beautiful and powerful. The performance also received positive reviews with The Locals David Jørgensen saying that "[Helena] had the strongest performance given that she's probably had the most practice". Scandipop said about both the song and its performance that it "was in a different league last night. [Survivor] was even better than anything in last year's whole contest". Gaining an overall score of 8 out of 10, "Survivor" was positively received by the reviewers of Popcorker. Jasper gave the song 10 out of 10 and described the song as "a smart pop song that has a big chorus that gets in my head immediately". Katja gave the song 9 out of 10 and said that it's very "girl power" on its lyrical sense, compared it to the era of Christina Aguilera's album, Stripped (2008) and also said that it could be song performed by Charlotte Perrelli or Maja Keuc. Andy said that the song has not a "killer choruse" and that its verses are a little underwhelming and gave the song 7 out of 10. Uli gave the song the lowest rate – 3 out of 10 – and said that "Survivor" is not good enough for Eurovision stage. David gave it 9 out of 10 and said that it would become an instant number one if Shakira or Rihanna had released it. Lastly, Dimitri gave the song 8.5 out of 10 and described the song as "a dramatic ballad" and said that while the song itself is not really the best, it's without a doubt "as Eurovision as it can get". Melodifestivalen "Survivor" was drawn to participate in the first semi-final of the selection which took place in Malmö's Malmö Arena on February 1, 2014. The previews of "Survivor" and the other seven songs of the semi-final were published on January 30, 2014, with the rehearsals of the semi-final taking place the same day. The song was performed eighth at the first semi-final. The song didn't reach the first two places and therefore didn't directly qualify for the final. However, as it took one of the following two places, it qualified for the Andra chansen (Second chance). The second chance took place on March 1, 2014 in Sparbanken Lidköping Arena, Lidköping, where Paparizou was drawn to perform seventh. "Survivor" was placed in the top 4 and therefore qualified for the duels where it competed against Outrigger's "Echo". The song