--- Tier: Songs I will actually listen to regularly ---
Somalia: Love the guitar riffs, vocals were eh for me but enough to not be a dealbreaker. I've got a playlist full of songs I use to help control my road rage while driving and this fits comfortably on it and will get regular listens. I wasn't really expecting to find something like this in song contest.
--- Tier: Songs I'd say I'd listen to again even though I probably won't ---
Poland: Found it captivating
Greenland: very cool
Djibouti: super impressive and sounded good as well
--- Tier: Songs I liked but not enough to regularly listen ---
Comoros: Loved the instrumentals, vocals kinda creeped me out a bit but weren't bad
Sealand: noted that I really liked it, but have completely forgot it the next day
Chad: Sometimes I reflect on my mortality and become saddened by the fact that I won't ever know what happens after I'm gone. This song spoke to me (in vocals I was just eh about but...)
--- Tier: Other songs I gave points to for reasons ---
Canada: ok wow I've probably had this memorized since I was 5. As a kid I only knew what my parents listened to and that was country music. May have even genuinely liked it then (without really knowing any other genre), but nowadays when I hear any country music it takes me back to grade school where admitting you listened to country music was something that got you ridiculed and ostracized (ironic given my hometown is square in the middle of "country is all you can really find on FM radio" country and all those kids have grown up to drive big trucks and listen to country music). Nevertheless this song is iconic.
Turkey: Having a choir background, a song like this would have been really fun to sing.
San Marino: couldn't understand a word but it was catchy and smooth just how I like my beer wait is this actually just a beer comercial?
--- Tier: Songs I wanted to also give points to but just fell short ---
Spain: 80's are very hit/miss with me and this was kinda in the middle but just fell short of the points
Ecuador: Got a maybe from me on first listen but lost out on tiebreakers
--- Tier: Everything else ---
Croatia: The fact it was short and first on the list made it feel more like a preamble to the song contest than part of it. I didn't have any feels while listening
Costa Rica: I didn't get it which means it's probably not really meant for me anyways
Iceland: This didn't really seem like an actual song but I did feel the raw emotion
Russia: by the 3rd "Partiya Lenina" I was pre-cringing 3 bars in advance, which I suppose was the point
Austrailia: just didn't do anything for me
USA: I actually probably would have given just the song itself some points as it was kinda cool and on the fringes of stuff I regularly listen to, but evaluating the whole entry as presented, the corny amateurish acting/speaking parts were a huge turnoff, and I almost skipped this before the song itself actually began. And I actively hated the speaking part where (presumably) the lead singer broke the 4th wall to angrily explain his art (don't remember the exact words but it was shortly before the music started I think) just came across as self-absorbed. Then the song ended and there was still idk a 3rd of the runtime left for more acting/speaking parts and I just skipped ahead.
Iran: This was just...
...wait for it...
...not my type
Hungary: not for me
Egypt: Ended up skipping through this one a bit and this one more than others (I think it was this one anyways) seemed like the same couple bars on loop, every time I jumped to a time it sounded exactly the same to me.
--- Tier: My Entry ---
Liechtenstein: Kinda entered the contest on a whim so don't have any particular reason for entering this song. I mentioned above I have a playlist I keep adding to to help keep me sane and cool while driving. I've found that blasting rock music seems to do the trick without distracting from the task of actually driving. It's not my favorite on the playlist just the one on my mind when I entered, and one of the few I don't end up regularly skipping after multiple listens.
What initially attracted me to the song was the guitar intro in 6/8 time with the little catches that make it seem unpredictable no matter how many times I listen to it. When the chorus hit the first time is when I hit the add to playlist because even though it pretty much turns into a very formulaic verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge-chorus mainstream rock song, it does a pretty ok job at disguising that. It wasn't until I entered it in the contest and googled for a youtube link that I discovered the song was 10 years old and made it top 10 on a few billboard charts so I was surprised I had never actually heard it before getting radio play or anything. Ultimately, it's representative of the type of music I seem to be into lately.
