ESC 2010 OSLO First Semi-Final
For the first few somgs, I was cheerily surprised to hear such a vast display of ethnic music.
This was a good contest, although nothing real exciting to talk about.
I had a terrible time with my connection. But it got better once i figured out the FaceBook
feed was feeding me crap , and messing up my audio/video of the contest..
In firefox, I right clicked and selected 'Block Images from FaceBook' .
I didn't have any problem after that. Well the sound was out of sync for a minute.
After all was done, I only had nine contestants that I marked as GOOD.
All that aside, my notes:

1 Moldova - GOOD. That's all i wrote down. They may have been second only to Greece.
2 Russia - ...my feed was too bad to judge. A cool ethnic sound.
3 Estonia - very pop song, had a nasty echo or loop that was disorienting. Was that intentional?
4 Slovakia - Dark song. My feed jumped into Finlands song before this was over.
5 Finnland - I liked it ! The performance felt like Abba was back in the contest. GOOD.
6 Latvia - She can sing well. But screeches at times, and the song was too slow.
7 Serbia - Good, clean fun song. A popstar in the making. GOOD
8 Bosnia & Herzegovina - Would have loved to hear it. I rebooted because my connection was bad.
9 Poland I got back just in time to hear ...next country is Belgium... my feed had lagged so far behind.
10 Belgium - Reminded me of James Taylor; a man and his guitar, on stage with a microphone. GOOD
11 Malta - GOOD
12 Albania - Cool song and performer.GOOD
13 Greece - Pretty awesome song. GOOD
14 Portugal - A true ballad type song, and a fine vocalist.
15 Macedonia - The song seemed so out of place and cold. Like a rap artist on family hour.
16 Belarus - For once, I think they did GOOD.
17 Iceland - The audio jumped all over when i was watching/listening. GOOD

The qualifiers : Bosnia&Herzegovina, Moldova, Russia, Greece, Portugal, Belarus, Serbia, Belgium,
Albania and Iceland .

The contest didn't seem to have as many shots of the crowd 'flag waving' as in past years.
That is good. The atmosphere was very much like a family gathering. Very sweet, indeed.
What was lacking was a young man, or woman seeking the crowds approval. nobody requested
'hands in the air' or tried to make a statement. And each performer received nearly the same amount
of applause. There was no apparent 'crowd favorite' , as far as i could tell.

The Estoniis seemed to have dropped a horrible acapella number, where they usually have a vote getter.
Belarus took a huge leap forward. Greece has a veteran performer again, and he is excellent.
Belgium. Alas, they got in to the finals. Never have i seen Belgium make the finals. WTG .
I felt so bad for the Russians, and then 'surprise' they made the final.

After all songs were over, and finally I heard the 5 automatic qualifiers clips.
The UK song sounds good, I had to look to see who Germany was, Spain I could tell,
and I don't remember France or Norways songs.