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Eurovision 2018: Semi Final Two: results

Australia's Jessica Mauboy is through to the Final with "We Got Love."

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Australia is off to the Eurovision Song Contest Final once again.

Jessica Mauboy turned it on for “We Got Love” on stage at Altice Arena, encouraging the audience to join in the chorus of her infectious up-tempo song.

She follows Guy Sebastian, Dami Im and Isaiah Firebrace putting Australia into another Eurovision Final.

Hot favourites Norway and Sweden also qualified at the Second Semi Final. Out of contention for the first ever time are Russia and Romania.

Qualifiers in bold:

01 Norway Alexander Rybak “That’s How You Write a Song”
02 Romania The Humans “Goodbye”
03 Serbia Sanja Ilić & Balkanika “Nova deca” (Нова деца)
04 San Marino Jessika feat. Jenifer Brening “Who We Are”
05 Denmark Rasmussen “Higher Ground”
06 Russia Julia Samoylova “I Won’t Break”
07 Moldova DoReDoS “My Lucky Day”
08 Netherlands Waylon “Outlaw in ‘Em”
09 Australia Jessica Mauboy “We Got Love”
10 Georgia Iriao “For You”
11 Poland Gromee feat. Lukas Meijer “Light Me Up”
12 Malta Christabelle “Taboo”
13 Hungary AWS “Viszlát nyár”
14 Latvia Laura Rizzotto “Funny Girl”
15 Sweden Benjamin Ingrosso “Dance You Off”
16 Montenegro Vanja Radovanović “Inje”
17 Slovenia Lea Sirk “Hvala, ne!”
18 Ukraine Mélovin “Under the Ladder”

The Final airs Live at 5am Sunday, with a primetime replay at 7:30pm on SBS.

Voting*:

As per the official Eurovision rules, viewers can vote in the Semi Final in which their country is participating, as well as the Grand Final. The viewers’ votes make up 50% of the final result. The other 50% of the vote is decided by a National Jury in each participating country. The jury and Australian public can vote for any country except Australia.

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  1. As much as I want Australia to do well I actually think this song is our worst so far. A bit tacky and her performance is very RSL. I’ll be voting for France, Cyprus and Bulgaria.

      1. The interpretive hand dancing is a bit wrongtown, isn’t it? But she sells it through sheer force of will, and it feels like a masterstroke from her team to get her to ask the audience to sing along to the chorus, as though it’s already a winner that they all know and love. (It’s like when they tell beauty pageant contestants to parade as though the only thing missing from them is the crown that belongs on their head!)

        1. Yes singalong is clever, I think it works all the way to the couch which is where it counts. Last year Blink told me they wanted to zero in on Isaiah with no distraction (but it was a ballad) and it seems to be the approach this year too. Is freestyling better than produced?

          1. I respectfully disagree David. Love Jess – she has a great voice and stage presence, love the song – it’s Australia’s best since sound of silence but thought this performance was terrible.
            One of the keys to a great Eurovision is consistency – they perform the same song in the same way so many times they need to nail it every time and they need to sound exactly like the studio recording. You should not be able to tell if the version you are watching is a rehearsel or a grand final. They should be consistently I interchangeable.
            Her voice tonight wavered all over the place and holding the microphone to the crowd was like a drunken nightclub performance. She’s not there to entertain hysterical audience members who would scream if she read out the bible aloud, she’s there to impress hundreds of millions of viewers at home voting by giving a tight, consistent, flawless performance…

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