More laughs in the press centre with the first rehearsal of Moldova. The DoReDos members and their 3 backings are dressed in the colours of the Moldovan flag and causing a lot of hilarity with their cheeky choreography and over the top act, based on doors and half doors opening and closing.

I'm however a bit disappointed on the vocals, heard a lot better on the promotour. Good reaction in the press centre though, also in the second run.

Yulia is lovely but I have a few issues with this staging.
I think the fantasy theme is a bit too much to take in at once. And the dancers give it a bit of old-fashioned touch.
I don't think the song is bad and the harmonies sound pretty fine, but at the moment I'm not hundred percent sure about Russia's perfect qualification record.

Probably the biggest questionmark for today was going to be the rehearsal from Russia, and it still is for me, after one run I'm not really sure what to think of it.

Yulia has again been turned into a big mountain as we already saw in the videoclip. Vocally it's better than the one performance we saw before and everyone is eager to get out of their heads, but the chorus still sounds questionable. Her dress is not really visible.

On stage with her are three backing singers and two dancers, for both of them I think it's good to have them on stage as Yulia herself logically doesn't move. Despite this, it still comes across as static, I'm not convinced at all how this is going to be, could this be the second country in this semi-final to 'break' their 100% qualification record?

Denmark is pretty much as we have seen it before in their National Final.
What they added is a bit of flag waving at the end and a lot more fake snow, which is appreciated in the press centre.

The Danish rehearsal is now taking place. They are keeping in line with what we saw before, not many changes. Still the viking theme with sails and dances, this time with fake snow and wind as well. Good reaction in the press centre for a solid performance.

As I said in the video review. Truly entertaining stuff from San Marino.
Robots striving for empowerment. What is not to love here. And the girls perform it much better than before.