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51. BWO - Lay Your Love On Me (2008)
3rd place in final
“How do i put this? That BWO performance was RUBBISH!”
Toyah, 23/02/2008
Just missing out on the top 50 is ‘Lay Your Love On Me’, a slice of tits-out absurdity and part of the league of legends of the modern contest.
A more incongruous collection of performers has never graced the Melodifestivalen stage. BWO comprises improbably heterosexual singer Martin, Charlotte Perrelli lookalike Marina, and mentally unstable shitbag Alexander Bard.
BWO (which stands for Bodies Without Organs – a wanky way of saying ‘skellingtons’) are no strangers to Melodifestivalen but THIS is their defining moment. Flamboyant, pretentious, brazen, ridiculous… this is just an absolute blast of a song. The performance is a carnival of gloriously pointless excess… Jacobean ruffs! The cage lift! And the crowd pop for Marina’s string-laden spoken word middle-8 makes it clear that this song is kind of a big deal.
Special mention needs to go to the lyrics, which are among my favourite to ever grace the contest. Seriously, how can you do anything but stan for a chorus which opens with the line ‘We can dance all night with the bourgeoisie’? I’ve evangelised about this plenty of times before but ‘I don't plan to join the peace core, but I'll drop my guns and bring the bouquet’ is SUCH a banger of a line that’s so pompous, ridiculous and downright CAMP that it serves as a perfect representation of the song itself.
BWO apparently all hate each other now, as evidence during that astonishing 2016 interval medley when two of them only appeared mincing on screen in separate, pre-recorded videos.
Lay Your Love On Me is a song that I think is synonymous with the contest and fully deserves to be part of the conversation about all-time greats.
BRB, just off to dance all night with the bourgeoisie.
This is one of the all time greats to never win it. 2008 was a YEAR of wonder, it really was.