Greece GREECE 2018 - Yianna Terzi - Oneiro Mou

[Mrm]

Yianna was off key I’m afraid…
I love the song and I would personally make her qualify, but it wasn’t that good unfortunately!
She was my number 8 tonight, it dropped on the list!

 

[Kevan1994]

I've never really connected with this song. Can't say I'm upset to see it stay in the semis.

 

[Ana Raquel]

i'm somewhat defending demy since she just qualifies for being one of the few countries last year with a good staging. otherwise greece would have started its dark era with 3 nqs in a row


i'm still shocked about this

 

[ESCada]

No hate towards Yianna - She did a good job I feel, but sending a song for Greeks to Greeks in an international competition might not have been a great idea.
And another point, I think that Eleni ate the entire Greek vote and there wasn't much left for Yianna.
Next time ERT should consider before they reject ......... If they want to win.

 

[Chorizo]

The one that wasn't disqualified didn't qualify.

 

[aletem]

Re: GREECE 2018 - Gianna Terzi - Óneiró Mou

This can easily end 11th in the semi. Despina from Cyprus in 2013 did it better and flopped hard.

Wait and see who will end 11th in the semi.

Don't take aletem seriously. We all know that Greece will qualify even if Gianna messes it up badly. Last year, Greece qualified although the singer avoided high notes in chorus

I still might be wrong. Coz Azerbaijan seemed like a definite qualifier.

 

[hawadharma]

So sad about disqualification
Probably the saddest news (so far) in this year's season.

In all fairness, I don't know which song to point out who had robbed from the Top 10 spot.

Better luck for Greece next time

 

[lavieenrose]

I think I might be more upset about this than Belgium. The camera angles were a problem, sure, but the song and vocal were an incredibly captivating, enjoyable package.

 

[Carian]

Re: GREECE 2018 - Gianna Terzi - Óneiró Mou

I still might be wrong. Coz Azerbaijan seemed like a definite qualifier.

Okey, you were right. So what? I am shocked. Really shocked. I am not sure what went wrong here.

 

[digitaldude]

Only song I'm sad didn't qualify.

 

[mauve]

Can't believe this didn't qualify and Finalnd did. This is a thousand times better! Powerful vocals and a wonderful song.

 

[EurovisionSmile]

I can't believe Lithuania qualified over this song. Well, I'm so sad, I kept voting for this song, I've counted 11 times I called to vote for Greece.

 

[Citelis]

Propably juries killed us but it wasn't good anyway!

 

[A-lister]

If the juries are behind this not qualifying (I wouldn't be surprised!), it just proved the point I made over and over again that they are having an anti- European agenda killing all ethno/local sounding entries. It's a shame because Greece sent one of its best entries in years and were true to themselves. Surely the live performance wasn't that thrilling, and her vocals weren't top notch, but as a whole package and particular the song it deserved to qualify no doubt about that. So far the most unfair results of this season.

This for sure deserved a final more than Albania, Finland, Ireland and Lithuania imo This had identity, can't say the same about those.

 

[Realest]

If the juries are behind this not qualifying (I wouldn't be surprised!), it just proved the point I made over and over again that they are having an anti- European agenda killing all ethno/local sounding entries. It's a shame because Greece sent one of its best entries in years and were true to themselves. Surely the live performance wasn't that thrilling, and her vocals weren't top notch, but as a whole package and particular the song it deserved to qualify no doubt about that. So far the most unfair results of this season.

This for sure deserved a final more than Albania, Finland, Ireland and Lithuania imo This had identity, can't say the same about those.

Only my Opinion, but only because a Song has a Local Sound and is sung in Motherlanguage, it doesnt mean that its automatically good. According to that Logic, Kroatia should have won 2012 e.g. And in Eurovision we (and the Juries) judge Liveperformances and not Studioversions. And neither her Vocals, nor her Performance was Top10-Worthy. Imo the Juries (probably) did the right Thing. If I was professional Juror, I would have put her around 13th-14th. And Im pretty sure, her Only TV-Points came from Diasporahousing Countries (CY/BE/UK/AM/AL/MK/BG). Diaspora-Adjusted she probably wasnt even in the TV-Top10.

 

[A-lister]

Only my Opinion, but only because a Song has a Local Sound and is sung in Motherlanguage, it doesnt mean that its automatically good.

