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owlfish at 08:43pm on 17/03/2007 under eurovision
owlfish at 08:43pm on 17/03/2007 under eurovisionTo my surprise, there was only one song among the six possible UK Eurovision entrants which I found utterly unmemorable and uninteresting. Most of those would be quite respectable entries!
Liz McClarnon: Lovely lady, terrible dress. But she can sing, and it's a happy, perky song. Fairly generic Eurovision sound, but it would do.
Brian Harvey: Forgettable.
Cyndi: Love the "Red is the Rose" elements, she can sing, it's elegant. It warms my heart to think a French singer might represent the UK. Much as I wouldn't mind owning the album, I'm not convinced it would be a competitive Eurovision entry.
Big Brovaz: Love the masquerade/hip-hop look with corsets, veils, and glitter. Love the sound: opera-rock crossed with hip-hop. And they can sing. I have no idea what the song was about, but does it matter? Visually, this is easily the hit of the bunch.
Scooch: Fun! Perky! Funny! Unnecessarily seductive! Very get-the-vote antics, not atypical for Eurovsion entries, with the flag, lots of mentions of other European cities. (Admission: this is the one now stuck in my head.)
Hawkins & Brown: I want a coat like his. She's gorgeous. Good look, good voices, good vibes, fine song, but it might do better for a non-Eurovision audience.
Results out in another hour-or-so, along with a live Lordi performance.
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billyabbott, I've seen videos of some of the other entries. The Swiss perky vampire song is hilarious. It would actually be a good song in its own right if it only had different lyrics. Denmark's Drama Queen seemed very generic at the time, but was then stuck in my head for a few days. Several opera-rock entries this year, of which I approve.
Update: Five of the entries were within one percent of each other on votes. The top two were Cyndi and Scooch. I was rather surprised at Big Brovaz elimination. Scooch won, but not until after an embarassing slip on the part of the hosts saying that Cyndi had. Either would have been good, but I suspect Scooch has a better chance of winning. It's a catchy song, strong Eurovision sales pitch, lots of wink-wink-nudge-nudge moments.
Liz McClarnon: Lovely lady, terrible dress. But she can sing, and it's a happy, perky song. Fairly generic Eurovision sound, but it would do.
Brian Harvey: Forgettable.
Cyndi: Love the "Red is the Rose" elements, she can sing, it's elegant. It warms my heart to think a French singer might represent the UK. Much as I wouldn't mind owning the album, I'm not convinced it would be a competitive Eurovision entry.
Big Brovaz: Love the masquerade/hip-hop look with corsets, veils, and glitter. Love the sound: opera-rock crossed with hip-hop. And they can sing. I have no idea what the song was about, but does it matter? Visually, this is easily the hit of the bunch.
Scooch: Fun! Perky! Funny! Unnecessarily seductive! Very get-the-vote antics, not atypical for Eurovsion entries, with the flag, lots of mentions of other European cities. (Admission: this is the one now stuck in my head.)
Hawkins & Brown: I want a coat like his. She's gorgeous. Good look, good voices, good vibes, fine song, but it might do better for a non-Eurovision audience.
Results out in another hour-or-so, along with a live Lordi performance.
The UK is the last country to vote for its entry. Via
billyabbott, I've seen videos of some of the other entries. The Swiss perky vampire song is hilarious. It would actually be a good song in its own right if it only had different lyrics. Denmark's Drama Queen seemed very generic at the time, but was then stuck in my head for a few days. Several opera-rock entries this year, of which I approve.Update: Five of the entries were within one percent of each other on votes. The top two were Cyndi and Scooch. I was rather surprised at Big Brovaz elimination. Scooch won, but not until after an embarassing slip on the part of the hosts saying that Cyndi had. Either would have been good, but I suspect Scooch has a better chance of winning. It's a catchy song, strong Eurovision sales pitch, lots of wink-wink-nudge-nudge moments.
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(But then that's just my opinion, which is so often at odds with pop music in general and the EuroVision in particular that I can't actually remember the last time I listened to the radio... )
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I think the Bulgarian entry is actually rather good. I wanted to listen to it more than once, anyway.
Swiss Europop vampires? That really is just not right. Still, I have to give them some credit for using girls in fishnets and tight clothing to distract me from the song, a tactic which must have worked because I can't remember a single note of it.
I have bookmarked the 'Drama Queen' video so that, should the need arise, I can introduce it into certain LJ comment threads.
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I checked out the Romanian entry because Tornero was far and away the best non-Lordi song around last year, but unfortunately this year's isn't a patch on it, though I like the idea.
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I wonder if Swiss goths actually like chirpy 80s flashdance or if they're all giggling maniacally at this.
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