If Your Song's Latino, Use "Maria"

This seems to be a nice philosophy to live by if you've been taking an interest in the Greek entry. They've chosen a song called "Yassou Maria" to represent them - as in the Santana song "Maria, Maria", and the Ricky Martin song "Maria". Blondie also sang a song called "Maria" but that's less relevant here.

Sarbel, our lanky male singer for Greece, appears to have gone to the Ricky Martin School of Pop Stars and performs like him. The Greek entry, "Yassou Maria" could in fact be a Ricky Martin song. The Greek entry - obviously highly inspired.

But, no, that's too harsh! It's not a bad latino pop song actually and in a year that, as time goes on, seems to be becoming more open, I think this could rack up quite a few points in the final. I don't think it's strong enough to be a winner but if we are to have a surprise winner then this could be among the candidates.

Oh, and it's probably worth mentioning here that Montenegro chose their first ever entry as a sole nation too this week!

It's called "Hajde Kroci", sung by a guy called Stevan Faddy, and is an 80s-rocky number with catchy chorus but that - ooh - uses distortion guitars. Ouch. 20 years too late.