Like most of us, we'd kind of lazily assumed that TRM let absolutely any song that applied get to the live audition stage. I mean, they couldn't possibly have any kind of quality control process, going by the evidence of previous years. Well it turns out that they do, but in this case you can quite understand why they didn't want it on the telly.
Musically it's a pretty standard bit of Eastern Europop, and to be honest, weak as it is it's still more appealing that most of the songs we'll be seeing on that most awkward of selection shows. But it's the lyrical content that was probably the issue here. The title, you can probably work out, translates to Wine Yes, Russia No! - which probably isn't a message that anyone in Moldovan telly wants to risk considering the tensions with their former imperial overlord. And in naming the little orange fella, and giving a massive head nod to our Verka at the end, they probably wrote their own rejection letter before anyone even heard it.
But there's more. The act's name was also somewhat problematic, translating to either Pussy Farm, or Farm Of Kants, depending on which translator you use. Or at least that's what the latter one sounded like… Yeah, it was never going to happen, was it. But we're still a bit disappointed that we'll never get to find out just how far their actual appearance differs from them two on the lyric screen. Considerably, one expects.
But there's more. The act's name was also somewhat problematic, translating to either Pussy Farm, or Farm Of Kants, depending on which translator you use. Or at least that's what the latter one sounded like… Yeah, it was never going to happen, was it. But we're still a bit disappointed that we'll never get to find out just how far their actual appearance differs from them two on the lyric screen. Considerably, one expects.
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