The Public Reacts to Portugal: Maro – Saudade, Saudade
19 people of different ages, professions and background took part in this year’s “The Public Reacts to Eurovision 2022” by ESCBubble. They are all casual viewers of the Eurovision Song Contest – none of them are big fans of the Contest, and none of them have heard any of the songs before we played them all to them (except maybe the one representing their own country).
We continue this year’s series with their review and their reactions to the song that is going to represent Portugal – “Saudade, Saudade” by Maro. In addition to telling us their thoughts and impressions, we also asked them all to score the song out of 10. The comments of every single one of them may have not been added to the video, but their scores have been added of course. Check out what they had to say about the Portuguese entry, and how did they score it right here:
In order to find the best song of Eurovision 2022, we also need YOUR vote:
- 10 28%, 60 votes60 votes 28%60 votes - 28% of all votes
- 9 15%, 32 votes32 votes 15%32 votes - 15% of all votes
- 6 13%, 27 votes27 votes 13%27 votes - 13% of all votes
- 1 11%, 23 votes23 votes 11%23 votes - 11% of all votes
- 7 9%, 20 votes20 votes 9%20 votes - 9% of all votes
- 5 8%, 18 votes18 votes 8%18 votes - 8% of all votes
- 3 5%, 11 votes11 votes 5%11 votes - 5% of all votes
- 8 5%, 10 votes10 votes 5%10 votes - 5% of all votes
- 2 3%, 7 votes7 votes 3%7 votes - 3% of all votes
- 4 2%, 4 votes4 votes 2%4 votes - 2% of all votes
The poll will close when tomorrow’s review of the Belgian entry “Miss You” by Jeremie Makiese is published, and then we will also announce the total score that Portugal received.
As we mentioned, 19 of our editors have also scored each of the songs from 1 to 10. The Portuguese song scored a total of 95 points from the ESCBubble team:
| Andreas | 2 |
| Anne | 4 |
| Belen | 3 |
| Cain | 5 |
| Danny | 8 |
| Dave | 1 |
| David | 2 |
| Fouad | 5 |
| Jan | 4 |
| Joe S | 8 |
| Joe B | 9 |
| Kyle | 3 |
| Marco | 8 |
| Matt | 5 |
| Melissa | 6 |
| Mikael | 7 |
| Nick | 1 |
| Olivier | 7 |
| Sebastian | 7 |
| Team Total | 95 |
Our poll for Armenia is now closed, and their song “Snap” by Rosa Linn received a total of 112 points from our readers. Here are the current rankings of both semi finals (countries in blue have qualified for ESCBubble’s Final, whilst the countries in red will not be one of our finalists).
Semi Final 1:
| Ranking | Country | Total points | Reviewers | Team | Readers |
| 1 | Norway | 446 | 141 | 139 | 166 |
| 2 | Austria | 407 | 132 | 140 | 135 |
| 3 | Ukraine | 388 | 131 | 119 | 138 |
| 4 | The Netherlands | 380 | 117 | 125 | 138 |
| 5 | Albania | 378 | 136 | 126 | 116 |
| 6 | Greece | 369 | 115 | 128 | 126 |
| 7 | Lithuania | 362 | 119 | 111 | 132 |
| 8 | Latvia | 355 | 137 | 106 | 112 |
| 9 | Moldova | 352 | 143 | 93 | 116 |
| 10 | Croatia | 346 | 123 | 95 | 128 |
| 11 | Armenia | 325 | 123 | 90 | 112 |
| 12 | Iceland | 308 | 105 | 88 | 115 |
| 13 | Denmark | 304 | 120 | 86 | 98 |
| 14 | Slovenia | 300 | 118 | 70 | 112 |
| 15 | Switzerland | 293 | 120 | 76 | 97 |
| 16 | Bulgaria | 224 | 112 | 42 | 70 |
Semi Final 2:
| Ranking | Country | Total points | Reviewers | Team | Readers |
| 1 | Estonia | 426 | 141 | 145 | 140 |
| 2 | Poland | 425 | 128 | 131 | 166 |
| 3 | Czech Republic | 411 | 134 | 138 | 139 |
| 4 | Sweden | 406 | 120 | 155 | 131 |
| 5 | Finland | 402 | 127 | 126 | 149 |
| 6 | Serbia | 381 | 124 | 118 | 139 |
| 7 | Romania | 381 | 112 | 118 | 151 |
| 8 | Cyprus | 357 | 109 | 125 | 123 |
| 9 | Australia | 342 | 131 | 105 | 106 |
| 10 | Montenegro | 341 | 111 | 125 | 105 |
| 11 | Malta | 337 | 122 | 108 | 107 |
| 12 | Azerbaijan | 336 | 121 | 109 | 106 |
| 13 | Israel | 316 | 124 | 95 | 97 |
| 14 | San Marino | 310 | 113 | 95 | 102 |
| 15 | Ireland | 275 | 74 | 90 | 111 |