So, what is all the excitement this year? Well, we in the UK are breaking out the big guns with Englebert Humperdinck. No, it’s not a
tribute act, it is the original (not the German Composer who died in 1921) but the singer perhaps best known for his pop career in the 1960s. Now, at the age of 76, The Humperdinck, as we at Newsnibbles will be referring to him for the course of our Eurovosion coverage, has cracked out a song called “Love Will Set You Free” in the hopes of taking the Eurovision crown for Britain. Well, we do have the Olympics, it would be greedy to take next year’s Eurovision too. The song seems to lack the usual upbeat catchy Eurovision winning combination contained in previous winning entries such as “Diva!”, “Waterloo” and the awesome dance moves that accompanied “Making Your Mind Up”. But then, maybe everyone’s bored of the same old thing, although, that doesn’t bode well for The Humperdinck either; ah, well.
No Eurovision would be complete without a bit of controversy (yes really, what do you know?) and this year’s comes from San Marino. Their original entry “Facebook” contained all the upbeat catchy tunes and glitter one would expect from a winning entry. Unfortunately for Valentina Monetta, her title, and frequent references to the aforementioned social network site was in direct violation of the rules of the contest, which prohibit advertising in entries. Fear not though, fans of San Marino, the team rose to the challenge and retitled the entry “The Social Network Song” and replacing all references to the site that shall not be named with “Oh oh oh” – which works surprisingly well. Whilst we at Newsnibbles try to remain totally unbiased, the awesome sparkliness of this number, combined with music that one fan described as “very catchy”, means that we think San Marino could be onto a winner with this one. Ooo ooo, beep beep, yeah.
We couldn’t do a Eurovision story without talking about Georgia’s entry. Well, we could, but three paragraphs look so much tidier than two. “I’m a Joker” is an entry by Anri Jokhadze and combines rap and singing in a way that just screams Eurovision. If you didn’t know that he was a joker at the beginning of the song then you will certainly have got the picture by the time it’s through. Lyrics tell us that he is not only a joker, but lots of things that rhyme with joker too, but considering that the title is “I’m a Joker” the question is can we take him seriously? Judge for yourselves.
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