Penelope
striking, unique, 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘦𝘳
2nd: No Name - Zauvijek moja (149pts)
To this day, I have absolutely no idea what on earth this is about - or more to the point, why it's by a boy band who go absolutely militant as fuck halfway through it all. Obviously, some kind of homoerotic subtext is the natural one to reach for. However, over the course of this round I've come to settle on what I have decided can actually be the only answer.
Despite stern EBU strictures against political content in songs, No Name decided in the year 2005 to send the ultimate perfect Act 1 closer for a musical about the IMMORTAL SCIENCE OF MARXISM-LENINISM - a brave act at the best of times, but not least in the 00s and from a country which had shaken off communism just over a decade prior. Jumping around the stage and taking up the drums during the instrumental middle eight, as a metaphor for Stalin and Lenin deciding during the 1905 Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Party in London that communism was in fact the only answer for Russia, No Name powerfully summed up the spirit of a century prior and the hope and faith in the power of the international working class that would eventually overpower the Nazi menace, being rewarded with 7th place and the Marcel Bezençon Award.
Either that or it was just a love song that they decided to make a bit dramatic. But I think mine sounds better
7 x 12 (Penelope, Suomi, VoR, auretz, Jacques, David 5000, dmlaw)
3 x 3 (Ill Advised, ZenGiraffe, Tisch)
To this day, I have absolutely no idea what on earth this is about - or more to the point, why it's by a boy band who go absolutely militant as fuck halfway through it all. Obviously, some kind of homoerotic subtext is the natural one to reach for. However, over the course of this round I've come to settle on what I have decided can actually be the only answer.
Despite stern EBU strictures against political content in songs, No Name decided in the year 2005 to send the ultimate perfect Act 1 closer for a musical about the IMMORTAL SCIENCE OF MARXISM-LENINISM - a brave act at the best of times, but not least in the 00s and from a country which had shaken off communism just over a decade prior. Jumping around the stage and taking up the drums during the instrumental middle eight, as a metaphor for Stalin and Lenin deciding during the 1905 Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Party in London that communism was in fact the only answer for Russia, No Name powerfully summed up the spirit of a century prior and the hope and faith in the power of the international working class that would eventually overpower the Nazi menace, being rewarded with 7th place and the Marcel Bezençon Award.
Either that or it was just a love song that they decided to make a bit dramatic. But I think mine sounds better
7 x 12 (Penelope, Suomi, VoR, auretz, Jacques, David 5000, dmlaw)
3 x 3 (Ill Advised, ZenGiraffe, Tisch)
) and Croatia tomorrow
), with an all-too clever "look, I actually know how to write music!" 7/4 time signature thrown in to boot. Sadly, at no point does anyone seem to have asked why exactly you'd want to make people listen to something that sounded as fucking horrible as being stuck in traffic.
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