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Iceland

Iceland First Rehearsal: Maria Olafs - Unbroken

Maria Olafs from Iceland is next on stage, wearing a pink ballerina/tutu dress with stones inset onto the bodice. She's performing on stage barefoot. She's joined by five backing vocals who are all dressed in black and stand together on the right side of the stage.

The overall backdrop consists of the Northern lights, which I personally like for the song. However when the bridge finally kicks in, its being replaced by a golden backdrop and I'm failing to understand why that was included.

In the first run, Maria was quite off key, but the second time round she sounded much better. After all, the live performance is what counts.

I think there's plenty of potential for Iceland, it just needs some tightening, especially in terms of the vocals. But Maria's absolutely captivating the camera's.

Israel, Sept Points!

Iceland - First Rehearsal

It's difficult to produce something good after Latvia and Azerbaijan performances. And it's not Maria's fault, it's a tough task.

Maria's wearing a pinkish tutu dress, less impressive that Latvia has... And the show is not as good as Azerbaijani one. There are maintains and northern lights on the background and it is really beautiful.

The song and the whole performance is not bad at all, I just feel that it will get lost in the previous fantastic performances.