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Hasta la vista
Belarus decided: Ruslan Alehno to Belgrade!
Ruslan Alehno competed against another three acts who have qualified from the semi final, where he won the televote. In 2007, Belarus qualified for the final of the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time with Koldun and Work your magic to finish 6th.
Watch the semi final performance of Hasta la vista below.
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Nice song, but I prefer last year's "Work your magic"
LOL!!!!!!!
This is hilarious...but awful.
Hasta la vista? Isn`t that already "used" as a title on a song from Belarus? Boring, boring
I liked the song and the performer. He was my fav in the Belarussian selection, so I'm glad he won Except the ESC 2006 one (Polina Smolova - Ma), I like all other Belarussian entries
Good luck, Ruslan!
And would like to see You in Vilnius next year,guys;] Cuz,it'll be the capital of the European culture in 2009;]
In my oppinion this song is quite borring.
KASIA NOVA - THE DEVIL for POLAND
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about the Belarus song... no comments
I like his slightly sinister looks, and the song really isn't as bad as the comments on this site led me to believe it would be. But it is a rather tired and cliched effort.
many people in cyprus post says they dont like cyprus song or straight or with other way but i didnt say anything because i accept negatives and positives critisizes . but if somebody past the limits is no good and @hastalavista past the limits anyway from where are u?
@keith is not opinion when somebody speak always but always in all the forums very bad about my countrey , and say to kick cyprus from esc , i remember that guy from last year ,he likes to make upsitedown the cypriots people with negative bad attudite and ironics comments and that person make that troubles only to cypriot posts
Looks like it's up to Czech Republic to choose Gipsy.cz on Saturday to give us the first really good song of 2008!
@keith is sooooo many kids here under 15 , and they have opinion about everything. i just told tem to wait until jesc lol.
Poor Belarus won´t have to wonder where they´ll find the funds to host the ESC 2009. Not if they really go on and send this silly song to Belgrade.
Really tragic song! And the guy screams, is not singing! Unfortunately for Belarus not even their neighbours will give them votes. Like Montenegro last year... At least Sefan could sing
Nothing original about this heard-before tune with the cliche title, but it it pleasant nevertheless, not painfull to the ears. Ruslan is handsome but he cannot move on stage, and his song needs a good stage performance, which he doesn't seem to have the talent for. Maybe they will work on him and on a new choreography?
@keith again u argew with the people? lol kisses
guys in ESC 95% of the people who vote vote the countrey and not the song , so personal i know from now that belarus for sure would take 8 or 10 or 12 points from russia,ukraine,moldova,armenia ,georgia ,azerbaijan and from others countreys who have belarrussian diaspora, so i dont understand why most of u say 'bad song, auful song,rapish song 'etc since belarus have 80% more change to go to the final than malta( example) even if malta send the best of the best song, look the 4 past years what happen, ok this year the rules change but diaspora still stay in most of west countreys and most of the west people dont like anymore esc and they dont vote ( moste of them they dont care and they dont wach esc)so 90% of the voters again is coming from diaspora .
Oh, geez, I had a bad feeling Belarus would go for this one after Koldun's success last year...are you sure that's not Fabrizio Faniello in disguise? Either way, "Hasta La Vista" seems doomed to be this year's "I Do."
1 Switzerland 7/10
1 Cyprus 7/10
3 Albania 6/10
4 Andorra 5/10
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5 Belarus 2/10 (the studio version is bearable, so i give it a 2 instead of a 0)
Let's hope for a song change like almost every year 
On second listen, it's even worse. I think it's rock bottom, actually. Really I do. And the guy is just so....repellent. A song stitched up in five minutes, performed in three and forgotten in one. Next...
The song is OK, but the singer doesn't feel much more real than Belarussian elections. If they sent a singer with charisma, this would have been a catchy entry (even if the lyrics are not the most creative).
Sounds like a dreadful German schlager of the last century. Sorry, Belarus, 5 ESC entries, and not one song I like. Hope for next year.
YUK!!!!
I am realy disapointed from ALL the songs chosen so far.
the level of the songs is so low. this contest realy goes down the drain from year to year. havn't people got enough from this ugly disgusting sugary euro-pop? havn't people got enough from recycled songs each year?
its ok - but its not outstanding
Quite ordinary eurobeat, not bad, but not especially good either... But a lot may depend on his performance.
@ Lukas z, you made me laugh
"Ruslan Alehno is simply stealing ideas from Ukraine! His name - Ruslan/a.." You know, it may be the name his parents gave him, so it's funny to accuse him of stealing his name from Ruslana...
I quite like his hair too. At least he has hair.
I dont like it at all! the worst!
1-Swiz 2-Cyprus
the rest not deserve a number 
@tina esc - akrivws fili mou
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