Israel ISRAEL 2018 - Netta Barzilai - Toy

[Sammy]

She's dropped on 3rd place in the odds.... It seems that her momentum has gone. It's a pity, I love the song really!

 

[mauve]

Okay, I don't like this song, but thought today that maybe her performance can make me understand why this is hyped. But she didn't convince me at all.

 

[ChrisOL]

I loved it the first moment I heard it, but meanwhile this has become so flat and bland, I don't even care about the message.
Pretty sure this is not winning, but she's a contender for the Barbara Dex Award

 

[Iker]

I can see this winning easily actually after today's performance

I absolutely can't see it winning with this sort of performance. Dancers were super-irritating in their intrusive way, looper changed into backing vocals quite repulsive and Netta does not sing all that well here. I think that there's something particularly ennervating about the sound production in Lisbon that does not help Israel in the slightest. Less multi-layered songs just came across better here.

 

[lacrymea]

It wasn't good.

 

[Mii11]

This is the biggest let down ever. I think it will still be in Top 5 but no Eurovision in Israel next year I'm afraid. :/

 

[VedatiNet]

I dont see Israel as winning country after tonights performance. sorry

 

[Mrm]

She was ULTRA AMAZING, I hope she wins, if not Bulgaria!

And this is my full ranking, some entries really clombed on my list, some went down quite deep on the list..

1. Bulgaria
2. Albania
3. Israel
4. Czech Republic
5. Belarus (it was no qualifier for me before semi)
6. Azerbaijan (it was no qualifier for me before semi)
7. Armenia (it was no qualifier for me before semi)
8. Greece
9. Macedonia
10. Switzerland
11. Estonia
12. Lithuania
13. Austria
14. Ireland
15. Croatia
16. Belgium
17. Cyprus
18. Iceland
19. Finland

So I got only 4 out of 10 songs…GOOOSH!
At least my top 4 of the semi qualified..

Portugal is FANTASTIC! Grew on me so much and everything about it so much better now than in the NF..

Now in the final, I LOVE these ones, in this order:

1. Bulgaria
2. Portugal
3. Albania
4. Israel
5. Czech Republic

I LOVE France, I can already say, but have to wait for the performance officially..

 

[Sultana]

I hope that my dream will come true and on Saturday I will see this flopping as hard as possible

 

[Chorizo]

This is so silly.

For this to be a worthy winner, it would have needed:

No clucking
No chicken dance
No strange noises
Better lyrics
A different staging
A different singer

Did I forget something?

 

[Bsimmons]

Did I forget something?

Less ice-cream and donuts, more vegetables and running.

 

[QwaarJet]

Israel are probably in for a surprisingly bad night on Saturday, but I have no idea how bad. Could be a solid top 10 and they are just disappointed, or right hand side and utter devastation. But Cyprus and Lithuania totally overshadowed it.

 

[hawadharma]

Congratulations for qualifying to the finals!

 

[toinou03]

She does not very well on Itunes. Which means she probably was only 4th or 5th in televoting at best... And maybe way less with the juries. Can't see it in the top 5 now. Only around the 8th position.

 

[blue00eyes]

She was about to choke, I was not a fan of this yesterday but expected it to qualify.

 

[Israeliboy]

I hope that my dream will come true and on Saturday I will see this flopping as hard as possible

Your dream? how rude can you be to a person who do everything to represent its country? How rude can you be ? HOW??? admins?

 

[digitaldude]

If Israel gets top 5 people will get in here saying its not deserved, if it flops haters gonna be here again and validate their feelings, gonna be an ugly thread. Anyway second half is good position for the final last year performing 1st was not a good spot at all.

 

[Dorientje]

yup stil don't like the song. pls do not win

 

[Iker]

Is it just me who found the dancers extremely annoying and obnoxious? I disliked this newly created backings-looper too but I know why it must have been there instead. The camera work was unflattering too, I remember even one moment when everything on my screen was covered by some random sparkling pyro.

 

[A-lister]

I really don't get why this fell with the bookies, it's one of the most (if not THE most) difficult songs to pull off live out of the entries this year, yet Netta nailed it and the performance was great, all energy and attitude from the get-go and vocals on top. I really don't get it tbh, the fact that it's under that Rybak crap in the odds now is beyond me but ok I think they did an amazing job with this !!!