ROTTERDAM CALLING MAY 15 🇳🇱 Live Blog: Italy, Germany, The Netherlands, France, United Kingdom, Spain second rehearsal

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SPAIN WILL PERFORM IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE GRAND FINAL

ΤΗΕ UNITED KINGDOM WILL PERFORM IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE GRAND FINAL

FRANCE WILL PERFORM IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE GRAND FINAL

Albania – Andri Xhahu
Austria – Philipp Hansa
Croatia – Ivan Dorian Molnar
Cyprus – Loukas Hamatsos
Czech Republic – Taťána Kuchařová
Denmark – Tina Müller
France – Carla
Germany – Barbara Schöneberger
Greece – Manolis Gkinis
Iceland – Hannes Óli Ágústsson
Israel – Lucy Ayoub
Italy – Carolina Di Domenico
Netherlands – Duncan Laurence
Poland – Ida Nowakowska
Portugal – Elisa
Romania – Cătălina Ponor
San Marino – Monica Fabbri
Slovenia – Lorella Flego
Sweden – Carola
Switzerland – Angélique Beldner
United Kingdom – Amanda Holden

WE ALREADY KNOW THAT THE NETHERLANDS WILL PERFORM IN #23 IN THE GRAND FINAL

A song that is dedicated to his grandmother who died last December from COVID-19. Blas appears alone on stage. He is dressed in black and sings the first part of the acapella song. The scene is reminiscent of a starry sky with white lights on a black background while at the bottom we see blue lights. In the graphics, we see a huge full moon in eclipse which turns silver during the song. In the second half of the song, we see the moon has left the graphics of the scene and is now part of the scene itself. At the end of the song, we have a burst of stars and nebulae while the moon turns red. There are many close-ups of his face. In the first rehearsal, there were some small problems with the TV footage. The singer was very strong vocally. He completed his interpretation by looking up with his hand up.

GERMANY WILL PERFORM IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE GRAND FINAL

ITALY WILL PERFORM IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE GRAND FINAL

Reading the comments on the web, it seems that I have exactly the same feelings for this one. I love the song, I would love to hear that song in the future but I truly don’t understand the staging. The organisers though made it impressive, now it’s in the personal taste to cast a vote for the UK. We have to admit that James is giving a great vocal performance and he is really enjoying this. James zipped his jacket this time.

The appearance is not different from what we saw the day before yesterday in its first rehearsal. Simplicity seems to be the word that best describes the appearance of France. Barbara Pravi appears alone on stage wearing black clothes. Her hands are uncovered to make her hand movements look even better. White spotlights surround the singer and bathe her in light, creating an idyllic atmosphere. There are several close-ups in her facial expressions but also in a piece of jewellery she wears. In the middle of the song we see the same visual effect as that of the French final on the floor of the stage, that is, the black figure of Barbara is transformed into flying birds. Vocally it was riveting as we are used to.

The Dutch decided to pay a tribute to the colonies of a forgotten empire. Jeangu is giving his performance (not sure how proud he makes the Dutch with this one) but overall it’s like watching the 1992 Dutch entry. It is clear the Dutch wanna pay tribute to their colonies, and not to win the contest again after the over-spending they had to go through or two consecutive years.