I’m torn. It makes me jig and go tappy toes and want to throw my limbs around the room, and then I realise that the further it gets into the performance, the more I expect it to end with a shot of Anne Diamond on the sofa saying “Well, thanks for that Mr. Motivator… that’s certainly given me a good workout. And now we go over to Wincey Willis.no with the weather”.
It could easily catch fire next Saturday night if it’s following a little run of ballads and when it’s got a crowd around it. I’m just… not sure that it’s going to.
Phil: France does to me what the UK of Stuff does to Nick. It offends my senses, all of them, in varying ways.
I will concede that it has lots of energy, something that many of the songs have been lacking but it also looks very disjointed and after 1 minute you know how the song goes and that’s worrying – there are lots of shots of what can only be described as ample behinds and lots of t-shirt ripping off and other nonsense including a HAKA after the song has finished and saluting and it’s just, well……
Messy and offensive. Who’s gonna vote for this one?!
Franko: I really loathe the French entry. It’s one of my three least favourite songs in this year’s contest so I damned if I can give an objective opinion of this. I just really hate this kind of music with a passion. I’d rather pickle my own testicles in acid than listen to it.
If I try and put my personal revulsion aside, this kind of music is in vogue and people like listening to this sort of thing on a Summer’s day. It’s got a hook to it and they move well. It’s repetitive rubbish of the worst order but I know that there are people a-plenty out there who’ll vote for it. By the end of three minutes I want to ram my head into a meat grinder, it’ll be less painful then having to sit through it again.
Jessy is a big lad. He obviously wants to cultivate a macho image to…well prove he’s not a jessie.
If it follows a ballad it may stand out even more. I can’t imagine it’s going to do massively well, but you can never tell having seen some of the things that hit number one in our green and pleasant land recently.
I don’t wish it well. I hope it fails horribly as a lesson to everyone not to enter this kind of sh*t in future.