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Monday, May 25, 2015

Eurovision

Mans Zelmerlow, Sweden's entry won first for Heroes.



My favorite part is "hummingbirds." 
He said go dry your eyes and live your life like there is no tomorrow, Son, and tell the others to go sing it like a hummingbird the greatest anthem ever heard: We are the heroes of our time but we're dancing with the demons in our mind.
Small point, hummingbirds don't actually sing as songbirds do, they more scream territorially, or demandingly, they have flowers to protect. 

Russia won second with Polina Gagarina's A Million Voices. Wrought with Disneyesque or possibly Romani costume of the sort the princess cannot move from her spot. Inclusive, entirely inclusive, nothing whatsoever personal as some other entries, she'd like to buy the world a Coke.




Oh? 



Tell me why when I think, I only think of you
Tell me why when I love, I only love you
Tell me why when I live, I live inside you... great love

A few years ago Amanda Yesilbas writing for 109.com drew together a wonderful roundup of then recent Eurovision musical videos concentrating on the wildest most insane. One of her favorites was linked yesterday on a British site and favored so the Ukrainian act had and held their attention for its bizarre recombinations; sequined lamé, dancing Nazis, folk beer hall type song run through electronics. Verka Serdyuchka is the drag character of comedian Andriy Mykhailovych Danylko. It's quite a video and it makes the point I am about to make better than any of them. Ukraine entry for 2007, Dancing Lasha Tumbai sung in four languages. The performance was controversial at the time. Its title is nonsense.

Commenters to Amanda's piece back then linked to Kpop (Korean) videos along a similar vein. And those are interesting indeed. BigBang, Fantastic Baby and Block B, Nillili Mambo for two examples.