Eurovision Song Contest 2015 - Albania

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Albania was the first to qualify out of the first batch of semi-finalists, but the performance was cringe worthy at times. It was so off-key :(

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This song does sound a lot better live, especially the ending, but I'm surprised how someone that could win Voice of Italy would have such bad technique live. I really hope she can pull through, because she has huge support this year, and the competition is very weak. I wouldn't rule out a win with a great live performance. Macedonia and Italy I think will give us 12 points, and Greece 10 as always.
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Aurora Bulkualis wrote:Albania was the first to qualify out of the first batch of semi-finalists, but the performance was cringe worthy at times. It was so off-key :(

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This song does sound a lot better live, especially the ending, but I'm surprised how someone that could win Voice of Italy would have such bad technique live. I really hope she can pull through, because she has huge support this year, and the competition is very weak. I wouldn't rule out a win with a great live performance. Macedonia and Italy I think will give us 12 points, and Greece 10 as always.
Yea I was tremendously underwhelmed by this performance... She was off key for the entire first half of the song. Let's hope for a better performance in the finals. At this point I'm just happy we made it to the final and would be ecstatic with a top 10 finish. My expectations have greatly been lowered.
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Is she as good as that 2004 singer? I still remember at the time where she got like 6th place and everyone in my family was acting like she won time magazine person of the year
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I don't rate her vocally as high as Anjeza Shahini who reached 7-th place . They say she didn't perform that well because she had a cold or flu. She can reach top 10 .


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These are the odds given. Let's see how accurate they are

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Russia VideoRussia silkRussia 7/2 5/2 3 5/2 3 4 10/3 11/4 9/4 9/4 11/4 9/4 2 7/2 7/2
Italy VideoItaly silkItaly 5 4 5 4 5 5 9/2 4 9/2 5 4 9/2 3 27/5 23/5
Serbia VideoSerbia silkSerbia 16 12 12 10 12 16 10 14 9 10 9 15/2 14 35/2 67/5
Australia VideoAustralia silkAustralia 20 16 16 14 16 20 16 16 20 25 16 18 20 23 7/2
Belgium VideoBelgium silkBelgium 50 40 40 33 40 66 40 22 33 33 33 40 33 57
Estonia VideoEstonia silkEstonia 50 50 40 33 40 80 66 33 33 66 33 50 40 61 29
Norway VideoNorway silkNorway 150 125 100 66 100 150 80 100 66 150 80 66 66 193
Latvia VideoLatvia silkLatvia 125 100 100 50 100 150 80 22 66 125 50 66 50 135
Spain VideoSpain silkSpain 125 66 100 66 100 150 40 33 66 100 80 100 100 135 40
Azerbaijan VideoAzerbaijan silkAzerbaijan 250 125 100 66 100 200 100 100 100 300 100 125 66 445
Israel VideoIsrael silkIsrael 300 100 100 100 100 250 125 66 100 250 100 40 66 280 20/21
United Kingdom VideoUnited Kingdom silkUnited Kingdom 300 200 100 200 100 250 200 150 100 300 125 100 250
Armenia VideoArmenia silkArmenia 300 150 100 150 100 200 150 200 100 250 200 150 125 969 59
Georgia VideoGeorgia silkGeorgia 250 125 100 125 100 200 150 100 100 300 125 125 80 290
Greece VideoGreece silkGreece 300 200 100 200 100 250 150 150 100 300 125 125 100 717
Cyprus VideoCyprus silkCyprus 300 200 100 200 100 250 150 150 250 300 200 150 100 707
Hungary VideoHungary silkHungary 300 300 100 250 100 250 200 200 250 350 200 150 125 969
Slovenia VideoSlovenia silkSlovenia 300 150 100 150 100 150 125 150 250 400 200 100 969 59
Albania VideoAlbania silkAlbania 250 250 100 250 100 150 100 150 150 500 200 125 100 969 59
Germany VideoGermany silkGermany 500 200 100 200 100 150 200 100 150 150 150 250 150 445
Lithuania VideoLithuania silkLithuania 250 150 100 100 100 500 200 100 250 150 125 80 500 319
Poland VideoPoland silkPoland 300 200 100 150 100 200 250 150 500 250 150 250 150 562
Romania VideoRomania silkRomania 300 200 100 125 100 250 150 150 150 500 200 150 125 775
France VideoFrance silkFrance 750 250 100 200 100 500 300 250 500 500 200 200 500 969 59
Austria VideoAustria silkAustria 750 250 100 200 100 500 150 100 100 250 150 125 150 503
Montenegro VideoMontenegro silkMontenegro 750 250 100 125 100 200 200 200 250 600 200 250 200 969

I think Serbia will win, because the winner lately has always been a gimmicky type of act i.e. transexual, fat, disabled, etc...

If you want to win, send a transsexual, disabled, mentally retarded, blindy gypsy with a song about how he's not different than you and me, and you win.
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I love those parody accounts :) ^

It looks like a race between Sweden, Italy and Russia. Very weak entries tbh. Eurovision has been weak since 2012.
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She was so bad ffs. It was hurting my ears. I don't understand why people were complaining on social media about politics and whatnot. Austria won the previous year, and got 0 points this year. Even places like Azeirbaijan and Latvia have won it.

The saddest part was that in Italy and Switzerland we were #1 by the public, but last by the judges, so we got 0 points from them :( She was like 8th place from the public, and dead last by judges. If she had done a good job, she could have gone top 5.
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Aurora Bulkualis wrote:She was so bad ffs. It was hurting my ears. I don't understand why people were complaining on social media about politics and whatnot. Austria won the previous year, and got 0 points this year. Even places like Azeirbaijan and Latvia have won it.

The saddest part was that in Italy and Switzerland we were #1 by the public, but last by the judges, so we got 0 points from them :( She was like 8th place from the public, and dead last by judges. If she had done a good job, she could have gone top 5.
We did not deserve a better finish that we ended up with. I don't think any of the other performers in the final underperformed quite like Elhaida. To me, it sounded like a drunk girl signing karaoke that is not quite able to keep up with the song she is trying to sing. Everyone needs to stop complaining and make this political, it is a singing competition and the best singers should win. Elhaida was nowhere near good enough to win it (though I personally really liked the song itself and was sure she would place in the top 10 as I expected her to sign it as she did in the music video released).
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Idk why Albania always sends entries that rely heavily on vocal technique, since they're the riskiest to perform live.
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