Eurovision #1
A cup of hot chocolate, cozy clothes and a hefty amount of patience - that’s all I needed to enjoy this year’s Eurovision song contest. You see I am in Michigan, thousands of miles away from my home land, the host of this year’s Eurovision song festival. With 220 television channels I get through my cable not a single one of them broadcast the contest. But thank God for broadband - and my father-in-law, who allowed me to use his computer.
At the time of this writing, number 18 - Norway’s Jostein Hasselgеrd has just finished singing about how he wasn’t afraid to move on. But two countries participants stand out in my mind so far - Germany and Russia.
German scary looking Lou, who seemed to have undergone several plastic surgeries, sang a song with a typical meaningless non-English native title “Let’s get Happy.” Songs like that frequent here in the United States - only on Saturday Night Live, a comedy sketch show.
Here are the lyrics:
Let’s get happy
Dub du dubn da dap da
Dub du dubn da dap da
Dub du dubn da dap da hahhh – ooh
Last night in the discothek
All my friends seemed to look and wait
just lookin’ for trouble
Cos everything’s drivin ‘em mad
(chor: yeah drivin’ ‘em mad)
No fun not a smilin’ face
And down at heart in so many ways
Hey baby what’s on
And why’s everyone so sad
Let’s get happy and let’s be friends
For tomorrow never never ends
And our world will be all new
Let’s get happy and let’s be gay
All our troubles they will fade away
And the promise i will send you
Hits you on a brandnew day
Dub du dubn da dap da - yeah
(choir: on that day everything will be okay)
See that girl with the high heel shoes
Wanna know why she’s got the blues
Don’t ya stop rockin’
And get the ball rollin’ tonight
(choir:yeah get the ball a rolling tonight)
Everyone’s kinda cool and stressed
Gotta move or you’ll miss the best
Whatever you do now
You just gotta do it right
Let’s get happy and let’s be friends
For tomorrow never never ends
And our world will be all new
Let’s get happy and let’s be gay
All our troubles they will fade away
And the promise i will send you
Hits you on a brandnew day
Choir: dub du dubn da dap da
Dub du dubn da dap da
Dub du dubn da dap da that’s right
On a brandnew day
We will be on our way
We will have lots of fun together
Let’s get happy and let’s be friends
For tomorrow never never ends
And our world will be all new
Let’s get happy and let’s be gay
All our troubles they will fade away
And the promise i will send you
Hits you on a brandnew day
Choir: let’s stop feeling sad and down
Let’s just take off from the ground
Let’s get happy
But when Russian duo Tatu stepped on the stage, I thought something unusual was going to take place. I think it is the result of all the publicity and the duo’s capriciousness. But I was wrong: nothing took place except for what was supposed to. The girls sung their song, which surprisingly was in Russian, and thus, perhaps, would limit their chances to win the contest.
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