Friday, February 27, 2004
MAKING YOUR MIND UP TIME (PART 5. AND PART 6 AS WELL. YAY!)
It's nearly time to cast your vote to decide who to send to this year's Eurovision Song Contest so, to make sure you're fully informed, we've hastily thrown together profiles of the last two songs:
5. With You I Believe – Haydon
» THE WORDS...
You give me meaning
When I'm weak inside
Give me forever and then we can fly
On these wings
We'll reach for the sky
» WHO THE...? Haydon, 21, has been up to his eyes in this pop lark since he was a nipper – he was lead singer of Ultimate Kaos (best remembered for ... erm, nothing really) and spent a few memorable weeks last year trailing round in a bus with Dollar and Gina G on Reborn In The USA. When we met him, he claimed to have watched Eurovision all the time when he was younger, but we could tell by the look on his face that this may have been a little white lie.
» WHAT THE...? Any similarity to I Believe I Can Fly is, presumably, entirely deliberate. The song's OK, really, but not likely to set the world, or even just Europe, alight
» WHAT DID G-A-Y SAY? Poor Haydon! Before he faced the G-A-Ys, he had worked out a fiendish vote-capturing stratagem which involved taking his shirt of to reveal a vest for the first chorus, lifting the vest up a bit during the second verse, then whipping his top off completely for the second chorus to. Unfortunately for Haydon, the gays are not so easily fooled, and his cynical, desperate manoeuvre actually got the crowd booing instead of cheering.
» BET YOU NEVER KNEW... Haydon's been in pop for so long that he was once the support act on a Take That tour.
» GIGLIOLA, YOUR EUROVISION EXPERT, SAYS: Hello Babies! I must disclose that very I am disappointed with the behavior of Haydon. The Eurovisión is a pure and happy subject for all the family, and it does not have to be sullied by the young small puppies that remove their shirts for the diversion of others. That class of behavior is due to keep for my bedroom. Imagine if I undertook towards the stage and the audience discovered my bosomes of the ladies. It would be a scandal!
6. It Just Gets Better – Madison Taylor
» THE WORDS...
It just gets better
I got a good feelin' about this
I know for now or forever
I got a good feelin' about this
» WHO THE...? Madison is just 18, and comes from south Wales, but she moved to London with her mum three years ago, and has been developing her singing career since then.
» WHAT THE...? We quite like this one. It's nice, cheerful and upbeat, and much more memorable that some of the others on offer. Whether it has what it takes to be a Eurovision winner is quite another matter, though. Rumour has it that the song has had some radical reworking, as the production on the original was a bit rubbish.
» WHAT DID G-A-Y SAY? Young Madison did quite well with the homosexualists, although opinion was divided (the gay on the left said she was his favourite of the whole lot, while the one on the right responded to the first chorus of "It just gets better" with a cheerful "No it doesn't!".
» BET YOU NEVER KNEW... Madison managed to finish in the top 3% of Welsh pupils who took GCSE exams in her year
» GIGLIOLA, YOUR EUROVISION EXPERT, SAYS: Hello Babies! I am satisfied to disclose that I am having taste absolutely of the song of the Taylor of Madison. It does well that it wishes to make me do the dance of the joy and to embrace menfolk in the street, and touches them in places. I am absolutely scare of the face of Madison, although, as its face is all the teeth and rubber gums. But it continues being a pretty girl. I saw her situation in the platform in the tube station during my recent visit to London, but I did not approach to her because there were many witnesses.
» Chatter about matters of Eurovision importance at popjustice.com's Eurovision messageboard. Or email Gigliola with your comments and queries. And catch Eurovision: Making Your Mind Up on BBC1 tomorrow at 6.35pm. Bunton will be there, singing Puppet On A String, so it really is quite unmissable. And Paddy O'Connell will be on BBC3 throughout the evening with extra bits and pieces. Hooray!
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