Three weeks from tonight =Eurovision final!
In the meantime, everyone's on the promo trail across Europe, familiarising viewers with their songs and hoping the recognition-factor counts at semi-final and final time.
Last night Blue appeared on RTE's Late Late Show - which, if you remember just a few weeks ago, was the venue for the Irish Eurosong selection. The UK's 2011 representatives performed "I Can" but I can't help thinking that they're still a long way from the definitive performance of the song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsTadI2118o
In other ESC news, "Get You" has been revamped with a new intro for the contest version of the song. What I really can't get is the whole 'Alex Sparrow' thing. In all my years of watching Eurovision, I never understood why they had to drop surnames or change names to a more acceptable, 'Anglified' version. What's wrong with Aleksey Vorobyov??? (I'm sure you'll have an answer for me, Rachel :)))) )
Faithful travelling companion (hello and Happy Easter by the way!!) continues to have a minor obsession with the Slovak TWiiNS. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT_8il_fkAs
I'm still none the wiser regarding who's actually gonna win the thing this year, but the same countries keep popping up as possible contenders - France/UK/Estonia/Sweden/Bosnia/Azerbaijan/Denmark/Germany. The more I listen to the French entry, the more I realise that it is really in with a chance and could succeed where previous opera-entries have failed. But on the other hand, it could be 2000/2001 all over again and something could come out of nowhere to win the whole thing.
All will be revealed two weeks from now!
"What's wrong with Aleksey Vorobyov???" Nothing as far as I can see :)
ReplyDeleteI thought it was a bit silly too- I know he's just translated "Vorobyov" directly into English, but considering he's marketing himself as a bit of a macho ladies' man,he could have picked something a bit more butch than Sparrow! I think the name will be the least of his problems though if he wants to be popular (oh wait,that's Eric Saade...) over here. The fact is,he does have quite a strong accent and his English isn't great. And as we well know in this country "accent=funny foreigner=no talent". :(