars at the backdrop. Male dancers and Morena wear black in the first rehearsal attempt. The camera work needs improvement for sure. Morena gives an excellent vocal performance but still we wonder who will vote for this song during the second semifinal. Malta is like Cyprus 2007, everyone vows it will qualify but at the end no one votes for it. Though this entry has the best chances to proceed to the final this year. We would suggest some changes to the lights cause it maybe is too blue for the viewers.
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CYPRUS
Evdokia Kadi got on stage. The first lights they try are blue and light green. Now the stage turned into red and blue. Here is comes the first performance of the Cyprus delegation. Evdokia wears a weird dress, white with a hige neck while the boys accompanying her are wearing black and white suits. During the first change of the song Evdokia drops the white robe and stays with a sexy red dress. Vocally Evdokia is not bad. When she got on the table she didn't seem confident for the security of the table but at the end everything was OK. The backing vocals once again are not good. To qualify? We would like so, but seems impossible. The camera work is fine but the backdrop has too many shapes and doesn't help to focus where the artists are. At the press area besides the Greek fans no one really pays attention to this rehearsal.
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FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA
Tamara is making a descent effort in this year's Eurovision Song Contest. Vocally she is not that bad but still she is weak. The performance is based in blue and white colours on stage while Tamara is dressed in black. The camera work simply the same as for every entry of FYR Macedonia the last years. Nothing impressive, nothing to mention. Can FYR Macedonia qualify out of neighbour voting just like the previous years? No way we would say in 2008.
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PORTUGAL
The Portuguese team are casually dressed for their second rehearsal, probably wanting to surprise us in the dress rehearsal. The focus is on the song and the very powerful back vocals. The choreography is slow and atmospheric, to match the song, yet effective. The lights on the background vary in the shades of blue and the camera work is excellent. A fan is used, as usual in Vania Fernandes' performances.
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UNITED KINGDOM
The UK entrant is giving yet another strong performance of his song. The stage for this is VERY colourful, but it looks quite nice. I believe he was wearing his final outfit, which is a blue suit with shining stripe. Looks good on camera.
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GERMANY
The girls look nice and sound as good as look. They are wearing the same outfits as yesterday and that is blue/purple dresses. I don't have much else to say, I think it is too average to make any bigger impact, but at least it's an eye-candy.
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FRANCE
This is quite different indeed and I think there will be people who will be loving this. Sebastien wears white trousers, grey jacket with black shirt underneath as well as sunglasses. He has wind machine. Visualisation for this one is really nice,
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SPAIN
Rodolfo is taking the stage with his dancers. There's no denying that this is a well polished number with perfectly inserted comedic timing. The song sounds good and the vocals are up to par with the recording. It's definitely more engaging as a performance.

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