Image: By Source, Fair use,
This years Eurovision has already proved somewhat controversial because Israel happened to win the contest last year. As a result it's set in sunny Tel Aviv. I'm sure Israel will put on a good show but though it's not until May 18th, some two months away.
So there's plenty of time to get familiar with the entrants. Forty-one countries are competing this year. Bulgaria withdrew due to financial problems and the re was controversy over the Ukrainian entrant apparently. I'll look that up in due course for a future post, probably in one of the Sunday Supplements on this blog.
However having ploughed through 36 of the entries I am not yet in a position to choose my favourites but did pick the following two songs as the weirdest entries.
First up is Portugal represented by Conan Osiris the stage name for 30 year old Tiago Miranda. The name being a construct of Future boy Conan (not Conan The Barbarian as I thought) which is some Japanese show and the Egyptian God Osiris. Who would have guessed....
Anyway here is his erm "song":-
Now usually Australia has had good entries since finally joining a couple of years or so ago. But their entry is well different. A woman on a helter-skelter warbling semi-opera with another woman on a pole vaulting around in the background.
Kate Miller-Heidke is actually classically trained and actress that plays "alternative pop". Again something that I might return to on a Sunday.
Odd as it is, this is weirdly fascinating. I wouldn't mind betting it does better than our entry.
No comments:
Post a Comment