Saving...Despair for Germany as their entry for the European Song Contest 2009 in Russia plumets to the 2oth spot from 25 songs.
The optimism that was evident before the European Song Contest turned to despair, as Alex Swings, Oscar Sings failed to catch the imagination of the Europeans and the Jury, leaving Germany wondering what had gone wrong, and prompting the biggest tabloid to say “What has Europe got against us?”
Sometimes I think Germany hasn’t understood what this competition is all about.
The vocalist comes from California, sings english: What’s German about that?
The song is a Swing number: What’s German about that, what’s even european about that?
The producer, Alex Christensen, is European and German, and is a successful producer at that. But one word sort of sums him up: Commerce. And Germany have enough of that…
And after all the hype surrounding Dita von Teese, the European Broadcasting Union forbid her strip and she ended up just doing nothing in particular – but reputedly got 60000 Euros in the process… what has she got to do with Germany, Europe, Music?
Sure it hurts a nation like Germany when they only see the heels of countries like Azerbaijan and Estonia, but that’s the way it goes if you don’t do your homework