I agree about that, but this was a good entry. I however think the juries loath local entries, which is a shame in a contest where one of the main purposes is to represent your country. We should appreciate that some countries dare to do this even now when they know they will face jury scrutiny, I think it's a huge shame though and not in Eurovision spirit that it should harm you for sending something that is more representative, it goes against everything Eurovision stands for in concept. If you can't even have a place in Eurovision for this, where can you? Of course a bad entry shouldn't sail through just because of local sounds and-/or native language, but then again Albania had one of the worst entries this year, sung in native language, but since it was just a substandard rock song with no local sound juries were ok with it. They are especially against entries that include local sounds, maybe not so much use of native language (although they aren't too happy about that either it seems).

 

[Realest]

I agree about that, but this was a good entry. I however think the juries loath local entries, which is a shame in a contest where one of the main purposes is to represent your country. We should appreciate that some countries dare to do this even now when they know they will face jury scrutiny, I think it's a huge shame though and not in Eurovision spirit that it should harm you for sending something that is more representative, it goes against everything Eurovision stands for in concept. If you can't even have a place in Eurovision for this, where can you? Of course a bad entry shouldn't sail through just because of local sounds and-/or native language, but then again Albania had one of the worst entries this year, sung in native language, but since it was just a substandard rock song with no local sound juries were ok with it. They are especially against entries that include local sounds, maybe not so much use of native language (although they aren't too happy about that either it seems).

Well, Juries supported Zeljko, Aliona Moon, Urban Symphony, Harel Skaat etc... so they proved that its the Song that matters and that Local Sounds have a chance too. Albania at least gave a Great VocalPerformance and had the only Rocksong, so it makes Sense that Juries supported it, although I believe that it was mostly the TV who supported Albania. And As I said, im pretty sure that "Neutral" Countries like LT/BY/CZ etc.. had Greece not even in Range of Top10 in the TV..

 

[A-lister]

Well, Juries supported Zeljko, Aliona Moon, Urban Symphony, Harel Skaat etc... so they proved that its the Song that matters and that Local Sounds have a chance too. Albania at least gave a Great VocalPerformance and had the only Rocksong, so it makes Sense that Juries supported it, although I believe that it was mostly the TV who supported Albania. And As I said, im pretty sure that "Neutral" Countries like LT/BY/CZ etc.. had Greece not even in Range of Top10 in the TV..

I wouldn't exaggerate and call it "support" in all those cases, but sure it's not like they are always against it, but if you look back since 2009 when juries jumped onboard again, in particular since 2010 forward, you can clearly see that they often punished local sounding entries (also good ones), and in particular it's like they can't stand the combo of ethno/local/folk with native language. If you go back even further before televoting was even introduced, they were often downgrading ethnic sounding entries even back in the days, so it's not a new phenomena. Greece didn't start to do good in Eurovision until televotes were introduced, and you can blame it all on diaspora, but I think it's to simplify things, I think the public feel more attached to local stuff and find it interesting, wheres juries for some reason in too many cases prefer the "good ol' safe western sound". We will see when we will see the split votes for this semi, but I do think Greece made it on televotes, but I could be wrong, it's just a feeling I have.

 

[PeterLPZ]

I don´t know, why this wonderful song failed. Also the staging and here voice were good. Mmh.

 

[QwaarJet]

If the juries are behind this not qualifying (I wouldn't be surprised!), it just proved the point I made over and over again that they are having an anti- European agenda killing all ethno/local sounding entries. It's a shame because Greece sent one of its best entries in years and were true to themselves. Surely the live performance wasn't that thrilling, and her vocals weren't top notch, but as a whole package and particular the song it deserved to qualify no doubt about that. So far the most unfair results of this season.

This for sure deserved a final more than Albania, Finland, Ireland and Lithuania imo This had identity, can't say the same about those.

It didn't really have identity. That was all stripped away in the staging. You admitted the live performance "wasn't thrilling" and that she vocally off, and you still think it was robbed? In studio, this song is fantastic, and hovers in and out of my top 10. But I was very let down by the live performance, and I'm not really sure it deserved to qualify.

I just hope it doesn't put Greece off from sending ethno entries, especially because that crap they sent last year qualified and this didn't. Sadly, they may place it safe next year, as this elimination is a total disaster for them.