I am very upset that this did not qualify. "X My Heart" is such an uplifting song with a positive message. The staging was definitely one of the best that night. The opening shot alone is just breath-taking. I think the sound mixing was way off so it could have come across that Aisel has bad vocal abilities. But taken that away, I thought it was a great presentation, even better than some of the qualifiers out there in terms of the overall package (I am looking at you - Albania and Austria).
I have read alot of people saying this song is generic and does not deserve to qualify. These people are hypocrites. There are many generic songs out there in the competition, Australia, Finland and Cyprus being the most disposable pop songs you can get in the competition. There are also carbon-copies where Czech Republic is a rip-off of Jason Derulo's "Talk Dirty" and Austria is like a poor man's version of "Take Me To Church". So how authentic are these entries? I feel that people are being way harsh on Azerbaijan and sounded bitter because they used to have 100% qualification record. It almost feels that there is a vendetta against Azerbaijan this year.
And all this talk about Azerbaijan having the need to send authentic entries, oh please, "authenticity" is overrated. I feel that they should just in an entry that whatever feels best for the country/artist. Eurovision is now becoming a platform for pretentious people to put down fun and feel good songs and be an advocate for boring songs just because the performer can showcase the vocal abilities. This is not a talent contest FFS.
