Germany? 12 Points

With "Taken by a Stranger" has my - and not just my - favorite won the preliminary songs.
The value written by Nicole Morier, Gus Seyffert and Monica Birkenes Song combined wavige sounds (The Cure "Lovecats") with Electronic awesome. Lena interprets and sings the song according to the story mysterious and slightly entückt.
This is achieved in any case attention in the Euro Vision in Dusseldorf and perhaps provide a second sensation, but at least for a good result - especially if one is familiar with the many other weaker contributions from Europe.
Even the zweitülatzierte VE. song "Push Forward", a beautiful ballad was great and would certainly have done well in Dusseldorf.
Lena is certainly not the greatest singer and the rest of the preliminary songs that ended up on the album, often sounding like angejazzter already umpteen times better seen before sound, but with "Taken by" everything was done correctly, and here fits Lenas voice and Interpretation assets very well. So we can look forward to May. Certainly a gamble to compete a second time, which rarely went well (yes Johnny Logan for Ireland, Charlotte Pirelli for Sweden / Nimah K. Ireland / Chiara for Malta no) - but in my view can not land below Lena with the song.
Too bad that there are no more remixes, or at least an extended version.