Thursday, January 19, 2006

Minsk 2007?

No way in hell judging by this shortlist (courtesy of Esctoday) :
  • Janet - Mysterious Logic
  • Lesya Kodush - Babysitter
  • Elena Grishanova - You can't stop this dance
  • Prima Vera - I can see the rising sun
  • Lyavony - Come back
  • Gunesh Abasova - Connect the hearts
  • Ruslan Musvidas & Svetlana Vezhnovets - Прочь с глаз (Proch s glaz)
  • Dmitry Koldun - May by
  • Tyana - You never know
  • Gosia Andrzejewich - Dangerous game
  • Alexandra Gaiduk - An a-class face
  • Litesound - My faith
  • Polina Smolova - Сайт одиночества (Sait odinochestva)
  • Irina Dorofeeva - Вышита сорочка (Vyshita sorochka)
  • Dali - Europe's heard's groov

Let's look at some of the titles here: "Babysitter?" "May by?" "An A-class face?" "Europe's Heard's Groov?" "Babysitter" just creates an image that I really think most people don't want to have. "May by?" Do you mean "may be" or "maybe?" I know Lukashenko doesn't want people to leave, but surely somebody has smuggled in an elementary school English grammar book. "An A-class face?" Doesn't that sound rather...um...eugenic? I'm hoping that "Europe's Heard's Groov" is a typo, but after the absurdity that was "My Galileo" (which opened with "I'm no stay-at-home, and heady/ is my quest and venture mode/And the road is there to tread it/All-dimensional road....My galey-eyeyeyeye-o"), one can never be too certain.

Why on Earth the pariah of Europe insists on butchering the English language in a misguided attempt for votes is well and truly beyond my comprehension. Not to mention they've got the oddest way of picking a winner. The televoters (*supposedly*, this is Belarus, remember) pick the top three and then a mysterious jury picks the winner amongst them.

If the winner happens to have given the jury members the most money, well, that's just a sheer coincidence isn't it?

Let us remember what originally won the Belarussian final last year:



And the scary thing is that she's being sincere.

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