Start the competition in the 67th Eurovision Song Contest with the top ten finalists, who will join the members of the Big 5 + Ukraine in the grand final on Saturday the 13th. Sweden and Finland retain their chances to win the EBU music contest after qualifying in the first semifinal on Tuesday with Croatia, Moldova, Switzerland, Czechia, Israel, Portugal, Serbia and Portugal.
Loren, who returns to the festival after winning the competition in 2012 with ‘Euphoria’, gave his best performance since he arrived in Liverpool with ‘Euphoria’, receiving a standing ovation from the audience present at the M&S Bank Arena, while Käärija He made the entire pavilion dance to the rhythm of his ‘Cha cha cha’, which every time wins integers to face off against the Swedish proposal for the crystal microphone.
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Instead, Malta, Latvia, Ireland, Azerbaijan and the Netherlands they ran worse luck in this first semifinal of Eurovision 2023, since they were eliminated as they were the seven countries with the lowest scores by the professional juries and the audience with the right to vote in this gala.
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The most notable elimination has been those of Netherlands, who had trusted Duncan Laurence, winner of Eurovision 2019, as artistic director of the candidacy Mia Nicolai and Dion Cooper with ‘Burning Daylight’. In this way, the country of tulips breaks a streak of seven consecutive years in the final.
On the other hand, Ireland stumbles again in the Eurovision Song Contest with its elimination, seeing how the danger of Sweden taking away the title of country with the most victories in the contest is more present. The Gaelic country deserved to be in the final with Wild Youth and their ‘We are one’, a hymn to self-improvement and unity.