The land that traditionally don’t do things by halves have provided us with our second comic moment of the day by having two plastic butterflies on strings float in front of the camera. I’m sure they thought it was a good gimick. I’m really sure. But the press centre erupted in laughter. My hands frankly made more convincing butterflies than those. And to cap it all the girls end the performance having sprouted wings looking like the cover of the Silence of the Lambs and equally as frightening.
This is something that the evil Ralph Siegel would have thought a good idea and indeed they bear more than a passing resemblance to his 6 for nothing group that inflicted a terrible vocal travesty on us back in 2006. Similarly differing tones and pitches that don’t quite blend comfortably for my ears.
Traditionally Belarus spends a fortune promoting their song with weird gifts for the assembled journalists. The ice cream and chocolates were very welcome last year but it’ll take more than that to bribe me to like this pile of smoldering turd.
Unsuccessful Belorussian contestants have been known to meet with bizarre accidents afterwards like getting too close to water or a cement mixer.
If I were 3+2 I’d get on a plane now before the ash cloud descends and they find there’s nowhere to run to avoid ending up in a can of Belorussian dog food which is quite an apt description for this drivel.
Phil: Now, even though you have heard the fact that butterflies will be shown on screen released on wires by the camera crew (fake ones, evidently) – it really is as awful as that picture presents itself to be!
There are only so many things that are bad in this contest, and this has them all. They are:
1 – A gimmick gone wrong. Butterflies seem all well and good but … really?
2 – A bad tune. Always a bad thing, but when the tune is on ONE note.
3 – Remind people of Six-For-One, Of Schmettelinger, Or Dream Express
I have seen many many things in the last ten years but that really does surpass most of them. It’s hardly dull, which could be a blessing in disguise, and it sung well, well it would have to be considering the song itself is a pile of butterfly cack!!
It even has a schlagertastic key-change and a very very bad note.
In other news, the female singers actually have wings in their costumes and look like butterflies, but they only revealed that now on their final run through
I think I have had all my senses violated at once
Nick: Looks gorgeous (modulo silly fake butterflies). It’s a truly beautiful, special song. It’s also being murdered in cold blood by certain members of 3+2. Which is a shame.
It’s such a beautiful song, and looks so gorgeous, that it might actually get away with the vocals being flatter than a pancake under a bulldozer. And the knitted butterflies on a piece of string. And the truly special costume shenanigans which they just unveiled at us as the song climax.
Oh man. This is just not right. It’s elegance and beauty and comedy gold all in one. That’s FLYING through the semi-final.
Oh, MAN. It just gets better. This is gold. Seriously. 😀