Eurovision

May 15, 2004 22:33

Well, as usual there were some wonderfully bad pop songs, some not-so-bad other kinds of songs...and a few really weird ones. And good old Terry making sarcastic comments the whole way through. Oh I love eurovision.

Now to mention those that have particularly stuck in my mind.

The French, to start. The song....well, actually, I can hardly remember the song. It didnt really register. But the bizarre woman on stilts 'dancing' around the whole way through was rather distracting. When added to the backing dancers who appeared to be in some kind of mock-georgian fancy dress, the singer never really had a chance. I dont think it can have been stunningly bad, or that would have stuck in my mind too...it was just...bland.

Next up that I recall were the Austrians. These guys didnt do anything too bad, a simple 3 person boy band singing a rather dull love song ('I can´t face another day/Without your touching smile/This amazing kind of silence/I wanna keep it for a while/And it´s you that I adore/You´re the one I`m living for/there´ll be days when things go wrong/you´ll be there to keep me strong - doesnt it just make you want to vomit?) The reason they stuck in my mind is just at the very end of the song, in their final pose, they all grinned into the camera and damn it was SCARY!!! They looked like they were going to come and eat you or something! Not good.

Bosnia-Herzegovina. What can I say. 'In the Disco', a nice, upbeat little number, the usual eurovision fayre of man cavorting on stage with scantily dressed lovelies, its just harder to take seriously when the guy danding oh so sexily with these girls is camper than a neat little row of pink tents. Not that I have any problem with the guy looking, if not being, gay, but if youre going to put him in a tight pink shirt, give him male lovelies to cavort with instead and it will look normal.

Cyrpus' entry was quite a pleasant little love song, but I doubt its going to do that well for votes. Not enough scantily clad women. Sad as it is, now they have got everywhere doing phone votes, you gotta appeal to the people who actually watch and vote for these things. And theyre not gonna be the kind of people who will appreciate a song for its....well....people who will appreciate the song at all in fact....they appreciate the bikini clad lovelies. Come to think of it, maybe thats what Bosnia-Herzegovina were thinking of...

Germany was also not a standard Eurovision cheesey tune. Not too bad though.

Greece I think are in with a good chance. I believe I heard it mentioned they are in among the favourites. I reckon this is due to them taking a little lesson from good old Bucks Fizz and having their two bits of eye candy go from fairly smart looking white suits to silver spangly bikinis in two seconds flat. Even the bloke managed to get his jacket torn off by the pair of them to appeal to the ladies. The song was average to poor. And I like cheese.

Malta was quite strange. They appeared to have some girl of a similar calibre (and fairly similar looks) to Charlotte Church singing along with some very greasy looking bloke, and at times they seemed to be lacking the space in the music to fit all the words in. The thought of those two having any form of relationship, even an 'Off Again, On Again' one was enough to make this plain disturbing.

I quite liked Norways.

Polands singer was quite scary. The song was called 'Love Song' but she didnt seem to concerned who that love was aimed at. Gave the impression she was sleeping with most of the other people on stage. I'm not too sure it was acting either. Terry described her as Polands version of Kat Slater. I think it was a fairly good comparison.

I remain puzzled by where Turkey managed to find their singer. I didnt think Turkey was really the home of small, ginger, tattooed men in tartan trousers. Looked about as Turkish as haggis. Song was dire.

Ukraine are apparently the favourites. They appeared to have got Xena and a bunch of mongols on stage. Maybe they have threatened to rampage if they dont win. The women werent even that scantily clad, maybe its some caveman thing I didnt understand.

UK was alright.

Just tuned in to the scores in time to hear we gave 12 points to Greece. British people are clearly fond of clothing being whipped off mid-performance.
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