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Yeah, I think No Angels did a good performance, but they took incomprehensibly the last place together with Andy Abraham (United Kingdom) and Isis Gee (Poland). My personal favorite was Sébastien Tellier from France (great pop song! he has his own style), followed by Rodolfo Chikilicuatre from Spain (funny song, similar style to Manu Chao), Andy Abraham from the UK (his song reminds me a little of Sydney Youngblood's "If Only I Could") and Maria Haukaas Storeng from Norway (this could be a Mariah Carey song). I also liked the Ukrainian song "Shady Lady" and the Finnish true metal song was differently, but cool (but wasn't successful, although Finland won with Lordi's "Hard Rock Hallelujah" in 2006). The Danish song was a cheerful "old-school Eurovision" song, but was nothing special. The worst song of the evening came from Albania in my opinion.

Russia's Dima Bilan won with his ballad "Believe". I like the song, but it was a little overkill in my opinion: Timbaland (Yes, the American hip hop producer!) vamped the song up with his beats, a Hungarian star violinist played a 300 years old Stradivari and a Olympic games-winning Russian figure skater performed to the song... That was too much, I think.

I picked these four songs for the poll, because they were the favorites of the most music experts. In the case of Russia and the Ukraine it became true, but not in the case of Sweden and Portugal.