ASFM: April Lucky-Dip Switcheroo - First Viewing Party - MONDAY 18th April 17:00 BST

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The 4:15 bit is genuinely lovely. Did she just sing "I just wanna be Mariah"?

 

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Okay, this was worth holding on for. I like these bits much.

 

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This song is like a wig reveal. I didn't think she had it in her, but my god at the tedious bits.

 

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Svenska. This video explains why being deaf is now illegal in Scandinavia (it was news to me too, but very much true, no need to look it up). The song just makes me wish I were.

 

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Baggage. Giving me ASFM icon LIGHTS vibes.

 

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Chorus is more Love Island fluff.

 

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I'm giving into it somewhat.

 

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Ooooooh. Swoosh.

 

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Diamonds and Pearls. I like the pastiche. Charisma-wise even Margaret Berger would urge her to try a little bit harder though. On first listen I'm hugely in favour, but repeated plays might snap me out of it.

 

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I'd have insisted on a 70s porn video treatment, but maybe that's just me.

 

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Beibe. What a babe. I don't like this song, so I don't even need to say what he needs to do to make the next 2 minutes worth it. I don't see it happening. If only Brian Harvey had held onto his looks a little longer.

 

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Get out of the car / it's over / it's gone

 

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At least it's got a little funkier verse 2.

 

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Actually, I quite like the punchy, adroit rhythm to it.

 

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So basically Lolita is Slave or Lockhart. Interesting.

 

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An actual retro find and not a retro-padtiche find. I love these entries. It really does sound a bit like Gloria off the gate though. I'd hate it if the cover that Kelly Wilde has based her entire life on was a rip-off.

 

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Loving the medley feel to it!

 

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Hi. And just when I'm struggling, In Spain breathes some fresh air into the heat. Chorus-wise and bridge-wise that is. Verse-wise it stalled a bit.

 

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I've never seen lumpy shoulders like that. I'm on Kendal.

 

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How can you not just stare at her? Gorgeous.

 

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We have a new top.

 

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Just a little overcome by the tinkly beauty of it all.

 

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Oh was that it? Well what a showstopper of a finale. That and Velür are my sure shots. Jesus, so good. Some decent in inbetweeners too.

 

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The viewing doth commenceth.

 

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1. Fletcher - Healing

Fletcher got a lot hotter since Porridge. This has a whiff of the Chlammies about it.

 

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The song is doing little for me but the video features a topless redhead so I don't see how it won't be getting my 20.

 

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Raphaël - L'année la plus chaude de tous les temps

@Soldi's first song of the contest, and it's the first solo project by one of the Ninja Turtles

 

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If I had a penny for every music video I've seen featuring Elijah Wood running through the desert with his shoulders on fire.

The music is dramatic as fuck. The voice sounds like he's reading out bus times for an automated helpline.

 

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Chorale feat. Päivi Lepistö - Suomidancee

Presumably not to be confused with @Suomi dancin':

 

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But hot fuck this is GOOD.

 

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Song: Prolapse-inducing stonker of a key change.
Video: Middle aged people politely bobbing on stage.

MAKE IT MAKE SENSE.

 

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'Mystic' Meg Myers - Desire

Ooh, this is a bit gritty

 

[COB]

Middle aged people politely bobbing on stage.

 

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Had to nip off for a quick toilet break, but I'm back again to listen to Mystic Meg properly.

I'm sure I recognise the bit in the video where her clothes slide off...

 

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This is what bits of the Meg Myers song were reminding me of, slightly:

 

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Is she being sexed by a ghost?

 

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This is what bits of the Meg Myers song were reminding me of, slightly:

Bizarrely I can actually hear that. I think it's the chamber music backing on the chorus.

 

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Faouzia - Puppet

She looks like TikTok vomited on her but at least it's uptempo

 

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This is actually pretty good. It reminds me of a couple of songs from SuomiTartfestivalen, which is no bad thing

 

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Lisa - Adamas

Oh HELLO our Lis nice to see you again. This means I DEFINITELY can't enter the Lisa song I've had on the backburner for a while.