Adam Woods: The most cliche male MF entry ever. Parts of the backing even sounds exactly like "Tattoo", the rest sounds like a mish--mash of other previous entries i don't want to remember. Not gonna rule out a decent success with the weak competition though, but he'd have to deliver beyond what's humanly possible on stage to have a chance to get top 2 with this.
Samir & Viktor: Very weak, insincere and irrelevant. Their original audience has grown away from them and the younger ones won't care. If they wanted to have any chance, they'd do an ultra-uptempo, jokey, stage gimmick-filled entry like Sean Banan used to, i don't get why they keep trying to do this more "general audience pop" when they lack vocal or other skills to do it. #2 POSSIBLE if they have a great staging, come across as likable and everyone else fails.
Melina Borglowe: Obligatory guitar-plunking sacrificial lamb.
Elisa Lindström: Don't count out this straight-on 2005 housewife escapist Schlager. I don't like them, but they almost always seem to make the final, and with a great staging, performance and vocals she could be a top 5 threat.
Lisa Ajax: Very weak, aimless and cliche-filled song. I can't count how many modern radio pop cliches they threw in the first minute, and there's nothing to hold them together. I'm betting on Elisa over this as the 2nd finalist.
Smash Into Pieces: Easily DTF here. They've said their staging is gonna be even better than last year's, and everything's stacked up for them. Song seems a bit flat, like a radio-pop songwriter's idea of boring 80s hard rock with over--processed, synthetic sounding drums and guitars.
And like last time, the vocals are very forced and thin sounding. But maybe it will make more sense in full, with the staging. The only way they could not make top 2 is if they completely wretch the vocals, and two other entries do SUPERBLY well for some reason, but i doubt even that could stop it.
Really weak bunch of songs overall, it's obvious they're setting it up for certain acts to qualify by giving others nothing to work with. At least we can hope for a good winner, still.