The three song options for Darude are all pretty meh --- Kobi Marimi's song will be called "Home" (I think it'll be released in a week or two). Later today we'll have national finals in Ukraine, Lithuania, Denmark, and Hungary -- but I'm already preparing myself for Ukraine to pick MARUV (even though I hate her song and see no point to it) -- crossing fingers that "League of Light" wins Denmark (Greenlandic is just so different a language) -- and I'm still trying to figure out how Sisters won Germany with "Sister" (the sibling song in Ukraine is better staged) -- my favorite of the German songs was "Our City" but apparently the LED had a lot of spelling mistakes, and the public just tossed it -- but I really want to follow Makeda's career, she announced herself with her performance. The international jury vote was SO incredibly close, if ONE juror had flipped their 12/10/8 in a different way and given Makeda higher than Sisters, Makeda might have been the one going to Tel Aviv (though I don't know what the tiebreaker would have been). So much crowing going on about good songs getting tossed, I don't think one of my favorites has gotten through in a national final yet -- but there's a lot of diversity in styles, which is a good thing!
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about Kerrie-Anne not winning. 
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