The Year of The Ballad.......

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Don't you just lovethe National Finals, some of these can be just as exciting as the actual Eurovision Song Contest itself.

But where are the National Finals heading this year?

It would seem that the favourite genre of music this year appears to me to be "THE BALLAD"
The United Kingdom,Malta, Hungary, Cyprus, Denmark and France have all chosen them and I would say that 3 of them could actually win the Eurovision outright.

The next type of music which we seem to be getting is plain standard middle of the road pop but with a hint of Greece's "Kalomoira" in it.... The girls from Andorra, Montenegro, Turkey, Romania and Albania are al out in force with this type of music but I'm sorry girls your just not as good as Ani, Sirusho or Kalomoira from 2008, well maybe excluding Hadise from that one!!!

Mind you the dance song along the lines of Bulgaria and Iceland from 2008 are also making a welcome return.....Finland with the utterly fabulous "Lose Control" sung by Waldo's People, Quartissimo from Slovenia with "Love Symphony".

The Netherlands are trying their hand at "Schlager", but can they pull it off this year after 4 years of only being in the Semi Finals.

Belarus reminds me somewhat of last years Lithuanian entry but a little but poppier and I just don't get it I'm afraid

We are obviously still waiting to here the songs from Switzerland and Bosnia which have already confirmed well known bands will be their representatives.

The girls from Israel and Azerbaijan have not published their songs yet, but I am sure that both will be pretty good seeing as both countries would like to be doing as well if not better than 2008 when both countries finished in the Top 10.

Where will the rest of the songs to be chosen fit into these categories.

I will be interested to see what Germany tell us they are sending to Moscow tonight and then at the weekend we have the 2009 Super Saturday with Iceland, Moldova, Poland, Armenia and Lithuania choosing their songs, Norway and their second chance round, Sweden 2nd Semi Final and both Slovakia and Spain start their semi finals also.

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