Ok so France, Germany, Spain and the UK pay the most into the EBU and therefore pick up a lot of the cost of staging Eurovision each year but should that guarantee them automatic qualification to the final? The only argument I can see for this is that if they all failed to qualify a few years in a row it might provoke them to pull out of Eurovision and put the whole thing in jeapordy. In practice however it just seems to make them all lazy with the quality of songs they enter each year.
Today France's entry was announced. Sebastien Tellier will be representing France with 'Divine,' the first French entry to be sung entirely in English. That's about the most exiting thing about the song. It's boring, pure and simple.
You can listen to Divine on Sebastien's Myspace here.
Germany chose their entry on Thursday. 'Disappear' by No Angels could be a good song but it doesn't go anywhere, it's just boring.
'Even If' by Andy Abraham is a rather inoffensive song but it just seems more suited to 1995 than 2008. Again it goes around in circles and doesn't really go anywhere. The UK will once again be shocked by their placing at the bottom end of the scoreboard and blame it on 'the war' or block-voting by eastern Europe.
Spain have been very innovative this year in using Myspace to select some of the finalists for their national final. They obviously didn't trust it too much as they reserved 5 places in the final for entries chosen by a jury. It's probably a good job too as some good songs were pushed out of the public top 5 by various bizarre novelty songs. Perhaps the best song to come through the public voting on Myspace and make it to the Spanish national final is 'La Revolucion Sexual' by La Casa Azul. They have a slight problem though, how to edit it down from 4 1/2 minutes to under 3. I think it is the best song of The Big 4 and I hope it wins the Spanish final on Saturday.
Friday 7 March 2008
Thursday 6 March 2008
Kari Tapio - my Finnish favourite
Now this may not have been to everyone's taste and perhaps I'm getting old but I really liked this song and I think it would definitely have attracted the grey vote if it had made it through.
New mixes ruin songs
What have Belarus done to their song? It was quite a funky song to begin with but the new mix has ruined Hasta La Vista's qualification chances. Nice new hair though Ruslan ;-)
Old version
New Version
In the Greek national final Kostas Martakis went the other way and changed his backing track to one that sounded like a late 80s Stock Aitken & Waterman record. Kalomira beat him ;-)
Old version
Greek final version
Old version
New Version
In the Greek national final Kostas Martakis went the other way and changed his backing track to one that sounded like a late 80s Stock Aitken & Waterman record. Kalomira beat him ;-)
Old version
Greek final version
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