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Olivier Rocher from France

Here is a modern pleasant song that could do very well in this semi-final. Samra has a powerful voice and eventually has the song she deserves. “Miracle” is a track that could be played on many radios nowadays. And, for once, it’s not one of those Azerbaijani songs with too much drama performed but an over acting singer. It’s catchy, up tempo, powerful. And just like Armenia, don’t forget that Azerbaijan is a “show maker” and that we can expect a great staging that will help “Miracle” stand out in the line-up. For me “Miracle” is a 100% sure qualifier.

Luka Popovic from Serbia

Another good entry from Azerbaijan. A modern western song, which seems to becoming the norm for most countries at Eurovision. Being Azerbaijan, we are sure to see a good stage performance as well. Very good vocals from the singer and this should sail into the finals.

Jaime Solloso from Spain

Is there a year when Azerbaijan haven’t impressed us with a tune full of meaning and rich voices? Samra is very much in keeping with the club lounge style and makes good use of rich sound to emphasise Miracle. As a song it’s easily up there with the best, it oozes style, sound, rhythm and tempo. The problem is that the lyrics are extremely repetitive. It is more a song that plays to the singers strengths than the singer pushing the song to its limits. A lot depends on the staging, which being Azerbaijan, I expect to be superb. With that in mind this can easily be a Top 5 contender.

OIKOPANEL VOTING

FIRST SEMI FINAL	TOTAL
Armenia	38 points	05	05	04	04	08	06	03	03
Austria	28 points	02	01	08	01	01	04	01	10
Azerbaijan	58 points	08	07	07	07	07	08	08	06
Bosnia & Herzegovina	00 points	00	00	00	00	00	00	00	00
Croatia	00 points	00	00	00	00	00	00	00	00
Cyprus	00 points	00	00	00	00	00	00	00	00
Czech Republic	00 points	00	00	00	00	00	00	00	00
Estonia	00 points	00	00	00	00	00	00	00	00
Finland	00 points	00	00	00	00	00	00	00	00
Greece	00 points	00	00	00	00	00	00	00	00
Hungary	00 points	00	00	00	00	00	00	00	00
Iceland	00 points	00	00	00	00	00	00	00	00
Malta	00 points	00	00	00	00	00	00	00	00
Moldova	00 points	00	00	00	00	00	00	00	00
Montenegro	00 points	00	00	00	00	00	00	00	00
Russia	00 points	00	00	00	00	00	00	00	00
San Marino	00 points	00	00	00	00	00	00	00	00
The Netherlands	00 points	00	00	00	00	00	00	00	00

*oikopanel is consisted of Fotis Konstantopoulos (Greece), Morten Kaiser (Denmark), Jaime Solloso (Spain), Olivier Rocher (France), Victor Cruz Lafuente (Spain), Luka Popovic (Serbia), Alenka Alexandrovic (Switzerland) and Andreas Athanasiou (Greece)

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