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Sign Up. Watch Here. Puzzles hub Visit our brain gym where you will find simple and cryptic crosswords, sudoku puzzles and much more. Created with Sketch. Sign up. It's both utterly charming and completely mad — a winning combination if ever there was one. You might want to have the mute button handy for Albania — a truly terrifying Bjork-esque woman bellowing like a hippo stuck down a well.
Keep an eye out also for Moldova — it's nothing on last year's unicycling Smurfs, but it features backing singers dressed as lamps and is heavy on the trumpets. Equally likely to clear a room is Jedward — they've qualified for the second year running with another slice of poptastic cheese, delivered in Jedward's uniquely bonkers style.
Winning Eurovision is not an option for Ireland these days, and fielding Jedward every year serves the double purpose of keeping them occupied, and ensuring the competition never gets anywhere near Dublin.
This year's performance is oddly hypnotic, AND it's got a water feature. A sad goodbye to Austrian gangster rappers Trackshittaz , just for having a brilliant name and a song that was apparently about wiggling your bum, but which sounded more like something that would have Mozart spinning in his grave.
A not-so-sad goodbye to Montenegro , however, and their dreadful funk-rap sung by a middle-aged man called Rambo Amadeus, accompanied by some political slogans and a wooden horse. Other songs I never want to hear again in my life include Israel 's entry, which was a bizarre Pulp tribute act sung by a terrifying man with massive sideburns, accompanied by a woman on keyboards who appeared to have been at the wine.
The surprise exit of the evening was San Marino , and their random tribute to social media.
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