"L'amore è femmina (Out of Love)" has been submitted and is waiting for approval. Should show up very soon. (Just a heads-up to the folks who favourited "Love Will Set You Free", but didn't add me to their watchlists for some reason.)

Whew. It's half past five in the morning, and I'm writing a blog entry. I really should be asleep right now.

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Well, semi 2 on Thursday was an uneven mix of joy and frustration for me. The Netherlands got the short end, again (the eighth time in a row they've failed to get past the semi), but Macedonia are in. Yay!

Serbia drew one of the best starting slots for the final, at 24 (late draw is better), and between two uptempo songs, the ballad can really shine.

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...well, that was an interesting night. For the completely irrelevant record: Out of the five songs competing in semi 1 of this year's ESC that served as chapter titles for "Love Will Set You Free", three qualified: Sound of Our Hearts, Never Forget and Party for Everybody. När jag blundar and Unbreakable didn't make the cut, sadly.

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...I took a look at this year's entrants and realized something.

Almost half of the 42 songs are break-up songs of some kind or another. I have no intention of writing the same story with different faces 20 times, so a lot of those are out. The rest? There are some "gems" among these that I honestly don't know how to turn into a story, like "Euro Neuro", "I'm a Joker" or "The Social Network Song". (I wish I was making these up. I'm not.)

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