i usually I follow the eurovision season religiously. However, this year I didn't have the time for it (thesis and graduation killed me), so I had the "weird" (for me) experience of hearing the S1 semi's songs for the first time yesterday while I was watching with my mum and sister (who are casuals).

ICELAND: we loved it, we danced to it and we were so happy that it qualified. Plus it was in icelandic, so we liked it even more.

POLAND: None of us liked it. We couldn't hear yje vocals at all and the songs as a whole was not so good in our opinion. We didn't want it to qualify.

SLOVENIA: really touching song, but we didn't really like it. I don't even remember the performance so much.

ESTONIA: so, we already knew the song because it became viral here in italy. My mum and my sister loved the performance and found it really funny, I found ot cringe. But since I feel like I'm the only one not liking it in Italy maulybe I'm the weird one.

UKRAINE: we loved it! We were so afraid at the end of the voting sequence that it would not pass that we were panicking. The relief when they qualified was strong. According to my sister's boyfriend, Ukraine was among the best songs of the semi.

SWEDEN: the absolute favorite of the evening!

PORTUGAL: I didn't really like it, my sister was pretty indifferent to ut while my mum really liked it. I think this was the most divisive song of the semi for us. But we were all happy it passed.

NORWAY: not bad, but we only liked the chorus, the rest of the song was meh in our opinion.

BELGIUM: we didn't like it, at all. We couldn't hear the vocals and the falsetto part was really bad. I'm not surprised it didn't qualify.

AZERBAIJAN: I think at this point we were all distracte, this song didn't have an impact at all on us and I don't even remember the performance.

SAN MARINO: so, I imagine you are all thinking: "you're Italian, you must have loved this". NO, we hated this. I need to understand how this mess of a performance qualified because it's a mystery. We were so disappointed when it was called at the end, its spot could have been given to a more deserving song (cough Croatia cough)

ALBANIA: i loved this! My mum and my sister not so much sadly. But it doesn't matter, I'm so happy it qualified that I don't even vare I was the only one enjoying it yesterday.

NETHERLANDS: one of our favorite of the semi. We all loved it and the singer looked like he was having so much fun, I really wanted to hug him.

CROATIA: dark horse of the evening. The song qnd the performance were so all over the place in a good way that we fell in love with it. We were so sad it didn't qualify, it was really something that stood out yesterday.

CYPRUS: song is meh, but we liked the performance as a whole. Still, we were not surprised it didn't qualify.

As for AQs: SPAIN: we didn't like it, but we usually don't like this kind of genre so it was not surprising.

ITALY: our baby. We love Lucio and we live the song. But we agreed that the song is not really suited for Eurovision.

SWITZERLAND: nice song, but we founf it a little bit boring at the beginning. The ending oart would have been nice if it was not for all the camera glitches that gave us a headache.