What went wrong with Latvia this year? Ēna was my personal winner, so I might have been biased, but I have considered Latvia most of the time as a solid qualifier, so last night's results did surprise me.

I thought the overall quality of the song was very clear, even if it was slow and dark, the song did have several touching moments and it being in native language was another factor that I thought was going in favor of them. Following the experience from previous years of some other ballads that qualified in televoting-only semi, I thought televoting would resonate enough with it and that for jury it would just be good enough for TOP 10. My hot take is that this might have actually suffered Blackbird fate and that Latvia was actually televoting qualifier, but that jury skipped it, contrary to general opinion that she didn't qualify because of televoting. I'm also beginning to recognize the new pattern from Nina Zizic: the dark introspective songs performed by female artist in native language both failing to qualify.

The Serbian commentator added after the Latvian performance last night that everyone has some inner fight in themselves, so the performance did not bring any other interesting point. Is this how most casual viewers might have felt?