Re: PORTUGAL 2017
I dislike/like Salvador's song. I dislike its style. I dislike that Portugal is in a semifinal of ballads and probably this won't stand out in comparison to Pedro's song, for example. Let's think about this: would people prefer to vote for this intimist song by Portugal or for the Finnish ballad? IMO, they would vote for the Finnish ballad as the instrumental and the atmosphere of the song are more attractive than the "talked" song by this young man with weird manners. That's why I think it's a less competitive song than Pedro's song.
However, I like the song because of the message (but anyway foreign people won't understand it, even if they are touched). IMO, this song it's very different from the average love song that you hear everywhere. He's not saying things like "Baby, I love you", "Baby, we will be together forever" or "I should have done this or that in order to show you how much I love you". He's basically talking to the person he loves, the love is not corresponded and he is basically saying that while the other person doesn't learn how to love him (implying that love is something that grows with time and is not immediate), he can love for both of them. And he doesn't say this in a creepy way (like, "I'm going to kidnap you and lock you in my basement until you learn how to love me"). He says this honestly and hopping that the other person will understand how much he loves her. This song shows such a sensibility! The lyrics is probably better than a lot of poems that we read in published books by known authors. "If someday someone asks for me, tell them that I lived to love you. Before you I only existed, tired and with nothing to give". Damn! In Portuguese it looks like something a Fernando Pessoa's heteronym could have written. I can totally imagine Ricardo Reis (one of Pessoa's heteronyms) dedicating this song to "Lídia" (for foreigners: this is a poem where the author basically just wants to stay sit next to the woman he loves - Lídia - while they see the river flow. They don't hold hands or kiss, although they could do it. But it's simply better to be next to each other, peacefully, because if she dies before him, he won't suffer when he remembers her. He will just picture her like in that moment: calm and sitting by the river with flowers on her lap).
I'm sorry, I just got carried away. I know I shouldn't be comparing a song lyrics from 2017 with a poem by Fernando Pessoa, but this is how sensible I think this song is.
It would be shame to miss such great opportunity with Salvador this year. I wonder, I see mostly it is mentioned Salvador and Pedro, but Viva la Diva actually won first semi and I wouldn't give up on their chances so easily. 
