01) Eleni Foureira - Does not disappoint! I love Eleni, so immediate bias. When she sings “Aeraki” I tingle with joy lmao.
02) Jordy Searcy - Reminds me of Same Love by Macklemore. The song is somewhat sad which contrasts to the upbeat nature of the melody.
03) Lee Hyori - Its a very slow and mellow song. I like the calm visuals and aerial views also that rap at the end came outta nowhere.
04) Crooked Ways - Finland Eurovision vibes, I’m definitely not opposed to this! I f all rock were like this I could grow to like the genre.
05) Axwell /\ Ingrosso - Duncan Lawrence wannabe? Give him back the stolen water!!! Upbeat enough song that you might hear at a dance :) The string instruments during the 2nd verse bring a smile to my face. How have I not heard this before? The end “I can promise you” was a little repetitive but that's the downfall of all synthesized songs.
06) SEB - OHHHH THATS WHERE THE TIKTOK SOUND CAME FROM!!!! THANK YOU FOR RELIEVING ME OF THIS EARWORM <3 Love the visuals and at first I thought it was a cover of watermelon sugar.
07) Mae Muller - Slow start, but then I lived for the chorus and the dancing! Strong entry :)
08) RAYE - Very strong entries this time around and I am absolutely excited. The dancing is a little gimmicky but the melody makes up for it.
09) Cecile Believe - Keeping it positive! Umm...I like the cherry visualizer?
10) SG Lewis, Nile Rodgers - Like the two sided story, the guy’s voice was quite mediocre, I’ll give props to the director to making the video interesting. I kept on thinking the girl would start singing her part of the story but she never did. Such a bummer
11) Dreamcatcher - Something is off about this, I think the bass instruments weren’t loud enough in comparison to the vocals. A bunch of things were randomly happening that my attention didn’t know where to direct it at. I love that K Pop is becoming more inclusive of new sub sets but this song fell short.
12) GIRLI - Looking at other comments I knew that the verses would be lacking but I thought that the chorus would redeem itself - it didn’t really, it just paused the disappointment train.
13) Madame - I hate being so harsh, but this did nothing for me. I thought the handdrum would get me in the mood of dancing but it didn’t. Usually the video adds points to the presentation, this time it did nothing.
14) Eartheater - Song is a long one, usually this means I’m naturally biased. The juxtaposition between her wardrobe leads me to want to find a deeper meaning - or is this just me being acclimatized to conjure false inferences to sound smart?
15) BRIDGE - Stoner vibes anyone? I thought I was gonna absolutely love this and was gonna start comparing this to Billie Eillish but then as soon as he started singing I started sleeping. I take back the previous comment of this TSC being a strong field. Maybe I’m in a loud music only mood.
16) Transviolet - Kidnapping into a cult and eating a poisoned orange? The verse leading up to the 1st chorus was really dull the chorus redeemed itself. But I still feel really weird about this song.
17) Kilo Kish - I think my standards have been lowered so far, now I just can’t wait for this TSC to end. The beat is okay, but the vocals I don’t live for.
18) ZZ Ward - FINALLY! Something I can listen to. This is very energizing compared to what I’ve heard for these past few songs. Reminds me of Adeles starting of Rolling in the Deep. I am absolutely living for the verses and the strumming. Also that last held note mhmmm!
19) Zee Avi - I feel like a mother is singing me a lullaby its very nice coffee shop music
20) Lukas Abdul - Yas French-Arabic pop is absolutely living! This just makes me more committed to doing my Duolingo!
21) Nona - A return to the middle songs of TSC 449 depression? On paper I would love the song but its a no for me.
22) Charlotte Adigéry - I’m gonna pretend this wasn’t a french song because my respect and admiration for the language shall never be tainted by this artist. The repetitiveness of the song oh my god I’m dying, please never enter this artist ever again.
23) YENDRY - Are you trying to piggy back off of Elena? This is a laughing stock of a song her dancing is bad enough for a cringe channel just imagine her dancing without context.
24) Yung Bae - My god those smiles and the aerobic exercising? I love it! It’s like they’re animatronics here to kill me.
25) Tia Gostelow - There was a phrase that stuck out to me “Baby I don’t mind cuz I’m just killing time” this sums up how I’m feeling about the song. I can tolerate it and compared to the other lackluster songs I don’t mind it and it’s almost the end!
26) Nova Twins - Nice way to end the show. This was firmly in the good pool of songs. This edition had polar opposites of absolute love and despise with only a few transition middle grounders.