I was momentarily distracted in the Press Centre, looked at the screen and saw a figure that was wearing a suit, with good skin and unnaturally white teeth singing and thought “Blimey, North Sea Ferries are efficient, Josh is here already.”
Imagine my shock when it actually was Harel singing a dreadfully dull ballad. It’s staged simply with him in a shirt and trousers emoting to the camera, but it all seems a bit too … forced to be and I don’t know how on earth this song is a favourite to win this thing because it clearly isn’t. What it is, is a song which will qualify out of this part … just about, then be swamped in the final. Now don’t get me wrong, by swamped I don’t mean lower half of the table, I just think that at this stage it is going to be lower top 10 – I think that there are at least 5 songs better than this to stop it getting near to the top one, although provided he gets through, it’ll depend on the draw.
Nick: I’m a Bad Fan. Harel has been serenading me from the arena, through the monitors in the press centre what we may not film footage from; and I’ve been watching silently running YouTube video of Datner and Kushnir from 1987 on my netbook simultaneously. It’s comedy gold. Fortunately, I don’t have the skillz required to produce the required YouTube mashup.
I’m also a Bad Fan, as we’ve been sitting here doing advanced calculus as to who’s going to need what points from where in order to get 10th place in this semi. We’re thinking it could be a 1984 of a scoreboard, with a stupidly low score getting you across the finishing line.
The third reason why I’m a Bad Fan is that I’m still not convinced that Harel is actually getting the aforementioned stupidly low score. Not enough to nail my trousers to the mast over it, Franko’s made compelling cases for 7 other songs to not qualify… but SOMEONE has just got to go home next Friday morning.