Countdown to Eurovision 2013: my all-time favourites
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| "And I wore it just the other dai-yaii." |
When someone whines on about how everyone hates
the West and how the Easties always win and gang up and vote against us, well, point them in this direction. The Big Five can
absolutely win Eurovision if they choose to – and the way is quite simple: pick
a properly catchy pop tune, sung by a beautiful zany crackpot, which makes
overt reference to her knickers, and is sung in such a strange English accent
that no-one can really tell where she comes from anyway.
My favourite thing about this performance (other
than Lena's pronunciation of 'day') is how it's so uncharacteristically low-key
and unpolished; it’s like Lena was bunking off school one day and ended up blagging
her way to Oslo because she couldn’t be arsed with double-maths. She’s clearly not bothered with all that
Euro-glitz and has just opted for some shoplifted lipstick and a dress her mum
brought her in the hope she wouldn’t wear ripped jeans on prom night. Like, wass-ever, ja? You get the sense that, at any moment, the
whole thing could turn into an utter shambles – and Lena wouldn't give a
Scheisse. And for that, I say,
wunderbar!
Although the show-stopping, full-blown-productionised big band version she did in Duesseldorf the next year was pretty darn spectacular. It's still on my mp3 player. And it makes me happy every time I hear it.
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