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Turns out it emerged that evidence of the singer being a wrong 'un of such magnitude emerged that resulted in the song being withdrawn from the contest, the rest of the band leaving him on the spot, the label dropping them, and their parent limited company being wound up without another minute's notice. When a fun idea turns out to be no fun at all…
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In what is fast becoming a cast iron truism in Eurovisionia, you can always trust the Finns to put the biggest smile on your face at this time of year. And to be absolutely honest, I wasn't expecting it to come from One Morning Left, a band normally with such a minimal lick of metal in their bones you couldn't wrap a Kit-Kat in it. But heavens have they delivered the chunk here!
It's also that song with a quiet bit, then a noisy bit that'll leave you scraping your Nan off the back of the sofa, then a noise step drop out at the three quarter point before a whole slab of more silliness. Yep, it's been done a dozen times in these shires - and a thousand times more in my regular musical world - but you still can't help loving these cheeky scamps and their ode to their baby dogs.
It's abject cobblers, of course, but it's still a breath of fresh air in this year's increasingly dull slate of songs. One suspects the contest is Erika Vikman's to lose, but come on you Finns, give us one of the most dumb-assed entertaining three years of all time and pick this for Basel!
It seems they will not participate, due to some breach of contract
ReplyDeleteIt was a bit more than that, it transpired…
ReplyDeleteI heard the snips of the story, later. because its was a bit of unclear when I have postef my comment
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