Behind the Eurovision Song Contest Scenes
I gathered with a few mates of mine in force tonight to cheer for Scooch, the UK's Eurovision song contest finalist tonight - better than the World Cup if your cup of tea is more Camp than football Champs!
While sobs had to be shed for Scooch, as their bid song Fly Me did not exactly fly with the rest of the text voting EU crowd - but then, this is more than just a music contest. Its politics, and out-Camping each other, depends a lot on who your neighboring geographic country is, and may just be a result of how many mates you might have that are able to vote because they are living elsewhere. No surprise that the UK was lagging behing on the final count tonight, but nonetheless, I found Scooch to be the most well-orchestrated, visually stimulating and universaly appealing act on offer. Also tugging my heart was the Ukraine, with their shiny, silver metalic tribute to the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It does seem the rest of Europe loved Serbia, who won.
Beyond the splash of it all, my mates Nico, Vanessa & Ryan, were really pulling for the person that pulled Scooch off, and the song, and the fab visual elements accompanying the group - so here's a shout out of support to the work that producer SCHJOLIN put in to the Eurovision Song Contest tonight!
Beating out the rock star likes of The Darkness and other UK chart toppers, SCHJOLIN beat out other contestants in semi-finals for the country and sassed his way to the top with the Scooch-ie band's OTT portrayal on stage of jet set life in the air. Full of retro camp references to the colours of British Airways and mocking the UK's cocktail favourite of Buck Fizz, the number was surely a favourite to win this year - if wasn't for, well, a few nasty enemies the country just might have made with its Eastern neighbors, and the world in general (except maybe Bush's America) - Scooch would have won full stop.
Everyone knows it is a political song contest as much as a talent competition - and (I've watched it just three years running now) the competition is leaning far east. Politics aside Serbia's winning song performed by an all-girl band is a tribute that I like to see - because in a field of boy band entries this year, it was those ladies that lashed out and won the top honors. Not to mention, all cheers for the clearly, openly lesbian lead singer who (yes, I think I did see this) licked one of the Eurovision host's boobs...hey did anyone else see that? The top part, not the nipples.
It won't be long, I hear, before America has its very own state-by-state duel of songs, with Simon Cowell trying to import the concept across the Atlantic, if American Idol ever lets him. And by the way, just like Kelly Clarkson, there has been at least one world-famous icon to emerge from the Eurovision Song Contest - Abba, the Dancing Queen themselves owe it all to Eurovision.
So without further review from me...please decide for yourself if Scooch should have swept the Eurovision Song Contest by watching:
UK EUROVISION ENTRY: SCOOCH
